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Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Nicole by OPI Sweet on Pete
Today, I've got another lovely color from the Nicole by OPI Tink Collection to share with you. Sweet on Pete is a chartreuse yellow/green with a creme finish.
Sometimes this type of color can be ugly (lol!), but I really like this particular shade. I think it's because there's not too much mustard yellow and there's enough green in this chartreuse to be fresh and bright. In fact, I think this is my favorite of the collection. Formula-wise, this is mostly good, but a little streakier than usual for this collection. I did two coats for the swatches, but a third coat could have been useful.
You can find Sweet on Pete exclusively at Walgreens for a retail price of $7.99 for 0.5 fl oz.
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I love bold colors! Looks great :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks, I think so too! :)Delete
I love this color, I'm also into the weirder colors though :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Hehe I'm glad you like this "weird" color! :DDelete
Pretty color!ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes, I think so too! :)Delete
I've been liking colors like this lately. I love using them as random accent nails:) Great swatch girlie!ReplyDeleteReplies
Ah yes, it would be great for an accent nail! Thanks, I'm glad you like this. :)Delete
So much fun - what a perfect color for the end of summer!ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes, it's such a fun and bright color! I'm glad you like it! :)Delete
Me likes it :DReplyDelete
It's such a bold color, I love it!ReplyDeleteReplies
I love bold and bright colors like this too! :)Delete
OMG, I LOVE THIS COLOR :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Sweet, I'm glad you like this! :)Delete
oh wow, this is such a pretty green! I love it :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes, I think it's a great green too! :)Delete
I agree, they can be ugly, but this one looks very nice on you!!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Maria, I'm glad you think so! :)Delete
I love this green, it borders on lime which is one of my favourite colours. I am loving this Tinkerbell collection so far :) xReplyDeleteReplies
Mmm lime... yes! I'm glad you're liking the collection so far! :)Delete
Ooooh I'm definitely loving this one on you. It's such a unique color.. Almost lime but more yellowish. It goes fantastic with your skin tone and of course your nails are perfect ;)ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Kristine! It's such a fun and unique color... I'm glad you approve! :)Delete
This is one of those polishes that is so ugly, that it's gorgeous! I love it!ReplyDeleteReplies
Hehe yes exactly! :DDelete
This is strangely compelling. It's kinda scary that I kinda love it. :DReplyDeleteReplies
Hehe... I'm glad you like it! ;)Delete
I like that colour too. it's a shame about the formula, but it looks as if you worked your way around it :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Two to three coats is pretty standard for me, so I don't mind. And the color's definitely great! :)Delete
This is totally the color of Peter Pan's costume! It's kind of a cool shade.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Liesl, I'm glad you think so! :)Delete
I am not a fan of this color. but looks great on yours. thanks for the shareReplyDeleteReplies
I'm glad you like it on me, at least. :)Delete
What an unusual and fun colour. Very interesting.ReplyDeleteReplies
Ah thanks Vedrana, I'm glad you approve! :)Delete
Very interesting color!ReplyDelete
It's definitely unusual! Good for summer thoughReplyDelete
I love this color (then again I love green) & I also love the name of it--my husband's name is Pete. I really need to pick this one up.ReplyDeleteReplies
Oh yes, then you definitely need to add this one to your collection! I'm glad you like it. :)Delete
Not quite my cup of tea but it looks great on you!!ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm glad you like it on me, at least. :)Delete
Definitely one of my favourite colours! I can't seem to bend away from the urge of buying this shade everytime I see it. Hahaha! Love the hue! Do need this in my collection!ReplyDeleteReplies
Haha I'm glad you like it! It's such a unique and fun shade... a good addition to one's stash! :)Delete
You do Chartreuse so well dear Yun!!!! I love it on you :-) I just like brights that work well for autumn like Chartreuse, it gives a nice change to so many of the murkier shades to come xxx - ChristineReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks so much, Christine! I'm glad you like this one... it's an interesting color for sure and fits well into summer and autumn! :)Delete


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It was a bad time. I had been single for over a year in a small town. I loved my small town but my town did not love me. I had the constant feeling of being too much. Too loud, expressive, intense, needy. I didn't feel funny, fun, or inspired. I felt like I was walking around banging tambourines while everyone else was chillin with a joint or staring out at me from a quieter, far less intense place.
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"Don't think the garden loses it's ecstasy in the winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous." – Rumi
This is the season, the time of year energy just flows back into our little Alaskan world. There are feet of snow on the ground, but the greenhouse is getting up in the 70-80's during nice days. This is the time of year we plan our garden and try to design any building projects for the summer season. This is also the time of year for the best reflection and evaluation from the last year happens, as we need this evaluation to design improvements for the future. The design cycle never stops for this house.
Our little solar greenhouse is on its third winter, and some changes are in order. The concept here was to have a high level of insulation (for a greenhouse), with minimal glazing to the south, to integrate chickens, and to use an earth tube as a temperature and humidity control technique through out the year. The greenhouse has worked quite well over the last couple years, but here is where we can improve.
Chicken integration is still what we want, but here are a couple of the challenges/opportunities. Dust – after a couple months of growing inactivity there is roughly a 1/4″ of dust on every surface of the greenhouse from chickens being chickens. To fix this we have just installed remay (floating row cover) to the walls of the interior portion of the coop. This should filter out any dust as air transfers between the growing side and the coop and make life easier for the plants. Air exchange – In the past we have kept 6 chix over the winter in about 20sf with access to outside. We've had to leave the chicken door open to the coop to provide enough air exchange to mitigate ammonia build up over the course of winter. This also means we loose the majority of the heat we've stored over the summer. In order to ease this we will only keep 4 chix or less in the future, and will add cloth flaps to the chicken door to reduce air leakage.
The combination of an earth tube and automatic window openers has worked terrific for controlling temperature in the greenhouse. The downside has been these systems, and the chickens, have acted as a dehumidifier during the growing season. We control the earth tube fan circulation by two thermostats, one for cooling and one for heating. This summer I will narrow the window of fan operation from virtually all the time to only when heat storage or heating is needed. We will also increase the number of plants in the greenhouse, and water more deeply and often. Lastly we will adjust the automatic window openers to open at a slightly lower temperature so the air in the greenhouse does not absorb as much water before it leaves.
Although we have not reached out goal of creating a greenhouse which does not freeze in winter with out the addition of heat, we have an amazing space for growing and chicken raising that only freezes for about 2.5 months. With some redesign this season we hope to make the space even more productive.


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Just imagine life without music, their will be no entertainment in life. You can't describe music in words, music is in our soul. Science says music affects our thinking process; music has a soothing power your mind will relax when you hear your favorite songs.
Neurologist says that listening to any particular music on any device in a loop will make your thinking process sharp and productive, and what I think that if you hear Indian classical or something like sitar will make your mind calmer. Recently in one of top magazine I have read that for stress management and for motivation music therapy is now recommended by many neurologists. One thing I have noticed that when we were studying we can't remember our syllabus but if any song is being played of our era then we can recall the entire song without any mistake and if that particular song is a chartbuster than I bet you will sing along with the music just like a singer.
Now, I want to share with you all a recent conversation with my dad, when I asked him about songs and music he told me about his eagerness at the time of 1960's when there were no televisions, the only entertainment was to listen Binaca Geetmala on radio. Binace Geetmala was started in 1954 and was aired till 1994. When anyone say about Binace Geetmala the first person comes to your mind will be Ameen Sayani, the person who hosted the show. My dad told even today in many villages people still listen to the old broadcast of Binace Geetmala on Vividh Bharti radio station.
When my dad told me about Binaca Geetmala I started searching on net about it, and came to know that it was first broadcasted on radio Ceylon in 1954 and then started on Vividh Bharti. Binaca Geetmala was about Hindi Cinema's countdown show for the top filmy songs at that time, roughly 9 to 20 lakhs people used to listen at that time.
Now back to 21'st century, we are fortunate to have vast range of FM radio channels that provide different varieties of songs through the days. Even tier 2 cities like mine i.e. Rajkot having more than 4-5 FM channels. I still remember when Radio Mirchi and 92.7 Big FM started in my city in 2007 it was dream come true for many of my friends who are die hard listeners. This FM's provide music for every age; you will find devotional/Bhajans early in the morning then chartbusters at noon, 80-90's songs in evening and at night repetition of chartbusters. And one of the favorite programs I still listen is aired on every weekend i.e. DJ's remixes on Radio Mirchi. I feel rejuvenated listening these Bollywood songs. Music is my passion and when ever I feel sad or not in a good mood I plugged inn my ear phones and starts my favorite songs in a loop for hours.
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Arriving home from work tonight under partly cloudy skies, I did not even bother to open the observatory roof. This turned out to provide good karma as my poor planning led to skies that were crystal clear at 9 PM. While the transparency (clarity of the atmosphere) was reasonable for observing Jupiter, the seeing (atmospheric stability) went from average to poor rather quickly between 9 and 10 PM. This was unfortunate as tonight was a transit of the Galilean moon Io and its shadow. Regardless of sky conditions, being the faithful amateur astronomer that I am, I took several videos through my 11-inch Celestron Edge HD SCT and my ASI120MC camera in order to stack the frames and create an image of the event.
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The first full week of July is here. I hope that those who reside in the States had a great holiday weekend. I enjoyed a nice 4th of July weekend with the family which included a trip to an amusement park, watching fireworks, and some grilling. Now it is back to work. For those who do not live in the States, I hope you decided to celibrate it with us anyways (aren't you always looking for an excuse?).
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Get it, "post?" Like an earring post? Okay, that was lame.
I'm gonna cut right to the chase: jewelry. It's the frosting of dressing. The icing on the cake. An afterthought, but a delicious one that everyone agrees is the best part.
But everyone loves jewelry, right? Well, almost everyone, at least. We recently signed a new client and, as usual, I found and followed their Twitter handles. One's bio proclaimed she's a "hater of jewelry." Who hates jewelry?! Otherwise, she's lovely, though, so I'm not going to hold one baffling view against her.
Over the past several months, I've really focused on building my wardrobe so, particularly at work, I look classy and put-together, but I also want to dress in a way that reflects my personality. Clothing is the visual language you use to communicate to the world, and I want my message to be on-point. I had only a few basic work-appropriate pieces when I started my new job about eight months ago (and used to be that person who was either in corporate attire or gym clothes), so I've mostly worked on acquiring blouses and trousers. But I wanted to make sure I wasn't neglecting jewelry, either - the afterthought that makes a big difference between a polished and unpolished outfit. So I did something that, in my opinion, was pretty smart - I bought a pair of earrings and a necklace that I could wear everyday, and that was that.
I bought these earrings, from a brand called Nishi, at a small boutique in the East Village called duo. It's owned by two really sweet sisters; the clothing is cute but not really my style, and the jewelry selection is fantastic. All these cool, funky pieces that are delicate enough to wear with a classic outfit. From afar, these earrings look like simple gold studs, but up close you can see they're pyramid-shaped. They're polished with an edge, which is my style exactly. In fact, they've become such a staple in my wardrobe that I'm considering investing in a second pair! The price isn't listed on duo's site, but to my memory, they were about $100 and worth every penny.
I bought my everyday necklace, actually, at one of those street fairs. If you live in NYC, you know what I'm talking about. I live for those fairs: you can always find cute necklaces and scarves at a really reasonable price. Anyway, my necklace has a delicate gold chain with a small, faceted lapis stone. I wear a lot of jewel tones, black, and white, so it matches virtually everything in my closet. And I must have paid about $25 for it.
So by now, I've been wearing these pieces nearly everyday for the past eight months. I still love 'em, but I also want to add a few new pieces into the mix. I really like these Mushroom Post Earrings from Elizabeth and James, $55. They're basically a tiny, classic gold stud, but the irregularities in shape keep them interesting.
I also adore these Square Spiked Studs by Jessica Elliot, $105. These are a more substantial take on the pyramid studs I already wear. It's the same deal - taking something timeless and roughing it up just a bit. I clearly have an M.O.
Lastly, I'm obsessed with these Astrid Studs from Katie Diamond, $150. They're just like the earrings I wear now, but they're made with black garnet. That is all.
Now, on to necklaces. Again, I love my reliable lapis pendent, but variety is the spice of life.
At $286, this Arielle Necklace from J. Lingnau is definitely pricey, but it's so timeless, you'd wear it forever (this is how I justify any large purchase). I much prefer gold jewelry to silver, but I do love the contrast of a silver pendent and a gold chain. Both this necklace and the earrings above are from catbird, a Brooklyn boutique that many a blogger raves about. I've never been, because I suspect it would wreak havoc upon my wallet. Seriously, everything in its online store is amazing.
For something a little different, there's this Satin Gold Hinged Collar from Kenneth Jay Lane, $215. Like all young adults who came of age in the 90s, I am nostalgic for that era, so I'm thrilled that chokers are making a comeback. Seriously, there are many relics of 90s fashion I don't need to see a second time - grunge, spaghetti straps, frosted lipstick - but chokers are welcome back anytime. Anyway, the Kenneth Jay Lane collar speaks to the choker-loving 90s kid in me, but it also has a bit of a Spartacus OR The Jetsons vibe going on. I honestly can't decide which. But I dig it.
Now, to be perfectly honest, I don't really wear bracelets, rings or a watch. I'd never use a watch - I have a cell phone that tells me what time it is. A couple years ago, my body changed from skinny-ish to athletic, and my feet shrunk half a size, along with my fingers - none of my rings fit anymore, and I haven't bought any new ones. And bracelets often interfere with long sleeves and are generally cumbersome.
BUT. I do really like this Screw Cuff from Miansai, $165. There's something about jewelry that requires a fair amount of effort to take on and off. It's almost... a little bondage-y (with this statement, I suspect I've revealed that I know nothing about bondage). It's sort of industrial, but beautiful, too.
What about you? Do you have a go-to set of jewelry, or do you like to mix it up? Am I crazy for not wanting to wear silver jewelry? Is my taste abhorrent? Let me know in the comments.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
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Every now and again someone will call the lead singer of Hootie & the Blowfish a nigger. The rock band from Columbia, South Carolina, is made up of three white instrumentalists and a black vocalist. Such interracial camaraderie should be inspiring: ebony and ivory, the universal language of music, and all that. The reality is that there have been few truly successful mixed-race rock bands in America, and when some people, particularly in the South, see Hootie entertaining concert audiences with its mix of Southern rock and soulful blues, they have a problem with it. "We were in this bar in South Carolina, and this guy in a traditional Confederate hat comes up between sets," recalls Hootie drummer Jim Sonefeld. "He says, 'Y'all are pretty good for having a nigger as your lead singer.' Both my fists got clenched, and I was about to kill this guy."
Nobody got murdered that night. The guys in Hootie would rather get into an extended jam than a barroom brawl. And the band's burgeoning success seems to indicate that it's got far more fans than redneck detractors. The quartet's absorbing debut album, Cracked Rear View, has become an unexpected commercial smash, selling more than a million copies. Hold My Hand, a catchy sing-along number from the album, is in Billboard's Top 10. The music-video channel VH-1 - once seen as a kind of easy-listening, out-of-touch uncle of mtv - recently changed its format to feature contemporary "adult alternative" acts, and has virtually adopted Hootie as its house band, playing its videos more often than those of any other group. And when Hootie appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman two weeks ago, the host held up a copy of their new album, Cracked, and declared, "If you don't buy this album, there's something wrong with you."
Popularity for Hootie & the Blowfish was a long time coming. The four band members - singer Darius Rucker, guitarist Mark Bryan, bassist Dean Felber and drummer Sonefeld - got together at the University of South Carolina in Columbia in the mid-1980s. Rucker likes to sing after taking a shower and, thanks to his loud voice and the dorm's thin walls, his habit became well known - and, surprisingly, well liked. Says Bryan, who lived down the hall: "I'd hear him and think, 'He's got a really great voice."' Bryan was learning to play the guitar at the time, and pretty soon the two were performing cover tunes down at Pappy's, a chicken-wing joint near the dorm. Felber and Sonefeld joined later. The band has been together for nine years, and all the members are in their late 20s or early 30s, but they still joke with one another like freedom-giddy freshmen away from home for the first time. "We're doing what we did in college," says Rucker. "So it feels like we're still there."
The band's goofy name - which comes from Rucker's nicknames for two of his buddies, one with owl-like glasses (Hootie) and another with big cheeks (Blowfish) - belies the serious themes dealt with on Cracked. One cut, Running from an Angel, is a countrified stomp about a wayward brother. "Your lying and cheating really tore us apart," go the lyrics. Two of the album's best and most melancholy tracks - the folksy I'm Goin' Home and the moody Not Even the Trees - are about the death of Rucker's mother in 1992. "I'm not really sure what my dad does; he left before I was born," says Rucker. "I don't really care. But my mom supported us (Darius and five siblings) on a nurse's salary. She was my best friend." Hootie's music may be deeply personal, but it's not wimpy. The band's sound is big and guitar stuffed, and Rucker's voice is always bluesy and confident. Although the group's songs often seem dour, band members say their outlook, all things considered, is essentially optimistic. Says Bryan: "I think every song of ours that's depressing also says, in some way, that you can learn from your mistakes."
Aside from the occasional Confederate-hat-wearing heckler, South Carolinians have been wildly supportive of their homegrown rock stars. Hootie is the most prominent band ever to come out of Columbia and one of the most successful Southern rock groups since R.E.M. broke out of Athens, Georgia, in the early '80s. "I used to dream of being one of the members of R.E.M. when I was growing up," says Bryan. "We used to cover 10 R.E.M. songs every concert." The thought of a hard-rocking, blues-based band like Hootie breathing life and fire into such R.E.M. classics as Radio Free Europe and Don't Go Back to Rockville may quicken the pulse of many music fans, but don't look for it to happen again soon. "We don't do their songs anymore," says Rucker. "We've got our own now." They sure do, and now there are, no doubt, college kids - black and white, north and south of the Mason-Dixon Line - who dream of performing tunes by Hootie & the Blowfish.
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I'm a songwriter, producer, and mixing engineer from the Netherlands. My music has been used in countless TV shows such as Keeping Up With The Kardashians, The Challenge, Total Bellas & Life of Kylie and many more.
I love pop music and am extremely precise when I'm making music.
I work in Ableton & Logic. My laptop is my studio, really. I want to be able to work anywhere I want without having to bring bags full of gear.
Some of the shows that have used my music. Contact me if you are interested in using any of my music on your show, podcast, youtube video, or any other media.


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Review of Hit the Mat – Lauren Phillips POV Boxing – 19 Mins
A POV Boxing custom "prequel" featuring Lauren Phillips in her first mixed boxing match. Lauren's tough, statuesque amazon, so it's going to take two gloves to take her on! Wearing only a small black thong and her boxing gloves, Lauren starts off well with sharp, stinging punches, but her large bare breasts and bare belly are inviting targets. The first round Lauren is able to get back in the fight despite getting worked a bit, but the rest of the match she isn't so lucky. Lauren is worn down with punches to the nose, chin, belly and LOTS of punches to her breasts! Tit punching fans will love this one. Lauren is knocked around the ring until she is knocked right out.
So this I apparently a match that went down before all the other Lauren vids we have out now. Doesn't really matter when this match happened, all that matter is that Laruen is wearing almost nothing and gets defeated in another boxing battle. The highlight of this one is that Darrius gets to use both hands in this match, which means lots of punches in bunches and that's pretty rare for POV vids. I definitely enjoyed the faster rate of punches and all the flurries, two hands are definitely better than one. Lauren is great, super easy on the easy, as we all already know and she does some good selling, especially near the end, getting pretty dizzy, with a few good knock downs and a great final KO. Also really great expressions too, which are great for these POV matches. Lauren's got the look, in every way and I love seeing her in these loosing battles. Hopefully we'll see her losing again soon.
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While 2.7 millions viewers tuned in to the "Mad Men" season six finale Sunday, latecomers turned to iTunes to get their Don Draper fix.
And they were treated to a very descriptive episode description: "Don has a problem."
Well, that just about sums up the series for you.
Comcast had the same description:
AMC is now famous for its cryptic promos, but this one is pretty impressively vague.


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Took these during my summer ender swim last month. Looking at these shots suddenly made me miss the pool. I have developed a special love with swimming and I noticed that I just keep counting the days as to when I can insert some pool time into my week. Since I'll be leaving for Manila tomorrow AND we're experiencing insane bipolar weather here in the Philippines, I decided to skip the pool and spend some quality time with Dad and the rest of the gang else where.


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I made this one up, and now it's a family favorite. The freshly ground fennel seeds are essential.
8 servings
In a large pot, saute the onions and garlic in olive oil, over medium low heat, until onions are translucent.
Add turkey, turn heat to medium, and chop turkey as it cooks, to break it up. When turkey is cooked enough to be separated into little chunks, add tomato sauce and diced tomatoes, and bring to a simmer.
Grind fennel seeds with a mortar and pestle, or a spice grinder, until they're fragrant and well-smashed, but not powdered.
Add fennel and oregano to sauce, and simmer for 5-10 minutes. Add vinegar and salt and pepper to taste.
Just before serving over spaghetti or other pasta, stir in chopped basil. Turn off the heat, as soon as the basil is wilted.
You can use half dark-meat ground turkey, if you like.
Dried basil doesn't make it--and neither does previously ground fennel.
If you like garlic, you can add more.
This recipe was provided by Sunny B from Evanston


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That Shimeta fell in love with the school idol Ishikawa Yuuko, however that kind of love is absolutely, perfectly, and completely impossible. During this time, the messenger of the gods, Osaki, appeared to grant Moji's request with a price attached concerning Moji's cooperation in catching some runaway evil spirits. However to catch them all, Osaki uses Moji as a vessel to become a servent of Uganomitamanokami (aka Inari) called Youko. Lots of Ecchi situations and humiliation abound at Moji's...
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Meg and Jo are struggling to make a living in Tokyo in the year 20XX. Jo a gunslinger and Meg her back up take varies Jobs to make money in a world the allows anyone to Carry a gun. It is later known that Jo has no memory of her past. However when a cybernetic mad man comes to town looking to get revenge on Jo lost memory's begin to surface. To other girls Sei and Amy are trying to catch this person and use Jo to try and bring him...
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Alternative: Mai's Room, MAIの部屋,
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18-year-old old Mai Sugimoto is a college student starting this year. She was looking forward to the "college life," but she ends up living with two women because of a realtor's mistake. Furthermore, they are all 18-years-old and share the exact same name, Mai Suigimoto. Hence a life story of three Mai(s) full of fun and erotic excitement begins. Can these three girls get...
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Alternative: 春よ恋, Haruyo Koi,
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Author/Artist(s): AKIYAMA Haru
Genres: Adult, Drama, Seinen, Slice of Life, Yuri
When she was young, Yukino Miyashita wanted, more than anything else to become an idol. After accomplishing her dream, however, the idol group she was part of failed to sell, and she returned to school, facing alienation from her peers. Now, at age 18, Yukino is living alone in Tokyo, half-heartedly trying to start a new life as a talent manager, while not quite able to put her idol days behind her. She meets Setsuko, a songwriter who also once belonged to a failed idol group. The romance...
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Alternative: エル・カザド, 魔女猎人, El Cazador,
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Ellis is quiet and somewhat mysterious young girl who was marked as a murderer and has a nice bounty on her head. Upon meeting the kind-hearted bounty hunter Nadie, the life of Ellis who constantly has to be on the run, makes another drastic turn. Will we find out Ellis's past? What will our heroines face in the future? That's where this story...
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Mari is a shy, studious girl who has neither a boyfriend nor any friends. One day, Akiko - one of the most fashion-conscious and sociable girls in the class - strikes up a conversation with her out of the blue! As the days go by the two become inseparable, with Akiko often cheerily remarking on how they became best friends so easily. Mari has a lot of fun with Akiko and her group, slowly becoming more outgoing despite still being timid and awkward. But she knows, deep down inside, that she...
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Good morning! Our Chattanooga Modern quilt guild is this morning and I made 2 blocks for our block lottery. DH cut the fabric for me and then I sewed the Garden Gate blocks. They were fun to put together and if you would like the pattern you can go here http://www.conniekresin.com/2013/03/garden-fence-block-tutorial.html ...well off to get ready, enjoy your day.
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As the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic on its maiden voyage approaches, I'm watching all the fascinating documentaries with new images of the ship. One of the contributing factors to the sinking was the use of iron rivets; and not just any iron–iron with imperfections that weakened the structural integrity of the ship.
1,500 People lost their lives that night. The lack of lifeboats was a factor, but also not every lifeboat was filled to capacility. Why was that? Some reasons include people were still below decks or didn't take the loading seriously.
Of course, there could be all sorts of implications for this tragedy but in reality I think a lot of lives could have been saved if training had taken a bigger part. The crew was trained to sail and operate the ship, I'm sure, but this was the largest liner in the world at the time. There were people of all classes and colors, from different countries–and some didn't speak or couldn't read English. Imagine if you were from Italy, trying to read English signs…
I'm curious though, on this 100th anniversary, what training solutions you think could have been adapted, back then, that would have helped save more lives.


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Nov 7, 2011
Back from the Conference Season: Notes from POD
Early in October, it was the CUNY Supplemental Instruction conference -- a local conference, mainly faculty and administrators concerned with developing, using, or improving that type of pedagogical resource. When asked, I did end up finding something to first think about, then talk about: how a Virtue Ethics perspective can inform and complement the other ways of looking at SI (slides, draft paper, and video available). I just got home from the MAPACA conference over in Philadelphia, where I talked (slides, video coming later) about how Aristotle's moral theory (understood broadly, through the two Ethics, Politics, Rhetoric, and Poetics) can illuminate George R.R. Martin's epic and still unfinished Song of Ice and Fire. Sandwiched between them, just two weeks ago, down in Atlanta, was the Professional and Organizational Development network conference, which is what I'm going to write about today.
In a later post, in the coming weeks, I'll discuss the Aristotle/Martin business, and perhaps even the MAPACA conference itself in greater detail. I've already written about the presentation I gave at the CUNY SI conference, though on another blog. This was my first time to POD -- though it will certainly not be my last -- but far from the first time I've talked or written about the topics I focused upon in my workshop session, so after a period of infrequent blogging (on this blog, at least), it seems a fitting way both to blaze a relatively new path of words and to connect up continuities to past posts. For, what I talked about, proposed as a model, and provided both best practices and trial-and-error-learned failures from, was the Ethics in Business Education Project, which I co-founded back at my previous institution, Fayetteville State University -- and whose goals, successes, setbacks, and lessons I've written about here previously (here, and here).
In many respects, POD is entirely at the other end of the scale from the CUNY SI conference -- but it also shares with the latter a common preoccupation -- bringing educators and those who support them together to study, to present on, to dialogue about key topics in education, and ultimately to improve student learning in significant, substantive, sustainable, and hopefully demonstrable ways. POD is international in scope. The big companies and the startups have their reps there and sponsor sessions, long-established faculty development experts and scholars of teaching and learning mix with first-time attendees, new heads of centers for faculty excellence, presenters just breaking in. There's so much going on in education - there has been for some time -- that one can always find a workshop in which to learn not only some new content, but new approaches, new concerns and issues even. Likewise, in each time slot, I found, there's some workshop, some conversation, about something one has already long been involved in, studying, implementing within which some new, previously unconsidered idea will emerge.
Add on top of all that the dimension of constant and expected networking -- a telling sign: Everyone at POD, everyone without fail I asked, had their business cards on them -- and I must have given out dozens myself. By contrast, only one person of perhaps the ten who asked for a card actually came to MAPACA with any in their pockets, wallets, or bags. It's true that the latter organization publishes an email list of membership in their conference program, but there's something quite different about the act of exchange, something lost when moving from the assortment of colored cards you discover in your pocket on the ride back home, each one an individual trace of a person with whom you interacted, to mere columns of text.
Another interesting feature of POD is their use of a Wiki, called prosaically enough WikiPODia, as the repository for conference materials. Instead of merely forwarding materials to a chair, an organizer, or a tech person from a conference, as many are still doing, POD places the responsibility -- or as I look at it, the freedom and opportunity -- to upload and structure materials into the hands of the presenters, as they see fit. In the page for my own presentation, Ethics Pedagogy as a Model for Interdepartmental Development and Assessment, I got to post and link to all of the workshop materials, embed a photo -- so those perusing can put a face to a name -- and my company logo, and . . . well, you know the rest, because you've probably already clicked the link. Best of all, I can edit and update it, for instance to link in video footage from the workshop session, once we've uploaded it into YouTube.
The upshot of all this is that, with the exception of the chance for exactly the same sort of direct interaction with me as the workshop provider as participants enjoyed during the session, someone interested in the workshop can practically reproduce it almost in its entirety via the slides, handouts, and once its up, the video. Even the admitted lack of immediate, and unmediated, interaction that you'd have had during the original duration of the session is not much of an issue these days, since follow-up can easily be carried out through a variety of electronic means -- free and reliable ones -- these days.
All that conference-related comparison and analysis aside, what matters did my workshop discuss? In a nutshell, what I was talking about how philosophy and philosophers could -- and in many colleges and universities, probably can, right now -- be of considerable use to their institutions, particularly at this particular point of time in history. I used the Ethics in Business Education Project as a working example, a paradigm towards which to point, but I could just as readily pointed at the Quality Enhancement Plan recently developed and deployed at FSU as another example where (some or certain kinds of) philosophers, by virtue of their particular expertise, can make vital, and for the foreseeable future highly timely, contributions to improving and better assessing student learning, raising levels of competence and confidence in teaching core areas, and deepening (or perhaps in some cases, building for the first time) an institutional culture of interdisciplinary collaboration.
That last line is pretty jargon-laden, so let me express it in a bit more tangible, down to earth, but necessarily more wordy way. Philosophers -- given that they're trained in certain kinds of ways in the discipline, and not handicapped by some other, unfortunately popular approaches -- make excellent candidates for a kind of collaboration the need for which is often not understood, felt, or even dimly realized in academic institutions -- collaboration in certain core skills, certain fundamental domains of knowledge. For philosophers, these can be -- really ought to be -- but regrettably sometimes aren't -- areas of our own specialized, disciplinary expertise, the objects of several-millennia-long traditions of inquiry and study. Critical Thinking, Logic, and Ethics are among these core, foundational areas.
A short set of digressions: That's not to say, of course that nobody but philosophers studies, can make legitimate claims to expertise, or makes important contributions in these areas, in these complexes of skills, knowledge, and deeper dispositions that university education is supposed to inculcate in its students and assure its graduates to now possesses. There are indeed many doctors, historians, business educators or practitioners who could probably better teach an Ethics course than some Philosophy instructors -- many, of course, because there are just so many in all these professions, but relatively few when you look at them as a proportion of doctors, historians, and so on. In general,if businesspeople want to improve their competence and confidence in teaching, assessing progress in, designing courses for, infusing Ethics, they're better off to turn to the philosophers -- at least some of them.
For, I'm also not saying that any old Philosophy instructor will do, for that sort of collaboration in core educational matters. For one example, many are rather narrowly specialized, out to sea when it comes to the vaster, more panoramic picture of Ethical theories, and while such an interlocutor that might be useful in learning, e.g. how to understand the admittedly tricky and unnecessarily technical Immanuel Kant and his particular version of deontological ethics, they're not going to be of much help in learning and thinking about the other Ethical theories. Those who focus on contemporary debates about Ethical theory in Analytic philosophy along with its attendant entirely stipulative terminology and concepts, disengaged from the previous history and development of the discipline of Ethics, don't strike me as particularly likely to prove useful collaborators either -- a generalization, mind you, as I do know some Analytically trained moral theorists who manage to bridge that chasm, usually by relying upon non-Analytic resources
Core areas in education -- like Critical Thinking, Ethics, Written Communication, Cultural Literacy, and so on -- by their own comprehensive, general, overarching nature tend to be difficult to reduce to a routine or set of procedures, a comprehensively systematized body of knowledge, or rather articulately arranged information. This makes it difficult not only to come up with good assessments whether students are actually developing these (or for that matter, even -- and this involves assessment of instructors and curricula -- encountering them!), but to even agree upon what we mean by the very terms like Ethics, Critical Thinking, and so on. Nearly everyone claims to do and foster some sort of "critical thinking" in their classrooms -- because it's easy to be very loosey-goosey and vague about precisely what it consists in, especially if your own main systematic, thematic encounters with Critical Thinking as a student were confined to a class and then whatever your disciplinary instructors claimed to be Critical Thinking. That's precisely why, if you want things done well, rigorously, you call in the experts.
What happens once disciplinary experts of two sorts are at the table, looking at what the present educational situation actually is and what kinds of improvements need to be made, can go a number of ways, and I talked about these in my workshop as models. You can compartmentalize matters, so that the core area gets focused on, studied, and taught by the subject-matter experts. You can bring in philosophers to develop and teach, for instance Business Ethics classes, hoping that the students will get enough grounding in Ethics that the necessarily connected material found throughout the rest of the Business curriculum will now become clear to them (and the Business instructors, usually not trained specifically in Ethics to any great extent). Not a particularly good strategy to adopt, not least because it sends a consistent message to students: this Ethics stuff is actually not important, just a hoop to jump through so that we can get on with studying the real stuff.
There's other available models, practically all of them better than the compartmentalization one. The one we deliberately adopted, and I think perhaps even may have contributed to developing a bit in EBEP involves the subject matter expert(s) in the core area -- in this case, philosophers with respect to Ethics -- working closely with the subject matter experts in the other field -- in this case the FSU School of Business and Economics. The main goal is for the philosopher to assist the Business faculty to gradually become more and more competent in dealing well with Ethics content -- competent, but also more confident. One workshop which I provided to the Business faculty, for instance, focused on the sorts of common student complaints and challenges that arise when an instructor -- in practically any discipline -- veers into, or realizes they are now deep within, Ethics territory, and how to turn these into good opportunities to promote deeper thinking about Ethics, rather than allowing them to -- as instructors come to dread -- turn into roadblocks, overly tense situations, even occasions of humiliation.
The instructors in the discipline into which Ethics is being deliberately infused or incorporated -- and where some Ethics is most likely already being done though not recognized as such -- are the people who have the most contact with the students in their major, and enabling them to teach Ethics consistently and well should both reinforce whatever Ethics knowledge and skills students picked up in earlier classes, and help them to continue progressing, hopefully becoming what we now term "lifelong learners," people who choose to continue their education after leaving the academy and entering the workplace. Those instructors are also the ones who ought to be most involved in assessing the demonstrable development of students in Ethics -- whether in moral development itself, or understanding of ethical theories, or application of those theories to cases -- and philosophers ought to enable non-philosopher instructors to design, use, grade, interpret results from, and improve assessments for Ethics.
Much more could be said about this -- in 75 minutes at POD, I felt I only scratched the surface -- so I'll end by advocating one thing and pointing out another. So, first the soap-box pitch: the sort of collaboration in core areas between disciplinary experts that I've briefly described here is what ought to be going on -- and so rarely is -- at every institution of higher learning that claims to be producing graduates who are educated in any real sense of the word. That, undoubtedly, calls for some further explanation, perhaps argument, on my part, but I'll defer that to a later post, with the exception of one blatently pragmatic appeal.
Given the current educational, economic, and political climate, it has never been more important -- let alone just downright prudent -- for educators to demonstrate to the stakeholders who fund their efforts that education is really taking place -- not just technical training, but core education -- sustained, reinforced, built-upon, deep-enough-to-be-retained core education. Now that can't happen unless students are actually encountering these core areas of development, being fostered and challenged in them, learning from others who possess them at a level of mastery, not shallow facsimiles of them, but genuine core skills, knowledge, and dispositions.
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The Public Service Company of New Mexico on Thursday asked the state Public Regulation Commission for approval to raise its rates for residential customers by 15.8 percent — which would mean about $123.5 million in revenue for New Mexico's largest utility.
But PNM says the rate increase would be offset by lower fuel costs if the regulatory commission also approves its plan for the San Juan Generating Station.
Because of a new coal supply contract that's part of the San Juan proposal, the net increase would be 8.31 percent for the average residence. This, the utility says, would amount to about $6.07 per month on residential electric bills, or about 20 cents extra per day.
Unlike PNM's previous rate request, which was rejected by the five-member commission in May, the new case does not call for a new fee for solar customers to connect to the grid. The solar fee would have ranged from $21 to $26.
"We did not feel that it would be productive to include it in the refiled rate case given the need to implement the new rates in a timely manner," a PNM spokeswoman said.
In a news release announcing the request, PNM said the extra money is needed to pay for several large-ticket items.
These include four new solar centers, to be online by 2016 and capable of powering 16,200 homes. The projected cost is $65 million.
PNM also proposes to have the $50 million La Luz Natural Gas Plant online by 2016. Emission control equipment required for the San Juan Generating Station to comply with federal regulations would cost $58 million. Purchasing the Rio Bravo Generating Station natural gas plant would be another $32 million, and purchasing leases for Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station Unit 2 in Arizona would cost $144 million.
Other investments would be $61 million at PNM's Rio Puerco Switching Station and $8 million to improve substation security and modernize the utility's distribution system operations center.
Mariel Nanasi of New Energy Economy, a leading critic of PNM, said the utility company's proposal is largely dependent on fossil and nuclear fuel sources.
"The fact is that only a tiny percentage of the rate increase will go to solar," Nanasi said in a statement. "What's true is that PNM's old coal plants and out-of-state nuclear plants are in need of constant upgrades and maintenance and pollution controls. PNM's coal and nuclear choices are the energy behemoths that keep on giving gifts to PNM's senior management and shareholders at the expense of consumers."
Nanasi said PNM's top five executives are paid a total of $7.46 million per year, plus top-flight health insurance. Meantime, she said, "thousands of Navajos who live in the toxic shadow of the coal plant live on an average of $7,200 per year and are dying of cancers and liver and heart disease at an alarming rate. The injustice is great and the impacts of exploitation real. That's what this rate case will pay for."
According to information supplied to PNM stockholders at their annual meeting last May, Nanasi's figures for the compensation of the top five PNM executives are basically correct when the value of stock awarded to them is included. PNM's highest-paid employee is CEO and President Pat Vincent-Collawn, whose base salary and incentive pay in 2014 were just shy of $1.3 million. The stock she received last year brings her total compensation to $3.35 million.
PNM spokeswoman Jodi McGinnis Porter said less than $1 million in the new rate request would be allocated to the salaries of those five top executives. None of the incentive pay is funded by ratepayers, she said.
The Public Regulation Commission in May rejected PNM's last request for higher rates, saying the utility didn't submit complete information to support the proposal.
The proposal rejected by the commission three months ago would have cost households $7.80 more a month in the base charge compared to current rates, which were set in 2011. The rejected plan also called for 16.34 percent more in monthly charges. Altogether, the residential increases would have meant another $107 million a year in revenue for PNM.
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Correction: This story has been amended to reflect the following correction. An earlier version of this article quoted PNM spokeswoman Jodi McGinnis Porter saying $1 million in the new rate request would be allocated to the salaries of PNM's five top executives. She actually said "less than $1 million."


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I root for Tim Tebow's personal life. Not his football career. I am a Seminole. He killed us when he was at Florida- roostering up and down the sideline with garnet field paint on his face pumping his team up. I shudder to even mention it. I root for him to lose. At football. But I would be deeply saddened if he took ABC's bid for him to be the next Bachelor. It would break my heart if he started making out with a few desperate gold-diggers in front of millions of people. It'll never happen. And that's why I root for his personal life. I hope he tanks in the NFL. And I'm pretty sure he will. I also hope he goes to prisons and shares Jesus with folks. I hope he spends years in the Philippines with orphans and widows. I hope he dethrones Mother Theresa in the "Least of These" Hall of Fame.
I've got a bad case of Linsanity. I love him. I love the story of a really good basketball player who was overlooked in high school, college, and the NBA because he is Asian. I love the fact the he didn't quit, that he worked his butt off, and that he finally got his. I loved the pride that I saw in so many of my Asian American friends when ESPN was Linsane in the membrane for two weeks. I jumped on the bandwagon for what he was doing for the game of basketball. And when I found out later that he was a devout Christian who was considering career ministry, it didn't faze me. I didn't like him more. I didn't like him less. I just worried about him more. Overnight fame, the promise of millions, and New York City are a terrible combination- every time. I would hate for Jeremy Lin's sports success to infringe on his faith success- which is usually in a much healthier environment when it is incubated in struggle.
I want God's Kingdom to grow through the work of His church. I enjoy sports. Those things do not mean I root for Christians to succeed in sports because they're Christian. That also doesn't mean I root against worldly pagans in sports because they're worldly pagans. God will glorify Himself as God sees fit. If he does it through humbling a vain golfer, elevating a mediocre quarterback, or having the world notice an unnoticed point guard then that's God's business. However, God can also glorify Himself in the empty success of vanity, in the humiliation of one of His children, and in the train wreck that comes from overnight fame. I want God's glory to shine. I don't care so much how He chooses to do it. So in the meanwhile, Go Tiger! Fail Timmy! And hold on tight Super Lintendo!


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"Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us. Unto him be glory..."
Ephesians 3:20-21a
Before we started deputation, we took a survey trip to Russia (so I could see what I was getting myself into!) We booked our tickets and put them on our credit card. This was certainly a step of faith. I hated having that money sit on our card. So I prayed, that the Lord would provide the money for our trip that month. James didn't know I was praying this way, and about a week later he called me to tell me about this huge blessing. I had a feeling it was our tickets being paid for and it was! A pastor and friend felt the Lord leading him to take care of our tickets, and wrote James a check for the whole amount. I couldn't believe it! I had heard of stories like this happening to other people but never personally witnessed it. This was God reassuring me that going to Russia was indeed His perfect will for our lives and He was going to take care of us. I couldn't help but tearfully praise Him for taking care of us and giving me peace about this new journey.
Before we hit the deputation road, we really needed a new vehicle. We had an Isuzu Rodeo but it had just hit the 200,000 mile mark and we had just found out we were expecting little Jacob. So we began to pray and search. The Lord closed some doors, so we kept on the hunt. We came across a small dealership with two Honda Pilots (what we were wanting). The man was from Ukraine, so James closed the whole deal in Russian, which was pretty neat. The price was a little over what we had wanted to spend, but the Lord allowed us to borrow from some friends what we needed to pay cash for the vehicle. We believed the Lord had provided this car for us, and we could pay it off in a few months. As you know I hate debt, so I began to pray that we could pay this off within two months. Again the Lord amazed us. We had a man in our church who wanted to give us $3,000 towards our car. We were in shock that someone would be such a blessing to us. God's provision again amazed me!
About a month ago now, we were in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee for a week long meeting. James and I were out shopping for some maternity clothes (for me not him :) at consignment stores. Our last stop was a cute boutique called Feather Your Nest. As I was looking I could tell there wasn't a maternity section, but a dress caught my eye. It fit my pregnant self with room to grow (added bonus) so I went to purchase it. The shop owner, Sarah, was so sweet. I was telling her why we were in town and about us being missionaries. As I was paying her, she gave me back the $20 bill I had handed her. I was really confused because all I was suppose to get was cents back. She said it wasn't much but she wanted to help us on our missions journey and raising support. I was speechless and thanked her for being a blessing to us. This was yet another humbling experience for me- that God would show His love to me through this stranger. It was such an encouragement and reminder to me that God loves me more than I can imagine.
About a week ago as James and I were driving up to Alaska, we stopped at a tiny motel for the night. James was talking to the man (the owner) about our trip and why we were driving to Alaska. He shared with him our burden for souls in Russia. He said his church supports a lot of missionaries around the world and would be happy to pray for us. After our nice chat, we headed back to our room to unpack for the night and relax. We heard a knock at the door, and James went to check on it. At the door, his wife stood there with cash in hand and gave it to James. She said your stay is on us tonight, we want to be a blessing, and smiled and walked away. James was in shock, he couldn't believe that a complete stranger would show God's love to us. We just knelt down right there and thanked the Lord for taking care of us. I was really thankful that James got to experience the same kind of kindness from a stranger that I had experienced just a few weeks earlier. It was just amazing to see God provide for us.
There are many more ways the Lord has taken care of us, but these are the stories that I wanted to share. I have to admit before we got started on this journey, I was concerned with how it all would "work" out. From the very beginning, God showed me He was in control and would take care of us. His Word promises He will provide our every need. By the time we started deputation, I was so excited to see how the Lord was going to provide our every need. We don't have a physical home to go home to while we travel, but the Lord has always provided us a place to stay and has met our needs above and beyond. I believe this is only the beginning of things to come!
"But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus."
Philippians 4:19
May I encourage those of you afraid to step out on faith to simply trust your heavenly Father. He won't call you to a place and then leave you there. He will only bless your faith in Him and take care of you beyond what you could imagine!
" If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith? And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you."
Luke 12:28-31
The most important decision of faith is that of your eternal destination. If you have never placed your faith in God concerning eternity, may I encourage you to get that settled. God tells us we can know without a doubt where we will spend eternity. We can live a life of peace and comfort with Christ. If you have any questions or want to know more about how to put your faith in Christ, I would be more than happy to share that with you. It's the best decision I ever made!


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