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When I saw this image I immediately thought of a period oh so many years ago, when I spent time in Fort Collins, Colorado for the baptism of my godson. While it was winter, the weather was perfect. The snow fell in big, fat, sparkly flakes that muffled the sounds of everyday life and the temperature did not require bundling up, even at the midnight hour. It also reminds me of my childhood; the hours my sister and I spent on the swings at our local park, singing Camp Fire Girl songs to "entertain" anyone close enough to hear.
I took some liberty with the image by covering her springtime flowers with sparkly snowflakes. Using my Copics, I attempted to capture the early twilight sky when we are changing from winter to spring. The snowflakes were punched (over and over) from an old Fiskars corner punch because it was the only snowflake thing I had. They are sparkled with Art Institute and Fun Stampers Journey glitters. Sentiment is from The Angel Company.
I hope you enjoyed my take on snowflakes and remember to check out A Day for Daisies. To play along with us at Tuesday Throwdown just click on the link. We love seeing all the creativity!
Parting thought: "Snow always inspires such awe in me. Just consider one tiny snowflake alone, so delicate, so fragile, so ethereal. And yet, let a billion of them come together through the majestic force of nature, they can screw up a whole city." Betty White


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Mike Colledge, President of Ipsos Canada, recently published a concise article highlighting the essential need of multi-channel research in today's complex respondent landscape:
Governments, corporations and not-for-profits are increasingly turning to social media to engage and consult with their constituents and clients. Almost every level of government across Canada routinely pushes out open ended, open link surveys to the masses trying to get the information and evidence they need to guide and evaluate their policies and programs. They are doing it for three good reasons: it's easy, it's virtually free, and 37% of Canadians say it's their preferred method.
Many of these online studies also offer anonymity to respondents and this leads people to write things that they would never say to someone else face to face. One has to wonder if this "freedom" to express themselves allows for a truer expression of beliefs or if people are instead pushing the envelope to get a reaction? Most likely the answer falls somewhere between the two extremes.
Telephone surveys still have a role but they are rapidly being left in the dust by new technologies. Interestingly, if you want to have very robust and representative surveys in Canada we probably need to go back to mailing paper based studies but these are costly and slow. Nor are online surveys the sole answer for how best to understand society. Same with focus groups and online bulletin boards or online communities of like-minded folks, they all have their limitations as well as their benefits.
None of these approaches or methodologies can stand alone anymore. We live in a complex world where people access and share information in numerous ways and no one method covers the waterfront.
The team at Ipsos Public Affairs knows that in order to provide the best advice possible to our clients we need to be equally open to all data sources and equally skeptical of all data sources. We need to draw from multiple streams of evidence and use our brains and our understanding of a client's objectives to figure out which data is relevant and what it all means. We need to be able to look at the data in context and use our access to other data and our experience to provide strong insight and actionable advice to our clients.
We do this by putting our clients' objectives at the center of every project and then building the methodology and data collection approach around these objectives rather than trying to fit clients into our preferred approach. The more data sources we can include the better able we are to triangulate and potentially pin point the right decision for our clients.
Great article by a research leader in the industry. If your online-only methodology is lagging behind, get in touch with us. We have flexible multi-mode plans that allow organizations to expand their survey reach based on their clients' projects' needs.
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I really had to think about this one as I don't really like spring, although I must admit that I love some accessories that the warming weather allows. I love parasols and fans, and of course huge hats, for they all give an outfit an antiqueted air. But once again I have lost myself to tangent so let's get to business
Wishes for spring. by mimielizabetha featuring mojo moxy boots
This spring I hope lolita sifts toward a more elegant, calm and collected mode. I would like to see simple florals, all over lace fabrics and stripes and cute elegance of yesteryear. I have really fallen back in love with some old school favorites even though modern lolita has its charms too. Generally a move toward classic lolita would be utterly lovely.
In itemsvise I'd love to see more jackets as they are both cute and elegant and simply to awesome to leave in to shadows. A jacket gives a mature air to any outfit, especially with a large bowtie blouse. Jackets should really be seen more often. I have already two jackets so atleast in my spring wardrobe, they will be a staple. Other things I'd like to see make an appereance are two toned ankle boots which are in my opion quite adorable, full sized hats (other than berets) and neutrally coloured tigths with simple patterns.
Other than fashion I would love to see more events as Helsinki Lolita convention was such a success. Something like the great teapartys we see around the world, or other fun get togethers or meet-ups. Maybe I'll organize one again.
As for my personal style I wish to continue adding classical elements to my look and balancing them with my macabre accessories and more gothic tastes.
And the lolita blog carnival is back! I have been really busy lately so I haven't had time to participate but this week I finally managed! Here is our facebook group!
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Author: Sarina Bowen
Series: Brooklyn Bruisers #1
Release Date: September 6th, 2016
Genres: Contemporary Romance, Sports Romance
The first novel in a sexy new series featuring the hockey players of the Brooklyn Bruisers and the women who win their hearts—from the USA Today bestselling author of the Ivy Years series.In high school they were the perfect couple—until the day Georgia left Leo in the cold...Hockey player Leo Trevi has spent the last six years trying to do two things: get over the girl who broke his heart, and succeed in the NHL. But on the first day he's called up to the newly franchised Brooklyn Bruisers, Leo gets checked on both sides, first by the team's coach—who has a long simmering grudge, and then by the Bruisers' sexy, icy publicist—his former girlfriend Georgia Worthington.Saying goodbye to Leo was one of the hardest things Georgia ever had to do—and saying hello again isn't much easier. Georgia is determined to keep their relationship strictly professional, but when a press conference microphone catches Leo declaring his feelings for her, things get really personal, really fast...
Rookie Move is the first book in the new Brooklyn Bruisers series by Sarina Bowen. All books will focus around a professional hockey conglomerate. This was a nice lead in to the series as we got a nice feel of several characters I see the potential for having their stories told. I'd especially like to see one for the billionaire team owner but time will tell!
Leo and Georgia dated for several years back in high school until bad things happened and things fell apart. Six years later, she's a PR guru for the Brooklyn Bruisers and he's the new rookie traded to the team. The breakup years ago was fast and unexpected and six long years have passed. Can the two of them carry on a professional relationship in the shadows of lingering hurt... or possible lingering love?
This was a slow build read. Not a lot of angst or unnecessary drama to follow suit either. But once I hit the halfway mark or so, I was really invested in their love story. I try to remember these slow builds oftentimes are a great precursor to connecting the reader to the two main characters at a gradual level so when it begins picking up, we really are whole-heartedly invested. Georgia was young and made difficult decisions years ago and with a little communication, that pain would've been prevented but again, she was young.
Leo was perfect! Swoon! Even so many years ago, clear through till today, the guy held no ill will towards Georgia and their break-up. His love for her stands the test of time but now career interests, potential for getting traded, and her father as the team coach all lurk in the background as challenges to overcome if they're to get that second chance at love. But he's willing to try...if Gigi will.
I look forward to the next installment in the Brooklyn Bruisers series!
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Sarina Bowen is the USA Today bestselling author of steamy, angsty Contemporary Romance and New Adult fiction. She lives in the wilds of Vermont.
She is the author of The Ivy Years, an award-winning series set amid the hockey team at an elite Connecticut college. Also, the The Gravity series.
With Elle Kennedy, Sarina is the author of HIM and US.
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(Reuters) - Manchester City playmaker David Silva could be out of action for up to a month with a calf injury, manager Manuel Pellegrini said on Friday.
The Spain international, who had already missed a month of this season with a thigh injury before returning in early October, came off midway through the second half in Tuesday's 5-2 Champions League victory over CSKA Moscow.
"Silva has a problem with his calf so he could miss three or four weeks," Pellegrini told a news conference ahead of Sunday's trip to Sunderland (1405 GMT) in the Premier League.
He said midfielder Fernandinho and defender Matija Nastasic face late fitness tests.
City remain without captain Vincent Kompany, who has missed their last six games with a thigh injury, although the Belgian could be back soon.
"It was diagnosed as being a five-week problem," said Pellegrini. "That was three weeks ago, so he should be fine in another two weeks."
Pellegrini's side are currently fifth in the league but a win against struggling Sunderland will put them three points behind leaders Arsenal who visit Manchester United later on Sunday (1610 GMT).
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What Am I Wearing Today: Bold in Blue
Hello Everyone,
Today I have another bold and blue eye makeup to share with you. I have missing this dark navy blue shade in my collection and I was happy to see this perfect matte Navy blue shade in my favorite eye shadow palette, Sleek Rio Rio Eye Shadow Palette. I have been craving to do a full fledged blue eye makeup look and here it is!
- Don't Miss to Checkout: Kareena Kapoor Lakme Illusion Inspired Makeup
But to my dismay, Not one but two bad things happened while creating this look.. 🙁 . First is that my one and only Black Gel Liner (L'Oreal Paris Infallible Gel Liner) gave up in the mid way and refused to apply smoothly and the wing on my lower lash line went for a toss. I tried everything possible to save the look but this is the best I can get with that moody maniac.
Well, 2nd was nothing other than this worst ever lip product I have tried Revlon Colorburst Matte Balm – Audacious. I had such high hopes from these Revlon Matte Balms but the formula sucks.. I just flakes like anything when comes in contact with lips, even if lips are prepped well, you can see the flaking in no less than an hour.. 😛
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Coming back to the makeup look, I added pink in the crease to create a contrasting look with a dash of purple-pink on the boundary where blue meets pink and a heavy dose of shimmery white highlighter on the inner corners. On cheeks it is a mix of shimmery peach and coral-orange blush from the Sleek Lace Blush Palette.
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In case you are interested in details of all the products used in this look, here is the list :
Products Used:
- Sleek Brow Kit- Extra Dark
- INGLOT Eye Shadow Matte – #360
- INGLOT Eye Shadow Matte – #390
- L'Oreal Super liner Gel Eye Liner in Black
- L'Oreal Paris Million Lashes Mascara
- Sleek Rio Rio Eye Shadow Palette
- Born Pretty Store False Eye Lashes
- Bourjois Kohl and Contour Eye Pencil in Noir Expert
- MAC face and Body Foundation – C4
- Sleek Blush Trio – Lace
- The Body Shop Kabuki Brush
- SIGMA Eye Shadow Brush – E55
- SIGMA Blending Brush – E25
Will share the details of eye makeup in a Tutorial next!
Hope you liked the look!
Do share your feedback through comments! and if something you would like me to recreate of better off.!! I am so running out of ideas..


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Yes, I've been holding out on you.
I typed FADE OUT. yesterday on Psycho Ex. Man it felt great. Act 3 just flooded out in a three-day sprint. Sure, there are still big holes and a missing scene or two (maybe) in Act 2, and then the endless rewrites begin, but still. It's a big threshold to cross. I am psyched.
So that's where I've been – too busy writing script pages to create blog posts. And what pages I have – the first words-on-paper draft (it's still too early to call it a first draft) weighed in at a staggering 151 pages! So I've got quite a bit to cut. And cut. And cut. The good news is that I think all the pieces are there, now it's time to focus and combine and cut. I'm pretty happy with The Line, it just needs to be streamlined now.
The way the summer stars are aligning, a mid-August completion date looks doable. My current hope is to send a draft to zoetrope.com for peer review at that time. Hopefully this current euphoria will push me all the way through the major cutting ahead.
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Reports are surfacing of a foreigner living in Chuo Ward in Tokyo attempting to initiate Japanese conversations with other gaijin.
Witnesses say the man is about 30-years-old and has complete disregard for the color of other people's skin.
"I'm out having a few drinks with mates and this white bloke starts speaking to me in Japanese," said Tom Mitchell.
Mitchell went through three stages of emotions as his brain attempted to process what was actually unfolding in front of his eyes.
First there was shock, then confusion, and finally shame.
"You just don't expect to come out for a quiet drink and face this kind of abuse."
After regaining his composure Mitchell politely told the man he is also white and that he had a novel idea that they should communicate in their shared native language, otherwise known as English.
Mitchell went home early for the night and took a long hot shower scrubbing his entire body thoroughly three times.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art is more than a civic cultural treasure. Along with its Grand Avenue neighbor -- the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the brilliant Esa-Pekka Salonen -- it has become one of the essential windows on the restless, searching, cosmopolitan creativity of this city's 21st century spirit.
That's why the financial collapse that currently threatens to engulf and destroy -- or irrevocably alter -- MOCA is, even in these desperate times, a problem that requires immediate attention from Los Angeles' elected officials. The city has a strong interest in the museum. Though its governing board is made up of private individuals, and private philanthropy has provided its endowment, the city has played a crucial role in MOCA since its inception 30 years ago.
The museum's main Grand Avenue facility -- its signature building by architect Arata Isozaki -- was constructed as part of a city-brokered deal by the private developers of California Plaza, who in return received the use of an 11-acre, publicly owned parcel of land. MOCA's best and most popular exhibition space -- the Geffen Contemporary in Little Tokyo -- is leased from the city for $1 a year. For those reasons, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and City Council President Eric Garcetti sit as ex-officio members on the museum's board of trustees.


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We are getting to the end of the mowing season. But before you think of putting your mower to rest for the winter, there are some tasks that still need to be done.
Mow, Mow, Mow… If you have been following the schedule, you should be mowing about every 4 days. Make sure you adjust the mower height to cut to about 2-2.5 inches. Also, you will want to vary the direction of your cutting. If you cut in stripes one way last time, cut 90 degrees to that this time. Or, cut on a left-sloped diagonal this time, and a right-sloped diagonal next time. This makes for a better cut and your lawn doesn't grow in only one direction. (And don't forget to trim along the curb!)
Weed Alert! Yes, those weeds are still here and need to be dealt with. Pull out your favorite weed killer (Weed-B-Gone, etc.) and spray the weeds where ever they have popped up. Getting them now will only help in the spring. Remember… you will still be dealing with winter weed growth come March. You may also want to want to put down a layer of fertilizer plus pre-emergent ("Turf Builder Plu Halts") to stop crabgrass before the seeds start to germinate. I know this is usually done in the spring, but the pre-emergent will also put a stop to other weeds from germinating over the winter. Caution! Do not apply a pre-emergent if you're planning on seeding your lawn soon. It will stop grass seed from growing for two to six months. Wait until next season to apply a pre-emergent.
If you have followed the schedule, you already applied regular fertilizer to your lawn in September. Now you should wait until November to put down the last fertilizer application to give your lawn that boost it needs in the spring. But now is a great time to go out and purchase that bag so you are ready next month.
Leaf Alert! Soon the leaves will fall and your lawn will begin to look like this. That's when it's time to remove the leaves and other debris so that any newly seeded grass (or old grass) can get the much-needed sunshine to thicken up. If leaves are covering up your new grass, it can't get the sunshine it requires to grow, and will just give up. So all of your hard work will be lost. Take some time to remove the leaves from your newly seeded areas. Either rake them up regularly or mulch fallen leaves throughout the fall (can you say 'mulching mower' ?). Because, like the grass blades, leaves are a valuable source of nutrients and organic matter. If there are a lot of leaves, you may consider removing some and leaving some to mulch so as not to smother the grass.
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Rojo & Garabato asked ines christine and me to interview each other for the next issue. You can read the interview and see some of our artwork on page 48-58.
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The second issue is about mixtapes.
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The second of five installments covering 50 standout tracks from 2013. Arranged in alphabetical order, this segment extends from stadium-ready Chvrches to 60s sunshine enthusiasts Foxygen. Click the track names for music videos. Enjoy.
There are at least three songs from Chvrches' debut album The Bones of What You Believe that could have gone on this list. My instinct is to call this group "electro pop" as I can't seem to locate an analog instrument anywhere in their sound but I'm afraid the tag wouldn't do them justice. Chvrches arrived with a huge, well-honed sound that perfectly reflected the sheer amount of time and energy so many young bands spend crafting their first batch of songs. Singer Lauren Mayberry exudes power and confidence. "You had better run from me/with everything you own," she declares in the song's opening seconds before later threatening, "I will be a gun and it's you I'll come for." This is a breakup song with teeth. Chvrches are an emotionally and musically dynamic group: sweet, rough, ominous and melancholy. Of their many successes their greatest might be their ability to fuse these varied elements into a sound that is both full and whole.
Courtney Barnett | "Avant Gardener"
I'm not sure if Courtney Barnett was on my radar before Pitchfork's 285 Kent documentary but after her psychedelic performance I was hooked. In typical slacker fashion her debut LP, A Sea of Split Peas, is actually her first two EPs played back to back . The album is chock full of playful gems. "Avant Gardener" is rich on details that, under her practiced deadpan, only become funnier with repeated listenings. "The medic thinks I'm clever because I play guitar/I think she's clever because she stops people dyin'," gives you a pretty good sense of where this deadbeat anthem goes. Barnett's storytelling is wildly entertaining even if her delivery makes it sound like she could care less. At the heart of her songs are a number of fairly universal concerns to twentysomethings such as "When are my parents going to leave me alone?" and "How long has it been since I've eaten?' and "Is anything I'm doing even worthwhile?" Digging into her own ennui with humor and fearlessness, Barnett displays her findings with pride, which she in turn uses to shelter herself from the cruel world of mundane Mondays.
One of the biggest releases of the year, Daft Punk's Random Access Memories generously returned on all the hype surrounding it. Composed with astounding attention to sonic detail and backed by a slew of talented session players, the robots truly came alive on this release. While "Get Lucky" may have infected radios all over the country, the Panda Bear-assisted "Doin' It Right" has all the same pop potential embedded within a cyclical, slow burning structure. Daft Punk have always been able to imbue lyrical simplicity with such nostalgic force that even cynics could be inspired to celebrate and dance so free. Panda Bear has largely done the same thing, albeit beneath layers of dense, lush reverb. "If you lose your way tonight that's how you know the magic's right," he chants while the robots intone the track's title. Disparate voices coming together with harmonious excellence is par for the course in the discography of Daft Punk. "Doin' It Right" is a milestone in a career that continues to happily defy logic.
In a mix I made for my sister earlier this month, I suggested that a music aficionado on hallucinogens might describe Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington's Darkside project as "a remix album of Tom Waits songs featuring Mark Knopfler." I have two confessions to make regarding this analysis. The first is that I can't stand music criticism that relies on broad comparisons. When people say, "it's like if ________ had a baby with _________" or "it sounds like a long lost tape of __________ with ___________ as their backing band," I want to point out that proper nouns are poor substitutes for adjectives. The above statement on Darkside's music is the closest I'd like to get to that kind of writing. My other confession is that said description perfectly summarizes "Paper Trails" and if you're into that sort of thing you should probably just go listen to Darkside.
David Bowie | "(You Will) Set the World On Fire"
The return of Bowie was a big deal for a lot of people. I wasn't one of those people. I like Bowie. Somewhere in my early twenties I fell in love with Hunky Dory (1971) and came to appreciate Low (1977). Though I may have missed the boat on the Bowie mythology (though Velvet Goldmine did kinda blow my mind), I definitely appreciate him as a symbol of lifelong creativity. Furthermore, he still sounds light years ahead of everyone else. "(You Will) Set the World on Fire" may find you crediting Bowie for inspiring The White Stripes, despite the 15 year gap between the latter's eponymous debut and the former's fiery guitar romp. The takeaway? This is a near perfect rock song from a guy who's old enough to have already retired from a normal job in a normal life. Bowie may have come back to earth with The Next Day but in doing so he imparted a valuable lesson on the never-ending role of creative people in world culture.
Deerhunter's Monomania is a perfect study in the drawbacks of consistency. While the band may have just completed a musical grand slam, consisting of four "masterpieces" (that word makes me nervous) in a row, you might never have known it. Deerhunter tends to fly under the radar: critically acclaimed, beloved by fans, but always just a few paces outside the current trends. Their albums are equal parts experimentation and studied songwriting. "The Missing," like Halcyon Digest's "Desire Lines" and "Fountain Stairs," was written by guitarist Lockett Pundt. It contains Pundt's trademark guitar work: gentle arpeggios and deceptively simple melodies. The atmosphere of the track exudes Deerhunter's characteristic melancholy. Yet it also happens to contain the record's most uplifting moment. "The Missing" serves as a helpful reminder of how many different bands comprise the singular Deerhunter.
The difference between Drake's Take Care (2011) and Nothing Was The Same is the difference between an album of outstanding, well-sequenced songs and an album of impeccable timing and flow. Take Care's tracklist felt like a lesser artist's Best Of compilation, containing hit after blissful hit. Nothing Was The Same feels more like a highly cohesive portrait drawn to reflect its makers many shades. In "Worst Behavior," Drake is outraged. "Mofuckers never loved us/now you wanna roll one" he proclaims indignantly. It's a testament to the variety of his subject matter that these diss songs still feel effective after three hugely successful albums. Drake's saving grace may be his ability to toss off clever wordplay so casually you could easily miss it. For instance: "Open the mail/stare at the check/enough to make you throw up man/it's gross what I net." Or perhaps it's his ability to turn on a dime from over-time bragging ("I swear I could be Serena when she playing with her left") to personal details (references to his early days on Degrassi) that put his quick ascent into perspective. Either way, at this point Drake's continued success should be no surprise to anyone.
Earl Sweatshirt | "Sunday" (ft. Frank Ocean)
My early enthusiasm for hip-hop collective Odd Future has waned over the past two years. Like many others, I've put a lot of stock in the group's foremost outstanding members: Earl Sweatshirt and Frank Ocean. Ocean has always stood apart from the group as the lone R&B vocalist while Earl is universally accepted as one of the great young talents in hip-hop and the collective's most inspired voice. Unsurprisingly, their collaborative effort on Earl's dark and woozy Doris is a resounding, addictive success. While Frank playfully speak sings his way through some of his sexual and social predilections ("they called me soft in high school/thank god I'm jagged/forgot you don't like it rough/I mean he called me a faggot"), Earl explores the imbalance between his creative energy and his emotional connections. "And if I hurt you, I'm sorry/the music makes me dismissive," he explains though it's clear he isn't exactly interested in changing. The shuffling beat moves as if it's trying to hide from itself while these two talented emcees attempt to navigate their own winding, oblique paths. If they don't necessarily discover the way through it's alright. Watching these two explore is pure pleasure.
Eleanor Friedberger | "Stare At The Sun"
A collection of pop stunners that should always be played with the windows down on a warm summer night, Eleanor Friedberger's latest album matches her idiosyncratic storytelling with massive hooks. Personal Record feels like a tribute to the music of New York City in the 1970s and "Stare at the Sun," isn't so far from Velvet Underground's "Rock and Roll." It contains some very precise, charming imagery. "Give me your toothpaste/give me your ointment/give me your body in bed," Friedberger demands to her aloof subject before admonishing them with, "If that was goodbye, you must be high," a hilarious and yet touching kiss off if there ever was one. As always with Friedberger, its tough to say where the autobiography ends and the exotic parable begins. Yet, that only adds to the allure here as Eleanor whisks us away to the fairytale New York that we all want to believe in.
The late 60s have always been a privileged period in musical history. Garage rock has seen a thrilling revival in recent years thanks to Ty Segall and his Bay Area cronies. Meanwhile, dedicated weirdoes like The Flaming Lips and Tame Impala keep psychedelia alive. Yet the influence of the folk rock blends that were occurring around this time period is somewhat harder to pinpoint. Except, of course, with Foxygen. Their studious recreation of the shambling love songs and pre-hard rock riffage of this era transcends mere homage. Foxygen are also extraordinarily talented songwriters and arrangers. Consider the evidence of "San Francisco," from their hugely successful (and amazingly titled) We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic. The album is delicately put together with a wide range of instruments meant to compliment the dreamy imagery it contains. Perhaps meant as a nod to Tony Bennett's "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," Foxygen gives voice to the lost love who, as it turns out, was quite alright with being left behind. Lacking the self-seriousness of a tribute group and eschewing tongue-in-cheek parody, Foxygen leads a growing field of bands mining the past for sonic and emotional inspiration.


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Greek dark metallers INACTIVE MESSIAH come back to life, after 6 years of inactivity, delivering their third full length album, as a follow-up to the highly successful "Sinful Nation" (Holy Records, 2008). "Dark Masterpiece" delivers a powerful combination of symphonic, electronic and atmospheric metal elements (even acoustic guitars are featured), resulting in a modern metal release that derives from the glorious 90's but yet sounds up-to-date and fresh as never before.
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Cosmega: Ragnarok RGNK-2K
An upgraded variant of my Ragnarok RGNK-20. This version has an increased CPU load of 2000pFlops, hence the variant 2K.
Class: Long-range heavy fire support Cosmega hover
Total Health: 3,602,351 (+492,152/15.82%)
Ave. Health per CPU: 1,801.18/pFlop (+23.92/1.35%)
Total Mass: 13,684.4kg (+2,067.4/17.80%)
Ave. Mass per CPU: 6.84kg/pFlop (+0.20/3.01%)
Max. Hover Height: 17ft (-4ft/19.05%)
Top Speed: 110MPH (OC1), 141MPH (OC8), 188MPH (OC15) (-2)
Control Method: Camera
Colour Hex Code: #20FF20
2 Upgrades:
2 additional Top Laser Blasters at the rear for backup sustained firepower.
Strengthened core & rear armor.
2 Downgrades:
Major: Weapon Energy decreased from 11K to 10K. Because of this, pilots now fire 4 Rail Erazers in quick succession instead of 5 previously. Recommended to switch to the Lasers after which.
Minor: Max. Hover Height & Top Speed decreased.
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Hey all,
Thanks for checking out my guide. If you're like me, you may not be familiar with how to run and or configure NGINX or Apache or many of the other web servers available. I am not much of a "shell" guy, so trying to scour the internet for commands to type using Linux can be tedious. However, I did have a Windows machine and I wanted to run Subsonic over HTTPS. I also had a custom domain. So, after much tinkering and lonely nights with my friend Google, I think I finally found a solution that is working. And I wanted to share my experience for those others out there that would like to run their Subsonic installation using HTTPS.
Step 1. Install Subsonic for Windows on your server/workstation. (This will require Java, if you do not already have it installed.)
Step 2. Install the Internet Information Services (IIS) role on your server using "Add Roles & Features" in Server Manager, or in "Turn Windows features on or off" in the Programs and Features menu.
Step 3. Once IIS is installed, you'll need to download and install the URL Rewrite module and ARR module. Found here: https://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft ... lDownloads and here: https://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft ... lDownloads
Step 4. Set up A record/CNAME record in DNS.
Step 5. For my installation, I used Letsencrypt for my SSL. I love this project. If you are not familiar you can get more information from their site: https://letsencrypt.org/ . Since I am using Windows, I tried a couple of the different ACME clients for Windows. The one I settled on was the "letsencrypt-win-simple" client. Found here: https://github.com/Lone-Coder/letsencry ... e/releases .
Step 6. Run Letsencrypt to get your certificate.
Step 7. Configure reverse proxy and http redirect in IIS.
Step 8. Configure scheduled task to disable and re-enable http redirect. (This is required for renewing the certificate using Letsencrypt. I created a powershell script that performs this.)
Okay, let's break down the steps a little and show you how I configured each section.
Step 1 – Install Subsonic
This step should be self-explanatory. I used the default locations for the install and the default port for Subsonic. Since we will be using a URL rewrite, we won't need to change anything unless you happen to already be running something that is using the default port. After Subsonic is installed, launch your browser and finish setting up according to the documentation and your requirements. Then log into your firewall and forward port 80 and 443 to your server. Now you're ready to install IIS.
Step 2 – Install IIS
Again, this part is pretty simple. Just turn on the feature or install the role and then open your IIS console. In IIS, I am going to create two new sites. One for HTTP and one for HTTPS. I do this so that I can redirect HTTP traffic to HTTPS, and then use a reverse proxy to send HTTPS traffic to my subsonic port. If you don't have anything other than Subsonic running in IIS, you can use the default site for HTTP instead of creating a new one. (I have multiple sites that I redirect so I like to keep it easier to manage.) For now, let's just create the HTTP site. Open up your inetpub folder (should be located at C:\inetpub) and create a new folder to house your HTTP site, unless you are using the default site for HTTP. I named mine "subsonic-http". Copy the contents of "C:\inetpub\wwwroot" to your new folder "C:\inetpub\subsonic-http". This is a good time to create another folder for your HTTPS site as well, since it will save you a step later (I named this folder "subsonic"). In IIS, expand your server and right click on Sites. Then "Add Website" and name your site. I named it "subsonic-http" to match the folder I created for it and pointed to "%systemdrive%\inetpub\subsonic-http" then gave it a hostname of "subsonic.torgotech.com" and mapped it to port 80.
Step 3 – Install URL Rewrite Module
Browse to the sites provided and click on "additional downloads" and download the appropriate installations. After they are installed, reboot your server. IIS should now be prepped.
Step 4 – Create A record/CNAME record
I am going to assume that if you have a custom domain name, that you are familiar with this process. It should be set to the match the hostname you gave the binding in IIS. In my case, "subsonic.torgotech.com". This is going to be your Public A record, however, your local machine needs to resolve your hostname to its local IP. If it's running DNS, create a record in your DNS manager or create a record in your HOSTS file to map the hostname to your servers local IP.
Step 5 – Letsencrypt ACME client
Use the link provided above to download the letsencrypt-win-simple client from github. I extracted the ZIP to a folder called "Letsencrypt" and placed it in my C:\ drive.
Step 6 – Run Letsencrypt
Now open a command prompt as an administrator and change to your letsencrypt directory. ("C:\Letsencrypt" if you used the same directory as me.) and run the letsencrypt.exe. If you have IIS configured correctly and your DNS record is forwarding port 80 through your firewall, letsencrypt should find your HTTP page and prompt you to install the certificate. Follow the prompts you get to receive your certificate. If you get an error, follow the steps in the response provided by the letsencrypt program. If it works correctly, you should see your new certificate in IIS under "Server Certificates".
Step 7 – Reverse Proxy
Now we're ready to continue in IIS. When letsencrypt installs the certificate, it adds a HTTPS binding to your HTTP site. Go into bindings and remove the binding to port 443 from this site. Now right click on Sites and "Add Website" (if you didn't do it during step 2, make sure you create a new folder in "inetpub" for your HTTPS site.) Fill in the site name, path ("%systemdrive%\inetpub\subsonic" for me), select HTTPS and enter your hostname (subsonic.torgotech.com). Make sure you check "Require Server Name Indication" (SNI) and click OK. Now go back to your "subsonic-http" site and click on HTTP Redirect. Check the box to enable and enter the hostname (https://subsonic.torgotech.com). Then check the box to "Redirect all requests to the exact destination". Now let's go to our HTTPS site (subsonic) and click on URL Rewrite. Choose the "Reverse Proxy" option and enter in the hostname:4040 (subsonic.torgotech.com:4040). You can leave the SSL Offloading checked and click OK. There you have it. You should now be able to browse to your hostname in a web browser using HTTP and it will redirect to HTTPS and then use reverse proxy to connect into your subsonic installation.
Step 8 – Configure Task Scheduler
When you run letsencrypt to install the certificate, it automatically creates a daily scheduled task to check your certificate for renewal. Since it does it's check over HTTP and we are redirecting HTTP to HTTPS, this renewal check process will fail. In order to get it to work, we need to schedule a task that disables the redirect before the renewal runs, then re-enables it afterwards. To do this, I have created a couple powershell scripts that we can schedule to run using Task Scheduler. Here is a link to download those scripts (OneDrive https://1drv.ms/f/s!ApYb1bJu5GoZgctGMA6HbqQu_Ww2TQ). Place these powershell scripts in your "C:\Letsencrypt" folder. Then edit them in ISE to fill in the appropriate $siteName and $redirectPage to match your setup. Letsencrypt sets the renewal to run daily, but I like to set this to run weekly. You can leave it as it is or adjust the schedule. In either case, I like to create a Basic Task called "Disable Redirect". Then I schedule it to run 1 minute BEFORE the renewal task. Once you have the schedule set, the action will be "Start a Program". Then in the "program/script" box, type "powershell". In the "Add arguments (optional)" field, type the following:
& "C:\Letsencrypt\DisableRedirect.ps1" Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass
After you click finish and the task gets created, right click on it and choose Properties and make sure that the box for "Run with highest privileges" is checked. Also, I like to change the user to run as "System". Now, repeat the steps to create a task to "Enable Redirect" and schedule it for 1 minute AFTER the renewal script runs. And make sure that your arguments field points to the EnableRedirect.ps1 script. Now I recommend testing the task. Right click on disable and choose "Run". Then open your IIS console and go to your "subsonic-http" site. Click on HTTP Redirect and make sure that it successfully disabled. Now go back to Task Scheduler and run your Enable Redirect and check that it successfully enabled the HTTP Redirect in IIS. If not, double check your tasks and make sure they are set up correctly. Also, ensure that you put the correct redirect and site information into the powershell scripts to match what you have listed in IIS.
If everything is working, you are all set. You can now browse to Subsonic over HTTPS and your certificate should automatically stay up to date using Letsencrypt. If any of you have any questions or issues with the process, please feel free to reach out to me via email: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Video: Central track star Kelly signs to run for Troy
Central High School's Maya Kelly signed her national letter of intent to run track and field for Troy University during a ceremony at Austin Middle School.
The track standout signed her letter as family, friends and school administrators watched, with some offering words of encouragement and wishing Kelly success at the collegiate level.
Kelly was one of ten area athletes to sign national letters of intent to play college sports on Wednesday.
Ten athletes from three different high schools signed national letters of intent to play at nine different colleges and universities during ceremonies across Southeast Texas on Wednesday.
Silsbee senior Jackson Hardy signed to play baseball for Angelo State University.
In Port Neches, eight athletes — four softball and four baseball — signed with universities both in and out of state.
Signing for baseball were: Josh Hranicky (Lamar); Holden Lane (Texas Southern); Brandon Petix (Alvin Junior College) and Austin Bost (Panola College).
Signing for softball were: Kaitlyn Boudreaux (Stephen F. Austin); Britni Hunt (Angelo State); Callie Jourdan (Ouachita Baptist University); and Brooke Smith (Lamar State College-Port Arthur).


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The TPS78233 is probably industry's LDO with the lowest quiescent current. While working on a boosterpack for TI's Launchpad I took the chance to measure actual current consumption of this LDO, as well of the voltage supervisor: ON semi's NCP301LSN30T1.
The TPS78233 promises a typical no-load quiescent current of 420nA. Current into the EN pin is tipically 40nA at 5.5V. This yelds a pretty impressive figure of 470nA typical supply current.
I am working on a small board that uses this chip, so I decided to give it a test and check if it lives up to its expectations. This prototype includes the TPS78233 from Texas Instruments and the NCP301LSN30T1 from ON Semiconductor. Both devices promise extremely low supply current, which is precisely what I am looking for. For this test I used a Lithium Ion battery. The battery's voltage was measured and registered 3,84V.
My multimeter can't go below 1uA or 100uV, which is still high (!!!), compared to the current that I'm trying to measure. So, in order to measure currents as low as few nA, I decided to mount a current sense resistor with 10kOhm. This yelds 10mV at 1uA, which isn't much.
Now we are all set to make a few measurements and check how low is the supply current and power dissipation of this little device.
The first measurement was made with the switch the EN pin tied low, ie, with the regulator disabled.
0,3mV through a 10kOhm resistor give 30nA of current. Quite impressive, although not as low as the 18nA referenced in the datasheet. Still, this board wasn't clean at all, there were still flux residues and even breath caused this value to oscillate. For very short moments, the multimeter showed 0,2mV, so the actual value is probably somewhere in between 0,2mV and 0,3mV.
Now let's see what happens when we activate the TPS78233…
450nA quiescent current! It turns out the TPS78233 really meets the expectations! I'm impressed! With a supply voltage of 3.84V this LDO's power consumption is only 1,73uW. Wow…
So, the next step is to add the voltage supervisor into the mix and see the effect it produces on overall power consumption.
The voltage supervisor mounted on the board:
Now, we'll repeat our measurements. First, supply current with the voltage regulator disabled.
Current sense voltage is now 2.2mV. This means that supply current is 220nA. The voltage supervisor added 190nA to the circuit's supply voltage. Measuring the supply voltage and protecting the battery against over-discharge with 190nA is more than a fair price to pay.
The supply current of the NCP301LSN30T1 shouldn't depend on the ON/OFF state of the TPS78233 LDO. We're just about to confirm that…
Turning the regulator ON gives a not susprising 6,4mV, which means supply current is now 640nA. This was already expected: an increase of 190nA in the supply current of the whole circuit.
One might think that the TPS78233 seems to good to be true, after reading the datasheet. However, this test shows that the TPS78233 really does deliver the performance it promises.
The voltage supervisor is also a remarkable device in terms of running with a residual supply current.
Summary of supply current per device:
Useful Links
- Product page of the TPS78233: http://www.ti.com/product/tps78233
- Product page of the NCP301LSN30: http://www.onsemi.com/PowerSolutions/product.do?id=NCP301
- Texas Instruments's Launchpad: http://www.ti.com/launchpad


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You would not believe the grievous data losses I have suffered lately. I just lost like three or four reviews I had written—including one lost in the hard drive crash and RE-written. I'm a douche. Fucking douche! I don't know why I'm telling you this—I just need to vent.
Anyway, so this disaster movie, one of the few that is NOT from Irwin Allen—and it shows in the relative quality. This came after Airport, when disaster movies were the new rage, and competed that year with The Towering Inferno and Airport 1975 [which also starred Heston and Kennedy]—the three of which comprised the top 3 movies at the box office that year. Anyway, this one is co-written by Mario Puzo and directed by Mark Robson, who started out as part of Jacques Tourneur's stable on films like Bedlam and Isle of the Dead, then went on to helm things like Peyton Place and Valley of the Dolls. But let's get to our requisite all-star cast: Charleton Heston! Ava Gardner! Genevieve Bujold! George Kennedy! Marjoe Gortner [of Starcrash]! Victoria Principal! And music by John Williams!
We open with Heston as Stewart Graff jogging in L.A. [Missing Persons were strangely silent on this topic], then going home to lift some weights. His wife, Ava Gardner as Remy, chides him for being obsessed with physical fitness, then Heston takes his shirt off and—AAAUUUGGHH! The horror starts early. It's a rather amazing case study in how physical standards have changed, because someone who looked like this would NEVER be allowed on screen [let alone to take his shirt off] today. But I took some solace in the fact that I have a better-than-movie-star body! For 1974. While we're ripping on people, let's turn our disdainful gaze toward Ava Gardner. A friend of mine is having this obsession with her right now, so I have actually watched a fair amount of films featuring Gardner in her prime lately… and I told him that he shouldn't even watch this. He should remember her in her prime. Here she looks like a meteorite struck the Earth via her face, and it doesn't help that she plays a horrible jealous shrew wife. She has reason to be jealous, as Stewart is dating young and sexy Genevieve Bujold pretty unrepentantly, then again, maybe if she wasn't such a hateful shrew, he wouldn't be. Who can say. Anyway, she's the kind of person who fakes overdoses to get attention, as she does in her first moments here. I like a person with some gumption.
So that morning there was a little tremble, and the guys who work at this big dam are concerned. One of them goes down in an elevator to check it out, but comes back up drowned, the elevator full of water! Typically not a positive sign. Soon the typical buerocrat who says that it's all no big deal will show up.
But let's introduce our other characters. First there's Slade, the upright cop played by George Kennedy. He is among the 70s pantheon of cops who go too far to catch criminals [see Dirty Harry], and is called into question for blowing some guy away in public. But listen to the rather too-enthusiastic effusion of detail that go into his description of a grievous crime: "[the killer] got stoned and slammed into a little Mexican girl, about 6 years old… She was thrown 15 feet and killed instantly. Blood covered three whole cement squares—not spattered, SOLID—just like paint." Well, officer, sounds like you conducted a pretty thorough examination of the crime scene. What about her spattered brains? Surely you pored over them for shards of shattered skull, did you not? Also in our mix is Genevieve Bujold as young and hot actress Denise, mistress to Graff and mother of the requisite adorable moppet. There's also an Evil Knievel –style motorcycle stunt guy played by Richard Roundtree, who tries to ride a loop on his cycle and—comes right out, smashing down into the ramp! Apparently this was a real crash the stuntman had, and since he walked away from it unscathed, they left it in the film. It goes to show how a real stunt can still get a rise out of one, as opposed to something like the stunts in Speed Racer, which generate no excitement because we know throughout that no one was ever remotely even near a moving vehicle.
There are other characters. Victoria Principal wears a massive permed spherical wig. Lorne Green [God DAMN is he handsome] is the head of some company that is going to promote Graff or something, and also the father of Remy. There is a bar that contains Walter Matthau [not credited under his own name] as a drunk—a very unfunny, tedious drunk who goes through all sorts of moronic "comedy." Also at the bar is former wrestler H.B. Haggerty, who I recognized as the hot rapist from Foxy Brown, but turns out I'm much more familiar with his work than I realized—he also appears in Dirty Harry, Black Fist, and was Tigerman #2 in Buck Rogers! There is also some young graduate student geologist who has gathered some data saying a huge earthquake is going to hit in the next 48 hours. Should they evacuate the city? But what about lost revenue? There's also a somewhat odd National Guard member in Marjoe Gortner, star of the infinitely horrendous Starcrash, who gets called a fag by three thugs, who announce their plan by saying "Let's degrade the warrior!"
Then—EARTHQUAKE! The main event is staged fairly well, has a fairly good overall shape, and is ultimately still fairly effective! After a lot of ground-level shaking and signs falling, we join a guy in a skyscraper. He looks out the window at buildings crumbling in the distance [effective!] but in the right foreground is a part of HIS building [see right] and if you watch [you're supposed to be looking elsewhere], two people literally just run to the window and jump out. Not like they fell or anything—the just run and jump right out of the building. Then a guy runs to a crowded elevator, grabbing a woman and shoving her out so he can get in. The elevator car falls straight down the shaft, crunching all the people to a viscous human paste of blood and bone tissue, but the film quaintly lets a discreet blood spatter superimposed over the people symbolize the carnage [see below]. We see trucks shaking on elevated freeways, then cut to a long shot of a model, where the truck falls off and lands. If you watch carefully, you can see that the bottom of the pylon holding up the freeway is YANKED to the side, causing the freeway to "collapse." Denise is out when houses supported on a hillside start rolling down on her! Overall, the earthquake starts fairly small and moves smoothly through different topics—street level, skyscrapers, houses, freeways—with a good, building rhythm. Of course, in the theater, this would have been delivered in Sensurround, which meant that they boosted the bass way up [you can actually hear how bottom-heavy the audio still is] and had special woofers in the theater so the sound would shake the seats. Anyway, the earthquake ends with a bang—and perhaps THE silliest sequence in the entire film. There's a house. Some RANDOM guy in the crowd suddenly turns and makes to run into the house. We have no indication that this fellow lives there or even KNOWS the people who live there. On the porch, he turns to respond to some RANDOM off-screen voice that yells: "Turn off the gas!" While this happens we notice that the guy has a lit cigarette in his mouth. He runs inside the house and—BOOM! It's just a hilariously complicated and ludicrous set-up to explain the explosion. But—it's a massive earthquake! Who needs to explain an explosion during an earthquake? It just happens.
So now we begin the various aftermath stories. There's a long scene that I found totally tedious where people are lowered down a broken stairwell right at the side of the building, with others falling out left and right. Greene has a heart attack on his way down. Denise's kid has fallen into this canal, where live electrical wires have fallen, and water just released from the dam is headed! Crazed National Guard guy Jody egregiously guns down three looters! Rose [Victoria Principal] is taken in by Jody, hoping to escape a looting rap, but ends up terrified as he starts coming on to her and he's to insane to say no to!
Amongst all this is the love triangle of Graff, Remy and Denise. Graff drops Remy off at this underground mall, where a shelter is set up, and leaves her there as he goes off to find Denise, which doesn't make Remy feel too good. He eventually finds her and brings her to the shelter, which soon collapses on itself in a big aftershock. It's kind of funny to see these brick pillars fall over, but land so lightly they're obviously wooden and hollow, with brick texture pasted on. Now Graff and company have to get his wife and mistress out of there, when uphill—the dam collapses! It's a race against time as the water floods toward them, bringing several wooden chairs in its wake! Seriously, there is just a preponderance of shots of the rushing water carrying forth a bunch of wooden chairs. Graff gets Denise out okay, but Remy gets washed away by the rushing water! Graff has to choose—leave with his smokin' hot young ladyfriend who isn't a vicious shrew and forget his wife, who's probably dead anyway—or stay and try to save her, and their obviously failed marriage. Graff chooses death at his wife's side! Take heed, ladies, those out-of-shape married older men may seem so irresistibly appealing, but when the rushing waters of doom are upon you, it's always the other woman who gets left to shift for herself amidst the barren hellscape. Word to the wise.
Disaster movies are a little bit like White Castle: you know it'll be awful and make you feel bloated and sick, yet beforehand it can seem like a really good idea. This movie is actually somewhat of an exception, as it actually has somewhat of a shape and some characters that aren't completely moronic. I credit the fact that we actually have a decent, old-school director, and a screenplay co-written by Mario Puzo. Rather than throw out too many characters that it can't adequately deal with, like most disaster films, this film focuses on a few main stories, that are reasonably compelling [like the Graff love triangle], and jettisons the uninteresting ones—for example, I was expecting a lot more dreary drama with the people at the bar or with the graduate student who saw it all coming—but the movie wisely just drops them and focuses on its main story. The film also has an overall shape, building up to the earthquake, giving the big event a decent energy and rhythm, then spacing the struggles and aftershocks out well to wrap up most of the stories and provide a big destructive finish. So it wasn't that bad!
Not much more to say. If you're looking for a disaster film, this one contains a few less of the histrionics and over-the-top cheese of many of them—although an extremely low rate of Karen Black—but on the other hand, you'll still respect yourself in the morning.
Sure! It's not that bad at all, for what it is, and the earthquake itself is still relatively effective.


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Have you contemplated the power of vulnerability? …by Allie Gold
The only thing that is worse than self-hatred is unrequited self-love. Unrequited self-love occurs when years of bullying vandalizes your heart and tears down your self-esteem until you sort of know that you're able to love yourself but you are unable to reciprocate because you believe that you're not worthy of such a love. Until this year, I couldn't remember the last time I acted out of self-love. Thanks to a childhood filled with nasty nicknames and objects getting thrown at my face, I acquired quite the low level of satisfaction with myself. As a result, what was left of my self-esteem had been strategically concealed through several (I mean several) fleeting relationships on my end, which deterred me from sincerely loving myself and instead allowed me to briefly focus on others whom I thought were more deserving of love than I was. I did actually care about others, but I also cared in a way that provided a hefty self-negligence and ultimately, cynicism towards both parties.
My many ephemeral relationships were good while they lasted because I was only attracted to those who needed help, and so I never had to solve my own issues – only theirs. I enjoyed distracting myself from my self-hatred. And oh, their issues! You name it and they've experienced it, with me ineffectively pushing them to change. And it was never a question of whether my issues needed to be solved; in their eyes I was fine comparatively. It felt better to pretend to have my shit together than to actually have it together, and to get praised for it. I didn't need or want myself to be vulnerable to them. My romantic interests covered all of the vulnerability bases in the relationship. Of course though, the relationships had to end sometime due to the poor functioning, or because the guy was an ass, and I was left drained and burdened still by my own problems.
Then one day I watched the fantastic TEDTalk by Brené Brown, which stresses the importance of vulnerability. In the presentation, she discusses her six years of research on vulnerability through qualitative data collection. One part of the talk really resonated with me: "There was only one variable that separated the people who have a strong sense of love and belonging and the people who really struggle for it. And that was, the people who have a strong sense of love and belonging believe they're worthy of love and belonging. That's it. They believe they're worthy." She continues, "And so these folks had, very simply, the courage to be imperfect. They had the compassion to be kind to themselves first and then to others, because, as it turns out, we can't practice compassion with other people if we can't treat ourselves kindly."
So it was time to face the fact that I was really treating myself horribly and that I needed to become mindful and learn to love myself, or even learn how to do that. So for an entire month in 2013 I went through a self-cleanse to focus on myself. My communication with others weaned and I no longer engaged in conversations unless they were in person, via email (for work purposes), or through a phone call. I did not date anyone, or text my friends (well, I tried not to), or post on Facebook. I used email only when necessary and made some phone calls on occasion.
Well, let me tell you just a few of the things that I learned from one month of this mindful, semi-reclusive self-exploration:
- How to be single and LOVE it.
- My parents were right about several things.
- I'm allowed to be picky in terms of my relationships.
- How hard it is to truly change a habit.
- The collapse all/expand all button in Gmail exists (lots of email exchanges, and yes I realize I should have figured this out a long time ago).
- I can be a control freak.
- Meditation is a beautiful, much needed daily activity to promote clarity, grounding, and success.
- Malbec is always a good, safe red wine choice.
- Feeling gratitude can change your day. Take notes from this girl's list of affirmations.
- Snapchat is just a whole new level of modern day communication.
- Most existential questions provide transient answers, and that I just had to get over the uncertainty of things.
- Everyone has hardships and we are all equals in that fact, regardless of how different (or similar) our hardships are or who holds their guard up more effectively to hide those hardships.
- How to learn to love myself more than others.
- iPhone's Do Not Disturb feature is ridiculously underrated.
- How to accept vulnerability.
- How to accept imperfection and how to embrace it.
- I can't just not text my friends for an entire month. That was just an aggressively asocial rule.
- "Boyfriends" are not the same as three-month long flings even if they tell you that they love you (eek, sorry).
And finally, I learned that I am worthy of love, like any other living thing in the world. The sun doesn't choose to shine its rays on the Earth. It just does, and the Earth accepts it with biotic gratitude. I think love should be like that between two individuals, and also just for one. For years I had known what unrequited self-love feels like and it is by far the worst feeling in the world. Now, though, I promise to love myself forever, without question, without distractions.
There is a phrase in Japanese that the English language cannot truly translate: koi no yokan. This expression refers to the feeling that when two people first meet, they know that they will fall in love. This phrase is different than "love at first sight", however, because it refers to the knowledge of the future love. There's a kind of excitement that is experienced when you realize that you will fall in love, whether with yourself or with another being. It's the feeling that something wonderful is going to happen and that potential has yet to be reached. Essentially, the best is yet to come. Can you imagine waking up every day to the thought that the best of you is yet to come? I can.
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We decided to dig through some pics to find an entry; this is one of our favs:
Maybe a winter shot?
The tongue in water is definitely the coolest!
You've a lovely tongue!!!
You have the most charming tongue that I have ever seen! I know you will win!
I like the winter pic! It's like "pfffft! It ain't cold!!" :)
Great tongue shots! Not sure which I like best. The artistic one is very cool, but the Winter one is fun, and the stuffy one is furry cute! Good luck! With a tongue like yours, how could you not win?!
I will sniff my way over and check out the contest.
Excellent choice of entries. VERY artistic and elegant.
Thank you for stopping by my blog and leaving such kind words for my brother's Gotcha Day. It meant so much to him!
Greeaat tongue pics! I love them all. I'm sure you will win. Good luck!
Lotsa Licks
Casper Bear
Wonderful pictures! We love the one in the water the best of all!!! Lots of love, Holly and mom
Thanks for your prayers and good thoughts for Gregg, Dragon's dad. They worked! He got to leave the hospital this afternoon and must be at home resting for 4-6 weeks...the pups are overjoyed...as are all of us!
We wub dem all cuz we wub wooooo!
Deezy, Bunz, Reba, Fenway & Tucker
I'm thinking the second one. Looks like you're sayin' Pfffffttttttt!!!!!!
Hey there! I saw your entry picture in Anna's blog. It's a great picture for the contest!
Nice tongues you got there! The drinking one is awesome!
wooo a stick your tongue out competition such fun, your pics are great.
Great shots - love the artistic water one!
Love all those tongue pictures!


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Forwarded from: *Hobbit* <hobbitat_private> Okay, I just can't deal anymore, and *have* to point out the bloody obvious. Who keeps arranging that all these officials keep receiving "credible evidence" about terrorist plans? The terrorists, of course. Why would they warn us about anything they were *really* going to do?! We'll keep on receiving "credible evidence", and keep being put on "high alert" for what's supposed to happen this week or next week or somtime in December or whatever, and nothing will keep happening, so we'll get complacent like the fat, lazy American cows we are and ignore the whole thing, and then all of a sudden WHAM, will come another huge, tightly- executed disaster, likely using a methodology that nobody thought of. Just like last time. They won't blow up a mall, they won't use commercial jets again, they won't drive van-bombs into government building complexes, they probably won't go after bridges this time because they've already threatened the bridges ... they won't do any of that standard stuff, because that sort of thing is just what we're looking for. They'll do something different, and they'll bide their time until they KNOW they can get away with it right under our NOSES. We're apparently collectively too STUPID to see right through this sort of strategy, and in typical American butthead SUV-driving fashion, only see the short-term gain or loss. You have only to look at the economy for proof. Where are the day-traders now? And we've even got the arrogance to IGNORE everything the Israelis have learned over the last THOUSAND or more years. Bet we didn't even ask, given the running-in-tiny-circles they're doing at airports nowadays. *sigh* _H* - ISN is currently hosted by Attrition.org To unsubscribe email majordomoat_private with 'unsubscribe isn' in the BODY of the mail.
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text: Newark, NJ artist Pure has been gaining widespread attention thanks to his distinctive style, infectious sound, and knack for crafting indelible melodies. As he readies his impending effort, P provides the official music video for "Rolling." Directed by Jay Rodriguez and Rock Davis of Itchy House Films, the visual tells a story of a man who gets double-crossed, only to find himself with the opportunity to secure revenge by snitching on the aforementioned traitor. Unwilling to drop a dime on anyone, Pure opts to take the moral high road and face whatever consequences may come. Expect Pure to return before the end of May to deliver his new project, Calvin Klein (The Rolling Edition).


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Don't Get Hooked by Phishing Scams Aimed at Council Members
Technology has been a boon to referral networks. In a matter of minutes, you can locate and send a client referral to a fellow Council member across town or across the country. In the real estate industry, the Women's Council referral network is especially strong, with 56 percent of members reporting they refer business to another member annually. Get more stats on Women's Council referrals
To help facilitate referrals, Women's Council maintains an "open" network; that is, full contact information is displayed for all members on a public site. Anyone can find you and, generally, that's a good thing…but not always.
The Women's Council recently became aware of a situation where an individual was contacting Council members, using the Council name (citing a prominent member who "referred" him), and inviting recipients to call about a project that would be a big "benefit to your business." This is commonly referred to as "phishing," and is typically a scam to get you to buy something or, worse, take advantage of you.
This isn't the first such phishing scam targeting Council members and, sadly, it probably won't be the last. Other, more malicious, scams ask directly for money to be sent, ask for personal information, or encourage you to click on a link or open an attachment for "important information" that results in malware (hostile or intrusive software, viruses, spyware, ransomware, etc.) being installed on your computer.
So what's a member to do? Your business relies on connecting with Council members you may not know. While you don't want to miss a lead or lose a referral, you do want to be aware and know how to read the signs of suspicious emails so you can avoid phishing scams while engaging in the Council's dynamic referral network. Here are some tips to help you spot (and avoid) scams – whether general in nature or those targeting Council members.
Look at the URLs and domain names. Do they make sense? For example, if the email is from Jane Doe and the domain is janedoe.com that seems logical. But if the domain name is janedoe.com.bestdeal.com, this is a red flag. You may also see a foreign country domain extension in the URL, e.g., ru for Russia. Ask yourself if that makes any sense given the situation. Even if a URL looks legit, it may be hiding the real one. To check, hover your mouse over the link (don't click!) and you'll see the true URL. If it differs from the displayed link, the message is probably fraudulent or malicious.
Consider the salutation and signature. If the salutation reads "Dear Council Member" but the message makes reference to a specific person who provided your name, that signals a likely scam. Also, look at the email signature. Does it include full contact information, as is the standard practice for business communications?
Read for poor grammar or spelling. Scammers are notoriously bad about spelling and grammar. If a poorly written email claims to come from a large corporation or well-known brand, you can almost be assured this is a scam as these companies are very careful about their image.
Never provide personal information or send money without confirming legitimacy. Check the "Find a Member" directory or Council Referral Center to confirm the individual's membership. If you are in communication with the sender, ask for clarifying/confirming details. One smart Council member asked for more information about the source of the referral and the individual quickly cut off communication. If you're asked to send money to assist a specific member, contact the member directly to confirm a true need before taking any action. Be wary of any request to send money to an unidentified vendor. Targeting association members for payments using the president or treasurer's name is a current popular scam.
If you don't recall noted actions, beware. The recent Council member phisher makes references to having left voice and text messages. Do you recall getting these? Widespread scams include notification of contest winnings (Did you enter?) and lottery winnings (Did you buy a ticket?). With these and other scams, if the news or opportunity sounds too good to be true…it probably is.
Avoid clicking on suspicious links or attachments. If you have any reason to doubt the legitimacy of an email, never click on a link or attachment. Doing so can result in installing malware, which can range from being a mere irritant to the loss of your computer's contents.
Now that you can spot a phishing email, here are a few things you can do to protect yourself (and others).
Review your computer settings. While it will vary depending on your platform, you likely have an option to determine how easily "junk" mail (which includes scams) gets through to your inbox.
Install security software. While most email programs do a decent job of filtering out junk emails, an additional layer of protection can minimize the impact if you do inadvertently click on a link you thought was from a legitimate source.
Report phishing scams. Most large companies (Google, Apple, PayPal, Microsoft, large banks, etc.) welcome notification that someone is using their name in a scam. Use your browser to search for "report phishing to (company name)" to find quick instructions. The U.S. government also invites scam reporting: firstname.lastname@example.com. If you receive a phishing email that uses the Women's Council of REALTORS®' name, send the email to firstname.lastname@example.com and type "Suspected Phishing" in the subject line.
The vast majority of interactions and referrals stemming from the Internet are from fellow Council members, impressed with your qualifications found in the detailed profile at wcr.org. The tips provided here are to remind you to exercise caution and to help you learn how to quickly assess an email that seems a bit out of the ordinary. Viewing such emails with a thoughtful eye will allow you to continue to enjoy the unparalleled success of the network of the Women's Council of REALTORS®!
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The idea of creating small fanciful worlds and imagining magical visitors is fascinating to most children. As the chill settles in here in New England, the idea of creating "critter houses" and mini-feeding stations for our furred and feathered friends seemed fitting.
In this project our intended visitors were hungry animals and birds, so we selected food options that would be of interest to them, coating sticks with peanut butter and birdseed. This project was the highlight of our early winter garden session. Students were especially excited to come back the following week to discover that their "critter house" had been thoroughly enjoyed.
What you need:
• Lots of natural materials: sticks, leaves, dried flowers, herbs, nuts…
• Birdseed
• Peanut butter, sunflower butter, or bacon fat
• Trays for birdseed (I use recycled meat trays)
• Paper towels for easy cleanup
What to do:
We began imagining what creatures might enjoy our houses or little feeding stations. In addition to the possible fairy, we talked about birds, squirrels, skunks, racoons, and deer. We imagined what it would look like in the gardens when they would arrive. We concluded that the garden at night would feel much different than it does during the day!
The next step was gather LOTS of natural materials for the houses. Students found sticks, leaves, herbs, dried flowers, and seeds. The materials were placed in a big bowl to share.
Now for the fun, messy, part! Students dipped their sticks into jars of bacon fat (an alternative to peanut butter for a nut allergy) and rolled them in trays filled with birdseed. It began to look like a popsicle perfect for our feathered friends!
Once sticks were coated, next came the architectural design element! Students had a blast creating teepees, log homes, and castles! Even simple arrangements of sticks and leaves had an air of natural beauty. Using found seeds, nuts, and dried herbs and flowers, students decorated their critter houses.
The students loved that there is no right way to make a critter house. Some students stacked their sticks, some piled them, while others simply placed them in their own creative arrangement.
Finally, it was time to find the perfect place in the garden for each critter house. Much deliberation was held about where they should be placed. But in the end, each child found a special place to put their creation that helped nourish visiting creatures.
Extra Resources:
For this project, imagination is key! To get the kiddos excited, we began by reading Fairy Houses by Tracy Kane. This got them thinking about the idea of making a place for special visitors. It is also a beautifully illustrated and captivating story.


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For nearly three decades, L.A. rock 'n' roll enthusiasts have celebrated Elvis Presley's birthday, and this year's show figures to have extra hunks of burning love for the King on a couple of fronts.
This year's edition, set for Thursday, coincides with what would have been Presley's 80th birthday. City Councilman Tom LaBonge is helping sponsor the show at Avalon Hollywood, the former Hollywood Palace stage where Presley delivered some of his earliest national TV appearances in 1956, as noted by event promoter Art Fein.
The event's guiding philosophy, as outlined by Fein in years past, is "all fun, no impersonators."
The talent lineup of more than two dozen performers includes the traditional mix of roots-music musicians, actors and Presley-related celebrities. Actress-singer Donna Loren, who has recorded with Presley's TCB Band, released "Donna Does Elvis in Hawaii," a 2010 EP of four songs Presley had sung about the Pacific Islands, was scheduled to be part of the show, but had to pull out Wednesday because of a family illness. Former "My Three Sons" child actor Barry Livingston also is on the bill.
Others slated for this year's show include L.A. music stalwarts Carla Olson, Deke Dickerson, Ray Campi, Rip Masters, Skip Heller and the Rockin' Rebels. The Elvis Birthday Bash Band that will back each of the featured guests consists of Dave Raven, Harry Orlov, Marty Rifkin, Paul Marshall and Skip Edwards.
Presley was born Jan. 8, 1935, in Tupelo, Miss.
Full information on the event is available at the Avalon Hollywood website.
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05 Mar 2013
How to Make Tokwa (Soybean Curd)
An improved production technology is introduced to come up with instant dry soybean curd, superior in quality compared to the fresh form. The technology uses MgSO4, as coagulant which increase the yield of fresh soybean curd. The instant soybean curd has a good texture upon rehydration and its storage life is lengthened to 6 months from the 3 day-old fresh curd.
- Soybeans
- Water
- MgSO4
- Grinder
- Cheese cloth
- Mold
- Dryer
- Cooking vessel
- Processed the soybean milk by soaking soybeans overnight. Washi, clean and blending it by grinding.
- Add 12 liters of water to every kilo of soybeans. This mixture is cooked for 30 minutes with occasional stirring.
- The puree is strained on cheesecloth to obtain the milk.
- Boil the milk for 10 minutes, then cooled to 50° C.
- A volume of 0.2% MgSO4 is added to promote curd formation for 20 minutes.
- Curd is collected into cloth lined mold or press.
- The curd is then cut into desired sizes, frozen, thawed and soaked briefly in sodium bicarbonate solution.
- Finally, the soaked curd is pressed and dried in a solar dryer at 60° C.
- 1 cup soybeans
- 1 teaspoon vinegar
- Soak the beans in water overnight. Change water several times and remove floating grains.
- Wash, grind the soybeans. Add about 6 cups water for every cup of beans while grinding.
- Boil the ground beans in water for ½ hour while stirring.
- Strain in muslin cloth.
- Mix in well a teaspoon of vinegar.
- Wrap in cloth the curdled soybean.
- Remove the express water by putting weight on top of it.
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