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I've always found it interesting that Jupiter, the great benefic, represents the husband. Why does Jupiter represent the husband for women? I will also discuss Jupiter in the signs and the kinds of husband they produce.
Jupiter & Wealth/Resources
Let's start with looking at one of the other significations of Jupiter- wealth. Jupiter represents wealth and most women are not independently wealthy. Even if we have jobs and can support ourselves, having a husband is likely to add significantly to the wealth and resources we have available to us. This is still as true today as it's ever been.
When a woman is wealthy through her family or her own efforts, she usually wants a husband who is as wealthy as she is. Her reason is that she wants to be with someone she considers to be her equal. If the husband is not as wealthy, then he has to bring something else of high perceived value to make up for his lack of money. Such as accomplishment, intelligence/education, talent/fame, etc.
Jupiter is Noble with a High Moral Code
Jupiter is noble and has a high moral code. When a man has noble qualities and strength of character, is philosophical and wise in his dealings with people, he is the personification of a strong Jupiter. No matter how modern the woman, she wants to admire and respect her husband, she wants to feel proud of him with her family and friends. She wants him to be her knight in shining armor.
It wasn't that long ago that only men were educated in a formal way and only men were scholars, learned in spiritual books or could become priests. So I can see how a husband could be a source of wisdom and perspective, but even in today's world where knowledge is available to anyone (in most countries), spiritual women prefer a man who is spiritual too. Jupiter is the planet of spirituality, wisdom, philosophy, and higher knowledge.
My husband's faith in life and his general optimism that things will turn out okay, is a real pleasure to live with. If you've ever been with a man who is suspicious of people, angry at life and expects life to treat him badly, you know what I mean. Being with a generally happy who has a philosophy of life that gets him through the tough times makes a woman's life better.
Jupiter is Expansion & Happiness
The way to know whether or not to marry a man is when he makes your life better than you could make it on your own. A good husband will enlarge and enhance a woman's life and bring a special kind of happiness to her. Having a husband enhances a woman's social status, even in today's world where living together without being married is totally accepted. There is still a feeling of security, emotionally and materially that having a husband brings to a woman. (CONTINUED BELOW SPECIAL OFFER)
For a woman, Jupiter is your HUSBAND. Jupiter is strong in Sagittarius for the next year, and more able to produce a husband for you. For Gemini rising people especially.
I'm offering a FREE Relationship Capacity Report and FREE Compatibility Report with the Ready-for-Love Consultation. Normally, they are $14.95 each, so you save $29.90.
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Jupiter is Children
Jupiter is responsible for producing children in our lives and as a woman, doing this while you have a husband is infinitely easier and more joyful than doing it alone. Single mothers work harder than anyone on earth! The husband gives the child a name (identity) and a safe arena to grow up in, a family to belong to. He provides for the family and sees it as his responsibility and duty even if the woman works too.
Jupiter represents more than I've already mentioned here, but let's move on to what it means when Jupiter is in the signs in your birth chart.
Jupiter in His Strongest Signs
The very best signs for Jupiter are the sign of Cancer, Pisces, and Sagittarius. Attracting a good husband is much easier when Jupiter is in these signs. This is because Jupiter is strong enough to take care of his responsibilities and produce all the good stuff that Jupiter represents. Wealth, happiness, children, optimism and grace.
Jupiter in Good Signs
Jupiter in the signs of Scorpio, Aries, or Leo is pretty good too. Mars (Scorpio and Aries) is a great friend to Jupiter and so is the Sun (Leo). When Jupiter is in these signs, he gets help from his friends and can bring you a husband that you will be happy with. The Mars signs of Scorpio and Aries produces a husband who is logical, disciplined, and able to produce abundance in the quickest way (Jupiter/Mars combinations are especially wealth producing).
Jupiter in Leo represents a husband who has a greater sense of purpose and consistency of fortune. This Sun-ruled Jupiter is pure-hearted, noble, and intelligent. Being the wife of this kingly man makes the woman feel like a queen.
Jupiter in Difficult Signs
**Remeber that this is general, there are other factors that determine the husband too!
Jupiter in Taurus or Libra, Virgo or Gemini, are in the signs of his great enemies. Here he will struggle to bring you a man who is able to fulfill his responsibilities as a husband. He may still be a good person and someone you enjoy being with on many levels, but he won't do many of the things that a good husband would do.
A good husband is as involved in the relationship as you are. He thinks about what would be good for the relationship long-term, kicks your tires (takes care of the cars, etc.) and stands between you and the IRS (protects you). You have to be more independent in marriage and do many of these things yourself when Jupiter is in these signs.
Jupiter in Capricorn is 'debilitated' and Jupiter in Aquarius is neutral (neither helpful or unhelpful). When you have Jupiter in Capricorn, a relationship has numerous challenges. One woman with Jupiter in Capricorn had men suddenly disappear on her. This happened to her over and over.
Everything would start out great and then weeks or months into the relationship, he would vanish never to be heard from again.**Remember that this is general, there are other factors that determine the husband too!
After years of this, she decided that she was happier not being in a relationship and she decided to concentrate on raising her children. She is working on her happiness without a man.
Another woman with Jupiter in Capricorn would attract men with wonderful qualities, but he would also have a mental illness that made the relationship difficult, draining, or impossible. Yet another woman wanted to know if she would attract a man who was good for her (she had a pattern of partners being cheaters, deadbeats or con men). She asked a Horary question about this and the Horary clearly showed that she wouldn't, at least not in her next relationship.
Jupiter 'Harmed' by Other Planets
**Remeber that this is general, there are other factors that determine the husband too!
Jupiter can be in a good sign, but still have issues if he is with Rahu, Ketu, the Sun, or Saturn. When Jupiter is with Rahu, your husband/boyfriend could be someone from a culture different than the one you were raised in. This is considered to be difficult because there are so many things you won't have in common that takes effort and compromise to work around. Daily life is full of encounters with your differences and there is less shared experiences and cultural references.
Also, when Rahu is with Jupiter, you will have trouble finding the right kind of man for you. You will be captivated by a man only to find out that it was all an illusion. But, if Jupiter is in a good sign with Rahu, Jupiter ensures that you will figure out what you most need in a man after some disappointing experiences.
If Saturn is with Jupiter, then Jupiter is being 'starved.' This means that your man has difficulty finding purpose, hope, and faith in the affairs of the house that Jupiter is in. Or he may be a religious fanatic or conversely, he won't believe in anything and have a hard time finding meaning in his life.
Jupiter with Ketu can make you a spiritually oriented person, but it also means that you have 'done' Jupiter a lot in previous lifetimes. Meaning, having a husband is something you may be done with for this lifetime. This depends on many other factors in the birth chart too, so don't take this as the final word, you may still get married.
When Jupiter is with the Sun, he is 'combust' (burned up). This means that your husband feels like he can never live up to his potential and that he's enough to merit the love of the divine, and/or like he doesn't deserve the good things in life. He won't be as able to lean on the divine when he is in need.
What Can You DO When Jupiter is Weak?
Of course, you can always do Jupiter mantras (Om Namah Shivaya). Jupiter actually rules all mantras because he rules sound. Mantras in Sanskrit are sounds that vibrate at particular frequencies. These frequencies affect your chakras and your aura, influencing what (and who) you attract into your life.
If you don't want to do mantras for whatever reason, increase the depth of your spiritual life. Work on Jupiter for yourself, meaning, work on Jupiter in a way that directly affects your own level of faith, hope, joy, and happiness. This means cultivating your spiritual life every single day. If you want to get the most out of that, Google Planetary Hours Calculator and use it to find the Jupiter hours of the day and do your spiritual practices during the Jupiter hours.
Spiritual practices such as meditation, prayer, reading spiritual books that uplift you and make you feel more connected to the divine. No matter how you understand the divine, even if you don't have any particular belief in the divine. Explore your spiritual side and your spiritual gifts (I can help you with this if you don't know what they are).
Join a spiritual group of like-minded people because it keeps you inspired and consistent in your devotions (and increases your chances of meeting someone special!). Find out what your best spiritual path is, what will help you grow the fastest (this is part of the Whole Life and Ready for Love Consultations).
Practice increasing your faith in life by keeping a gratitude journal (Jupiter rules gratitude). This multiplies your blessings and attracts even more blessings. Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood faster than doing this! (See link below under RELATED to learn more about Jupiter happiness practices).
The deeper your spiritual life, the more happiness you will have whether you have a good husband or not. A joyous, happy woman is incredibly attractive. When a woman is happy and joyful, a good man will do anything he can to keep her that way and further add to her happiness.
More on Jupiter soon! Please comment or email me, email@example.com, if you have questions about Jupiter or anything else.
How Does Jupiter Influence Your Relationships?
How to Have More Luck in Life and Love
How to Have More Luck in Life and Love, Part 2
Relationship Capacity: Is He a Gold Ring, Gold Nugget, or Gold Ore?
For a woman, Jupiter is your HUSBAND. Jupiter is strong in Sagittarius for the next year, and more able to produce a husband for you. For Gemini rising people especially.
I'm offering a FREE Relationship Capacity Report and FREE Compatibility Report with the Ready-for-Love Consultation. Normally, they are $14.95 each, so you save $29.90.
Find out everything you need to know to make the most of your love life and attract your life partner with the Ready-for-Love Consultation. It is only $159 if you come to the consultation alone, and $209 if you come to the consultation with your partner. You can be straight, gay, or lesbian, the stars work for everyone. The reading is 90 minutes long and you get a recording as well as the relationship reports mentioned above.
EXAMPLE REPORT: Female Relationship Capacity Report (Angelina Jolie)
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DOE offers to settle claims
139 Hanford plaintiffs each would receive $5,683
Fri., July 15, 2011
The U.S. Department of Energy has tentatively agreed to settle the claims of 139 people with thyroid disease – the largest settlement so far in a massive civil suit brought by people exposed as children to clouds of radioactive iodine from Hanford during World War II and the early years of the Cold War.
Details of the proposed settlement, which must be accepted by the individual plaintiffs, were filed this week in U.S. District Court in Spokane.
Each plaintiff with hypothyroid disease would receive $5,683 for a total amount just under $800,000, according to Kevin Van Wart, lead defense counsel with Kirkland & Ellis of Chicago.
"This is one of the largest groups of hypothyroid plaintiffs. It's progress," Van Wart said. The settlement doesn't represent a government admission of wrongdoing, he said.
Of the 1,483 plaintiffs left in the case, 557 have been diagnosed with some form of hypothyroidism and 214 have thyroid cancer, court documents say. The case originally had over 2,000 litigants.
The plaintiffs considering settlement are all represented by Roy P. Haber, a solo practitioner in Eugene, Ore. Haber said Thursday that he couldn't comment on the proposed settlement.
Haber is not allowing his clients to discuss the settlement, according to one woman who agreed to settle her case after rejecting previous offers.
The Hanford downwinders' case was filed in 1991, five years after The Spokesman-Review and two activist groups obtained documents under the Freedom of Information Act that showed Hanford had released dangerous clouds of radioactive iodine-131 and other elements during its push to develop the nation's first nuclear weapons. There was no public warning at the time.
The riskiest radiation releases occurred between 1944 and 1950. A $27 million government study concluded in 1990 that the releases had put people at risk for developing thyroid disease – triggering a flood of litigation.
The government indemnified the private contractors who ran Hanford, including E.I. du Pont de Nemours and General Electric Co., and has paid over $60 million for their defense in the Hanford case. Plaintiffs' lawyers have spent nearly $10 million from their own funds to pursue the personal-injury claims.
In 2005, a Spokane federal jury heard the cases of six "bellwether" plaintiffs in the huge case, awarding $610,000 to two plaintiffs with thyroid cancer who received large Hanford doses.
But the jury also rejected the claims of four plaintiffs with hypothyroid disease, saying they didn't prove their illness was "more likely than not" caused by Hanford radiation.
Plaintiffs' lawyers had originally asked for up to $500 million to settle all the claims.
More trials are in process. About 20 other hypothyroid cases will be tried starting April 30. Trials are also planned but not yet scheduled for about 35 thyroid cancer cases and for 50 people with thyroid nodules.
"We could have four trial tracks going next year. We need to move more cases," said Louise Roselle, of Cincinnati, lead attorney for the plaintiffs.
All verdicts and settlements in the case will be paid by the federal government.
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Plenty of Indonesian children aren't able to celebrate the holiday season with joy but Drop of Hope believes that every child deserves a gift.
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Ajay Jacob, Country Manager of Qatar Airways, talks to NOW! Jakarta about the airline's superb performance in Indonesia, as well as other exciting plans for the market in the near future.
Jakarta has numerous famous places scattered around the city. We know some of them: Martello Fortress in Kepulauan Seribu (Thousand Islands) area and Pura Aditya Jaya (Aditya Jaya Temple) in Rawamangun, East Jakarta.
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5 Ways to Improve Your Startup's Social Media PresenceChris Sams
How well are you navigating the social media landscape? You won't be surprised to find that there's always room for improvement – especially when it comes to a business that's only in its growing stage. First things first: every business-to-consumer business, no matter how small, needs a precise social media strategy and an integrated marketing approach to start on the right foot. This where a


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A few days ago I drove through the very cool town of Olney Illinois to check out their famous WHITE SQUIRRELS!
We dropped in and went first to the Chamber of Commerce, located at 216 East Main Street (they have recently moved and several web sites have to old address).
The area takes a lot of pride in its unique critter population, and they sell postcards, stickers patches, shirts, hats, etc. celebrating their squirrels. Yes, I made several purchases!
The very cool lady running the Chamber gave me a map and made suggestions about places to go to see the squirrels.
We took her advice and we were able to see several! In fact, by the lake I think we could have watched them all day. I was really happy about this, because, to be honest, I had my doubts. I thought that maybe one or two squirrels were around town, and I assumed the odds of seeing one were exceptionally low. Again, I was wrong!
They are albino, and they have those beautiful pink eyes. In some ways they reminded me of the classic lab rat. I have a buddy that used to have some of those rats as pets, and I swear they were some very sweet, affectionate pets that get a bad reputation. These squirrels looked like them but with big bushy tails.
They seemed to be very used to people taking photos of them. One climbed a tree and set on a branch as I photographed him, and I swear he was posing, the little ham. I probably took a hundred photos.
I know I have been singing the praises of southern Illinois a lot lately, and this town is another great one. We walked through their classic old feeling main street area, and we stopped at a beautiful Coffee shop Roll With It Bakery. This was the perfect stop for a nice light lunch, candy, and coffee. We wrote some notes to our friends on the back of the white squirrel postcards I bought at the Chamber of Commerce as we enjoyed coffee in their roomy café.
We really enjoyed our day in this friendly, attractive town. If you are within a day trip drive to here, you should check it out!


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Masking Spells are a wide range of charms that can be used to mask the presence of a witch or wizard, thereby making them untraceable.[1] Thus owls cannot be used to track or send post to them, one of the few reliable methods of doing so, along with Disguising Spells and Repelling Spells.[1]
If a witch or wizard is determined to become uncontactable by a specific individual, such as a debtor or ex-boyfriend or girlfriend, then one could use a Masking Spell against that particular person.[1] While very powerful and effective, the spell could easily be circumnavigated by having someone else send the post.[1]
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- Pottermore (First identified as Masking Spell)
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How Green New Year's Resolutions Have Changed Our Lives
By Joe Provey
As a journalist who writes about conservation, renewable energy and green living, my wife and I have made our share of green New Year's resolutions. Some we've kept, while others have fallen by the wayside. Here is a rundown of some of our successes and misfires.
In 2006, we became serious about recycling. No longer satisfied to simply recycle cans, bottles, cardboard, and newspapers, we began tossing in everything from plastic juice containers to egg cartons. Our city made our lives easier by distributing recycling containers that are about ten times bigger than the old ones. Even so, we have no problem filling it for the every other week pickup. Recently our efforts were doubly rewarded when we purchased a sound barrier for the new wood floor we were installing. In addition to old tires, it's made of the plastics we've been conscientiously recycling all these years.
The big resolution in 2007 was to green up the way we clean. The transition from conventional cleaning products turned out to be one of the easiest of all. White vinegar replaced spray cleansers, and we discovered many more uses for baking soda! Who knew it could be used to cleaned ovens? Plant-based dishwashing liquid and dishwasher tablets replaced petroleum-based products. Oxygen-based bleach replaced chlorine-based bleach. Now, we feel a lot better about everything from the dishware we eat and drink from to the cleanliness of the clothing we wear.
In 2008, our aim was to use solar energy. We had the perfect exposure for a solar hot water heating system, but when we added the price tag of the system to the cost of reroofing (it didn't make sense to put panels on a roof that would need to be torn off in five or ten years), we opted for a less ambitious plan. So we installed an outdoor clothes umbrella and use it (most of the time) to dry our laundry. Turns out, the sun wasn't even a requirement. Clothing dried just fine on cloudy days, too – as long as we pulled them in before the rain came.
Improving the energy efficiency our 100-year-old house was the top priority for 2009. We were tired of living with drafts, cold rooms, and high-energy bills. Armed with rolls of weatherstripping and caulk, we sealed around all of our windows and doors. We lovingly restored our old windows and storm windows. Did you know they are just about as efficient as many double-glazed replacement windows and look a heck of a lot better? In the basement, we sealed the joints and holes in our hot air ducts. Finally, with the house as tight as we could make it, we splurged on a new high-efficiency furnace … and watched our energy bills shrink. Here are some examples of home energy problems.
A shiny new Honda Insight came into our lives in 2010. The deal was too good to pass up: zero percent financing, zero sales tax, and zero down – and 40 miles per gallon (mpg). It's a great feeling to know we're using less than half the amount of gas (and producing half the emissions) to drive the same distances we did only a year before. The car gives you a lot of feedback as to whether you're driving efficiently, too. You can literally watch the mpgs drop when you drive with a heavy foot or switch on the AC.
Composting was our calling in 2011, with mixed results. We didn't mix it enough or aerate it enough, or there was too much of this or that. Add a dose of laziness and we didn't get too far. But I'm guessing that we will be digging up black gold for the garden before the next Presidential election!
This past year, we decided to increase our homegrown vegetable production and preserve it for winter. We've grown vegetables before, including in containers, but we dug a new garden in a spot that gets more than seven hours of sun throughout the summer. Thanks to a prefect summer for growing, I now know the meaning of "bumper crop." Four hundred tomatoes and bushels of other vegetables later, we happily spent the late summer freezing and canning our bounty.
Much of it was lost when hurricane Sandy turned our basement freezer into a boat. But we have fond memories of all the from-the-garden summer meals we enjoyed. Undaunted, we plan to redouble our efforts in the garden in the New Year but will have sand bags on hand should history repeat itself. Just think of all the energy embodied in the furnace, water heater, appliances, and tools we lost!
Making our home green has not only been healthy but it makes us feel we're making a contribution. Our 2013 resolutions are to make a difference on a bigger stage. Our plan is to get more involved by checking out local Green Drinks meetings and to make this year's travel plans through an organization such as Ecoteer or Willing Workers on Organic Farms (WWOOF). We like the idea of becoming, in small ways, a part of the places we visit, not just being tourists! On the state and national level, we plan to help by supporting organizations and leaders who are dedicated to reducing waste, conserving resources, and promoting renewable energy.
Joe Provey is a home improvement and green living writer who has authored several books including Convert Your Home to Solar Energy.
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Wow! I could not help but admire all the efforts you have done to really live a green life. I have began taking small steps towards a greener life. Hopefully, one day I could take the same big leaps that you have taken.


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Our long lasting experience has sent us to very remote areas. In the growing process, our company has created strong links with partners. Those links have become a web, a network. In any area, debt-related, we bring our legal, investigative or multicultural power into your premises.
Our company via its partners is authorized to recover in France. We are based in the 4 major cities of which Paris. Our clients have recovered debts escaping to bad reputation and remote DOM TOM. French unsolvency is the major issue.
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Dedicated account managers. Your own as of ot was your employee. Our collection agents are extensively trained on a 6 months-period. Every month they practice on higher difficulty cases, under the supervision of their field manager. At the end of the programme we aprove the agents based on the tuition and on the their natural savoir-faire.
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Falls Creek Mountain Raid
Saturday, 13 February 2016 to Sunday, 14 February 2016
Falls Creek, VIC
The Falls Creek Mountain Raid from Saturday, 13 February to Sunday, 14 February 2016 is an adventure race over two days (trail running, mountain biking, lake kayaking and other off road surprises) and four standalone trail races.
This event will not be going ahead in 2017 due to the proximity of the Mountain Raid to the Adventure Racing World Championships.
The Saturday has the 10.75km Alpine Ash Run in the morning and 4.2km Summit Sprint in the afternoon; Sunday morning has the choice of either the 5.5km Falls Creek Explorer or the 19km Heathy Spur Run.
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Indonesia government spends US$29m in bond buy-back
[JAKARTA] Indonesia spent around US$29 million buying back sovereign bonds from the secondary market on Wednesday, the Finance Ministry said in a statement.
The aim of the transactions was to manage the government's debt portfolio by targeting less liquid, fixed-rate sovereign bonds, known locally as Obligasi Negara, the statement said.
"The transaction is also aimed at giving support for government bonds that were largely under selling pressure," it added.
Acting through the Debt Management Office, the government bought back 401 billion rupiah (US$29.10 million) of bonds maturing May 2016 and September 2016.
Earlier, Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro said he would coordinate with the country's central bank to "guard" bonds amid economic turmoil.
The yield on benchmark Indonesian 10-year bonds rose to 8.624 per cent on Wednesday, from 8.489 per cent a day earlier.
The rupiah fell nearly 2 per cent against the dollar to its lowest since July 1998 as China's devaluation hit the currency. Foreign investors hold 38 per cent of Indonesian government bonds.


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"Mike's work product (Summary Of Opinions and Damage Claim Rebuttal) was excellent and meticulously presented. His tenacious review and analysis of the extensive case documents was incredibly valuable in preparing for trial. Mike's 45-year diverse career in the real estate Industry helped me gain a deeper understanding of the case and added a great deal of credibility to his testimony."
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"Mr. Ryan's real estate expertise greatly assisted our litigation team in clarifying (from an Industry standpoint) the dynamics of the various case issues and in formulating a reasonable and acceptable settlement resolution."
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The life story of Jackie Robinson isn't just compelling from a baseball perspective; it's one of the watershed moments in American history. Robinson's Major League Baseball debut in 1947 put the wheels in motion for the desegregation of America, and it helped spur the Civil Rights Movement of the '50s and '60s. Now that story is coming to life in 42, a biopic about Robinson's life starring Chadwick Boseman as the legendary Brooklyn Dodger.
This first trailer for the movie doesn't show us much, but it does set the table for what we can expect from the film. Boseman looks spot-on as Robinson, even though we don't get to see a whole lot of his performance here. But from what we do see, we catch both the idealistic baseball player side of Robinson, as well as the anger that motivated him. Along with Boseman, we get a very brief look at Christopher Meloni as Leo Durocher and a nearly-unrecognizable Harrison Ford as Dodger executive Branch Rickey.
This trailer is a bit on the short side, but it gives us a feel for the style and tone that director Brian Helgeland is going for, and so far, 42 is looking pretty strong.
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The Sea & Me
The Sea & Me, a new film documenting the extraordinary seas surrounding Australia and the inspiring people who look after it, has been touring the nation's coastal communities.
This breathtaking exploration of our big blue backyard was put together by two award-winning young filmmakers from Bluebottle Films. Danielle Ryan and James Sherwood toured around Australia's coast interviewing communities, business owners, fishers, divers and researchers and documenting flagship species like the charismatic manta rays of Ningaloo Reef, the prized coral trout of the Great Barrier Reef and Tasmania's valuable rock lobsters.
The Sea & Me visits communities where marine sanctuaries have been in place for up to 20 years and shares the success stories of world class conservation and recreation working hand in hand.
Following 16 packed-out screenings around Australia, local communities are now getting together to organise their own local events. If you're interested in hosting a screening, please email us on firstname.lastname@example.com
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Date: December 1 & 2, 2018
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Trail Description: This ride will be on jeep roads and single track trails with a moderate amount of elevation gain. Footing will be sandy with a few occasional rocky sections.
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FATAL is what happens when Dungeons And Dragons has a BDSM session involving scat and piss fetishes with a dickgirl then has a baby nine months later predisposed to be a serial rapist.
To be more specific, it's set in a fantasy world like DND with DND like rules.
But let's not kid ourselves.
It's rape turned into a lulzy pen and paper game.
TV Tropes FATAL Main Article
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- ->"Should any anus be stretched beyond the limit as determined by the table below, which differs from anus to anus, the orifice will rip to accommodate the incoming object."
- -->--Excerpt from the manual.
FATAL: "From Another Time Another Land" formerly known as "Fantasy Adventure To Adult Lechery") is a tabletop roleplaying game by Byron Hall, published by his company Fatal Games in 2004. It may very well be the only RPG ever produced in which orifice sizes need to be calculated.
For those who are not faint of heart, the game itself, and the official theme song.
!!This game provides examples of:
- Added Alliterative Appeal: Many of the magical items have names of this nature.
- Aerith And Bob: The name list for humans is composed of standard European names, and the name lists for other races are comprised of fantastic names...except for Kobolds, which use common Indonesian names.
- Amazonian Beauty / Hot Amazon: Averted. Females get penalties to their charisma stats as their strength increases, making Hot Amazon characters by definition less hot than they would be if they weren't Amazons.
- Animorphism: Dwarves and Elves have natural shapeshifting abilities, allowing them to transform into certain animals.
- Apocalypse How: Class 5, with the titular spell Fatal.
- Armor Is Useless: You randomly determine an armor's defense bonus. Roll low and it actually subtracts from your defense. Oh, and if it's magical you have a 7% chance of being killed by its magical effect.
- Artistic License Biology:
- A slash to the abdomen that misses all "critical" organs has a 70% chance of causing your small intestine to spill out. This isn't considered a particularly life-threatening wound.
- The cardiac notch is a small dent in the left lung wherein the heart rests. The author took this to mean that "the left lung is smaller than the right", and made it so a lung crit is twice as likely to hit the right lung as to hit the left.
- Childbirth never takes more than fourteen hours.
- Artistic License History: Where to begin...?
- Artistic License Statistics: Some events in FATAL are "(1d100)% likely" to happen. This means you roll a d100 to get the odds, and another d100 to see if it makes the odds. That is, you roll two d10 dice [hottip:*:(color-coded percentage dice usually, unless you have one of those huge golfball-like novelty dice, but the principle is the same)] and see which one is higher. You can see why the results are less complex than intended. [hottip:*:(For the record, it's 50.5% to get a second d100 roll equal to or less than the first.)]
- Boobs Of Steel: An enforced inversion in the case of the female characters.
- Bottomless Bladder: A rare inversion. A character with 20 Urination can send their urine 16 feet... without having taken a drink first.
- Brawn Hilda: Any lady with physical strength.
- Bread Eggs Milk Squick: The entire rulebook reads like this. For example, while listing wrestling moves and explaining how each works, it inexplicably describes how to rape one's opponent in the process, then continues on with regular wrestling. Even the squick has its own sub-squick: Modifiers when calculating a character's Vaginal Circumference Potential include +1d20 if slut, +5 if old aged, and -95 if infant.
- But It Really Happened: The authors cited a book on prostitution in Medieval France as evidence that all of their sexual content is historically based.
- Camp Gay: A man with the lowest possible "Vocal Charisma" is described as "gay". Similarly, men whose Strength stat is too low (or women whose Strength stat is too high, or the general physical appearance stats are too low) are automatically homosexual.
- Character Alignment: Two axes, "ethical" and "moral", which are exactly the same as D&D's "lawful/chaotic" and "good/evil" respectively, just with different names.
- Call A Hitpoint A Smeerp
- Chunky Salsa Rule: The rulebook encourages the Aodile (Game Master) to re-roll randomly determined results if the original result didn't make sense.
- Class And Level System: The Professions system, essentially. There's well over 100 professions with possibilities for multi-classing, but the multi-class system is broken. Each level taken doubles the experience point cost of the next level, but only for that one class. At level ten, you can level up a new class to level 5 in less time it takes you to level up your current class to level 11.
- Conservation Of Detail: Averted. There's a lot of unnecessary detail here, cluttering up the game.
- Conveniently Common Kink: Sexual deviancy is a sliding scale, so anyone who does X is guaranteed to do A-W.
- Critical Existence Failure: Averted. If you get wounded, you will feel it.
- Cursed With Awesome[=/=]Blessed With Suck: The Anakim have the chance to gain many useful powers randomly at character creation (such as the ability to cast certain spells once per day at will), but the chart these are rolled on also contains disadvantages (mainly physical alterations that lower the physical or facial charisma stats), things that prevent the character from interacting with society (such as emitting odors), or things which make the character downright unplayable (such as traits which force the character to make Drive checks to resist the urge to kill members of a certain race on sight.)
- Dead Baby Comedy: A lot of it was intended. In one grisly example, if a certain artifact is destroyed it "showers the surrounding area in baby parts".
- Death By Childbirth: Possibly because you were raped by a sword and gave birth to a spear. This is an actual magical weapon quality. Plus the obvious, that the rules state that anything passing through the vagina that exceeds its circumference (like, say, a baby's head) has a chance of causing fatal rupture.
- Depraved Homosexual: Homo/bisexuality, oral/anal sex, and pedo/necrophilia are solidly painted in an overtly bad light. The game provides mechanics for such things to occur anyway.
- Disability Superpower
- You can get "Retard Strength", strength bonuses due to low intelligence.
- The player may re-roll low ability scores, thus making them more capable, at the cost of acquiring deformities and mental issues.
- Doorstopper: The official rulebook is 900+ pages long.
- Empty Levels: The only benefit to advancing in most professions is additional skill points to spend on class skills, which means (due to the fact that experience required for each successive level doubles every level), one is best off advancing in several closely-related classes, rather than focusing on one and trying to max it out.
- Evil Is Sexy: In Universe aversion; dark elves are repulsively ugly and rely on illusion spells to seduce other races.
- Experience Points: You gain very small amounts of experience for jobs associated with that profession. They're all mostly mundane activities, so gaining experience can be very tedious.
- Warriors gain 10-20 EXP per swing of their sword, while basket-weavers gain maybe 1 EXP per basket.
- XP is also counted per class, meaning that if you have three classes that gain damage XP, you can be getting 60 XP per swing.
- Fantastic Racism: There are extensive lists and tables of things regarding relations between races.
- Fantastic Slurs: A long list of them is includes as part of the above-mentioned race-relations section.
- Fartillery: Anakim Trait for a roll of 72:
- -->"The anakim may fart as loud as thunder. All creatures within a 10-feet radius of this anakim, except the anakim, automatically take 1d4 sonic damage and are stunned for 1 round, which can be avoided by passing a Drive check at TH 17. This can be utilized only once per week."
- Functional Magic: Device Magic.
- Game Favored Gender: Initially, Hall tried to claim that there was no game-favored gender because female and male characters got "small but equivalent" bonuses/penalties on various stats. Then when he updated it after the [=McLenan/Sartin=] review, it was changed so women also receive a -30% penalty to strength whereas men got a +30% bonus to strength, thus resulting in a large stat-gap with no real balancing factor.
- Gratuitous Rape: Certainly gives players plenty of opportunities, since rape is a non-issue in this game (except for the constant mentions).
- Grotesque Gallery: One of the playable races, the "Anakim", are the children of demons and mortal women. As a result they gain random attributes like smelling of rotten meat, and causing everyone around them to have anal sex orgies in addition to more mundane (but still nasty) effects.
- Honest Rolls Character: Stats have to be determined this way. Additionally, the rulebook suggests that everything except gender (ie. race, class, etc) be determined this way, but gives the Aedile the freedom to decide whether or not to enforce this rule. The honest-rolls method does result in possible oddities such as a character being at opposite ends of the spectrum in two stats that you would think would be related.
- Stats may be rerolled, at the cost of acquiring a random physical or mental disability.
- I Love The Dead: "Have Her Cadaver". According to Burnout, this was "included purely for comic effect".
- Implausible Fencing Powers: It's possible to get a critical hit on specific internal organs without damaging the surrounding anatomy, or to critical-hit someone's navel, eyelid, or clitoris. With a maul.
- Indecisive Parody: The comments of the game's creators leave us unsure as to whether it's supposed to be a work of "historically and mythologically accurate scholarship" or "controversial humor".
- Insistent Terminology: Loads. Among others:
- The constant euphemisms/dysphemisms for reproductive organs, most notably "fuckstick", "cuntpipe", and "Manhood".
- They insist that the GM be referred to as the Aodile, the Aedile, or the MM (Maim Master).
- That isn't the character sheet, it's the character sheets. Which it is.
- Jesus Taboo: The alleged setting is "like medieval Europe [hottip:*:("Neveria", the official setting, is described in a supplemental PDF)], only with no Christianity" ...which is the cultural equivalent of "the Atlantic Ocean, only without water".
- Lamarck Was Right: The stats of a child are determined by applying a percentage modification to the average of their parents' stats.
- Loads And Loads Of Rules: A character "sheet" consists of 11 (single-sided) sheets of paper. Oh, and did we mention how the rulebook is 900 pages?
- Lolicon[=/=]Shotacon: Invoked via faulty game mechanics. An omitted percent sign allows infants to have the same attractiveness of an average human.
- Luck Based Mission: Spellcasters. There's a nontrivial chance they'll kill or grievously wound themselves or a party member with every spell they cast, and skill has nothing to do with it. And let's not forget that one of the ways this can happen also happens to kill every living thing in the universe on the way.
- Marijuana Is LSD
- Mind Rape: Some of the racist magic armor does this to the wearer.
- Mood Whiplash: What claims (falsely) to be historically accurate scholarship is stuck next to things like the aforementioned racist armor and a spell failure table that among other things summons randy gay ogres, which Byron Hall admitted were only included For The Lulz.
- No Womans Land: The setting.
- Our Dwarves Are All The Same: Surprisingly, averted. White Dwarves are pretty much the same, but Black Dwarves have a strong influence of The Fair Folk in them and Brown Dwarves resemble the tamer, post-Fair Folk fairy tales.
- Parody Retcon: Inverted. The second revision of the rules cleaned up some of the "controversial humor" (such as removing some of the magical enchantments based on racist caricatures) and making some of the terminology less juvenile (the Maim Master being renamed the "Aedile" for example). The revision of the original acronym was part of this change. The conversion was imperfect, to say the least.
- Poes Law: It's an RPG all about rape, misogyny, and racism. Who could take it that seriously?
- Punny Name: "Have Her Cadaver".
- Random Number God
- Rape Is A Special Kind Of Evil: Averted most gruesomely. It's barely a crime and mildly punished but usually ignored and instead the woman is punished. To boot, half the males in the world are rapists in the game's universe.
- Sophisticated As Hell: This is what happens when dark, edgy, Serious Business meets fart jokes. "Experience an accumulation of gas in their rectum", indeed.
- STD Immunity: You'd think [=STDs=] would be pretty major in a game which places such heavy focus on sexual activity, but they're never so much as mentioned.
- Title Drop: The spell "FATAL". It destroys all life, everywhere.
- Toilet Humor
- Total Party Kill: One of the many, many magical fumbles results in killing off the entire planet.
- Unexpected Gameplay Change: There is a section on warfare in an otherwise character-focused game. Yes, warfare, as in army-on-army, not individual combat.
- Unusual Dysphemism: "Fuckstick", "Cuntpipe", and "Mouth-cunt".
- Viewers Are Morons: The book contains paragraphs describing to the reader what things like salt and cheese are.
- What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic: While Christianity itself is absent from the game, there are many spells such as "Walk On Water", "waves be still", and "multiplication of loaves and fish".
- You Have Researched Breathing: There are skills for Spitting and Urination.
- You Keep Using That Word: One of the traits an anakim can have is Cannibalism. The authors apparently confused this with carnivorousness, since the description says eating any vegetables at all makes it sick. The authors later defended this with the argument that being exclusively cannibalistic being would also be a carnivore.
TV Tropes FATAL YMMV Article
- Acceptable Targets: Primarily, women. The game spends paragraph after paragraph drooling with delight over the many, many ways provided for raping women in every possible sense of the word. And then perhaps using such things as the helpfully provided urination rolls to further degrade them. And then it lovingly describes how this will result in the victim herself being cast out by her family and community alike.
- Audience Alienating Premise: You think?
- Authors Saving Throw: After the [=Sartin/MacLennan=] review, some of the offensive aspects of the game were changed or trimmed. Others were inexplicably left intact. Others still were worsened (see Game Favored Gender).
- Bile Fascination: The reason this page exists and so many tropers are writing about it. It's probably a safe bet to say that of all the people who've played FATAL, upwards of 90% played for this reason.
- Fetish Retardant: The manual is filled with images of, as the phrase goes, stock porny dungeon slavegirls. But porn for the sake of porn comes off as rather creepy and disturbing, especially when coupled with loving descriptions of all sorts of misogyny.
- Memetic Mutation:
- REALISTIC! (the author's repeated claims of historical accuracy)
- "Roll for anal Circumference!" (one of the rolls that must be done at
character creation)
- In some circles, this is used in place of calling for initiative rolls.
- "It's cloaca time!" (a possible consequence of rape, if anal circumference is too low)
- "Randy gay ogres!" (can be summoned in a magic fumble)
- "Experience an accumulation of gas in their rectum." (another random magic effect)
- "-4 STR" (actually originates from the D&D world {though not an actual rule there}, but reflects well FATAL's Game Favored Gender issues)
- They Just Didnt Care: Many classes that aren't Assassin or Prostitute don't usually get more than a few sentences of description. For example, Spy is just described as a "high-class thief".
- Unfortunate Implications: The existence of the game has unfortunate implications. Whatever Hall and "Burnout" said in the rebuttal, none of the actual game material implied anything, the glorification of rape and misogyny was pretty blatant in the text.
During the Great Pedocide of April 2012, the page on this game was cut as porn and was replaced with a sanitized, exampleless shell of its former self.
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This is a natural untreated stone mined in Ethiopia and well polished.It exhibits a lovley shimmering irredisent effect when moved very much like cats eye opal.
Weight 46.90 cts app
Size 34 x 29 x 7 mm app
Chatoyancy or chatoyance, is an optical reflectance effect seen in certain gemstones Coined from the French "oeil de chat", meaning "cat's eye", chatoyancy rises either from the fibrous structure of a material, as in tiger eye quartz, or from fibrous inclusions or cavities within the stone, as in cat's eye chrysoberyl The effect can be likened to the sheen off a spool of silk: the luminous streak of reflected light is always perpendicular to the direction of the fibres. For a gemstone to show this effect best it must be cut cabochon, with the fibers or fibrous structures parallel to the base of the finished stone. Faceted stones are less likely to show the effect well.
Opalite is an opalized volcanic tuff or ash that may occur with common opal
and agate. It may be dendritic. The key distinction between opalite
and common opal is that opalite is very hard; specimens of opalite
saw or chip with difficulty, whereas opal is commonly glassy and
chips easily Opalite may have a wet appearance upon breaking fresh
specimens creating the illusion of opal. Because of its hardness,
opalite will commonly be found in pronounced outcrops or ridges in
localities in the Mojave Desert and other world wide localities,
while common opal outcrops form muddy, rolling hills or colored soil (laterites?). Common opal fractures readily into tiny crumbs upon
hitting with a rock hammer and opalite does not.
Opalite probably has a hardness of five to six
. Opalite appears to decompose into sand,
while common opal appears to decompose into a clay or mud (expansive
clay). Opalite is associated with deep beds of volcanic ash or
welded ash flow tuff, so it may occur with deposits of fossil palm
root, palm wood, and bog . Opalite is
often associated with moss agate and plume agate. Opalite can be a
variety of colors, including white, tan, brown, green, and peach.
Opal has a brittle fracture to it, while opalite does not exhibit
this property.
Hi Silvia, 649998 did arrive safely just now, very nice blue/green colour. All at best! Until next time. Bye-bye. Waldi
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It is with sadness that we announce the peaceful passing of Alex Michael Nastasiuk on Saturday, February 24, 2018 at Woods Park Care Centre, Barrie. Bel
oved husband of Peggy who predeceased him (2011) after 51 years of marriage. Cherished father of John (Tracey), Anne (Kelvin) Hamilton, Paul (Sue), Joey (Jane) and Theresa. Loving Poppa of Christopher, Nicholas, Alexandra, Samantha, Madison, Zachary, Sara, Matthew and Anika.
Alex is predeceased by his sisters Leda Stefanko, Nina Daley, Vera LeBlanc, Mary Nastasiuk and brothers Peter, Nick and Billy Nastasiuk. Alex was born on August 4, 1928 in Timmins, Ontario. After graduating from Timmins High and Vocational School in 1947, encouraged by his teacher Miss. Wilson, he left Timmins to attend St. Michael's College, University of Toronto. He received his BA in 1952 and his MA in Philosophy in 1954. After completing his studies at University of Toronto he enrolled in St. Augustine's Seminary. He left the seminary realizing that his vocation was teaching and continued his education completing his BEd. and MEd. at the University of Toronto. This was the beginning of a long teaching career that spanned nearly 40 years. Early in his teaching career at Mattawa High School he met a fellow teacher and future wife, Peggy. They married in 1959 initially finding a home in Aurora, then moving on to Barrie in 1967 where they stayed and raised their family. Throughout his life Alex was an avid gardener winning many horticultural awards and applying his gardening skills to his parish, St John Vianney. He played competitive baseball in Timmins during summers as a young man, then later participated in orienteering meets in Ontario. These were just a few of Alex's many interests. Alex was a loving husband, father and grandfather and will be greatly missed by all. Friends
will be received at Adams Funeral Home 445 St. Vincent Street (just north of Cundles Road) Barrie on Tuesday, February 27, 2018 from 6 – 9 pm. A Funeral Mass will be held at St. John Vianney Catholic Church 13 Baldwin Lane Barrie on Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 11 o'clock a.m. Memorial donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation would be greatly appreciated by the family. Messages of condolence may be forwarded to the family through adamsfuneralhome.ca
The family would like to thank Dr. Michael McConvey and the staff at Woods Park for their exceptional care and compassion.


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We craft small batches of dark chocolate directly from cacao beans in our small workshop in Almonte, near Ottawa.
Our equipment is small scale and old fashioned. We hand sort, slow roast and stone grind until our chocolate is unique and delicious. We seek make the best possible chocolate, using the most pure ingredients and intense attention to craft.
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Thursday, October 9, 2008
Yes, it's that time of year again! CALARTS Character Animation is hosting its annual (6th, if I'm correct) 48 Hour Lockdown on Friday, October 24th, at the stroke of midnight, which would technically make it the 25th, but who cares. The theme of this years lockdown will me drawn at midnight, and then participants will have 48 hours to animate a short film that integrates the theme. Previous themes have been "Lollipop," "Snow," "Candy," "Tube-sock," and "Piranha." The Lockdown is open to anyone who wishes to participate and the show will probably be on the weekend after Halloween. I will post updates as I get them. (Oh ya, I just realized that I forgot the "HR" in the poster, but everyone got the point, so whatever.)
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A crib is a crucial part of your child's initial few years. A lot of attention needs to be paid in selecting the right crib for your child, not only for the aesthetics but also for its safety and functionality. Here are a few ways in which you can buy the best crib and keep your child safe while using it:
1. Bars should be spaced no more than 2 3/8 inches apart.
2. The top of the railing of the crib should be at least 26 inches from the top of the mattress. You should be able to lower the mattress as your child gets taller.
3. As per the latest recommendations of all leading Child Protection Agencies, you should not use cribs with drop rails. These are not safe.
4. Crib bumpers might seem like a good idea, but they should not be used in cribs. They pose a risk of suffocation, strangulation, or entrapment.
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Jevon S. Goldson, "Jerzey"
executive & artistic Director
"Consistency is key. Success doesn't come for free" is the motto that Jerzey lives by. Hard work and determination is what he feeds on to take him to new heights. Jerzey, a creative director, choreographer, dancer, artist developer and fashion designer from New Jersey is at the top of his game as he elevates and overcomes groundbreaking barriers in his career. Jerzey has opened up for K. Michelle and Mack Wilds and has also performed at MTV's Beyonce Dance Marathon and Hot 97's Re-Living Color Party hosted by VH1's Black Ink Crew's Puma and Sassy. He was also seen on BET's 106 and Park, pop star Cassie's Dance Competition, several music videos, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and YouTube, amongst countless stage performances expressing his passion for choreography, dance, and acting.
Studying at Long Island University in Brooklyn, Jerzey developed special gifts in dance for hip-hop, modern and contemporary. He trained alongside Miss Koko at ATD dance center, Krista Martins at LIU, and Kelly Slough at Mark Morris Dance Group. He began a chapter in his life realizing that dance and entertainment had his heart and that is what he wanted to pursue. With over ten years of extensive dance training, Jerzey decided that it was time to make the leap and go for the dream. With a successful social media audience of over 250 thousand loyal followers and over 200 thousand YouTube views, Jerzey is an award nominated global sensation and an inspiration in the dance and entertainment world. His choreography and artistic style has made him to be one of the most sought after upcoming choreographers in New Jersey. He stands strong and proves well and he shows no signs of slowing down. In addition to his ZEYX clothingJune 2015 launch, he plans to inspire youth through movement while living his dream of being a successful entertainer and entrepreneur.


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A new creation from the autoflowering seed breeder 'STITCH' who says "Mi5 stands for My Indoor number 5 which is the highest selection of an AK47 cross borne after hard and long selection of breeding. The 5th cross was selected and is the final result of this hard work. Number 5 is very resinous plant, quite tall for an AK 47 plant cross, for 50 to 110 cm tall. This plant has a very purple afghani bred into it so outside will go a lovely rich shade of purple.
Type: Autoflowering indica/sativa hybrid
Height: 20-44 inches (50 to 110 cm tall)
Harvest: 9-10 weeks from seed
Yield: 25 - 50g per plant
Effect: high stone with giggles
Potency: 9/10
Breeder: STITCH
Some Joint Doctor's High Yield Cannabis Seeds grow taller than these MI5 seeds if you require.


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This gorgeous Spanish style home in Ojai, California, is the property of Reese Witherspoon. I don't often find homes in this style that are decorated in neutral colours as they tend to have very dark woods and are usually full of colourful art and fabrics....but here is a lovely Spanish style home in beautiful whites and neutral tones. There are so many wonderful textures in this home with the leather and the wrought iron throughout. The two kids rooms are super charming and would you not love to sit out on that great patio for a long lunch?
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Claire Sherwood was born near Troy, NY where she spent her childhood exploring the woods and riding her bike through the gravel pits and concrete plant around her home. She received her BFA from Bowling Green State University and her MFA from the University of Maryland in 2003 as a David C. Driskell fellowship recipient. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States in venues such as, the U.S. Smithsonian National Botanic Garden, the Corcoran Museum of Art, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Cornish College in Seattle, WA and Grounds for Sculpture, in Hamilton, NJ. Her work is included in the David C. Driskell Collection, the State of West Virginia Museum of Culture and History and the Huntington Museum of Art.
Working in non-traditional settings and within her own community is intertwined with Sherwood's artistic practice. In the past, she has worked with the Baylor Women's Correctional Institution for six weeks creating a group installation/video with maximum-security inmates addressing issues of women's domestic spaces and non-traditional roles of women. This project was sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, the State of West Virginia, Division of Culture and History and The Delaware Center for Contemporary Art. She has piloted programs with at-risk populations in Huntington, WV resulting in permanently installed site specific sculptures and this summer she will complete a series of community based workshops in rural upstate NY.
Currently, Claire is a co-coordinator for the Upstate NY chapter of The Feminist Art Project, (an international organization sponsored by Rutgers University) and works teaching art at an Independent School outside of Albany NY. She has received numerous awards and grants, a few of which are, the New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Grant, New York State Strategic Opportunity Stipend, Southeast College Art Association Award of Distinction, Ohio River Border Initiative Grant, International Sculpture Center/ Sculpture Magazine: Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture. Claire Sherwood now resides in Averill Park, NY (surprising close to the gravel pits she once rode her bike through to get to school) with her husband, two children and her West Virginian mutt.


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Russian Tea
from Meta Given's Modern Encyclopedia of Cooking (1953)
1/4 ounce cinnamon (1 stick)
1/4 ounce whole cloves (1.5 teaspoons)
1/4 cup honey
1 cup water
2 oranges (2/3 cup juice)
1 lemon (1/4 cup juice)
2 tablespoons black tea
6 cups boiling water
Simmer spices and honey with the 1 cup water for 10 minutes and let stand 1 hour. Strain. Add rind of 1 orange and 1 lemon if desired. Squeeze fruit juices, steep tea in boiling water 1 minute. Strain. Add fruit juice and spice mixture to strained tea. Reheat and serve hot. Garnish with orange slices. 10 servings.


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It's Michele's birthday today, swing by and wish her a Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday Michele!
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(You still aren't showing up on my bloglines so I think I will just visit without checking from now on!)
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How sweet you are! I will stop by. LOVE the images here.ReplyDelete
You're welcome Michele :) I hope you had a great day!ReplyDelete
Meredith: Thanks for stopping by her blog. It's always lovely to get birthday wishes :)
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I always love your vintage pictures. They are too cute!ReplyDelete
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Walter White, Dexter Morgan and Frank Turner. Of late night whiskeys with Ash, hours and hours in the cinema, and lazy mornings in bed. Of being confident, making changes and becoming ambitious. This year has been particularly special, and here are some of my favourite parts.
driving experiences. But it was really these photos which spurred me on to lose weight, and after joining Slimming World I'm now a stone lighter. This has definitely been the biggest achievement of my year, and I plan to keep on going in 2014.
Liquor Love' tab.
The other 'big' thing which happened this year was booking our holiday to San Francisco and Las Vegas. Budgeting and saving for the holiday basically dictated the rest of our year, but now Christmas is over, I know it won't be long until we're the furthest we've ever been from home, enjoying California and Nevada.
I think 2014 is going to be full of really special moments, and I cannot wait to see what's in store.
Thanks for joining me along the way this year - it's been good to have you.
Happy New Year!
Rosie x
Tuesday, 31 December 2013
Sunday, 29 December 2013
A Flame Indulgence
this photo of the wonderful Fearne Cotton wearing it. I ordered it straight away, and then cancelled the order after getting shopping guilt. But finally, 18 months later, she's mine! I bought her from the Factory Shop in Shepton Mallet during the sale. I must have lapped around the store 3 or 4 times, staring at it from different angles and wondering whether to take it to the till, before calling my Mum and getting her to talk me in to buying it... or something like that ;)
Although in the grand scheme of things I've spent crazy amounts of money on (Macbook, iPad, camera lens.. new car!), this bag wasn't that expensive, it is definitely the most indulgent fashion purchase I have ever made. I don't think I have ever been so protective over a handbag before! But I absolutely love using it, and can't wait to take it to America with us.
What's been your most indulgent purchase? Do you have any regrets?
Rosie x
Friday, 27 December 2013
Until Next Year
Boxing Day was just as fun as Christmas. Ash and I spent it watching movies and TV and slowly drinking through our holiday alcohol... I think we both had a slight headache this morning but neither of us wanted to admit it ;)
I always find these few days between Christmas and New Year a little strange, so I hope to spend my 'no mans land' days clearing out my room and researching things to do whilst we're away.
How was your Christmas?
Rosie x
Monday, 16 December 2013
Lately I've Been
First things first, I'm still here! December is always an incredibly busy time for me, but I wouldn't have it any other way. When I first started blogging, I vowed not to post things just to keep a presence, hence why my posts have been few and far between. But things are now getting quieter on the lead up to Christmas, and I am hoping to share more of my favourite season with you. So, what's been keeping me busy?
Teaching my niece how to write by using dots! She's growing up so quickly. The other day, we realised she thought Father Christmas was Farmer Christmas. Her response? "Well, he does keep reindeer!" :)
Day tripping to London with work. Every season, a team of us go to sneak a peak at the new collection in the showroom. SS14 is dreamy!
Wearing animals. This fox print dress from ASOS has been my weekend go to for a few weeks.
GETTING IN THE SPIRIT! Guys, it's Christmas next week :)
Wanting to be Jennifer Lawrence.
Disappearing. I finally got my 1 stone award :) and made some Syn free strawberry Santas to celebrate.
Loving London. Ash and I spent a lovely day in the city at the end of November. More here!
Listening to the only Christmas record which matters at the moment. This is on in my car to work every morning... although 'Frank Sinatra's Christmas' may sneak in this week.
Partying! The before and after of the above photos makes me laugh. We threw our work party in a comedy club in Bath, which also has a Motown disco... I vaguely remember running to the dance floor when this came on.
Treating myself! I wasn't due an upgrade until January, but knew that if I paid the remainder of my bill off, I could sell my old iPhone for slightly more before Christmas to make it worth it. I absolutely love my 5C, especially because it's 32GB. Now I can take ALL THE PHOTOS!
Getting in the spirit a bit more... Elf and Christmas Jumper Day at work.
Loving my new bag. Mulberry Bryn in Flame! Eeeee!!
Being crew! Yesterday, I helped out behind the scenes of Ash's bands video shoot for their single. It was a very long day, but totally worth it. I'll share more photos in the week.
Wow. That was a long one. I really feel like I am ready for Christmas now, apart from a couple presents (Grandparents are SO tricky to buy for!) and a little more wrapping, but at least there's only 4 more working days between me and the 25th.
Rosie x
Monday, 9 December 2013
Abbey Road
During our day in London last week, we made good use of our Underground passes and found ourselves on the way to St John's Wood station to hunt down the famous Abbey Road crossing and studios. We both love The Beatles and really wanted to tick this off our 'Things To Do In London' list. After a short walk from the tube, we stumbled across Abbey Road, who's road signs are high enough to stop people from stealing them... funny that!
Naturally, we had to cross over the road. I naively thought this would be a simple thing to do, but it really wasn't. There were crowds of foreign tourists piled at each side, and a 'helper' in yellow hi vis who would run out in front of the cars and snap their photo. Some cars were fine, and would wait. but others just barged on through. Surely, if you're that annoyed by the tourists, drive another route instead of trying to run them over?! Anyway, we took it in turns to take each other's photos. Ash opted for a traditional walk, whilst I went for a very OTT "HEY I'M ON THE ABBEY ROAD CROSSING" pose.
Just down from the crossing, is the famous Abbey Road Studios, where everyone from Robbie Williams to Nina Nesbitt has recorded, as well as loads of film soundtracks like The Hobbit and Les Mis. The walls outside are covered with Beatles graffiti, and a young girl kindly let me borrow her marker pen so we could leave our own mark.
Have you been to Abbey Road? What's your favourite musical landmark?
Rosie x
Wednesday, 4 December 2013
Camden Town
What's your favourite London neighbourhood?
Rosie x
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The Sigma Delta Tau Foundation is committed to encouraging the growth of its members, both collegians and alumnae, by supporting educational programs.
To achieve our goals, the SDT Foundation promotes:
- Funding scholarships and grants for individual sisters and sorority initiatives.
- Academic excellence through educational programming.
- Sponsorship of leadership development and empowering sister initiatives.
The Sigma Delta Tau Foundation was founded in 1963 as a separate not-for-profit corporation. The Foundation is committed to encouraging the growth of its members, both collegians and alumnae, by supporting educational and philanthropic endeavors.
The Foundation Board of Trustees is comprised of 12-15 SDT sisters. The trustees are elected by the Board for staggered terms of office. The trustees oversee the work of the Foundation. The Board meets annually and operates independently from the Sorority Board of Directors.
Through their work the Foundation has given over a half a million dollars to our sisters primarily through our scholarship program and leadership development support.
The Foundation is able to provide these services through the generous support of the members of Sigma Delta Tau. An average of fifteen scholarships is awarded each year to undergraduate and graduate students.
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A compact, FireWire-compatible audio/MIDI interface.
The M-Audio FireWire Audiophile Computer Recording Interface takes the legacy of M-Audio's award-winning Audiophile line to the next level. 4x6 audio I/O combines with powerful onboard mixing in a mobile package that's perfect for live performance, home recording, and digital DJ work. Stereo headphone output with A/B switching between assignable sources allows pre-cueing for DJs and mobile musicians, and the assignable aux bus is perfect for creating dedicated headphone mixes and effect sends. You also get near-zero latency hardware direct monitoring, ultralow latency ASIO software direct monitoring, and 1x1 MIDI I/O. FireWire Audiophile even has AC-3 and DTS pass-through for surround sound playback.


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Christmas lights at one time were candles, chosen because their twinkling appearance reminded families of the twinkling of moon light through the branches of fir trees in the forest. Despite the safety precautions taken by these early Christmas light users, mixing live flame with highly flammable Christmas trees resulted in a very dangerous situation and many fires resulted.
When Thomas Edison invented the first light bulbs in the late 1800's, it was only a short time before people were putting them on their Christmas trees. These Christmas tree lights soon were being produced and displayed in colors, but only for the very wealthy families, since this new product was very expensive!/p>
Mass production techniques soon lowered the price of these holiday decorations to the point where average families could afford them. At the same time, the design and complexity of these Christmas lights was also changing. Instead of needing to have each light individually wired, the lights were created with spiral bases to screw into the light sockets on the Christmas tree light strings. This made them easy enough for the average family to use and soon these lights decorated windows, doors, and even the outside of homes as well as the Christmas trees.
The Christmas season is truly much brighter because of Christmas lights!