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This is short notice, but we didn't want the secret to get out — The Woolie Ewe is throwing a Surprise Retirement Party for Roxane! Yep, after nearly 12 years, Roxane has decided to embrace the good life and spend more time with her husband, kids, grandsons and, of course, with her yarn stash. So, when you see her in the store after Thursday, she'll be relaxing in a comfy chair, just visiting and knitting.
Her last day of work is this Thursday, May 16, so please stop by any time between 10:00 and 4:30 (her scheduled work hours) to wish her well and leave a note in her memory book. Since Roxane is such a huge coffeeholic, we've decided to celebrate with free K-cups and goodies all day. Just bring your best leak-proof travel mug to enjoy all the coffee, tea, cider, and cocoa you'd like. We'll even have a cooler of ice and plenty of flavored syrups and cream so you can recreate your favorite iced coffee flavor. Keep in mind that absolutely no straws or disposable cups are allowed in the store, so please remember to bring your leak-proof travel mug.
In addition to sending Roxane off with coffee and goodies, we're having a special sale in her honor. This nursery rhyme makes me think of someone who is kind and generous, with a big heart and a bigger yarn stash. That's Roxane, right?
Bah, Bah, black sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes, sir, yes, sir, three bags full,
One for my master, one for my dame,
And one for the little boy who lives down the lane.
Bah, Bah, black sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes, sir, yes, sir, three bags full.
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Fill a paper bag with your choice of specially marked yarn for $45, or fill three paper bags for $120.
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Outcome | Odds | Total Bets | Total Staked | |||
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Canucks Win | 2/1 | (2.00) | 6 | 569967 |
To those going to the game, enjoy.......
The rest of us will try to keep the Karma train going.
Go Karma!
ok, all caught up. been in bed all day I think I'll have to die to feel better. I don't if I'll be able to hit anyone up that post after this one or not
GO Kingses GO
edit: I'm playing the sympathy card. Someone hook a brother up with an extra ring if you can snag one out of the trash a Nucks fan threw in there. Or cut it off their fingers, either one works.
edit, edit: someone just sent me Karma with the following comment on it.
I'll not mention any names. " X, you can find sympathy between **** and syphilis in the dictionary"
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im 0-3 betting this season of course the game I miss betting we win... FML All you Mo****as send me karma and good vibes to the kings for a win tonight F the nucks!
My first bet ever
I'm caught up on the giving. Time for me to bet.
Though, I should be back on a little later to spread more karma around.
Go Kings!!!!
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I am anxiously awaiting my enemy within copy. But when will it be availabile in Germany? I would even buy the digital copy asap to start reading.
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Rpgnow.com when will they have it?
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Looks like it's available now. It's listed as available on www.magierspiele.de
Now I have to visit my local store to see if my preordered copy has arrived.
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I'm in the U.S. but am chomping at the bit for the PDF version as well. I have the physical product already (got it Moday the 17th) but I greatly prefer the digital version to read for game preparation. Especially in this case, because I find a large 192 page paperback rather unwieldy.
Just ordered it at magierspiele.de, good price for germany.
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It usually takes some weeks or a month until a digital version is available. Hero's Call took a month if I'm correct. I could also believe that they will put a big pricetag on the digital Version as it is the Poster Sign Campaign of Warhammer.
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Now I have to visit my local store to see if my preordered copy has arrived.
you have in book depository for 46eur shipping included
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Just called my FLGS in Osnabrück. It's already at the store. Seems like the flagship stores in Germany have received it.
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I am not sure about germany but the UK now has it, after I was told by all sources it would be after xmas its now instore here, I have paid though the nose to make sure I have my copy either on saturday or monday… :D
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Decades of low native birth rates in France have transformed the face of the nation, and many fear what that means for the future.
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"One would be hard put to find someone in the present-day civilization who is not affected by this fact. The vast majority of the public is subjected every day to the intake of food preservatives and other chemical poisons including atmospheric poisons, pesticides and the like. Added to this are the pain pills, tranquilizers and other medical drugs used and prescribed by doctors. And we have as well the widespread use of marijuana, LSD, angel dust and other street drugs which contribute heavily to the scene.
"I have even found that there is such a thing as the 'drug personality.' Drugs can apparently change the attitude of a person from his original personality to one secretly harboring hostilities and hatreds he does not permit to show on the surface. While this possibly is not always the case, it does establish a linkage between drugs and increasing difficulties with crime, production, program execution and the modern breakdown of the social and industrial culture.
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"Drug residues can stop any mental health. They also stop a person's life!
"The removal of these life-hostile chemical substances from the body of any person apparently speeds, and in some cases even makes possible, case gain. It is even worth doing for its own sake.
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Your post on 90 doesn't make sense. As other brother have said science of tassawuf can't be learnt but experienced. It is not some book and syllabus one goes through. It sciences applied differently by the Spiritual master for their students. Also as I have said one can't just take bayah without first knowing if the shaikh demeaner and your capability is on the same page.
Hence before one becomes mureed they are tasted. Your approach seems not to fit in with this. I know one shaikh who sat outside the religious circle for 6 months before he was admitted. This is done to test his sincerety and ability to forberance.
One need to surrounder ones ego!! Tasswuf is not in need of members but believers are in need of tassawuf as an aid to get close to the Most sublime. The shaikh is not in need of murred or students but seeker is in need of a good Shaikh. So oners is on the seeker to seek out a shaikh and not the other way round. Without legwork and constant prayer for means of guidance, one can't really start his search.
The notion of instant gratification is enthesis to tassawuf which is found amoung the most lamadhabist. Tassawuf is not just about taking bayah but being able to test oneself and not the others. The latter implies one knows when in reality is devoid of humility and lack of understanding, reallsation and in essence knowledge of self!
If one can't do this - there is no suluk and no tassawuf.


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Whatever...who really thought Brown was gonna bring anything this year anyway...it was stupid of us to give him a contract to begin with since he hasn't done **** since he's been here. He will hopefully be gone in the offseason and we can try to find a decent replacement for the revolving door that is the RT position. Polumbus is terrible and should be a backup at best.
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I just re-read some of the contract info for Garcon.. "Garcon, who signed a five-year, $42.5 million contract, has missed six of the Redskins nine games because of a torn ligament in the second toe of his right foot." For 42 million, (and remember, it's the 2nd toe) I'd have the damn thing REMOVED!!!
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I havent seen it discussed anywhere but I thought that Morris got a look at from the trainers last game. Maybe it was his shoulder? All i heard was more unanswered questions, why didnt we run Morris more?
I think regardless of how healthy he is now, we need a backup RB that teams think may get the ball. We are forced to run the triple option to a WR to have some semblence of a run game. Obviously Mike does not feel Royster (12 carries) is the solution.
I half joked the other day about maybe we should bring in Torain to see if he happens to be healthy. I see the Giants are giving him a look today. I kind of wish it was us, I think RG3 has a tough time throwing with Morris off the field.
IIRC Torain was cut when our run game became solved by Philly and teams afterwards. Only after The fall guy Torain was cut, did Kyle actually try a different run play. Instead of stretch left, we all saw the toss and new plays implemented . We kicked ass running the bumpkin once we finally ran something different. Torain may be injury prone (and maybe less than Roy or Royster) but we just need a pinch hitter, not an every down back. More often than not, he is a man among boys and think he and Morris can really put a hurt on defenses.
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I must say our medical staff(and many people on ES) is less competent than any person Google searching for "plantar plate tear" or they love to see football players exude an unhealthy masochism, especially when said players aren't in the "old boys club" or their homeys like Cooley or Santana Moss. Insufficient rest will make fixing his toe a bigger issue than it could have been. The advice is to first employ conservative treatments WITH REST and other things like change of shoes or ice and then see if it gets better. If it doesn't, then you have to opt for surgery to fix it up SOMEWHAT. What Garcon is doing and the Redskins docs and coaches are allowing him to do is bound to make an already bad problem WORSE.
Not only that, but the docs are either ****ing incompetent or the Redskins are covering their tracks in that they couldn't diagnose this ****ing injury of his properly until late October. First it was in the bridge of the foot, then calling just an inflamed capsule while keeping his torn tendon under wraps. Well, then that info on the torn tendon got LEAKED out.
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Yeah, it's not like the second toe works in conjunction with the big toe when pushing off the ground when running or making a cut. With nothing to replace the void created by the lost toe, I would suspect loss of balance would become a major concern. Also, amputating body parts is not exactly something ANYONE wants to spend money on unless it's removing a tumor or something.
Nothing too groundbreaking, but it sounds like Garcon will probably play on Sunday.
Redskins wideout Pierre Garcon returned to practice Thursday but is still experiencing pain in his foot. The former Indianapolis Colt who signed with Washington in the off-season stated:
"It's gotten a little bit better," Garcon said. "But when you go back to running on it, you can feel pain."
The injury is serious enough that season ending surgery is still a consideration.
"At some time, you've got to be realistic and you've just got to have it and hopefully it's a successful surgery," according to Mark Maske of the Washington Post.
Garcon has missed four games in a row, but initially injured the ankle in the first game of the year. Garcon caught four passes for 109 yards and a touchdown in the Redskins' Week One win over the Saints. He has 8 receptions for 153 yards and 1 touchdown in 2012.
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Can't they just put a patch on it or cortisone that thing.
The issue is the best cure is complete rest, while playing on it risks making it worse. Plantar plate injuries often reoccur i.e. now he has it, the chances are it will come back again at some point. Surgery might help but then that will end his season.
It seems to me they didn't diagnose it immediately and that's the key in healing it. Having him run around on it for a few weeks was about the worst thing they could have done.
Oddly enough, while it isn't amputation, the surgery which might fix it involves shortening one of the bones in the foot. It's not something you'd do lightly if your career involves sprinting.
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St. Pete Man Arrested, Charged with Child Abuse
Police said the 4-year-old boy suffered a lacerated kidney after allegedly being struck by the suspect, 23-year-old David Conway.
A St. Petersburg man is in jail for allegedly hitting a 4-year-old boy, which resulted in the child having a lacerated kidney.
According to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, the child's mother left the child in the care 23-year-old David Patrick Conway while she was at work.
When she returned the child told his mother that he had urinated blood. The child had flushed the toilet and the mother was unable to confirm what had happened. When the child urinated later on, he showed his mother that there was blood in the urine again, according to a news release. The mother snapped a photograph of the urine in the toilet and immediately transported the child for medical attention.
According to authorities, doctors determined that the child had a laceration to his kidney and said it not to be a medical condition, but trauma related.
Through their investigation, detectives were further able to determine that the injury was caused during the time that the victim was in Conway's care. The child told deputies that the suspect had caused his injury by striking him.
Detectives developed probable cause for the arrest of Conway. On Thursday, Nov. 15, detectives conducted surveillance on Conway and conducted a traffic stop at the intersection of Blindpass and Captiva Circle in St. Pete Beach and arrested the suspect without further incident.
Conway was transported to the Pinellas County Jail, where he is being held on no bond.
According to jail records, Conway has one previous arrest for possession of marijuana.
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2:22 pm on Friday, November 16, 2012
Next time we see this jerks name it will probably for murder of the same kid
because mommy is to stupid to send him to jail
melissa hoffler
12:57 am on Sunday, November 18, 2012
The problem here is that with his situation yes maybe it was trama related and maybe he did spank the child the same day. The trama could have been the prior day. People accused of child abuse are guilty until proven innocent and it is wrong. Thousands of innocent people get their familys torn apart from being falsely accused every year. This should not be on the news until a fair trial is done and he is proven guilty.
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People like Jerry S. are stupid loud mouths. Melissa is right...so many today accuse the arrested person of being guilty until proved innocent or guilty. This isn't what the justice system is all about. People like him only show how ignorant they are.
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Year of Publication: 2009
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This collection of original essays is concerned with one of the most important writers of the twentieth century: Vladimir Nabokov. The book features contributions from both well-established and new scholars, and represents the latest developments in research. The essays all address the possibility of reading Nabokov's works as operating between categories of various kinds - whether linguistic, formal, historical or national. In doing so, they explore exciting new paradigms for approaching Nabokov's oeuvre.
The volume brings together a diverse range of critical voices from around the world, to respond to some of the most urgent questions raised about Nabokov's work. Topics covered include the relationship between his artistic and scientific work, his influences on contemporary fiction, and the development of his aesthetics over his career. Drawing variously on archive research, alternative readings of key texts, and fresh theoretical approaches, this book injects new impetus into Nabokov studies as it continues to evolve as a discipline.
Contents: Will Norman/Duncan White: Introduction - Stephen H. Blackwell: Nabokov's Fugitive Sense - Brian Boyd: Literature, Pattern, Lolita: Or Art, Literature, Science - Leland de la Durantaye: Artistic Selection: Science and Art in Vladimir Nabokov - Susan Elizabeth Sweeney: Thinking about Impossible Things in Nabokov - Christine Raguet: Beyond Creativity: Translation as a Transitional Process: Ada in French - Rachel Trousdale: «International Fraternity»: Nabokov, Chabon, and the Model Transnational - Neil Cornwell: Secrets, Memories and Lives: Nabokov and Pamuk - Maurice Couturier: The French Nabokov - Lara Delage-Toriel: Bodies in Translation: Deriving Meaning from Motion in Nabokov's Works - Siggy Frank: «By Nature I am no Dramatist»: Theatricality in Nabokov's Fiction of the 1930s and 1940s - Emily Collins: «A Luminous Web»: Nabokov's Magical Objects - Yuri Leving: Singing The Bells and The Covetous Knight: Nabokov and Rachmaninoff's Operatic Translations of Poe and Pushkin - Michael Wood: The Kindness of Cruelty - Thomas Karshan: Nabokov's Transition from Game towards Free Play, 1934-1947 - Ronald Bush: Tennis by the Book: Lolita and the Game of Modernist Fiction - Zoran Kuzmanovich: No Ghosts Walk.
About the author(s)/editor(s)
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Fabian, the gym owner handed me my monthly readout. The centimeters are going down nicely, but my weight-loss isn't what it could be.
"Are you eating enough?" he asked, "do you know how many calories you need per day to burn fat?"
"1000?" I guessed.
Fabian told me I need 2000 – and that the ones from wine don't count apparently. Dang!
So today I've been eating for the Lowlands. I am a champion eater. All good stuff, mind. I didn't touch the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups that are calling to me like the Lorelei. I left the Turkish Fruit in the goodie drawer, stopped myself from pouring a fully leaded coke to enjoy with my sushi lunch and had unsweetened iced tea instead. Sugar is the enemy.
So now I have to think up some healthy snacks to get me through until dinner.
One of my favorites is celery and peanutbutter. I was shocked to find how many people have never heard of this delicacy, so I am doing my best to spread the word:
You need:
Chop off the leafy bits at end of the stalks of celery and the semi-grotty bits at the other. Wash celery and dab it dry.
Load up a butter knife with peanutbutter.
Spread into groove of celery.
Chop celery into almost bite-sized pieces.
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peanut butter, but alot of it was just munched
with the "carrots and celery" snack pack
in the fridge. the chewing is the key.
chew and chew yer celery down.
your tummy thinks it is full.
ha. it is fulla celery.
good trick to play
on the TRUE ENEMY,
not sugar, but the Stomach.
centimeters? whaaat is a centimeter/ ?
here in the civilized world we measure by inches.
oh, u are a foreigner,,i remember.
from the netherlands.
damn metric system
is perhaps the
probably not, i am just silly..
they told me, in kindergarten, ya gotta learn this metric system
cuz in 20 years it will be universal.
hm. wrong again.
can you trust a
1.guy named fabian
2.guy who believes in the supremacy of this metric system?
hope my comments help.
"If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream."
I just had a deja vu...
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I'm the kind of guy who sets the difficulty immediately to the highest option when starting a new game; I feel it enhances the experience through challenge. However, in my experience this not a perception commonly held by the majority of gamers. This is not an article denouncing easier or 'casual' games. Rather a discussion about the perception of difficulty in modern gaming & the drive by developers for a broader audience. My brother and I released our first game Obsessive Collecting Disorder last July on XBLIG then in January of this year on Windows Phone. OCD is a punisher in the same vain as Super Meat Boy, N+, Manic Miner & Super Mario Bros but the intention wasn't to make a 'difficult' game. We simply worked within our limited skill set at the time & made our first game which developed into what is OCD.
We're both in our thirties and have played games since the ZX Spectrum & NES era. Games of that era such as Chuckie Egg, Jet Set Willy & Ghosts N' Goblins were all very difficult yet have what would be considered by younger gamers today a 'casual' aesthetic. As a kid growing up with some of the first home computers & consoles, most games I played had a steep difficulty curve & maintained the arcade based one more quarter style of gameplay. The difficulty inherent in early arcade machines like Donkey Kong & Pac Man was to ensure maximum monetary gain against limited playtime.
This became instilled in home games of the 80's so the challenge provided even as a kid was fairly 'hardcore'. As 3D graphics & a more filmic approach to game design in terms of narrative & visuals pervaded the industry much of that pure difficult gameplay was in some respects muted. That's not to say there weren't difficult games but as the market became broader developers wanted to expand their audience beyond bedroom geeks & so accessibility became a prerogative.
Most indie devs will consider their potential audience during development but that doesn't mean like larger studios we have to provide all out accessibility. Instead Indies find a smaller audience, albeit sometimes quite large but not the 5-10 million required to justify a triple A release produced by a team of over a thousand. That's why the platformer genre has flourished in the indie scene; Super Meat Boy showed that just because a game is exceptionally difficult in the current market it won't do damn well.
A game like Dead Space is all about pleasurable tension conveyed via narrative, level design, lighting, sound & the Necromorph model designs & animation. But if the game is played on a low difficulty there is no real sense of player vulnerability and danger, a key convention of the survival horror genre. The open adaptive confrontations in a Halo game felt more fun to me when the enemy A.I. was putting pressure on me. On an easy difficultly level the enemies provide little challenge and simply act as bullet sponges between the inevitable cut scenes. Where's the fun in that?
The notion of attracting the 'casual' gamer is one that has permeated ease of use & accessibility in big budget games. Deus Ex: Human Revolution has a 'Tell Me a Story' difficulty so a player can experience the narrative without the challenge of playing a stealth FPS. In this mode does Human Evolution become less of game? Yes I think it does but it also allows access to the cinematic narrative for not overly gaming types. It is a stealth FPS though so does that 'Tell Me a Story' audience the developers are attempting to reach even exist for the game genre?
Back to Obsessive Collecting Disorder; the critical reception has been good with scoring sites giving us a 7 or 8 out of 10 & one common opinion is that it has a decent difficulty curve. However, response from gamers has been mixed with a 'marmite' effect; some players grasp the sense of challenge, repetition for reward & increasing difficulty. Whilst others will try a level a few times without success and give up very quickly. Playtesting is very different for Indies compared to big studios; some indie devs will be the only person to test their game. This can have a detrimental effect on balancing difficulty as you're playing it every day and becoming rather good at your own game.
As a first time game developer I'm hardly an authority on correctly balancing game difficulty but as a gamer I hope I understand how the flow of challenge in a game should generally work. We took feedback from peer review that said our game was too difficult with 3 lives per stage so we designed a mode with infinite lives. For the phone version we knew tilt controls would not be as accurate as a pad so we redesigned almost every level & changed those that didn't work.
The generational difference between gamers from the 80's & today is a factor in the perception of difficulty. As the triple A industry pushes for a broader audience so too will their necessity for inclusive & accessible design. That's fine but even kids need to feel challenged and to overcome problems without always being held by the hand. Now and then a game crops up like Dark Souls or XCom: Enemy Unknown that are eulogised over their difficulty, as they should be, and I hope this tradition continues. Particularly in the indie space, not impossible or unfair games but those that challenge our ability to react & problem solve.
I teach 16+ year olds game design and have a handle on some of their gaming trends, at least in that part of the UK & in the context of a game design course. Last year I Wanna Be The Guy was a student favourite and it's difficultly lies in the trial & error nature of its deceivingly tricky gameplay. I've also shown classes The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters and now some of them are attempting to get their own Donkey Kong high scores. If approached correctly in terms of design, difficultly should be progressive, challenging, and also rewarding but never unfair. Right then its back to getting my ass handed to me in Dark Souls. It's so worth it.


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If you are new to Microsoft word you will have to learn a lot of options available in the same. I will explain that how should you add Header footer to word document using an example.
First open the document that you want to add header / footer and click on insert tab.
Then click on the Header icon which is in Header & Footer section.
Now select any type of header that you want to add and click on it.
Now type the header that you want according to your document.
In the same way you are able to add footer to the document. Please follow the same steps.
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When inserting header or footer first you want to point the cursor on the page, where you want to add a Header or a Footer.
Then just go to the insert tab. Next click on the Header/ Footer icon.
Then there will appear Header/ Footer styles.
Now what you want to do is only selecting any style.
Basically Header/ Footer styles varies one another by the place where the page no., text is, and the style page no.s appears.
Also you can use any images for Header/ Footer.
Keep in mind , if there are many pages in your document normally Header/ Footer that you insert, will be in the every page of the document.
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How to Add Headers and Footers to a Microsoft Word Document
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Open Microsoft Word using the "Start" menu or the shortcut on your Desktop.
Open the document to which you want to add a header or footer.
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Double-click on the top portion of the document to access the header section.
Insert text or an image you want displayed throughout the document.
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Insert text or images in the footer of the document. Double-click on the footer area if it doesn't appear. Double-click on the document text to exit the header and footer view.
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It is very easy to add header and footer in microsoft word document. I describe it step by step procedure
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At first you need to open your microsoft word document and then click on insert tab.
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Number two of my picture sets of the Candyskull shoots, Angele.
Since a couple of days I had been really looking forward to shooting some of these beautifully painted faces. MUA Kimberley that I had worked with recently set up a shooting event for a whole bunch of models, MUA's & photographers with a 'sugar skulls' theme. Thanks to Dick who kindly let us all use his very lovely and large studio. Today was the day and I ended up shooting a couple of different models in little portrait shoots.
Over the next couple of days I want to post these pictures, and today I want to start with the first shoot I had, the one with Anneke. I have known her for some time and she had seen my camera before, so the nerves she had before shooting were quickly out of the window and Kimberley had done a great job on the facepaint. So, without further ado, here's Anneke!
Upon a little tip from Justine (see earlier posts) I got a message from Liedewien who missed shooting a whole lot because while living in London she doesn't have the time to shoot. She was in the Netherlands for the holidays and decided to come by for a shoot.
We had a little run in with the studio equipment, so we decided to work with some alternatives and we had a great time!
Sweet Justine had been to the studio before and she wanted something different. This time she thought to do something more along the lines of 'Twilight' vampires. So, together with MUA Kimberley we set off to arange this. This is some of the stuff we came up with.
It's been a while, but Myrthe came to my studio in Oktober. Due to a lot of stuff I had on my hands, I haven't been able to post these pictures before, but I do want to share them with you all, as her beautiful hand made dress surely is a winner. To shoot something else I shot her in her daily clothes as well.
The chair we used in the photographs was donated by a friend who found it (together with its twin) in the streets and I've been happily shooting with the wonderful chairs since. They look so good in these shots I think! So what do you guys & girls think?
Sometimes you have someone in the studio who thinks they don't 'stick in pictures'. It's a photographers term really, but what it means is that they think they can't look nice in a photograph. Last night I had Marjolein who asked before whether she could have a look around in my new studio if she was in the neighborhood. My answer, as always, was 'of course', as I always love sharing what I do with others.
So when I was shooting with Nadine (pictures will follow tomorrow) she helped us out, thought of some good ideas and we had fun altogether. But when I finished my shoot with Nadine, I told Marjolein to sit down in front of the light I had setup and pose for a picture.
She started to giggle and laugh and told me again she wouldn't be good in a photograph. I told her that I thought otherwise and joked around a bit. Within maybe three minutes I had shot the portrait you see on the right. It's hardly post processed and I think resembles her as a person pretty well.
So, after finishing the shot I sent her the image on Whatsapp (this morning) and basically she had to recall her 'I don't stick' statement for she loves the shot.
Those are the moments I really love doing what I do. The moments that make my work as a photographer special. Seeing beauty in things, especially in people, when others don't seem to see it. It makes me happy, being able to show people like Marjolein they can look pretty in a picture and with shooting these images, people like Marjolein in this case make my day! Probably without them realising this, so with this update, thank you and all you beautiful people that let me shoot you!
Because my model dropped out pretty last-minute Debbie decided to come by and fill in. We both had a long week allready and just headed off to do some light work. For a quick shoot in the studio, we had a good time chatting and this is what we ended up shooting (among other things).
I've known plus size model Miranda for quite some time and we've done some wonderful work before. This time she came to the studio to try some other stuff and considering her profile was mainly pretty dark, we decided on some high key work. This is what we did together…


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what is a good time? is there any major complications having c sections too close together? our DD is almost 4 mo, we are not ttc yet, but im not on any BC. and condoms are a pain. since im BF I dont get my period at all so no idea when I am ovulating. im worried that if i do get pregnant that it would be not healthy for my body with all the scar tissue healing, and also taking care of an infant. advice?
My doctor didn't give us a timeframe but we let him know our plans and he was ok with them.
My sections were 23 months apart.
Regardless of CS or vaginal birth I've read 18 months between birth and the next pregnancy in order to let your body heal. Obviously there are hundreds of thousands of women that have had babies closer together and are 100% healthy, but as far as risk it goes down at the time point.
I would suggest if you don't want to get pregnant, you use some type of BC though. BF isn't 100% reliable. Either get on the mini pill or have condoms become less of a pain.
discobelle:My doctor said to wait at least 6 months. We ended up waiting 1 year.
This is what my doctor advised as well. He said that he prefers women have a minimum of 15 months between c-sections. I will most likely need an RCS as my pelvis was not big enough for DS to fit through. The time frame may vary if I asked about trying a VBAC, but he said for RCS 15 months between was his reccomendation. Regardless DH and I plan on waiting until DS is 1.5 to 2 before we start TTC.
My OB said not to get pregnant for one year after c-section
My doctor didn't give a timeframe but joked at my 6 week appointment that it was time for another one. I told him that wasn't happening until DD consistenly slept through the night. Oops. I got pregnant when DD was 9 months old and he will let me VBAC if I want to or will schedule a RCS. He left it up to me but he tends to be rather laid back about many things.
I asked my Ob at my six week checkup and he said whenever I felt comfortable. This recommendation likely varies depending on the woman and her age/recovery from surgery/overall health so I think you should talk to your ob.
I had no problems being pregnant and caring for an infant. The scar tissue healing wasn't a factor and my second pregnancy was easier than my first. I think being pregnant with a toddler would have been a whole lot harder honestly.
I do think you should stop having unprotected sex and talk to your ob. It is possible to get pregnant while breastfeeding and it's not worth risking your health over.
we waited two years. My doc gave me the green light at 6 months PP, but if I wanted to try for a VBAC they wanted us to wait 18 months. We weren't ready until the 2 year mark.
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Phew... finally submitted mine! A bit late, but I managed to do it! Don't ask me how!
Wow hard to choose these, awesome entries all!
probably dead on here now, hopefully i can get this done by 2morow .. i know im missing votes, tho i did this for the learning an fun . .
HI guys...why my character the WAROK not include in the vote list?is there any requirement that i missed or you guys just forgot to input my character? could you please check the vote list once again...thank you
You need to upload your final submission here;
There is were you need to sumbit your final images, with WIP and all that staffs.
Tray it.
oouuuhhh...yeeaaahhh.....i forget it... thanks Chemolotedo for your Information...good luck all...very2 good job
Actually no chemtoloedo. The WIPs are supposed to be in this thread. When he is done he can submit there. I will have some more work posted soon.
@Easmart, I'd play around with her features a bit more. I think her nose could be much closer to her lips and her eyes could be bigger.
Low poly and Uvs are done. 1430 tris.
looking good womball so i guess were the late runners I noticed you modeled out a face resemblance/layout too. That's something I should of done myself. After i get it submitted, i should go back an adjust that .. i just have a round face with no real layout, which kills the 3/4 profile a bit :lol: looking forward to the texture on it
Great work guys, theres some really nice entries. :thumb:
I finally finished mine, not really happy with it too much but thought I'd submit it anyway. aper:
yeh done with mine too - dont have enough time so i put a rush on it a bit.
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A lot of great entries here! Props to all those who entered and made something.
I don't think a lot of people understand the "chibi" reference though, there are some awesome characters here but they are just regular proportions or not quite.
Slow going tho i am gonna finish this one, no matter how late
Adjusted the face an enlarged the eyes 35% as suggested womball, let me know what you think
texture size is 512 in this one
I know it doesnt look chibi'ish enough, tho it really is, its the perspective and the helmet, at other angles her head is as big as her torso. Tho i could do better.
@EASmart I think her face looks a lot better now! The shield looks awesome!
Late, gonna finish this anyway
Some line work. Open to any suggestions. Also there is too types of eyes. Left or Right. Which do you like better?
@womball Line layout looking good mate and personally i like the one on the right, the left one just seems off to me. The expression and eyes for the right seem spot on for that particular mesh, my 2 cents anway .. Look forward to seeing it textured
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The Dillinger Escape Plan return to the UK in December for a string of dates, the last of which (in London) is part of the yearly K! Fest.»
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BELLEAIR BLUFFS – A Belleair Bluffs property owner is facing fines of almost half a million dollars or more as a result of defying a court's order.
This was divulged at the Belleair Bluffs City Commission meeting Monday night in Mayor Chris Arbutine's report and expanded on by Tom Trask, the city's lawyer.
At the same time, Mark Naedel, who is the son of the defendant, Barbara Granholm, in the action that will come before Judge Brandt Downey in the Circuit Court in January on a motion by Trask for sanctions, appeared at the meeting Monday night in an attempt to make a presentation.
That motion is set in for a hearing on January 6 and Trask's motion, on behalf of Belleair Bluffs, is to order fines of $5,000 a day dating from August 11, 2005 through November 8 and for those fines to continue subsequent to November 8 until the defendant complies with the order.
The motion seeks an order for a final judgment of $445,000 representing the sum of fines from August 11 through November 8 and also seeks lawyer and legal fees incurred by the city in pursuing the action.
The case arises out of a city requirement that the property, located at 343 Bluff View, be brought into compliance with city ordinances.
Wrangling went on for months in the case. A stipulation for settlement was filed by the parties May 9, 2005.
According to Trask, the defendant failed to comply with the elements of the stipulation and he is now seeking an order from the court to, in effect, enforce its own order.
The order included the penalty of $5,000 a day for each day the property is not brought into compliance.
Mark Naedel was prepared Monday night with materials he wanted to present to the City Commission.
Arbutine would not allow it, on practical grounds.
"This has gone beyond us," Arbutine said. "It is now a pending court action. We have nothing to do with it in the sense of changing anything," he said, explaining that the commission now can now take no dispositive action in regard to the suit.
But he did relent and said he would allow Naedel to talk for five minutes. A moment later, Naedel decided not to proceed.
As of November 17, fines for Granholm will have reached $490,000. If non-compliance continues, another $250,000 could accumulate, bringing the total in fines to $740,000.
Of course, if the court does grant the motion enforcing its own order, the city can proceed against Granholm through liens against the fines on the property and ultimately foreclose on the property.


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I don't even know where to start this post…its going to be hard to write, as I am already choking back tears and haven't finished the first sentence. I am taking some hours away from the hospital, to write this and to try to clear my head.
As many of you know my youngest son was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) 2 days ago, the day my world fell out from under me.
We took him to the Dr. the other day because he was bitten by either a spider or a tick. Shortly after we noticed the bites we saw he wasn't feeling well, kind of lethargic, and not eating much, he also was limping in one leg. I assumed he was having a reaction from the bites.
They did an x-ray of his legs to make sure he hadn't fractured anything as a precautionary measure. The x-ray showed he had some abnormalities in his bones.
We are in the grocery store and I get a call from his pediatrician, he tells me I need to take him to the ped. oncology tomorrow. That it could be cancer. My world is spinning now, we walk away from our filled grocery cart, and head back home. Panic starts to set in.
It still is not making any sense. Ezra has been a perfectly healthy baby. He shows none of the typical symptoms of ALL. Besides being pale (but we all are), and the limp that just showed up. He is healthy, or so I thought. How do you go from a limp to leukemia?
After seeing the pediatric oncologist we are still hopeful, since he also says he doesn't see any of the symptoms. So they take some blood and we are on our way.
That night we get a call from him, and our told to take him to the ER. We rush our baby off in the middle of the night. At the ER my husband and I have to endure things no parent should ever have to see, I don't think I can go into detail. Just imagine blood curdling screams from your baby, like nothing you have ever heard.
We are told later that night that it probably is leukemia. Still have to wait for final lab results though. Sure enough he has cancer. Holy shit, my baby has cancer.
He is doing good so far, he had surgery to place a port in his chest so they can administer the chemo, and that went well. He has had 2 rounds of chemo already, and is staying tough.
His spinal test came back negative, meaning the cancer had not yet spread to his spine and brain…we caught it really early.
Thank you spider.
The type of leukemia he has is the most treatable type, it has the highest remission and cure rate. Silver lining perhaps?
That doesn't take away from the fact that he now faces 3 years of chemotherapy. 3 years.
Here is where we need your help.
We are by no means financially well off. I stay at home with the boys, and my husband works PT and goes to school FT. We live off of his little pay and student loans.
We also share a car.
We can't afford a new one…or even a used one. I am going to be taking Ezra to the Dr. 2-3 times a week, there is no way we can share a car, with my husband having to go back and forward from school and work. Not to mention if he gets a fever I have to take him to the Dr. ASAP.
His insurance should cover all of his medical bills. Its just the other things we can't afford.
We also need to make my home more suitable for Ezra, I need to have the plumbing, and ac serviced to make sure it is clean. Any bacteria infection can kill him. We just don't have the funds to do so. Yes, my family is helping out some, but their means are limited as well. Not to mention much of their money will be spent flying down to help me (they live in MN).
I am a proud person, I do not like being a charity case. But given the current situation, I am swallowing my pride, and asking for any help you can give.
Even if its only a dollar, I would be thrilled.
If you don't have a dollar (I know I don't) , please help out by blogging about this, tweeting, stumbling, etc. I have seen how Mommy bloggers rally to help each other out in times of need, and I know you will all do the same for us.
I am putting a paypal button in this post for donations, and there will also be one up in my sidebar, which I know works. I don't know if this one will work, its so confusing and my head hurts, but we need help ASAP so I am trying to muddle through this.
Please help in anyway you can, thanks so much, and keep the prayers and thoughts coming.
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I have researched new technologies in our government for over 15 years. I focused on FMRI technologies for a lot of these years. Compiling three books so far. I am a researcher and my writing skills are lacking but I feel the message is real. That the people need to know about this technology and exactly how it is/or will be used in the future. Have you read any papers in our governments possession on FMRI technology. Some prime topics are:brain machine interface, Honeywells brain monitoring sensor technology, DOD brain-in-loop work station, accelerated learning to mention a few. Also any paper work on God, Angel, Arch of the Covenant, The Remote Viewers Program??? Author Jose Collazo...
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