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Hello and welcome all you boy-lovers!
While I don't have any little boys of my own to play with yet, I do have a husband and brothers and brothers-in-law to make things for. And--truth be told--I think the boys in our lives that are over the age of twelve are the ones who are really the hardest to take care of when it comes to all things handmade. Such was the case for me a few months ago.
My husband and I decided early on (July-ish?) that we were going to give handmade gifts to everyone on our Christmas list this past Christmas. We spent the following months planning a variety of fun gifts for our family members. One by one each gift was completed and ready to give.
Except one. Bryan's younger brother had us stumped. What on earth do you make for a 16 year old boy? We of course wanted to give him something that he'd like and use, but we still wanted it to be handmade by us. We tossed around a few ideas, but finally settled on a leather cuff. It was simple, we already had all the materials on hand, and--most importantly--we were pretty sure he'd actually like it. (And he did!)
So today I'm going to walk you through how to make a leather cuff (or twenty) of your own. But before we get started, here are just a few of the reasons I'm so in love with these leather cuffs:
- They come together super quick and easy. Reading through this tutorial will take you about ten times longer than making the actual cuff.
- They're super sturdy. This means they're ready to withstand the hard-working life of your man, or the ruff-and-tumble play of your little boy.
- They're super versatile. While this tutorial focuses on how to make a manly cuff, you can easily make a more feminine version for your the girls and women in your life.
Let's get started!
Terms of use:
-For personal use only
-Please do not use this tutorial to make items to sell
- a piece of leather*
- snap pieces
- snap attachment tools
- hammer
- rotary cutter and mat (optional)
- measuring tape (optional)
So you'll know what to buy, here are a couple quick close-ups of the snap tools and snap pieces I like to use:
|This is what the tools set includes.
|I really like the look of this "Antique Brass" color, but other colors are available too.
The leather is a random scrap left over from a book binding class my sister taught last year.
The hammer is an heirloom given to my husband by my Granddad. It's the hammer he used to build one of the houses my mom grew up in.
Step 1: Cut
Most of the leather pieces I've used to make cuffs in the past have been the perfect size and shape for cuffs just as they were in their raw scrap form. But this piece of leather started out like this:
TIP: My best advice for how to cut your own is to be creative. Overlapping layers of different widths really have a lot more visual appeal than straight lines on top of each other. Try to visualize what it will look like as a finished piece. And just remember that you're making a one-of-a-kind item. So there's really no right or wrong here.
Also, remember that wider = masculine, skinnier = feminine.
Step 2: Mark snap placement
To do this, grab a straight pin and poke it through the top layer of your cuff. This will mark the spot where the top part of your snap will go. Keeping your cuff in place on the wearer, use another straight pin to mark the spot on the bottom cuff layer, just below your first pin.
There should now be one pin on the top cuff layer marking your snap placement, and another pin on the bottom cuff layer marking the snap attachment.
Step 3: Get to know your snap pieces and attachment tools
|Top snap pieces and corresponding tool pieces
|Bottom snap pieces and corresponding tool pieces
In addition to the pieces of tools that assist in attaching your snaps, there are also three other tool pieces you'll be using. One of them we'll talk about in a moment. Here are the other two:
The little rod piece: This piece, on the other hand, you cannot do without. So make sure you don't lose it. Ever. This is what makes it possible for you to get those snap pieces through your big thick piece of leather.
Step 4: Prepare leather
Step 5: Attach top snap pieces
TIP: Be firm, but don't hammer it too hard or you could smash your snap pieces.
Step 6: Attach bottom snap pieces
TIP: I like to double-check and make sure I'm putting things together right by wrapping the cuff around like it will be when someone is wearing it. This will help you have a clear idea of which snap pieces need to be where.
|Top of bottom snap piece
|Bottom of bottom snap piece
Step 7: Attach more snaps (optional)
To add another snap, grab the smooth top piece of your next snap and hold it on the cuff where you want your next snap to be. Firmly push your new snap piece into the leather. This will help mark your new snap placement.
TIP: Make sure to leave at least 1/2" or so of space in between your snaps so things don't get bunchy.
Follow steps 5 and 6 to attach your second set of snap pieces.
|Top of cuff with double snaps
|Bottom of cuff with double snaps
For additional leather cuff
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The cuff seen in this tutorial is
And because I know boy-friendly supplies and handmade gifts can be hard to come by, you'll find a variety of fun sewing supplies and gift items on sale in the shop this week. Want some free shipping on top of that? Just enter the coupon code "CELEBRATETHEBOY" at checkout.
Hooray for boy things!


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Egg Penguins
Total TimePrep/Total Time: 20 min.
Makes6 penguins
- 9 large ripe olives
- 6 hard-boiled large eggs
- 12 small baby carrots
- For the penguin heads, attach one olive to the top of each egg with a toothpick. For beaks, cut six carrots 1/2.in from the pointed end; attach the flat side of a pointed piece to the center of each head with half a toothpick.
- For the feet, make a lengthwise cut through the remaining carrots; place flat side down in pairs (trim carrots if necessary). Place a toothpick in each carrot; press an egg on top of each pair.
- For flippers, cut the remaining olives lengthwise into quarters; attach one olive quarter to each side of eggs with half a toothpick. Cover; refrigerate until serving.
Nutrition Facts1 each: 90 calories, 6g fat (2g saturated fat), 212mg cholesterol, 130mg sodium, 2g carbohydrate (1g sugars, 0 fiber), 6g protein.
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Jan 28, 2012
I have made these with my kids' preschool classes on 4 different occasions. The kids loved them! The most recent was yesterday (1/27/12) with my son's preK class & my daughter decided she wanted to make them for her 8th birthday party today!
Jul 31, 2011
What an awesome idea . . . someone was really creative when they thought of this appetizer, also easy and low-salt too. Thx Loretta
Mar 1, 2011
I made these for a kids party and they were really a hit! Kids love them and they were so cute on the table! It will be a recipe I go to again and again.
Jan 28, 2011
I have made something similar to this only they were chickens instead of penguins. Cute!
Jan 17, 2009
This is soooooooo cute and such a wonderful idea! so simple and easy to make! my guests loved it so much that they tot it was a shame to eat them and ruin their shapes :P

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|DANIEL BARD 37 walks in 55 IP
Major issues land Bard in the minors
If you read between the lines, there is not a lot of support for keeping Daniel Bard in the starting rotation, but the Red Sox will dance with that notion for a while, if only to keep Bard in the right frame of mind as he tries to fix the mess his delivery is in.
The Red Sox always thought the transition from reliever to starter would have its bumps, and it certainly has. But they didn't expect anything like the wildness Bard exhibited against Toronto Sunday, when he walked six and hit two in less than two innings and had the Blue Jays afraid to step to the plate, for fear they might get seriously hurt.
That performance led to Sox to assign Bard to Pawtucket Tuesday.
While they considered moving him back to the bullpen, that was ruled out for a few reasons.
One, if Bard couldn't throw strikes as a starter, why would that change out of the bullpen?
Second, the seven bullpen pitchers have been tremendous, so why disrupt that?
And third, anyone to be replaced in the pen would have to go on waivers, which risks losing a pitcher to another team.
So it came down to a disabled list stint (you could argue a tired arm) or the minors.
It's a little surprising that Bard is going to Pawtucket and not to Fort Myers, Fla., where he could work in relative privacy. Even at Pawtucket, he's going to get fans and media watching him, and he probably needs to be away from any type of spotlight.
"I think he can start,'' said pitching coach Bob McClure. "I might be one of the few that thinks that he can. But I really do.
"No. 1, he needs to keep it simple. He's a power pitcher with two plus pitches and perhaps a third one. Anyone who can throw 100 pitches like he could with the ease he was doing it at one point definitely has the possibility of starting.''
McClure believes Bard should get right back in the saddle but be limited to a few two-inning stints. Gee, wonder what that would be leading to?
"It might be better to pitch him every other day or two innings at a time, then two days off,'' said McClure. "We need to find what's best for him.''
Manager Bobby Valentine said Bard had three checkpoints to reference when he goes out of whack, and that he has been trying to correct all at once rather than take one at a time.
One of the big concerns is velocity.
And no, the Red Sox did not want Bard to throw slower to preserve himself as a starter.
"That's part of the mechanical mystery,'' Valentine said. "There are times in the bullpen when he had everything in synch and cranked it up. Between the windups and the stretch and taking center stage, he gets out of that a little.
"That's really one of the things he'll be searching for - to nail down how to get a mechanic that when he wants to, he can add a little.''
Asked if that is why Bard can't economize pitches and get deeper into games, Valentine said, "I don't want to overanalyze the whole thing. If he had a good mechanic and he's throwing the way he can and the organization believes he can, pitching longer, getting more strikeouts, and pitching to contact will all come.''
I asked Valentine if the organization told Bard how to transition from reliever to starter or whether Bard felt his way through it. He acknowledged that perhaps there were too many things floating in Bard's head, that too many things were being said.
Bard referenced that after Sunday's humiliating outing, first saying he was "partially to blame'' for that, then amending it to "all to blame.''
Valentine said Bard tried to talk him out of the demotion. Bard felt he could fix the problems on the fly, but the Red Sox did the right thing. This isn't an also-ran team on which you can work things out during games. This is a team that can contend, and even though Bard is considered a fifth starter, fifth starters are important.
"Just felt the best thing for the organization and Daniel was get in an environment where he could just work on that mechanic and not have to worry about the big league record and his teammates,'' said Valentine.
"I think it'll be a quick turnaround. He had a real good frame of mind. Didn't think it was necessary to really have an assignment. He thought he could kind of find it on the fly. We're going to take the conservative route.''
Bard is 5-6 with a 5.24 earned run average. He has walked 37 and hit eight over 55 innings, with only 34 strikeouts. He never looked like the dominant pitcher who could strike his way out of a jam. In fact, you could argue that his most impressive outing of the year was the one relief appearance he made, in Minnesota, when he worked out of a first-and-third, one-out jam.
"We'll stay with the idea that he's a starter and see how he develops,'' Valentine said. "There's a lot of building blocks, a lot of good things that have happened here that he can still build on. It seems like it's just around the corner.''
McClure said Bard needs to find his natural arm slot. Bard is better when he's higher, and lately he has been dropping down too much.
"When he's lower, it's harder and not as accurate,'' McClure said. "That's why you saw the velocity down a little bit, too. He was kind of caught in between a little bit.''
Asked if the workload of a starter had anything to do with the drop in velocity, Valentine said, "We're looking at his pitches thrown. If a guy is going to go from pitching less, say, 60 innings to pitching 180 innings as a starter, that's three times the workload and three times the pitches.
"He's about 1,000 pitches, which is about a third of his workload, and he feels really good at this third juncture. So I don't know how much it has to be monitored.''
One thing is for sure. Bard is going to replaced in the rotation, likely by Daisuke Matsuzaka.
And if Matsuzaka pitches well, then there's no room for Bard. And he has allowed that to happen.
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The Bishop of Shrewsbury will urge Catholics to confront the "terrifying reality" of hell in a Lenten pastoral letter this Sunday.
Quoting from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Bishop Mark Davies will remind his flock of the "terrifying reality of which the Gospel repeatedly speaks: 'immediate and everlasting damnation'".
"For 'to die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God's merciful love,' the Catechism explains, 'means remaining separated from him for ever by our own free choice.' Yes, this is the real and everlasting choice of our lives," he will say.
Bishop Davies will also encourage the faithful to regain their "perspective of eternity" during Lent.
He will say: "Being aware of this limited time on earth and all that is to follow – our judgment, our purgatory, heaven or hell forever – becomes an urgent invitation to conversion in our lives."
The bishop will also note the observation of Blessed Pope John Paul II in his book, Crossing the Threshold of Hope, that many have lost a sense of the "Last Things", the body of teaching that deals with death, judgment, the destination of immortal souls and bodily resurrection.
"This is the urgency to which Lent and Easter now recalls us with the poignant mark of ashes," he will say. "It is the realisation of what the Psalmist calls 'the shortness of lives' which helps shape our priorities and gives each day a new urgency in the light of all eternity before us."
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Mano a Shrimpo at La Riviera Maya in Irving Park
One of the secrets of the South Side has been slowly increasing its presence on the North Side. I'm speaking of Mexican seafood, usually identified with the coastal state of Nayarit, which starts just north of Puerto Vallarta. These seafood joints are big business on the South Side, where they offer a macho take on seafood full of crustaceans you have to tear apart and suck the meat out of and ceviche to wet your thirst for a tall cold one.
La Riviera Maya, as the name suggests, identifies itself with a different ocean and part of Mexico entirely, the Yucatan (which some savvy tourist agency long ago rebranded as "the Mayan Riviera"). But let's not get too hung up on that—from the ships-and-nets-on-the-wall decor to the big crustaceans, this spot near Irving Park and Elston offers northsiders a good example of what the genre consists of. I recommend just digging into the most splendidly barbaric thing on the menu, the platter of shrimp sacrifice to the dining gods they call Charola de Langostinos (which just means, platter of shrimp)
This is a mere half order, splayed out Busby Berkeley-style, of monster-sized crustaceans whose dying wish was to be seasoned in Mexican spices and pan-fried. Scoop the thumb-sized hunk of meat out of the shell or chomp down on it whole, suck the head, take a swig, repeat. This is simple, elemental food (so elemental it doesn't come with anything else, so assume you'll be ordering other things or sides or something). You vs. the sea, mano a shrimpo. Enjoy.
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I have used Xara products for a few years now, with graphics from Webstyle 4.
After experimenting with Xara Web Designer, I was vey impressed until I viewed the source code and the second line down <!-- saved from url=(0020)http://www.xara.com/ --> appeared.
I tried Place Holder to add extra code and it seems limited.
Looking at other owners websites created with XWD all have the same line of code.
Cannot see the reason for this line of code as it is covered by <meta name="Generator" content="Xara HTML filter v.184.108.40.2065"/>
Is there anyway of removing that line "saved from" code.
Xara Web Designer is a great programme and with some idividual HTML control and HTML improvements it would be much better.
Covoxer's response:
This line is a "Mark Of The Web". It tells Internet Explorer that this page belongs to the Internet security zone so it doesnt' ask you to run scripts when you open it locally.
The domain used in this line makes no difference so we use one that we can be responsible for.
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Perhaps.... XWD should have been released as XWD 1.0 instead of 5.0! It is unfair to expect a fledging application to come out of the blocks as a world beater. I think that it will develop into something quite special but not in its first incarnation by version 5.0! Web design is no longer a black art, if a multinational company wants a website, they'll expect to pay thousands of $'s and their designer not liable to rely on XWD. For the majority of sites, most of what's required can be achieved in XWD... that is its target market. A couple of weeks ago, a colleague proudly showed off his new Dreamy website... there was nothing that could not have been achieved in XWD. It's almost snob value... you do not need to go shopping in a Rolls Royce when a Mini will do... particularly in the mini is a Mini Cooper! (UK users will get that one!)
"Second class fairway is better than first class rough!"
Show us your sites!" thread...
I would like to see really interesting or innovative layouts in this thread.


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Screen South: Playback Touring Exhibition
September 7, 2018 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm UTC+0
1 – 30 September
10am – 5pm
Bringing lm to unusual settings, Coastal Currents has partnered with Screen South to bring you individual touchscreens, installed into a contemplative space at the beloved Shipwreck Museum, that let you choose your own films, from drama, comedy, dance to spoken word. Curate your own selection on screen and try out new ways of watching film.
The Playback Touring Exhibition features over 300 short films made by up and coming artist filmmakers aged 16 – 24 from across England. These remarkable and award-winning short films made by emerging talent capture today's world, showcasing bold expressions of creativity, over 90% of which featured on television or online as part of the Channel 4 Random Acts strand First Acts.
Screen South was the Network Centre for the South East, producing 72 films over the three years, alongside 4 other Centres across the country, and we are proud to present the next generation of raw talent through this nationally acclaimed interactive tour.
Playback was funded by Arts Council England and was a joint initiative with Channel 4 Random Acts. The 5 Network Centres are Screen South Ignition Network, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, Rural Media Calling the Shots & Tyneside Cinema.
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Already in Jimmy's thread....
I mean, missyae just posted "Yve would never quit. She's a great and beautiful person. Very intelligent and was the brains behind a successful alliance"This made people wonder if she and Tyrone need to be swapped and that she goes ala Jacquie from Gabon with the swap and alliance to no alliance. Whereas Tyrone missyae said was a socially weak player. Not that good...
missyae has never confirmed that kittygoesmeow...Just speculation unless she has just announced it.And I stated in that comment that maybe Yve and Tyrone need to be swapped! Thus she goes 5th and him 2nd!? did you read it...hmm?!
"The older tribe will use their medallion in this challenge. They will only have to make 3 balls as opposed to 4 for the younger tribe. Ben was very confident going into this challenge as the shooter for the younger tribe. Shannon plays the role as the runner. In case of a miss he runs the ball back to the start to try again. Naonka sits out. Looks like a challenge to fit the youngsters, right?"
I think Kittygoesmeow has it correct.According to TDT, the people on that list are the only people who are pre-merge. So we're sure at a merge at 12?
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Blanc de Perle
Brightening Lotion
Perfection and radiance
Flacon 200 ML
Indisponible - CA$ 83.00
The brightening Lotion Blanc de Perle Guerlain, concentrated in active ingredients, is a first step in the whitening routine which helps to gently reduce signs of dark spots and dullness. The skin becomes fair, clear, radiant and refreshed.
The lotion acts as an effective catalyst, preparing the skin for the next steps in the Blanc de Perle ritual.
A light, fresh and innocent fragrance, a harmony of luminous white flowers which blend with pink peppercorns and white mint. An olfactory expression of luxury and perfection which immediately evokes the immaculate purity of the pearl.
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Normal rural scenery between lovely coastal roads.
Avoiding the main road, great way to ride in a different way...
Nice road with couple tight sharp pin.
Nice road with long curves that has a good biker feel to it.
Good alternative for Porvoo - Helsinki/Kerava rides. Good road surface. Easy enjoyable turns.
Nice countryside road. Very good visibility. Road condition excellent, until the last 5km which had some road damage.
More than average nice scenery, road surface is ok, straight sections and nice corners combined , few time in month there is police sometimes
A very nice road to drive with lots of interesting corners. Beautiful scenery, partly bad road surface but overall a very nice experience.
Nice roadtrip, basically as described on
Beautiful an fun road
One part gravel road though, mut most of it with asphalt.
Nice twisted road with good surface
Wery nice round trip. You should drive to of Aavasaksa hill. Aavasaksa to Pello best salmon river and nice places to brake time.
Country road, with mostly 80km/h limit, some nice corners.
Animals grazing all along the route and some interesting points along the lake where to stop and admire the scenery
Nicer than road #10.
Nice rutal road.
Mutkainen pikkutie.
I used this road on my way from Turenki to Jyvaskyla connecting to Vääsky and road 314 to North...
I found it soo funny that I would like to repeat it again and again...
Last trackpoint at Lahti should delete. Dang old Google maps interface. :)
This small road is in good condition (mainly 80km/h and sceeneries are great. You will pass few national parks and lots of lakes and forest.
Boring at home? come on!!! go for a nice route!!
Great route, nice scenery. Highly Recommended ...
Pleasant road on a country scenery.
A nice little ring route on Salo/Turku area.
You can go on straight to Museotie
In south (Kopsuontie) is very nice road with more and more nice corners if you ride from south to north. And a very nice bridge just before Kalkkinen -village.
From Kalkkinen to Valkjärvi the road is gravel!! (7km\'s) Then few km\'s is in bad condition (rural) and last 11km\'s (Marjoniementie) is spectacular road with lots of very nice corners!
One of the small 'unknown' best biking roads in SW Finland. A quite short trip, but a good cross section through the nice coutryside.


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Final International Steering Committee of UNESCO/Japanese Fund-in-Trust for Preservation of Ajina Tepa - Buddhist Monastery on the Silk Road, and Presentation of Central Asia Silk Roads World Heritage Serial Nomination process to International Diplomatic Corps in Tajikistan.
The Final International Steering Committee for the Ajina Tepa project is organized by the UNESCO Almaty Cluster Office in collaboration with the Tajik National Commission for UNESCO and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. In order to sum up the activities of this project as it comes to a close, and to state recommendations for continuing future scientific work, the steering committee will gather international and national experts as well as representatives of the Japanese Embassy to Tajikistan, Tajik authorities and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) office in Dushanbe.
The Buddhist Monastery of Ajina Tepa ("Devil's Mount") played an important role in spreading Buddhism in Central Asia in the seventh and eighth centuries. A 12-metre reclining Buddha found at Ajina Tepa is the largest surviving statue in Central Asia since the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan.
The project, lasting from 2005-2008, was funded by Japan. The team of experts, including young students from Tajik Technical University, met various goals of the project, including the following:
- A Scientific Documentation Center was established at the Institute of History and Ethnography of the Republic of Tajikistan, where all the related documents, drawings and scientific material are stored.
- Mapping: full three-dimensional documentation of the Ajina Tepa site was conducted and a topographic plan and 3-D photographic materials were made for the whole site.
- Archaeological cleaning was carried out with several efforts toward research.
- Conservation efforts concentrated on the most endangered walls, suffering from erosion, salted soil and underground water.
- Landscape planning was presented by a Japanese expert and will be introduced by the Tajik authorities.
As one of the most representative Buddhist complexes in Central Asia, it is on the priority list of potential sites to be nominated to the World Heritage List from the Republic of Tajikistan.


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I "started" a new planter yesterday. The customer bought a new, larger planter, equipped with just about every computerized, GPS-related, sophisticated system he could order. Sitting in the farmyard, after I demonstrated how to unfold, fold, calibrate, turn on/off/adjust the various vacuum or pressurized-air systems, and had explained the basic steps of how to program and operate the touch-screen computer display in the cab---he turned to me in all sincerity and asked, "Is it too late to get my old planter back? I just want to plant--I don't want to fly the Space Shuttle."
I understand his frustration. I didn't completely understand everything I was trying to explain to him--I'm learning as I go. There's only so much a person can learn by reading a tech book or owner's manual, sitting in the shop. For me, the best way to learn is by "doing," so some of my most educational days are spent in a field, learning out of desperation.
One of the things I've learned I have to do is think "simple." I have to force myself to view farm equipment as separate systems. That planter I worked on yesterday included the mechanical planter, a vacuum seed delivery system, a pressurized seed delivery system, a seed monitoring system, a GPS guidance system on the tractor, an auto-steer system on the tractor, GPS-based automatic row shut-offs and the ability to alter planting rates according to a "prescription." In some ways, they're all interconnected, but to a large degree they stand alone. The new owner "saw" all those systems as one, big, confusing mess. I saw them as a dozen individual messes.
When a buzzer went off on the in-cab touch-screen display, he panicked, thinking the whole thing was malfunctioning. I calmly studied the display, identified exactly which system was reporting a malfunction, poked around on the screen to find out specifically what aspect of the failed system was causing the problem, THEN I panicked.
My point is, when working with modern technology, don't let the big picture overwhelm you. It's dramatic when a $5000 touch-screen display flashes all sorts of warnings and diagnostic codes. Looks like the end of the world. But if you read the warnings, calmly follow the prompts, it may simply be a dirty seed tube sensor that's causing one row to read "low." In the end, we're still simply putting seeds in the ground. All the fancy computerized stuff just makes it seem more complicated.


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I think there is still medical 2 for people over 40
That's why there is a screening process.MM
The RMO is able to provide a FIT / UNFIT / Need more INFO decision within about five days of receiving the form(s). . . .
Quick update: I filled in my medical questionnaire, put it in a sealed envelope, and gave it to my recruiter in May.My file shows it has been received. There is a note in my file, dated June 1st, saying "more information needed". Since then, my file is blocked. I have not received any letter. I am disappointed not to have had the opportunity to take Medical 2 to see a doctor in person. I have completed all the other steps (FORCE test, CFAT, interview). I guess I will have to wait...M
Hello,As we know, the Reserves are going through a process to accelerate recruitment and training. I've read things here and there but I would be grateful if anyone could clarify the following:-A reserve recruit can be enrolled while the security clearances are being done?-Summer BMQ is now 4 weeks, what about BMOQ?-I heard of a potential part-time CAP for reservists on the weekends being considered, any info about this?Thank you!
After a medical and interview (same day) I was interviewed for my trade at a unit. I'm wondering what happens if it's not a fit. Do they send my stuff back up the to brigade and try me in another unit?Also - has anyone learned about the weekend offerings in more detail? I'm looking to hear from folks who have completed the weekend course. BMOQ / BMOQ land


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Split Branch Desk by John Begin
Artist and furniture designer John Begin literally taps the root of his creative vision when exploring wooded areas in search of trees that while are no longer leafing; will begin a new cycle when incorporated into unique furnishings. Working with organic material allows John to �render functional and contemporary pieces that are visually stunning, honor the natural environment and remind us of where wood comes from". Foraging in the local countryside, John collects natural materials with an eye to its use and placement in relation to the composition of the finished piece. To ensure stability and longevity for each component, John employs techniques, tooling and processes he has personally designed and developed. Precise cutting, aligning and connecting of the elements is achieved using sharp tooling, thoughtful placement and the desire and passion to create. John�s aptitude for woodworking was evident early-on; by the age of nine, he was allowed to use the woodworking power tools in his father�s workshop and his life path chose him. Primarily self-taught as a designer, carpenter and woodworker, John developed skills and methods that enable him to work and think outside the box.


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Archive - Apr 1, 2013
Tigers 4 Twins 2
Thus starts what promises to be a long, excruciating season for Twins fans. Tigers' starting pitcher Justin Verlander was his ornery self. The Twins' attempt to mount a rally against the Tigers' relievers after Verlander was removed was thrwarted when Chris Parmelee swung and missed two fastballs in the dirt. I can understand swinging at curveballs in the dirt, as you might have been led to believe that they were going to stay elevated. But low fastballs? They start low and aren't going to get any higher. Swinging at them indicates you made up your mind to swing at anything before pitch left the pitcher's hand. And that is not a sound baseball decision, especially with the bases loaded and the count in your favor. The Twins could have walked their way back into the game, but Parmelee's eagerness prevented that.
Joe Mauer had two nice hits and a third, a squibber, which might have been called a hit but was ruled an error. Everybody else looked pretty shabby, including rookie center fielder Aaron Hicks, who probably won't start hitting until the Twins get to hit against weaker pitchers. He was overmatched against the excellent Verlander.
Watching the MLB network, I get this feeling that the Twins have been left behind. I hope I am wrong. But there are so many hot-shot pitchers out there throwing flames. Every team seems to have a couple––except for the Twins, who have nobody.
Another complaint, while I am at it: There is no reason for the baseball season to open in Minnesota. Put the Twins on the road for two weeks until the weather gets better. The fans were freezing today.
On the positive side, I did think Worley did pretty well in his Twins' debut. I look forward to seeing him pitch this year. He's not a flame-thrower, but he has a fighter's approach, which alone separates him from Blackburn, Liriano, Slowey, Baker, Capps and the rest of the the unlamented departed uninspired mediocrities.


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After Gloating, Bryan Fischer Criticizes Romney for Capitulating to Bryan Fischer.
Bryan Fischer: How Is Romney 'Going To Stand Up To North Korea If He Can Be Pushed Around By A Yokel Like Me?'
American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer led the right-wing charge against Mitt Romney's ousted foreign policy spokesman Ric Grennell, lambasting the presumed GOP nominee for hiring the openly-gay aide. When Grennell resigned under pressure from social conservatives this week, Fischer declared it a "huge win."
But today, Fischer himself backtracked a bit. On his radio, the far-right activist noted what many liberals have, asking, why should voters trust Romney to confront Russia or North Korea if he can't even stand up to a "yokel" talk show host? Right Wing Watch flagged the clip:
FISCHER: If Mitt Romney can be pushed around, intimidated, coerced, co-opted by a conservative radio talk show host in Middle America, then how is he going to stand up to the Chinese? How is he going to stand up to Putin? How is he going to stand up to North Korea if he can be pushed around by a yokel like me? I don't think Romney is realizing the doubts that this begins to raise about his leadership.
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