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Green gear in honor of Earth Day 2019! Plant a garden. Grab the kids, a shovel and some seeds and hit the dirt with your family. Whether you plant one tomato plant in a pot or a large garden of fruits and veggies, gardening with your kids will teach them about the cycles of nature and the beauty of growing your own food. ~ Mother Nature Network
Recently night air temps have been steadily in the early 50s. Soil temps in the sun are now just 51° – 56°. 60° to 65° are what we are looking for. PEPPERS especially need warmer temps, nighttime temps steadily above 55°F and soil temps above 65°F. If planted too soon, sometimes they miss their natural sequence of production, and never produce. Check out the Quick Guide to Summer Veggie Soil & Temp Preferences!
APRIL through JUNE Planting Timing
APRIL is true heat lovers time! Start MORE seedlings indoors NOW for successive June plantings. Sow seeds. If seeds and tending seedlings aren't for you, get transplants and pop them in the ground per their right times! April 1 or as close to it as you can, start your Jicama seeds! Winter squash for sure. It needs time to grow big and harden for winter storage. MAY for cantaloupe, peppers, pumpkins and squash! Wait until the soil has warmed to 70°F before planting squash and melons. Many wait until May, some even June, to plant tomatoes to avoid soil fungi. Some gardeners wait until JUNE to plant okra. Okra really likes heat and grows quickly when happy. Choose faster maturing varieties for coastal SoCal. Long beans need warm temps to start from seeds. If YOU anticipate a HOT summer, plant a tad earlier, but be prepared to deal with it if summer is overcast as often is the case after all.
While we are waiting for the right temps, do soil preps that may still be needed. Weed out plants that won't help your summer lovers. Make your soil fluffy with water holding compost, only 5 to 10%, while also adding tasty well aged manure!
Keep COMPOSTING! Soil building is the single-most important thing you can do for your garden. Compost keeps your soil aerated, has great water holding capacity, feeds slowly just perfectly! And if you made it, you know what's in it! Make it HOT, Cold, or In place! In place takes the least time, is the most efficient, is a worm buffet! Make a trench in the top 6″+ of soil, put in your ingredients, chop fine, sprinkle with well aged manure, mix in some soil so the chopped bits don't form an impervious mat, cover with the soil you removed. Give it 2 to 3 weeks and you are ready to plant! Dry is dead, so be sure it is always slightly moist. Giving back to Mama Earth is nature's natural way! And, like Will Allen says ….there is something very Spiritual about touching the soil, that's where life begins.
Put in last minute amendments, soil preps for May plantings of cantaloupe, okra, more tomatoes. About Manures
Heat lovers are eggplant, limas, okra and peppers, pumpkins! Transplant early-maturing varieties of beans, cucumbers, eggplant, melons, peppers, squash, and tomatoes. Sow and/or transplant asparagus, beets, carrots, celery, chard, corn, herbs, kale, kohlrabi, leeks, heat-tolerant leaf lettuce, okra, summer-maturing onions, parsley, peanuts, the last peas (choose a heat-tolerant variety such as Wando), white potatoes with zucchini, radishes (with cukes to repel cuke beetles, and with eggplant to repel flea beetles), rhubarb, and spinach.
Choose heat and drought tolerant varieties when you can. For example, why wait when it gets HOT and your tomato stops setting fruit?! Get heat tolerant varieties the heat doesn't bother! Check out this nifty page of options at Bonnie Plants! See Tomatoes are the Fireworks of Your Summer Garden!
Tomatoes! Heirlooms are particularly susceptible to the wilts, Fusarium and Verticillium. Instead, get varieties that have VFN or VF on the tag at the nursery. The V is for Verticillium, the F Fusarium wilt, N nematodes. Ace, Early Girl, Champion, Celebrity, are some that are wilt resistant/tolerant. In Santa Barbara area continued drought conditions, consider getting only indeterminates. In the Mother Earth News tomato survey, they found gardeners chose heirlooms over hybrids if their soil is wilt/blight free. Otherwise, the longer the gardener has gardened, they more they chose wilt resistant toms if their soil has fungi. La Sumida has the largest tomato selection in the Santa Barbara area! See Special Planting and growing tips for your Tomatoes and Cucumbers! If you are interested in the Indigo family of tomatoes, Terra Sol will be having them again this year! Call ahead to see when they will arrive – save space for them! Please support your local nursery and their families.
Time for heat-resistant, bolt-resistant lettuces of all kinds! Sierra, Nevada, Jericho, Black Seeded Simpson are some. Green Star wins the beauty award and is super productive! Tips for super Successful Transplanting!
Strengthen your garden! Remember, plant your Companions! Keep the biodiversity rolling! Plant pest deterring plants first so they will be up and working when you put in your seeds or transplants!
- Alyssum, in the image above, is a great old fashioned pretty border plant, an understory living mulch. And white Alyssum repels the cabbage butterfly.
- Basil repels several unwanted insects, is great near tomatoes but not in the basin with the tom. The tom needs less water.
- Beans, Cukes, Dill, Radish Combo! Cukes and Beans are great on the trellis, one high, one low. Dill to go with pickling cukes. Radishes to deter Cucumber beetles.
- WHITE Potatoes with Zucchini to repel squash bugs.
- Radish with eggplant, cukes & zukes as trap plants for flea beetles and to repel cucumber beetles.
- Carrots love being with cilantro and chamomile, and chamomile improves the flavor of any neighboring herb!
- Calendula traps aphids, whiteflies, and thrips!
- Marigolds are brilliant and called the workhorse of pest deterrents!
- Lettuce and carrots make a great understory below larger plants like peppers, eggplant. They act as living mulch! If you already have enough lettuce and carrots, scatter a living mulch, soil feeding legume seed mix under those plants. At the end of the season you can turn it all under – aka Green Manure. Or remove the larger plants, open up spots and put in winter plants! See much more – Living Mulch/Green Manure!
Keep 'em coming! If you have already done some planting, mid to late April, schedule to pop in another round! Poke in some bean seeds where your very last peas are finishing, add cucumber seeds or transplants between the beans, plus dill at each end of the trellis to be there when you pickle those cukes! Plant more radishes to deter the Cucumber beetles, repel flea beetles. Fill in spots that could use a helper companion plant like calendula or chamomile. Succession planting makes such good sense. Put your seeds and transplants in at the same time. Seedlings will come along 6 to 8 weeks behind your transplants so you have a steady supply of yummy veggies! But, again, if tending seedlings isn't your cup of tea, just leave space and put in more transplants in 6 to 8 weeks after your first planting.
It is perfect to put in fast growers like lettuce, beets, turnips, arugula, to hold space until you are ready to plant bigger plants. When it's time for the bigger ones, clear a space/harvest, pop in your seeds or transplants and let them grow up among the littles. As the bigger plants start to shade out the littles, remove strategic lower leaves of the big plant so the littles get light too! If you anticipate a HOT summer, plant littles on the morning light side of larger plants.
Put in borders of slow but low growers like carrots, mini cabbages, in more permanent placements, like on what will become the morning side of taller backdrop plants like peppers and eggplant.
Natural Disease & Pest Prevention!
- Be wise and pick the right plant varieties for your temps and conditions! Get heat tolerant, bolt resistant, drought tolerant, disease tolerant/resistant. If you are just starting, just start! You will learn as you go. Our climate is changing, so we are all adjusting and plants will be being hybridized, and hybridize naturally, for new climates. We can get varieties from other areas that are already used to conditions we will be having. Together we will do this. Locally, save seeds from plants that do the best with the heat and share some of those seeds at the Seed Swap and with other gardeners.
- Think biodiversity! Plant companion plants that repel pests, enhance each other's growth so they are strong and pest and disease resistant. Mix it up! Less planting in rows, more understories and intermingling. Split up groups so pests won't go from one plant to the next, and the next. Allow enough room for air space between, no leaves of mature plants touching each other. That breaks up micro pest and disease habitats.
- Make top notch soil!
- In planting holes
– Add worm castings for your plants' excellent health. 25% is best; 10% will do if that's all you got.
– Add a tad more tasty properly aged manure mixes where manure lovers will be planted.
– Add non-fat powdered milk for immediate immune system support at planting time
– Put in a finely ground bone meal for 2 months later uptake when your plant gets to flowering time.
– Add Jamaican guano high in P, Phosphorus, at planting time. It helps your plants continue to bloom LATE in the season! Its NPK ratio is 1-10-0.2, takes 4 months to become available to your plants. Other quanos don't have this particular NPK ratio.
– Add an eency tad of coffee grounds (a 1/2 of a %) if you have wilts in your soil
– Sprinkle mycorrhizae fungi directly on transplant roots, all but Brassicas, at planting time to increase their uptake of nutrients and water.
– Use acidic compost in strawberry patches and work in a little where you will be planting celery and string beans.
- Immediately drench your transplants, foliar feed, with a non-fat powdered milk, baking soda, aspirin, soap mix to jazz up their immune systems. Specially give your peppers an Epsom salt and soap mix bath for a taste of sulfur. More details and all the recipes.
- Thin baby plants you have deliberately or not overplanted! Many are great tiny salad greens. Most of all plants need space for their roots, or they struggle for soil food (can literally be rootbound in place), are weak and disease/pest susceptible, are not able to reach their full productive size. See this terrific post on Thinning Seedlings by DeannaCat!
- Maintenance! Keep your plants strong while they are working hard! Be ready to do a little cultivating composts and manures in during the season (called sidedressing), or adding fish/kelp emulsion mixes if you don't have predator pests like skunks! Keep your plants watered and vibrant, but not so much as to make their leaves soft and inviting to munching insect pests like aphids. Trap gophers immediately if you are able.
- Harvest promptly. Insects and diseases know when plants are softening and losing strength as they age. Insects are nature's cleaner uppers, and they and disease organisms are hungry! If leaves are yellowing or not looking up to par, remove them. Whiteflies are attracted to yellow.
- Prevention A frustrating typical spring disease is Powdery mildew. It's common on late peas, Curly Leaf kales, broccoli, cucumbers and zucchini. Plant leaving plenty of space for air circulation. Apply your baking soda mix. Drench under and upper sides of the foliage of young plants to get them off to a great start! Do this the same or next day if transplanting. A super combo is 1 regular Aspirin dissolved, a 1/4 cup nonfat powdered milk, heaping tablespoon of baking soda, a half teaspoon liquid dish soap per gallon/watering can. Reapply every 10 days or so, and after significant rains. Not only is prevention so much better than after mildew has set in, but this mix stimulates your plant's growth! See Aspirin Solution.
Water Wise Practices!
- Please always be building compost. Compost increases your soil's water holding capacity.
- To save water consider planting IN furrows, where the moisture settles. Plant crosswise to the Sun's arc so the plants' root areas will be slightly shaded by the depth of the furrow in early AM and late afternoon. If you still want your plants on top of the furrow, make the raised part of your furrows wide enough that you can put a mini trench on top of it! That holds the water up at your plants' feeder roots area. If you make low slopes to your trenches, and you water carefully, your furrows won't degrade from water washing the sides away. Nor will seeds or plants be buried too deeply.
- Make mounds with basins on top. For virus sensitive plants like toms and cukes, make sure the bottom of the basin is higher than the level of the surrounding soil level. Rather than losing water to evaporation from overhead watering, put the water right where it will do the most good and nowhere else. Make the mound to the dripline of your plant so small surface feeder roots get moisture for food uptake. For larger leaved plants, put a stake in the center of the basin so you know where to water. With a long watering wand you can water under the leaves rather than on them ~ unless they need a bath to remove dust. Fuzzy leaved plants like tomatoes and eggplant don't like wet leaves.
- And, once your soil is heated up, PLEASE MULCH! Straw, Self Mulch, living mulch of understory plants like lettuce, or plant soil feeding living mulch legumes! It keeps your soil cooler, more moist, less water needed. And it stops light germinating weed seeds! Mulching right for each plant!Straw is dead, but has its advantages. It gets fruits up off the ground and keeps soil from splashing up on lettuce leaves! Straw mulch can help reduce cucumber beetles 3+ different ways. 1) Mulch might directly slow beetle movement from one plant to another. 2) The mulch provides refuge for wolf spiders, daddy long legs and other predators from hot and dry conditions, helping predator conservation. 3) The straw mulch is food for springtails and other insects that eat decaying plant material; these decomposers are important non-pest prey for spiders, helping to further build spider numbers!
Living Mulch, Self mulching, planting closely enough so your plants self shade, is tasty and uses your soil nutrients. It's most efficient space use is planting effective smaller companion plants under, beside, among, around larger plants.
Soil feeding Living Mulch You can up the amps by tossing a mix of legume seeds under your plants to feed your soil as well! You may decide to do both. Plant the small plants you need, grow legumes under the rest along with the right companion plants per the crop there.
- Sprinkle and pat on Mycorrhiza fungi right on the roots of your transplants when you put them in the ground. It increases uptake of nutrients, water, and phosphorus that helps roots and flowers grow and develop. Ask for it bulk at Island Seed & Feed in Goleta.
- Dust Mulching, cultivation, weeding, is perfect to break up exposed soil surface. That keeps the water from wicking to the surface and evaporating. Do it especially after rains. If you use a hula hoe you do two things at once! Just a half to one inch depth cuts off weed sprouts that use water. Indeed, it turns the soil a tad, all that's needed. More weeds will follow, but it's quick and easy to repeat the process. Two, three times, a few days apart, and there will be few weeds after that for awhile. Get 'em while they are small and easy to do. Smart gardening.
Plant Bee Food, Herbs and Flowers! Sow or transplant basil, borage, chervil, chamomile, chives, cilantro, comfrey, dill, fennel, lavender, marjoram, mint, oregano, rosemary, sage, savory, tarragon, and thyme. Be mindful where you plant them… Mediterranean herbs from southern France, like lavender, marjoram, rosemary, sage, savory, and thyme, do well in hot summer sun and poor but well-drained soil with minimal fertilizer. On the other hand, basil, chives, coriander (cilantro), and parsley thrive in richer soil with more frequent watering. Wise planting puts chives by your broccoli, kale, but away from peas if you are still growing some. Cilantro, a carrot family workhorse, discourages harmful insects such as aphids, potato beetles and spider mites, attracts beneficial insects when in bloom. Dill is a natural right next to the cucumbers since you will use the dill if you make pickles. They mature about the same time. Let some of your arugula, carrots, lettuces, cilantro bloom! Bees, and insect eating birds and beneficial insects love them and you will get some seeds – some for the birds, some for you, some to take to the seed swap! Grow beauty – cosmos, marigolds, white sweet alyssum – all benefit your garden in their own way! See Stripes of Wildflowers! Here are some special considerations – Courting Solitary Bees!
…each a miracle of seed and sun, I've always been one to enjoy tomato or cucumber right off the vine, with never a trip into the house—one magical wipe down a shirt-front and they're ready.. ~ commenter Rachel
March images from two of Santa Barbara's Community Gardens! The rains gods blessed us again and again! Some plants are the biggest we have ever seen! We have delicious organic food and beautiful flowers. Check out the local first year orchard shots.
2019 Mother's Day is May 12! Here are some wonderful ideas for green and loving gifts! Get living gifts started now! Click here
See the entire April 2019 GBC Newsletter!
April! Time for those Luscious Heat Lovers!
Quick Guide to Summer Veggie Soil & Temp Preferences!
Use Cover Crops to Improve Soil!
Virtuous Veggies Alkalize Your Body for Top Health!
Biochar! Should I Use It?
Upcoming Gardener Events!
The Green Bean Connection newsletter started as correspondence for the Santa Barbara CA USA, Pilgrim Terrace Community Garden. All three of Santa Barbara city community gardens are very coastal. During late spring/summer we are in a fog belt/marine layer area most years, locally referred to as the May grays, June glooms and August fogusts. Keep that in mind compared to the microclimate niche where your veggie garden is. Bless you for being such a wonderful Earth Steward!
Love your Mother! Plant bird & bee food! Think grey water! Grow organic!


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How many times did they cut to those two yesterday during the Murray-Djokovic match? I would have preferred more focus on Victoria Beckham. We'll get to her later. If I had the time, I'd watch the entire final again just to count the Bradley Cooper and Gerard Butler shots vs the Kim Sears shots. Kim Sears I can deal with. Kim Sears I might even be a little obsessed with. Dog portraits? With the occasional strawberry canvas thrown in? Please. Do we know anything else about this girl?
As for Coop and Spittle, well, it was a proper tennis bromance played out at the All England club in complementary suits. There was synchronised cheering – check out that first shot of them! They're the new Doug and Steve, the Roxbury Guys! There was co-anxiety. There was co-elation. There was some selfie-taking. And, of course, there are the GIFs.
Amazingly, Coop's jacket and pants were not completely soaked by saliva by the time it was all over. Murray mercifully kept it to three sets.

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The kitchen cabinets were ordered and have arrived. Now it's time to install them and in most cases some advanced planing is required. This especially holds true if the installation is for a remodeling project. We'll assume that the cabinets that were ordered are the correct ones so the first thing that I do is some checking.
Is the floor level?
The way I do this is by setting up a laser transit in the room such as the one below.
Is the floor level?
The way I do this is by setting up a laser transit in the room such as the one below.
Once this is set up it will spin and create a perfect laser level line on the wall. I then take a chalk line and snap a line that matches that one. I now have a level line to reference and by measuring from that line to the floor at various points I am able to determine if the floor is level. If the floor isn't level then I can make marks down from my reference line to create a level line with another chalk line. Now I know where shimming or trimming will be required.
Are the corners square?
This is easily accomplished with a standard framing square and allows me to see if I will need to make adjustments. I also need to check the corners to see if they are plumb as many are not.
"Some floors and walls have uneven (high or low) spots, which will affect the installation. It will be necessary to locate these uneven areas and shim or scribe cabinets in order to make the installation plumb, true and square. Use the following procedures to identify your uneven areas."
Studs and blocking?
As there is nothing on the walls yet I need places that I can secure the cabinets to. Putting a couple of screws into a Sheetrock wall won't cut it. If this is a new kitchen then critical blocking should have already been added. However in remodeling projects you'll need to locate and mark the studs so that you have a strong place to attach your cabinets.
Starting the installation.
I do my installations a bit different than many. Many will add a ledger board at the desired height and install the upper cabinets first while they can get right up against the wall. I start with the base cabinets as this is the system that works for me.
The first cabinet is critical. It has to be installed perfectly in regards to plumb, level and square or every one after it will be off by an increasing amount. At this junction its check, check and re-check until you have fully attached the cabinet to the blocking or studs. Once that is done you can attach, shim, plumb and level the next one. As you move along you will also need to attach the face frames together. Here I clamp the two units together and drill and screw them securely to each other with a finish head trim screw.
Installing the upper cabinets.
The next step for me is to apply the chosen counter top material, which I'm going to gloss over for now.
When that is done I am now ready to use the same techniques as for the base units but with a couple of great jacks.
I have already marked the wall with a level line to show where the base of the unit will be. Now with two of the above jacks in position, I put the cabinet on top of them and with the squeeze handles I can micro adjust it to be exactly where I want it with no real effort. Once it is set in place you just apply the screws and move to the next unit.
The finished project!
The finished project!
Planning and installing kitchen cabinetry takes time but the finished product is well worth it.
contemporary kitchen design by boston architect LDa Architecture & Interiors
For further reading please visit my blogs- http://www.thebuildingblox.com/
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For further reading please visit my blogs- http://www.thebuildingblox.com/
and http://www.socialmedia4builders.com/


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March 20, 2013
Associated General Contractors (Oregon-Columbia Chapter), Andersen Construction, Bremik Construction, and John Mckenzie were among the 13 award winners for outstanding contributions to workplace safety and health at this year's Oregon Governor's Occupational Safety and Health Conference held March 4-7 in Portland.
The awards, which were judged by a panel of industry professionals, honor outstanding contributions by associations, employers, and individuals.
Associated General Contractors, a national trade association, was one of the two Association Award winners. Since 1991, AGC members have reduced their injury frequency rate to an all-time low, while generating more than $323 million in cost savings to members via reduced workers' compensation claims.
Portland-based firms, Andersen Construction and Bremik Construction were among the three winners in the Employer Awards category and John Mckenzie, safety manager for JE Dunn Construction received the Safety and Health Advocate Award.
This year's GOSH award winners include:
Association Awards
• Associated General Contractors, Oregon-Columbia Chapter
• Oregon Trucking Association
Employer Awards
• Andersen Construction Company, Portland
• Bremik Construction, Portland
• May Trucking, Salem
Safety Committee Awards
• City of Newberg, Newberg
• City of Portland, Bureau of Environmental Services, Portland
• Leatherman Tool, Portland
• Valley Family Health Care, Vail/Ontario/Nyssa
Safety and Health Advocate Award
John Mckenzie, JE Dunn
Safety and Health Professional Awards
• David Hanson, Timber Products Company
• Patrick Wolfe, Portland Public Schools
• Annie Moorman, SAIF Corporation
Oregon OSHA and the Columbia-Willamette Chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers sponsor the conference.
Reprinting, excerpting, or plagiarizing any part of this publication is fine with us!
But remember: the information in this newsletter is intended to highlight safe work practices, but it does not replace Oregon OSHA workplace safety and health rules.
For information about Oregon OSHA services and answers to technical questions, call (503) 378-3272 or toll-free within Oregon, (800) 922-2689.


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Older Americans who regularly spent time online were about a third less likely to suffer from depression in a new study that compared them with peers who did not use the Internet.
"The largest impacts on depression were actually for those people who lived alone, so it's really suggesting that it's about connecting with others, eliminating isolation and loneliness," lead study author Shelia Cotten said.
Depression affects nearly 8 per cent of Americans over the age of 50, or between five and 10 million people, say the authors in The Journals of Gerontology: Series B.
Older adults are much more likely to experience depression, loneliness and social isolation than younger people, Cotten said.
A researcher in telecommunication, information studies and media at Michigan State University in East Lansing, she wanted to see if getting older people online might lower that risk. Cotten and her colleagues analyzed responses gathered over six years by the U.S. Health and Retirement Survey, a large population study that focuses on the transitions Americans go through as they retire. The data covered 3,075 retired men and women who didn't live in nursing homes.
The researchers identified depression through answers to an eight-item questionnaire, and participants in the survey were asked directly about their use of the Internet for e-mail or any other purposes.
About 30 per cent of the participants were Internet users. When the researchers compared depression scores, they found the people who were going online had a 33-per-cent lower probability of depression compared with those who were not.
The study didn't examine how much people used the Internet or analyze the effects of specific types of Internet use, Cotten pointed out. But in previous studies, the results suggested that older adults are mostly interested in communicating with their family and friends, usually by e-mail, Cotten said.
She explained that a lot of older adults have mobility and health issues that keep them from being able to travel and visit with family. But being able to use e-mail to see pictures of their kids, grandkids or even great-grandkids can help them stay in contact.
"So I would really encourage people to help their older loved ones to get online and not to assume that it's beyond them, because it's not," she said.
Cotten added that it may not come as easily to older people as it does to kids, but her research shows that individuals in their 80s, 90s and even in their 100s can still learn to use computers and the Internet.
Adult children who are thinking of getting their parents online should think about the interface, Cotten advises. Older adults may prefer tablets rather than regular laptop or desktop computers because the tablets are easier to use and much more portable.
"Start very simply and let them know that they're not going to break the technology, and that if something happens, you can help them fix it or somebody can help them fix it," Cotten said.
"You really have to go a little bit slower than you would with somebody who's younger and really emphasize repetition – have them practice sending emails to family members or to friends or going online to search for different types of things," she said. "Practice is key."
Once older adults begin to see how useful the Internet can be in their lives, you've got them hooked, Cotten added.
"It's really about how they can see it integrated into their lives and being useful for them that will help them to stay online," she said.


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The greatest minds in advertising have been working feverishly for months, trying to immortalize their brand with the next great Super Bowl commercial.
And if they don't have any good ideas, inevitably they'll find some flash-in-the-pan star, aging has-been or embarrassed politician, and come up with an unfunny and vaguely uncomfortable advertisement instead.
Not all Super Bowl commercials featuring celebrities are bad. The 2010 Snickers ad co-starring Betty White and Abe Vigoda was arguably the best of the year. But looking at the success rate, you're much better off going with a chimpanzee, an exploding mosquito or a flatulent horse than Jay Leno or a Kardashian. (Kim Kardashian, Danica Patrick, Faith Hill and "The Biggest Loser" star Jillian Michaels are among the celebrities expected to make cameos during Super Bowl XLV commercials.)
Below are the worst celebrity Super Bowl commercial moments and campaigns of all time. Choices were made based on how horrible the cameos were when they aired, not skewed based on events that occurred since the advertisement. Which explains the absence of O.J. Simpson …
10. Charles Barkley (Taco Bell, 2010)
The ad: Charles Barkley composes a poem called "Taco Bell rocks" ("It rocks for a jock, it rocks for a fox …"), reciting it while walking through a locker and into a city street, which for unexplained reasons has crooked basketball hoops, girls dressed like cheerleader angels and 1950s-style paparazzi. Note that he doesn't take a bite of the food he's carrying once.
The transgressions: We were convinced from his superb work as an NBA commentator that Barkley was incapable of not being entertaining. But this Dr. Suess reading from hell was horrible, and impossible to get out of your head.
Collateral damage: Los Angeles Lakers forward Lamar Odom shows up for no apparent reason. He also doesn't eat the food.
Danica Patrick (GoDaddy.com, 2007-present)
The ad: Patrick has done a series of sexually suggestive Super Bowl ads for GoDaddy.com, including one where she teases that she will disrobe online — she doesn't — and another where she showers on a webcam for three college students.
The transgressions: Danica Patrick broke the glass ceiling in auto racing – and she's using the platform to make double entendres involving a stuffed beaver. The misogynist ads have brought GoDaddy success, but they are horribly made and rarely funny.
Collateral damage: Look somewhere else for a role model, girls.
Joe Namath (Noxzema, 1973)
The ad: Joe Namath says "I'm so excited. I'm going to get creamed!" Then a pre-"Charlie's Angels" Farrah Fawcett lovingly spreads shaving cream all over his face as quasi-porn music plays. This commercial is widely considered to be the first high-profile Super Bowl ad.
The transgressions: In addition to being a very stupid ad, the Noxzema spot made every dorky-looking guy with a goofy grin and shaggy haircut think he could get Farrah Fawcett.
Collateral damage: Things turned out pretty good for Fawcett. But Namath was never the same, compiling a 13-29 post-Noxzema NFL record with a 47 touchdowns and 77 interceptions.
Britney Spears (Pepsi, 2002)
The ad: Pepsi enlists the 21-year-old pop star and sends her to 1958, where she does a Marilyn Monroe imitation, struts in high heels, blows kisses and winks – all while singing about "Pepsi … for those who think young!"
The transgressions: The nod to Monroe was inappropriate for Spears, who was more of a flash-in-the-pan than a legitimate icon. Pepsi should have known that the advertisement would reflect poorly on the brand during her eventual descent.
Collateral damage: Within a year of the ad, Spears was kissing Madonna. Then she got married in Las Vegas, got divorced 2 ½ days later, shaved her head, went to rehab, ignored child car seat laws and lost custody of her children to Kevin Federline. Which brings us to
Kevin Federline (Nationwide, 2007)
The ad: Surrounded by beautiful women and living the high life, KFed stars in a rap video called "Rollin' VIP." It's revealed to be a dream, and the real Federline is shown working in a fast food joint. "Federline, fries!" his boss barks.
The transgressions: The humorous ad was leaked to broadcasters, and the punch line was ruined days before the Super Bowl. The ad received attention, but no one remembered five minutes later that it was for Nationwide Insurance.
Collateral damage: When Federline's and Spears's kids start Googling their parents, this event is barely going to register on the embarrassment scale. French fry-themed jokes continued when an overweight Federline ended up in "Celebrity Fit Club."
Everyone associated with the Bud Bowl (Budwieser, 1989-1997)
The ads: A championship football game — the Bud Bowl — is played between anthropomorphic cans and bottles of Budweiser and Bud Light. Using stop motion animation, famous scenes in football history are reenacted.
The transgressions: The ads themselves had an entertaining moment or two, but the celebrity guests who showed up on the sidelines always looked like they had guns to their heads. Corbin Bernsen, Mike Ditka, Ahmad Rashad, Bob Costas and Bum Phillips were among the casualties.
Collateral damage: Announcing part of the Bud Bowl series was the second-most embarrassing thing to happen to Marv Albert. Sadly, Don Meredith's turn as a Bud Bowl announcer in 1991 was one of his last high-profile gigs.
Mike Ditka (Levitra, 2004)
The ad: The former Chicago Bears coach talks about how much tougher football players are than baseball players — to illustrate that Levitra is a much more effective erectile dysfunction drug than Viagra.
The transgressions: No shame in needing some help in the bedroom, but if you're going to pitch an erectile dysfunction drug, a more humble approach seems appropriate. We're also reporting Ditka to the metaphor police for the not-so-subtle image of a football being thrown through the hole in a tire.
Collateral damage: Ditka's ad was aired on the same year as the Janet Jackson partially bared breast controversy, and was used by critics to support the thesis that the Super Bowl had become too risqué.
Dan Quayle (Lays potato chips, 1994)
The ad: A precocious young boy (played by a pre-teen Elijah Wood) at the Super Bowl bets fans their tickets that they can't eat just one Wavy Lays potato chip. Along the way the kid runs into former vice-president Dan Quayle, who once seemed clueless about how to spell the word "potato." He wins the bet and gets Quayle's seat.
The transgressions: Why would the chip maker would want to connect their product to one of the most ridiculed politicians in history? The awkward scene with Quayle lacks a punch line — apparently the politician is the punch line.
Collateral damage: Quayle's presence ended up being a curse to both Troy Aikman (concussion problems) and Elijah Wood (hunted by Orcs, betrayed by Gollum).
Ed McMahon (Cash4Gold, 2008)
The ad: Former "The Tonight Show" sidekick Ed McMahon shills for a company that turns your gold jewelry and other possessions into cash. Reports of McMahon's financial troubles were widespread — he almost lost his Beverly Hills home and later went on "Larry King Live" to talk about his problems.
The transgressions: Indignities ahoy in the commercial as a clearly ailing McMahon pretends to sell his possessions, including a gold toilet and his gold hip replacement.
Collateral damage: MC Hammer was in the ad, too. But for reasons we can't explain, it was funny, not sad, when the rapper sold his gold sledgehammer and gold pants. McMahon passed away the next year.
Fred Astaire (Dirt Devil, 1997)
The ad: Fred Astaire, who died in 1987, is brought back to life for this Super Bowl ad, using special effects to make it look like the legendary actor is cutting a rug with a red Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner.
The transgressions: The public was split, with some loving the ads and others feeling like it was the worst kind of grave robbery. Dirt Devil didn't seem to hear the critics: The ad campaign continued for most of the rest of the year.
Collateral damage: Other stars, including Lucille Ball and Steve McQueen, would make posthumous appearances for products. (At least McQueen was behind the wheel of a Mustang, which is what we imagine he's doing in Heaven.)
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Britney Spears Returns To Vegas Residency: We'll Get Through This Together
By James Dinh
October 12, 2017
Britney Spears returned to Las Vegas on Wednesday night (October 11) for her first "Piece of Me" residency show since a gunman opened fire nearby at the Route 91 Harvest Festival, which is now the deadliest mass shooting in US history.
For her first show back on the strip, the pop titan made several nods to the unfortunate tragedy, including an opening wardrobe reference, where she and the rest of her backup dancers wore Vegas Strong black hats, before tossing them into the audience. Shortly after her opening number, "Work B*tch," Spears also shared a few short words about pushing through with optimism during hard times. "Before I start the show, I just want to say that we're here for you. You're here for us and we're going to get through this together," she told the lively crowd.
Later on, Spears also gave a shoutout to several Las Vegas First Responders, who she reportedly invited to the show, and prompted the Planet Hollywood audience to make some noise for them. See the clips below!
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Let's just say that the garage is next on my list, and there are too many unfinished (read: unstarted) projects that either will get done or SO HELP ME the supplies are finding a new home. Cue scissor kicks and cheering from my husband.
{this photo was taken after a coat of black paint here, just weeks after we moved in.
As that was 2009(!), it was long overdue for a little tweaking.}
The hardest part, aside from the motivation, was hammering in the nails. If one had a nail gun, it would go infinitely faster. Of course, if I had enough money for a nail gun, I would take that money and use it to carpet below this built-in and just rip the whole thing out.
But until that happens...
The challenge wasn't in the idea (old wood in a old bookcase) or in the execution (cut wood to the right size/close enough and nail) but rather in what it represented. Take an hour of your life, plug in the saw, and get crap done already. That's a rally cry my soul needs to scream more often.
Not only is there more room in the garage, but seeing this rusticy goodness from my bed every day makes me warm and fuzzy. Or maybe it's just the electric blanket? Either way. It's definitely a far cry from what we moved into.


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Less than half of people with diabetes-related eye disease have been told about it, which means they're also missing out on treatment that could save their sight, U.S. researchers say.
In nationwide surveys of adults with diabetic macular edema – a condition that can ultimately lead to blindness – just 45 percent of respondents said they had been informed by their doctor that diabetes had affected their eyes. Nearly 30 percent already had vision loss in the affected eye.
It's important to catch the signs of diabetic macular edema (DME) early because it can be treated, Dr. Neil M. Bressler said. He led the study at the Wilmer Eye Institute of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Hospital in Baltimore.
Diabetes commonly causes DME, which is a thickening of the eye's retina. That change can be detected in an eye exam that includes dilation of the pupils. Left untreated, DME is likely to cause progressive vision loss.
Degeneration of the retina in people with diabetes, known as diabetic retinopathy – which is often caused by DME – is the leading cause of blindness in the U.S., Bressler and his colleagues write in the journal JAMA Opthalmology.
Many U.S. medical authorities recommend annual eye checks for diabetics to monitor early signs of vision problems, but many people with diabetes do not get the proper type or frequency of eye care (see Reuters Health story of December 10, 2013 here: reut.rs/1ck6Zux.
The survey data Bressler's team used included patient questionnaires and physical examinations, so people with vision loss could be identified even if they themselves were unaware of the changes in their sight.
The researchers considered a subset of 800 people from the survey who reported having diabetes, which affects 25.8 million people in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Of the 800 self-reported diabetics, the physical exam confirmed that 238 had diabetic retinopathy without DME and 48 had DME.
Some 60 percent of those with DME said they had undergone an eye exam with pupil dilation within the past year. But only 45 percent said their doctor told them about the changes in their eyes.
Physician and patient behavior seem not to have changed in recent years, despite wonderful new achievements in potential treatments for diabetic eye problems, Dr. Lee Jampol told Reuters Health.
A professor of ophthalmology who studies diabetes and vision at Northwestern University in Chicago, Jampol was not involved with the new estimate.
"This study is very important as it shows that many diabetics are not aware of potential or actual real risk to their eyesight from diabetic retinopathy," Jampol said.
Physicians and patients need to be more aware of the vision risks involved in diabetes and insist on yearly visits to the ophthalmologist, he said.
Treatment for DMA "typically involves injections of biologics into the middle cavity of the eye that in most cases cause resolution of the swelling with prevention of vision loss in about 90 to 95 percent of cases, and improvement in vision in about 50 percent of cases when the edema involves the center of the retina and is causing vision impairment," Bressler said.
Patients tend to need about nine injections in the first year with a couple of additional shots over the next two years, and may require laser surgery as well, which can cause the price to vary quite a bit, he said.
"Everyone with diabetes should be referred to an appropriate health care provider who can evaluate the retina for DME or diabetic retinopathy, even in the absence of symptoms, periodically, so that complications which can be treated to prevent vision impairment and blindness can be done," Bressler said.
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Name : Kim Jong In (김종인)
Birthday : January 14, 1994
Height : 182 cm
Blood type : A
Family : Mother, Father, Two older sisters (5 and 9 years older)
Skills : Ballet, Jazz, Hiphop, Popping, Locking dances
Facts: Appeared in HaHaHa Song CF with DBSK. Friends with SHINee's Taemin, mentioned in The SHINee World Thanks To.
Got into SM through SM Youth Best Competition (2007)
Name : Oh Sehun (오세훈)
Birthday : April 12, 1994
Height : 181cm
Blood type : O
Family: Father, Mother, Older brother (3 years older)
Position:Vocalist, Lead Dancer
Facts: He was an Ulzzang. Got into SM through SM Casting System (2008)
Hobbies/Specialities: Dance, Acting
Name : Byun Baek Hyun (변백현)
Birthday : May 6, 1992
Position: Main Vocalist
Height : 174cm
Blood type : O
Family: Father, Mother, Older brother (7 years older)
Facts: Got into SM Casting System (2011)
Hobbies/Specialities: Hapkido, Piano
Name : Park Chan Yeol (박찬열)
Birthday :November 27, 1992
Height :185 cm
Position: Rapper
Blood type : A
Family: Father, Mother, Older sister (3 years older)
Facts: Can Beatbox and can play electric guitar. Got intoSM through SM Casting System (2008)
Hobbies/Specialities: Instruments (Guitar, Drum, Bass, African Drum), Rap, Acting
Name : Do Kyung Soo (도경수)
Birthday : January 12, 1993
Height : 173cm
Position: Main Vocalist
Blood type : A
Family: Father, Mother, Older brother (a year older)
Facts: He was a Kid ulzzang
Hobbies/Specialities: Singing, Beatboxing
Name :Kim Joon Myun (김준면)
Birthday : May 22, 1991
Height :173 cm
Position: Leader, Lead Vocalist of EXO-K
Blood type : AB
Family: Father, Mother, Older brother (4 years older)
Facts: Got into SM through SM Casting System (2006)
Hobbies/Specialities: Imitating SHINee's Jonghyun LLO, Playing Golf
Name : Lu Han (루한)
Birthday : April 20, 1990
Height : 178 cm
Blood type : O
Position: Lead Vocalist, Lead dancer
Home town : Haidian, Beijing.
High School: Beijing Haidian Foreign Language Experimental School 2005
Facts: Got into SM through SM Casting System (2010)
Trainee time: 2010 April – December 26, 2011.
Hobbies/Specialities : animation, art, video games, computers, water sports, racket sports, nature sports, basketball, baseball, football, music, concerts/clubs, television, animals, travel, singing, soccer, rubiks cube.
Name : Huang Zi Tao / Edison Huang (황지타오)
Birthday : May 2, 1993
Height : 185 cm
Blood type : AB
Nationality : Chinese.
Hometown: QingDao, Shandong, China
Position: Main rapper
Knows: English, Cantonese, Mandarin.
Facts: He's a very conservative person, likes to exercise alone.He was awarded as 3rd Place in International Wushu Competition and 1st Place in Qingdao Broadcasting Wushu Sword Competition.He won the "Top Rap Award" at Beijing 3rd Annual College Street Jam. Favourite color : blue. Favourite food : western food. Favourite music : R&B, Hip hop. Favourite sport: basketball.Favourite animal: black cat
Hobbies/Specialities : Singing, playing basketball, exercising, martial arts, sword dance
Name :Kim Jong Dae (김종대)
Birthday : September 21, 1992
Height :173 cm
Position: Main Vocalist
Blood type : B
Facts: First revealed through the SM Orchestra section at SBS Gayo Daejun 2011. Got into SM through SM Casting System (2011)
Hobbies/Specialty: Singing, Piano
Name :ZHANG YI XING (장이싱)
Birthday : October 7, 1991
Height :179
Position: Vocalist, Main Dancer
Education: Hunan Normal University High School
Hometown: Changsha, Hunan, China
Nationality: Chinese
Blood type : A
Facts:Appeared in 2005 3rd place Star Academy (Hunan Economic TV), SHINee dance concert instead of Jonghyun
Hobbies/Specialities: Playing computer, guitar, piano, dancing, Master language in Chinese and Korean
Name :Kim Min Seok (김민석 )
Stage Name: Xiu Min
Birthday :March 26, 1990
Nickname: Baozi
Height :173 cm
Skills: Sing, dance, taekwondo, excellent movement skills and fencing
Position: Lead Vocalist
Blood type : B
Facts: Won 2nd place on 2008 SM's Everysing Contest
Hobbies/Specialities: Sing, dance, taekwondo, kendo
Name :Wu Yi Fan (우판)
Stage Name: Kris
English Name: Kevin Li / Kevin Wu
Birthday :November 6, 1990
Height :187 cm
Position: Rapper, Leader
Hometown: Vancouver, Canada
Blood type : O
Facts: He enjoys reading books particularly self-improvement and inspirational. Got into SM through SM Global Audition (Canada 2007)
Hobbies/Specialities: Language (English, Chinese, Korean, Cantonese), Basketball


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Paris and Hong Kong-based sales company All Rights Entertainment has picked up international rights excluding India to Manjeet Singh's Mumbai Cha Raja.
The independent Indian film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this year, and also screened at the Abu Dhabi and Mumbai film festivals. It picked up the Special Jury Award in the inaugural India Gold competition at the Mumbai festival.
Featuring non-professional actors, the film follows a young boy as he roams the streets of Mumbai, playing pranks with his balloon-seller friend, while back at home he has to deal with an abusive father. Critics applauded the film for its photography and realistic style.
All Rights is also handling Indian children's film Gattu, directed by Rajan Khosa, which has sold to Korea (Ava), Taiwan (Shengchi Media), Malaysia (World Hub) and Spain (Vernes Films).
All Rights also recently picked up international rights to $23m Chinese animation Dragon Nest, based on a Shanda Interactive game with 120 million players worldwide. Mili Pictures is producing the film which is scheduled for delivery next year.


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A group of Independent TDs and Senators have urged a no vote in next week's Oireachtas Inquiries Referendum.
If the constitutional amendment is ratified it will give TDs and Senators powers to investigate the actions of individuals.
The ten TDs and two Senators said the referendum has been "rushed" and is an "ill-considered" proposal.
Deputy Shane Ross described the amendment as an appalling one that could be used by politicians to damage their opponents.
While welcoming the spirit of the proposed amendment, the group fears it could give the Oireachtas powers that are too broad and far-reaching.
The Chairman of the Dáil Technical Group, Finian McGrath, said inquiries could hamper the work of the courts.
Deputy Stephen Donnelly said the amendment could violate people's rights. He added they may not be able to go to the courts to safeguard these rights.
Deputy Thomas Pringle said the proposal gives the government of the day too much power to use these investigations for their own advantage.
The group is made of TDs Catherine Murphy, Shane Ross, Stephen Donnelly, Finian McGrath, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Halligan, Mick Wallace, Luke Ming Flanagan, Thomas Pringle, Tom Fleming and Senators Dr John Crown and Ronán Mullen.
The TDs and Senators said the Oireachtas Inquiries Referendum should be rejected now and more time given to consider any changes.
Then they said it could be put to the people again, possibly on the day of the Children's Referendum.
The United Left Alliance is also calling for a no vote in the Oireachtas Inquiries referendum.
Meanwhile, Taoiseach Enda Kenny dismissed concerns to the proposed amendment to the Constitution giving greater powers of inquiry to the Oireachtas.
He said he had no intention of overstepping the mark in this area and that elected representatives would simply be able to carry out inquiries into matters of public importance "in certain circumstances".
He said the Oireachtas had been "strangled arising out of the Abbeylara incident"'.
The Taoiseach said the aim was to cut out interminable, never-ending tribunals that go on for years at huge cost. He said there were certain circumstances where inquiries could be carried out at a fraction of the cost in a very short time.
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Tutorial:Sims 3 Eyebrows Tutorial
It has come to my attention that people would like to learn how to make their own eyebrows for their Sims. I've been putting together this Tutorial and I hope that anyone who uses it will be able to succeed in this endeavour.
As far as my qualifications go, you can find my MTS facial hair/eyebrow page here.
- This is a fairly detailed tutorial and uses CTU, GIMP and GIMP's DDS plugin
Since many people do not know where to place the DDS plugin, you put it in Programs/GIMP2.0/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins.
1 - Open CTU.
2 - Under "Find a CAS part" choose Adult, Female (or Male if that's what you want to create), and Makeup. Yes, Makeup. You will see all of the female eyebrows that come with the game. These are Sims 3 Package files. Choose any one, they all work.
3 - Go to the "Designs" tab, and click "Add New Design," then "Add New Blank." Directly beneath this you will see 6 other tabs. Click on "Textures."
4 - Under "Value" you will see 3 sets of numbers. We want to change the "Face Overlay," so click where it says key:00B2D882:00000000:...to the right.
5 - Then go to the bottom and click "Find." This will bring up a window with our very important DDS file. This is the file we will be working on in GIMP (or whatever such program you prefer). At the bottom of that window, click "Export." Give a name to the file and save it somewhere on your computer. I usually have a file in My Documents called "CTU Projects," and I always start my file name with my MTS user name and what type of file it is. For this tutorial I will call my file: Simmiller_Eyebrows_Eyebrow Tutorial. You can put it anywhere you like as long as you remember its location. Close the DDS preview window in CTU.
- ***CTU TIP #1*** You have the option at this point of closing CTU, but I never do unless something from Real Life comes up. If you do, you will have to repeat steps 1 through 4. Not to worry, though, because your DDS file will already be saved, and again, this is the critical file we will be altering in GIMP. I like to keep CTU open though, because we are going to be going back and forth from GIMP to CTU to check our progress.
6 - Open GIMP and bring up your DDS file. ***Very Important*** Make sure you UN-tick "Load Mipmaps!!!! It comes up as a one layer file, so we need to break it down in order to clearly see what we need to change. Click "Colors," move down the menu to "Components," and click "Decompose." A cute little "Decompose" window pops up and has a drop down menu entitled "Color model."
- Make absolutely sure you have RGBA showing on this drop down menu, then click OK. Your funky little DDS file comes up broken down into 4 layers.
You may now close your original DDS file because we will only be working with the open layers.
7 - Click on your "Layers" tab on the Toolbox. This will bring up 4 windows with an eye symbol to the left of each layer. The eyes mean that you can "see" the layers. Close the view of the red, green, and blue layers by clicking on the corresponding eye icon. Now you will only see the alpa layer.
- This is the most important layer because this is the main shape and texture of your eyebrow.
- ***GIMP TIP #1*** Clicking on the eye will hide the layer from view, but the file does NOT go anywhere. It's kind of like having 4 pages, and turning over 1 or more of the pages to show the blank backside. This will be necessary to work on individual layers. Also, the highlighted layer is the one that your changes will affect. You see red, green, blue, alpha.
- ***GIMP TIP #2*** When all of the eyes are showing open, there is a heirarchy of layers that you will see on your open DDS file. Red is the bottom layer of the file, but if it's eye is open, that will be the only layer you will see, regardless of whether or not the other layers' eyes are open.
8 - Highlight the alpha layer by clicking on it.
- ***GIMP TIP #3*** It's time to change the alpha layer to make our own unique eyebrows. To do this, I use the Paintbrush, Pencil, Rectangle, Elipse, Free, Fuzzy, Select by Colour, Flip, and Smudge Tools in the toolbox. You also will be using the Foreground colour block in shades of black, grey, and white. DDS files don't use other colours, no matter what you try!!!! White will show the darkest on your actual eyebrow, and black areas won't show at all. On the layer window, I use File, Edit, View, Colors, and Filter tabs. Go in and see what you can do.
I am going to use my imagination on this one, instead of using a picture or preset idea. You will find that drawing and perfecting the eyebrow is the longest and most difficult part of the process. I am not ashamed to say that I sometimes come back and alter this layer about 20 or 30 times. Don't panic, though. You may very well be a better artist than I am and can get your changes done lickety-split! Either way, be happy with what you create.
9 - First, make the "View" bigger, generally 200%. This makes it a lot easier to create details. Use whatever size you are comfortable with.
The beauty here is that you only need to work on one eyebrow on your alpha layer to start with. (We'll get to changing both later on in Step 14) I pick the left one. It doesn't matter, again, use whichever you are most comfortable with.
10 - Start drawing! This means it's time to use those tools I mentioned in GIMP TIP #3. This you will have to learn how to do on your own through trial and error. I'll keep posting pictures to show you my progress, though.
- ***GIMP TIP #4*** Copy and paste are your friends! Don't be afraid to use them to help you make your eyebrows longer, shorter, thinner, or wider.
- ***GIMP TIP #5*** Make sure you have the "Open the tool options dialogue" tab on your Toolbox so that you can change the tool's characteristics that you are currently using. It's usually there, along with the "Open the brushes dialogue" tab.
11 - I'm using the copy and paste routine to make this eyebrow thinner.
I want a lot more detail in the eyebrow. I also want to get rid of some of the inner corner hair, so I'll use the Pencil tool for that. Any shade other than black will affect your eyebrow's actual shape.
I'm thinking that I don't like all that solid white colour, so I will choose a nice dark grey to define hairs into the centre section of the eyebrow, and I can use either the Pencil or the Paintbrush, or even the Smudge tool. My lines are very sharp looking right now because I used a basic circle and the Pencil tool. You can also use a fading circle as your drawing tool, or go under "Filters," then "Blur" to soften the edges.
Now go back to your "Layers" tab on the Toolbox. You will want to check to make sure that your Alpha coincides with your Red, Green, and Blue layers. Highlight one of the RGB layers, making sure to have the eye visible on only that layer and the alpha layer. On your highlighted layer, slide the "Opacity" indicator to the left until you can see where the new eyebrow is on the alpha. The location of the eyebrow on the alpha can be anywhere and any size as long as it appears on the eyebrow area in game.
The RGB layers colour your alpha layer once the file becomes a Sims 3 package file. If they're not in line with the Alpha layer, your eyebrow will look very weird.
If your alpha and RGB layers coincide, realign the opacity on the RGB layer you used as comparison to the far right. Copy and paste that layer to the other RGB layers...don't go near the alpha with that layer!! Now, go to step 12.
If your RGB layer and Alpha layer do not coincide, you will have to change the RGB layers to match the location of the alpha. This is done most easily by using the copy and paste method using chunks of what's already on the RGB layer you are working on, and by using the Smudge tool on a larger scale setting to move the colours around. Make certain that you make the 3 RGB layers identical to each other. The RGB layers colour your alpha layer once the file becomes a Sims 3 package file. If they're not in line with the Alpha layer, your eyebrow will look very weird. Copy and paste that layer to the other RGB layers...don't go near the alpha with that layer!!
- ***GIMP TIP #6*** You have the option of creating even more texture to your eyebrows by fiddling with the RGBA and alpha layers' brightness. Trial and error is also your friend.
12 - Now, I want to see how what I've done looks. Remember in Step 6 we "Decomposed" our file? Let's "Compose" it back to one layer, save it, and Replace the "Face Overlay" file in CTU.
To do this, click on "Colors," "components," then "compose." Make absolutely certain that you click RGBA in the "Color model:" dropdown menu.
Click "OK." Then click "File," "Save As," your DDS file name, "Replace." In the "Save as DDS" window that pops up, first click "Generate mipmaps," then under Format "RGBA8," and then, under "Compression" click BC3/DXT5. Click "OK," and your file is saved.
Since you are very likely going to go back and alter the DDS file in GIMP again, DO NOT CLOSE IT!
13 - It's time to go back to CTU and see what's happening with the actual eyebrow. Click on the "Face Overlay" numbers again, then "Replace" at the bottom.
Find your DDS file that you just saved, click on it, then click "Commit" at the bottom on the CTU.
If you do not "commit" your changes, they will not take effect. Your changes will show in the 3D preview window. I kind of like what I've done, so I'll go back to GIMP and make both eyebrows the same. If you don't like what you've done, go back to Step 9 and start making more changes.
14 - Selecting the "Decomposed" DDS file with 4 layers showing, change the "View" back to where you can see the top and both side edges (bottom's not necessary to see, but I like to). I'll make it back to 50%. Using the rectangle select tool, select and drag from 0,0 (top left corner), to 512 and anywhere below the eyebrow. Click "Edit," "copy," "Edit," "paste." Now you have a separate floating layer (or page) directly above the original from which you copied. "Flip" it horizontally using the "Flip" tool on the toolbox.
Select the "Move" tool. Down under the "open the Tool options dialogue" tab click "Move the active layer." At this point, whatever layer you have clicked on will be the only one to move. You don't want anything to move except your new pasted eyebrow window, so make sure you click somewhere on that. Move the eyebrow page over 512 pixels. Don't move it vertically. You'll see the distance at the bottom of the window.
Your screen will show the opposite to mine if you've worked on the right eyebrow instead of the left one.
Now we want that to be a part of the alpha, so we'll make it stick by clicking the "Layer" tab on the main window (not the Toolbox), then "Anchor Layer."
Do this for the RGB layers if changes were necessary.
15 - Repeat Steps 8 through 14 until you get what you want.
16 - Save your file from the CTU in the same place as your DDS file to keep everything together in case you want to work on it again in the future. This is your Sims 3 package file.
17 - Now comes the real test! Select and copy your Sims 3 Package file and paste it into your Documents/Sims3/Mods/Packages folder (or whatever subfolder of Packages you like). I have a subfolder called Makeup and Stuff. Glamourous, isn't it? LOL! Go in game and try your eyebrows out on a Sim in CAS. Go back in game, and view your Sim's face closeup to see how they look (CAS is not a good indicator of the results!). Sometimes, the effect you're looking for is achieved back in CAS under the Looks section, then eyes, then, eyebrows. See what you can do with your eyebrows!
Once again, if you don't like the outcome, repeat Steps 8 onward until you get what you want.
I hope this tutorial helps. If you have any suggestions for changes or more tips, please let me know at MTS.


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The Natural Progression of Your Child's Communication
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The Natural Progression of Your Child's Communication
Your child is capable of communicating his basic needs right from day one. As time marches on, he gradually learns more about communicating his wants and needs to you and others. This is the natural progress of communication.
Birth to Age Two
Most newborn to three-month-old babies can distinguish between pitch and volume of sound. Cooing and making soft noises will get your newborn's attention and help her feel secure. You can never talk too much to children in this age group. As they begin to notice the different things that you are doing, verbalize the actions. "Let's change your diaper" and "Mommy is turning out the light" may seem silly to say to a baby, but she loves to hear the sound of your voice. She will communicate with you by her actions—crying, smiling, and babbling. As infants come close to the age of one, they will be able to imitate expressions, associate simple gestures with words such as waving and saying hi, and respond to a firm "no."
When your child gets closer to the age of two, she may begin to think that her name is "no," and you may also think that it is the only word left in your vocabulary. That's perfectly normal. Children in this age range can say six to twenty words, but they understand many more. They start learning simple phrases and respond correctly to simple questions, such as "What?"
Ages Three to Five
Between the ages of three and five, quite a bit of language development occurs. Children go from joining similar words to make phrases to being able to retell a story. At age three, your child will be able to follow a series of two to four related directions, and he will be able to sing a song and repeat a line or two of his favorite story.
About 5 percent of school-age children have speech and language disorders, including voice disorders and stuttering. These disorders are handled through speech therapy often provided by the public school system.
At the ages of four and five, your child will be able to retell a story, but she may confuse the order. She will combine different thoughts into one sentence, listen to long stories, and be able to follow a more complex set of directions. She will be able to use "because" and "so" casually in a conversation and begin to use words like "might," "should," and "can."
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2013 marks the 100th anniversary of Eva Solo, a Danish designer and producer of kitchen accessories and household utensils. Founded in 1913 by Kai Rhode Fog in Malov, Denmark (near Copenhagen), Eva Solo found its niche as a maker of high-quality modern kitchen implements with the release of its combo flour shaker/citrus squeezer in 1949, and a bread/meat slicer in 1952. Hundreds of products have followed in the decades since. Today, the Eva Solo collection offers an extensive range of household tools in five categories: cooking, serving, living, bath and outdoor.
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The best Danish design is clean, simple and a pleasure to use. Such tenets are exemplified to perfection by the products created by Eva Solo. The beautiful, thoughtful design elevates even the most common, everyday object into a work of art. While the forms themselves are aesthetically pleasing in their graceful minimalism, you only get the full effect of Eva Solo products by using them. The quality of the materials and construction and the sense of balance of each piece make ordinarily mundane tasks like sweeping or taking out the garbage easier and even enjoyable.
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The company trademarked its current name, Eva Solo, in 1950, named after the daughter of the managing director.
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I was raised as a Roman Catholic and converted to Orthodoxy on the Feast of the Nativity of Christ 4 years ago. I love reading of the lives of the Saints and spend a lot of my time transposing various books and articles on the life of the Orthodox Church and the Lives of the Saints.
I am married to the handmaiden of God, Katherine and together we have a daughter, Natalia. I sing in the choir and teach special education in an elementary school here in Fresno. I love the Services of the Church and have the desire to become a deacon or a priest.
I am also in the process of creating an Orthodox Missions Outreach in the Central Valley of California. I am working together with three of the local priests of the area and anyone else in the area that might be interested in this is free to message me and we can talk.
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Philip Jenkins stands before his audience, eyes closed as if scanning an internal text, a slightly bemused smile flickering on his face. His pleasure in his topic is palpable and the crowded room is hushed, waiting.
"Western Christianity," Jenkins proclaims, "is a very dubious concept."
So began the second lecture in the geography department's mini-symposium on globalization, held on March 18 at University Park. Welsh-born and English-educated, Philip Jenkins is distinguished professor of history and religious studies and a prolific author (publishing three books in 2003 alone) whose far-ranging subjects have included serial homicide, terrorism, and priestly pedophilia. In his recent geography coffeehouse lecture, Jenkins focused on the subject of his book, The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (Oxford University Press, 2003).
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The "dubious concept" Jenkins referred to is not Christianity itself, which in Jenkins' view is experiencing a monumental revival. Rather, at issue is whether the Western world will continue to be the center of power for Christianity, in light of the religion's rapid expansion into Africa, Latin America and Asia, and its steep decline in Europe.
"Probably within another 40 or 50 years there should be around three billion Christians in the world," predicts Jenkins, "and the proportion of those who will be non-Latino whites will probably only be one-sixth or one-fifth."
Jenkins asks rhetorically, "Can you describe a typical Christian?" and quickly ticks off a list of defining criteria. "Usually he is a she. Usually she is brown-skinned. Usually she is very, very poor." Where will we find this woman? Jenkins pauses before answering in a deadpan, "Quoting the prophet John Updike, 'I don't think God plays too well in Sweden. God sticks close to the equator.'"
The West and the Rest
"The fact is," declares Jenkins, "we are at a moment as epochal as the Reformation itself...Christianity as a whole is both growing and mutating in ways that observers in the West tend not to see."
According to Jenkins, the Eurocentric view of both Christianity and the Catholic Church is passé. By virtue of the sheer numbers of adherents and the intensity of religious fervor, the global South—"the areas that we often think of primarily as the Third World"—has replaced the global North as the epicenter of Christian practice and influence.
For instance, in the wake of the priestly child abuse scandals, many liberal, affluent American Catholic parishes have criticized the church for its "primitive doctrines" and have called for Catholicism "to become much more inclusive and tolerant, less judgmental, and more willing to accept secular attitudes towards sexuality and gender roles."
Is Rome listening? Less likely than ever, thinks Jenkins, who points to the fact that Americans represent a mere six percent of the global church. "By 2025," says Jenkins, "something like 80 percent of the world's Catholics will be African or Latin American." If these nations represent the future of Catholicism, they will take the church in a direction far different from that envisioned by many American reformers. "If we look beyond the liberal West, we see that another Christian revolution...is already in progress," Jenkins says. "Worldwide, Christianity is actually moving toward supernaturalism and neo-orthodoxy."
Religion and the replacement rate
The replacement rate, defined as the number of children per woman it takes to replace each generation, is generally estimated to be 2.1. To some degree, the evolution of global religion is dependent on this birth-death balancing act.
Despite the church's ban on abortion and contraception, Catholic Europe is in a depopulation freefall, with many countries seeing more deaths than births each year. Italy and Spain are tied for the lowest birthrate in Europe, with 1.2 children per couple. In contrast, says Jenkins, the birth rate is booming in the global South. "There are more baptisms performed in the Philippines these days," he points out, "than in Italy, Poland, France and Spain combined."
Poverty and the ecstatic church
This "exponential population growth" in Africa, Latin America and Asia has contributed to the migrations of impoverished millions who abandon traditional village life and move into urban centers. Jenkins cites the city of Lagos, Nigeria as an example, describing how the city's infrastructure was designed to support a maximum population of approximately one million (its population in 1960). Today Lagos is home to around 13 million people living in sprawling slums, with 1,000 more arriving daily, seeking work.
Overburdened infrastructures and lack of social services in Southern mega-cities contribute to illness and desperation. (By some accounts, 50% of people in Lagos are infected with malaria and 1 in 20 children die by age 5.)
In Jenkins' view, the quest of the poor (or "the very, very poor" as he describes them) for physical and spiritual support is a factor in the success of conservative and charismatic Christian denominations. "The most successful Southern churches," he notes, "preach a deep personal faith, communal orthodoxy, mysticism, and Puritanism...Whereas Americans imagine a Church freed from hierarchy, superstition, and dogma, Southerners look back to one filled with spiritual power and able to exorcise the demonic forces that cause sickness and poverty." In the midst of such misery, churches function as an "alternative social system," whose influence "is likely to grow in importance as the gap between people's needs and government's capacities to fill them becomes wider."
Seeing the forest
If it's true, as Jenkins believes, that "the American public can't see the forest for the trees" regarding the state of global religion, what are the trends we should be watching?
Of the influx of Spanish-speaking immigrants into the United States, Jenkins states unequivocally, "The global South is coming North." "If you're not familiar with the Virgin of Guadalupe," he quips, "get used to her."
Jenkins believes that immigrants from the South will strengthen the prophetic, charismatic Christian and Catholic churches (most notably, Pentecostalism, he adds) in the United States. Writing of the political impact of the global religious shift, Jenkins predicts that eventually "sheer numbers will overwhelm the present political secular nation and state and replace them with theocracies."
A more immediate result of the doctrinal change in America, says Jenkins, will be an increased political concern with religious matters.
"For this coming election or the next, religious freedom and religious persecution are going to be big issues for candidates," he forecasts.
"If I was Hillary Clinton, I'd be thinking very hard about this right now."
Philip Jenkins, Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies, can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The San Jose Earthquakes plan to have a new striker in the fold before their next match. Or, more precisely, an old striker making his return.
A team source told MLSsoccer.com on Thursday that the Quakes have reached an agreement to bring back Trinidad and Tobago international Scott Sealy, who chalked up three goals and three assists during a 14-match stint with San Jose in 2008.
Sealy, who scored a combined 26 goals in his first three MLS seasons (2005-07) as a member of the Kansas City Wizards, jumped to Maccabi Tel Aviv last season for a more lucrative offer, but has been on the free agent market this year.
"Scott's a proven goal-scorer in this league," Quakes defender Jason Hernandez said. "He's a guy who can possess the ball, he's great around the box and he's a smart player. Having Scott around here will definitely increase our opportunities to score goals, and he's a good guy to have in the locker room."
The deal is not expected to be completed until next week as Sealy sorts out his visa issues, which is not a problem for the Earthquakes since they don't play again until April 10 in Chicago. San Jose will have to waive a player in order to make room on the 24-man roster for Sealy, which is bad news for the younger players without enough MLS experience to have earned guaranteed contracts under the league's new collective bargaining agreement.
Several Quakes fit that bill, although rookie midfielder Brad Ring might be in the most danger because of bad timing. Ring suffered a strained left hamstring in San Jose's 0-0 exhibition draw with Houston on March 18 and although he worked out individually on Thursday, he still has yet to return to full practicing, let alone get back into match fitness.


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Rights activists said Wednesday that the death toll from violence in the central city of Hama is at least 22 after Syrian security forces opened fire on civilians.
Activists say that more than 50 people were wounded during an assault Tuesday when forces that had surrounded the city pushed through improvised barriers and roadblocks set up by Hama residents after massive anti-government protests.
Activists say forces also entered northwest Idlib province on Tuesday, apparently as part of the government's widening crackdown on dissent.
Amnesty International said Wednesday that Syrian forces may have committed crimes against humanity during an operation last month near the Lebanese border.
The London-based rights group accuses Syria of rounding up scores of male residents in the town of Talkalakh and torturing most of them. It quotes witnesses who say at least nine people died in custody.
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Another exciting episode of my — I think– funny web series I did with Cafemom studios. This one is features my dear stepson Oliver. He is not an actor by nature, but he was a good sport– and I paid him– to take part in this spoof of my pathetic attempts to be the B parent I can be.
NOTE: the dub of him saying "mom" at the Dodger game was added in a later edit. Not his voice, nor would he ever say that to me. He has a mom. I'm always Daphne. Or "stepmommy dearest", maybe. I think they needed to do that since I shot that part myself and the sound and picture were not optimum.


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Are winter beds a specific category of dog beds?
A Winter bed will keep your dog cozy and warm when it gets chilly in the fall and winter months. They are not only great for keeping your dog warm, but can also be therapeutic and improve circulation for older dogs that suffer from joint and muscle pain, arthritis and inflammation.
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My dogs have so many beds! Each one has an orthopedic one, and then a big bed they can all share. I add a fleece blanket on the bed for winter months.
What is the difference? Is the material thicker?
I realize it's summer now, but I think it's never too early to start planning, and I'm curious - is there a type of bed called "winter bed"? I've seen memory foam, orthopedic, bolstered, you name it, but winter specific beds are new to me.
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1 (2-3 pound) chicken, all visible fat removed, cut into 8 pieces
2 tablespoons, plus 2 teaspoons Chef Paul Prudhomme's Poultry Magic®
1 cup finely diced onions
1 cup finely diced green bell peppers
3/4 cup finely diced celery
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
Vegetable oil for frying
7 cups chicken stock
1/2 pound Chef Paul Prudhomme's Andouille Smoked Sausage, diced into ¼-inch cubes
1 teaspoon minced fresh garlic
2 cups hot cooked white rice
Sprinkle the chicken evenly with 2 tablespoons of the Poultry Magic and rub it in well. Let stand at room temperature while you dice the vegetables. Combine the onions, bell peppers and celery in a bowl and set aside.
Combine the remaining Poultry Magic with the flour in a paper or plastic bag. Add the seasoned chicken pieces and shake until the chicken is well coated. Reserve ½ cup of the seasoned flour. Heat 1½ inches of oil in a large, heavy skillet over high heat until very hot (375°F to 400°F), about 6 to 7 minutes. Fry the chicken, skin side down and large pieces first, until the crust is brown on both sides and the meat is cooked, about 5 to 8 minutes per side. You may have to fry the chicken in batches. Drain on paper towels. Carefully pour the hot oil into a heatproof glass measuring cup, leaving some of the brown bits in the pan, then return ½ cup of the hot oil to the pan. Return the pan to high heat and gradually whisk in the reserved ½ cup seasoned flour. Cook, whisking constantly, until the roux is dark red-brown, about 3½ to 4 minutes, being careful not to let it scorch or splash on your skin. Remove the pan from the heat and immediately add the vegetables, stirring constantly until the roux stops getting darker. Place the pan over low heat and cook, stirring constantly and scraping the pan bottom well, until the vegetables are soft, about 5 minutes.
Meanwhile, bring the stock to a boil in a 5½-quart saucepan or Dutch oven. Add the vegetable mixture by spoonfuls to the boiling stock, stirring between each addition until the roux is dissolved. Return to a boil, stirring and scraping the pan bottom often. Reduce the heat to low, stir in the Andouille and garlic, and simmer uncovered for 45 minutes, stirring often toward the end of the cooking time.
While the gumbo is simmering, pull the cooked chicken off the bones with your fingers and set it aside. When the gumbo has cooked for 45 minutes, stir in the chicken.
Serve immediately. To serve as a main course, mound 1/3 cup cooked rice in the center of a low soup bowl, and ladle about 1¼ cups gumbo around the rice. For an appetizer, place 2 heaping tablespoons cooked rice in a cup and ladle about ¾ cup gumbo on top.