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Written on: Wednesday August 9th, 2006
A journal entry from: Growing A Beard
On August 9th, 1984, I was brought into this world. For the 22nd anniversary of that, I got together with my friends and got a little silly.
Sidenote: on your birthday, Denny's will give you a free meal (if someone else buys one. that's a great deal.
This is the grossest time my beard and I had. After waking up with a hangover from a night of boozing and eating pancakes with whipped cream, I thought my room smelled bad. NOPE. It was my beard...needless to say I felt pretty rotten about myself and the beard. He almost came off early, but I held on.
Included in this photo album are some pics of me and robbie from an earlier date and some of me eating the pancakes that made my face smell awful - i'll try and track down the rest of the photos from that night...I know they're out there somewhere.


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Red Fort ( Lal Qila )
Netaji Subhash Road, Chandni Chawk, New Delhi – 110006
Phone : 011 2327 7705
This is a world heritage site.
The Red Fort was the residence of the Mughal emperor of India for nearly 200 years, until 1857. It is located in the centre of Delhi and houses a number of museums. In addition to accommodating the emperors and their households, it was the ceremonial and political centre of Mughal government and the setting for events critically impacting the region.
Constructed in 1648 by the fifth Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan as the palace of his fortified capital Shahjahanabad, the Red Fort is named for its massive enclosing walls of red sandstone and is adjacent to the older Salimgarh Fort, built by Islam Shah Suri in 1546. The imperial apartments consist of a row of pavilions, connected by a water channel known as the Stream of Paradise (Nahr-i-Behisht). The fort complex is considered to represent the zenith of Mughal creativity under Shah Jahan and although the palace was planned according to Islamic prototypes, each pavilion contains architectural elements typical of Mughal buildings that reflect a fusion of Timurid and Persian traditions. The Red Fort's innovative architectural style, including its garden design, influenced later buildings and gardens in Delhi, Rajasthan,Punjab, Kashmir, Braj, Rohilkhand and elsewhere.
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The Fort also houses the Diwan-i-Am or the Hall of Public Audiences where the Emperor would sit and hear complaints of the common folks. The Diwan-i-Khas is the hall of private audiences where the Emperor held private meetings. This hall is made of marble and its centre-piece used to be the Peacock Throne, which was carried away to Iran by Nadir Shah in 1739.
The other attractions within this monument are the Royal Baths or hammams, the Shahi Burj, which used to be Shah Jahan's private working area and the Moti Masjid or the Pearl Mosque, built by Aurangzeb for his personal use. The Rang Mahal or the "Palace of Colours" housed the Emperor's wives and mistresses. This palace was crowned with gilded turrets, delicately painted and decorated with an intricate mosaic of mirrors, and a ceiling overlaid with gold and silver that was reflected in a central pool in the marble floor.
On Independence Day (15 August), the Prime Prime Minister of India hoists the 'tricolor' national flag at the main gate of the fort and delivers a nationally-broadcast speech from its ramparts.
The Red Fort, the largest monument in Delhi, is one of its most popular tourist destinations and attracts thousands of visitors every year.
A sound and light show describing Mughal history is a tourist attraction in the evenings.
Visiting Hours : 9.00 AM to 4.30 PM Monday Closed
Entry Fee : Indian Nationals Rs. 10/- and Foreign Nationals Rs. 150/-
Sound & Light Show held every evening at Red Fort ( Lal Qila )
Tickets : Rs. 60/- for adults and Rs. 20/- for children (up to 3 to 12 years of age) Weekdays and
Rs. 80/- for adults and Rs. 30/- for children (up to 3 to 12 years of age)-Saturday, Sunday & Government Holidays.
Tickets are available one hour before the show starts at the Purana Qila ticket booth.
Monday Closed
For further information please contact Tel. Nos.23274580, 23281802 .
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February to April 7.00 PM to 8.00 PM 8.30 PM to 9.30 PM
May to August 7.30 PM to 8.30 PM 9.00 PM to 10.00 PM
September to October 7.00 PM to 8.00 PM 8.30 PM to 9.30 PM
November to January 6.00 PM to 7.00 PM 7.30 Pm to 8.30 PM
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What we know about the famous life of Joan Miró & Pablo Picasso? Of course we studied their lives & works at school but have you ever heard about XX Century Catalan Surrealism? ... Maybe not so much.
About Joan Miró, we know he used to be an introspective and spiritual artist. A Catalan painter attached to his hometown, Montroig del Camp near Tarragona, where he grew up.
Picasso, however, besides being born & raised in Malaga and living almost all his life abroad, as an expat artist, he always said he felt really attached to Barcelona, because the city hosted him during the earliest years of his life. Picasso was a magnificent drawer, ever before moving to the city of Barcelona, at the age of 14 years old. His father said once "You're better than me now & you deserve to have my color palette."
Joan Miró was a versatile artist, not so good drawer as Picasso was, but talented. He never stop trying & training harder to masterpiece their works. Miró loved the classics like Picasso admired the works of the greatest artists from the Old times, but Miró always used to self-demand more than the others, sometimes even so badly that He suffered few artistic crisis periods when he could not paint anything. On the other hand, Picasso never suffered a professional crisis related to his introspective world. Picasso had been painting and experiencing all his life. He used to say: "When the inspiration comes, must find you working".
Besides their origins, we can not say they had been lazy or accommodated artists. Both of them used to be brave contemporary artists, never afraid to re-invent their own works, traveling often and they never gave up their passion.
What can we say about their personal lives? We just know Miró had been married young to Pilar Juncosa and they had only a girl named Lola, like Picasso's young sister. Miró used to be an introspective man passionated with oriental world, specially Japan, where he traveled for the first time in 1960's. In Japan, Miró discovered the world of meditation, mean fullness and spiritualism he used later to express on their works until his death in 1983.
What can we say about Picasso's personal life? Nothing similar to Joan Miró who just had one single wife and just one daughter. In contrast to Miró, Picasso failed 2 marriages, he had 4 kids with 3 different women and a total of 7 recognized ladies who lived with him all his long life.
Picasso didn't succeed to be an introspective artist, even though he was sensible as Miró, Picasso was not interested in lyrics or poetry on his works like Miró. Picasso & Miró had been two of the most representative artists from XX century, for their great versatility. The young Picasso became famous when he painted academic works for several prestigious Fine Arts Schools, meanwhile as adult he succeed showing the Guernica to the world.
Both artists needed to self-demand and re-invent them constantly, all their professional lives until their death. They had been always studying, traveling & working to became better artist and they succeed because they never gave up. Sometimes, they worked in series, doing diptych or triptych and they didn't rest so much.
We know a lot of details about them but maybe They didn't know some day in the future, their lives & works will be so succesful. Maybe they could not imagine how much money thousands of riches will be able to pay for one of their paintings...
Thanks to their wonderful museums around the world we know their works are nowadays very valued. However, humble Miró used to criticize those who thought Art could be bought. Nevertheless, arrogant Picasso used to sign autographs instead of paying the bill of the restaurants where he used to eat, telling to the waiter "I just want to pay the menu I ate, not the hole restaurant with my autograph".
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It was worth the climb to admire this White Buddha in Nha Trang, Vietnam, but it also seemed majestic amongst the clouds.
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It was worth the climb to admire this White Buddha in Nha Trang, Vietnam, but it also seemed majestic amongst the clouds.
When we were in Myanmar in early 2017 we were lucky to visit a school and spend some time with the children.
Still catching up with photos of people taken in China. One or two batches to go I think.
Here are two of my favourite 2017 photos. Both of them were taken in Myanmar at the beginning of the year.
These are for the last Daily Post Photo Challenge of 2017.
Well after a rather lengthy pause, I'm easing back into my regular schedule. In between times I lost my Mum and went on two lengthy but enjoyable trips.
This has nothing to do with this week's Daily Post Photo Challenge however which is – Heritage.
The photo illustrates a Maori heritage on a wooden sculpture in Rotorua, New Zealand.
I sought respite from the intense heat in the shade amongst the ruins of Shahi Qila.
I sat on a cool stone and after a while drifted off into an uneasy slumber.
I heard the rhythms of a tabla, the rising and falling notes of a sitar, and singing.
"Go to Burhanpur, and visit Bhulbhulaya,
My Royal Palace, on the banks of the Tapti River.
Seek out my love.
Prepare her a luxurious bath of warm soothing waters,
Scented with Khus, Saffron and Rose Petals,
In my Royal Hammam.
When the evening sun turns orange and it's fading rays throw fiery shadows on the painted ceiling,
Light incense sticks and gather inspiration in the fragrance of their ethereal oils.
Then as she bathes, whisper my name,
So that at last, I can be reunited with the Empress Mumtaz Mahal Begum,
My chosen one, my true love.
In doing so, I will grant you fortune and everlasting happiness,
For as long as you shall live."
I woke up with a smile and his name on my lips.
Emperor Shah Jahan.
What Pegman Saw is a fascinating weekly flash fiction challenge that takes as it's prompt a 'Pegman' point on Google Maps.
Once again I culled my story from history. Fascinating insights.
We went to Bali for the first time some months after the 2002 bombings. Tourists had deserted this jewel of an island and tour operators were eager to stimulate visitors to return to the island. This was a golden opportunity because as a family of four, for reasons of economy, we had always picked local holidays or trips in popular destinations in Europe for our holidays until then.
When I noticed a great last minute offer for Bali, it was actually cheaper than going to Tenerife or Tunisia and much cheaper than renting a cottage in the UK, once all the costs had been weighed up.
So I booked the holiday and a few weeks later we headed for Bangkok before flying on to Denpasar. In Bangkok, we just had the time to visit the Grand Temple and make the drive to the Floating Markets and Rose Garden to watch a cultural show. It gave us the opportunity of acclimatising to the heat and humidity.
When we arrived at our hotel we were surprised to find the hotel almost empty. Around the pool, there were free loungers and no lines at midday for the lunch buffet.
Just outside the hotel we met a lady who proposed to take us around the island to visit the sights. We agreed on a price and asked her to come and pick us up the next day. Unlike many other destinations, the Balinese are laid back and although business is business, you are always greeted with a smile.
This way we were spared the organised bus tours and could take the time to appreciate the countryside at our own pace. Stopping when we wanted to with no pressure to be back for a specified time.
Our guide told us her name was Mary, but I think that was just for our sake. She spoke some English and we had interesting conversations as we drove from temple to temple and from beach to beach. It was about as perfect as it could be and although we were far from home and had children to look after, we felt surprisingly safe and secure.
Bali is a wonderful island to visit and we ended up visiting five times over seven years. There is a lot to see, the hotels are comfortable and well equipped and the Balinese are so welcoming that you just want to come back just one more time.
The second time we visited I had successfully lost weight. For most of my adult life I've struggled to maintain a healthy weight with varying success and I tend to go from one extreme to the next. This time I was feeling great.
Next to the hotel, the Ramada Bintang Bali in Kuta, there was private beach and we loved bathing in the cool waters just before sunset after a busy day sightseeing.
On one occasion, and I can't remember exactly how it happened, my son and I broke into a run and ran barefoot along the beach, our feet leaving traces in the sand. I can still feel the wind in my hair, taste the salt on my lips and see the smile on the face of my beautiful boy. I'm sure it was only for a few hundred yards at most but for me they are unsurpassable moments that I still cherish years later.
Recently, after a few years of being unfit and carrying excess weight, I've decided to work at being fit once again and start living life to the full.
I'm training to go from couch to 5K and beyond, and when I start to run again, I'm sure that my thoughts will return to these memories with fondness.
This is the eighth part of a series of travel tales.
8. The Bali Run
It's strange.
Many of my adventures seem to happen when I'm tired.
My wife and I were bound for a twenty-two-night cruise from Cape Town to Sydney on the Queen Mary 2 and had taken a flight from Heathrow to Cape-Town.
We arrived early in the morning and transferred from the airport to the hotel and caught a brief glimpse of Table Top Mountain behind a shanty town on the outskirts of Cape Town.
The coach, with forty-odd other passengers, dropped us off at the Hotel, and we all fought to claim and transport our suitcases for the check-in.
The fatigue from the flight led to frayed tempers, and the foyer was alive with irate passengers most of whom just wanted to find their beds for a few hours sleep.
We weren't boarding the Queen Mary until the next day so theoretically the day was free to do whatever we wanted.
Check in was delayed as the rooms wouldn't be ready for an hour or so and we took a seat and waited.
It was a beautiful day. The air was clear and the sun was shining. It's rays illuminated the foyer, and a warm breeze wafted through the open doors. It was such a welcome change from the cold murkiness of the late January day we had left behind us in London.
I didn't want to stay seated too long because I was afraid of falling asleep. It would be better to wait until we could go up to our room, shower and then slumber.
I got up and walked around the foyer, trying to shake the sleep away.
Then I spied a brochure advertising helicopter rides over Cape Town, the coast and of course Table Mountain.
I grabbed it to take a look. The photos were, of course, fantastic and when I looked out again from the foyer at the cloudless sky outside, I thought as we only in Cape Town for the day it would be such a shame not to seize the occasion.
I took the brochure to my wife, and she read with a big smile.
There was no need to say more.
There was a contact number on the back of the brochure, and I asked at the desk if they could arrange a tour later in the day.
A few minutes later, all was arranged, and we would be picked up by car from the hotel and taken to the airport for our flight, and transferred back to the hotel afterwards.
There was just enough time to check in and spruce ourselves up before the car arrived.
I think I might have closed my eyes during the drive to the airport as I can't recall the details.
We received a warm welcome from the staff at the airport who gave us the customary safety briefing and ushered us, a few minutes later, into the helicopter. It was perfect as there would be just the two of us with our pilot.
We braced ourselves for take-off but it was so smooth that our bodies were unaware that anything had happened.
The air was clear; the colours were vibrant and with our headphones on, the sound of the rotors was muffled. Microphones enabled us to chat between ourselves and with the pilot. He told us that he was French, and as both of us are bilingual, we spent the rest of the flight 'en français.'
I'll let the photos describe our flight as I think that they convey the magic more than my words could describe.
It would have been extremely difficult to have had a better experience than the one we enjoyed that day.
Later, after touchdown, we chatted some more with the pilot and crew back in the reception while we waited for the DVD of our flight, filmed in HD from several onboard cameras.
Rather than go straight back to the hotel we asked the driver to drop us off at the waterfront.
We shopped in the market to get some fancy dress for an upcoming African Ball on the ship. I took more photos, while we drunk a coffee on a shaded terrace. We listened to a local Zulu Band who were selling their music on handmade artisanal CDs.
I even danced a little with them afterwards, Zulu style.
We were fabricating memories by the bucketload.
The cherry on the cake was the boat ride from the quay to the hotel, winding along the canal and up to the hotel.
Back at the Hotel, we just had the strength to sit out on the terrace and order dinner and a nice glass of South African white wine before going upstairs and falling into bed, totally exhausted.
On our way up to the room, we saw clouds rolling over Table Mountain like a stream.
What a day!
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This is the second part of a series of travel tales.
8. The Bali Run
I was slowly getting acclimatised to the altitude on our trip to Peru. We had been based in Cusco which is at 11,000 feet for a few days and my chest wasn't as tight as it was on arriving and I was no longer struggling to catch my breath.
I remember the first evening when we arrived in Cusco from Lima. Our guide had recommended a restaurant just a few minutes from the hotel. We were promised a buffet and a local show.
My wife and I set off on foot because we were told it was only a few blocks away. Walking even short distances at eleven thousand feet, when you are not used to it, is arduous and it took us much longer than expected to walk to the restaurant. Although it was on a fairly gentle incline, we were exhausted when we walked into the restaurant, well before we ate from the buffet and watched the show.
We had a great evening but even walking downhill to the hotel was difficult and I felt like an old man in slow motion, walking slowly and often gasping for breath between steps.
But two days later the frequent headaches had subsided and I felt a lot better.
The next day we had a very early breakfast before six am. It was still dark when we climbed into the coach and set off. We climbed a steep hill through the favelas of urban Cusco on our way to the Sacred Valley, a few hours drive away. It was far too early for conversation so we half awake as the coach trundled through the countryside.
When dawn broke I was surprised to see many villagers in national costume. In other countries that I've visited, national costume is worn mostly either for special occasions or for the tourists. In Peru, however, national costume is still worn quite naturally, every day of the year.
Our destination, that day, was Ollantaytambo an Inca archaeological site, in the Urubamba Province, some 60 kilometres or so from Cusco. Along the way, we stopped off at a mountain village to see how the baby alpaca wool was dyed with plants and minerals and had the opportunity, of course, of making a few purchases.
I seized a photo opportunity and left everyone to appreciate the show while I took my camera and headed along a path, just outside of the village.
When I travel in a group, I strive to be the first or the last member, so that I can seize photo opportunities that don't include people in the photos.
I love taking portraits, but landscape photos are marred, in my opinion, when there are people in the shot.
The air was crisp, and the early morning sun pale as I walked along the path, immersing myself in the countryside. As usual, I was searching for interesting angles. Photography is one of my favourite ways of discovering. It encourages me to be inquisitive and attentive to my surroundings. The actual photos are often unremarkable, but I get a lot of enjoyment from taking them.
I took a few photos and had a few memorable moments before rejoining the party in the village. I even bought a baby Alpaca scarf from a smiling woman on a market stall and she let me take a portrait or two. It was magic.
Then we headed to Ollantaytambo and were able to enjoy our plastic ponchos in the rain as we visited the archaeological site.
Ollantaytambo is only at 9,500 feet but we were still suffering a little from altitude sickness and decided not to climb all the way to the top of the hill for a view of the village and enjoyed it from half way up.
We all met up in the coach after the visit for the two-hour trip back to Cusco.
We were exhausted.
As we climbed the mountain pass that separates Ollantaytambo from Cusco the sun was setting and the light was slowly fading.
Just after the summit, we heard a loud thud and the coach lurched and leant over to the side. The driver turned the engine off and we all looked out of the window to see if it had collided with another vehicle. There wasn't another vehicle in site.
The driver and the guide talked for a minute or two before they announced that the back axle had broken and the coach couldn't pursue its route.
We were stranded in the middle of Peru at 12,500 feet. The highest we had ever been in Peru.
Thinking back to that incident now, I had made a tandem jump the previous summer from 10,000 feet and there we were, 2,500 feet higher.
I asked the guide if I could seize the opportunity and take some photos a short walk from the coach and he said that it wouldn't be a problem because he had a few calls to make.
I set off, very slowly over the road and into the fields to take some late afternoon photos. Most of the other passengers stayed in the coach.
When I had finished taking photos I returned to the coach. A few people had been able to jump onto another tour bus back to Cusco and the guide informed us that a replacement coach was on its way from Cusco to pick us up.
Within the hour, we were back in another small coach, on our way back to the hotel. As it was smaller it was able to take a few short cuts along the mountain roads and we all arrived just behind the other coach.
After an excellent meal, we retired to bed, ready for another excursion the next day.
A visit to Machu Picchu, the chance of a lifetime.
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This is the sixth in a ten-part series of travel tales.
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The growth of interest in craft beer and distilling shows no sign of lessening, if Alltech's annual symposium is any indication.
The annual meeting, called "REBELation" this year and organized by the Nicholasville-based animal nutrition company, has for 35 years focused on food, agriculture, aquaculture and marketing. This year, for the first time, two days of discussion on brewing and distilling were added, topics close to the heart of Alltech founder Pearse Lyons, himself a brewer.
"People are drinking more craft beer and paying more for it," Lyons said. In the past five years, craft beer volume has doubled to 19 million barrels, and craft beer is on its way to becoming a $25 billion business, he said.
Alltech's Craft Brews and Food Festival in Lexington on Saturday drew more than 5,000 people, he said. A similar event last summer in Dublin drew 10,000, he said.
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Even though the thirst for craft beer seems strong, Greg Koch, co-founder and CEO of Escondido's Stone Brewing Co., warned of "irrational exuberance" in the industry that leaves brewers ill-prepared for the inevitable headwinds.
Koch said that when he started brewing in 1996, just as a previous microbrewery bubble burst, he was told by a distributor: "Microbrews are dead. Imports is where it's at."
At that time, Koch said, he never dreamed there would be 3,500 craft breweries.
"How many of you are craft brewers?" he asked, looking around the room. Many hands went up. "Almost everybody. For the others, you have to ask yourselves, why aren't you?"
The 1996 bubble burst because consumers grew weary of overpriced, mediocre beer, Koch said. But quality and passion are worth pursuing, and brewers will succeed if they stick to what they love.
In 2006, Stone Brewing opened a 400-seat restaurant, World Bistro and Gardens at Liberty Gardens, in San Diego. In a part of the county that isn't particularly affluent, they offered a menu of pricey organics, no ketchup or colas with high-fructose corn syrup, and no TVs. Despite those drawbacks, he said, they've become the third-largest visitor destination in San Diego, behind only the zoo and Legoland.
His advice: "I've learned you have to do something worth talking about. If you're expecting people to go out of their way, you have to give them a reason to."
The Alltech REBELation symposium continues Tuesday.


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30 Year Birthday – Flash Sale
Tuesday October 23 for 1 day only you can get select stamps for 15% off. The best part if you can stack these savings on a starter kit!!! What stamps are you adding to your collection? Share in the comments below!
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Have you still not checked out the amazing Holiday Catalog? It is truly wonderful and you will wan to get a cup of coffee or wine and check out the Facebook live video that I did to walk through all of this amazing catalog https://www.facebook.com/papergears/videos/2715475435144560/ So what is your favorite set or suite… Read More Holiday 2018 Catalog walk through
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This ASL blanket is also available as a free download on Ravelry. This blanket was a labor of love. I have long loved ASL, and I used to be conversationally fluent in it. I took ASL 1 & 2 in high school, and then I took ASL 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 and Deaf Studies in community college. I am now Hard of Hearing, and I have a renewed interest in relearning ASL. That is where I came up with the idea to chart this blanket.
A modified chart is available for free download. It measures 120x120. This means you'll have to chain 121 to start your first row. Enjoy!
This hat is currently only for size 3 to 6 months. I will add additional sizes soon.
Degus are cute little rodents that make great pets!
This cute little zebra is about 10 inches from head to foot.


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Redesigning fashion is also remake and reuse.We reuse older clothes and deadstock fabrics that would be wasted using more sustainable and crative processes of production. Minimizing the environment damages, we are also committed to bring more humanity to the value chain of fashion.
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Padmashree Dr. Prakash Amte is well-known to all of us for his dedication for the upliftment of Tribals of Gadchiroli District. His contribution towards upbringing animals at Amte's Animal Ark, Hemalkasa is also an undivided part of his life since last 40 years or so.
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To report four cases of unexplained anterior intraocular lens (IOL) opacification after Descemet's stripping endothelial keratoplasty (DSEK).
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To be honest--I do have shoes. Black, in different styles. Pumps, flats, sneakers, boots, clogs--slides? You name it, I probably have a pair. Sometimes I think I'm like the guy with forty different pieces of clothing, all identical so he doesn't have to wonder what to wear.
I also have business cards. I made them myself. Nice. All gray with my logo all fancy and stuff. Then my oldest son showed me--over and over again--the scene in American Psycho where Bateman is talking about business cards and convinced me less is more. I pointed out more is more, especially at RWA, since people give me everything from foil embossed cards, to picture cards and everything in-between. He pointed out not everyone will have classic embossed cards "and" I could use them year after year. Which is true.
After checking them out, I'm far from having them myself. I can't afford 300 dollars for fifty cards. I can, however, afford the cheap knockoff for ten bucks. With brochures, lol.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
Last of the summer wine
I also picked more peppers and two lovely Queensland Blue pumpkins. They are now in the larder until the winter, for yummy pumpkin soup.
Well, at least that is one piece of the garden that looks nice now, all bare and raked over. The rest is disastrous. I just left the three sisters bed as it was so it is full of cut down cornstalks, bean stalks, and dead grass. Although, that does look very messy but underneath the soil is soft and supple. Maybe that has its merits after all.
My goal is to tidy up each patch and to them cover it in manure-filled stable waste. I cannot get pure manure so that will have to do. Now to see if I can hold this resolution!!
Friday, October 09, 2009
Recipe: pumpkin chocolate cake
- 1 small cup of steamed mashed pumpkin
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- pinch of cinnamon and pinch of salt
Melt the butter untill it is very hot then add the chocolate cut into small pieces. Leave to melt with the heat of the butter then blend till smooth.
Add the eggs and beat them in well, then add the sugar and the pumpkin and salt and cinnamon.
FOLD the flour into that mixture.
Bake in a moderately hot oven, 190-200 degC for about 15-20 minutes, it should still be melting inside.
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I did manage to take a few photos though.
Here the overall mess of the garden can be seen. I basically still need to remove all the summer crop waste: the beanstalks, the bean wigwams, and so on, and weed it all and cover with some manure over the winter. Look at my nice parsnip patch though, just the right amount for the autumn.And the pumpkins have been reasonably successful. Queensland blues:
And this one that hid in among the raspeberries, unobtrusively:
Still, the tomato harvest has been quite cool. Lots of sauce waiting in the cupboard and I still have plenty to make salsa from:
The strange thing I am holding in my grubby hand is a carrot. I got about 10 of them :-( Not the best harvest but gives me hope for next year. Except the carrots mostly came out purple!! very odd, especially as they are orange on the inside! I wonder what caused that??
Now I just have to dig out all that bloody grass. Oh well, it will give me some exercise in the coming months I guess!!
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Remember that the entire thing in Syria (between Russia and the USA) is an orchestrated theater, as you defend Putin and Trump. Trump is a jewish Shabbos Goy (so is Putin). They are working this together with Netanyahu.
One of the most illustrative interviews on this subject that you can see (yes, from Red Ice, but they did so with many screaming sycophants in the background desperately trying to NOT believe their own ears). If you want to understand exactly what is transpiring as a means to expand Israel, listen to this:
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Back in the USS/A(=R) TrumPutin it takes two to tango and they do (if we let them).
Strumpf as the the present jew-bankers-selected new WH resident could be called declared the following on 6th april 2017:
"Education and Sharing Day recognizes the remarkable efforts of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, to use values-based education to drive our nation's children toward the American Dream," stated Trump. "As an educator, Rabbi Schneerson understood that education is incomplete if it is devoid of moral development."
What exactly is the moral development this great mystic S. has in mind?
"This is what needs to be said about the body: the body of a Jewish person is of a totally different quality from the body of [members] of all nations of the world … The difference in the inner quality between Jews and non-Jews is "so great that the bodies should be considered as completely different species…..An even greater difference exists in regard to the soul. Two contrary types of soul exist, a non-Jewish soul comes from three satanic spheres, while the Jewish soul stems from holiness."
In other words: moral bankrupcy of the US confirmed by the WH.
The Kremlin jew bankers puppit tyrant crypto jew P. stole in 1992 (to start with) as mayor of St. Petersburg 100 million dollar
of Russia:
Henry Makow throws light on the source of the billions of Strumpf; how his dad Fred stole billions of the US and build a chabad power base in Brooklyn:
TheRapeOfJustice channel pushes the "controlled by the Sabbatean-Frankist" line ad naseum. Christopher Jon Bjerknes is probably CIA. The dumber dumb-down level.
Still many people don´t even know that there was a third building that collaped at 9/11.
It collapsed neatly in its own footprints hours after the twin towers. The BBC reported the complete collapse of this third tower the Salomons building even before it happened.
Quite a similar thing of clear foreknowledge happened two years earlier in Moscow in the Russian parliament concerning bombings on appartments which solidified P.´s power. Duma speaker of the communist party said he received news of a blown up apparment building in the city of Volgodonsk. Only these buildings collapsed three days later.
Journalist Anna Politkovskaya and former KGB / FSB asset Alexander Litvinenko who exposed Putin as behind the Moscow and Checnya terror attacks were neatly murdered.


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A ramshackle post-apocalyptic village. Bizarre customized vehicles. A dusty desert setting. At Burning Man, you wouldn't be surprised to see Mad Max zip through in a tanker truck at any given moment.
Burning Man is a full-immersion event that's only for the bold. Constant exposure to the elements. Many modern luxuries are virtually nonexistent, and that's sort of the point.
Still, that doesn't deter nearly 70,000 people from making the trek to Burning Man every year. In 2017 the festival runs August 27 through September 4, with the main event ("the burn") happening September 2.
Burning Man is located in Black Rock Desert, about three hours outside Reno, Nevada. More specifically, it takes place in Black Rock City, which looks like a big "C" to search and rescue aircraft passing overhead. What does the "C" mean? Crazy? Cell phone died? Call for help? (We wish we had instead gone to) Coachella? Attendees and organizers would probably say "Community." Aww.
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A Bevy of Bicycles
They're green. As in, environmentally friendly. Bicycles are everywhere at Burning Man. Compact and requiring no fossil fuels or electricity to operate, they're the best way to get around the sprawling grounds. Attendees usually pimp their bikes out with lots of flair to express their individuality, and also to more easily figure out which of the many bikes is theirs!
Dust Storms
When these tempests kick up, and they will, head into the nearest shelter and ride them out. That's about your only option. At Burning Man you'll see more faces hidden behind bandanas than in an epic western movie. Attendees use them to keep the dust out of their mouths and noses. The most commonly heard phrase at Burning Man, apart from "Where's my stash?" is "I have something in my eye!" To which the response is, "Yeah, like, an entire desert."
Dirty People (aka, "Hygiene Freaks Need Not Apply")
Burning Man first-timers (or "virgins") undergo trial by filth, as they are obliged to roll around in the dirt upon entering the grounds. This initiation ritual leaves them only slightly less dirty than the average attendee (see "Dust Storms" above for details). Many of these dirty people are eager to give you a hug for free.
The dress code at Burning Man would make pole dancers blush. Sure, there are costumes, but many of them are clothes in the loosest interpretation of the word. The only thing some people wear is a sunburn (the smart ones wear sunscreen instead). And still, the hugs. Those who don't dare to bare usually pick something crazy and creative. Whatever the case, you're sure to get an eyeful.
Makeshift Music
Burning Man is no Coachella, Bonnaroo, or Lollapalooza. In fact, it's not a music festival at all. No musical acts are scheduled. However, many attendees bring acoustic guitars, harmonicas, kazoos, their voices, and whatever else they can use to make their own music. Mega drum circles are a common occurrence. DJs are known to blast EDM at inconvenient hours. You have been warned.
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No electrical outlets. Like your mod, most appliances will require battery power. No running water. Whatever you need, you need to bring with you. You also take any trash you create with you when you leave, as there are no trash cans. Recycling is strongly encouraged. The environment is priority one at Burning Man, or if not number one, a close second to partying.
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A large thing sits in your path. You might be looking at an art installation, a piece of someone's camp that got blown off during a dust storm, or something that fell out of the sky. Just go with it.
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Pros and Cons of Pre-, Post- and No-bake Plates
Here's a riddle for you: It's not cake batter, it's not cookie dough, but you still have to bake it to get the most enjoyment out of it. What is it? To some the answer will be obvious: it's a printing plate.
Even if you didn't guess the answer to the riddle, you may still find yourself deriving enjoyment—or at least increased print runs and other benefits—from baking digital plates. Depending upon the plate and the print job it's intended for, you stand to gain significant production advantages by using a plate that requires baking either before or after imaging. You can also derive benefits from plates that require baking for longer print runs. If you'd rather leave the baking to bakers, you can find some plates on the market today that do not require baking at all.
But choosing to use baking in your plate production process is not without its downsides. The upside of cake and cookies is the enjoyment of eating them—the downside is the calorie intake. The upside of baking is composed of the production benefits—the downside can be additional costs and time. The overall benefit you derive overall lies in how you put the "recipe" together.
When you heat a plate before you expose it, you open up avenues to several benefits, including the use of inexpensive radiant heat, not expensive laser light, to prepare the plate for imaging. You still have to image the plate, but pre-heating means the plate is warmer that it would ordinarily be when it enters the imaging stage. Thus, less laser energy is required during the imaging process.
With thermal plates, pre-heating creates a negative-working plate, which can then be used with either other thermal plates or conventional, negative film.
Jeffrey Zaloom, director of R&D for PDI, says that pre-baking is required when using some thermal plates. "Pre-baking thermal CTP surface plates is necessary to fully expose the image. Portions of the plate exposed to the platesetter form a strong acid in the coating matrix. Heating catalyzes the reaction between the acid and polymer to either cause crosslinking or de-protection of the polymer system to create an image."
Likewise, post-baking (heating the plate after it has been imaged, but before it goes on-press) offers several advantages depending upon the type of plate that is heated. It can also convey advantages to printers that want to make sure the plates will stand up under demanding press conditions.
David Bartram, worldwide marketing manager for Kodak Polychrome Graphics, explains how post-baking helps American printers. "Thermal plates in the United States must be post-baked more often than not. Generally, this is because press chemistry in this country has evolved to be compatible with conventional, negative plates." Post-baking gives thermal plates the edge they need and creates a very durable plate.
Post-baking is also sometimes used to extend the run length of a thermal plate beyond its normal run length of several hundred thousand impressions. With post-baking, those run lengths can be extended into the millions. Agfa, for example, already offers Thermostar, a thermal plate with run lengths of several hundred thousand without baking, and into the millions with post-baking. Anocoil's new 830 T-Plate is the same: no pre-heat with typical run lengths into the hundreds of thousands and much longer print runs after post-baking.
According to Jim Crawford, PS Plate product manager for Fuji Photo Film USA, the need for the commercial sheetfed market to avoid ovens and baking is the reason Fujifilm introduced the Brillia LH-PI thermal plate. It requires no pre-bake and no post-bake for run lengths that reach hundreds of thousands, which actually exceeds the needs of most commercial printers.
"The adoption rate for this product is so high because many printers never had ovens in their production environment, and didn't want to start baking just because of thermal plates," says Crawford.
The downside of baking, whether you do it before or after the plate is imaged, is that you have to spend the time and the money on this additional step in the process. You will also have to spend the money to acquire the baking ovens and money to house and run them. And, as with any process, you run the risk of losing additional time and money if the steps aren't done correctly.
Some plate manufacturers that sell plates which can be pre- or post-baked have decided to help eliminate some of the downside of heating plates by creating new equipment. In late 1999, Kodak Polychrome Graphics, for example, announced the All in One compact thermal plate processor with an integrated, pre-heating oven.
The company now offers two other products, in addition to the All in One, which are also designed to reduce the energy and floor space requirements needed for heating plates. The Quick Bake unit is a new product that can be attached to the back of a plate processor. The CTP1 is a smaller plate processor that's less that 10-feet long and comes with a built-in heating unit.
Other Concerns
Zaloom is convinced that having to bake plates at all is a considerable downside. In fact, he says, "Ovens are for baking pizzas, not printing plates." He cites several problems with baking in general. Difficulties can prevent printers from doing the pre-baking step properly, thus leading to problems with the development of the plate, such as image loss. Fogging or banding from under-exposure can also occur, he says.
And sending different-size plates through the same oven can cause development and image problems. "Larger plates with more mass will require higher temperatures to get to the proper pre-heat (or post-bake) temperatures compared to the smaller plates that have less mass," Zaloom adds. Post-baking must be consistent, as well, otherwise problems with plate cracking can occur.
Two problems with post-baking that printers need to be aware of stem from a lack of understanding how to undertake the post-bake process. If the oven is too hot, it can weaken the aluminum, Zaloom explains. "Some recommended temperatures for post-baking are close to the annealing temperature of aluminum—the temperature at which aluminum begins to change its physical characteristics." A too-hot oven can warp the plate, leading to problems when the plate is mounted and the plate usually cracks.
The other problem arises when plates are under-baked, and the plate has reduced durability and run length compared to what would be possible if the plate had been baked properly. "Harsh chemicals (very alkaline washes) and ultra-violet and electron beam inks, known for their chemically aggressive tendencies, can weaken the plate's polymer and lead to early replacement." Rough papers, older presses and very long print runs can also affect under-baked plates adversely.
There are plates that require no baking whatsoever and there are thermal plates that don't require pre-baking. The PDI bi-metal plates for thermal platesetters also do not require baking. The Prisma 830 Thermal Plate is a bake-free plate with run lengths into the millions.
Baking Counterpoint
With all this talk about baking and when and how you should do it, you might come to the conclusion that you shouldn't consider any plate that requires baking to get the most out of it. According to Leigh Kimmelman, product manager, output products, for CreoScitex, that's not necessarily the best decision to make.
"Traditionally, post-baking is done to extend run length," he says. In addition, post-baking is sometimes used to help plates stand up to aggressive chemicals used in the wet market. However, to bake or not to bake is not the only factor to consider when choosing plates. "It's really a preference; plates are often tied into proofing or other factors. [Baking] ovens are often given as a part of the deal. It's more a salesmanship and relationship [with suppliers] issue. They all work on-press."
Whatever your personal preference is—to bake or not to bake—it's a sure bet that plate vendors will continue to move toward plate products that require less baking or no baking at all. However, it could be some time before the need for post-baking is completely eliminated. Bartram comments on the need to post-bake to get these much longer run lengths: "It won't go away soon. It's necessary to satisfy the million-run-length needs."
Despite what Bartram says about post-baking for extending run length into the millions, plate vendors are also working on developing, or improving, current offerings—plates that have run lengths into the millions without the need for baking. The major vendors are either offering products that already fit this category or are working furiously to add them to their product offerings.
That's because the plate vendors, especially those that make thermal plates, realize that baking is not the ideal way to condition a plate. Concerns about the downside may keep printers from using plates that require baking; it all boils down to the common-sense idea that the less you have to do to the plate the better. Plate vendors understand this and will continue to experiment with technology that eliminates or reduces the need to apply heat to a plate anywhere except inside the platesetter itself.
In the Meantime
While plate vendors continue working in their R&D labs toward an image-and-go plate that can stand up to print runs in the millions, printers need to understand the upside and downside of applying heat to plates as part of the plate development process. Heating the plate before imaging or afterwards can help the plate, but the heating process must be done carefully and consistently to avoid potential problems.
In addition, there are some no-bake alternatives available to printers today, if baking hasn't worked for you or you'd rather not invest time, energy and money into plates for this reason. There are fewer plate choices in the no-bake category, but there are some—which is always better than none at all.
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A thousand times my Guru, I asked:
How shall the Nameless be defined?
I asked and asked but all in vain.
The Nameless Unknown, it seems to me,
Is the source of the something that we see.
- Lalla, from Lalla vakhs No. 26
That Illumined
Who keeps
Seducing the formless into form
Had the charm to win my
Only a Perfect One
Who is always
Laughing at the word
Can make you know
- Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky, from: The Gift
In love, nothing exists between heart and heart.
Speech is born out of longing,
True description from the real taste.
The one who tastes, knows;
The one who explains, lies.
How can you describe the true form of Something
In whose presence you are blotted out?
And in whose being you still exist?
And who lives as a sign for your journey?
- Rabia al Basri
From each, Love demands a mystic silence.
What do all seek so earnestly? Tis Love.
Love is the subject of their inmost thoughts,
In Love no longer "Thou" and "I" exist,
For self has passed away in the Beloved.
Now will I draw aside the veil from Love,
And in the temple of mine inmost soul
Behold the Friend, Incomparable Love.
He who would know the secret of both worlds
Will find that the secret of them both is Love.
- Attar, from Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager,
The Holy One disguised as an old person in a cheap hotel.
Goes out to ask for carfare.
But I never seem to catch sight of him.
If I did, what would I ask him for?
He has already experienced what is missing in my life.
Kabir says: I belong to this old person.
Now let the events about to come, come!
- Kabir, translated by Robert Bly
This moment a tiny thrust on the sea of life
This moment a tiny sparkle on the vastness
This moment a crucible of fragility
This moment the heartbeat of existence
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