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Mary Lou McLagan soaks paper and crushes it into a wad. But it's not destined to be lobbed into a trash can; it will become the canvas for her impressionistic art.
McLagan, 82, moved to Pleasant Hill from Norfolk, Va., 47 years ago. As she raised her five children with her husband, she continuing to train herself as an artist by reading, taking workshops and communing with other painters.
When her kids were young, she sometimes painted with a young child on her knee.
Her art is on display at Lee's Summit City Hall until mid July.
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She exhibits at local art festivals, but most of her effort goes into her gallery Art Craft Crossing and the classes she has been teaching for 26 years at the historic train depot in Pleasant Hill, at 100 Wyoming St.
She also paints landscapes and portraits on commission. That work involves a level of difficulty, she says, as it requires connecting with the emotion the client feels for the subject, whether it's a person or a place.
She says art has been her obsession since she first developed a passion for painting at the age of 10.
"You can call me very dedicated or not very well-rounded. If I'm reading a book, it's about art.
"I love color, harmony and I'm really heavy on design," said McLagan, who describes her work as stylistic.
She teaches the principles and elements of design, which she said helped her dramatically improve her work. Those formalized ideas reach back to classical Greece, she said. A lot of people intuitively understand what makes a good design, she said, but in her classes she gives them the vocabulary for communicating about art and understanding what they might read in an art magazine.
Some of her students have been painting with her for many years and have gone on to teach workshops themselves. After each session, they critiquing each other's work.
Gloria Davisson, a member of the Pleasant Hill Art League, is one of her students and is also self-taught. She said McLagan has spent years going to workshops with nationally recognized artists and passes along what she's learned from them.
"She's just a wonderful teacher; everyone loves her to death. That's why we continue to go (to her classes)," Davisson said. "It's like a social club."
"I hope they learn from me. I certainly learn from them," McLagan said.
At her gallery and studio, she said, she has eight or nine students working on their own projects. If they're having a problem, she'll demonstrate a fix on a separate canvas or piece of paper, but won't touch the artist's work, she said.
She said her own style shifts every five years or so. A while back, she found a style that sold well, but she got bored and moved on. McLagan said she was more interested in teaching and exploring her art than seeking financial success on the art fair circuit. Her husband supported her and made that possible, she said.
She still works in oils, pastels or other paints when requested for commissioned pieces, but recently she's devoted her personal efforts to painting on masa — a versatile paper also known as rice paper. The style originated in Japan.
To achieve the look, she soaks paper in water, wads it a ball, soaks it again, then again wads into a ball. Then she spreads it out and glues it to a canvas. The somewhat abstract, impressionistic result doesn't appeal to everyone, she said.
"When it sells it's a bonus," McLagan said.
"My teaching is my love and my passion. I sell enough to keep me going to the art supply store. It's like going to the candy store."


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From 1941-1945 women participated in world war 2 and helped in the war. This for sure impacted history in a way that meant women could start helping in the wars and in some forms help defend their country which is very very important and changed history forever.
Margaret Sanger was an early feminist and women's rights activist who coined the term "birth control" and in 1921 legalized it. This was important and impacted history because it gave women rights for their bodies and what they wanted to do about their sex life.
On January 5, 1925 Ross became the first woman Governor in the United States as she became the Governor of Wyoming. This was important in history because she inspired many other women to run for office and inspired more women to make even more changes with the women's rights.
In 1909 22-year-old Alice Ramsey became the first woman to drive across the United States. This was an important event in history because her being the first woman to drive across the country gave inspiration to more women who wanted to have the chance to drive.
On March 4, 1933 Frances Perkins was sworn into Secretary of Labor, as well as the first woman in the U.S. cabinet. This was important in history because putting a woman into the cabinet gave more leeway for women to share their thoughts and opinions and they also had their voice for women.
in 1932 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to make a nonstop transcontinental flight as a woman. This was a big event in history for women because she was the first person to even make a flight that long and she was a woman doing it.
The 19th amendment gave women the right to vote officially and in 1920 it officially became a real passed thing. This is important to every women in the united states and has not only impacted me, because of this being passed women now have the right to vote on things they believe in.
In 1912, 20,000 suffrage supporters went to New York City and had a parade protesting women's suffrage with half a million people watching. This has an impact on me because there were many more parades but these numbers seem so crazy that knowing that many people watching this parade has not only an effect on me but many other women as well. Because of things like this we have the right to vote which is very important.
in 1903 The Women's Trade Union was created as an American organization that gave women a better opportunity and was an organization dedicated to women working, and making more fair conditions for women to work. This impacts me because without this union I probably would not have been able to get a job when I'm older or maybe even go to school.
Susan B. Anthony was a women's rights leader, worked with the woman suffrage movement in the United States and president (1892-1900) of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Her work helped pave the way for the Nineteenth Amendment (1920) to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote. She has a personal impact on me because one day I will be able to vote.

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I don't know about you all but I have spent the years of my youth playing sports, running around the jungle gym and chasing friends around the yard, pretty much anything to stay active. Then things began to change. The internet became a thing, we began to trade in our skates for game controllers, our bikes for tablets and those began the era of dormant fun. Childhood obesity began to rise, people became lazy and eventually some of us let ourselves go. Eventually things began to change and being fit was once again the "in" thing.
The last couple of years the fitness world has had a rise in attraction from the general population. People are becoming more health conscious, eating better, working out more and just taking better care of themselves. As humans, however, we sometimes forget to keep the movement going. Take Collene for instance, an athlete since grade school, she competed in track, soccer and softball since the age of five through college.
Eventually she gave up. Once she graduated from college and was no longer a student-athlete her fitness journey came to a complete halt. She stopped working out, paid less attention to her appearance until one day things became more noticeable.
All of a sudden her clothes didn't fit, she couldn't shop in her favorite stores and her self-esteem started to fail. She needed to make a change and through the help of her trainers at ICanFitness she got her life and her health back on track. Check out her story below.
Follow her on social media @collene87
ICanFitness is ran by Roderick Tresvant and Dietrich Harrington. They are located at 8802 Miramar Pkway, Miramar, FL 33025
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ICanFitness also has a second location in Georgia ran by Brian Meadows
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To co-incide with the launch of new dates for our acclaimed Essential Video Skills for Comms workshops here is a blog that aims to get you kitted out for the cost of an Americano a day for a month.
By Dan Slee
Cost has always been a factor in helping to train comms people into how best to use video.
Gone are the days when a video production company could come and shoot a five grand video for a conference of fifty people.
Sure, there's still a place for an externally-made video. But when you have the technology on your smartphone that's in your pocket the smart thing to do is to look at ways to use that.
Over the past three years, myself and my colleague Steven Davies have trained more than 1,000 people. It has been a delight. Often people think the kit will be expensive. Not true. You can just use your phone or tablet if you like. But for a small investment you can improve what you do.
The sixty quid kit
If you have a device and you want he basics, a Rode clip-on microphone and a mobile phone tripod will cost you around £60. That's roughly an Americano a day for a month. But if you want some extras, you can pay your money and take your choice.
A tablet or mobile
You can get a video camera if you must. But then you have the faff of keeping it charged, keeping it in a place where people can find it and hope that people will remember how to use it. Or you could use a smartphone or tablet. You are more likely to have that with you, have it charged and know what the buttons do.
Use your own phone if you can or your office device. But don't use Windows or Blackberry. There isn't the editing or social media software for them.
If money is no object, I'd reckon my colleague Steven suggest a Google Pixel 2 phone. Cost: Around £700.
I'd recommend a Samsung Galaxy S7. Cost: Around £400.
Or if you are after a tablet, the ipad will suffice. Cost: Around £300.
Sound and shooting extras
A tripod is a good idea. A pocket one will work just fine. Cost: around £10.
A Rode Smartlav clip-on microphone is handy to improve noise and has been roadtested by Steven. Cost: Around £50.
As an optional extra, a cable extension for the Rode Smartlav clip-on mic is an idea. Cost around £18.
You've a choice of editing software. For ios, you can use imovie which is free. Or you can go for kinemaster which is ios or android. There is a free version. That'll do great things and if you can live with the kinemaster logo in the top right corner even better. But the Pro version gives you extra resources to draw from and is worth it, frankly. You can get it for £23.25 a year if you pay upfront or about £3 a month pay-as-you-go. Cost: From free to up to £23.25 a year.
Shooting video can be a drain on your phone battery. So, a powerbank you can plug in to top-up your charge is always a good idea. Cost: £20.
There are sound libraries available that charge a subscription. But there are also creative commons options which allow you to use for free so long as you fulfil some simple criteria. Crediting at the end, for example, is common. I've blogged about this here. Cost: free.
Our workshops help you to plan, shoot, edit, add music and text and post at the right length and in the right place. Give me a shout for more @danslee on Twitter or email@example.com. They are great. But I am biased.
Birmingham on January 22. More here.
Manchester on January 24. More here.
London on February 1. More here.
London on February 2. More here.
Dan Slee is co-founder of comms2point0.


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Just a quick update for you guys. The market, on the whole, has been somewhat erratic and basically trendless. I predicted movement in EUR/USD and it moved earlier in the week but the sentiment of the market has changed. There are trades to be made but only for a short amount of time, merely a few hours. I would suggest that if you enter into one of these short-term trades, that you exit your position as soon as the desired profit is made. Do not be greedy, it may not produce a result that is favorable. I continue to stress the fact that you should not enter any trades unless you see the right setup, where you know that the capital you put up for that trade will increase when the transaction is made.
Take a look at this chart of EUR/USD and the trend it is in:


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TP-Link AC3200 Wireless Tri-Band Gigabit Router (Archer C3200) Drivers - Firmware Download
TP-LINK Archer C3200 Drivers - Firmware Download Review - TP-Link Archer C3200 in size 200 × 200 × 39 mm weighing more than 700 g. complete the power supply to the router — he has not known the "form factor, weighs more than a quarter of a kilo and produce 60 watts. Attached is a short power cord can be easily substituted as PSU mounted IEC 60320 C14 connector standard.
One of the faces of the power supply unit has a bright-blue led Strip. You can't disable it, not like bright blue LEDS in the same router. To disable their separate buttons on the front panel, and in addition, you can configure it automatically switches itself off certain hours.
All this power PSU is required to provide three radio with their own CPU and CPU. Of course, all this is good warm while working is very real, so that the router chassis almost entirely littered with ventilation holes. Need to correct all the chips and cold places and causes an increase in the size and weight of the hull the model all based on Tri-Band Broadcom solutions. So Archer C3200 is not it better to put in the corner of a dusty without normal air flow. However, because this design will look good and in a prominent place. The router can be hung on the wall, though due to the location of the antenna may not be the best solution-they can only lean on 90 with minor degree compared to the top of the router.
The hardware section of the claim is not proven platform with good performance. Unfortunately, all of this power is really pointless. Why? Since the TP-Link is true to itself, and any global change the firmware there. In addition, when compared with those same archers C9, C3200 lost useful features intelligent classification and prioritization of traffic. The new features of the above mentioned disabling the scheduled indicators and SmartConnect function that should be most allocate between wireless clients and access points that really has all the solutions that are based on a Tri-Band Broadcom. In addition to other useful is the built-in IPSec client. Get acquainted with other firmware can official emulator.
Indeed, all this process arises from the need for the correct operation of the dynamic range selection (DFS) to Wi-Fi devices do not interfere with radar and satellite equipment. Especially in the upper range of the U-NII, the terms of use that differ markedly from region to region. In our case, one of the 802.11 ac-dot can work with tv with 36-64, and the second with 100-128. to test the settings manually selected channel 36 and 100, and also specified the width of 80 Mhz, range 5 Ghz was almost empty. In the lower range of average proved little C3200 faster C9, and here at the top of the slower. With regard to the range of 2.4 Ghz, the router could not engage in a 40 Mhz channel, although the settings you specified exactly this width. Just like last time, there is an asymmetry is the velocity in the direction of the router to the power adapter is higher than otherwise.
In the settings of the router that allows encryption WPA2, WPS function is disabled, but intelligent connect is not involved, as a wireless client is the only one that is still in use. Options for reducing interference from USB 3.0 in the firmware, so that the tests are conducted without storage or printer. All other settings are left unchanged. For testing we used the standard stand. The first configuration: Intel Core i7 2600 k, 12 Gb RAM, ASUS PCE-AC68 (in the table marked as A), Windows 7 SP1 x 64. The second configuration: Intel Core i7-4700HQ, 12 Gb RAM, 10 x 64 Windows with all updates Realtek RTL8168 (table designated as R).
The speed of the connection cable to the network proved to be slightly higher than Archer C9. Direct connections PPPoE and stored at a rate of 900 Mbps, though, as expected, at the first duplex that proved both faster speeds of around 1.4 GB/s and the same 900 Mbit/s each. Separate settings to enable/disable the NAT hardware view, but, apparently, this feature is enabled by default. In the case of L2TP connections, you can rely on the speed of up to 260 Mbps, and PPTP is averaging up to 180 Mbps. in both cases, the duplex speed not higher than in the case of connections each way.
- Interfaces : 4 10/100/1000Mbps LAN Ports, 1 10/100/1000Mbps WAN Port, 1 USB 3.0 Port + 1 USB 2.0 Port.
- Button : Wireless On/Off Button, Power On/off Button, LED On/off Button, WPS Button, Reset Button.
- Dimensions (W X D X H) : 7.9 X 7.9 X 1.5 in. (200 X 200 X 39mm).
- Antenna : 3 dual band Fixed antennas & 3 single band Fixed antennas.
- External Power Supply : 12V/5A.
- Wireless Standards : IEEE 802.11ac/n/a 5GHz. IEEE 802.11b/g/n 2.4GHz.
- Frequency : 2.4GHz and 5GHz Band1/Band4.
TP-LINK Archer C3200 Firmware Installations/Update
- How to upgrade the firmware version of TP-Link wireless router Link
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Modifications and Bug Fixes :
- Optimized the transmit power for the clients just support 20MHz, when the 2.4GHz wireless channel bandwidth is set up as 40MHz on the web page.
- Improved the 2.4GHz wireless channel automatic selection mechanism to avoid sideband.
- Improved the Parental Control function.
- This firmware is a Multi-language version, including English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, TC, Vietnamese, Russian, Polish.
Bug Fixed:
- Fixed the bug that PPTP dial up may fail under some conditions.
- Fixed the bug that Mac clone function wouldn't work after restarting the device.
TP-Link AC3200 Firmware
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Modifications and Bug Fixes :
- Optimized the transmit power for the clients just support 20MHz when the 2.4GHz wireless channel bandwidth is set up as 40MHz on the web page.
- Improved the 2.4GHz wireless channel automatic selection mechanism to avoid sideband.
Bug Fixed:
- PPTP dial up may fail under some conditions.
- Mac clone function wouldn't work after restarting the device.
- For Archer C3200(US)_V1
TP-LINK Archer C3200 Utility For Windows and Mac OSUSB_Printer_Controller_Utility_Mac Download
USB_Printer_Controller_Utility_Windows Download
TP-LINK Archer C3200 Tether Apps For Android and iOSTP-LINK Archer C3200 Tether Apps For Android Playstore
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I think it's funny how women like to have tons of pillows on the bed and couches. You ask them what they are for and they don't really have a good answer.
Some people say they are decorative pillows. But why are we decorating our bed with 2 millions pillows when we are the only ones that ever see it? It takes half an hour to get ready for bed - 5 minutes to get ready and 25 minutes to remove the pillows.
Sometimes when I go to visit friends I try to sit on their couch and I end up with about half an inch for me to sit on because the pillows are pushing me off. I have to turn around and move the pillows but there really isn't a good place to put them. You can't put them on the floor - that would be rude. I can't put them next to me because someone else is trying to sit there. So I end up piling them up in my lap until I can't even see anyone anymore.
I think one or two pillows is okay. But having a whole stack of pillows on the bed and couch is just out of control.


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Our Political Homelife
183cm x 123cm, Acrylic over 9 canvases
The idea for this new series of paintings was from me feeling increasingly offended and amused by the reasoning against allowing LGBT people the same marital rights as heterosexuals. It felt so invasive, however well wrapped in reasonable language; at the more tolerant end of the scale it was simply not an institution for us to enter into through to LGBT people controlling the weather.
The images in this series come from the question "What on earth do they think we get up to at home?!" and I found it funny trying to combine hugely mundane / boring daily domestic tasks and making them odd by throwing sex or horror into the action.
'Washing Up' shows a self portrait washing up a ladle spoon but in his constant sexual state the simple task becomes an orgasmic frenzy ejaculating soap suds all over the nice clean counter. 'Ja' in Germany is a budget range of grocery items.
'Sit Down Wee' shows a self-portrait having a sit down wee. Domesticity is so deranged by this perversion of the norm that it is difficult to clarify whether that is his fiancée simply having a shower in the background or whether it is a threatening intruder.
'Midnight Feast' shows a self portrait getting a midnight snack meanwhile even the vegetables are at it with the peppers and the artichoke gang banging half an onion.


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Garden Tour Weekend.
A 2013 Lake of the Sky Garden Tour Ticket is your coupon for 20% off of any one purchase this Saturday or Sunday!
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"The" Garden Tour is this Saturday from 10-4. Rob and Eric will be out there enjoying the creations, asking questions (and answering more than a few), listening to what you love and wonder at, and learning from everyone there.
The Villager traditionally offers a one time 20% Off discount (any one purchase) on Saturday and Sunday and we will again.
Native Plants
I saw an Epilobium canum (Zauchnaria, CA Fuchsia) at the TOP of Devil's peak. Also Mt. Pennyroyal, Newberry's Penstemon and Wooly Sunflower. We have all of these available in the nursery.
On the climb down I saw Mountain Maple, Eastwood Willow, Scouler's Willow, Currants, Gooseberries, Spiraea, Bittercherries, Columbine, Elderberry, Common Juniper, Snowbrush, Twinberry, Twin-flowering Honeysuckle, Dogwood, Creambush, Rabbitbrush, Sulfur-flower Buckwheat and Sagebrush. All of which we have at the Villager. We have Manzanitas, Sedums, Agastache and so many more natives and close-to-native wildflower bulbs, perennials, shrubs, trees in the nursery that are PERFECTLY adapted to our climate. Give a few a try.
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The hummingbirds are out en masse right now, dive-bombing us in the nursery, chasing each other off the Columbine, Salvias, Crocosmia and Penstemons. I was so inspired I put up one of our favorite "Best" hummingbird feeders (anti- ant and bee) and I had Hummers at it the nest morning. They are really pretty violent and territorial creatures - mean descendants of the dinosaurs - but fascinating and beautiful and worth feeding after their journey all the
way from Central America.
The finch socks are one of the easiest ways to feed pleasant little goldfinches. Just hang-up the pre-filled yellow sock full of thistle seed and they will come in flocks. Also, you can leave this feeder up year-round and finches will appreciate the sustenance.
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...devil's helmet or monkshood. Aconitum is a genus with over 250 species native to much of the northern hemisphere. Our most common and easy to grow species is Aconitum napellus, a Garden Monkshood, which is a frequent garden plant in cold locations throughout North America and Europe. I have divided mine several times and the plants grow to 6' tall and 2' wide with dozens of flowering stalks. Where the irrigation blasts them they often fall over if not staked but out of the spray, they seem to stand on their own. They are very long lived. Like a shade loving delphinium with beautiful purple flowers. A. napellus prefers open woodland shade and moist well-drained soil. We also have a few Autumn Monkshood that prefer more sun and bloom much later. The picture is 'Ivorene', a white selection in our landscape. See Coupon Below.
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I know my blog is boring as hell lately.
Work is on my mind way too much.
It's sad, I know.
I miss Mike alot too.
When he's not here I have unlimited time to obsess about work, in a not-good way.
I'm going to stop. I'm really trying.
In other news I'm running 4 x a week and eating salad every day. But I'm not going to bore
the living daylights out of everyone by ruminating on and on about my exercise and eating habits.
Summer approacheth.
As my sister reminded me today we have rooftop drinks and tanning to look forward to shortly.
We've both been leaning on each other pretty heavily lately. Between caring for my mom, and all that entails, to my sister's recent dating changes, to my married-but-alone status (groan), we see each other at least a couple of times a week. With the kids, for dinners on the weekends. Without them going running on Sundays. Emailing. Talking. Trying to solve each other's problems.
What else can I tell you?
I'm still sick. I'd like to be better by next week because I'm flying to Boston next Friday for the weekend. I'm worried that Mike's family will see me as someone perpetually ill (when I was there over New Years' 2010/2011 I had the worst flu of my life).
I want to be healthy and enjoy my short visit. (on an aside note I think it's my body rebelling from all the healthy spring-ness I'm forcing on it. I'm serious).
As it stands right now, I won't see him again until August, when Lisa and I and the kids go out there for vacation. It's a long stretch to go.
I went to the library tonight. I needed some new books to read, and oddly, (I read a tonne of memoirs) I wanted fiction. I found the new Alexander McCall Smith (go here if you want to know more about him, I collect his No. 1 Ladies' Detective Series {set in Botswana} and have written about it before, and I love the Isabel Dalhousie series {I visited actual places mentioned in the books when I visited Edinbugh four years ago} check out this website for more accolades than I can give here:
The "new" book is one from the Isabel Dalhousie series, and it's new to me. It was while reading through it last night (and checking the website, then comparing my bookshelf) that I realized that in the flurry that was 2011, I had missed the book before (I normally stalk Amazon and have a kind of ESP for when a new book comes out--and I pre-order them).
I missed "The Charming Quirks of Others" which I will hunt down and read, and I am now reading "The Forgotten Affairs of Youth". And yes, all his books are this charmingly-titled.
In the first paragraph, (I'll just relate this quickly, paraphrasing because I love the sentence so much, then I really must go to sleep), McCall Smith describes the planet as "uneasy".
I just loved that. As you know, I always describe our chaotic planet as "revolving door", and I've heard our planet described in many different ways over many different mediums (vast, expansive, etc.) but uneasy is a new one.
And it is, isn't it? All of us, warily making our way, watching out for the pitfalls, the guides, the signposts.
Nothing too deep, but that struck me.
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My office is a hoarding vortex. Sometimes pieces of paper and random objects also land in another part of the house and stay there for a few days (I'll blame my 6 year-old for that part). My Nan was super fastidious with her housekeeping and so was my mom. "A place for everything and everything in its place," she always said. What happened? I recognize it's a weakness. Admitting there's a problem is a first step, no?
I have good intentions and have made some attempts to organize my workspace: I brought up a garbage bag and started dumping in papers to be shredded, and I bought a foldable bin from the Dollar Store as a way to collect randomly-misplaced-throughtout-the-house objects to put them in their proper place. The bag sits on the floor, half full, below a mountain of paper on the desk. The foldable bin is on the floor with stuff in it, waiting to be sorted. Oh, and I forgot to mention the big suitcase that's kind of in the middle of the floor. I really should put that in the basement.
Now what? My problem is never knowing where to start. I'll be in one area trying to neaten things and bring something to another room and get totally sidetracked.
I'm going to give myself a timeline to get the office back to looking like it once did. Except now I feel pressure to come up with a timeline and stick to it. What's acceptable to me that also fits in with everything else I need to do? How about 2 weeks. I'll post another photo then and go from there.


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The website is user friendly and easy to navigate. I was able to quickly find what I needed and check out quickly. The delivery was on time and my mom loved it. The little bird was a cute touch.
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I ordered two plants going to two different addresses for a very sad reason. This florist was fantastic. I ordered online. Next day they called on the order to make sure they had everything the way I wanted. The plants when they arrived were breath takingly beautiful and my painstaking thoughts on the cards were word for word what I wrote. I would recommend this florist the went above and beyond to get my order right and the service on delivery with care and the quality of plants stellar! Hands down the florist you are looking for to do the job at a great price.
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I ordered online, Down To Earth contacted me almost immediately to get some specific details and make sure I'd be okay with some minor flower substitutions. Great customer service. Arrangement arrived promptly and was beautiful.
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I, Alexander Kamandi Esq., am officially supporting Rann in this intergalactic conflict. Let's face it; the Rannians are fit to be our Alien Overlords, while those filthy Thanagers are barely fit to clean up after us or do our collective Earth laundry. They are a low, mongrel race with hideous features befitting a lesser species. Just look at the dark, sloping brows and beady eyes; science will tell you that these "people" obviously come from deviant stock. And you can't argue with that. It's Science.
The Rannians are a lovely and cultured people, with refined arts and noble physical features. I have only one word for you: Jetpacks. The height of civilization. Meanwhile, the Thanagers still use wings like animals! They wear bird fetishes on their heads and run about bare-chested in a most common manner. To refer to them as dirty savages would be a gross understatement.
The Rann Jetpack Trooper Squadrons are outfitted in a splendid uniform of red, white, and yellow; colors symbolizing Courage, Hope, and Nobility. The Thanagers wear Green, the color of Incest!
Rann women love Earth men. They love to please a human male with all varieties of sexual positions, and perform acts of fellatio that are legendary across the universe. Adam Strange once spoke of orgasms so powerful that his spleen ruptured, and he had migraine headaches for days afterward. He also claimed that his partner "swallowed".
On Thanagar, it is common practice to masturbate in public and engage in sexual congress with internal combustion engines. Although Thanager men are known to have large members, they can only perform in the "missionary" position due to their useless, vestigial wings, and they usually cum really quickly, leaving their women unsatisfied. Sometimes they spooge in the eye of their partner, causing rashes and irritation. And you can pregnant from sitting on a toilet seat on Thanagar.
It is clear to any astute observer that Rann is superior in all aspects. Let us hope that they someday prevail in this conflict, and then move on to conquer Earth. Then they will teach us how to shoot our loads in arcs reaching distances of eight feet, spraying our seed over the headboard and past any onlookers. For every Man is a Porn Star on Rann.
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great session Ian but is there any way to get those spin numbers down ? I have about the same ball speed as u 148-153 avg and i keep my spin under 2000 and my carry numbers and total are a bit longer. Best i have seen this year is 270 carry and 296 overall at 155 BS 1800 spin
But i also ordered a few new Cobra drivers with various shafts
I guess you will need to launch high enough to get decent carry numbers with such low spin.
Would you say the Sub Zero is more forgiving than your Ping G?
Those MOI numbers are not apple to apple comparison. I believe those 8000+ numbers are total MOI ( horizontal and vertical combined. ) for the Epic But the 5400 for the Ping G is the vertical MOI only. There is a conforming limit of 5900 g cm2 defined by R and A for the vertical axis MOI. ***Moment of Inertia (MOI) Limit:When the club is in a 60 degree lie angle, the moment of inertia component around the vertical axis through the clubhead's center of gravity must not exceed 5900 g cm2 (32.359 oz in2), plus a ***It would be interesting to see what the Vertical MOI alone is for the Epic.
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We've shared our stories and videos from our Kalaw trek, but figured we'd do a full review of the trekking company we used for those considering booking one. Which, if you read The Borderless Project regularly, know is something we only do when we really love something. And we really loved our experience with Aki from Eversmile Trekking, so here are all the details.
Review of Our Trek from Kalaw to Inle Lake, Myanmar with Eversmile
Tour Guide: Aki
Cost: The price is about $12-18 USD per day, all-inclusive (depends on how big your group is), pay in kyat
Includes: Tour guide, 2 nights in local homestays, three meals per day and snacks (only breakfast and lunch on last day, tour ends around 2pm).
Does Not Include: Drinks (buy water along the way, large bottle is 400-500 kyat, less than 40 cents), entrance to Inle Lake ($10 USD or 10 euros or 13,000 kyat), accommodations on 3rd day
Trek: 3 day, 2 night trek from Kalaw to Inle Lake (This is the trek we chose, but they also do a 2 day 1 night to Inle Lake, as well as some other routes within Kalaw). The walk isn't challenging, mainly flat or downhill, and certainly doable for anybody.
Food: For every meal we'd stop at a home along the route, where we would be served so much delicious and indescribable food that we could never finish. It was a great way to try delicious local specialties we'd missed in the big cities, and have someone explain to you what all of them are. Think piles of fresh fruit, avocado salad, bowls of rice, flatbreads, soup with every meal, different curries, cooked vegetables you've never heard of, and lots of meat and fish. They can accommodate vegetarians and other allergies or restrictions. Everything was homemade, prepared just for us, and incredible.
Accommodation: The homestays were lovely, in different family homes along the route. The stay was simple, but all that we needed. To prepare for the chilly nights they had multiple heavy quilts for each person, but you should definitely make sure to bring plenty of warm clothes of your own during winter. Also, they have showers but they're outdoors and very basic, so bring some wet wipes or faces wipes, maybe some dry shampoo, and call it a day.
Bring: Good walking shoes, warm clothes for evenings, sunscreen, hat, athletic wear (don't wear shorts in Myanmar, girls), shower shoes/flip flops for homestays, extra camera battery, extra memory cards, money for water and entrance ticket. Want to do some good? Bring notebooks and pens for the local schools you'll pass, it's what they need most.
When to Go: We went in January during the dry season, which meant that it was warm and sunny during the days, cold at night, and everything was dry. Because of this, the landscape is a lot of yellows, reds and browns, with some green. If you going during the wet season (beginning around March/April), you can expect mud and rain in exchange for some very lush scenery. Like most of Southeast Asia, this is when the rice fields are especially spectacular.
Why We Loved It
We loved everything. Rarely can we say that so fully, but we loved everything about this trek. We also especially loved Aki as a guide, and cannot recommend her highly enough. She was an open book on everything Myanmar, and if you know a little about Myanmar's history you know how fascinating and rare that can be as locals are more often hesitant to speak too freely about it. We spoke to other who trekked with other guides through Eversmile, and all had great experiences, but it seemed ours was exceptional so I'd say you ask for her first (but if her trek is full, definitely still go with another guide!).
The landscape was the most beautiful we've seen in all of Myanmar, and Aki taught us so much about the land and culture, she formed a huge part of our perspective and understanding of Myanmar. The food and accommodation was amazing, and we met so many great people: locals and children along the way, other travelers in our trekking group, other trekking groups we encountered at food stops. Absolutely phenomenal trip, and the highlight of our time in Myanmar.
How to Book Your Trek
To trek Kalaw to Inle Lake with Eversmile you don't need to book in advance, but you can email Toe Toe (the owner, and mother of our guide Aki) at [email protected] if you want to let them know you're coming. Otherwise, just show up when you arrive in Kalaw and stop by their house. Treks leave around 8:30am every day.
Heads up: Do not book with an agent anywhere. Eversmile doesn't work with any agents as of 2016, and doesn't plan to anytime soon. One guy on our trek booked his spot on the tour with an unauthorized agent in Bagan and paid more than five times the actual cost. Only pay upon arrival in local currency.
You can find them at Eversmiletrekking.com or on Facebook.
Questions? Have your own review of Eversmile? Share below!
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- on the seventh day, took a break from creating the universe and rested.
- wakes up every morning and experiences an exquisite joy – the joy of being Kanye West – and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things this Kanye West is going to accomplish today?
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- is a HUGE admirer of my own work and that of Beyonce's.
- finds himself screaming for JOY when he sees himself in the mirror.
- notices that the longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and have only wasted my time debating any issue.
- has three words for you: "BEYONCE for PRESIDENT!"
- is so amazing that if I went to a bar... I'd pick myself up!
- Is pissed off at Taylor Swift for interrupting his tirade on why Beyonce's video is the best video of all time.
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New Sculpture with Ron English and a porcelain master K.Olin tribu
A temper Tot Black Porcelain Edition
This piece is found in many paintings on a very large fresco by Ron English in New York.
The porcelain temper is unwrapped to keep all the details of its musculature.
Each piece is completely finished and reworked by hand.
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So, you have a seasoned sales professional for your company. They know all the products, all the services, how they integrate with one another, and, better than that, they know how to ask all the right questions of your clients to make decisions on which of those products and services to offer. A high performer and a star player at your company, rightly so…
EndeavorCPQ Marketplace is up and running with exceptional customer satisfaction in the machine tool industry. One of our early adopters, Blum-Novotest, has said our software has exceeded their expectations and they are already seeing positive results. Blum-Novotest is a renowned manufacturer of innovative and high-precision measuring and testing technology headquartered in Germany. They develop and manufacture solutions for the machine tool, automotive and aerospace industries as well as the energy and medical technology sectors to the highest quality standards world-wide.
The CPQ (Configure Price Quote) market is hot as companies of all types and sizes are maximizing productivity and becoming easier to do business with. At Endeavor, our challenge to everyone we talk to is the same; if you can't deliver a perfect quote within five minutes of getting the request, then you need CPQ. Aside from accuracy and speed of delivery though, what are some of the other benefits and reasons to do CPQ?
The Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) market has exploded in recent years as many companies have noticed the value and savings a software solution such as this can provide. CEOs are pushing to drive efficiency in their sales process and allow their teams to focus their primary task: finding and closing deals. As the market has expanded the specific requirements that a CPQ software vendor provides has become more narrowly focused.
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In business, streamlining business processes like sales, marketing, and manufacturing, is the textbook method of increasing performance with fewer resources. There are many ways to streamline business processes, but few have the scalability of impacting multiple major departments like a quote-to-cash solution, otherwise known as Configure Price Quote (CPQ) software.
Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ) software can positively impact employees at all levels of a busy organization. From the frontline sales representative answering the phones to the Chief Financial Officer to the inventory control team member, CPQ is often though of as "just for sales", but it adds real value to the entirety of a business. To help potential buyers better understand this value, we've created a ROI Calculator, which produces a free customized value assessment report. This sample report is an example of what you'll receive after completing the six questions in the survey.
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To gain access to Octopussy's island palace undetected, Bond uses a one-man submarine in the form of a crocodile - surely ranking this as the gadget least likely to be used again. Access to the submarine was gained through the crocodile's mouth.
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42nd Street
By Peter May
"Musical comedy – the most glorious words in the English language". Not my words but of the character Julian Marsh utters mid way through this production. It would be hard to argue with that statement as this latest revival is positively stunning. From start to finish this toe tapping extravaganza is simply incredible. The show has pace, energy and visual flair in abundance, with marvellously colourful costumes and inventive décor.
"42nd Street" is derived from the 1933 Warner Brothers film of the same name, which was loosely based on a novel by Bradford Ropes, a Broadway dancer who drew on his own experience to tell tales of backstage life. The film, choreographed by Busby Berkeley, ignored most of the Ropes novel, using just its final chapters to tell a classic tale of the chorus girl who gets her chance to shine under the spotlight. She has her work cut out however when she has just 36 hours to learn six songs, 10 dances and 25 pages of dialogue in time for the New York opening.
Its first musical appearance debuted in 1980 under tragic circumstances where its director Gower Champion actually died during curtain call on the opening night. Top billing in the cast is 'Morning train' singer Sheena Easton who plays past her prime Donna Dorothy Brock. The character has an inability to dance but has an amazing voice. So when a careless chorus girl breaks Dorothy's ankle, the production of 'Pretty Girl' is thrown into chaos. Emmerdale star Tom Lister plays the stern director Julian Marsh alongside her and shines with his baritone voice.
As you would expect the lead actors are terrific but the production truly shines thanks to the sheer amount of backing dancers – a cast total of 48! Memorable numbers such as Keep Young and Beautiful fill the enormous stage using terrific synchronised choreography with rotating mirrors. Shuffle off to Buffalo is played out on a bus with great comical display as well. The sheer amount of energy throughout is so engaging that the audience leapt to their feet for numerous standing ovations.
Set amongst the Great Depression in 1933, there is nothing to be depressed about after seeing this show. You will be mad to miss it and no doubt be depressed if you do.
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The Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree Rainforest, two iconic locations and both World Heritage-listed, are the pride of Far North Queensland and are on our doorstep. When you visit us, these should be on top of your list of places to see. So try to stay more than two nights.
Enjoy a broad selection of tours and adventures and return to a welcoming haven at our timber retreat, Marae.
Pam and John's preferred tours:
Port Douglas is a resort village with many excellent restaurants and coffee shops. Shopping is a delight and on Sundays there's a vibrant market beside the sea. Four Mile Beach is safe for swimming and long enough for a good walk.
Five minutes' drive away, the township of Mossman is the home of the sugar mill which has been crushing sugar cane since 1897. Saturday's market under the Raintrees is the place to see local plants, fruit, vegetables and craft.
Cross the Daintree River by car ferry and enter the world-heritage listed rainforest. Plants and creatures from millennia ago are still living here. Cape Tribulation is the highlight with a long sweeping beach and boardwalks through the mangroves.
Just up the hill, and 20 minutes away, the Tablelands has a different climate. It's cooler there so different crops can grow. Granite Gorge is home to rock wallabies and a drive round the Waterfall Circuit is a favourite of photographers.


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by Rounaq Jahan
in Samuel Totten, et al.
Century of Genocide: Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views
New York: Garland Publishing, 1997
Chapter 10, pp. 291-316
Century of Genocide: Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views
New York: Garland Publishing, 1997
Chapter 10, pp. 291-316
This testimony appears in Arnica Malik's The Year of the Vulture, pp. 102-104.
On April 19, 1971, about 35 soldiers came to our village in a launch at about 8 A.M. A couple of days earlier, I had asked the Sheikh's father and mother to leave the village, but they refused. They said. "This is our home and we shall not go away." Soon after I heard the sound of the launch, a soldier came running and said, "Here Maulvi, stop, in which house are the father and mother of the Sheikh?" So first I brought out his father. We placed a chair for him but they made him sit on the ground. Then Sheikh Sahib's amma [mother] was brought out. She took hold of my hand and I made her sit on the chair. The soldiers then held a sten-gun against the back of the Sheikh's abba [father] and a rifle against mine. "We will kill you in 10 minutes," said a soldier looking at his watch.
Then they picked up a diary from the Sheikh's house and some medicine bottles and asked me for the keys of the house. I gave them the bunch of keys but they were so rough in trying to open the locks that the keys would not turn. So they kicked open the trunks. There was nothing much inside except five teaspoons, which they took. They saw a framed photograph and asked me whose it was. When I said it was Sheikh Sahib's, they took it down. I tried to get up at this stage but they hit me with their rifle butts and I fell down against the chair. Finally, they picked up a very old suitcase and a small wooden box and made a servant carry them to the launch.
Then they dragged me up to where the Sheikh's father was sitting and repeated, "We shall shoot you in 10 minutes." Pointing to the Sheikh's father, I asked: "What's the point of shooting him? He's an old man and a government pensioner." The soldiers replied, "Is lire, keonki wohne shaitan paida kira hai" ["Because he has produced a devil."]. "Why shoot me, the imam of the mosque?" I asked. �Aap kiska imam hai? Aap vote dehtehain" ["What sort of an imam are you? You vote."], they replied. I said: "The party was not banned, we were allowed to vote for it. We are not leaders, we are janasadharan [the masses]. Why don't you ask the leaders?" The captain intervened to say that eight minutes were over and we would be shot in another two minutes. Just then a major came running from the launch and said we were to be let alone and not shot.
I immediately went towards the masjid (mosque) and saw about 50 villagers inside. Three boys had already been dragged out and shot. The soldiers asked me about a boy who, I said, was a krishak (cultivator). They looked at the mud on his legs and hands and let him go. Khan Sahib, the Sheikh's uncle, had a boy servant called Ershad. They asked me about him. I said he was a servant. But a Razakar maulvi, who had come with them from another village, said he was the Sheikh's relative, which was a lie. The boy Ershad was taken to the lineup. He asked for water but it was refused.
Another young boy had come from Dacca, where he was employed in a mill, to enquire about his father. He produced his identity card but they shot him all the same. They shot Ershad right in front of his mother. Ershad moved a little after falling down so they shot him again. Finally, the boy who had carried the boxes to the launch was shot. With the three shot earlier, a total of six innocent boys were shot by the Pakistani army without any provocation. They were all good-looking and therefore suspected to be relatives of the Sheikh.
After this, the Sheikh's father and mother were brought out of the house. Amma was almost fainting. And the house was set on fire and burnt down in front of our eyes until all that remained was the frame of the doorway which you can still see. Altonissa, the lady with the blood- stained clothes of her son, is the mother of Torab Yad Ali who was shot. They did not allow her to remove her son's body for burial, because they wanted the bodies to be exposed to public view to terrorize the villagers. They also shot Mithu, the 10-year old son of this widowed lady. She had brought him up with the greatest difficulty-they never had anything to eat except saag-bhaat (spinach and rice). They shot little Mithu because he had helped the Mukti Bahini. You can now ask the ladies about their narrow escape.
Shaheeda Sheikh, Sheikh Mujib's niece, then added that fortunately all the women were taken away to safety across the river to a neighbouring village three days before the Pakistani soldiers came. For months they had lived in constant terror of Razakars pouncing on them from bushes by the village pond. Beli Begum, Mujib's niece, a strikingly lovely woman, told me how she had fled from the village when seven months pregnant and walked 25 miles to safety. Pari, a girl cousin, escaped with a temperature of 104 degrees. Otherwise they would all have been killed.
Collected from Eyewitness Accounts: Genocide in Bangladesh


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Dennis Rossi
Mr. Rossi is a really good. He is a fair guy and he knows his job, even from his teacher days. Keep on being ethical, it pays off, even if only you see it.
Mr. Rossi is the nicest guy I know. i've been caught cheating and passing notes in class and he was still nice to me.
Hey Mr. R. yu were a great teacher!! extremely helpful...still can't believe u did so much work for out yearbook...miss you lots
Hi Mr.Rossi! its me Amy!!Im in Japan right now and Im going back to Canada this year in the summer..well I heard that you are not in RJ anymore..I miss you!
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Awww, we miss you Mr.Rossi! But we still remember you! Thanks for being such a great teacher!


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cottage, Savonlinna, 1+2 persons
28 km north-east of Savonlinna, L. Postijärvi 10 m (length 1,5 km, width 600 m), deep, soft sanded mud bottom, own boat.
Wooden cottage 1979, living room/ kitchen double bed (120 cm wide) + foldable sofa bed for two, dressing room, sauna (wood fired stove and heater tank, dressing room, open porch. Traditional summer cottage with liquid gas systems (no electricity). From cottage slope down to shore. Shore faces south. Truly peaceful spot, no other cottages on lake shore, closest neighbour 600 m. Good place for relax without modern conveniences.
The owner's farm has horses, sheep, chickens, cats. From the farm you can buy eggs and mutton.
Horse riding opportunities 10 km. Kerimäki 20 km, Kerigolf 25 km, Kolovesi national park 25 km, Punkaharju, art center Retretti, Lusto 50 km.
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Miami parents who are going through or have gone through divorce know that the support of children is an important matter. Deciding on child support can be an emotional and stressful endeavor, and after papers have been filed, circumstances may require child support modification. In any case, simply not paying child support that is ordered by divorce papers is never a good idea, and it can lead to serious consequences that include jail time.
For a man in another state, owing a large amount of back child support has resulted in a judge's order against further procreation. According to reports, the man owes almost $100,000 in child support payments. A judge sentenced the man to five years probation, during which the man is not allowed to have any more children as a condition of the probation.
According to reports, the judge said the prohibition against procreation automatically lifts if the man makes good on the child support he owes. The man is supposed to work toward paying off the child support total.
The defendant appealed the judge's sentence. According to reports, the appeals court upheld the sentence, including the ban on having other children. However, the court ruled in favor that the sentence was not a way to approve of the judge's measures. Instead, say the appellate judges, there was insufficient evidence to rule on the merits of the case. According to the court, a proper ruling required a copy of a pre-sentence report, which details the man's background.
If the judge's sentence in this case continues to stand, it could set a precedent for major changes in how courts deal with child support issues. In the meantime, moms and dads struggling with child support payments should seek legal relief through modification agreements or negotiations before abandoning payments altogether.
Source: ABC 22, "Ohio Court Upholds Judge's No-Procreation Order" No author given, May. 14, 2014


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Fic: What About Now - Chapter 6
Where I am: a dingy internet café in Arroyo de la Miel
Title: What About Now?
Pairing: Jared/Colin
Rating: R
Feedback: Need it!
Disclaimer: NOT TRUE, and hopefully most will never ever happen. I own nothing.
A/N: Story begins at the O2 Arena concert November 30th.
A/N 2: Dedicated in its entirety to the ever lovely and always supportive legolastariel ! Thanks for the help with this.
A/N 3: I'm still out of the country for some much needed r&r. Will answer all your lovely comments and emails the moment I'm back home :)
Summary: Jared is fighting for his life. Colin is fighting with himself. And the press is fighting for a story.
Shannon was jarred out of his light dozing by the familiar voice that still sounded like an echo from his childhood, resonating from the hallway. Jumping out of his seat he gave his brother a careful peck on the cheek, before storming out of the room to reach her.
The small woman's usually modest demeanour seemed frenzied and angry. Like that of a mother, having reached the end of her rope and therefore unwilling to deal with any bureaucracy.
"Just let me see my son! Jared Leto! Yes, I am his mother, what more proof do you need? Just call Shannon Leto he can vouch for me, I assure you, please…"
"Mom!" Hearing the voice of her oldest calling to her, the anxious mother whirled around from the nurse she had been trying to persuade. Without sparing the obnoxious woman another glance, Constance immediately made her way towards Shannon, greatly reassured to see a familiar face and be reunited with at least one of her children.
If it had been any other day, Shannon would have cringed in shame at his 'little boy voice', but he had never been more relieved to see his mother. Had never needed someone to lean on the way he did now. Someone to be strong for him.
The second Shannon was enveloped by Constance's familiar embrace the grown man fell apart. "Mom, I am so sorry! God, I couldn't protect him. I really tried. I always try! I know I promised you I'd watch over him and keep him safe and I thought I was, I really did. I'm so sorry, mom…" Shannon rambled, shaking like a leaf.
Constance made no effort to banish the tears that rolled down her face as she held her son. Their little family's fundament had been shaken to the core. Both of her babies were in pain and it was breaking her heart.
Firmly, Constance led Shannon to the couch of the waiting room and pulled him down next to her. She put her small hands on the man's stubbly cheeks, forcing Shannon to look up into the kind blue eyes she shared with her youngest son, as she discretely wiped his damp skin with her thumbs.
"Stop it, Shannon; you have nothing to apologize for. No one is more careful than you, baby. And you have never let me or Jared down. I am so proud of you and so is your brother. Would you not have done anything in your power to stop it, had you known?" Constance asked amiably.
"Of course, Mom, If I…" Shannon protested, but his mother halted him.
"I know." Constance assured him, "I don't doubt that that you would have done anything in your power to keep him safe. Sometimes life just doesn't play fair, baby."
Shannon nodded distractedly, but Constance could tell he was far from convinced. She suspected only Jared would be able to ease his mind and help him let go of some of his guilt. The brothers had always been fixated on never letting the other down. In their minds, it was one of the worst offenses possible. Constance sighed and pulled Shannon closer to her, as she guided him to lie with his head in her lap. The drummer struggled half-heartedly, but his mother was determined. "Hush now."
The endeavour paid off and within minutes the musician had succumbed to sleep. The last two days had been overwhelmingly taxing and the man was clearly exhausted. Constance carefully lifted his heavy head and scooted out from underneath him. He grunted something that sounded vaguely like "Not now, Jay" before turning to lie on his side curled into a ball. With a sad smile on her face, she pulled off her winter parka and draped it over Shannon's broad shoulders. Her oldest taken care of, it was time to find her youngest.
As Constance entered the hospital room and got a good look of Jared her face crumbled in anguish. They had tried to tell her and she had tried to prepare herself, but nothing could make a mother ready to see her child suffer to this degree.
Not paying the slightest bit of attention to anyone else, she aimed straight for her baby boy and sat down next to him on the bed, careful not to jostle him, as she took the limp hand into her own.
"Hey, handsome... I see you've gotten yourself into quite a mess. Never could keep you out of trouble." She chuckled awkwardly, but it soon turned into a sob and she hid her face in her trembling hands. Seconds later, she felt the comforting weight of a palm on her shoulder and Constance looked up to find that Tomo had joined her. She had long ago welcomed the Croat into the fold and adopted him as a third son. In turn he treated her as a bonus mother. Tomo's warm brown eyes shone with compassion. Gratefully she leaned back against him, as she felt herself being embraced from behind. Not for the first time, she thanked the higher powers for giving their little family a steadfast friend in Tomo.
After several minutes of gazing upon Jared, imprinting his rising and falling chest in her mind, the concerned mother's eyes fell on Colin Farrell. The Irishman was slumped uncomfortably on a chair, dozing in the corner. Taking one of Tomo's hands still fastened around her into her own she squeezed it, before pointing towards Colin. Tomo grimaced momentarily then shrugged exaggeratedly. She gave him a pointed glance and eventually the guitarist relented. Giving Constance a kiss on the cheek, Tomo made a gesture with his hand, blowing air though his fingers. She nodded and the Croat subtly left the room to take care of his nicotine addiction.
With her attention once more on Colin, her eyes narrowed briefly as she tried to gauge if the younger man was any sort of threat to her wounded cub. But her features softened, as she took in the dark circles underneath the closed eyes.
The man appeared no threat to anyone.
She could not help but be pleased to see him here. Though Constance had lent an ear to several of Jared's many cruel rants regarding Colin, she had been hard pressed to believe every word coming from her youngest. Often Jared seemed more like he was trying to convince himself, rather than his mother, that he had a valid reason to hate his ex.
Constance was well acquainted with the defense mechanisms employed by Jared when his feelings had been hurt. Usually resulting in a 'no-regrets-goodbye-forever-I'm-not-h
The mother put a slender hand on the broad shoulder and shook Colin lightly.
The younger man's eyes opened slowly, until the moment his gaze fell upon Constance and the brown eyes shot wide open, making him look vaguely like a deer caught in the headlights.
The Irishman's head snapped up so fast she had to wince. His face contorted, but whether it was from pain or displeasure at seeing her, she could not tell. "Constance! I mean Ms. Leto." Colin stammered uncomfortably as he got to his feet, nervously running a hand through his messy dark strands.
"Constance is still fine, Colin." She smiled kindly at him and took a seat on a vacant chair next to Colin's, watching as he sat down once more.
The woman had always had a soft spot for the spontaneous and uninhibited Irishman, with his affectionate mannerisms and loving behaviour. He truly desired to be everyone's friend and make the people around him happy. She had seen that very same attitude displayed towards her slightly jaded son on many occasions and it had always warmed her heart to see someone making an honest effort to see Jared smile.
To many, Colin and Jared came off as an unlikely and unwise match. Both were too focused on themselves, their careers and their own passions to have the time – or the desire to make time – for someone else. Both shied away from any sort of commitment, refused to be tied down and had no desire to know what the plans were for next week. They both focused on the now, Jared deliberately – Colin naturally.
If it were up to Jared he would never be home; he would work the days away and throw himself into endless projects, one after another. Colin too was enamoured with his career choice, but yearned for light-hearted fun and unserious behaviour on the side, and were it not provided promptly, the man would get bored and start looking for greener pastures. Colin lived for the moment and hated having to wait for results.
It often clashed with Jared's relentless ambition and drive. Jared would work day and night, for years if it got him what he desired and yearned for. Her son had fought for everything he had ever achieved and often, he did not know how to stop fighting. When to relax even for a few hours and just enjoy himself, without focusing on what still needed to be done.
Jared taught Colin that there was fun to be had in achievements that did not involve speed drinking. Colin, in turn, showed Jared that movies and music could be enjoyed without analysing every beat and every scene. Their different living ideals seemed like they were bound to clash – and at times they did, spectacularly. But on most days they seemed to provide for each other the one thing they had both desperately needed:
Safety, combined with total freedom. No strings and no bonds, yet a place to call home when wanted. It was the perfect arrangement for two men who relied on independence to feel happy.
But when they hit the first rough spot, both men decided to cut their losses and jump ship. Since the beginning of their relationship both had been warned: They had too little in common and were both too busy to last. And many took the silence directed towards the media as a sign that the two men were merely fooling around until something better presented itself.
When they were happy and flourishing, both Colin and Jared were good at tuning out the criticism-veiled concern. But when things started to go sour, Constance suspected, that it was hard not to believe that everyone else had obviously been right about them and they were a bad couple all along.
But looking at the broken man in the pitiful, backbreaking plastic chair it was clear for all eyes wanting to see that neither Colin nor Jared had been fooling around. They had truly been in love.
"How you've been?" Constance asked with kindness in her eyes. Colin looked like it was the hardest question he had ever had to answer. After a minute of careful thinking, he seemed to remember his standard reply.
"Good. I'm a father again. Henry. He's amazing." Colin offered, then flinched as he realised how wrong it was to mention that here. But talking about Henry in interviews always brought him a safe place. Reporters usually changed their line of questioning when he pulled the 'I'm a Dad' card, as it provided a ton of easy questions to fill the time of an interview with and was personal enough to satisfy general curiosity. But he regretted bringing it up in this particular forum. It was just such a force of habit. When people asked him how he had been, he could always cling to Henry.
He adored Alicja and was glad he had met her. She had been a small ray of sunshine in a bleak time and was the mother of one of his life's lights. These past few years had been some of his worst and he knew it. As much as he tried to tell the world that he was as happy as a clam and loving every minute of his life, he felt aimless and lost. As if he had taken a wrong turn along life's highway, ending up somewhere he was never supposed to have been.
The circumstances behind Colin leaving surprised Alicja, but the man's actions did not.
Deep down, she always knew it was just a matter of time – even if Colin seemed intent on remaining oblivious, before the man would be on the first plane out of there to reclaim his single life. Or possibly, find Jared.
She never expected forever.
When they met in the summer of 2008 to shoot Ondine, Alicja was completely charmed by Colin. He was kind and funny and seemed to have an endless supply of affection to give to the world around him. He revelled in attention, yet at the same time seemed perfectly capable of winding down and enjoy one-on-one time with someone. This surprised her as most rumours about the man seemed to centre on him being a party animal who never stood still and just breathed. But to her, Colin seemed balanced and confident when they started talking, almost Zen-like in his inner serenity. She could not help but wonder who or what had brought forward that change in the man, as it somehow seemed new to Colin in many ways. As if, he was still trying to come to terms with his new way of living. On several occasions, Alicja had even caught him doing breathing exercises and other small tricks to calm his mind.
They had been talking for several weeks before Colin confided that he had just gotten out of a serious relationship. He told her it had lasted years and they had needed to steer clear of the media, but otherwise held on tightly to the details. Colin would only refer to the person as his ex and judging from the way the normally warm smile immediately slipped from the actor's face when the topic was breached; it was a very sore subject. It took her weeks of careful prodding to even discover the infamous ex was male.
She was not supposed to get pregnant.
They liked each other and became friend instantly, but mom-dad-and-baby was never really in the cards for them. Alicja often sensed that he wanted to be more to her, but just could not. As if he did not have any more love to give to someone else. Even when Colin offered her to move in with him, she knew his intention was to get closer to Henry – not her. It should have made her feel bad, but it did not. When it came down to it, they were both well aware that they were more friends than actual lovers. At least, she was. Alicja often wondered what went on in the other man's head when thinking of them.
She loved Colin, but she was not in love with him. This made them a very convenient and comfortable couple with no endangered feelings.
Sitting on the couch in her nightgown, she could not help but be brought back to a certain afternoon several months ago where Colin had been away for the day to do some interview with a magazine. Henry was down for his nap and Alicja was doing the laundry; rummaging through the Irishman's discarded jeans when she found a small worn photograph. It had been ripped over at the middle and then carefully taped back together again. On it was a slender man with brilliant blue eyes; he had dark messy hair with blond highlights, hanging like a curtain around his angular face.
The man was handsome. Beautiful even.
It had taken her a minute to place him, but eventually the eyes had done it. Jared Leto. Colin's love interest in Alexander. The musician had James in his lap holding a tiny acoustic guitar, both of them smiling. Turning it around, she found the simple inscription in Colin's messy handwriting J & J – 2007. But what was the singer doing on Colin's couch, with Colin's child in his arms? She was not even aware that they had been overly close after filming ended; the man had never been mentioned. In fact, looking back on it she even remembered several occasions where Colin had grimaced and turned off the TV when the man's music videos were played. She supposed the picture could merely have been of James, but honestly the house was filled with pictures of Colin's oldest. Why would this one have such a large importance?
The truth was staring her right in the face and in that second, all the pieces of the puzzle fell into place.
When Colin arrived home Alicja could not help but ask about the picture. She was shocked by Colin ripping the photo out of her hands and throwing it into the trash, a peculiar mixture of disgust and anguish clear on the handsome face. After unkindly demanding that she never mentioned Jared's name again he slammed the bedroom door, leaving her in the living room by herself.
When she joined him in bed many lonely hours later, Alicja valiantly pretended not to notice his tense body and red-rimmed eyes.
Now, her heart was breaking for Colin. She wanted so badly to be angry at him. She wanted to yell at him – scream at him to stay. But as she had watched the devastation on the man's face after hearing the terrible news, it had brought home just how much Colin had never belonged to her. Jared was merely kind enough to let her borrow his man for a little while.
February 2009
"Alicja is pregnant. I'm going to be a dad again." The reluctance in Colin's voice came through easily over the BlackBerry, the familiar voice sounding strained.
"Why are you telling me this? Do you want me to throw you fucking party or something?" Jared bit back. He knew he was being unnecessarily cruel. But he really did not care, he had never been one to play nice and Colin should know that by now.
"I just wanted you to hear it from me and not some tabloid." And Colin did know it. There was no offence in his tone, as he was not personally offended. If it had been Jared calling, saying he had knocked up some chick, Colin would have been snappy and rude as well.
There was a long pause in the conversation while Jared pondered what to say.
"Well, congratulations, I guess." He eventually offered charitably, yet it inadvertently came off sounding laced with subtle sarcasm. Still trying to keep his temper somewhat even, Jared was desperate for this uncomfortable chat to be over, before his treacherous mind started to linger on how nice it was to hear Colin's voice again.
"Anyway…" Colin sighed, deliberately letting the 'praise' hang in the air unanswered. The silence between them was almost painful as awkwardness seared through all attempts of conversation. The actor searched through his brain for anything he could say to make Jared stay on the line.
This was just not what was supposed to have happened.
"Bye, Colin." Jared said, his usually clear voice a mere whisper.
They were supposed to have been together forever and somehow they messed it up, neither of them knowing how to fix it. What they shared had been infected, tainted. And they were unable to move beyond it. And likely never would.
"Bye, Jared." Colin copied and immediately received dial tone, sounding harsh in his ear.
"Bye." Jared echoed into the still air.
Seconds later, he chucked his beloved phone through the room. He was uncharacteristically annoyed when the damn BlackBerry refrained from smashing into a thousand pitiful pieces, but instead landed on the soft carpet as it slid across the floor, hitting the wall with a dull 'thunk'.
The sound was harsh in his ears.
The next four days in London passed – but hardly uneventfully. Every single day seemed gruelling. Jared's fever had risen and by the third day the clammy cool skin had become frighteningly hot to the touch. They had all been told to vacate the room and Jared's condition seemed to worsen by the hour. His organs were struggling to hold on as the high fever and general stress of the shooting took its clear toll. For a while the doctors had seemed unsure as to whether or not Jared would make it at all.
Colin had no trouble remembering how terrible the singer had looked. Jared's skin had been eerily pale and for a brief second Colin wondered if this was the end and now Jared would leave them all. The monitor had shown Jared's temperature as 104,8 in damning green numbers. As they had all been told to vacate the room to give the medical personnel space to work, Colin had tried to suck in every single detail of Jared's features, at least those that were still visible despite the defilement of the ventilator. Afraid that it might be the last time he was to see the man alive.
But as the day passed outside the windows of waiting room, Jared started responding to the medication and when dusk settled outside his fever had fallen to 100,2. It was not as good as could be hoped, but by then they were all desperate for any sort of reprieve.
The ICU was not overly tolerant of having many people around, so the visitors had from the beginning been limited mainly to Colin, Shannon, Constance and Tomo. Few people outside Jared's closest circle had been allowed anywhere near him. Tim and Braxton had very briefly stopped by early on, along with Emma and Vicki, but everyone else was told to wait. They were reluctant to let anyone witness Jared in that condition. The proud singer would not appreciate people seeing him in such a vulnerable position, unable to crack a joke or deliver a witty comment to deflect how terrible the situation seemed.
Colin had booked a hotel room only a mile away. It was below budget for him and not what he usually went for, but the close proximity to the hospital had been essential. And it seemed he would need it.
The doctor's words in the waiting room, pressing that Jared would need support had resonated within him. He wanted to be the one who helped Jared. The one who took the pain away. The one who made everything alright again.
Colin had only just stepped through the creaking door to the tiny room that had become his base, when his cell phone started blaring from his pocket. Pulling it out of his jacket he immediately pressed 'ignore' before throwing it on the bed, not really caring where it might land. His agent had been calling him nonstop all afternoon.
Colin had decided to call in sick several days in a row, in the middle of shooting Horrible Bosses. He was in big trouble and he knew it, if he did not return to set soon he would likely end up with a lawsuit on his hands. Colin felt caught between a rock and a hard place. He had a loyalty towards his job and the people who had hired him, but leaving London now did not seem like an option. It was the last thing he wanted.
Letting himself fall back on the dingy single bed, he buried his head in the threadbare coverlet and surrendered to some much needed sleep.
Dawn had barely broken outside when Colin abruptly regained consciousness by his phone ringing. He had asked the nurses to keep him informed if anything changed. Colin was awake immediately; within seconds he had pulled on his discarded coat and reached the lobby of the hotel.
Once outside he hailed a cab. In his hurry to get to Queen Elizabeth's, he did not think to specify that he needed a ride to one of the hospital's various back doors. To his dismay he landed smack in the middle of the chaos, still ruling the space at the front entrance. He had barely stepped through the doors before a barrage of flashbulbs blinded him, making him reel from the onslaught.
"Mr. Farrell, look over here please!"
"Mr. Farrell, how is Jared Leto?"
"Mr. Farrell, are you and Jared Leto lovers?"
"Colin, is it true that Jared is dying?"
"He is NOT dying!" The sheer anger in Colin's voice made the bombardment halt for a brief second before the situation erupted even more aggressively than before. There were reporters shouting at him from every direction, trying to get yet another reaction from him.
The actor was suddenly surrounded by the hospital's security staff and gratefully allowed them to make a path though the mayhem for him. He hastily thanked them as they forced a way to the doors as fast as possible.
He was all too familiar with this part of the story. The press would have a lot of fun squeezing every single piece of dirt they could get from Colin Farrell arriving at the hospital, yet again. And this time with sleep mused hair and in a hurry, with what they would probably describe as grief and anguish in his voice.
The media's obsession with Jared had not ceased, and the press release had far from taken the heat off. If anything, it had only provided more information to feed the fires. The shooting of the well-known rockstar was one of the biggest stories of the year – and the added suspense of a possible 'outing' of two Hollywood heartthrobs was really just the icing on the cake. Jared Leto's name seemed to be the 'trending topic' hourly on the internet. The press seemed to have realized that they had found a gold vein of potentially juicy stories and lucrative headlines. They were not letting go easily. They were just getting started.
As the sliding doors closed behind him, Colin stuffed his trembling hands into his pockets and made his way to the floor holding Jared.
When he entered Jared's room, Dr. Chamber's was already there, talking to the small huddle gathered.
"…he regained consciousness briefly in the early hours of the morning, when they were changing the bandages around his chest. He was in a lot pain, so the nurse gave him morphine and he fell asleep. It should begin wearing off soon, making it likely that he'll wake up within the hour." Chambers said to the room's occupants, his speech unbroken by the beeps of the heart monitor and the accompanied wheezing from the ventilator.
They had all come to rely on the sounds, finding them almost soothing.
Standing in the back of the room, still in the open doorway, happiness and relief flared like flames in Colin's chest at the doctor's words. But they were quickly doused by a stark realization.
He had to leave.
The singer would not appreciate seeing Colin of all people, here at his bedside. And the Irishman could not bear to put Jared through it. Just because he had come to the conclusion that he wanted to patch things up with the other man did not mean Jared would be inclined to agree. For all he knew, it might be an accident that he was still on the list of emergency contacts. Jared probably just forgot.
And with that disheartening thought, he turned around and slipped back out of the room, as silently as he had entered.
There was no place for him in Jared's life anymore.


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REVIEW: Micture Project Music
Okay guys so I know I have been kind of slack with the reviews but I'm back with plenty more for you.
Love it when you come across new music and they can be found anywhere, :) This band has a really good mixture of styles going on here.
(Picture from their Facebook page which is linked below)
Their influences range from the likes of Nine Inch Nails and Disturbed to Eminem which makes their sound appealing to many different people, and being a crossover band gives them their own unique twist. Starting back in 2009, they have really grown not only in numbers but in style too; developing their sound further to make it what is is today. They have a Youtube channel up and running which you should check out, get a feel for the music and have a Facebook page so you can show your support.
I love their song 'Rewind' right now (Click it to check out the tune :P)
Here is their Youtube channel where you can check out their work and subscribe for more updates
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Keep checking back, We hope to see this band go far.
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Preliminary matters such as setting a date for hearing, granting continuances,
approving petitions for filing, allowing amendments and other preliminary
rulings not determinative of the merits of the case may be made by the
chairman or any three members of the Hearing Board without a hearing or
meeting of the Hearing Board and without notice.
[SIP Information: Not in SIP. Deleted (Los Angeles Co. APCD) 06/27/97 62 FR 34641, 40 CFR 52.220(c)(39)(iii)(F); Deleted (So. Cal. APCD) 06/27/97 62 FR 34641, 40 CFR 52.220(c)(30)(x)(B); Approved (Los Angeles Co. APCD) 09/08/78 43 FR 40011, 40 CFR 52.220(c)(39)(iii)(C); Approved (So. Cal. APCD) 06/14/78 43 FR 25684, 40 CFR 52.220(c)(30)(x)(A)]


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In the spring of 2016 Deborah spent a month working with Ibu Robin Lim and the Bumi Sheat Birth Center in Bali, Indonesia.
Ibu Robin Lim received the prestigious Hero of the Year Award from CNN for her work as a midwife and as an exemplary role model of care and service for those in need, from The Bumi Sehat Birth Center and Clinic, to emergency aid after devastating earthquakes in Haiti and Nepal.
Although Deborah and Robin had met briefly many years earlier at a midwifery conference, their bond of friendship grew strong when they were called to work together in Central America in January of 2016.
Later in the spring, Deborah flew to Bali, joining Robin in the creation of a new project, Awakening Birth, a new, informational web site and a series of podcasts hosted by Robin and Deborah, for mothers seeking natural child birth.