text:
Thursday, April 3, 2008
The thing I worry about the most is getting too campy with the Rosicrutians. They should have their cool. Its just that they are the las vegas of religions.
Posted by the sebaceous funk at 6:34 PM
3 comments:
- Nathan said...
I wouldn't worry about camp. Isn't funk supposed to be campy and confrontational? You can always tone it down later. Remember the Morgue scene in T&C? So many wonderful elements developed because you went overboard and even though you toned the grotesque down, those elements stayed and contributed to the whole.
- April 8, 2008 at 2:39 PM
- Nathan said...
I want to see the whole egyptian style taken to a neon futuristic extreme. The point is to dazzle and inspire awe, isn't it?
- April 8, 2008 at 2:41 PM
- the sebaceous funk said...
thats a great way to put it thank you. It helps to think about it as marketing and give up my dainty notions of class. Of course they want to glam it up and who is going to stop them?
- April 8, 2008 at 5:19 PM
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
B.Hindmarsh Island Deformation Writs
Conservationists in South Australia feel gagged by the deformation writs over the Hindmarsh Island Bridge development. Ten defamation actions have been filed against a range of individuals and organisations including a number of environmental volunteers. While four cases have been settled in favour of the Chapman family who are the proponents of the bridge development, a judge is yet to hand down a written decision on any of the cases. We speak with president of the Conservation Council of South Australia Dr Tim Doyle and Solicitor for the Chapman Family Steve Palyga.
Transcript held up due to computing problem
It should be up within a week
- Steve Palyga
- Partner
Lynch & Meyer
190 Flinders St
Adelaide SA 5000
Ph: 08 8223 7600
- Dr Tim Doyle
- President
Conservation Council of South Australia
The Conservation Centre
120 Wakefield St
Adelaide SA 5000
Ph: 08 8223 5155
- email@example.com
- Producer
- Martin Hewetson
- Reporter
- Alexandra de Blas

subset: commoncrawl


text:
It was so funny, on the day before her birthday, Elizabeth sang "birthday..you" over and over. And she wanted to eat her cake right away. So at the Lake the next day, as soon as everyone sang happy birthday to her, she ran off to get a plate. It was time to eat. Is she really two years old! It's not fair how fast they grow.
She was a little unsure of the singing and attention, but as soon as the song was done, she was ready to eat. It was a nice day. We had a chance to spend a little more time with Doug and Christy before they headed off to Alaska. And we got to see their new baby before they left. Too bad they won't get to see our new little girl, but she has a few more weeks of growing to do. It was also good to see Keith and his wife. Brian's cousin who has been serving in the war for over a year and he is safe and home with his lady now.


text:
I used quick page 8 that I designed using the just write kit from Songbird Avenue to document her time with her daughter.
This my friend Angie's middle daughter. She's a gem and very quiet too. So, when the kiddo got cougar of the quarter, well, I just had to do somethng classy for her. I used quickpage 9 I designed. I also had to change some fo the colors to make it work with the color scheme. Go Ju-Ju!!
Here is my friend Angie. A student herself. I am so proud of her and her husband for allowing her to go back to school and achieve her goal of getting a degree. She is in medical school currently. So, its pretty tough for her right now. Go angie go!


text:
West Ham and Chelsea have both been linked with each other's strikers, is a swap deal on the cards?
Could a swap deal be on the cards for West Ham United and Chelsea?
The Blues have been linked in recent weeks with a swoop for Ecuador forward Enner Valencia, reported by The Mail, who has been at the Hammers for only a year.
Last night it was claimed by The Guardian that West Ham want one of Chelsea's strikers, Loic Remy.
Remy has not been able to establish himself as a regular at Stamford Bridge, but it is equally questionable whether Valencia would be able to dislodge Diego Costa either.
With both sides reportedly eyeing up each other's strikers, the possibility of a swap deal is a logical one.
One stumbling block could be the financial aspect, with The Mirror reporting West Ham held Valencia in such high regard they would demand £30 million for his services.
Given their interest in Remy however, they could quite easily lower this over-inflated valuation in order to do a deal for a player new boss Slaven Bilic covets.
A question to emerge from such an agreement, would centre around which club would land up with the better striker?
|Scoring V Shooting Accuracy
|Loïc Remy
|Chelsea / QPR
|Enner Valencia
|West Ham
Neither player cracked double figures in goals last season, but Remy did manage to score three more despite featuring in 11 less games. He netted with almost one in five scoring attempts, compared to Valencia's six per cent.
Valencia did create three assists, meaning the pair contributed a total of seven goals each to their side. It could be argued Remy's better finishing was as a result of playing in a more freescoring Chelsea side, but it's easy to argue from the figures that it would be West Ham getting the better deal if the pair swapped sides.


text:
A saw binds in its cut and the man tugs it from the wood then throws it far across the shop like a Frisbee. Bouncing from the brick it lands deep in dust behind the strafe sander. He curses the saw and a big man walks over to him, grabs him by the throat and says, "Don't …
Read the full post A Saw Binds on Paul Sellers' Blog.
from Paul Sellers' Blog http://ift.tt/2r2wkYN
via IFTTT


text:
Build a high qaulity Online Reputation Management website
Budget $30-250 USD
I would like a very nice eye catching website build for an Online Reputation Management company.
The company is specifically for reputation of individuals (not companies). Similar companies and designs I like:
[url removed, login to view]
[url removed, login to view]
[url removed, login to view]
[url removed, login to view]
These websites have designs i like (especially like the header from the following link: [url removed, login to view]
******The header should also constantly be trying to get information from the client, (name, phone number, email address, keywords)
High pressure sales page concept.
I would need the complete website built with re-written content that is unique enough in the search engine to not suffer duplicate content consequences. There is a lot of information and competitor websites to take ideas and reword them to create written content.
The menu will be but not limited to:
--Promote Positive content
--Remove Negative information
--------Crisis Management
--About US
who we are:
what we do:
out clients:
I would need full design, and forms to be working and get forwarded to an email address. The web content of the site should be provided by the freelancer and should focus on reputation management for individuals and not for businesses.
For example, some Reputation Companies will focus on review improvement for businesses. This is not us.
We will only focus on individuals with bad information on the internet, such as a mugshot, bad press release, etc...
The budget is low so please don't bid too high!
Wordpress is already installed and ready to go
56 freelancers are bidding on average $188 for this job
Hello, for 260 USD , I can build an incredible user-friendly website for Online Reputation Management company. Relevant Skills and Experience My Website examples 1. [login to view URL] [login to view URL]://vipresentatio More
Dear MKoert. I check [login to view URL], [login to view URL], [login to view URL] carefully and I am absolutely sure that I can do the project very well P/S: I will give you the More
Sure, Ready to go.. Relevant Skills and Experience Check out my portfolio, [login to view URL]@N08/albums Proposed Milestones $168 USD - Proposed can we have chat to discuss task? - DN
Hi there, I would like to explore the further possibilities of the project. Our team works on web design, CMS, HTML, CSS, PHP, JS, WORDPRESS, JOOMLA etc. Regards Saurav Relevant Skills and Experience Wordpress, HTML, More
**WordPress Expert With 6+ years of experience** Hello, I have read the job in detail and reviewed the links. I can create a perfect website for you as per requirements. Regards, Abhay G. Relevant Skills and Experien More
"Hi Thanks for posting this requirement. We are, India based website design & development company since 5 years effectively deliver and concentrate in high quality design & development." Relevant Skills and Experien More
. Relevant Skills and Experience Hi, I am a professional writer. I am highly interested in your project. Please PM to discuss. Samples available upon request. Revival My Portfolio & Reviews: [login to view URL] More
I read your requirements and understood.i have good developer [login to view URL] are expertise on designing and development, I assure you that i will provide you pro quality work in your budget. Relevant Skills and Experience HT More
I have more than three years of web development experience. Development portfolio given below. [login to view URL] [login to view URL] (Wordpress Woocommerce One pager) [login to view URL] (Wordpress Blog) [login to view URL] More


text: Photo shows two children checking a black plastic bag containing their catch of the day: trash from garbage cans and plastic bottled drinks from pedestrians at the shopping center inside the University of the Philippines Diliman campus. On the foreground is a plastic label the taller scavenger tore from a plastic bottle and threw on the grass. Photo by Dennis D. Estopace, Oct. 14, 2009/ Quezon City, Philippines


text:
Klock Werks Leads Jack-Daniels Branded Indian Chief Tribute Bike
Indian Motorcycle®, America's first motorcycle company, today announced it has joined forces with the Jack Daniel Distillery to create the Limited Edition Jack Daniel's Indian® Chief® Vintage motorcycle. The partnership brings together two of America's most iconic brands that share a mutual commitment to independence, originality, and American craftsmanship that dates back more than a century. The collaboration commemorates the 150th Anniversary of the Jack Daniel Distillery, which was registered in 1866.
The Limited Edition Jack Daniel's Indian Chief Vintage will be produced in very limited quantities, taking the iconic Indian Chief Vintage platform to a whole new level with an array of genuine Indian Motorcycle accessories and custom accessories, as well as Jack Daniel's-inspired custom paint and logos, badging, leather saddle, and saddlebags. The bike's front fender is also inscribed with the names of the seven Master Distillers who have overseen the Jack Daniel's distilling process over its 150-year history. Final customization work was designed and completed by Brian Klock and his inspired team at Klock Werks in Mitchell, S.D.
"This is the first time Jack Daniels has branded a motor vehicle and to be involved in that process is a huge honor! Jack Daniel's David Stang has become one of our great friends over the last few years through a few projects we've completed together. When we got the call from David and his team to be the designer of choice for this historic bike, it was humbling, and exciting! Our relationship with Indian stems back to being an advisory board member before Polaris launched the new Indian, to Laura being a part of the Indian unveil at Sturgis 2012, and then Karlee designing one of the first custom Indian Scouts. I am ecstatic for our team to represent these iconic American brands, and to be part of another historic moment," said Brian Klock, President of Klock Werks. "We chose long time friends Tex McDorman and his family at TexEfx to paint this original that the rest of the 150 will be modeled after."
The 2016 Limited Edition Jack Daniel's Indian Chief Vintage was on display January 23-31 at the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Collector Car Auction. It will also make an appearance at a series of events throughout 2016 including Daytona Bike Week, taking place March 4-13. Ultimately, this first-in-the-series display bike will be auctioned at the Barrett-Jackson Auction in Las Vegas, which takes place October 6-8. All monies raised from the charity auction will be donated to support "Operation Ride Home," a partnership between the Jack Daniel Distillery and the Armed Services YMCA that provides funding and travel assistance to help junior-enlisted military personnel spend time with their families during the holiday season.
"This one-of-a-kind motorcycle is the perfect pairing of these two classic American brands, and while they look great together, we've inscribed this unique collector's edition masterpiece with our 'Bottles and Throttles Don't Mix' mantra to remind all our friends that drinking and riding are meant to be enjoyed separately," said Dave Stang, Director of Events & Sponsorships for Jack Daniel's. "We'd like to thank our friends at Indian Motorcycle and Klock Werks for their help on this project and their support for Operation Ride Home."
For more information about Operation Ride Home, or to make a tax-deductible donation, please visit: http:// www.jdoperationridehome.com
Copyright © 2015 Internet Brands, Inc. All rights reserved.
Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Cookies
Contact Us Toll Free (877) 700-2468 (US) or (413) 664 7885 (Outside US)
106 Main Street, North Adams, MA 01247


text: Happy New Year to all. In this upcoming year I wish to accomplish many things here, including finishing Deadly Roses and beginning its sequel Fearless Hunt as well as the possibility of another story. I hope you all enjoyed Life's Story. Please keep reading. I greatly appreciate it. Thank you and have a wonderful year.


text:
J Environ Radioact. 2011 Nov 25. [Epub ahead of print]
Radiation measurements in the Chiba Metropolitan Area and radiological aspects of fallout from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plants accident.
Amano H, Akiyama M, Chunlei B, Kawamura T, Kishimoto T, Kuroda T, Muroi T, Odaira T, Ohta Y, Takeda K, Watanabe Y, Morimoto T.
Japan Chemical Analysis Center, 295-3 Sanno-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba 263-0002, Japan.
Large amounts of radioactive substances were released into the environment from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plants in eastern Japan as a consequence of the great earthquake (M 9.0) and tsunami of 11 March 2011. Radioactive substances discharged into the atmosphere first reached the Chiba Metropolitan Area on 15 March. We collected daily samples of air, fallout deposition, and tap water starting directly after the incident and measured their radioactivity. During the first two months maximum daily concentrations of airborne radionuclides observed at the Japan Chemical Analysis Center in the Chiba Metropolitan Area were as follows: 4.7 × 10(1) Bq m(-3) of (131)I, 7.5 Bq m(-3) of (137)Cs, and 6.1 Bq m(-3) of (134)Cs. The ratio of gaseous iodine to total iodine ranged from 5.2 × 10(-1) to 7.1 × 10(-1). Observed deposition rate maxima were as follows: 1.7 × 10(4) Bq m(-2) d(-1) of (131)I, 2.9 × 10(3) Bq m(-2) d(-1) of (137)Cs, and 2.9 × 10(3) Bq m(-2) d(-1) of (134)Cs. The deposition velocities (ratio of deposition rate to concentration) of cesium radionuclides and (131)I were detectably different. Radioactivity in tap water caused by the accident was detected several days after detection of radioactivity in fallout in the area. Radiation doses were estimated from external radiation and internal radiation by inhalation and ingestion of tap water for people living outdoor in the Chiba Metropolitan Area following the Fukushima accident.
Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
[PubMed – as supplied by publisher]


text:
Doner O'Connell, originally uploaded by willsaint.
My first Le Cool cover. it's called Doner O'Connell and it's inspired by Sean Hillen's photo montages. I love those old tourist postcards of famous Dublin places, they're always on a sunny day and the colours are over saturated. I'm trying to imagine uses for The Spire. I think a giant kebab would be deadly, then no one would have to queue for food on Saturday night after a few pints.


text:
Wordpress Information of BLENDERSONSALE.COM
Blenders On Sale | Blenders and Recipes, Shop for kitchen blenders from brands like KitchenAid, Ninja, Blendtec, Cuisinart, Oster, Waring, Vitamix and Hamilton Beach.
Wordpress Theme
BLENDERSONSALE.COM seems to use Wordpress but it is very hard to find the theme information from this website.
Wordpress plugin
0 wordpress plugins are found in BLENDERSONSALE.COM
Wordpress plugin: No wordpress plugin is found in BLENDERSONSALE.COM


text:
Exodus 15:1-13 "Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him. The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.
Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea. The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone. Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy. And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble. And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters. Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them. Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.
It makes sense to talk about Journeys and Destinations at this time of year. Being the long weekend, many are travelling to cabins and cottages to open them up for the summer. I remember as a kid travelling from our home in Bramalea, Ontario to Huntsville, 2 ½ hours north to my mom's parents house - a cottage on a wonderful lake. For a little guy that was a long trip. At the end would be a private sandy beach, a great lake with swimming and fishing, cool moss to run around on, birch trees providing wonderful shade. But there was that necessary confinement in the back seat looking for the bridges and markers that said you were almost there.
There are at least 2 distinct ways of taking trips. The first emphasizes the destination. We want to go to Victoria Island. We get on a plane, and in a few hours we arrive at the island's airport. You arrive for a business meeting or to visit family. You get there, get it done, then return home glad to be back to the routine you left behind. The second emphasizes the journey itself. We get our maps from CAA and after a couple or three days of travelling we board the ferry to the island; after we have spent time in the Rockies and Banff, in the Okanogan Valley and Vancouver, camping and spending time exploring what lies between us and the destination. Sometimes the first way needs to happen. Sometimes the second way should happen, but we don't bother. The second way is harder and longer. It breaks our routines. You learn things along that journey; most of them good, but sometimes a breakdown occurs. It costs more, because of the greater time you are away from home longer - you eat out and sleep at camp sites or motels. You can also take this scenic route and not learn anything. Some people will hop the train and just watch the scenery whisk by.
Several thousand years ago the nation of Israel went on a journey. They had been trapped in the land of Egypt by a ruler who turned them into slaves. They cried out to God and He sent a deliverer by the name of Moses. God used Moses to get His people free and so they left. As they were leaving we find that the Egyptians gave them gold and jewellery, an unexpected blessing as they entered the wilderness. They left what was known for the unknown. They were headed for the Land promised to Abraham so long before. Some people on that trip had one thing in mind - the destination. The stuff they experienced on the way was just inconvenience until they got to where they were going. I expect comfort was one of those things they valued. They couldn't stand living out of a suitcase, with no mailing address. It is interesting to note that many individuals throughout the Scriptures had no permanent address. Adam and Eve had to leave their home, evicted, though that was pretty much their fault. They went into a big unknown world to make a life for themselves. Abraham was called out of his country to a place he didn't know. Many of the prophets had no real home, wandering and spreading the message of God. Mary and Joseph had to flee to Egypt for a couple years. Jesus had no place to lay his head during His itinerant ministry. Paul wandered all over the known world - his suitcase was his home.
So off Israel goes, to the Promised Land. First stop is Mount Sinai. Moses has to pick something up, a map as it were. The moral map that Moses was after would guide them along the way. This was a major step to the Promised Land, something they couldn't skip. The nation of Israel went from bondage and slavery, to freedom following God. And what did they do? First they complained about the taste of the water. They walked out into the desert and immediately were thirsty. They came to a place of bitter waters - the water was sick. The first thing they did was let fear control them and complain. They just crossed the Red Sea, the waters parted so they had dry land to cross. The Egyptians followed and were drowned. They saw the power of God move them out… and they were afraid of where He moved them. Here at the bitter waters, God healed the waters and then God led them to the springs of Elim. Then Israel complained about the food. They were hungry - where would you get enough food for a nation when you were in the middle of the wilderness? God provided Manna. The only thing was they had to gather it day by day. God only provided what they needed that day so they had to learn to trust Him. A bit further along they complained about being thirsty - they weren't even at Mount Sinai yet and already bang, bang, bang they have grumbled and complained 3 times, many wanting to go back to Egypt. What did God do? He provided water from a rock. Moses called that place Massah and Meribah because they quarrelled with himself and wondered if God knew their problems. Finally they got to Sinai, and while Moses was gone talking to God they made a golden calf. Now, if it was me, I would hope I would have acted differently. Do you get that sense of kids asking, "Are we there yet?" The kids all pile out of the car as they reach the first gas station and continue to find faults. The whole way you had people grumbling and murmuring. You had people questioning Moses' leadership. These people just wanted to get where they were going. It seems that they would have preferred bondage and slavery to God's presence.
They missed the lesson of the water at Elim. Moses said in Exodus 15:26, "If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, He will put none of the diseases on you which He put on the Egyptians; for God says, "I, the LORD, am your Healer."" They missed the lesson of the manna. When they were hungry He provided something that tasted like wafers and honey. Until they went to the Promised Land, manna was there - day in and day out. Even though they wandered for 40 years in the wilderness, some 1.5 million people, they never went hungry. God was their Provider. They missed the lesson of Meribah, where God showed them in the midst of testing He was there. He was their Comforter. The worst of it all was that by the time they got to the edge of the Promised Land, they were too afraid to go in. The land was all they hoped it would be but the people, the obstacles in the land were too big. The promise of God was extended to them and all they had to do was reach out and take it. What a crazy story of people trying to get somewhere, but never arriving. The only reason for failure was their lack of faith in the God who had done so many miracles in their midst. At one point we read that God said He would destroy the people for the 10 times they failed to trust Him. Isn't it interesting that 10 is the number of plagues God placed on Egypt before Pharaoh would let the people of God go? Here at the Promised Land they themselves turned their back on God 10 times.
And so we are on a journey, both as individuals and as a community of Believers. As individuals we are on the road to glory, to the revealing of who God is in our lives. God changes us day by day into the likeness of Jesus, revealing Himself to us and the world around us. As a church God takes this motley group, if I may say, and uses us to accomplish His purpose in this place. We are all travelling to the Promised Land, to the place where we will be in His presence, a place we can call home. And we haven't arrived yet, but we have a choice. We can choose to look only at the destination and let the journey pass us by. In so doing, we will miss much of His blessing, for He leads us with His presence today like He led the nation of Israel through the wilderness. As a Church we need to be a people of the journey, of God going before us and we following His lead. Let the destination worry about itself. We will cross the Jordan River in due time, but in the mean time, let us see the miracles of God's healing and provision and comfort in our midst.
Let us learn the lesson of the bitter waters that God can heal. Over the last 15 years as a church we have lost many friends. We have made bad decisions that cost us fellowship. But we have also seen God heal in our midst, so let us call Him Healer; let us recognize our mistakes and our brokenness and ask God to heal.. Let us trust Him with our lives, our loved ones' lives. Let us not just trust God for our physical lives, but our spiritual lives that are worth so much more. God heals us spiritually. Eternal life is what happens to us when we are healed of the sin problem. So let us not be like the children of Israel and grumble about things that we feel are obstacles or aren't right. God will make all right. He is our Healer, and anything that is out there against us, pulling us down, strangling the life out of us has no power here. God is the Healer and He will heal us.
Let us learn the lesson of the manna, of trusting God for all we need. He is our Provider. Day in and day out He has promised to provide for us. Jesus said to seek first God's kingdom and that He will look after the rest. There may be things that come against us so we look poor, we look hungry, and the future looks bleak. But God, our Provider, Jehovah Jireh, is faithful and will not leave us hungry. We are the Bride of Christ! How can we say He will neglect us and leave us and not provide? Those are the lies of the evil one, and they have no power here. Spiritually you have a feast with the Master Chef of the universe at your disposal every day. Rest in Him. You don't need to store up treasures here on earth. We don't need to protect our bank accounts, our savings, our building, our stuff. None of that really matters because we know the God who owns the cattle on a thousand hills. Would you rather have onions on the banks of the Nile back in bondage, or rib steak in the presence of God almighty? It doesn't look so much like a wilderness with God at the helm, does it?
And let us learn the lesson of the dry times. When we are tired of the journey, when we are parched from the stuff of life and the winds of change, let us go to God who is our Comforter. We are so short sighted sometimes. We look at what is in front of us and think that is all there is. God is so much bigger than the here and now, than these things we have around us. We see a rock, but God sees a fountain of life. We see empty chairs but God sees room for us to grow and reach out. We need to stop our striving of trying to be more than we are in our own strength, of trying to be things that we are not. It is not us that is so great, but our God, and who is bigger than He? God is in us right now, in the details in our lives. As we rest in Him, He will come and comfort. He will come and change us; He will do that work that transforms us. We will go to Him weak and heavy laden and He will give us rest.
Learn the lessons of Israel's past: Don't grumble, but step out in faith and praise God. Don't doubt and fear, but surrender all you are to Him, trust in Him, and He will give you the victory. And when God says go, go; you don't want to be wandering in some desert for 40 years because you weren't willing to step out in faith. Know this: we are not only on a wonderful journey together, you and me, with God; but we are entering our Year of Jubilee. I look forward to sharing with you next week what God has said about that!


text:
Saturday, September 26, 2015
stones for my hair
I saw this beautiful photo of an Elemental Child crystal crown tucked into a French twist last year and wanted to do something similar. Only, since I'm unlikely to put my hair up into a French twist (ever - I usually do a pile of sculptural curls at the nape of my neck, if I do anything at all), I decided to separate mine into individual combs.
This is the first set I made. I haven't worn them yet (no occasion for fancy updos when one is moving!), but I hope to, soon. I'm debating whether I'll tuck these into my hair at my workplace's fundraising gala in October - the alternative would be donning my favorite fascinator/tiny pillbox hat from Spain. Ah well, the holidays bring plenty of opportunities to play dress-up (and I intend to take advantage of them!).
I plan to dabble with a few more of these in the future; I have smaller crystals to try (I wanted my first set to mimic the scale of the original photo as much as possible, though), and diminuitive one-inch-wide combs, to experiment with scale. Using both might yield darling results for a child!
Posted by fleur_delicious at 8:40 AM 2 comments:
Labels: crafts
Sunday, September 6, 2015
stopping time, moving forward
tart cherry preserves - a taste of my childhood!
Ugh. Once again, where has the time gone? Well. I have been making things and taking photos all this long, hot, dry summer. I just haven't taken the next step of culling and editing photos and posting. I also feel like I've barely been keeping my head above water with the making.
Part of it's the heat; look at the grass in that top photo - little straw-twigs! This summer was a prolonged battle of attrition to try and keep the garden alive. It was more work and money than it was worth and eventually I threw up my hands and said, "I give up."
Part of it's the heat; look at the grass in that top photo - little straw-twigs! This summer was a prolonged battle of attrition to try and keep the garden alive. It was more work and money than it was worth and eventually I threw up my hands and said, "I give up."
It was the right choice. And now that some more seasonable weather has returned (three good drenching storms in a 3-week period), I feel like I've had a little more time to gather myself and get things done. So I sat down yesterday morning and culled a bunch of photos to put together a couple of posts.
I found tart cherries at the U District Farmer's Market (thanks to a tip from my awesome neighbour) and made preserves - well, more of a low-sugar pie filling, really. I was only able to get 2 lbs of cherries, so these won't be shared, because after you remove the pits, the 2 lbs have pretty much become 1 lb and it's just not enough!! These are for turnovers or eating on English muffins this fall, and reminisces about the mature tart cherry tree I grew up with. (More on that in a moment.)
blackcurrant preserves!
At one point this summer, I walked into Ballard Market and there were flats of blackcurrants for just $10. I took one and went through the laborious process of picking all the bits of stems and flower ends off them - and then I made delightful blackcurrant jam. I have given lots of these away already, sharing the bounty, but there should be a few left at the holidays. I also baked the leftover preserves (when I ran out of jars to pack them into) into a completely heavenly vegan coffee cake (I had some stress this summer and my doctor ordered me off dairy - it took about three weeks for things to level out, and I started getting creative with the vegan baking).
And now, back to that little note about the cherry tree of my childhood. I've bought one for my own garden: a Northstar. It's supposedly self-dwarfing, only growing 8-10' tall and wide, able to be netted and harvested without a giant ladder, resistant to cracking and brown rot, and when mature, producing plenty of fruit for a family of four. We only have two in our family, but I definitely eat more than my fair share of tart cherries - as a child and teen, these were the only fruits I would eat to the point of allergic reaction: when my grandparents visited and my grandpa brought jars of tart cherry sauce, I'd eat it all day ... until I broke out in hives on my wrists and inner forearms. I'd take a cold shower and put on calamine lotion before bed ... and in the morning I'd start all over again - no regrets!!
And where will we put this tart cherry tree? Well, we'll put it in our new garden that we're going to build ... in our new home. Cass and I have become homeowners - finally! - for the first time in our lives. I expect the tone of this blog will shift toward more decorating, gardening, and home repair/upgrade projects in the future, but for now we're living in boxes as we can't start moving until Tuesday.
And maybe the new home will be just the prod I need to get back into the swing of things here. Let's hope so - because Pacific Rain has been languishing this summer!!
Posted by fleur_delicious at 9:40 AM 3 comments:
Saturday, July 11, 2015
A bag for Gaia
This, too, was meant to be a Yuletide gift. Boy, was I late.
My friend was pregnant at the time - she's since given birth to her son, and fortunately I did manage to get this to her a week or two before the birth, which was my aim (the "hard deadline").
When I started in November; she was quite pregnant already (big baby this time around!), and I was thinking how wonderfully suited my friend is to pregnancy. I think of her as a water spirit, but she was so perfectly at home as this grounded mother, growing heavy with child. So I began to bead a sort of mandala pattern for her, all in blues and greens, studded with lapis and jade.
I stitched together a kind of medicine bag from softest back suede; the bag is maybe ...5 or 6 inches wide by about 8 inches long, I think? I don't quite remember. The entire bag is edged in tiny seed beads of palest lavender. One on every stitch.
I made a very long, 4-strand braided strap from leather, so the bag could easily be slung, messenger-style, diagonally across the body and hang at the hip. I left long fringes hanging and weighted them with silver beads to help them swing just right. My fingers turned black from working all those dyed skins.
I wanted it to be a gift to bring sweetness and light, so I stuffed it with a sage smudge, palo santo sticks, lavender balm and special soap, tea for breastfeeding mothers, etc. And off it goes. Not much to say about this; it's just a pretty thing I made for a friend whom I love and it turned out quite perfect!
Posted by fleur_delicious at 4:54 PM No comments:
Sunday, July 5, 2015
Another architecture tee
2015 is my year of the WIP (Works-in-Progress), by which I mean, working on finishing up old WIPs (and jettisoning those projects that I'm never going to finish). And there are PLENTY of these thing banging around the house. SO MANY IDEAS, never enough time for them all. But as Cass and I finally make progress toward entering the housing market (as first time buyers), I'm trying to adopt an attitude of "we're moving" and use that to motivate some streamlining in all aspects of our lives: cleaning out the fridge and freezer of old unused food, cleaning out our closets, and yes, even cleaning out baskets of projects.
In the interest of finishing up old works-in-progress, I printed this shirt for Cass some time ago; it was meant to be a yuletide gift, but ... I don't know what happened, exactly. I made this screen years ago, and printed him a blue-and-black Aalto tee then. He'd worn that shirt out, so it was time for a new one. Simple as that, really. He's happy as a clam to have an Aalto shirt again. This print is one of his favorites.
I also finished another originally-intended-as-a-yuletide gift in mid-June. I'll try and get it up on the blog this week; I would've posted sooner, but a business trip to Cleveland, followed by Midsommar, followed by a rush proofreading job and the 4th of July have absorbed my last three weeks in a constant state of busy-rush-rush.
I think I've earned a bit of a summer break: time for less rush-rush and a bit more summer reading and beading in my near future, I hope! Oh, and quilting, too - I want to finish the Rabbit in the Moon quilt this summer and give it away. With full time work and part time freelancing, I think I can safely say that Months and Years is officially going back on the shelf of Dreams for When I Have Time. Oh, I'll keep making beautiful small things for little people, but I think I'll just go back to giving them away instead of trying to build a collection of them to sell together.
Posted by fleur_delicious at 4:50 PM No comments:
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Wow, things have been quiet around here. April (and May) are, as it turns out, really busy months for my new professional career. In fact, I've been pushing myself so hard at work that I've actually been sick (very sick) for the past two weeks with a bad headcold.
While it's rather boring to sit around blowing your nose and coughing and drinking tea and binge-watching Netflix because you're too tired and worn out to read a book or think or go for a walk in the beautiful sunny weather, the whole sitting-on-the-couch-under-many-blankets business is very conducive to finishing small handicrafts like handsewn felt rabbits.
This rabbit's name is Maggie.
This rabbit's name is Maggie.
Maggie is actually a kit made by the clever, magical Alicia Paulson of the blog Posie Gets Cozy. (one of my all-time favorite corners of the web; I've been following along with Alicia for, gosh, maybe even 10 years now? Time flies.) Here's a link to go scope the pattern out if you'd like to make one for yourself. There are a whole bunch of other animals now: a cat and a mouse and a deer and even a fox, each with their own charming little outfits. Maggie's ears are lined with cute pink Liberty fabric, and she wears a Liberty peasant dress and a little handknit capelet (I got help on that one from my MIL) and lace-up felt boots.
Maggie is rather patiently enduring being folded a little tightly and stuffed in a box at the moment; she's headed up North to meet the youngest member of my husband's family this week, whom I hope enjoys playing with her even more than I did this afternoon! =)
More works-in-progress being finished up this week; I have at least another post ready to go. Is this my return to blogging? Yeesh, let's hope so. I can't believe how dusty it's gotten around here.
Posted by fleur_delicious at 6:30 PM 2 comments:
Sunday, March 8, 2015
Hard to believe it's already time; the weather this year is off - I keep asking myself, is it El Nino or more serious climate change? And while there's an anxiety gnawing at the back of my brain about summer, and drought, and wildfire season and all those poor people who live east of the mountains!, and the price of water, and planting vegetables that don't need too much water ... at the same time, there's sun in the Pacific Northwest in February, in March. The temps are warm enough that I have been out harvesting nettles since early February ... and it's hard for a light-starved northern girl to remember that this sun and these mild temps are a bad thing, when it's February and sunny instead of February and bleak.
And so I've been out in the woods already, gathering nettles. Soon it'll be big leaf maple blossoms and the spring foraging season will really and truly feel like it's on.
In the meantime, if you need some color (and comfort!) in your life, try this recipe for beet bread from Twigg Studio!
As I'm something of an old hand at making bread, I used my own tried-and-true process for making bread with this one: first I roasted and peeled the beets, then ground them in the food processor to make a puree. Meanwhile, I proofed the yeast in the warm water with a pinch of sugar, then combined the yeast mixture, beet puree, oil, salt, and 1 cup of white flour in a bowl. I beat hard to make a creamy sponge, then added the remaining flour, 1/2 cup at a time, until a smooth dough had formed.
The next week, I made this same recipe again, using carrot puree (I boiled, then pureed the carrots) and chopped fresh dill; it was amazing. I love how flexible this recipe is; I'll definitely keep playing with it to make various vegetable breads. Give it a shot!
The next week, I made this same recipe again, using carrot puree (I boiled, then pureed the carrots) and chopped fresh dill; it was amazing. I love how flexible this recipe is; I'll definitely keep playing with it to make various vegetable breads. Give it a shot!
Posted by fleur_delicious at 8:39 PM No comments:
Sunday, February 22, 2015
A first
Sorry for my long absence here. I realized, last week, that since I started this blog while I was in grad school, this month marks the first time ever that I've held a regular, 9-to-5 job and had a blog. Hence, the silence. I definitely haven't worked out a balance yet with my job, with yoga, with housework, and with the blog - or any kind of creative making, really; I haven't made anything but food-things in a month. Part of that is because I've also got two freelance jobs on my plate right now - both historical fiction novels that I'm proofreading.
But there are at least a few food experiments going on around here, and this post marks the start of my efforts to try and get the blog back into the new balance of what feels, finally, like a fully adult life. (So happy about that.)
It's been such a mild winter around here this year that it'd be easy to forget that we had one at all. But winter is the season for citrus fruits, and I have a giant bowl of bitter Seville oranges sitting on my kitchen table as a reminder (I'm making marmalade this week - or maybe next weekend is more accurate). I also candied orange peels (below) a few weeks ago, and then used the leftover syrup to glacee kumquats (above) afterward. Recipes for the process can be found here (orange peel); I used the same process for the kumquats (and even the leftover syrup, as I said) as I did for the orange peels, and just let the sliced fruits cook in the already-reduced syrup for about 40-50 minutes, then placed them in a food dehydrator set to about 135 degrees F for an hour or two to help dry them. I loved these kumquats in my holiday baking this winter and everyone loved them so much that I wanted to have more on hand to use again this year.
But there are at least a few food experiments going on around here, and this post marks the start of my efforts to try and get the blog back into the new balance of what feels, finally, like a fully adult life. (So happy about that.)
It's been such a mild winter around here this year that it'd be easy to forget that we had one at all. But winter is the season for citrus fruits, and I have a giant bowl of bitter Seville oranges sitting on my kitchen table as a reminder (I'm making marmalade this week - or maybe next weekend is more accurate). I also candied orange peels (below) a few weeks ago, and then used the leftover syrup to glacee kumquats (above) afterward. Recipes for the process can be found here (orange peel); I used the same process for the kumquats (and even the leftover syrup, as I said) as I did for the orange peels, and just let the sliced fruits cook in the already-reduced syrup for about 40-50 minutes, then placed them in a food dehydrator set to about 135 degrees F for an hour or two to help dry them. I loved these kumquats in my holiday baking this winter and everyone loved them so much that I wanted to have more on hand to use again this year.
Posted by fleur_delicious at 4:21 PM No comments:
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
so I can find it later: cherry almond smoothie
Tonight I went looking for the recipe for this smoothie and couldn't believe I hadn't posted it on my blog! How inconvenient! So, even though this is more than a mite out of season, here it is - I think I'll have it for dessert later, yum yum.
This is my current favorite smoothie at my favorite Seattle vegan spot, Chaco Canyon. After sampling it for the first time this summer, I came home and immediately started tinkering, trying to figure out the proportions so that I could recreate it myself. Since I started making my own almond milk on a semi-regular basis, I have all this ground almond pulp left over. I read that it could be used in smoothies and immediately remembered: oh yeah, cherry-almond smoothies! Yum! I love the zero-waste aspect of this: some of the almond milk goes into the smoothie, and the leftover almonds do, too.
Without further ado:
Cherry Almond Smoothie
1/4 - 1/3 c almonds (or almond pulp/meal)
2 smallish handfuls frozen pitted dark sweet cherries (so, just over 1 c?)
1 c almond milk
1 banana
1 Tbl maple syrup (I like Trader Joe's dark grade B syrup)
Place the almonds (or ground almond pulp/meal) in the blender. Add a bit of the almond milk, and grind up the nuts a bit. Add the cherries and the remainder of the almond milk and blend. Add the banana and maple syrup and work your way up to high speed to get a smooth, thick treat!
The last time I was at Chaco, I swear there was a bit of a cocoa flavor to this, as well - it was like drinking a Cherry Garcia shake ... but vegan! Holy smokes! I'm going to try adding a bit of cacao and see if I can recreate the effect.
Posted by fleur_delicious at 7:15 PM No comments:
Labels: food
Monday, January 12, 2015
looking ahead
Here's news - though anyone reading this blog has probably already seen my update on facebook, or been called, etc. - I finally landed a stable job (it's been nearly two years). I have about a week before my first official day, so in the meantime I'm finishing up some projects, finally enjoying the time off because I can stop worrying about money for the first time in years.
Here's one of the projects I'd been meaning to do for almost a month now! I came across this "Deer Moon Necklace" by Three Arrows Leather in the late autumn, and knew I wanted to make one like it. I actually found a great new source for nice quartz points: children's toy stores - specifically, ones that carry rock specimens for young collectors. I stocked up over the holidays, so perhaps I'll be making a few more of these (girlfriends for whom I regularly make jewelry, let me know if you want one!). I opted for turquoise deerskin lace to make the braid and the straps, instead of black - because I realize that a lot of the jewelry I'm making for myself lately involves rugged natural materials and then black or brown leather (or brass metal fittings). And I'm wearing more neutral clothing, too - so this is a little bit of a reaction against the rut! I also love wearing turquoise accents in the summer, so this is a nice way to look ahead to the summer months to come.
I added some silver tone metal beads from Africa (leftover from when I made that medicine pouch), and I'm all set! My necklace also hangs a bit higher than the original, as I find necklaces that hang too low bothersome.
Posted by fleur_delicious at 3:09 PM No comments:
Friday, January 2, 2015
handmade holidays 2014: gold and pearl earrings
Okay, so actually, I haven't mailed this pair of earrings yet. But I will! Soon! Um, I promise! =) Loosely inspired by some of the gorgeous work of artisan jeweler Julie Cohn (explore her work on her website here), this pair of earrings features an organic, dimpled gold bauble and dangling black keshi pearls (with a pretty rosy/coppery cast to them). And another confession: I liked these so much that I made an identical pair for myself. Yeah, no one's really surprised by that one, huh?
Posted by fleur_delicious at 2:35 PM 1 comment:
Thursday, January 1, 2015
handmade holidays 2014: leather medicine bag with labradorite pyramid
So here's the thing about sending your presents out late: you can't post them 'til even later. This is ridiculous; December was kind of a non-event on the blog, huh? I don't often go in for New Year's resolutions, but maybe I should this year, and strive to make the blogging a more regular thing again. I really want to get back to blogging at least once a week - and not drop off the face of the earth and ride the coattails of a few super-productive weeks earlier in the year!
But let's get down to business. This turned out beautifully. I was so pleased with it. My inspiration was this "Miakoda Medicine" bag by Three Arrows Leather. My version is made from heavy wine-colored suede (the prettiest option of all of the scrap-leather bags at my local Tandy Leather store) that I hand-sewed together with a glover's needle and heavy waxed thread, with braided black leather lace for the necklace and fringe. I mounted a labradorite pyramid with pretty blue fire that I found on etsy into the flap (golly it's big - and kinda sharp at that point!), and worked silver-colored metal beads onto the fringe.
I loved making this - and I love the look of the pyramid stone set in the leather. I'd love to try my hand at making a big bag with multiple stones set in the flap sometime, like some of the purses that Three Arrows has for sale. It's such a great, simple idea for embellishment - and it looks amazing!
Posted by fleur_delicious at 2:17 PM No comments:
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)


text:
Using LinkedIn's Sponsored Updates in your Paid Advertising Campaign
LinkedIn's recent announcement that it would begin offering "sponsored updates" has opened the doors for marketers who use paid advertising that want to be able to promote posts from their LinkedIn company pages to specific individuals in their newsfeeds.
"Relevant content delivered to the right people at the right time?" writes Amanda Sibley, HubSpot's global marketing relations manager, in How to Use LinkedIn's 'Sponsored Updates,' a New Type of Ad for Company Pages. "As inbound marketers, we're definitely into that."
As a member of LinkedIn's sponsored update beta program, HubSpot has an inside track into how the new offering helps increase the reach and visibility of a particular post. Here's what Sibley says all marketers need to know about the new option:
There are two ways you can create a sponsored update: from your Company Page or from within the ads manager.
1) How to Create a Sponsored Update From Your Company Page
To sponsor an update to be placed in an existing campaign, you can select it directly from your Company Page. Simply click on the 'Sponsor update' button that appears under the organic metrics for each post.
This will prompt a pop up module to appear. Here, choose which existing campaign you'd like the update to appear in and select targeting and bidding options. Click 'Confirm,' and you'll have a Sponsored Update!
2) How to Create a Sponsored Update From the Ads Manager
You can follow this process if you want to create a sponsored update to appear in a new campaign. Begin by clicking 'Create new campaign' within the Campaigns tab of the Ads Manager.
Next, you'll need to create a campaign name, select the language, and select which post you'd like to promote (Note: The post must already be published to your Company Page for you to select it). After selecting which update you want to sponsor, LinkedIn will provide a preview for how that post will appear to others on a desktop, mobile, and tablet device.
Next you'll need to select your targeting options. Be sure to click the blue option for 'More Targeting Options' to get a complete view of the targeting choices available.
Once you finish choosing your targeting options, you'll be asked to bid on the campaign. Here are three important aspects of this payment setup:
- Choose whether you'd like to pay on a cost-per-click (CPC) or cost-per 1,000 impressions (CPM) basis.
- Set a budget for your Sponsored Update campaign.
- Choose how long you want to run your campaign.
Learn more about HubSpot's results and see screenshots from the beta test here.


text:
We live in a highly computerized society (the concept of the Internet of Things) where not only are there a lot of electronic devices abound, you probably have a computer on your person right now. Think of how many people in the world have a smartphone (surprisingly, I don't – I'm just cheap). According to Experts Exchange, the guidance systems used in the Apollo missions have only twice the computing capability of the old Nintendo Entertainment System (or Famicom for you video game hipsters out there). That's right – with half of the RAM that NASA used to guide Apollo 11 to the moon, I've been using it to save the Kingdom of Hyrule.
Source: Experts Exchange, http://pages.experts-exchange.com/processing-power-compared/
My old Sega Genesis (CPU Speed: 7.6 MHz, RAM: 72 KB) would have blown away the Apollo guidance systems. No contest.
All this computerization requires a lot of resources, especially silicon…
View original post 1,031 more words


text:
Browsing College of Humanities by Title
Now showing items 115-134 of 1185
A bone grease processing station at the Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village: archaeological evidence for the exploitation of bone fats (Maney, 2015-02)Recent excavations at the Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village, an Initial Middle Missouri site in Mitchell, South Dakota have revealed a large, clay-lined feature filled with fractured and fragmented bison bones. Fracture ...
Bone marrow edema-like lesions change in volume in the majority of patients with osteoarthritis; associations with clinical features (Springer Verlag for European Society of Radiology (ESR), 2007-12)It has been suggested that bone marrow edema-like (BME) lesions in the knee are associated with progression of osteoarthritis (OA). The purpose of our study in patients with OA was to evaluate prospectively changes of BME ...
Borgese e Manzoni (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997-01)
Boris Slutskii: a poet, his time, and the canon (Open Book Publishers, 2017)Not available
The Boy's Own Paper and late-Victorian juvenile magazines (Cambridge University Press, 2004-09)
Breaches in a Battered Wall: Invasion, Spectatorship, and the Early Modern Stage (Manchester University Press, 2015-10-01)This article explores how the fictional representation of siege and invasion in the war dramas of the 1580s and 1590s enabled Elizabethan dramatists to reflect upon the vulnerable state of their own theatre, threatened ...
Breaking Boundaries: The Cosmic Dimensions of Worship (Peeters Publishers, 2017-12-20)Basil of Caesarea's Letter 207, to the clergy of Neocaesarea, tackles a quarrel between the parties. Although the underlying differences are doctrinal, the immediate points of contention are the singing of psalms and ...
Breaking through the barriers of time in a space under siege: Olga Bergholz. ПРОРЫВАЯСЬ СКВОЗЬ БАРЬЕРЫ ВРЕМЕНИ И ПРОСТРАНСТВА ВО ВРЕМЯ БЛОКАДЫ: ОЛЬГА БЕРГГОЛЬЦ (Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2017)This article explores the dialogue between different representations of time in Ol′ga Berggol′ts's writing on the Leningrad Siege, including her poetry, diaries, and prose. The device of representing different periods of ...
Breeding futures: masculinity and the ethics of CUMmunion in Treasure Island Media's Viral Loads (Taylor & Francis, 2018-05-31)In a recent interview, pornographer Paul Morris claimed his studio, Treasure Island Media (TIM), is a 'laboratory exploring the vital sexual symbiosis of human and viral DNA.' Departing from that claim, I examine his porn ...
The "bridge which is between physical and psychical research": William Fletcher Barrett, sensitive flames and spiritualism (Science History Publications Ltd, 2004-12)
Bristol Deaf Memories: archives, nostalgia and the loss of community space in the deaf community in Bristol (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2017-10-23)The deaf community in the UK has undergone major changes in recent years, which has uprooted it from its traditional foundations, the deaf club and deaf residential school. This article examines the effect of the closure ...
Britain, America and the origins of the European Payments Union: a reassessment (2008)This working papers offers a revisionist approach to the founding of the European Payments Union (EPU) in 1950.
British Communists and Anglo-French relations, 1914-1945 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)Studies of the entente cordiale tend to focus on various aspects of Anglo-French inter-state relations. This is entirely right and proper: the entente was, after all, an agreement between two states. It is to be expected ...
British Economic Growth, 1270-1870: an Output-Based approach (London School of Economics, 2011-12-11)This paper reconstructs GDP from the output side for medieval and early modern Britain. In contrast to the long run stagnation of living standards suggested by daily real wage rates, output-based GDP per capita exhibits ...
British imperial expansion and the transformation of violence at sea, 1600-1850: introduction (Sage, 2013-12)Abstract not available.
British Intersex Christians' Accounts of Intersex Identity, Christian Identity and Church Experience (Maney for UK and Irish Association for Practical Theology, 2013)Intersex conditions cause a physical ambiguity of sex, and affect around 1 in 2,500 people. This analysis draws on qualitative, semi-structured interviews and/or questionnaires with ten intersex Christians. Overwhelmingly, ...
British naval intelligence and Bonaparte's Egyptian expedition of 1798 (The Society for Nautical Research, 1998-08)
British Radio Dramaturgy and the Effects of the New Conservatism (Cambridge University Press, 2004-02)This essay, which is informed by the author's own practice as a playwright working in the medium of radio drama, looks at some effects of the enforced merger of radio with TV drama to create a 'bi-media' department at the ...
Bronze Age Boat (University of Exeter, 2014-03-26)Photographs, videos and datasets related to Morgawr, the Bronze Age-type sewn-plank boat.
Bronze Age Human Ecodynamics in the Humber Estuary (Oxbow Books, 2000)For much of lowland Britain during the Holocene one important factor in determining environmental change was sea level fluctuation. A net rise of circa 20 m, within an oscillating short term picture of transgression and ...


text:
A Review Of One stop web solution providerAt TechTrendsIT we prosper to generally be a ONE STOP shop for all our consumer desires On the subject of automation in their business procedure, building cutting edge enterprise applications, making an user engagement system and speed up time-to marketplace.
"It's a tool which can transform the caliber of care furnished by a medical professional's Place of work, and it can offer schooling and information that could alter a affected individual's lifetime."
To implement a code, just simply click "Activate Code" button to repeat the code, open up the location and enter your code when testing. To redeem the promotions that you would like, simply just just simply click "Activate Deal" button along with your coupon is going to be activated immediately.
These on-line Web2Print solutions can certainly be integrated with shopper's current workflow leading to amplified gross sales devoid of big added cost. Structure'N'Buy also ensures ideal-in-class delivery and after income guidance. To learn more, remember to pay a visit to:
From Organization: To start with Option Technique is dedicated to supporting companies use impressive new online and mobile advertising platforms to get visibility, targeted visitors, customers and raving enthusiast…
Onestopwebsolutions includes a mediocre Google pagerank and undesirable success with regard to Yandex topical citation index. We located that Onestopwebsolutions.com is improperly 'socialized' in respect to any social network. Based on Siteadvisor and Google Protected browsing analytics, Onestopwebsolutions.com is very a safe domain without any visitor critiques. Throughout the world Audience
Our Crew comprises of professional IT & Media gurus across assorted backgrounds with wide nationwide & Global publicity with aptitude to discover the extremely hard.
This is an quickly created AboutUs web site for 1stopwebsolutions.Web. Simply click the "Edit" button at the highest on the web site to help make variations. Please study our Getting Started page if you want any enable.
Chatting with CXOtoday, Tarun Davda, Enterprise Head, BigRock.com, described that at this time, in addition to SMBs, you'll find a large number of industry experts including Physicians, attorneys and so forth who want attain out to extra buyers, nevertheless restrictions refrain them from push advertising and marketing. Consequently, acquiring an personal Web page will offer them with a really perfect platform to market their products and services. He even further additional that, the corporation aims to target the fifteen Million solid SMB marketplace in India and options to garner 20% market place share more than another 3 many years.
They are promoted on the concept they provide a single issue of Speak to but they are also built from a stability viewpoint to restrict general public access to the city (city, etcetera.) hall.
This informative website article relies largely or entirely upon only one resource. Related discussion may be found over the communicate site. You should support boost this informative article by introducing citations to supplemental sources. (June 2013)
Raise your profitability, attain a aggressive advantage from the marketplace and meet up with the card payment desires of one's consumers and compact firms through credit rating, debit and service provider providers courses.
The period of applying on the web Discount codes is in this article, and It is really only intending to get well. We've made this excellent website that will help you conserve on just about anything you buy online.
I-MAP Websolutions, Inc sees alone because the countries top rated e-commerce solution providers, Net designing and web hosting provider in the following five years with the target of supplying high-quality companies with the usage of point out-of-the artwork technologies currently.
Save Money: with more than 12 several years in generation, we could take a look at extra options and advise cost-successful solutions to work in just your budget.


text:
Sister Maude
Who told my mother of my shame,
Who told my father of my dear?
Oh who but Maude, my sister Maude,
Who lurked to spy and peer.
Cold he lies, as cold as stone,
With his clotted curls about his face:
The comeliest corpse in all the world
And worthy of a queen's embrace.
You might have spared his soul, sister,
Have spared my soul, your own soul too:
Though I had not been born at all,
He'd never have looked at you.
My father may sleep in Paradise,
My mother at Heaven-gate:
But sister Maude shall get no sleep
Either early or late.
My father may wear a golden gown,
My mother a crown may win;
If my dear and I knocked at Heaven-gate
Perhaps they'd let us in:
But sister Maude, oh sister Maude,
Bide you with death and sin.
Christina Rossetti
There's a tragic story here, with forbidden love and untimely death, but the intense emotional focus of the poem is not so much on the love or the parents who forbade it or the violent end as it is on the unnamed speaker's relationship with her sister Maude. The story is framed by the struggle between the two young women: we hear little about the young man and nothing about how the speaker met him or what they felt for each other; instead, in the very first lines, she asks (knowing the answer quite well) who betrayed them to her parents. And at this point we don't even know what exactly she feels for the young man, because the main point is her anger with her sister. She refers to her shame, which presumably means her relations with the young man have gone beyond love into physical intimacy and possibly even pregnancy. She uses the word, but as we read on we soon see that shame is not what she feels; though she is held within the social strictures that condemn her lover and their affair, she treats them with defiance. Shame is the term she throws back at her sister; it is the attitude of and probably the very word used by tale-bearing Maude, who is identified by her sister with narrow-minded, mean-spirited moralism.
In the second stanza we find out that the lover is dead. He lies there cold as a stone. We can guess that he was murdered from the clotted curls: clotted can mean to cover something with sticky matter, in this case blood. But it's also possible that the lovers were attempting to flee and in their hurry met with an accident that brought the intended elopement to a bloody end – we're not told; all we really know is that the young man is dead, and by some violent means that, we can infer, was brought on by Maude's betrayal. Even before we are told he is still comely when a corpse we can tell that he was beautiful from the curls, which are kind of short-hand for a somewhat dandyish masculine beauty and perhaps for high social standing as well, as in Othello's "the wealthy curlèd darlings of our nation." Was his (conjectured) social rank the reason for her parents' objections to him? We are never told. All we find out directly about him was that he was beautiful, the speaker loved him, and she continues to love him. The action as presented to us centers around Maude: we don't find out how or where the lovers met or what her parents said to her or how the youth was killed, but we do find out that Maude suspected them, spied on them, and betrayed them to her parents, which precipitated the disaster.
In the third stanza, the speaker rebukes Maude for, in essence, choosing the letter of the law over loving-kindness: she didn't need to spy, or to tattle. The speaker frames this stanza in terms of their souls: more than their bodies, it's their souls, their spiritual health, that matters. Again, as with shame in the first line, the speaker uses the standard language of piety, but on her own terms. The speaker runs down the damage (mixing spiritual with physical) that Maude's act of enforcing morality has caused: first to the young man, now lying there dead; next to the speaker, who has lost her soul mate (and perhaps she also suspects some spiritual damage caused by her cold fury at her sister; in addition, perhaps there's an implication here that, having lost her lover, the speaker is planning to join him in death); and finally to Maude herself, whose betrayal of the lovers has destroyed several lives and narrowed or even destroyed her own soul. And here, in the center of the poem, the speaker slices right to the heart, exposing the selfishness and jealousy and general low-mindedness behind Maude's morality: Though I had not been born at all, / He'd never have looked at you. This may sound spiteful, even cruel, but given Maude's actions, we can't dismiss this remark that way – instead, we get the feeling that the speaker is exposing the truth (possibly as part of her last speech on earth) about the unloved and unloving Maude.
Maude may be living a conventionally virtuous life, but she, not the disobedient lovers, is the one who is presented as truly unethical. The thought here reminds me of the forest scene in The Scarlet Letter, in which Hester asserts to her partner in adultery, the guilt-ridden Reverend Dimmesdale, their moral superiority over the officially wronged husband, Roger Chillingworth, since they have (I'm working from memory, but I believe this is the exact wording) "never violated the sanctity of a human heart." The speaker here joins a great nineteenth-century tradition of women who, guided by their sensual feelings, reject conventional social and moral standards in favor of a bolder, more questioning approach to life (some other examples would be Hester Prynne herself, Catherine Earnshaw in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto (a characterization which I assume comes from Hugo, though I've never read Le Roi S'Amuse, the play on which the opera is based), and Browning's Pompilia).
After the speaker's piercing remarks on her sister's real motives, the tone switches, as if that remark allowed her to leave behind this troubled earth and direct her thoughts to the afterlife (and to the last judgment she is going to mete out to Maude). In this fourth stanza, it is hinted that the parents, too, are dead, possibly victims of whatever incident or attack resulted in the young man's death. They are spoken of here, and again in the final stanza, as dead, but only in a conditional sense, and nothing is said about their physical bodies, but only about their after-lives: their father may sleep in Paradise, the mother may sleep at the gate of Heaven, and they may wear golden gowns and crowns (symbols of life in Paradise: again, the speaker does not reject the conventional symbols of religion and morality, but she does take her own approach to them). Whatever the parents have done to her and her lover, she has forgiven, but she can't forgive Maude. She contrasts the heavenly rest of the parents with the sleeplessness that will (she announces it like a curse) afflict Maude (perhaps there is a reminiscence here of the guilt-ridden Macbeth: Sleep no more, Macbeth does murder sleep – Maude, too, is responsible for death, however indirectly).
In the final stanza, the speaker reiterates the possibility of her parents getting into Heaven, and then, defying conventional religious and social thought, suggests that she and her lover (the rebellious, carnal pair) may also be admitted into Heaven. Perhaps that is another suggestion that the speaker is planning to commit suicide, joining the earlier hint when she listed her own soul among those destroyed by Maude. (If so, thinking that a suicide could get into Heaven is another act of defiance against conventional beliefs.) She has spoken conditionally and elliptically of her parents and her lover, hinting at a terrible and violent tragedy, but she closes with a final and clear assertion: Heaven remains closed to one party involved in this calamity, and that is Maude, the sneaky guardian of morality. Bide you with death and sin may just mean that Maude will be the only one left in this world of sin and death, since her actions have ended the lives of the rest of them. But the mention of Death and Sin reminds me of Paradise Lost, in which the incestuous self-devouring triangle of Satan, Sin, and Death acts as a diabolical parody of the Holy Trinity. Since the speaker here mentions death and sin, and tells Maude to remain with them, she seems to be reversing conventional definitions of a good daughter and identifying the technically pure Maude with the missing member of the trio: that is, with Satan, the enemy of life and joy and true morality.
I took this from the Penguin Classics edition of Christina Rossetti: The Complete Poems. It was originally published in Rossetti's 1862 volume Goblin Market and Other Poems; in that collection's famous title poem, you'll find a very different story of two sisters, in which one sister risks her life to save the other from supernatural destruction. As with this poem, though, the main emotional focus of that work is the relationship between the two young women.
18 May 2015
Poem of the Week 2015/20
Posted by Patrick J. Vaz at 5:00 AM
Labels: poesy
1 comment:
- Unknown said...
Such a layered and interesting poem about morality. Don't think for a moment that I didn't enjoy the soap opera aspect of it as well. I love how so much of it is left to the imagination, too. I found it particularly interesting that Maude is the only named person. She is the accused and all the victims get some anonymity. I will add the novel, Atonement, to the list of literature that this reminds me of.
- 10:22 AM, June 29, 2015
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
About Us
Easter's Sand Soil and Gravel can deliver to Outer Tamworth Areas, Moonbi, Kootingal, Nemingha, Nundle, Woolomin, Quirindi, Werris Creek, Duri, Attunga, Manilla and beyond.
Our large product range consists of:
No matter how big or small your project, call in and buy whatever you need , either by the trailer/ute load or have one of our friendly team deliver from 1 cubic metre to 100 metres.
Supplies to both trade and public, Easter's Landscape Supplies offer a large range of garden landscaping supplies, including mulches, under slab fill, decorative stones, sand and soil.
* Trade and Public enquiries are most welcome.
See below some examples of how our wonderful products have been used.
Opening Hours
Monday - Friday: 7am - 5pm
Saturday: 8am - 2pm
Sunday: 9am - 2pm


text:
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
~*Tasty Tuesday*~
2 1/2 c. crushed canned pineapple, undrained
3 c. fresh or frozen blueberries (if frozen, thaw)
3/4 c. sugar
1 (18 1/2 oz.) pkg. yellow cake mix
1/2 c. butter, melted
1 c. pecans, chopped
Butter 13x9 baking pan. Add in layers: undrained pineapple, blueberries, sugar, and dry cake mix. Do not stir. Drizzle melted butter over cake mix; sprinkle with pecans. Bake at 350 degrees for about 45 minutes. Yield: 20 servings.
Now I make my own yellow cake first, then use this recipe and make the dump cake, but a friend used the boxed cake mix and it is good too, what ever is handy for you to do. Hope you enjoy this recipe, it is a tasty treat indeed. hugs my friends.
(Little Thought for the Day)
A pint of examples is worth a gallon of advice.
16 comments:
- Dolores said...
Hi barbara, I love your recipes, everything has to be good.you have a blessed week, a big hug.
thanks for sharing.
- June 29, 2010 at 9:43 AM
- Theresa said...
Hi Barbara, Just stopping by to see what you are cooking up:) Yummy, looks delicious and I love your thought for the day... so true!
Have a blessed day my friend!
- June 29, 2010 at 10:14 AM
- Kathy in KY said...
Hi Barbara - I've heard of this recipe before, but I can't remember if I used blueberries or something else - but it is absolutely decadent, and deelish! Thanks for reminding me of a great dessert that I may have to try very soon. You have a blessed Tuesday. Take care, from KY - your southern gal-friend.
- June 29, 2010 at 10:30 AM
- Peggy said...
getting my first blueberries from my bushes so now I have a awesome recipe to try. Thank you!
- June 29, 2010 at 10:46 AM
- Goose Hill Farm said...
Oh, yum! I love the recipes you post for "Tasty Tuesday!" I may make this one this weekend, adding some strawberries and whipped cream for a patriotic look! lol
BTW...in your fudge popsicle recipe, what size box of pudding do you use? THANKS! :D
- June 29, 2010 at 10:54 AM
- Betsy from Tennessee said...
Very nice, Barbara.... That looks delicious ---and EASY (my favorite word).... YUM!!!
- June 29, 2010 at 12:05 PM
- Barbara said...
Laura, it takes the large box of pudding hon, thanks for all the posts ladies, and I do think this is the dessert I will take to our BBQ cookout Saturday,hugs my friends.
- June 29, 2010 at 12:12 PM
- Linda said...
Hi Barbara,
Hope you are having a good day!
Thank you for sharng another recipe. I love blueberries!
- June 29, 2010 at 2:15 PM
- Mrs. Freida said...
Mrs Barbara, WE call this recipe "Blueberry Crunch". It is really delicious. I know you enjoy it. We have about 25 blueberry bushes so we look for a lot of recipes. Thanks
- June 29, 2010 at 6:54 PM
- Kay said...
OH MY! This looks SO good!!! Naughty me!!! I'm not supposed to be eating sugar, but I can tweak it a bit.
- June 29, 2010 at 7:06 PM
- Jan said...
That does sound delicious. I haven't heard the term 'dump' cake before.
Hugs and Blessings
- June 29, 2010 at 8:26 PM
- Camille said...
How YUMMY!! I *love* blueberries! :)
Have a lovely evening!
- June 29, 2010 at 10:19 PM
- Big Fat Mama said...
Looks yummy!
Just posted an award for you blog! It's under the video clip. :)
- June 29, 2010 at 10:27 PM
- Lynda Young said...
Yuuuum!! Thanks so much for sharing this recipe. My husband will thank you also ;)
- June 30, 2010 at 3:11 AM
- Terri said...
I love dump cake though I hate the name! :-) That looks wonderful Barbara.
- June 30, 2010 at 5:46 AM
- Sandra Henderson said...
Goodness gracious this looks delicous! Oh how I'd Love to get some blueberries! If you can, let me know how, where,etc. and I'll have someone get them for me!!! We use to have someone who gave us some that they grew and would have lots in the freezer, but it's been years. I've LOVE to buy a big 5 gallon bucket full to freeze. XO
- June 30, 2010 at 7:47 AM


text:
Hello Today I want to tell you guys about 5SOS or 5 Seconds Of Summer. They are Australian Boys and they unite as 5SOS Luke Hemmings,Michael Clifford,Calum Hood,Ashton Irwin. They are 16 years old but they so amazing. They formed as a band in 2011 and they sign a concract with sony and they have tutorial to make song with many great musician in Australia. In 2012 they lauch they first single debut and Niall from One Direction commented in they link. Before That louis have publish they link in his Youtube acount. In December 2012 they have a trip to England and The boys embarked on a songwriting trip to London, where they have written with various artists including McFly,Roy Stride of Scouting for Girls, Nick Hodgson of Kaiser Chiefs ,Jamie Scott, Jake Gosling, Steve Robson and James Bourne of Busted. After that they move to England and learn about music in there, In 2013 they lauch they second Music Video and they be famous in England with that. Because of that they selected as Opening act for One Direction Take Me Home Tour.
The Boy's
With One Direction


text:
Free software program gettings from the featured in download collections! Explore the featured apps classes, find out the latest refreshes of the famous softwares programs, and try forthwith! Do not fail chance to test the most asked-for software: use SoftEmpire website to setup solutions for free of charge. See the catalogue of free utilities and software package releases. Choose among Windows and Linux tools, download planners, softwares for relax, and all other kinds of software for your computer or cellular devices!
Company: IncrediMail Convert Tool
OS: Win2000, Win7 x32, Win7 x64, Win98, WinVista, WinVista x64, WinXP


text:
John Edwin McEntyre, age 88 passed away on July 8, 2017 at Maury Regional Medical Center.
John was born on April 5, 1929 to the late John O. and Ruby Lolis McEntyre in Anniston, Alabama. He retired from Monsanto as a maintenance supervisor. He served in the United States Navy during the Korean War.
The family will have a private service at a later date.
Mr. McEntyre is survived by his wife, Mattie Young McEntyre; son Wade McEntyre; daughter Patsy McEntyre; and niece Dr. Kathleen Heim.
Mr. McEntyre was preceded in death by his daughter Linda Jo Smith.
Donations in John's honor may be made to the charity of your choice.
Williams Funeral Home is assisting the family with the arrangements. Online condolences may be made at www.williamsfh.com.


text:
Not known Details About computer services miamiFrom Organization: Our Experienced and polite U.S. based mostly experts can solve your Personal computer or MAC challenges, as well as their devices through the consolation of your own residence. By distant assistan…
If you need an iPhone 6s Battery alternative we also have these batteries in stock along with the repair usually takes even much less time to finish. Pick out one of the repairs under or Click the link for all iPhone 6S Additionally Repair Services
This is certainly an ordinary security check that we use to stop spammers from generating faux accounts and spamming people.
I Connect with This Corporation soon after Hrs, hoping to Reside a message to generally be contacted a while Latter. and my surprise a guy answer the cellular phone, however Will not k…
I Really enjoy all the additional attempts designed to restore a computer that I believed could well be a complete reduction. They were an amazing team of folks and very higher tech with their expertise. Thanks a lot of. We take pleasure in high quality help."
Assortment of your laptop for repair or estimate is furnished totally free only in Miami, you entire an easy variety and depart The remainder to computer repair miami, we'll acquire your laptop from a Business office, your home or maybe your neighbor, we'll maintain you educated of you r laptop repair progress at just about every stage appropriate to the point Whenever your laptop is delivered back again to you personally in total Doing the job order, we usually intention to set your expectations realistically and after that exceed them. With regards to laptop repairs, we believe no one will it much better than us.
Everyone knows the technological know-how is indeed A significant driving pressure in preserving houses and firms performing nicely, and nearly no you can afford to pay for to become disconnected, that's why computer repair miami realize that persons and enterprises constantly depend upon rapid and economical computer services. Our our mission to provide essentially the most reputable nonetheless affordable computer services in Miami, FL.
From Enterprise: Our Specialist and well mannered U.S. based specialists can fix your Laptop or MAC complications, and their gadgets through the consolation of your personal residence. By way of distant assistan…
We have been mindful of your preferences and goals, and we've been below To help you making use of our sensible experience. When you need Computer Repairs in Miami Beach, pick the Computer Repair Leaders by dialing 800-448-9130, and get more info we're going to be over pleased to assist.
If your Laptop, Server and Computer are functioning sluggish or not Functioning, the majority of the situations we could repair them in the identical day.
"Most well-liked" listings, or those with featured Internet site buttons, suggest YP advertisers who straight give specifics of their businesses to assist buyers make additional educated buying choices. YP advertisers get better placement in the default ordering of search results and should surface in sponsored listings on the very best, facet, or base of the search results webpage.
We provide a '1-stop store' IT and computer service with the smaller small business and the person in the area of Hialeah, FL.
We focus on good benefit onsite and desktop computer repairs in Miami and neighboring spots, our technician is usually dispatched to your home or premises, we complete all tasks and tasks, from straightforward repairs to massive scale in shape outs, by using a substantial standard of service you may only hope from legitimate area computer repair shop, we don't just desire to provde the most effective computer repairs service you've ever noticed but we also want to make your day just a little improved, managing your computer issues, so the thing is a lot of individuals using a lousy day since their computer has crashed, or their community has long gone down, occasionally looks like just one problem prospects straight into One more just one, and before you know it you're getting a terrible working day.
Experienced computer repair services by qualified experts at our Tech Bar in South Miami, FL. We provide similar-working day service, together with decide-up and shipping. For your nominal diagnostic price, we'll establish the reason for your computer troubles, and provide an estimate for your repair.


text:
Maddox is such a little crack up! The first few minutes of the shoot he was begging for his mom to take him home because he didnt want to have his picture taken. But has soon as he remembered how funny it is when he says, "HOT CHICK" everything was suddenly bearable. This kid is totally going to be a heart breaker!
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Maddox and Trip
Posted by Cassie Mickelsen at 3:15 PM
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Hexsagon Presents: Charlie Parker Beat Tape
Hexsagon Presents: Charlie Parker Beat Tape
label: on Bandcamp
released: 18 November 2010
style: instrumental hiphop jazz beats
format: 320kbps mp3
It's very fitting that I find this now, as I've been enjoying my jazz crates lately. Texan producer Hexsagon crafts a beattape that seamlessly blends hip hop and jazz just like I like it. Featuring sound bytes from interviews with luminaries like Dizzy Gillespie and Bird's wife, Chan, as well as well crafted beats.
A sampled beat tape inspired by the late Jazz/BeBop musician Charlie Parker. (All beats contain Charlie Parker original cuts).
1. Intro (Dizzy Gillespie Speaks) 00:28
2. Passport 02:09
3. Leap Frog 02:04
4. April In Paris 01:27
5. K.C. blues 01:53
6. Interlude (Jay McShann Speaks) 00:25
7. Au Private (Feat. Bagir-Ba) 01:19
8. Just Friends 01:49
9. All The Things You Are 02:12
10. Star Eyes 02:01
11. Interlude (Chan Parker Speaks) 00:32
12. Cool Blues 02:05
13. Lover Man 02:22
14. Outro (Remembering Charlie Parker...) 00:38
download link
Posted by komár at 5:30 PM
Labels: charlieparker, hexsagon
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
Raspberry Sweet Mint Smoothie Recipe
This past month I've been making a lot of smoothies and infused waters at "home." This recipe is my favorite flavor combination that I've found so far! I've recently strayed from all the baking and discovered my love for brewing smoothies and cocktails! New specialty <3
Here's what I blended:
3/4 cup frozen raspberries,
1/2 cup frozen peaches,
1/2 cup frozen dark cherries,
a banana,
5-10 mint leaves,
1 cup water.
This serves two and makes a very dense smoothie (make it a cute date). You can add more water if you want a lighter version. I also add a tablespoon of honey and a sprinkle of truvia to most smoothies. This recipe is tart and minty, which I love


text:
So, Carla had a pretty good night, except for gagging and puking on her tube. Today we hope to get her extubated as well as getting a PICC line and taking her neck line out. She is scheduled to get the PICC at 1:00, so hopefully we will extubate soon thereafter and that everything will go perfectly. Right now the echo person is on her way to our room and rounds are not for another hour or so. We won't know if they still plan to extubate until after rounds, so keep your fingers crossed. She has been back on the vent since Sunday around 7:00 a.m., so it would be huge to get her moving along in the right direction. We miss Carla...so we are all anxious to get this moving towards her being in a more normal state. Sure do love our sweet toot. Please say a prayer.
Love, Jen


text:
Black Swan
Latest Black Swan
Newsflash, Lindsay Lohan…You're No Swan Queen! Quit Partying & Get Your Act Together…Then Hollywood Will Hire You!
Wow, Lindsay Lohan really needs to get a clue.
What now? Well, according to Jacquelynn Powers, a writer for Plum Miami Magazine who interviewed the notoriously entitled actress—and we're using the term "actress" lightly, considering it's difficult to think of a film that she's been in since 2004's Mean Girls—Lindsay seems to think that she should have been cast in Black Swan, not Natalie Portman!
Happy Birthday, Natalie Portman! You're 30 Today, June 9!
As she turns the big 3-0, the actress has more to celebrate than ever this year!
Between her Academy Award for Black Swan, the box-office success of No Strings Attached, her engagement to beau Benjamin Millepied, and her pregnancy (she's due any day now!), 2011 has been the Year of Natalie!
Will Natalie Portman Quit Hollywood For Her Baby? Say It Isn't So!
The Black Swan Oscar winner has hinted she's ready to walk away from her acting career to be a full-time mom — just like her screen idol Audrey Hepburn did.
Heavily pregnant Natalie Portman is due to give birth to her first baby with fiance Benjamin Millipied this summer. Could that be the last we see of her?
Russ Says: Natalie Portman Come Clean On 'Black Swan' – Show Us Behind-the-Scenes Footage Of You Dancing!
Did Natalie Portman really perform a majority of the dances in Black Swan? Her body double says no while Darren Aronofsky strongly defends the actress!
Sarah Lane, Natalie Portman's ballet double in Black Swan, is stirring up controversy by telling Entertainment Weekly she did 95% "of the full body shots" in the film. Meanwhile, Fox Searchlight, Natalie's fiancé, and director Darren Aronofsky are shooting down her claims and saying Natalie was used for most of the movie. But I have a solution: release the behind-the-scenes footage!
Read more
Find Out How To Get Oscar Presenter Mila Kunis' Elegant Updo!
The Black Swan star looked super chic with her Grecian updo, and now you can too with these secret style tips!
We got the scoop from TRESemmés celebrity stylist Mara Roszak, who was responsible for Mila Kunis' stunning romantic updo, so that you can learn how to get it, too! Whether it's for a prom, a wedding or just an extra special date — this ultra-feminine hair style is sure to be a big hit!
Pregnant Natalie Portman Takes Home The Best Actress Oscar And Thanks Baby Daddy, Benjamin Millepied!
A teary-eyed Natalie thanks "her beautiful love" for giving her the chance to be a mommy!
It was a wonderful moment when Natalie Portman accepted her Best Actress Academy Award for her role in the Black Swan. Not only because she deserves it, but because she is entering a new stage in her life — motherhood. And she made sure to thank the man who made that possible, fiance Benjamin Millepied.
Natalie Portman And Her Baby Bump — Lovely In White!
The Oscar-nominee opts for a simple and sweet dress at the Vanity Fair Campaign Hollywood gala. Beautiful!
As she gears up for her big Oscar night, mom-to-be Natalie Portman, 29, chose to wear something comfortable and easy at the Vanity Fair event Feb. 24 — and she looked gorgeous!
Terrified Dianna Agron Goes Into Hiding After Ex Alex Pettyfer Threatens Her Says New Report!
After a public meltdown in which Alex confronted actor Sebastian Stan, the beautiful blonde is living in a hotel, frightened of what he'll do next!
Poor Dianna Agron! The Glee star is said to be scared to death of her ex, I Am Number Four co-star, Alex Pettyfer. "Dianna is terrified of [Alex]," a friend tells Us magazine. Alex "absolutely lost it" and threatened her over the phone!
We Love Natalie Portman's Maternity Style!
Natalie looks so chic and comfy in her denim shirt and green cargo pants. Want the look? We found it for you!
Natalie Portman ditched her gorgeous gowns for something a little more comfortable while heading out of LAX airport in Los Angeles, CA yesterday (Feb. 7). The Black Swan actress, 29, sported a casual, dark-wash denim shirt and slim- fitting cargo pants and accessorized with a grey pearl necklace and a brown rain boots. Isn't she the epitome of airport chic?
Um, Natalie Portman, Are You Sure You're Only In The Beginning Of Your Second Trimester? That Bump Is HUGE!
It looks like this Oscar-nominee is AT LEAST six months along! Maybe even seven or eight?
Lately, we've only seen Natalie Portman's bump dressed up in gorgeous gowns, but yesterday (Feb. 3) the Black Swan actress showcased her extremely large t-shirt bump after leaving lunch at Square One in Los Angeles, CA. "I feel great. I'm through my first trimester," Natalie, 29, said cryptically at the Critic's Choice Awards on Jan. 14. So, she's just entering her second trimester? HollyMoms, how pregnant do you think Natalie is? Because by the looks of it, she's WAY more than three or four months!
Pregnant Natalie Portman And Jane Krakowski Shimmer At The SAG Awards! Who Dressed Their Bump The Best?
The first time mommies-to-be and SAG award nominees glowed on the red carpet! Who looked best? Vote!
Sure, Natalie Portman won a statue for Best Female Actor in a Leading Role, but both she and Jane Krakowski were winners on the red carpet at the Screen Actors Guild awards last night (Jan. 30) in Los Angeles. The expectant moms beautifully showed off their blossoming bumps in body-clinging dresses. But which dressed-up bump did you prefer?
'Boardwalk Empire', 'The Fighter', 'Modern Family' & 'The King's Speech' — Screen Actors Guild Award Winners!
Take a look at the big winners in television and film as actors honor actors!
Will past winners like The Social Network, Natalie Portman, 30 Rock and Tina Fey go home big winners or empty handed? Find out!
Ellen DeGeneres Predicts That Natalie Portman Is Going To Have A Baby Girl!
If the talk show host is right it, Natalie Portman's going to have a little lady to follow in her fashionable footsteps.
Ellen DeGeneres must have super powers! She's predicting that Natalie Portman is going to have a baby girl! "That's a girl — all three of those tests show a girl," Ellen told the 29-year-old Black Swan actress yesterday (Jan. 19) when she visited Ellen. "You're having a girl and her name is Ellen!" We have a feeling Natalie and her fiance Benjamin Millepied, 33, are still going to be on the hunt for a better name.
Pregnant Natalie Portman Keeps Fit With Swimming Workouts!
Best Actress winner Natalie Portman loves being in her own "womb-like environment." That explains her gorgeous glow on the red carpet of the Golden Globes last night!
Did anyone have a more incredible night at the 2011 Golden Globe Awards than Natalie Portman? She won the Best Actress (Drama) Globe, she was radiant beyond belief on the red carpet, and managed to do it all coping with the stress of being — oh yeah — more than three months pregnant!
Check Out These Beautifully Dressed Baby Bumps From Past Golden Globe Awards!
Natalie Portman and Jane Krakowski joined the ranks of gorgeous moms-to-be who dazzled on the Golden Globe red carpet!
For the past few years, we have seen celebrity moms-to-be shine on the red carpet of the Golden Globe Awards and this year was no different. Pregnant Natalie Portman looked stunning as she accepted her award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama at the Globe Globe awards last night, Jan. 16, for her amazing performance in Black Swan. The 29-year-old recently announced that she is expecting a baby with beau-turned-fiance, Benjamin Millepied and she looked radiant on one of the biggest nights of her life! Maternity wear sure has come a long way, and we're excited about the couture glad baby bumps we saw last night!
Celebs Drinking
Wine Naked In The Bath
Most Popular
Suffer from #FOMO?
Sign up for our daily newsletter!
More From Our Brands
Footwear News
6 Americana-Inspired Shoes to Shop for the 4th of July
Did Tom Holland Reveal The Title Of The 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' Sequel?
Westworld Composer Breaks Down 3 of Season 2's Musical Highlights
Judd Apatow Thinks Roseanne Is 'Crying Out for Help,' Not a 'Hateful Person'


text:
Mama said there would be days like this... she just never said there would be so damn many...
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Premam Prenatal Vitamin Drink Mix Review
Prenatal vitamins, while crucial to a pregnancy, are less than desirable for a number of reasons. The worst of these is that they are twelve times the size of any pill you will ever take in your life, making them difficult, or for some, impossible to swallow. They can cause or contribute to nausea as well as constipation.
Say good-bye to those nasty horse pills and hello to Premama!
Premama Prenatal Vitamin Drink Mix is 100% natural, only 6 calories, easy to mix, easy to digest, flavorless,contains DHA and all of the vitamins and nutrients essential to a healthy Premama and her unborn child. Premama can be mixed with just about any drink (though it's not recommended for use in plain water, which is a bummer, carbonated drinks or warm beverages) and is virtually undetectable to your taste buds.
I was sent several boxes of Premama to share and review the product. We tried Premama in orange juice, iced tea, Crystal Light and Fruit Punch. We all agreed that we either could not taste or did not mind the taste of these drinks with Premama added to them.
You can learn all about Premama on their website here. Be sure to like Premama on Facebook too!
Get 15% off your purchase at www.drinkpremama.com when you use promotion code: Sweepstakes2013
I was sent Premama as part of a promotional partnership between Premama and MomSelect in exchange for reviewing and sharing the products. No monetary exchange took place and any and all opinions are my own.**
Labels: Reviews
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
I'm recording in an AVerMedia DarkCrystal HD Capture Station C874, MPEG-2 TS videos (only available output format). As I can't import this type of files into AE I appreciate recomendations of what'd be the best way for editing this in AE and/or Premiere
this link has a sample video, 30mb, 720x480 5658kbps 29fps
thank you !!
Probably some conversion via Handbrake/ ffmpeg/ MPEGStreamclip involved, meaning mostly conforming and transcoding it to a program stream.


text:
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Dear Friends, our website, www.TypeOneClothing.com is finally being done. If you visit the site it may not be 100% for a few days. We look forward to its completion and are excited to have you all visit it often. A big thanks to our web developer Matt McParland!
Posted by zoey at 8:27 PM
No comments:
Links to this post
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
San Diego JDRF Gala
So, Zoey was on the news this morning, promoting the JDRF Gala in San Diego, this Saturday May 16 for more info visit the www.jdrfsd.org Here is a link to the interview Click it
Posted by zoey at 3:13 PM
No comments:
Links to this post
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)