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Here you can find the best casual games available for free download. You can download any casual game and try it for free to decide whether you like it or not. Some games provide 60 minutes of gameplay, others can limit you with a 30 or 15 day trial period. Some of the casual games are free at all. Choose any casual game you like and try it!
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Have fun with casual family sim that runs in real life! Adopt some of the little people living in your computer! Buy healthy food for your little adopted family, praise them or discourage from doing things they shouldn't.
You run and jump through the uniquely challenging mazes, avoiding the dragons with different levels of behavior and you are easily to get addicted. Game comes with first-rate 3D graphics, sound effects and music.
From the developer of the smash-hit Virtual Villagers series comes the new casual game that captures the drama of life - Virtual Families! Virtual Families is a casual family sim that runs in real-time.
Squares and Blades is strategy fantasy combat at its best! Choose from one of four classes to do battle in an epic unfolding storyline. Will you be the master of Squares and Blades or just another casualty?
WordWinder is a 3D puzzle word game that challenges your vocabulary skills with multiple modes of play and difficulty. The game combines aspects of a crossword puzzle and Boggle in a fierce race to beat the clock and score the biggest words.
Logic game fans rejoice! World Riddles: Animals, a casual offering packed with refreshing challenges, has arrived! The next chapter in the epic World Mosaics puzzle adventure awaits!
Egyptian Baccarat acquaints you with an inhabitant of Egypt. The Egyptian is so really designed that he seems to be alive. The music is chosen to create the feeling you are in Egypt and bright colors of the game space touch the imagination!
Plant Tycoon is a gardening simulation game where you nurture plants and experiment with increasingly rare and valuable species. Breed and cross-breed plants until you find the 6 Magic Plants of Isola and solve the genetic puzzle.
Match colors while connecting shapes in this beautiful and challenging puzzle game. Drifting through space with the stars as your backdrop, you must advance through increasingly difficult levels to escape the Ashalii Trap.
Dress up Angeline from Sydney. She is 20 years old, she is a student. Her nationality is Indian. Her favorite dish is chicken sandwich, her favorite pet is dog. Her favorite color is white and her favorite dress- casual wear.
Think you are a puzzle expert? Not yet! Try our Edges, the hottest game of this season! Your key to success is to explode the maximum number of randomly appearing chips by adding your own to make a pattern. Beware! Playing Edges is highly addictive!
ZACK! is a strategy game that's delightfully addictive! Based on the concept of placing tiles to build bridges, each tile must match the color of adjacent pieces.
Penguin Puzzle is a lovingly crafted puzzle game with a unique look and sound. This game just bursts with addictive game-play! A game for all ages, Penguin Puzzle has a catchy sound track, great graphics and low system requirements.
Puzzle Poker is an easy new puzzle game based upon poker. Cards are dealt and you form as many poker hands as you can before the clock runs down. Better poker hands win more chips you win. Create online clubhouses. Win awards in your trophy case.
Anka is one of many great free games available at MyPlayCity.com. It is a mystery-themed game packed with memorable puzzles and brain-teasers and some unique features and hidden levels to keep you enthralled.
Play Cubes Invasion and enjoy endless fun in Super Cubefall, Cube Tamer and Treasure Mania modes each with Easy, Normal and Hard difficulty modes, stimulating bonuses, marvelous graphics and music and more! Try now!
It's a saga about the everlasting battle between good and evil, and you are the main character. Since earliest times the glorious clan of dwarves is standing guard over the subterranean world. And this work is hard and all-important indeed.
Match three ball popping arcade game with spring physics. Use special zingballs to help clear the board. Over 500 levels and 4 difficulty settings. Hypnotic game play with a choice of musical sound effects.
drops! is a single player game where you try to eliminate all of a color. The more of a color you eliminate, the more points you make!
You control Ace Spellunker - intrepid treasure hunter. Help Ace find priceless treasures and artifacts in the ancient Aztec ruins! Spell words to clear paths, score points, and avoid death! Reach higher levels and have fun in this addictive game!
There are also casual iPhone apps listed at AppAlbum.com


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There is no quick-fix! Poor energy levels? Unsatisfactory body-fat percentage? Aches and pains? Insufficient sleep? Brain fog? We hate to break it to you but there is no assortment of pills, powders, supplements, detox plans, fad diets or cleanses that provide long-term health revitalization.
There is no short-cut to vibrant, maintainable health. To rejuvenate health, you must take the time to get to know your body, establish sustainable healthy habits and determine exactly what makes you thrive!
The science is in – conscientious fasting is an exceptional tool to restore health! Short periods of not-eating (including sleep time) recalibrate insulin sensitivity, reduce inflammation, regulate hormonal balance, reinforce fat-burning metabolism and awaken the body's natural ability to remove damaged cells while safeguarding youthful, efficient cells. Intermittent fasting replicates the unpredictable food patterns of our ancestors and forces the body to initiate its internal survival mechanism: autophagy.
The #1 reason individuals avoid fasting is that they don't like feeling hungry! Surprisingly, Paleo-eating dismantles the debilitating effects of ravenous hunger.
Countless individuals have tried to control their diets by counting calories, grams, points, macros and even sheer number of bites! This tedious diet management can work short-term. Yet, once motivation wanes or a binge above "acceptable" levels occurs, discouraged individuals often revert to old eating habits (yep, the ones that weren't working in the first place). Our hunter-gatherer ancestors never micromanaged portion sizes, so what can we learn from them? Analysis of traditional eating patterns reveals a flexible eating template that's easy-to-follow…even in the modern world of unlimited foods. Say goodbye to counting calories!
Nutritional depletions created by the modern diet often manifest as typical symptoms of aging. How many do you have: achiness or stiff joints, low energy, brain fog, forgetfulness or poor concentration, sleep problems, trouble regulating blood pressure, inability to maintain a healthy weight, poor body temperature regulation, low immune function, delayed recovery from exercise, injury or illness…or any of the '-itis' conditions (arthritis, tendonitis, gastritis, diverticulitis, bursitis, etc).
Leaky Gut Syndrome (also known as intestinal permeability) is a major contributor to ill health and chronic conditions. Leaky gut occurs when the digestive tract develops gaps between intestinal cells. Once holes are present, this normally selective membrane can no longer regulate which particles are absorbed into the body. Foreign particles can freely enter the blood stream and cause inflammation and damage anywhere in the human body. Additionally, these intruders force the immune system into overdrive…draining energy, depleting nutrient resources and creating unintended health consequences.
Even Hippocrates said it: "All disease begins in the gut."
Quality sleep is so elusive that millions of people do not remember the last time they had a full night of uninterrupted slumber. Unfortunately, our modern environment and uninformed behavior choices are to blame. Sleep is a hormonally-driven cycle, highly sensitive to multiple stimuli such as stress, environmental factors and dietary triggers (including modern foods, additives, caffeine or alcohol). The Paleo Lifestyle inspires time-honored behaviors to foster the sleep cycle on all levels.
As many know, the modern lifestyle induces all sorts of stress – both obvious stressors such as traffic jams, paying bills or relationship changes…and inconspicuous ones such as sensational news, poor food choices and even holding grudges. The Paleo Diet soothes internal, physical stress. Not only does this reduce the body's overall stress load, it also enhances the capability to handle stressors of modern life.
Science now proves cholesterol and saturated fats do not cause heart disease! Arterial plaques occur under a specific set of circumstances: the presence of oxidized fats and oxidized cholesterol within inflamed arteries. The Paleo Diet eliminates sources of these dangerous oxidized versions of fats and cholesterol, reduces inflammation through the whole body, plus provides vital heart-health nutrients to support the heart and arteries.
Bone weakness can be a manifestation of inadequate or absence of critical bone nutrients, absorption interference or insufficient skeletal use (sedentary lifestyle). Bone loss conditions include osteoporosis, osteopenia, poor dental health, loss of height over time, bone pain, or stiffness in muscles and joints. Bone health is not as simple as supplementing extra calcium…have you ever noticed levels of osteoporosis continue to rise despite high rates of calcium supplementation?

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Healthy Baby Articles
About Chris Kresser
Babies should be breastfed exclusively for 6 months
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Breast milk is nature's perfect food for babies.
Think about it: mother nature has had more than 2.5 million years to figure this one out. Breast milk contains the perfect mix of fat, protein and carbohydrate for the babies developing physiology. It contains protective substances that give her immunity to diseases.
In the early stages of a baby's life, breast milk meets all of her nutrient needs. No other foods or fluids – including water – are necessary. (Breast milk itself is 88% water, which more than satisfies an infant's thirst).
A report called Infant and Young Child Feeding issues by the World Health Organization summarized research indicating that infants should be breasted exclusively for the first 6 months of their lives. Babies exclusively breastfed for 6 months have 8.6 times lower risk of diarrheal illness. A study from India found that deaths from diarrhea and pneumonia could be decreased by one-third if infants were exclusively (rather than partially) breastfed for the first 4 months. Sadly, only 35% of infants are exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months of life.
Breastfeeding also confers intermediate- and long-term benefits on both the child and the mother, including helping to protect children against a variety of acute and chronic disorders.
Infants not breastfed are between 6 and 10 times more likely not to survive the first months of life. Formula-fed infants also have increased risk of long-term diseases with an immunological basis, such as asthma, type 1 diabetes, celiac disease, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis and childhood leukemia.
Other studies suggest that obesity, high blood pressure and heart disease are more common later in life in kids not breastfed, and that kids that are formula-fed on average have cognitive scores 3 points lower than those breastfed.
Breastfeeding should continue (with solid food) for at least two years
In the same WHO report mentioned above, the authors recommended that breastfeeding continue along with the introduction of solid foods (i.e. "complementary feeding") for at least 23 months (two years). This is the minimum period required to adequately nourish the growing baby. Some parents may wish to continue breastfeeding beyond this point.
At six months of age, the increased energy needs of the infant start to exceed the energy provided by breast milk, so that's the time to begin to introduce foods. It is not okay to continue to breastfeed exclusively at this point. At the same time, breastfeeding should still continue on-demand throughout the complementary feeding period (up to 2 years of age). Breast milk continues to provide higher quality nutrients than complementary foods, and also protective factors that guard against childhood illness and reduce the risk of chronic diseases later in life.
The WHO recommends that breast milk provide at least 50 percent of calories for a child between 6 and 12 months of age, and one-third of calories between 12 and 24 months of age.
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RAPID CITY. S.D. (KEVN) This summer I'm sure many of you are out grilling it is a great season for grilling. But take stock of how you are cleaning your grill if you use a grill brush cleaner that is made up of stainless steel or brass wires you have to be very careful while cleaning the grill because there have been reports of those wires dislodging during the cleaning and being left behind in some type of particle matter on the grill its self. Then the next time you grill, say you grill a hamburger that wire can get stuck in the hamburger and then be ingested. In fact about 100 Americans a year report to emergency rooms with injuries from injecting these small bristles that are made from stainless steel or brass. Those bristles can cause damage in your mouth, throat, or even be ingested into your stomach or intestines. One of the worst case scenarios would be one of those bristles making it all the way into the intestine and starts puncturing a hole in the intestine and this has been reported in medical literature. So make sure you stop using tools with wire bristles to clean your grill, you can use a grill spray which will loosen debris and then follow that by using an abrasive pad of some sort or you can use crumpled up the foil and that works great as well. Have a happy and safe summer. This is Dr. Nancy Babbitt from Creekside Medical Clinic.
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Testing a 50 inch LG plasma TV/monitor at work. It had the usual blown capacitors fault. Also took the opportunity to give it a thorough clean out, of several years worth of dust. A short photo slideshow is usually sufficient to give a good idea if all's well.
Extra - dusk snap from the Kessock Bridge, looking up the Beauly Firth, from the cycle home after swimming. Pleasant night. Also took a few snaps of some of the Canoe Club that were having a wee training session on the River Ness, around the islands area of Inverness.


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This week on Comic Con Chronicles, DW is back at the Hudson Valley Comic Con with this pt 3 episode. In this episode DW moderates the Q & A Comic Book Men panel with good friend Ming Chen. They chat about Mings con travels, whats it like to get season 7 of AMC's ComicBook Men tv series, fan questions and more.
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So first let me preface this post by admitting that I am writing it at 10:35 pm after running 3.2 miles and having beer for dinner, because I'm trying to be physically fit but also be social with my new-ish coworkers, so mission accomplished? That is anyway how I wound up running a 5k that I swore off forever last year, and as for the lack of real dinner, well, it's now 10:40 and I reheated some cornbread. And I think I might wait to shower tomorrow, sorry. And I felt really good after the 5k! And also please excuse my rambling and/or typos (I don't see any yet but no promises, I still have to write a recipe).
ANYWAY. I have no idea if you, you this person reading this, come here for life updates or recipes, but I can stop telling you about my bad decisions and tell you a story about how I was looking for a way to use up some rice flour, because last Christmas I went to my mom's house in PA and bought some rice flour for a dessert that failed spectacularly (even though I executed it splendidly at Thanksgiving), with the end result that my mother was left with half a bag of rice flour and no idea of what to do with it.
So, knowing that she likes things in the kitchen to be as easy and simple and foolproof as possible, I decided to test out a rice flour tempura recipe with some summer veggies.
Yeah. Sorry Mom. I'll come up with something easier.
Because I learned that, even though I'm comfortable with deep frying, tempura is a tricky beast. The first pass was edible, but not great. I figured out the the recipe I was using had the proportion of rice flour to water way off, so that the mixture was more some murky liquid sitting on top of a silty bottom of rice flour, instead of an actual batter. I got it to work, but only by double dredging and dipping and it still wasn't great and I certainly wouldn't tell anyone to try to recreate what I made.
But I did learn a few important things in the process, such as shishito peppers sometimes explode when you deep fry them and really, a good splatter screen is a kitchen essential if you ever plan to deep fry. Also beer in tempura batter doesn't taste like anything, so don't bother.
Moving on to round 2.
It was a lot better! I did more thorough research and found a water to flour ratio that seemed promising, so I got to work and made another batch of tempura to feed a crowd*. It was well-battered and delicious and you should try it with the last batches of your summer CSA if you aren't afraid of deep frying.
*I ate it myself, over way longer than I'd recommend keeping it, because single girl problems, but you know, the oven really does recrisp even tempura fairly ok, and I certainly had enough sauce left to justify eating it, so I did. Make yours for a crowd and don't do this.
Summer Veggie Tempura
Adapted from Epicurious. Dipping sauce adapted from Mark Bittman. Makes enough for a crowd.
- 1 cup rice flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- 3/4 cup - 1 cup cold water
- 1 egg yolk, slightly beaten
- 1 qt oil, for frying
- 4 cups ( more, honestly) of veggies, I used summer squash, carrots, bell peppers, green beans, and shishito peppers (see note)
For the dipping sauce:
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 2 tbs rice vinegar
- 2 tbs dark sesame oil
- 2 tbs toasted sesame seeds
- 1 tbs sugar
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tsp ground ginger
Stir together flour and egg yolk, then addd water and stir until mixed, but not too mixed. Right.
- Heat 1/2 inch of oil in a heavy bottomed pot or skillet to 375 degrees.
- While oil is heating, stir together dipping sauce ingredients, then set aside.
- Dip veggies and fry, 2-3 minutes, until golden and crisp, turning once. Drain on paper towels. Serve with dipping sauce.
- For veggies, cut peppers into large chunks, and carrots and squash into thick slices. Carrots can be blanched before dipping in batter but I didn't really mind the crispier version that comes from skipping this. Green beans just need ends snapped off, and shishito peppers need no prep except steely nerve- they might explode so keep your distance while frying or use a splatter screen.
- You want the batter thin, but still thick enough to coat the veggies. I found it was not quite a 1:1 ratio of flour to water.


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The other day I was looking through some videos of masters in photography, some interviews and I caught one of Ralph Gisbon.
Ralph Gisbon is a known photographer of portraits and life, his images are controversial, full of dramatist, movement and life. His portraits are addictive and sometimes you can feel embarrassed but you cannot stop looking at them, they have a lot of power.
In this video, you can see it beneath, he answers question about his photography, how he started, why he shoot in film, who admires, etc but the answer that got me was when the interviewer asked him why he shoot in black and white.
He could have answered that because he likes, because it creates tension and contrast, but his answer really get my think:
Keep reading to see the video and my own images!
Why I shoot in Black and White?
Because reality, so called reality is 100% scale, three dimensions and color.
If you make a black and white photograph of reality you are gonna reduced into two dimensions, you are gonna reduce scale and convert it into black and white; that's three steps away from so called reality.
Obviously color is just two steps away 'cause you maintain the color of reality; so in this three abstractions, in this three steps a lot of drama emerges.
This is the alchemy, the mystery of black and white photography, is why charge is so highly, is why black and white photography continues to fascinate us, and continues to be a relevant issue."
Ralph Gibson
He got me think about Black and White photography and its realism, so I decided that my next session I will shoot it in black and White. I was lucky that the model Cecile Greve has a lot of presence in the scene and the combination of her blond hair and the black background helped a little.
I edited the images both in black and white and color, at first, but the rest I decided to edit them just in black and white.
As is true that black and white not always works for everything, in this case I think that gives the image more power than color.
Model:Cecile Greve – Makeup Artist:Emmanuel GarcíaWhat do you think? Click on the images to see them bigger


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Fresh and Delicious Blackberry Recipes
Summer has a way of making fresh berries seem so much more appealing for sweet and savory dishes alike. We indulge in the ripe, juicy berries of the season by cooking them into decadent desserts, tossing them on crisp salads, and popping them right into our mouths. If you're like us and can't get enough of fresh blackberries during the summertime, look no further. Find inspiration from our friends over at Blackberry Farm in Tennessee with these delicious recipes bursting with their perfectly plump blackberries. They're simply perfect for summer get-togethers or parties and are sure to leave your friends and family full and happy.
Shaved Cucumber Salad with Pickled Blackberries
Recipe: Shaved Cucumber Salad with Pickled Blackberries
These pickled blackberries take this salad to new heights, especially with the hints of tarragon and black peppercorns. Soak the onions in salted water and ice to keep them crisp and mellow their flavor.
Grilled Pork Loin with Blackberry Glaze
Recipe: Grilled Pork Loin with Blackberry Glaze
A thick, sticky glaze clings to the bone-in pork loin rack perfectly to give it a rich blackberry flavor. Cook the glaze down and make sure to strain out the seeds!
Blackberry-Oat Crumble Bars
Recipe: Blackberry-Oat Crumble Bars
You can make these crumble bars with many different fresh seasonal fruits, depending what time of year you're making them. The unsurprising secret to these is using lots of butter!
Blackberry, Browned Butter, and Almond Tart
Recipe: Blackberry, Browned Butter, and Almond Tart
Pockets of juicy blackberries adorn this tart that's like a cookie on the outside and a cake on the inside—a perfect mix of textures in our book.
Blackberry-Lemon Griddle Cakes Recipe
Recipe: Blackberry-Lemon Griddle Cakes
We'll take these griddle cakes any day, any time. The blackberry and lemon flavors make a perfect duo.
Summer Cobbler Cocktail
Recipe: Summer Cobbler Cocktail
The natural sweetness from the blackberry preserves evens out the tart, acidic flavor of the white whiskey, lime juice and orange liqueur in this cocktail for great balance. Your guests will swoon over this fresh summer cocktail.
Blackberry Gelato Recipe
Recipe: Blackberry Gelato
Nothing screams summer like some cool, creamy gelato using fresh berries. The berry puree can be made several days in advance and refrigerated until needed.


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HOW can Tom Ross possibly say that diving is as despicable as spitting?
Surely spitting is a heinous crime in the game whereas diving is just cheating. To compare the two is ridiculous and Tom is only saying it because it has happened to his beloved Blues.
I'd also like to know what qualifies him to comment on Ashley Young.
Yes, Ashley has not reached the peaks of last season but that was exceptional. What I do know is that every time he gets the ball there is a buzz of excitement around Villa Park.
Oh, and Tom, if you had bothered to watch Ashley recently you will have noticed he has cut down on his "diving". So my advice to Tom when it comes to Ashley Young is mind your own business.
T BULL, Birmingham
BIRMINGHAM City Football Club has never had any luck with the referees from 1931 onwards.
The decision to award a penalty to Liverpool on Monday evening when David Ngog took a theatrical dive that should have got him a red card was enough to end the referee's career.
It seemed to me that the official's reaction to this cheating was 'Pavlovian'. As Pavlov's dogs salivated at the sound of a bell so the referee automatically pointed to the penalty spot when the Liverpool centre-forward did his party piece.
It is to be hoped that this shameless clown will not be in the Liverpool team when they play at St Andrew's. If he is then Rafa Benitez should be charged with incitement to cause a riot.
J BENTON, Hall Green
NGOG dived and Liverpool survived a humiliating defeat. Everyone but the referee saw it and once again a cheat brings football into disrepute.
Those two points could cost Birmingham dear at the end of the season and could be worth £10 million each.
The FA must come up with a rule change to stop this disgraceful behaviour, which proves yet again that we need video recall on penalties and questionable goal-line decisions.
On a more positive note, what a cracking goal from Jerome, it will surely be a contender for goal of the season.
S VAUGHAN, Yardley Wood


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• VIRGIN Galactic says it has received an operating licence for its space tourism rocket from the Federal Aviation Administration which will ultimately permit commercial operations.
The company said the licensing process involved a review of the system's design, safety analysis and flight trajectory analysis.
Virgin Galatic's first spaceship broke apart in 2014 during its fourth rocket-powered test flight when the co-pilot prematurely unlocked a key system. The first taxi test of the the company's SpaceShipTwo new spacecraft took place on Monday morning at the Mojave, California, airport.
• THE first wave of genetically modified mosquitoes have been released in the Cayman Islands as part of a new effort to control the insect that spreads Zika and other viruses.
Genetically altered male mosquitoes, which don't bite but are expected to mate with females to produce offspring that die before reaching adulthood, were released in the West Bay area of Grand Cayman Island, according to a joint statement from the Cayman Islands Mosquito Research and Control Unit and British biotech firm Oxitec.
The mosquitoes will be released over nine months in an area known to be a hot spot for the Aedes aegypti species, which are not native to the Cayman Islands and are the main vector for Zika as well as other viruses, including chikingunya and dengue. Oxitec has deployed its mosquitoes to fight Zika in Brazil following initial trials there and previously conducted tests in the Cayman Islands and Panama.
• TESLA wants to put its car and energy storage businesses under one solar-powered roof by buying solar panel maker SolarCity Corp in an all-stock deal worth $2.6 billion.
Thirteen-year-old Tesla currently makes two luxury vehicles - the Model S sedan and Model X SUV - as well as Powerwall and Powerpack energy storage units for homes and businesses.
The company said that a tie-up with SolarCity would create a one-stop shop for cleaner energy. With one service call, customers could get their solar panels installed and connected to a Powerwall, which preserves energy for later use. Users could also get the system hooked up to chargers for one of Tesla's vehicles. The deal must still be approved by the government and shareholders at both companies.
• A University of Washington biology professor leading an ambitious project to scan and digitise all of more than 25,000 species of fish in the world is making progress.
Adam Summers has a small computed tomography (CT) to visualise the inner structures of stingray and other fish with the idea to have one clearinghouse of CT scan data freely available to researchers anywhere to analyse the morphology, or structure, of particular species. So far, he and others have digitised images of more than 500 species, from poachers to sculpins, from museum collections around the globe. He plans to add thousands more and has invited other scientists to use the CT scanner, or add their own scans to the open-access database.
"We have folks coming from all over the world to use this machine," said Summers, who advised Pixar on how fish move for its hit animated films "Finding Nemo" and "Finding Dory" and is dubbed "fabulous fish guy" on the credits for "Nemo".
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Automated though the camera may be, the Yashica GSN's 45/1.7 lens really produces some very crisp photos. The colors aren't bad either (though in this miserable winter it's hard to find much color to test it on).
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Antiques malls are dangerous places. Sure, they're full of a lots of rickety overpriced furniture and incredibly hideous clothing that makes you wonder about just how widespread color-blindness was in previous decades, but sometimes they also have cameras. Usually pretty common stuff: lots of plastic point-and-shoots and 110 bar cameras, but sometimes there are better pieces interspersed. Pricing runs in one of two veins: insanely overpriced or downright cheap.
All of this is to say that I ran across a Yashica Electro 35 GSN rangefinder in good cosmetic shape with a nice case for $15, so I bought it. I didn't need it, but for $15 what have I got to lose? The shutter fired, albeit only at one speed, but at least I knew it wasn't completely jammed up. The GSN is an aperture priority-only camera with an electric shutter, so I knew that I was going to be messing with pesky electrons as well as mechanicals when I got the thing apart.
The GSN is one a whole family of large-bodied Yashica aperture-priority rangefinders that were quite common in their day, and are well documented across the Internet. Turns out they have a few common points of failure, but none are fatal as long as you don't mind tearing into the camera. The first problem, however, is the battery; the old mercury cells are long-since out of production, and no modern equivalent fits without modification or adaptation. I built a little adapter out of some non-collapsible tubing and a spring from the hardware store, mated to a 6v 28L battery. It works fine.
Once I had power to everything, it was time to see what worked and what didn't. The shutter was OK, but I cleaned it and the aperture anyway. There are some electrical contacts in the shutter housing that looked a little dodgy, so I polished them up while I was in there. The glass in the six-element 45mm f/1.7 lens was in surprisingly good shape, perhaps due to the cheap UV filter that was attached when I got it. Some exercise of the aperture ring and the shutter release got the Over and Under exposure lights working more reliably (the contacts get dirty over time).
The big problem that remained was that the shutter was not adjusting speeds properly. A moment or two of Internet research showed that this was almost certainly the result of the failure of the "Pad of Death," or POD in Yashica lingo. Fortunately, as dire as this sounds, it really isn't a big deal. Basically, the hard rubber pad that locates and buffers the shutter release falls apart over the decades, screwing up the interaction of the meter and the shutter. The fix is well-documented elsewhere, but basically you cut a new pad out of suitable material (I used a neoprene washer) and glue it in place. You can do it without major disassembly if you're comfortable with working in tight spaces, or you can pull the lens assembly off if you need more room; I chose the former route and fixed it in about ten minutes.
So now that the POD had been replaced and everything seemed to be working properly, it was time to put in some film and see what the camera could do. A shallow metal hood was added, as there were some suggestions across the Interweb that the lens is a bit prone to flare. The results showed that the camera is exposing correctly and that the lens is pretty nice. No problems were observed.
So what am I going to do with this thing? Well, my first thought was to keep it primarily as a loaner and party camera – something that can be put out at a party for anyone to use. The auto-exposure and big colorful arrows (the arrows in the viewfinder are almost comically large – it feels a bit Fisher-Price if I'm honest) should make it easy for non-photographers to use, and if something catastrophic happens to it I'm out $15. Of course I'll exercise it myself occasionally, but I don't seriously think I'll use it a whole lot; nice and capable as it is, it's too big and too automated to make my regular rotation.


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Score Football Centres are a state of the art indoor football facility, based up in Coleraine, Northern Ireland.
Having done photos for them before, I pitched an idea I had for a facebook promotional series to drive forward engagement.
The idea was to take a series of photos that would represent a list of stereotypical 5 A-Side football characters, or better put, the type of ordinary people that play football all around the world every week with their friends.
From 'The guy who will shoot from anywhere', to 'The human scoreboard' and the list went out.
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HELENA-WEST HELENA, Ark. — Officers in Helena-West Helena are trying to find answers after a 55-year-old man was shot and killed Sunday night.
According to police, Frederick Lacey was shot multiple times while sitting at a stop sign in the area of North 5th and Garland around 8:30 p.m. He tried to drive away from the scene and ended up hitting a fire hydrant two blocks down the street on Anderson.
One woman says Lacey was behind the steering wheel of a car that was headed towards her and her 4-year-old daughter.
"When I saw him coming I said, 'Oh God. He's going to hit our car. He's going to hit me.' I ran screaming. I was trying to get away." she said. "He hit the front end of our vehicle and it bounced."
She says she was shaken up from the crash.
The woman also says her husband heard Lacey's last words.
"He told him he needed some help. My husband told him help was on the way."
Lacey died from his wounds several hours later after being rushed to the hospital.
For the family, it's all unsettling.
Perhaps there's nothing that could have been done to save Lacey's life, but the good Samaritan says she's glad her family was there to share his last moments with him
"It was probably grim anyway, but at least he didn't sit there alone."
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I'm not sure when the "1 on 1" meeting came into favor. I know when I started working back in the stone age we didn't have "1 on 1" meetings. Or at least we didn't call them that. Somewhere along the way in my prior company I adopted holding 1 on 1 meetings with my direct reports. I think we all truly hated doing them but felt compelled to hold them.
What I find interesting is when we were in the start-up mode (the first 5 years) we never held 1 on 1 meetings - and low and behold – we all knew what was going on and stuff got done. Those days were collaborative efforts and everyone knew the goals and objectives of the business. But by year 10 and 200+ employees, 1 on 1s crept into the agenda and somehow we all felt the need.
So what's the purpose of a 1 on 1 meeting? When we step out of the meeting, what should we be charged with? Who is the meeting for and who should set the agenda? Should there even be an agenda? Is it a time to personally connect with your coworker or a time to get a recap of projects?
I like the suggestions from Atlassian's blog on this. Spoiler: it's not for status updates!


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A native of Los Angeles, Norman Krieger is one of the most acclaimed pianists of his generation. Krieger is highly regarded as an artist of depth, sensitivity and virtuosic flair. As the Los Angeles Times put it, "Krieger owns a world of technique-take that for granted. He always knows exactly where he is going and what he is doing. He never for instant miscalculates. He communicates urgently but with strict control. He is alert to every manner of nuance and at every dynamic level his tone flatters the ear."
He began his studies in Los Angeles under the tutelage of Esther Lipton. At age 15, he became a full-scholarship student of Adele Marcus at The Juilliard School where he earned both his Bachelor and Master degrees. Subsequently, he studied with Alfred Brendel and Maria Curcio in London and earned an Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory, where he worked with Russell Sherman.
A champion of contemporary music, he features the music of John Adams, Leonard Bernstein, John Corigliano, Daniel Brewbaker, Donald Crockett, Judith St. Croix, Lukas Foss, Henri Lazarof and Lowell Liebermann among his active repertoire.
Krieger is the founding artistic director of The Prince Albert Music Festival in Hawaii. Since 2008, he has served on the summer faculty at the Brevard Music Festival in North Carolina. From 1997 to 2016 he was a professor at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. In August 2016 he was appointed Professor of Piano at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.


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Bourjois Prune Virtuelle
Bourjois Very Vernis 74 Prune Virtuelle is a cute polish. I must have had it for years, but never really looked at it properly. It's quite a dark shimmery plum polish that has a subtle holographic effect. In the evening and in artificial light it looks brown. It applies very nicely, and the formula is quite thin, but I actually like it. This is two coats. The wear is not terribly impressive, I got some tip wear after two days, so perhaps three day is the best it can do. Still, it's a nice polish and a pretty color. Why haven't I used it more?!
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Was motivating youth to join militancy
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JAMMU, Sept 9: Kishtwar police today achieved a major success when it arrested a top militant of Hizbul Mujahideen, who was directly in touch with Pakistan-based terrorists and banned outfits in Kashmir valley when he was trying to motivate local youth to join militancy in Kishtwar town.
Arrested Hizbul Mujahideen militant has been identified as Aiyaz Ahmad Wani son of Abdul Ahad Wani, a resident of village Beli in Doda district, presently putting up at Machian, Doda. He was also working as district Doda president of separatist Hurriyat Conference.
SSP Kishtwar Rajinder Gupta told the Excelsior that police teams conducted raids at various places in the district after developing inputs that Aiyaz Wani was camping in Kishtwar town and its outskirts to lure youth into militancy by offering them handsome cash. During one of the raids, police managed to arrest Wani and immediately whisked him away to an unknown place for sustained interrogation.
Aiyaz Wani, whose two brothers, Riyaz Ahmad Wani and Niyaz Ahmad Wani, both of whom were militants and were killed in encounters with security forces in 1993 and 2003, was in direct contact with Pakistani terrorists including Mohammad Iqbal, based in Muzaffarabad, and others for reviving militancy in Doda and Kishtwar districts.
Mohammad Iqbal had promised Rs 15 lakh to Aiyaz Wani through hawala channels in Doda for disbursement among youth to lure them into the militancy. Wani was motivating some of the youth in Kishtwar district for joining militancy during past few days by holding secret meetings with them.
Iqbal was reportedly a top operative of the militants. He hailed from Jammu and Kashmir but had crossed over to Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) in 2005 and was camping there since then. He was in constant touch with Aiyaz Wani, who was wanted in case FIR No. 182/2018 in which couple of militants and their Over Ground Workers (OGWs), have already been arrested while some more arrests haven't been ruled out.
Investigations by Kishtwar police revealed that Aiyaz Wani was also directly in touch with Dukhtaran-e-Milat (DeM) activists in Kashmir including one Yasmin Raj.
Arrest of Aiyaz Wani was significant as he was trying to win over the local youth of Kishtwar district to join militancy and possibility that he might have been carrying out similar task in Doda district. Few days back, an educated youth of Doda had joined the militancy.
According to sources, Kishtwar police was conducting more raids in different parts of the town and some more arrests in the case were not ruled out.


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The event, which will be celebrating its 5th anniversary, attracts the best craft beer, cider and spirit makers from Ireland and overseas. Visitors will have the opportunity to sample more than 300 of the latest craft brews while enjoying live music, Six Nations Rugby on three of the biggest screens in Dublin and the best of Irish artisan foods.
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Tseng Chun-hsin of Taiwan has won the boys' title at the French Open by defeating top-seeded Sebastian Baez of Brazil 7-6 (7/5), 6-2.
The 16-year-old Tseng, who beat Australian Open champion Sebastian Korda of the US in the semi-finals, came back from a break down in the first set to claim his first Grand Slam title.
"Today I was playing really well on the baseline and solid," the fourth-seeded Tseng said. "I think the first set I was a little bit tight in the beginning, and after I just enjoyed and relaxed."
However, Taiwan's Chan Hao-ching and her partner, Yang Zhaoxuan of China, did not fare so well, falling just short of the women's doubles final on Friday after losing to Eri Hozumi and Makoto Ninomiya of Japan 6-2, 6-2.
In the Roland Garros men's competition, Rafael Nadal said that his desire to clinch an 11th French Open title today is fired by his growing realization that the end of his career might not be too far away.
The 32-year-old Spaniard, with 16 majors to his name, is to play his 24th Grand Slam final at Roland Garros against Dominic Thiem, who is playing his first.
Victory would give Nadal an 11th title in Paris and equal Margaret Court's all-time record for wins at the same Slam event — in her case, the Australian Open from 1960 and 1973.
Nadal still trails Roger Federer by four major titles, although the Swiss star is more than four years older.
"For me, the motivation to play here always is high, high as possible," Nadal said after breezing past Juan Martin del Potro 6-4, 6-1, 6-2 in Friday's semi-finals in what was his 85th win in Paris against just two defeats.
"But for me, I believe that there are limited chances in your career," he said. "I have lost a lot of opportunities through injuries and I know the years are going quick, so there is not 10 more chances to keep playing here."
The statistics illustrate Nadal's concerns: He has missed at least eight Slam tournaments in his career through a legacy of wrist and knee problems.
Such is his motivation to win today, that the task facing Austrian 24-year-old Thiem was described as "almost impossible" by Del Potro, who believes that Nadal is playing better than he has for years.
"It is almost impossible to beat Rafa," said Del Potro, who had his chances in the semi-final, but failed to convert any of his seven break points before his challenge petered out into weary hopelessness.
Nadal raced away with 14 of the last 17 games.
"He's too strong. He's improving his backhand a lot. That's why he's the No. 1 and beating all the guys," Del Potro said. "He looks fresh. He is healthy, and the strength that he has and the mentality, everything is perfect, works perfect for him playing on clay."
However, there have appeared to be one or two chinks in his armor.
On Friday, Del Potro was by far the better player in the first set, while in the quarter-finals, Diego Schwartzman won the first set of his clash with Nadal. It was the first time in three years that Nadal had dropped a set in Paris.
"You can win a set, but not a match against Rafa," Del Potro said, keen not to over-egg any hint of weakness in Nadal's game.
At least Thiem has in the past found the key to unraveling the Nadal clay court enigma.
He is the only man to beat the world No. 1 on clay in the past two years — in Madrid this spring and in Rome last year.


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If I ruled the world (which thankfully I don't) then every designer throughout the world would be made to say this to themselves ten times before they started work each day: it's Dieter Rams' tenth commandment. A little more of that, perhaps, and the world would be freer from the sort of crap that I showed you yesterday.
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All regular school board meetings will be held in the boardroom at the DSC, located at 4540 Tower Street in Prior Lake. Board study sessions will be held in the Large Conference Room at the DSC.
The public is invited to attend board meetings at any time as listed below. The first meeting of each month is the regular board meeting and commences at 7 p.m. The second meeting of each month is the board study session and commences at 6 p.m. with the exception of July, December and April.
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Hide and Speak offers an effective and simple way to learn the first essential words in English, following the tried-and-tested method of 'look, cover and speak'.
Using the two wipe-clean flaps at the back of this colourful book, children can cover any of the words or pictures in the book to practice speaking or writing as many times as they want.
Teaches over 130 useful words, including useful phrases containing the key words, based on 15 popular themes, including:
Suitable for early language learning. This book is intended for use with children who are new to reading and speaking English. A complete word-list is included.
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Getting out of your comfort zone is scary. Scary is exciting. Exciting is good. So getting out of your comfort zone is good? Easy enough equation right?
I have always played life safe. I've kept to myself, followed the rules, done what I've been told. Totally nothing wrong with that! But I've also always felt like something was missing, like I was meant for more. Maybe that's why I always chased the city life.
In the words of Elsa, it's time to "Let it Go!".
It's time to let go of all these expectations and do what I want without being consumed with fear of others judgement. I don't know how much life I have left in front of me, but I've already wasted a quarter of it scared. Did you see how free Elsa looked once she embraced who she was?!? #Goals
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I'm a millennial. Millennials live a different life. We have so much going for us right now! It's pretty amazing and I'm so sad I've wasted so much time of it! We're in the perfect stage of our lives where we can balance being responsible contributing members of society but also be free-spirited independent careless adults.
This new direction that I want to go with my blog may not be a popular one. But that's all a part of it, right? I knew when I decided to start to blog that I would have to be different, do something that would make me stand out. I just didn't know how. But then it hit me. I am young, I am full of life. I wanted to blog to connect with other ladies (and gents) my age. All the bloggers I love and follow are hot mamas, loving wives and/or successful business women. And while I admire them and look up to them so much, that's just not where I am at in life right now. So trying to blog like them seems ingenuine.
I want this blog to follow my life. That includes me going out, staying up late, making mistakes, going to new places, making friends and losing others; going to school, getting promotions, working hard and learning to be independent. This is my life right now, and I'm loving every minute of it! And I want to write about it!
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The Corporate Social Responsibility Notion
Camilleri, M. A. (2017). The Corporate Social Responsibility Notion. In Corporate Sustainability, Social Responsibility and Environmental Management (pp. 3-26) Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature
45 Pages Posted: 15 Dec 2018
Date Written: November 01, 2017
This contribution provides a broad overview of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) terminology and its emerging constructs. It presents the business case for CSR. The researcher sheds light on the theoretical underpinnings relating to the CSR agenda, including Corporate Citizenship (Carroll, 1998; Waddock, 2004; Matten and Crane, 2004), Creating Shared Value (Porter and Kramer, 2011; 2006), Stakeholder Engagement (Freeman, 1984) and Business Ethics (Crane and Matten, 2004) as he featured the latest Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility (CSR2.0) perspective (Visser, 2010). These recent developments imply that the organisations' commitment to responsible behaviours may represent a transformation of the corporation into a truly sustainable business that is adding value to the business itself, whilst also adding value to society and the environment. This 'new' proposition is an easy term that may appeal to business practitioners. CSR2.0 is linked to improvements in economic performance, operational efficiency, higher quality, innovation and competitiveness. At the same time, it raises awareness on responsible behaviours. Therefore, this promising concept can be considered as strategic in its intent and purposes, as businesses are capable of being socially and environmentally responsible 'citizens' whilst pursuing their profit-making activities.
Keywords: Strategy, corporate social responsibility, CSR, strategic CSR, corporate citizenship, creating shared value, corporate sustainability, stakeholder engagement
JEL Classification: M00, M1, M10, M12, M14
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The flames broke out near Riddle Avenue and Mill Road around 3 a.m. Wednesday in a large warehouse Action News is told was once used for leather goods and barrels.
The location, though, is so secluded that fire officials had to call-in a state police helicopter to determine the precise location from where the fire was emanating.
The sheer size of a complex only served to make the fight that much harder.
"There were large commercial structures, six in total, five of which were fully engulfed. A lot of the heavy timbers dropped to the lower levels, areas we were unable to get to it," said Battalion Chief James Jobes.
The fire grew over the course of more than two hours.
Tanker trucks from nearby Odessa, Delaware and Chester County were called in for support.
The Action Cam captured a dramatic moment when a large side wall collapsed during the blaze.
"It was huge, there was a lot of crashing," said Nicole Gracey. "I didn't know if it was things exploding in there, because it's an old factory, you don't know what's in there."
City officials say a private developer had recently purchased these old structures with the intent of converting them into modern condominiums.
No injuries were reported.
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Jack Marin enjoys the precision and craftsmanship behind every cut he executes. Coupled with the ability to technically problem solve, Jack pushes the limits on client expectations and specializes in transformation, always striving for perfection with every client. His commitment to excellence parlays into a "soft, no nonsense approach" to teaching, as he is known for breaking down complex concepts into more palatable lessons.With ten years in the industry, Jack's varied career includes styling New York Fashion Week, Paris Fashion Week, designing multiple collections, and training countless young stylists to become successful hair professionals. His eye and aptitude for teaching complements the Davines philosophy and adds a certain je ne sais quoi to each course he leads."The attraction to Davines started with the integrity of the brand. I truly believe that their intent is threefold - to benefit the stylist, the client and the world - and this intentionality mirrors my professional mission in the salon and in the classroom."
Samantha Snyder
Color Director - Stylist - Davines Educator
Samantha approaches being a stylist with a combination of creativity and problem solving. She loves helping people find the right look and in turn feel great about themselves. Samantha enjoys the aspect of getting to meet new people and uses each experience to create a one-of-a-kind look. Specializing in dimensional hair color (highlights and balayage), wavy/curly textures and event styling she can service a range of looks. Samantha studied at Douglas J. Aveda Institute and is cross trained in esthetics. When she's not behind the chair you can find her reading, knitting, playing video games and making delicious vegan treats.
Daphne Zeiters
Collaborates with her clients to enhance their natural beauty, leaving them feeling happy and confident. Whether giving them a new style or helping them maintain their current look, she specializes in blondes, double processes and highlights. After attending Paul Mitchell the School in Chicago she did a 2 year in salon apprenticeship under Jack Marin. As the resident Disney fanatic, she goes to Disney World in Florida at least once a year and has found time to travel to almost all 50 states. When not in the salon or traveling you can find Daphne cooking and cocktailing.
Amber Oakley
Amber thrives on creating a complete look for clients. Having trained at L'esprit Academy and apprenticing at Marin Hair Co under the tutelage of Jack Marin and Samantha Snyder, Amber strives to create custom cuts for her clients. From cut to color to final style, Amber equips her clients with the knowledge, tools and products to recreate their look at home. Specializing in balayage and creative color she is rewarded by clients leaving her chair happy and feeling great. When she's not in the salon you can find Amber dancing it out, crafting, hanging with her 2 cats or any random dog she can coerce her friends into letting her take to the dog beach.
Courtney Poddig
has an affinity for forging a relationship with each client that visits her chair. Using social connection as a way to fuel her creativity on a daily basis, Courtney specializes in curly textures, natural colors and soft blondes. After studying at Douglas J. Aveda Institute she went on to continue her education at Bumble and Bumble downtown in New York. Drawn to pizza and Beyonce, Courtney enjoys spending time with her son. When she's not living that mom life you can find her working out or in a Yoga class.
Mallory Rose
Mallory was born into a family of hairstylists, growing up she was immersed in her sister's salon. She was obsessed with visual arts and music from a young age. After pursuing her fine arts degree from IU, Mallory enrolled in Mario Tricoci University of Beauty Culture to apply her fine arts background behind the chair. She completed two consecutive cut and color apprenticeships from Wella and Vidal Sassoon trained educators. During that time she refined her craft of cutting, and honed her eye for color and placement. Mallory is always expanding her education and has taken numerous classes with Kevin Murphy, Wella, and Vidal Sassoon. Mallory loves crafting unique styles for her diverse clientele. She enjoys extreme transformations just as much as soft effortless styles. Outside of the salon you can find her painting, experimenting with musical projects, cooking, and collecting records.


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You're probably asking, "Who?" Kelly Tripplehorn was an intern for Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, and got his fifteen minutes of internet fame by sending a very nasty email (from his firstname.lastname@example.com email addy, natch) to a fellow intern with whom he had a brief relationship.
"Michele, I am sorry, I don't care how big of a sadistic fucked up crush you have on me but people like me simply don't date people like you." Is a typical line from the infamous email that got Tripplehorn dismissed from his internship.
In the years since, Tripplehorn founded a ministry, and, we can hope and assume, outgrew his uppity asshole stage. But given the air of self-importance he once had, it's a bit surprising to me that Mr. Tripplehorn took his own life over the weekend. (I stumbled upon this while surfing the internet this morning–I can't recall now where)
Two things strike me here…first: that many of the funny stories, pictures, etc. that we all pass from inbox to inbox often have REAL people behind them. And second, it's remarkable how one instance or act in a person's life can define, haunt, or follow them.
Thanks to a commenter, we have Tripplehorn's response to the media hype around the email: "I regret that I sent the email, and I did send an apology less than a week after my hate letter. However, since it was from one of the highest-ranking Senator's office in Washington, and it was during the summer doldrums, the letter ended up taking a life of its own. So much so that I found my name and picture in the media including such outlets as CNN, The Washington Post, and even various publications overseas.
This seminal event humbled me in ways that I did not think were possible. Christ needed to break me down before he was able to build me up again, and he certainly did a glorious job of reducing me to nothing. Here, I learned the lesson of the destructive power of pride and I will never forget it as long as I live.
The second great lesson Christ gave me was that if the media could use me to spread my message of hate throughout the world, then there is no reason why I could not use same media to spread a message of Christ's love throughout the world."


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As mind-imploding sound waves radiate through your brain, try to at least acknowledge that this is two people. Seven Dollar Machete is the last endorphyn that has pumped through you. Although he is late to the meeting, he is the only one who is really there. Don't think about it. Your brain will melt. Seven Dollar Machete is the chicken AND the egg. What came first? I'll tell ya; the machete. Listening to Seven Dollar Machete is like being on the 3,000 foot tall zebra rampaging through Tokyo. As the natural order of reality breaks down, you find yourself standing on the edge of a endless drop known only as the unknown. You experience the euphoria of being everything as you jump off... enjoy.
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Ask a QuestionHere are the questions asked by community members. Read on to see the answers provided by the ThriftyFun community or ask a new question.
I have recently started making lighted glass blocks. Does anyone know how to make the bows? Also my husband signed me up to sell these at a local holiday craft show, as he thinks they're worth sharing. How much do I charge and do I add sales tax?
I would definitely agree with no less than $25, depending on how elaborate you make them! If they are flashy enough to get attention, then that's what will sell them for the higher price. I wrote an ebook on this subject, and I sold a ton of these a couple of Christmases ago. I had one special adornment that sold like hotcakes..... :-)
I made the luminaries last year for just friends and they all loved them and wanted me to make more of them for this year so they could buy them from me and give to family members who had saw theirs and loved them. The plain blocks are $6.00 ea.
The problem is the hole is about l0 minutes steady to drill with an expensive drill bit $12.00. You will use more than 1 drill bit for a set of 10 blocks. Put a piece of masking tape on where you want to drill the hole. (keeps drill from slipping) Make sure the hole is big enough to be able to put the lights in without torturing your fingers and thumbs. (I learned the hard way first)
You may cut off the female end of electric light cord (cover end with electric tape) Lights of course will still work when you plug male end in socket!! It takes two people to drill. One to drill and the other to mist water on the drill bit which gets very hot.(causes steam) Do NOT store glass blocks in COLD GARAGE. Because when you go to drill them, the heat from the drill bit and the cold glass will shatter the block. Remember you get a case of 10 blocks for $60.00 but you will lose some to breakage without a doubt.
I made the luminaries last year for just friends and they all loved them and wanted me to make more of them for this year so they could buy them from me and give to family members who had saw theirs and loved them. The plain blocks are $6.00 ea.
The problem is the hole is about l0 minutes steady to drill with an expensive drill bit $12.00. You will use more than 1 drill bit for a set of 10 blocks. Put a piece of masking tape on where you want to drill the hole (keeps drill from slipping). After hole is drilled wash with a drop of soap and water, rinse well and then put in 200 degree oven to dry for about 45 minutes. Make sure the hole is big enough to be able to put the lights in without torturing your fingers and thumbs. (I learned the hard way first year)
You may cut off the female end of electric light cord (cover end with electric tape) Lights of course will still work when you plug male end in socket!! It takes two people to drill. One to drill and the other to mist water on the drill bit which gets very hot.(causes steam) Do NOT store glass blocks in COLD GARAGE. Because when you go to drill them, the heat from the drill bit and the cold glass will shatter the block.
I gave a wedding gift and a set of lights at a wedding and the guests were coming to see if I would make them a set. I couldn't handle the work. I have to say they were beautiful. To make a long story short I'm selling for $60.00 a pair. This year Pittsburgh Corning has a new Decor Block out. Same block but hole is already there.
An insert is also enclosed in the box to put in the hole. You cannot buy them wholesale. All kinds of uses for the block are also on the box. They are PRICEY Micheal's is $25.00 ea. JoAnn's is $23.00, so you must go with a coupon but that only gives you one. You can phone a glass company to see if they will drill the holes for you but it's approx $10.00 per block. Good Luck Everyone! Your creativity can really shine in these blocks. They are very nice to see finished. Do not decorate with cheapness. People want quality and good taste. My friends tell me I should charge more!
I make them and sell them for $20.00 a piece, I get the blocks at Menards for a little more than 3 dollars a piece, and shop at the dollar store for the other stuff. here is a pic of my Christmas ones.
Where is a good place to buy boxes for the glass block crafts?
By janelle from Lagrange, GA
Home improvement stores, call Lowe's, good luck.
In case no one has responded to your question, check out Lowes hardware. They are located in the flooring department. Hope this helps.
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Here is a site that sells the glass blocks. Perhaps you can get an idea by checking their prices (click on the red band for each one). I'm sure you'll be able to sell them at craft fairs where people can see them "in person". http://www.shop.glassblocklight.com/ (02/25/2007)
By SL Edens
I am also a crafter, and last October I happened to have a craft booth directly opposite from a woman selling lighted glass blocks with a Christmas theme. They were beautiful, and now I wish I'd bought one. You have to keep in mind the amount of time and effort that goes into your finished product in addition to the cost of materials. I believe she charged $17 for hers, but I think she could have gotten more at a bigger venue.
Good Luck! (02/26/2007)
By Donna N., San Diego
I would like to know how to make them. Have instructions been posted on Thrifty Fun site? I am a newbie, from Canada.
(b)Editor's Note:(/b) We don't have an article with step by step instructions but at this link there is lots of feedback with methods for making them: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf37245405.tip.html (02/26/2007)
By Mary Earl
I have seen them at craft shows from anywhere from 7 to 25 bucks. depending on what you pay for the supplies and how you decorate them, Set your price from there. Don't forget to add in the time it takes to make them. (02/26/2007)
By rosa
I sell at craft fairs every weekend. According to the artists I've talked to & the books I've read about pricing. You can price your wares several ways:
---> One way is this: Take the cost of supplies and triple it. Example: Say you pay $6 for all of your supplies. You'd charge $18 for your artwork. EXAMPLE: 6+6+6=18
---> The second way is to keep track of how long it takes you to make your wares. (Keep a log book) Figure out an hourly wage you'd be comfortable with making, then add the cost of supplies. Make sure you at least get minimum wage, or it's not worth even doing.
---> The third way to price is the most important: Find out what others charge for something that is similar. Search online, on e-bay & in stores.
---> Price for where you live. Example: In the area I live there are many price ranges of homes. In some areas, people are only looking for "deals". In others, they are used to shopping at the best stores & you can demand more for your art. It's better to price a little high, then if need be, the next time, you could have a sign that says "20% off" or whatever on some of your easier to make items. I have a special "discount shelf" where everything on that shelf is 20% off. It's better to start high, then go down, than the other way around because everyone will remember if you raised your prices from the last time.
---> Remember that some fairs (especially Christmas fairs) charge a 20% fee plus a registration fee to sell at them. So price accordingly. You can either bump your prices up for those fairs only, or just add that much to your wares all of the time.
---> If you do "Special or Custom Orders" do not be afraid to charge more. (I always charge an extra $10, or 15 - 20% extra) Because it takes longer to make custom orders & I don't get to be creative. Make sure they give you HALF DOWN on any custom orders! Get a receipt book with Triplicate (3 colors of pages) Give them a receipt for the half they paid down, then when they pick it up, give them the second part & keep the last part for your records.
When they ask how long a custom order will take, I say "2 - 4 weeks, I'll call you when it's complete & you can pick it up here" Then I draw them up a picture of what they want & put it in my receipt book. Be sure to get their name, phone & e-mail address.
---> When people come to you and ask if you wholesale, or if you'll give a discount for buying a certain amount. You'll need to know the answer to that question. Me? I can't afford to wholesale because my prices are already at rock bottom because my work is so time consuming.
Think of Prices like this: Retail - Art Fair - Wholesale. Wholesale is usually half the price of Retail & Art Fair prices are usually right in the middle. So if your Glass Blocks sell for $20 in a store, you'd probably sell them for $15 at a fair and $10 for wholesale bulk orders (Quantities of over 10 or 20, or what ever you decide).
---> Some artists sell their wares at Consignment stores. They display your artwork in their store & you pay a percentage when they sell it. (around 40% or so) The downside's are many, including if anything is stolen, you usually "eat" it. Plus, your inventory is frozen & you can't sell it elsewhere. Sometimes consignment stores are in high-end malls & it can be worth putting your art on consignment there.
There are also stores (or "craft-malls") where you can rent a space for $75(monthly) or more & donate a few days working at the store each month. Most artists have a hard time making any money at these places because you are not there to actually talk to the customers & sometimes these stores are in out-of-the-way places. If you want to try out a store like this, make sure your contract is "month to month" so you can get out if it doesn't work for you.
*** Unless you just want to get rid of something, DO NOT ever sell your artwork at or near a swap meet! We had a wonderful, established fair here in Seattle where many artists would come to sell. The owners got greedy & decided to make more money by selling spaces for a swap meet right next door to the art fair. Customers came with a different mindset. They came "looking for a bargain" & would no longer pay the prices for art, so artists could only sell their "seconds" or they stopped selling there all together.
*** But the most important thing to remember is: DO NOT UNDERPRICE your wares! If it is cheap, people will think it IS "cheap". Charge a fare price! I jury at my local artfair when we are looking for new artists. It's amazing just how many artists will underprice their artwork because they think "It's fun!" or "I don't really need the money, I just enjoy doing this!" With an attitude like this, no one will take you seriously as a craftsman. Plus as I said earlier, people will be happy to pay what something is worth. If it is priced to low, they will think it's just a "cute little trinket" & not really artwork.
*** Also, NEVER ever try to undercut a fellow artist who is selling something similar. Remember, the Art Fair community is small & everyone knows each other eventually, so keep a good attitude, help others when you can, never gosip, & enjoy yourself!
*** Remember, there is nothing more important than CUSTOMER SERVICE! Keep your customers happy & they'll keep coming back! I have a lifetime guarantee on anything electric I sell. I can't refund money, but I'll let anyone exchange anything, especially if it's a gift. If I make a Custom Order they are unhappy with, I say "No problem, I'll make it again just the way you like" Smile & let them know just how much it means to you that they support the arts! If you treat them right, they'll keep coming back & they'll bring their friends!
*** Make professional business cards, signs, have a receipt book, calculator, bags with handles & paper or tissue paper to wrap your glass with. Print out directions of how to operate your glass lights. Make sure they use the correct bulbs, etc. If you're doing outdoor fairs, don't forget about the rain & the UV rays. Either laminate your signs or use an Epson printer because Epson's ink is both WaterPROOF & UV resistant unlike other brands & believe me, it will rain on your paperwork more than once!
*** You'll also need to buy a tent (an "EZ-up") that you can put up & take down easily if you're doing outside fairs. Glass blocks are heavy, so be sure to pack them in a tough plastic box when transporting them. So you don't need to buy so many things you may want to start out slow, by selling at INSIDE Holiday fairs, where others open their homes to the public. They do all the advertising for the fair & you pay a percentage to rent a space. Or, if you know someone who is already selling, they may let you try your luck at their booth a few times. Maybe a friend will go half & half with you for the booth fee, the screening fee & the yearly fee. You'd both need to have your wares juried first. Juried fairs may sound like a hassle, but this assures only the best of the best, which means no junk, thus higher prices can be charged.
*** You may need a business license for your state AND the town you are selling in.
*** You will probably need to be "JURIED" into a fair. Call several, & find out when they are screening. They will send you a packet of information & forms to be filled out. Each Fair has different rules. Make sure your presentation for the jury is professional!
*** There are many great books about pricing & selling your arts & crafts, I sugest buying one of these books or checking one out at the library. These types of books are VERY helpfull!
I hope this helps, I've been selling at craft fairs for many years & I'm giving you some of the helpful advice I've been given through out the years. Let me know if I can help you more in any way .... HAPPY CRAFTING!
By Cyinda
I paid $20.00 for the ones I bought at a flea market (03/01/2007)
By Susan Grotts
Terrific advice Cyinda. Having done that for a living in the past, your advice is right on target. Another problem with consignment is if the shop goes out of business and takes your items with them or getting payment from them when the items are sold. Make sure they have been in business a while and check in with them regularly.
Susan from ThriftyFun (03/01/2007)
By ThriftyFun
Has any one seen pictures on the glass blocks with the lights inside? Please forward instructions, and more info. Thanks
Editor's Note: We have an article with many tips here.
By cyndi
My mother in law sold them at a craft bazaar for 25$ and they went quickly. (12/03/2007)
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With Google I/O approaching, there are a number of new announcements due to land across all the multiple android platforms. These announcements will include updates for the likes of Android TV and Android Wear. As such, and leading up to the event, a number of the already in circulation android based products have seen some price drops occurring. This morning has already seen the Android TV running Nexus Player, drop down to $79 on the Google Store. Likewise, yesterday saw Best Buy dropping down the cost of the Android Wear powered Moto 360 to $150. That is, for the basic version at least.
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Student Portal | ecampus | Work at WITT
Friday May 22 is undoubtedly going to be one of the highlights of a lifetime for more than 150 WITT graduates.
"It's graduation night for all of the WITT students who completed their degree and diploma courses in December last year,'' says WITT marketing manager Veronica Andrews.
For the students it's the culmination of one to three year's hard work and the evening is marked with all the pomp and formality it deserves.
The ceremony is at the TSB Showplace and indications are that there will be about 600 to 700 there to see them graduate. "It's really nice for them to have their family and friends there for the ceremony, it's a great achievement."
"Many graduates have since left the region and are working in other parts of the country or overseas, but they make the effort to come back and celebrate this special occasion.''
While many of the traditional aspects of the ceremony remain, for the second consecutive year graduating students have four choices when it comes to dress.
Apart from the traditional robes, students can now opt to wear korowai, which is the traditional Māori ceremonial dress; international students can dress in their own country's traditional costumes and other students can choose to simply wear appropriate attire.
"For the students, their families, the staff and everyone in the WITT whanau, this is what it's all about.''
The success of the ever-increasing numbers of international students graduating from WITT certainly adds to the international flavour of this special evening, which starts at 5.30pm.
In another departure from tradition, the keynote speaker will be WITT chief executive Barbara George. Giving the address on behalf of the students is Nursing graduate Jennifer Chamberlain.
The ceremony starts with the traditional street parade at 4.45pm at the TSB Showplace car park on King St. After walking down King St, the graduation parade will walk down Ariki St, turning into Currie St and then on to Devon St to return to the TSB Showplace.
It is the only chance the community at large has to publicly wish the graduates well and it is timely reminder to the public of the important role WITT plays in the region.


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TalkTalk price rise comes in today but you can still stop your bill from going up
TalkTalk customers are looking at a £33 per year increase from today - but there are still ways to chop down your bills
MILLIONS of TalkTalk customers will pay an extra £33 per year from today for internet, phone and TV packages.
The telecoms firm announced the price hike at the start of October via emails and letters to customers.
The increase, which came in from November 4, is for customers on the Simply Broadband, Essentials TV or Plus TV package - adding up to an extra £2.75 per month.
A the time TalkTalk said it was putting up prices because of investments into internet speeds, free phone privacy features and more TV content.
A spokesperson added: "Around half of our customers can avoid our price increase by switching to our brand new fixed low price plans and in many cases pay less than what they pay today."
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Customers who were unhappy with the hike were able to walk away from TalkTalk as long as they told the telecoms firm within 30 days of receiving a letter or email about the rise.
How to beat the price hike
1. Switch to a TalkTalk fixed low price plan - but check it's a good deal first
TalkTalk has launched a range of new plans which combine line rental and broadband for 18 months and the firm has promised not increase costs during that time.
Existing customers are allowed to switch to these plans but you should check to see if you could save more with another supplier first. Use a tool like broadbandchoices.co.uk and simplifydigital.co.uk.
2. Haggle your way to a better deal
If you don't want to switch away from TalkTalk then you should try haggling. Firms are usually willing to knock off a few pounds from your bill in order to keep you as a customer.
Find a better deal elsewhere and then phone up and say that you want to leave. You will usually get put through to the retentions department.
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L.A. Superior PIO Claims|Bailiff Roughed Her Up
LOS ANGELES (CN) – A senior producer at TMZ says a bailiff roughed up, handcuffed and humiliated her last year while she was working as a public information officer at Los Angeles Superior Court.
Vania Stuelp says in her Superior Court complaint that she was complying with a judge's order to confiscate prohibited video footage of criminal proceedings against a reality TV star, when the bailiff grabbed her, slammed her up against a wall, handcuffed her and threw her into a chair in front of a crowd of people.
Stuelp sued Los Angeles County, the Sheriff's Department, the bailiff and a district attorney, who she says stood by and "smirked" during the alleged assault.
On Jan. 25, 2010, Stuelp claims Judge Leslie Swan denied French company Camicas Productions' request to film a criminal hearing for "Pretty Wild" star Alexis Neiers. She says the judge sent the order to the Public Information Office (PIO) – "whose job it was to implement the Court's directives concerning the media to the media."
"Accordingly, the PIO advised representatives of Camicas Productions that Judge Swain had denied their request to film the proceedings and, moreover, that filming and photography anywhere in the courthouse, including the hallway, was strictly prohibited," Stuelp's complaint states.
Stuelp says that when she arrived at the court the next day, she caught a Camicas cameraman filming Neiers, who was sitting in the hallway outside of the courtroom. The Camicas camera crew refused to erase the footage, so Stuelp says she directed them into a courtroom and called Sergeant Rick Lucas of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.
Inside the courtroom, Stuelp says District Attorney Arunas Sodonis questioned her and told her that the area she was standing in was for "attorneys only," even after she presented her badges.
Then, Stuelp says, the cameraman tried to remove the videotape with the "prohibited footage" and replace it with a blank one. She claims she asked him for the tape and "(a)s he prepared to give Stuelp the tape, his producer began arguing with him in French and stopped him from doing so."
The bailiff, Ronald Cabrera, then came into the courtroom, and yelled at all of them to leave, according to the complaint.
After she tried to explain the situation to Cabrera, Stuelp claims he began "aggressively pulling her jacket and then viciously grabbing her arm, while screaming that he was going to throw her out of his courtroom."
Cabrera then dragged her by her arm toward the door, "viciously grabbed Stuelp's other arm, pulled both her arms behind her back and violently slammed the front of her body against the back wall of the courtroom," she says.
Stuelp says that Cabrera violently held up her arms, "ordered her to open her legs, viciously forced his forearm into Stuelp's back and forcefully grabbed her wrists and handcuffed them."
"As this was occurring, Plaintiff Stuelp continued to explain that she worked for the Court and exclaimed that Defendant Cabrera was physically hurting her," she says. Stuelp claims that "(w)hen she turned to [District Attorney] Defendant Sodonis to plead for assistance, Defendant Sodonis only smirked and responded in a mocking manner, ratifying Cabrera's forceful conduct."
"Defendant Cabrera then forcibly dragged Stuelp by her arm and viciously threw Stuelp's body onto the hard wooden chair reserved for criminal defendants while her hands remained handcuffed behind her back," the lawsuit states.
"Throughout this entire portion of the incident, the courtroom was filled with spectators – all of whom witnessed these demeaning and humiliating events," Stuelp says.
When Sergeant Lucas arrived, Stuelp says he demanded that Cabrera remove the handcuffs.
The next day, TMZ reported the allegations, stating on its website: "The videotape was never confiscated. Those damn French."
Stuelp demands punitive damages for assault and battery, negligence and emotional distress.
She is represented by Shawn Holley of Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump & Aldisert in Santa Monica, Calif.


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A fire started at about 3:00 a.m. Friday in a house near the corner of 112th Street and Blue Ridge Boulevard. Three children, ages 16, 11 and 4, and their parents were all asleep inside the home when flames erupted. Smoke detectors woke the family and everyone hustled, through heavy smoke, out the front door to safety.