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For editing I use lightroom 4 and VSCO film 01, 02, and 03. I also have photoshop elements 10.
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I did! With the help of google you can learn anything!
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I crochet everything myself. I will occasionally have someone help with packaging and shipping if it is a big order.
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I first learned to knit when I was very young. My grandmother Rose taught me. When I was in middle school one of my dearest friends Tiffany taught me how to crochet and I have been doing it on and off ever since. I got really serious about it years ago when D and I were stuck inside our then upstate New York apartment through a awfully cold winter.
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Why manzanita?
My great grandmother's nickname was manzanita, which means little apple in Spanish. You can read the whole story here.
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Robert R. Allard, the Director of Apostles of Divine Mercy, writes from Port St. Lucie, Florida.
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Record-setting hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, and many other natural disasters are happening. Sin is increasing everywhere: pornography, homosexuality, adultery, fornication, and unborn babies being brutally murdered by the thousands daily. The signs of the End Times are multiplying, including the sign of many scoffers.
Unfortunately, many of the scoffers are sleeping clergy who have failed to see any urgency. Dwindling Mass attendance at already epidemic levels fails to be addressed by many priests and bishops who would rather close parishes than place any effort into getting fallen-away Catholics to return to the practice of the Faith. Sin is rarely mentioned, even on Easter when the churches are full of those living in mortal sin who have missed Sunday Mass and haven't been to Confession in decades. How much longer are our leaders going to sleep while the souls charged to their care fall into Hell like raindrops?
It must offend our Lord greatly when churches are closed, especially while our priests and bishops fail to make any serious effort to get people to come back to Mass. Even in parishes that have been recently closed, you would always find standing-room-only crowds on Easter Sunday. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that if those Easter-only Catholics would come back, those parishes would operate in the black.
If it is true that "where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more" (Rom. 5:20), then indeed with all the sin that is around today there should be an ocean of graces available. How and from where might all these graces come to us?
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Charlie Sheen Wishes Two and a Half Men Had Ended in Suicide
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Yes, Chuck Lorre is going to reboot Two and a Half Men without Charlie Sheen, but the Vatican assassin warlock is fine with that. "It's nice to have closure with Two and a Half," Sheen told Access Hollywood. "It's fine. I mean, 177 episodes, it was getting a little stale. I just didn't know it was going to rot and fall off the vine like this." If anything, Sheen thinks we were deprived of a killer ending: "I feel bad for the fans because there was never that final episode where Alan, like, comes into my room calling my name and pulls back the closet door and there I am hanging, with a note saying, 'How do you like me now, Chuck?' ... Maybe I'll do a web version and we'll produce that version ourselves." Then again, Charlie Sheen has already been broadcasting his career suicide over the web, so it might feel a little anticlimactic. [Access Hollywood]


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Laura Vargas Koch continued Germany's fine performance on the second day of competition at the Judo Grand Prix in Rijeka, Croatia by claiming the under 70 kilo gold.
Judo Grand Prix, Rijeka: day two
Judo Grand Prix, Rijeka: day two
The silver medallist from last month's world championships in Rio was pushed all the way by Fanny Estelle Posvite of France before finding a way to pin her opponent to the tatami to win with a yuko.
Unlike day one it didn't go all Germany's way as Beijing Olympic bronze medallist and reigning European champion Lucija Polavder of Slovenia dominated Jasmin Kuelbs to win gold in the over 78 kilo class.
Polavder needed just 58 seconds to dispatch the German judoka with a stunning ippon seoi-nage that was worthy of winning any judo world tour event.
Former European u23 Championship silver medallist Szabolcs Krizsan was a class above the rest as he struck gold in the -81kg division.
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The internet has popularized the freemium model like no other channel, but building a successful business on this model can be quite a challenge.
One company that has succeeded: Spotify, the Swedish company that has become Europe's most popular music streaming service.
But despite the success of the model it has used to date, Spotify apparently thinks some changes are needed.
Yesterday, it announced that it will be taking a little bit of 'free' out of freemium in an effort to ensure that it can continue to provide the service to its millions upon millions of users. The Spotify blog explains:
Here's how the changes will work:
- New users will be able to enjoy our unrivalled free service as it is today for the first 6 months.
- As of May 1st, any user who signed up to the free service on or before November 1st 2010 will be able to play each track for free up to a total of five times. Users who signed up after the beginning of November will see these changes applied six months after the time they set up their Spotify account.
- Additionally, total listening time for free users will be limited to 10 hours per month after the first six months. That's equivalent to around 200 tracks or 20 albums.
According to the Financial Times, the changes are a result of record label doubts about Spotify's long-term viability. Spotify claims that's not the case and that all is going swimmingly well. But as paidContent:UK's Robert Andrews asks, "If free is so valuable at converting users to paid (one million customers amongst six million active users or 10 million total users), then why cut free allowance in half?"
It's a good question. Determining where 'free' should end and 'premium' should begin is usually difficult, but Spotify's paid-to-free ratio looks quite healthy, indicating that the company has done an excellent job of finding a good balance.
While it would be premature to predict a mass exodus of users who are still enjoying the 'free' music, the volume of negative buzz coming from Spotify users hints that these changes have hit a nerve.
At the same time, given Spotify's popularity, even if there is some user attrition as a result of its freemium dial-down, there's also a decent possibility that the company has done enough to establish its value and will see more conversions from users who love the experience but have up to this point been on the fence about opening their wallets.
From this perspective, the biggest question is how these changes will impact the company's upcoming and much-anticipated launch in the United States. There, consumers haven't had a taste of Spotify, and it will be interesting to see if a more restrictive freemium model attracts fewer consumers when the company does finally jump the pond.
If the major record labels had a hand in pushing Spotify to modify its model, speculation the company denies, it may prove to be a premature move that hurts its chances in the market that could determine just how prosperous the company becomes.
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I feel for Spotify. Congrats to them on convincing 1m people to pay for their service. Not even Last.fm could do that, and look where they are now. Spotify is everything I hoped Last.fm would become but alas did not under the cosh of the music industry.
I won't be taking up the premium offering, because most of the music i listen to I buy from http://www.aquariusrecords.org and run off my computer. Who needs to pay for Britney right? But I do wonder if this doesn't spell a serious down turn for spotify's fortunes, or the beginning of the end.
As you point out, it's going to make selling the product into the US market place harder, especially when emusic and others are already in that shared space.
The free model was never free as you listened to ads. Currently all I have use it for is some classic comedy and a few playlists from facebook.
I think the American Launch has made these changes necessary, however the level of competition has grown and they will now struggle.
It is a bit much about nothing and not the end of the world, just the end of spotify.


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Welcome to Crock-n-Roll Studio, a bright and cheerful ceramic painting studio in the heart of the lovely market town of Saxmundham in Suffolk, where you can come and while away an hour or several, getting in touch with your creative side!
No special skills or talent are required (if you're not confident with a paintbrush, you can use your fingers!), and there are always tools and techniques available to help you create your own unique and personal works of art!
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I have a pretty extensive, ever-changing stock of ceramics to choose from, and possibly the largest selection of paint colours in East Anglia! (It's suggested that we have 28-30 colours... I have over 100!)
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Epstein and Hoyer Met with Mike Quade for Seven(!) Hours and Other Bullets
New General Manager Jed Hoyer and Scouting/Development Chief (that's a title I'm using, not his actual title – the actual title is too long and abstract) Jason McLeod will be introduced at a press conference today at 3pm CT. I'll be covering the press conference live here, but if you'd like to watch, it should be on CSN and CSNChicago.com, at a minimum. It won't be quite the national media event that the Theo Epstein press conference was, but it should be revealing nonetheless.
- According to Bruce Levine, when Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer met with Mike Quade about his past and future with the Chicago Cubs last week, they met for seven hours. Yes, there's something to be said for being thorough and polite, but seven hours ain't just thorough and polite. It suggests minds had not yet been made up. It suggests things are genuinely being considered. Scary things.
- Ok, and now I'll back myself – and you – down from the ledge. Keep in mind, even if Epstein and Hoyer had already decided to can Quade, they'd want to talk to him about what went right/wrong, certain players, etc. for quite a while. Exit interviews exist for a reason, and sometimes they're quite long. Jim Hendry stayed on to help the Cubs for a month after he'd been told he was being let go. Seven hours, in that context, is nothing. Perhaps the second meeting with Quade this week will be a five minute "thanks for the service and last week's chat. Farewell."
- Former Cubs manager Lou Piniella, the man who retired mid-season, giving Quade the chance to prove his mettal as an interim manager, says he hopes the new Cubs' brass gives Quade a chance.
- Today is the Theo Epstein compensation talks deadline, as set by Commissioner Bud Selig. Red Sox GM Ben Cherington says he and Epstein have had a hard time coming to an agreement on just what the latter is worth. That's gotta be a fun conversation for Epstein with his former lieutenant ("No, seriously, dude – it turns out, I'm pretty awful at what I do. Sucks for you that I taught you everything I know."). The two sides will talk again today, but the matter is expected to be turned over to Selig by the end of the day. The two sides will, at some undetermined point thereafter, make their case before Selig.
- Cherington added that the issue of Red Sox personnel following Epstein to Chicago remains undecided. He did, however, say, "If there's an opportunity for one person [to go to] Chicago that's clearly a better opportunity, then that's good, we don't want to stand in anyone's way. There's an understanding the Cubs won't raid the Red Sox and the Red Sox aren't going to raid the Cubs. It should be a good relationship going forward." The fact that he explicitly said "one person," to me, means that "one person" will be coming over from the Red Sox. The leading candidates are special assistant Dave Finley, director of baseball operations Brian O'Halloran, trainer Mike Reinold, or executive VP of business affairs Jonathan Gilula.
- The Cubs will continue to grow their front office over the offseason, but even if it doubles from its previously-scant 10 (full-time, Chicago-based, front office personnel with evaluation or decision-making authority), it will still be outpaced by most large market clubs. We're truly learning just how behind the times the Cubs had become.
- Carlos Zambrano is in Venezuela to pitch in the Venezuela Winter League, but, before he does, he's filming a Pepsi commercial with Bobby Abreu and Ozzie Guillen. But, as usual, I'm sure the subject of the Marlins never comes up. Ever.


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yahoo! announced minutely better than expected earnings for the first quarter yesterday, but the company also plans to lay off 12% of its workforce. dwindling ad revenue, rising costs, key executives' departures, and increasing competition from other search engines is making the once mighty web portal's rise from the depths look increasingly difficult.
in january, yahoo! warned that its earnings would be 33-43 cents per share, almost 50% lower than the 57 cents market analysts were expecting. that warning was blamed on the decline in internet advertising. then in early march yahoo! blamed the dot-com disasters as it predicted it would only break even, with revenues of us$170-180 million. after the market closed yesterday, yahoo! announced net income of $7.6 million from net revenue of $180.2 million, yielding 4 cents per share in cash, or 1 cent each of diluted net income. the revenue total was down 22% from last year's first quarter total of $230.8 million; 90% of yahoo! revenue came from advertising last year. yahoo! stock was at $15.91 at market close yesterday, a bit up from its 52-week low of $11.375 on april 3.
in the next 30 days, yahoo! will lay off about 420 people (~12% of its 3,510 employees) to reduce expenses. yahoo's cfo, susan decker, expects the cuts to save $7-9 million per quarter. despite those savings, the company is forecasting $165-185 million in pro forma revenue next quarter with shares breaking even, primarily due to "compensation hikes, rising energy costs and new facilities." to top things off, yahoo! will lose its senior vp of international operations in mid-june.
meanwhile, search engine rival google (which actually powers some of yahoo's searches) is slowly introducing more portal-type services, though the company denies it's trying to become a competitive portal. desperate to boost revenue, yahoo! also announced yesterday that people using yahoo! shopping can now buy a broad selection of hard-core porn videos and dvds. yahoo! doesn't sell the porn directly but gets some revenue from porn sales conducted by its partners. to defend this move, yahoo! instituted a protective measure that restricts access to the adult and erotica store until you enter credit card and personal information.
for more information on yahoo's earnings and layoffs announcements, please see infoworld. for info on changes at google, see zdnet. and for more on yahoo's expanded porn offerings, check the reuters item.
sam's opinion
well, quite an interesting day for yahoo! yesterday. it beat the expectations it massively lowered twice–but only by a hair. it's slashing its staff but will still post a loss next quarter. it's losing a key international ops exec when international revenues are helping keep it afloat. and it's going to increase the amount of hard-core visitors can buy under its auspices, something other major search engines/portals have been avoiding. how the mighty have fallen.
while the reduction in internet advertising, the falling cpm rates even the most popular websites can charge, and the baffling tech economy were all certainly major factors in the trouble yahoo's been having, i also feel that internet companies that expand as widely (and as quickly) as yahoo! has have put themselves in trouble. look at amazon: great concept, huge stock prices despite no profitability, ever-increasing expansion into every conceivable area, and then a big, ugly crash. obviously, a big difference between amazon and yahoo! is that yahoo! has been profitable, but i still feel that getting too big too fast in a shaky area like internet/tech is a recipe for disaster. check joel's opinion on kozmo.com's failure for more proof.
yahoo! stock hasn't dropped much today despite yesterday's news, but it also hasn't gone up at all despite "beating expectations." i think that illustrates some investor wariness, which is probably wise. even though the stock is so low right now people aren't buying it, meaning the cfo's cost-cutting measures and the introduction of the lucrative porn revenue stream aren't enough yet to convince investors that the stock will rebound nicely. i guess we'll have to wait and see.
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|yah, yah (11:39am est thu apr 12 2001)
yah, i guess thos yahoos at yahoo didn't realize that the yah yah of getting into too much yahoo stuff would just take all the yahoo out of their yahoo business. yahoo, i never liked them yahoos anyway. – by yahoo!
|ouch, looks like its gona be a nasty run of it (12:08pm est thu apr 12 2001)
the net is a nasty place, even worse when you have stock holders on your back. yahoo! has been good, but it seems that they are dipping into the sewers to keep afloat. – by eric the red
|yahoo and porn..goodbye!!! (12:15pm est thu apr 12 2001)
i've used yahoo over the past several years as the search engine of choice. now that they are going into porn, i will never use them again! goodbye yahoo!!!! – by steve t.
|thank god! american needs more porn! (12:20pm est thu apr 12 2001)
sex sells folks! internet porn is very profitable! please remember this is adult entertainment. i am 30 years old, if i want porn, i should be able to purchase it. – by brian!
|question? (1:27pm est thu apr 12 2001)
does anything on the internet make money besides porn?
i mean really make money, not just turn a pro forma profit. let's use a convenience store as a benchmark does any non-porn ecommerce activity generate the same roi?
just curious…
oh yeah, flame wars napster/riaa, windows/linux/mac, intel/amd.
first shot's been fired!
by the – by deafdude
|yes. (1:54pm est thu apr 12 2001)
internet profitability = pr0n
internet failure = ecommerce
any questions? – by gropo
|netflix makes good money (2:05pm est thu apr 12 2001)
check them out….they don't sell any porn (real porn, anyway). software companies have made good money off the web. also, etrade….dell…buy.com.
besides, porn doesn't really make that much money. if it did, surely they would put out better quality original stuff. most porn on most sites has been stolen from somewhere else. much to the dismay of my girlfriend's body image issues, i have a large collection and have probably seen over 75% of all heterosexual porn on the web. it really isn't an accomplishment. almost all professionally produced pictures appear on at least 10 different sites.
if porn was so profitable, you would see more porn portals added new original images, essentially playboy for the internet, locking in a very lucrative advertising market (horny men). if not, they would use a subscription model and try to keep long-term customers by bringing in fresh pics.
most dot com's failed due to faulty business models. they would have failed in a brick/morter setting, also. – by steven
|agreed steven… (2:31pm est thu apr 12 2001)
on the last paragraph at least.
a 17 year old with half-assed html/perl/java skills does not a succesful buisnessperson make. why venture capitalists allowed themselves to have the wool drawn over their occipital nerves on this matter is far, far beyond my understanding.
perhaps it's because they are nothng more than foolish hairless monkeys who have figured out how to 'hoard more bananas than the rest of us', and as soon as a new streamlined means of brokering bananas came along they screamed and threw all thier bananas at it.
but i wouldn't want to come across as a secular snob about the matter now would i? – by gropo
|so (2:38pm est thu apr 12 2001)
they sell porn ! guarenteed money maker! – by ..
|it was a fun ride… (2:52pm est thu apr 12 2001)
while it lasted, eh gropo. while other developers were wasting their time with start-up's & dot-coms, i started with an established consulting firm. i have a short head-start on the dot-com developers, but i fear what is going to happen when more highly skilled dot-com refugees compete for my job. while it sometimes seems like the sky is falling, the web is here to stay and is simply maturing. when all this sh*t is over with, you are going to a more mature, refined web market. the strong are going to get stonger and the weak are going to disappear.
anyone care to wager on who will stay and who will die (or find their market share dwindled to the point where they are irrelevant)?
here are my picks:
won't live another 5 years: every other commercial linux distro, corel, webvan, novell, realnetworks, php, tcl, be, creative labs, hp-ux, overpriced java servers
any opinions? – by steven
|no, porn is… (2:57pm est thu apr 12 2001)
the largest money maker in the world!!!!!!
it doesn't matter about the quality of it, it's the abundance of it out there. it's the video's, magazines, tv, websites, etc…
pornography is the largest industry in the world. and that's only with the revenue that's calculated, not including money not reported, under ground porn, and so on. it's bigger than nbc, cbs, abc, fox, and hbo put together. larger than mcdonald's, burger king, wendy's, taco bell, and well, you get the idea. – by ypogeios
|what? (3:09pm est thu apr 12 2001)
creative labs and novell? these companes have been around for a while. cl's is one of the leading companies for sound. that's like saying nvidia is on it's way out.
novell has deep roots. while i consider it useless, there are many large corporations that still use novell. our governemnt as well.
i think real has a chance too. they are extremely popular.
i don't think anyone can say that amazon is here to stay. that's what this whole dot-com thing has taught us – middle men suck. priceline is a very good indication of what might happen to amazon. when you don't have a product or exclusive service to provide, then you really aren't needed. – by ypogeios
|ypogeios, look a level deeper (4:34pm est thu apr 12 2001)
first of all, i listed the most controversial companies i could think of. gateway going out of business is a sure bet. saying creative labs will go out of business is very bold.
creative labs makes mediocre sound cards. i have an sblive and it has a million compatability problems, but that is not the point. who cares about sound? sound chips are embedded nowadays. why buy a soundcard when you get one embedded for free? it's like buying a disk controller. you will never truly notice the difference between playing the most intense video game on an sblive or a $10 pci sound card. creative labs also spends too much money of advertising and flashy packaging. most of all, their product line is very limited and has very little room for growth. their future is entirely based on the whims of the home consumer market. they are on the fast track to becoming the next gateway.
novell? i am shocked they aren't out of business yet. win2k is more extensible and linux is cheaper. novell never embraced the internet and they are a one trick pony with an obsolete product. their only revenue comes from existing customers and their marketshare is steadily shrinking.
anyone else have predictions/reactions? – by steven
|predictions (6:15pm est thu apr 12 2001)
my own 2 cents:
amazon will die, but not after being reborn into half a dozen new incarnations.
be will either become open source or atheos or a similar os will become the "free" be, but it will stay a niche product. (maybe for graphics intensive stuff?)
novell, gateway, and yahoo deserve to die. (yahoo was first a search engine, then a portal, now they're just like everything else except selling the xxx stuff.)
the web will break down into strong corporations selling directly to the consumer and lots of little guys with niche products they're the only source for–hobbyists, oddball/old computer parts, collectors, artists, etc. (the only survival of the mom and pop stuff.)
linux will have to become standardized and a single distro will need to be #1 before it starts being used heavily.
survivors: ebay, microsoft, ibm, apple, intel, and amd
who knows: cisco, oracle, free e-mail, bidding sites aside from ebay, britannica, obscure linux distros, bsd, etc.
losers: free computers, free web access, sites supported only by advertising, half baked business sites, get rich quick schemes, pay-you-to-surf, etc. not that people won't keep trying these. – by neholac
|hey ypogeios (7:56pm est thu apr 12 2001)
"that's like saying nvidia is on it's way out."
gee – i wonder if anyone would have said the same of 3dfx, oh say 5 years ago? -)
nothing is sacred. nothing.
|you people are paying for porn? (8:08pm est thu apr 12 2001)
what kind of 'geeks' are you anyways? this is the internet we're talking about folks. remember – the internet. how anyone makes any money from the damn thing i have no idea… i can tell you this much, they've never gotten a penny out of me and they never will, for anything. period. the only folks who get my money are the ones who produce a real, physical product that i cannot easily 'lift' without setting off a store alarm… like nvidia, amd, or the local adult video rental joint. – by scratching my head..
|ms is sacred (8:15pm est thu apr 12 2001)
since it always finds ways to crush it's competitors, it would stay forever.
eventually, it would also jump on the linux bandwagon – bye bye redhat, suse, caledra and everybody else. – by microsoft.net
|in the end (3:32am est fri apr 13 2001)
everyone will be replaced by someone else eventually. there are few coprorations that have survived the true test of times. however, i have a feeling that aol/time warner, ms, and for some unknown reason, apple will last for many decades to come. i know the apple thing seems far fetched, but for some reason, they still keep chugging along. the movie industry alone can keep them going for a while.
i'm not sure why anyone includes cisco in the soon to be gone category. yes their stock is whimsical, but they do have a good product line (of course, i still state that linksys is the same quality, but better price).
i see the internet as just a means of passing/gathering information (the global brain).
as for cl's, i don't argue that the sound quality is any different, but you do have more multimedia options (like 5.1 dolby). there is always a top dog in every product line and there really isn't any other large competition for cl (hercules was the closest).
3dfx is a casuality of the merging wars. they were/are good. however, you're talking about a time when there were many companies with graphic chips, now we are down to just a few. – by ypogeios
|grilled,meaty,dugan's surfer (11:12am est sat apr 06 2002)
sex is a great thing to do while surfing on a surf board!it is sooo natural & naughty that u cant even feel ur dick cuz its all swollened ^ & num!usually it bleeds 2 death…….then it doesnt work!=( – by sexy surfer
|nerds (11:18am est sat apr 06 2002)
nerds they hav lil dicks bcuz they study all day & mastervate wit their tongue 4 hrs.!!!!!how do i know?i had have sex w/ many b4 & yes i am gay & not attracted 2 woman @ all bc their boobz r 2 float-a-tious 2 sit on ….. in otha wordz having ''sex'' makes me nerveous 2 death my dick is shrinking right now – by caleeno
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|porn and escorting the new system (1:44pm est wed mar 31 2004)
so you want to know more about the porn or adult industry?:
even though the adult industry has been around since the 70's in mainstream, we have to be aware that there are people out there in this world that still feel that what performers do is immoral, disgusting and negative.
but even though they don't have to see it if they don't like it, our government tends to side with those they think are morrally correct. because they are controlled by those that are not knowledgeble with the industry because they think it is wrong.
there's a reason why performers keep busy and its because of how performers produce and act along with their beauty and patrons want to fantasize. we know there is nothing wrong with fantasizing, we all do it at some point. as long as it doesn't hurt anyone physically and mentally.
it's only immoral to those that have a different belief system as many will tell you that they are voluntarily exploiting themselves.
the main reason why the industry is always in battle against the gov't is also because there is a lack of support from the community because many people are in this game for themselves or they don't want too much exposure.
it doesn't make too much sense that the gov't allows nudity and xxx themes in some places and not others.
you either have it or you don't. now, you know theres a lot of junk going on with gov't corruption with the stripper and sex industry.
a known director on television said one time that these girls are gonna get involved with 250 producers once or twice and that's it.
– by guess
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Masterchef Australia – Series Four The Year Of The Pop-Up
Masterchef Australia season four contestants are still are still continuing to cook now the cameras are switched off, with news Mindy Woods and Audra Morrice are opening a pop-up restaurant tomorrow night in Sydney.
Season two was all about the blog this season appears to be all about the pop up restaurant!
However if you were thinking you would like to go think again. The pop-up which will be in Bar H in Surry Hills, Sydney is all sold out.
The two sessions where the diners will be paying $70 a head without wine are now full. If desperate you could try and get on a waiting list.
Mindy Woods and Audra Morrice told the Sunday Telegraph they promoted the night via Twitter and it sold out in hours. Hamish Ingham the owner of of Bar H says he is usually closed on Monday nights however he and his wife will be donating their time to help make the evening a success.
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- 1 Ari { 08.05.12 at 12:30 pm }
This is so cool of them! But again, Sydney Sydney Sydney. What a shame. I still haven't forgiven MasterChef for the finale with the MasterChef 'fans' being invited for entrees. Um, I've dedicated weeks of my LIFE to the show and have been watching the show since the start, where was MY invite?
Anyway I wonder if that pop-up restaurant challenge in the Top 13 excited them because it was quite a nice challenge. I AM a tad bit jealous though. Especially with the Andy/Ben/Wade/Kylie/Beau pop-up in Tassie.
- 2 bron { 08.05.12 at 1:24 pm }
beau and wade are there also?! j e a l o u s.
- 3 Morgan { 08.05.12 at 2:04 pm }
I do wonder if there will be any sort of MC events in QLD, I know Julia and Mindy are from QLD, so if there will be events in QLD I'm sure they will be involved.
- 4 nibehlung { 08.06.12 at 4:19 pm }
Tonight is actually Mindy + Audra + Kylie.
Tasmanian one is Andy + Ben + Kylie + Beau (I wasn't aware that Wade is also a part of that one).
- 5 Silver Spice { 09.20.12 at 2:30 am }
I think, mindy should be the winner!


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You can buy ready-made dried or fresh tagliatelle, but this is a really quick way to make your own.
Crack the eggs into a food processor and add the flour. Whiz it up and listen for the sound changing to a rumble - this means the dough is coming together nicely. Turn the power off and test the consistency by pinching the dough. If it's a bit sticky add a little more flour and pulse again.
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Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has enjoyed a heady last few weeks.
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That kind of stance has helped Nixon win elections in Missouri, especially with swing voters.
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Bottom line: I don't see any good reasons to think Jay Nixon is going to be our next (or even a future) vice presidential or presidential candidate.
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Éditeur: BookBaby
Date de sortie : 2017-09-19
Countless books have been written about the process of healing the brain from traumatic situations. But Answers Unleashed: The Science of Unleashing Your Brain's Power by Olympia LePoint is the first self-help brain success book written by an award-winning rocket scientist who overcame her own life challenges - from poverty, gang violence, childhood sexual abuse, to failing math scores in her youth – to later help launch 28 NASA Space Shuttle missions into Space. Olympia LePoint helps readers launch their lives into success by revealing the power of the "Triabrain" using "Triabrain Theory of Relativity" that LePoint developed to rewire her own brain for genius feats. Readers unleash their intuitive abilities, birth great ideas into scientific innovation, and change the course of their lives by attracting lucrative success. You can become a genius at any age! Readers Learn: • The "Triabrain" and how it helps in overcoming challenges • What "Brainbrink" does in the brain of genius people • Definition of a "Fractal Moment" of how one personal decision can improve multiple lives • Ways to use self-directed thoughts to remove stress for executive decision making • How to build natural intuition as a part of decision making • Ways to create success by inventing new business products • Daily exercises to increase brainpower – logic, expressive and inventive brainpower. Endorsed by neuroscientist and author Jeffrey Schwartz M.D. and retired NASA astronaut Robert Curbeam, Answers Unleashed shows audiences how to succeed through brainpower-based -thoughts LePoint used on herself to overcome her life's circumstances. Whether someone needs to rewire their brain in business, university education or self-help relationships, LePoint reveals how chaotic situations produce "brainbrink" which stalls the brain of smart people. And LePoint show how to rewire your brain through self-directed thoughts. As a method to explain how she unleashed her own brainpower, LePoint applies rocket science to her personal story as read in the easy-to-read thrilling chapters. LePoint creates the term "Triabrian" and "Triabrain Theory of Relativity" to help anyone overcome adversity. Audiences learn to take ownership in changing their limiting beliefs, overcoming fear and launching their lives into success. If LePoint could become a genius, anyone can become a genius too!
Auteur : Olympia LePoint
Auteur : Olympia LePoint
la langue : en
Éditeur: BookBaby
Date de sortie : 2013-01-08
Struggle with Math? Scared of failing Math tests? Need to encourage a student? If "yes," this book is for you! Ace math without doing more math problems! Mathaphobia®: How You Can Overcome Your Math Fears and Become a Rocket Scientist by Olympia LePoint, M.S. is an empowering, thought-provoking, self-help book exposing the emotional struggles individuals face, while learning to read and use math. Using her own challenges and educational triumph as a backdrop, Olympia LePoint discovers the crippling learning disability Mathaphobia®, and does a superior examination into the reasoning behind math fear, through the exploration of distinct Mathaphobia® personalities. With a uniquely innovative three-step strategy, Olympia LePoint shares the method to eliminate math fear for good. The award-winning rocket scientist also offers excellent self-help tools and leadership strategies in creating successful learning habits. As a supplemental education resource guide to create math and real-life solutions, this manual helps adults and pre-college students to ace math – all without doing more math problems!
Auteur : Alain Montandon (dir.)
la langue : fr
Éditeur: Presses Univ Blaise Pascal
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Four indicted for alleged terror plot in Los Angeles
[JURIST] A California state prison inmate who led a radical Islamist group and three others were indicted Wednesday [DOJ press release; AG Gonzales' remarks] on charges that they were plotting terror attacks on several sites in Los Angeles. The indictment [PDF text] charges Levar Haley Washington, Gregory Vernon Patterson, Hammad Riaz Samana and Kevin James with conspiring to wage war against the US government and to attack National Guard facilities and the Israeli Consulate. Prosecutors allege that James, a state prison inmate, founded the radical Islamist prison group Jamiyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh [Los Angeles Times report] and recruited the three others to carry out plans by the organization. Washington and Patterson were both arrested in July after allegedly robbing a series of gas stations to finance their activities. Investigators found evidence of the plot in searching the apartment of Washington following his arrest. The case has raised questions [AP report] about the religious practices of prison inmates, who the FBI has said may be more susceptible to radical ideologies. AP has more.


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You Can't Detect What You Can't See: Illuminating the Entire Kill Chain
We've all heard the hype about how making the switch to Ubuntu is suppose to be the ultimate desktop experience for Windows converts. Ask any Linux power user, however, and you'll find this opinion tends to vary.
Regardless of your thoughts on Ubuntu vs. other distributions, the fact remains that – properly setup – an Ubuntu installation can perform as a highly effective desktop.
In this article, I'll share some tips – including some apps – that I use myself to get the most out of my Ubuntu desktop. With any luck, you'll enjoy these concepts as much as I have.
Getting more from your desktop experience:
Pithos – Hands down, using Pithos is the best way to do Pandora music on the Ubuntu desktop. Its simple yet effective user interface allows me to get to my music and enjoy it without dealing with Flash or annoying ads.
Mirroring the features found in the web page application, nearly all of Pandora's music functionality is available with Pithos. For me this really helps the work day to glide by so I can tune out distractions. You can also love, ban or skip songs easily with Pithos.
Dropbox – Considered by and large to be a web service, the application for Linux integrates really well with the Ubuntu desktop. You can easily add, remove or create directories to be placed into your Dropbox account.
Best of all, you can use it in conjunction with UbuntuOne, if you wish. While it's hardly a data backup solution, it does make a brain-dead simple way to share files from platform to platform.
Synapse – I live in a keyboard world. And to that end, I try to limit my use of the mouse as much as possible. Thanks to the Synapse launcher, I can find files that would otherwise be difficult to locate, I can launch applications, or even simply run various system tasks...all from my keyboard.
Parcelite – As clipboard managers go, Parcelite is winner as far as I'm concerned. Using the clipboard provided with Parcelite's installation, I can copy anything I want to it and if need be, call it up again after copying other unrelated items. Unlike standard copy and paste, Parcelite allows its user to "store" multiple copied items to the clipboard. Going even further, Parcelite is even capable of syncing your clipboard copied content with other Ubuntu computers.
System Monitor applet – Back in my GNOME 2 days, I relied on a number of applets to keep my day on track. My most commonly used applet had to be the System Monitor applet. While one could arguably accomplish the same thing with top in the command line, I would counter with the fact that having a visual applet running allows one to "see" when something is eating your resources alive.
Jungle Disk – I have used a number of backup tools over the years. I remain a big fan of a dedicated home directory, but at the same time...there is something to be said for having an off-site backup as well. Based on my experience, JungleDisk has been bullet proof for years now. JungleDisk is cheap, relies on the elastic storage provided by Amazon S3, and has a natively supported backup client for the Linux desktop.
Synaptic – when it comes to the Ubuntu desktop, few GUI applications make installing, updating or migrating packages as easy as Synaptic. It offers you much of the same functionality as the Ubuntu Software Center, plus Synaptic also tosses in some extras, like allowing you to take full control over all that app has to offer.
VLC – This is the media player to beat all media players. What I love about VLC is that it not only plays everything known to man, it even allows me to stream content from the Web! Even better than that, I can also stream content and encode it locally, if I choose. Another cool option is the ability to use VLC for webcam video captures. Overall it's a very versatile application.
Skype Call Recorder– Despite its closed source nature, Skype remains a key part of my unified desktop experience within Ubuntu. Other tools such as Google's own video chat is good, but only Skype actively provides a popular software for video chatting with others.
Bundle Skype with Skype Call Recorder, and you're all set for keeping a record of Skype audio meetings. Just make sure to check with local laws first, before using the recording software.
Y PPA Manager – As great as using Synaptic is for package handling, its backup functionality for PPAs isn't flawless. That is why I prefer to use a true PPA management utility like Y PPA Manager. Add, remove and export your Ubuntu PPAs with the greatest of ease. As an added bonus, it also handles exporting PPA gpg keys as well.
Gufw – As "uncomplicated" as the Ubuntu ufw (firewall) happens to be, the fact remains that for newbies, the CLI-only option is a huge turn off. Thankfully, there is a solid GUI frontend to ufw called Gufw. This software allows the end user to setup firewall rules with all of the ease one would expect from a newbie-friendly distro. Even better, Gufw even supports firewall controls based on the application, in addition to port-specific rule settings.
OpenDNS – With parental controls, a faster DNS solution and safe web surfing, OpenDNS offers its users a lot of benefits. All one needs to do to enjoy the benefits of OpenDNS on their Ubuntu install is to register with the service, follow the directions and install ddclient.
For speeding up your computer:
Reduce GRUB delay – One of the most brain-dead simple methods of speeding up the boot time for your Ubuntu installation is to reduce the time that GRUB has to be toggled into. To make this adjustment, simply type Alt + F2, then paste in the following.
gksu gedit /etc/default/grub
With the text file open, look for GRUB_TIMEOUT and reduce the number to 0. If something should go wrong, you can always boot to a liveCD and change GRUB back to 5 if needed.
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Lee Min Ho's Gangnam Blues, T.O.P's Tazza 2, and Kim Woo Bin's The Technicians coming soon to DramaFever!
We know that it can be difficult to find theaters near you that are screening movies from Korea, so this year we are determined to bring you the hottest new movies for DramaFever Movie Night! Along with several other top hits from Korea, Lee Min Ho's Gangnam Blues, T.O.P's Tazza 2: The Hidden Card, and Kim Woo Bin's The Technicians will be coming to DramaFever soon for DramaFever Premium members! Here's a sneak peek.
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17th-18th century schools of enlightenment, influenced by Becon and Descartes, established their existence over conventional legacies and religious dogmas. During regimes of scholars like Copernicus, Galileo, Tolstoy and Leibniz, new thinking in science brought society into the light of science and innovation.
During this time period, man gained a new way of thinking, overtaking conventional beliefs, stereotyped morality, and religious dogmas. Science helped to establish a factual truth.
The Objective of Science.
Science teaches individuals to independently without dependence on suppositions of ideologies, outdated facts and abstract views. The main objective of science is to provide a more purified view of knowledge through use of reason and proper evidence to authenticate thinking and research.
In practical terms, using experiments, trials and tests, people will be able to solve problems and better understand the exact reasons to explain any event. Nothing happens without a reason or driving force behind it. Scholars claim that seeing is believing. It is the observer's duty to accept logic, principle, and other ideologies through self-analysis, self-doubt, and introspection.
Everyone needs to be educated in the sciences, to better understand right and wrong and other functions of daily life. Science brings clarity to thoughts. From a viewing standpoint, a person needs proper perspective to achieve success in scientific endeavors and greater understanding!
Science Experiments to Enrich Knowledge
Apart from the importance of science as a field of study, science is also a great source of entertainment and recreation. At home there are many easy scientific experiments. Scientific experiments test the authenticity of any ideology, view or thought of anyone. Through simple scientific experiments, students can be easily trained in the sciences.
For instance, to teach your kids about Newton's gravitational law, the only material that you would need is a ball. This simple object can teach your child about the gravitation of the earth. Simply throw the ball in the air and it will fall back to the ground. Have your children watch the ball's movement. The gravitation of the earth pulls the ball back into a nosedive toward the ground.
Regardless of how hard you throw the ball, it will always come back down, as it is unable to break the gravitational pull of the earth. This type of home based scientific experiment is much more helpful for students to quickly learn about modern science.
Every day, people face different problems. Try to train students on how to invent powerful devices and innovative techniques to remove obstacles and make life more enjoyable. Science must be properly utilized to standard of living.


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President Donald Trump reached his fiscal breaking point today when Congress sent him a $1.3 trillion spending bill only hours after passing it — and without lawmakers having had time to read the 2,200-page bill before they voted on it.
Earlier in the day, Trump suggested by tweet that he might veto the bill. Then after reluctantly agreeing to sign it, he warned Congress, "I will never sign another bill like this again."
As a nation, we've been here before. Thirty years, ago, President Ronald Reagan threw down the budgetary gauntlet in his last State of the Union address to Congress. Trump's confrontation came after two government shutdowns since January and the potential for a third. Reagan's came during another era of broken budgets.
Here's an excerpt of his speech:
All that was the buildup to a climactic, theatrical moment, where the Great Communicator masterfully used props to drive home his point:
Watch the clip for the full effect:
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The founder of The Babylon Bee, a popular religious satire site that was in the news last week for being wrongly flagged as a purveyor of "false" news, has launched a new project designed to aggregate real news from a religious perspective.
A simple website styled like the Drudge Report, it's called the Christian Daily Reporter. I'll be interested to see whether the site gains any traction in light of founder Adam Ford's philosophical decision to eschew all social media, as these excerpts from the site's manifesto explain:
As someone who has studied and reported on every content revolution in the information age, from blogs to social media, I am intrigued by this plan to get back to the basics. The great promise of the Internet has always been its ability to take power from media gatekeepers and give it to news and information consumers. The idea is to give them EVERYTHING and let them filter it as they see fit.
Somewhere along the way, huge technology monopolies figured out how to take that control back from us, with our consent but without us truly understanding what was happening or how they were shaping our mind. If we can reclaim some or all of that power, that'll be a good thing.
I wonder if the Christian Daily Reporter could use an assist from an enlightened redneck with more than two decades of journalism experience and a passion for the Bible.
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Three months to the day after submitting the request, today I received a six-month authorization to fly my drone for commercial purposes in the airspace that surrounds Manassas Regional Airport.
This is a big development for Airscape Photography, my aerial photography business. It means I can start marketing my services to real-estate agents and other potential clients close to home. I also can move forward with plans to offer a drone class to homeschooled students.
Airscape Photography is an FAA-certified drone photography and cinematography company based in Northern Virginia. We specialize in real estate imagery, including footage of golf courses and resorts, and aerial landscape photography. Our other services include aerial inspections of residential and commercial properties for insurance, inventory and other purposes.
Contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com to schedule an aerial shoot of your home, business or other property! And follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
(Photo credit to Cedar Box Photography, which shadowed my visual observer and me on our last project just outside Haymarket, Va.)
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The teachers' strike dominating headlines in West Virginia for the past week has been a relatively peaceful affair by historical standards in the Mountain State. Teachers and their allies are making a lot of noise inside and around the state Capitol, and so far they haven't faced any crackdowns for it. The clashes have been verbal in nature rather than physical, and the rhetoric has been pointed without getting ugly.
It was a different story on Wikipedia over the weekend. Anyone can edit content at the online encyclopedia, and a few mischievous users decided to abuse that editing privilege by vandalizing the entries of at least two key West Virginia senators. Wikipedia restricted access to those pages because of the troublemakers.
Senate President Mitch Carmichael, who also holds the title of lieutenant governor, was the primary target. His Wikipedia page was altered repeatedly on Saturday.
Several of the edits were so childishly ornery that you had to chuckle at them. The editors accused Blair of hating pepperoni rolls, the official state food, and being either a "closet" or "verified" fan of Pitt, the much-maligned rival of West Virginia University. He also was dubbed the "Son of Voldemort," a reference to the evil villain in the "Harry Potter" books and movies.
But other revisions to Blair's Wikipedia page, such as changing the office he holds to "Smug Ignoramus" and his college degree to "Bachelor of Being a Big Ahole" and "Bachelor of Being a Jerk," were downright nasty. Here are some of the other edits that were quickly stricken:
The ad hominem vandalism aimed at Sen. Ryan Ferns, on both his Wikipedia page and Carmichael's page, was even worse. The edits mocked Ferns as being a "favorite puppet" and "in a relationship with" Carmichael and the rest of the Republican-controlled Senate.
Other changes called out Ferns for his drunken-driving arrest in 2012 and his party switch from Democrat to Republican in 2013. Here are two of the more extensive changes that were deleted:
The editing history of both pages shows that a more responsible editor protected them in reaction to "persistent disruptive editing." If this is a sign of labor strikes to come, Wikipedia may become the picket line of the digital age.
Filed under: Education and Government and Media and Music and News & Politics and People and West Virginia
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I'm pretty sure "no sense of humor" is a job requirement in Facebook's censorship factory. That's the kindest possible explanation, as opposed to anti-religious bias, for this ridiculous development:
It's not necessarily a bad idea for Facebook to have Snopes "fact check" satire because of how many gullible people miss the satire and share it as truth. But if they're going to do it, they need to label these Snopes stories as "satire," not as "false," which implies malicious deception. And they need to limit the coverage to satirical posts that actually generate confusion among news consumers.
Filed under: Just For Laughs and Media and News & Politics
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This is the kind of news that could get me excited about D.C. again!
When I hear "11 different kinds of pepperoni rolls," though, I get a little wary. I hope this new shop isn't pushing another perversion of a classic hillbilly snack like Katie Lee did on the Today Show a couple of years ago.
Filed under: Food and West Virginia
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"The Jug," which is just a short drive from my hometown, is one of the many fascinating geographic landmarks that God carved into the great Mountain State. It has seen better days.
The Jug is also the name of a bar and grill located in a bend in the road at the point where the stream meanders. I don't drink. But I love The Jug. It's an iconic piece of Tyler County history.
I took some aerial photos of it last fall. The owner, Gladys Fletcher, was there visiting with friends when I stopped. It turns out her daughter, Janie Spencer, was good friends with my Mom in high school. Mrs. Fletcher jumped at the chance to get some aerial photos of The Jug and asked all kinds of questions about my drone. She is in this photo.
You can learn more about The Jug from the Tyler Star News.
Filed under: Aerial Photography and History and West Virginia
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There was a time when American consumers practiced honesty as the best policy and businesses rewarded them with generous guarantees and a "customer is always right" attitude. They could afford to do so because people didn't abuse the situation.
That time is not now, as this policy change from L.L. Bean indicates:
Something similar happened at Costco when a woman returned a dead Christmas tree after using it all through the holidays. "Bizarrely, the woman apparently managed to get her money back in full despite taking the battered fir back a full 10 days after Dec. 25," The New York Post reported.
This, as the cliche goes, is why we can't have nice things. When customers are wrong, we all pay for their bad behavior, either with higher prices to cover the costs of their theft or with policy changes that punish ethical consumers for the sins of the crooks.
Filed under: Business and Culture and News & Politics
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A "Designated Survivor" episode that aired in December included a Federal Aviation Administration character and a story line about honeybees and aircraft surveillance radar. I told my wife as we watched that I should write a story about it. I did.
I never imagined that as a writer for the FAA, I'd be interviewing actors. But this is now the third story idea I've found via Hollywood. One of those pieces focused on the air traffic controller portrayed in the Tom Hanks movie "Sully."
For the feature about bees, I just wish I'd had a reason to interview Beth Littleford about her role as the beekeeper's wife on "Designated Survivor." I loved her as the mom on "Dog With A Blog"! Here's an excerpt of the story:
Read the rest of it at Medium.
Filed under: Aviation and Culture and Government and Movies and People and Wildlife
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This enlightened redneck and I have a lot in common. We're both from West Virginia; we're both West Virginia University grads (he for English, me for journalism); and we both live in the other Virginia now.
One thing we don't have in common: He's a barbecue champion with Old Virginia Smoke who's making news for his culinary skills.
Now how do I finagle an invitation to one of his backyard meat fests just down the road from us?!
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With the right type of paint flowing through the airbrush, it is possible to paint almost any surface.
These surfaces can range from paper, to people, to tree bark.
This is one of the strongest advantages of this modern art tool.
Papers & cardboards
The most common mediums for airbrushing are thick papers and cardboards. The reason for this is that they require no effort to prepare and can last a very long time.
Below is a brief list of the most readily accessible/most highly recommended art papers and boards:
- High GSM paper
- Mat board
- Cardboard
- Foam core board
GSM stands for grams per square metre. High gsm paper is anything above 110 GSM.
Mat board is simply compressed sheets of paper. It's similar to cardboard but a little denser and a bit nicer to work with because of this. It isn't as absorbant as paper but you can still smash thick paints onto it.
Foam core boards are cheap and present well. The only disadvantage to these is that they're fragile and warp easy. Be sure when purchasing foam core board to buy a variety that is cardboard/paper on the outside – as some foam core boards have a thin plastic layer making it very difficult for use with water based paints.
Clothing or any fabrics can be considered as textiles.
The main advantage to using these as a medium is that they're fun to paint on because you can seriously hammer down the paint. They are very absorbant.
The only preparation necessary would be to perhaps wash any textiles that may contain loose fibres. If these fibres fall off after painting then you will see the base color come through which can age the artwork prematurely.
Wood is also quite absorbant, but seems to be so after a bit of time. Anything painting on wood without the appropriate primer will come out with a very matte finish.
Be sure to clean the wood before use in order to remove any loose particles.
If the wood has been primed then be sure to lightly sand the primer in order to give adhesion to the overlying paintjob.
Automotive and color bond steels
Automotive surfaces are arguably the most fun to work on – unfortunately they are the most difficult surfaces to prepare.
They can range from thin steels to thick plastics.
Here is a quick insight for what is required in the correct surface preparation of bare steel surfaces for automotive applications:
- The steel must first be cleaned thoroughly with a wax and grease remover and any other materials should be removed from the steel.
- Machine sanding should be done with 80 grit sandpaper.
- The steel should be blown off and wiped once again with wax and grease remover to get rid of all particles.
- An etch primer needs to be applied.
- Before the etch primer cures another primer should be applied known as a primer filler.
- After the primer filler has dried and cured it should be sanded flat (finishing with an 800 – 1200 grit sandpaper) in preparation for the basecoat's application.
- Application of wax and grease remover once again.
- Apply basecoat and airbrush artwork using tack cloth between layers. avoid any sort of touching of the surface with bare skin and try not to paint in a room containing silicon products that could contaminate the artwork.
- Clear coat.
- Buff if required.
It is often difficult for beginners to start out by using automotive paints as correct surface prepartion is the most important of all factors.
Painting on automotive surfaces is best left to qualified professionals and not recommended for the beginner.


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E-Z Shop HD Leveler
Ideal for wholesale clubs, superstores and lawn & garden centers. Allows items to be picked from a comfortable height while eliminating the hazards caused by pallets on aisle floors. The optional turntable ring top spins easily so that items can always be picked from the nearside, eliminating the need for displays to be re-stacked as they are shopped. Available in a variety of colors as well as galvanized and stainless steel finishes for lawn & garden or outdoor displays.
Height Adjustable Pallet Loaders are suggested in a guide entitled ERGONOMIC SOLUTIONS FOR RETAILERS - Prevention of Material Handling Injuries in the Grocery Sector, published by the Department of Health & Human Services, CDC and The National Institute for Health and Safety.


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To make braided rugs, sew together 1 1/2-inch strips of fabric to make three long strips. Fold and iron the strips to hide raw edges, and braid the strips together. Coil the strips, and sew them into position.Continue Reading
Cut fabric into 1 1/2-inch strips. Make each strip as long as possible.
Machine sew the strips end-to-end with the right sides together to make three strips of equal length.
Fold one end of each strip over 1/2 inch with the wrong sides together. Sew the hem in place.
Fold the long edges on both sides of each strip over 1/4 inch towards the middle, wrong sides together. Iron the folds in place. Then, fold each strip lengthwise down the middle, and iron the fold.
Lay the three strips on top of each other, and sew them together at one end.
Braid the strips together starting at the sewn end. Fasten the unsewn end of the braid with a large safety pin.
Coil the braid starting with the sewn end to form the shape of the rug. Cover the top side of the rug with masking tape strips to hold it together.
Turn the carpet over. Set starting in the middle with a blunt needle and carpet thread. Pass the needle through every other coil to hold the braid in position. Then turn the carpet over, remove the masking tape, and sew through the opposite loops on the other side.
Remove the safety pin, and hand sew the raw ends of the strips to the edge of the rug.