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A long time between posts! I can't believe that the last time I was here was June and now tomorrow is September. But something tells me that the frequency of posts is about to increase...rapidly!
On Friday we were up early and on our way to Toowoomba for a meeting at Transtate Homes. How did this come about? A few weeks ago we met with Dad to discuss our newly developed house plan. However, he let us know that it really wasn't feasible for him to build the house. This was unfortunate, but led us to thinking back to our original idea. Transtate Homes build completed homes on their site in Toowoomba and then ship them out to your site on the back of a truck, crane them onto footings they arrange and you are ready to move in!
We contacted the company about two weeks ago and started talking to Mark, the friendly Transtate representative. He priced our first (and somewhat grandiose) plan at a somewhat grandiose price. Still cheaper than the average McMansion, but not what we needed to reach our goal of less cost than our current lifestyle. So we downscaled the plan, reduced our expectations on finishes and emailed off plan number two. This one came in at a much more respectable (and workable) figure...but this got us thinking. How low can we go?
When we first began we had the idea to build small so we went back to those thought patterns, back to our Small Houses web links and started drafting again. And the result was plan number three, emailed off to Mark and returned at a markedly reduced cost! Excellent! We thought.
At the meeting however, Mark explained that a good portion of the cost of our home (almost 10%) was due to the necessity for a police escort and associated costs. He explained that if we could manipulate our needs into a footprint of 5 metres wide and up to 17 metres long that he could use that 10% percent on a full length deck rather than handing it over to the authorities. As part of our downsizing and rethinking we had all but abandoned the possibility of a large deck. However, this reminded us that our original dreamings had indeed been that of indoor / outdoor living. Mark showed us some new plans they are working on that fit the footprint and took us for a tour of the construction yard for some more ideas.
What an excellent concept. They had about six houses on the go at different stages of finishing, all built up high on platforms ready for the trucks to come in and take them away. Mark proudly described the process which at the moment is taking approximately 8 weeks, including council approvals. Can't complain about that!
We went back to the office to discuss the nitty gritty and then left promising to get a final, that's it, yep final, plan to him soon.
We headed off to Crows Nest to meet Irene and Peter who were enjoying a day off work by coming to check out our crazy plan! We headed to the block and wandered about a bit with a measuring tape, ramming small innocent sticks into the ground as corner markers.
And a good time was had by all!
As you can see the land appears dry, however the night before there had been quite a downpour and the earth itself was very moist. More rain this week in the area, so maybe some green will come to visit soon. We popped back into town for cafe burgers and talk of houses and jobs and life as we know it, or soon will know it. Then back to the rat race for all of us.
At home again and there we were furiously clicking away manipulating walls and furniture and fixtures trying to fit what we want (on top of what we need) into the required space. And by george, I think we've got it. Click on the plan below for a larger version:
It's simple, it's tidy, it has plenty of space for Dom to whip up his culinary delights and fits to a number of principles of sustainable design, so we are happy. We have to come to a decision soon, so will send this off to Mark tomorrow for the verdict. He is keen to add a full length carport to the southern side also, to provide a parking area and increased roof area for water collection. I am in two minds about that, with a covered deck on the front and covered carport on the back, I am concerned about the house becoming dark. But we will talk to him about the use of clear roofing and / or sky lights.
So the plan? Have Mark generate a quote for us on supply of the house. Get quotes for earthworks, grey water and storage tank supply and install, composting toilet supply, grid-connect solar supply and install and connection to the grid and a fencing quote. Then to take these all to the friendly bankers and wait for them to smile and say yes!
Then the real fun will begin!
Sunday, August 31, 2008
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Armadillocon 30 Schedule
Fr2100DW Report from Denvention
Fri 9:00 PM-10:00 PM deWitt
Bobo, Docherty, Gelb, Meschke(M), J. Moore, Picacio, Price
A group of people freshly returned from last weekend's World Science Fiction Convention will give a report on the highlights of this huge international gathering
Fr2200PN New Space Opera
Fri 10:00 PM-11:00 PM Phoenix North
Duggins, Fletcher, Mills, N. J. Moore, Picacio(M), Reasoner, Scalzi
The subgenre established by Doc Smith, Edmond Hamilton, and Jack Williamson has persisted and evolved to a new tradition upheld by Iain M. Banks, Lois McMaster Bujold, Elizabeth Moon, John Scalzi, and others. Our panelists will discuss this evolution, where they think Space Opera is now, and where it's going
Sa1000DW Artists, Collectors, and Art Show Directors
Sat 10:00 AM-11:00 AM deWitt
Anderson(M), Antell, Hart, Kelley, Picacio, Zrubek
A look at convention art shows from several different perspectives
Sa1600PN Fannish Feud
Sat 4:00 PM-5:00 PM Phoenix North
Anderson, Babcock, Bobo, Crider(M), Docherty, Gelb, G. Haldeman, M. Hall, Persons, Picacio, Scalzi, S. Williams
Join the fun at our game of trivia pitting fans vs. pros
Sa1900DW Book Covers
Sat 7:00 PM-8:00 PM deWitt
Denton, Picacio, Hart, Roberson, Rosen, Spencer(M)
What makes a great -- or not-so-great -- cover? How much difference can it make to the success of a book? How can the artist and author collaborate?
Su1100DR Autographing
Sun 11:00 AM-Noon Dealers' Room
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Using these worksheets will help your child (and you) extract pertinent materials from the Bible reading, analyze it, categorize it, and produce a reference sheet for his or her Bible portfolio. This is not busywork- its writing to learn.
These can be used for all ages even non readers! Mom can fill in the pages for younger students using Charlotte Mason narration principles (child tells mom what happened, mom fills in worksheet). You need the free Acrobat Reader to open them.
Sample of Bible Character Worksheet
Sample of Bible Event Worksheet
Teaching Tips
Do not give them a worksheet and walk away. Motivate students by asking questions. Help them use Bible study tools if needed.
Allow students more than one worksheet, tell them to plan on writing and rewriting information so that they can condense, arrange, and write the summary in the best fashion.
As they rewrite and reread, they select, eliminate, and add information with your prompts. The student is conveying in his own words (paraphrasing) the meaning of what was read, using the fewest number of words and sentences.
Don't underestimate the filling in process. Students develop excellence in achievement by completing the worksheets ; they develop diligence by continually practicing clarity, accuracy, relevance, prioritizing, consistency, depth, and breadth through writing activities.
Use the worksheets as a way of testing. You will find out what students already know and encourage them to learn.
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Health and Beauty Benefits of Green Tea
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I recently read a great article on HealthBeautySpot.com about green tea which I wanted to share. I'm such an advocate of drinking green tea that I'd recommend it to anyone as one of the best and easiest steps towards a healthier lifestyle.
The article tells us that green tea is said to possess anti-ageing, metabolism-boosting and cholesterol-busting properties that help to keep your body healthy and trim. I can't tell you for sure if this is true – I've been drinking a lot (up to 5 cups a day) of green tea for over a decade, so I wouldn't be able to confirm noticeable results from a comparative viewpoint. However, based on my natural and genetic predispositions towards a number of health issues, I surmise that green tea has made a huge difference to me.
Firstly, no one in my family is genetically blessed with a naturally fast metabolism – if you want to be slim, you have to work hard for it. I have a very healthy appetite and have always been a bit lazy on the fitness front, but up until recently I've got away with it. My family has always been baffled by my frame, which, genetically, should have let me down by now. In light of this, I attribute my metabolism to my regular green tea intake. As for anti-ageing, I've enjoyed respite from afflictions that have plagued many members of my family from a young age, and although I'll be thirty in a couple of years I still get sternly mistaken for a teenager when I try to go to the movies or buy a bottle of wine. I'm also a fan of skincare products that contain green tea which, used topically, is a potent antioxidant and defends skin from environmental aggressors. My skin always looks and feels better when my skincare regime includes green tea. Aside from the aesthetic benefits, green tea also benefits the heart by lowering cholesterol and it strengthens bones, protects internal organs and will keep your mind sharp.
Obviously, there's only so much that leaves steeped in hot water can hold at bay and now I'm finally embracing a more active lifestyle. Even though I have a serious weakness for cake and something of an aversion to my running shoes, I've always believed that we have to be conscious about what we put into our bodies – and as far as that goes, green tea is an excellent choice. Here are a few of my own tips, which I follow for best results:
Tip: Add a slice of lemon to your green tea. Vitamin C aids the body's absorption of goodies, whether from green tea, daily vitamins or any healthy meal. (Bet Popeye wishes he knew the difference a glass of OJ would have made to his can of spinach.)
Tip: To avoid the bitter taste green tea can have, don't use boiling water – especially if you're adding lemon. I always pour in a bit of cold water first then top it up with hot water.
Tip: Drink green tea with fatty food. The antioxidants in the tea will help to counteract the damage to blood vessels that occurs after consuming a high-fat meal.
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So one of my tasks for my Creative Writing course is to think about my own early reading history and what books impacted on me and why.
For me there are some very clear milestones in my reading as I grew up. Although I can't remember my earliest years reading I know that I have always been an avid and prolific reader – dubbed "Betty Bookworm" by family members. Every Saturday meant a trip into town to visit the library and I would come home with a stack of 7 or 8 books which would be devoured during the week.
But the books that completely grabbed me and still haven't let go 17 years later were, of course, the Harry Potter series. I was 7 when I read the Philosopher's Stone and from that moment Harry, Ron & Hermione were an immovable part of my childhood. Hermione became something of an idol to me and Hogwarts was the place I dreamed of going even after I turned 11 and no letter arrived *wistful sigh*. There is just an incredible power to those books that makes me feel so much and wish I could create something on a par with J.K. Rowling's world.
The next milestone in my reading came when I was 14 and I discovered an author called Tamora Pierce. I read her book Wild Magic in 2004 and I instantly fell in love with her world and all the vivid characters that inhabited it. Within a year I had bought practically everything that Tammy currently had published and raced through them all (some subterfuge was even involved). Her heroines were the kind of girls I aspired to be; brave, loyal, strong, funny in their own ways, determined to get where they wanted despite the expectations of those around them. Tammy's books were the kind of fantasy *I* wanted to write where you got so invested in the characters that you would happily read 12 other books to get the occasional glimpse of them.
This is running long of the supposed word count of 300 but my reading from my childhood and teenage years have been the integral influence on my desire to write even if it has taken me until my mid-twenties to actually put my ideas to paper and pixel. I have a slightly insane daydream where in some potentially distant future when I finish my fantasy novel and by some miracle it gets published, that Tamora Pierce might read it and review it. Were that to happen I would possibly drop dead from ecstasy with tears of joy streaming down my face and my last words being "Tammy read my book! asdfghjkl!" (or however the incoherent noise of me dying would be transcribed)
But that's just me and my odd daydreams *looks awkward*
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This post is not how I plan for my baking posts to go. This is a good recipe that needed tweaking so when you get to the end you can read my ideas of what I would/will do differently.
This recipe jumped out at me for two reasons when I first found it on Pinterest: it was lemon flavoured and it only took two ingredients. (Two ingredients I didn't have mind you!). I used two sites for this recipe. The Pinterest link took me to an altered version of the recipe (here) but I wanted to start with true original (here).
It took me all of about five minutes to decide to make this recipe. I needed two ingredients: angel food cake mix and canned lemon pie filling. I have NEVER seen canned lemon pie filling but I know how to make it from a mix (that we likely had in the house) so all I needed was an angel food cake mix. Well we definitely didn't have any, but would a white cake mix suffice?…Sure it would! Off I went!
Obviously because I was making the lemon pie filling my recipe was a tad longer than two ingredients. My recipe was more like 5 ingredients (white cake mix, lemon pie filling powder, egg yolks, water and butter). I simply followed the instructions on the pie filling box.
Once the pie filling was finished cooking I placed it on the deck (the natural refrigerator) to cool. While it was cooling I greased and floured my 9″ x 13″ pan. The recipe didn't call for this but I know how well cakes release from un-greased cake pans and I wasn't willing to let this experiment go down in a crumbly mess.
This is the point where the recipe matches up with the original. I opened the cake mix and poured it into a large bowl, followed by the lemon pie filling. The original recipe asked for one can of pie filling while the second recipe added two cans. I figured I was adding what amounted to about two cans of pie filling (I was okay with more lemon flavour).
My oven was preheating to 350 degrees as I stirred the cake mix and pie filling together. I was a little sceptical about how it was going to come together but there seemed to be a perfect amount of liquid to dry ingredients.
I poured the batter into the pan and spread it out to all corners (the mixture was quiet thick and sticky) and slid it into the oven for the recommended 20 minute bake time.
After about 20 minutes I checked on the cake and it was still quite glossy looking on top and an inserted toothpick came out quite moist. I added an additional 5 minutes and was pleased with how it looked and removed it to the counter to cool.
After a few minutes of cooling I sifted icing sugar (oops…ingredient number 6) over the top (to pretty it up) as recommended in the original recipe. It sure stepped up the visual appeal and I must say the aroma was to die for!
As soon as I could, I cut a few squares to taste test and to model. Taste testing went swimmingly – YUM! Artsy photography not so much (I'm working on it – natural light is difficult to locate).
I chose to place these delicately lemon treats on my good set of dishes. This is the first time I have broken out my set of good China and I am pleased to see I love it as much now as I did when I picked it out at 16.
I debated whether or not to post this recipe as it didn't 100% win me over but I need the practice writing so here we are. Please bear with me while I nit-pick for a moment.
I deviated from the recipe by choosing white cake mix rather than angel food cake (which could be the main problem). I imagine the angel food cake would lighten up the consistency of the recipe but not overly change in entirely. The cake ended up quite moist and dense which I can tolerate but resulted in me not really wanting to make this recipe again. I believe by adding the entire lemon pie filling it overwhelmed the cake and resulted in a dense cake that was almost too moist. The title of this post and of the original recipe refer to the resulting lemon concoction as a square. The fact that I cut this into square pieces is about all that makes it a square to me versus a lemon cake.
What would I do differently next time? I would cut the amount of pie filling down by about a half. I would be tempted to use the white cake mix still as the flavour combinations seemed to work. I would consider making a Graham Cracker crust and using the same amount of batter but spreading it over two 9″ x 13″ pans to create two thinner cake. I think the thinner profile and crust would make this into a perfect dessert square. I also considered mixing in poppy seeds which would give it a little more visual appeal. (I haven't had any outsider feedback so this could just be me being overly critical.)
This recipe is tasty and I think would venture to try it again with some minor adjustments!
If you have tried this recipe please leave me a message and let me know how it turned out.


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GCH CH Brighton Lakeridge Encore
Two Standard Poodles have topped the Non-Sporting Group these past two years, the black dog, GCH CH Jaset's Satisfaction, and the white bitch, GCH CH Brighton Lakeridge Encore. The black dog, London, 2011's AKC/Eukanuba Champion, lead the Non-Sporting in 2012 with 38 BIS and 98 Group Ones, followed by the white bitch, Ally, with 23 BIS and 66 Group wins. Both have posted BIS wins this year, but Ally leads the Group with two BIS and eight Group Ones. There can be only one Standard Poodle among the top four in each Group and we think that Ally will be that one.
As we wrote this morning over on Best In Show Daily, the Bichon Frise breed ring will be a slugfest as well with three BIS winning dogs competing, GCH CH Vogelflight's "Honor" to Pillowtalk, PaRay's Power & Privilege, and GCH CH Saks Winning Card. We think the PaRay dog, Dominick, will be the one under the spotlight Monday night. Dominick made strong appearances in both Palm Springs and Portland and we think he will be hard to overlook.
Last year's group winner was the Dalmatian, GCH CH Spotlight's Ruffian, who went on to nail down the Number Four Non-Sporting Dog spot with six BIS and 60 Group Ones. We have not seen him yet this year, but assume he will be at the Garden to try again.
We have often said that the Miniature Poodle is the perfect dog for everyone. Big enough to survive small children, small enough to be a lapdog, non-allergenic, patient, active, a coat that can be dressed up or down, and smarter than most of its owners, we can't think of any other breed that can be as many things as a Miniature Poodle can. Unfortunately, we don't see many of them anymore. The one you should see is GCH CH Surrey Sugar Baby. As flashy as her larger cousins, she was 2012's Number Six Non-Sporting Dog with seven BIS in 50 tries.
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Just finished listening to Sean Tuohy, opening speaker for the WV Statewide Technology Conference. Good speaker.
Tuohy and his family are the subject of the movie The Blind Side, and his message was simple: give cheerfully. Christmas (according to Tuohy) is the best time of year because people do just that - they give cheerfully. And if we could just learn to do that constantly, we'd have Christmas everyday...
Tuohy was both enjoyable and inspirational. That's a good combination at the start of a tech conference.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Sean Tuohy: Christmas Everyday
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Rockstar Daughters
In honour of Father's Day this coming weekend, we're paying homage to an assembly of stylish daughters with rock 'n' roll genes. These lovely young ladies not only inherited wildly famous surnames, they also acquired a distinctive edgy style no doubt inspired by their musician fathers and, of course, an ear for great music! That's why we asked girl-to-watch Atlanta de Cadenet Taylor, daughter of Duran Duran's John Taylor, to assemble a mix of her favourite songs right now, so be sure to check out her summer playlist. From Georgia Jagger (Mick's kiddo) to Zoe Kravitz (Lenny's only child), click through our slideshow to find out why these fashionable femmes are totally rocking our world!
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Lj Salceda
My Ma is my hero (ine). Next to God, there is no one in the world that I desire to emulate and please than my Ma.
She is not perfect. She is as flawed as everyone else; nonetheless I have the highest regard for her. She did her best to raise my brother and I, at the same time living her life and pursuing some of her dreams.
She will always be the epitome of strength, faith in God, intelligence, compassion and hard work to me.
I don't ever remember seeing my Ma cry when I was young. I saw her angry, worried, disappointed, struggling and sad, but I've never seen her shed tears because of our situation. She only learned to cry in front of us when we came to know the Lord and started praying for a change of heart of our Pa and the restoration of our family.
My Ma is the best prayer warrior I know. She prays before sleeping, in the middle of the night, in her dreams, early in the morning and during the day. I can never keep up with my Ma when it comes to prayer life. She can pray for hours, even days about anything and everything. She prays more than anything else that she does.
My Ma is one of the most intelligent women I know. No, she doesn't have a masters or a doctorate degree. She's not even a Bible school graduate, yet she's established two churches and spoken to thousands of people. She's my spelling stickler, my grammar checker and my English tutor. When we were in grade school, except for fairy tales or Bible stories, my Mom would usually end our day with a spelling match between my brother and I.
My Ma could be strict, in your face and hard to please, but she's also the most compassionate woman I know. She is kind to animals (especially my pets), has a huge heart for kids and benevolent to those in need. She takes care of friends and strangers who are abandoned, pregnant, sick, old and away from their families.
She used to be a high school teacher, a factory manager, a government employee, a training supervisor, a Tupperware/Avon dealer and now she's a minister and a speaker. She's also an excellent gardener and a very good interior decorator.
My Ma taught me all the important lessons in life. Never serve hot drinks to your guests without saucers. It's ok not to water your plants every day, especially if they are cacti. The best dwellings are not the biggest nor the most expensive, they are the ones you tidy and beautify with your own hands. Recycle. Work hard for your dreams. If you want to find treasures, explore the library or second hand bookstores. The best lesson I learned from her,"Learn from your mistakes."
At almost 60 years old she's not scared to learn how to use the computer and inter-net, to travel anywhere God wants her to go even without much money and to run in a local government position as an independent candidate.
She's an artist and a craftswoman. I've never seen scrapbooks as good and as tastefully done as my Ma's. Such a sad thing that most of her works were destroyed by the typhoons. She can play and sing any song even if she only knows 3 chords – D, G and A.
Math is not her cup of tea nor business or drawing. She has almost zero knowledge in sports, cars or gadgets. She doesn't know how to drive, to clean her phone inbox or to load a pre-paid phone card.
She's not into make up, jewelry or designer clothes. But she knows Jimmy Choo, black and brown are not good match in fashion and she's a suki in ukay-ukay stores.
She's got great management skills, but not so good at social or PR skills. She's not scared to speak up her mind even if it means zero attendance the next prayer meeting.
She's a born leader. She knows what sacrifice is. She walks the talk and talks about her walk.
She's a single-parent. I'm proud to call her my Ma.
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It's not a scientific study, but since I've been preparing orange peel for eating (about 2 years), I haven't had any sore throats or colds. The peel is more nutritious than the fruit, but I enjoy the orange, too. I haven't been able to find any information on how cooking the peel degrades the nutritional value. On the other hand, I assume any testing was done on cooked peel. Using the peel of one orange (in sections) I heat it in a cup in the microwave, change the water, and repeat about 3 times. I cut each section into small strips. Then I soak it over night in sugar water, drain, and sprinkle with sugar and refrigerate. It's not like orange peel candy, much softer and still slightly bitter. However, I don't eat much at one time. Maybe one small strip a day.
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Orange peel nutrition
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Submitted by: Alexandria Connally, Vice Principal, ANDRUS Orchard School
The preamble of the United States Constitution opens with three powerful words, "We the People". This is clearly the subject of the entire document. America prides itself on being a democracy; a land of freedom. This is a land where the people can speak openly about the government. As I look through history, I question the inclusivity of the term, "We the People". In 1787, the 3/5 Compromise was created. It stated that slaves were considered only 3/5 of a white person and most slave owners considered slaves as property. It wasn't until the 13th Amendment to the Constitution that Blacks in the South would be free. The 14th Amendment gave slaves citizenship and the 15th Amendment gave them the right to vote. The 15th Amendment was not sufficient, hence the need for President Johnson's Voting Act of 1965.
Another group of individuals who were excluded from "We the People" were women who would basically had no rights until the 1970s – Women's Rights Movement. It wasn't until the 2012 election where 17 women (the maximum ever) were voted into the US Senate. I could spend hours debating the Homestead Act and the battle of Wounded Knee which terminated thousands of lives of the First Americans. In 1898, America invaded Puerto Rico and like the five other territories, they do not hold any Electoral College votes. There was the imprisoning of Japanese born Americans during WWII and the treatment of Muslim Americans after September 11th.
What I've noticed about all of these groups is that they have two identities. They are American and then there are identified by their Nationality. Do they represent America or their own culture? I've traveled internationally and I am always amazed by people's thoughts around my nationality. I've traveled to China in and the natives marveled at the color of my skin. I was treated like royalty. It was the first time in my life that I can remember being Black meant being privileged. A year or so earlier, I traveled to Rome. Most of the natives thought I was from South America. I would imagine that is because most of the darker skinned people are from Africa the color of my skin was unfamiliar to the Italians that I met. As I began to explain that I was African-American, I saw many puzzled faces. Eventually, one man responded, "So where does your allegiance fall?" Considering that I have only been to Africa once this was an easy question to answer. As the conversation continued, my friend began to explain to me that in their culture there were no sub-cultures. So if you were African decent and an Italian citizen, you were considered Italian. If your skin was light or dark, if you were African, Asian or European, it didn't matter. An individual who held citizenship in Italy was an Italian. There were no Afro-Italians, Euro-Italians, and Asian-Italians. I realized at that point that there was a clear understanding of "We the People". It is not the job of the legislation to create laws that distribute invitations to join the exclusive group of "We the People". It is the job of every individual citizen. How do we remedy this trauma? It begins with a conversation, an open-mind, and the understanding that our differences make us stronger.


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In an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal
Peter Berkowitz writes:-
Hatred of Mr. Bush went well beyond the partisan broadsides typical of democratic politics. For years it disfigured its victims with open, indeed proud, loathing for the very manner in which Mr. Bush walked and talked. It compelled them to denounce the president and his policies as not merely foolish or wrong or contrary to the national interest, but as anathema to everything that made America great.
And the MSM and in particular newspapers like the New York Times, television stations such as CNN can hang their heads in shame.
In contrast, the euphoria surrounding Mr. Obama's run for president conferred upon the candidate immunity from criticism despite his newness to national politics and lack of executive experience, and regardless of how empty his calls for change...
This just shows how easily the public can be lead to believe what the media want it to believe!
In fact, Bush hatred and Obama euphoria -- which tend to reveal more about those who feel them than the men at which they are directed -- are opposite sides of the same coin. Both represent the triumph of passion over reason. Both are intolerant of dissent. Those wallowing in Bush hatred and those reveling in Obama euphoria frequently regard those who do not share their passion as contemptible and beyond the reach of civilized discussion. Bush hatred and Obama euphoria typically coexist in the same soul...
Souls that are so readily found amongst the bloated egos of the overpaid, under cerebrated 'celebrities' who believe the world holds its breath for their next 'original' pronouncement.
Bush hatred and Obama euphoria are particularly toxic because they thrive in and have been promoted by the news media, whose professional responsibility, it has long been thought, is to gather the facts and analyze their significance, and by the academy, whose scholarly training, it is commonly assumed, reflects an aptitude for and dedication to systematic study and impartial inquiry...
Media who have now been shown to lack impartiality, to even lie, and who are continually being exposed by determined bloggers.
Some will speculate that the outbreak of hatred and euphoria in our politics is the result of the transformation of left-liberalism into a religion, its promulgation as dogma by our universities, and students' absorption of their professors' lesson of immoderation...
Left-liberalism is Marxism by stealth.
...by assembling and maintaining faculties that think alike about politics and think alike that the university curriculum must instill correct political opinions, our universities cultivate intellectual conformity and discourage the exercise of reason in public life. ...they infuse a certain progressive interpretation of our freedom and equality with sacred significance, zealously requiring not only outward obedience to its policy dictates but inner persuasion of the heart and mind. This transforms dissenters into apostates or heretics, and leaders into redeemers.
..and our Universities have been taken over by Marxists.
..Bush hatred may weaken as the 43rd president minds his business back home in Texas, and while Obama euphoria may fade as the 44th president is compelled to immerse himself in the daunting ambiguities of power, our universities will continue to educate students to believe that hatred and euphoria reflect political wisdom.
...and Obama is going to screw up big time.


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Ending another long six day work week exhausting but productive. Every time I think I can work on balancing my life a little better a wave of work crashes over my head. I think I topped a new record for myself this week in work hours ending yesterday with a 12 hour day.
I am not complaining okay maybe just a little but as long as I can remember I have always liked working. Only a few times when the job was boring or didn't suit my personal temperament did I absolutely hate going to work. I can think of two jobs that fell into this category and luckily neither lasted too long.
The first was a bookkeeping job at a water bed store in the early 80's. I got the job through a temp agency it was just me and the owner an ambidextrous guy who could use two adding machines at the same time. I am fine with numbers I just don't love working with them and within a day we mutually decided this was not the job for me. A dark little office in the back with literally one light bulb hanging from the ceiling with the two of us crowded in there together. I still pass by that location sometimes it has been a number of things over the years and today they are selling golf carts.
The second job was a receptionist job where most of the clients calling were from
, China or Japan and I could never translate what they
were saying or even pronounce their names. I did my best and ask for the
spelling but even then I could understand the letters they were saying. All
this while the phones were ringing off the hook. I was relieved when I
was fired. Korea
I has always easier for me to admit that I wasn't good at something. A bit harder to was to acknowledge my talents. I was taught that bragging on yourself was impolite and that you needed to wait until someone else pointed out your special gifts. In my family that never really happened it was always about reaching the next level. They were quick with the constructive criticism helping you to do more be more.
So most of my life has been spent waiting for someone to appreciate me and what I bring to the table. I have been appreciated both at work and in my personal relationships but I depended on it to keep up my confidence. As we all know the praise of others is short lived and when it was gone I was devastated. In my immaturity I thought that it was my fault and that if I improved myself the next job or relationship would last. I would work to improve myself and then find the next person that appreciated me.
I am just now learning to appreciate myself and not let how I feel about myself be determined by what others think about me. I have always done my best even if sometimes it wasn't good enough. I can admit my part but I can no longer accept full responsibility. I have hurt others just as I have been hurt and for that I am sorry.
I guess the point of this post is to know yourself and appreciate your worth. Also know that relationship are like jobs some are short term and some could turn into careers. Know who you are and what works for you and if it doesn't last then move on and don't blame yourself.
This has been a month of grieving and soul searching and I feel I am ready to appreciate myself and start feeling like I deserve a fuller happier life. I am grateful I have the ability to see the things within myself that causes me suffer and do something about.


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Here is my card for this week's Wednesday Stamp Club sketch #17. I used the Pure Innocence stamp set called: Crazy for Daisies. The design paper is from Lilly Bee. Behind the ribbon strips are a sneak peek of one of the new Die-namics dies being released on May 3rd called Scalloped Ribbon. It was included in the VIP Kit for this month. Once again I just could not resist using the Die-namics Daisy dies. They are my favorite! The sentiment is also part of a Die-namic die called Textile Rectangle.
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Garden is starting to struggle a bit. Really wilts down in the midday heat and it is so hard for me to get out and water midday.
After taking this pic I looked over at kitchen table and there are twice this many tomatoes in another bowl
Wish child would have stood in the corn for this picture.
I just do lousy at green beans.
The okra has started off lousy this year. I have tried seeds and plants. Everything has wilted and dies and this is all that is currently left.
Finally some okra blossoms.
Ihave never tried onions before. I picked up a package of onion sets from the store that looked half dead and I didn't expect to have any results. Except for the fact that a dog has walked thru them they have done well.
Another squash plant. Looks like I will have some small white patty pan squash soon.
Redneck trellis with cucumbers on both sides and tomatoes on both ends.
Yello squash peeking out.
Massive tomato monster. Yellow pear tomatoes grow massive and they are very heat tolerant.
Yellow pear tomato, pulling trellis over.
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Dinner Table Games for Families: Crazy Utensil Supper
Throwback to my days of a camp counsellor, a couple times a week we would have elaborate theme dinners for fun. We would either dress up in costumes, act out a scene while campers waited for dessert or add a little twist to dinner. Who says playing with your food can't be fun? It occurred to me recently that some of these fun dinners could apply to the dinner table at my house. So I'm sharing my favourite dinner table games for families (and campers), it's called Crazy Utensil Supper.
Getting Ready for Crazy Utensil Supper
Items Needed:
A bag
Random utensils from your collection, 1 for every family member, plus 2 additional for the bag
(Optional) bibs or aprons
What Utensils Work Best?
The difficultly of your utensils is based on the age of your children. For 3-5 year olds, utensils like flippers, pastry cutters, tongs, potato mashers, and slotted spoons are easier to handle. For 6-12 year olds, you might try utensils that are more challenging like wooden spoons, hand-crank egg beaters, or anything in your drawer that might be a little more challenging. Stay away from silicone items. The spaghetti will just slide off and frustrate anyone who tries. Think wooden or metal implements.
What's For Dinner?
Spaghetti and meatballs
How To Set Up Dinner Table Games for Families: Crazy Utensils
- Set the table as you usually do, omitting the utensils.
- Serve dinner then announce it is Crazy Utensil Supper!
- Let each family member pick a utensil out of the bag, and try to eat their supper with it. If a family member wants to trade a utensil, they can do so once, and then choose between their old utensil or their new utensil.
- Let the mess and hilarity ensue!
For other fun family activities, check these out.
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- They won the division by 21 games last season. That is way too big a gap for the rest of the AL West to make up in one year, right? Well ...
- Based on their run differential, L.A. should have won 88 games last season, not 100. Its starting rotation, according to those big Baseball Prospectus brains, was seventh-best of the eight playoff teams. Three starting pitchers are beginning the season on the disabled list and the front office lost the Mark Teixeira derby.
What's the point? If they fall hard, everything will be blamed on the absence of someone who pitched less than 5% of their innings last season. They're probably still the favourite, for now.
- Halos Heaven has coined the phrase "Los Angeles Angels of Aspirinaheim" to describe a presumptive starting rotation of lefty Joe Saunders, Jered Weaver, Kelvim Escobar (who's coming back from arm troubles), Dustin Moseley and Nick Adenhart.
- No. 1 starter John Lackey is going to miss Opening Day again. It's becoming a tradition for him (yes, it's only his livelihood, make cheap jokes). Escobar and Ervin Santana are also starting the season on the DL. The Angelenos could begin the season with the AL's weakest rotation.
- Manny Ramirez would have looked good in Angels red and white, although ex-Yankee Bobby Abreu is an okay silver medal. L.A.'s left fielders hit an execrable .262/.316/.402 last season.
- Abreu — you all know you have a better chance of finding a bullfighter in Newfoundland than seeing him hit the wall to try to catch a long fly ball? — is entering his age-35 season. His closest comp, Brian Giles, had a big drop-off during his age-35 season, just saying.
- The Angels starting outfield has a combined age of 101 with Abreu, 35 and Guerrero, 33, at the corners and centrefielder Torii Hunter, 33. That's pushing it for a supposed championship team.
- If you could put Mike Napoli's pop and Jeff Mathis' catch-and-throw abilities into one body, you would have an all-star catcher.
- Vlady Guerrero OPSed .969 as a DH, compared to .850 when he was in right field, which is an indication of where he is headed.
- FanGraphs rates the Angels as MLB's 10th-best organization.
- One big reason why: They don't have a player among The Beep's top 50 prospects. Minor-league pitcher Jordan Walden checks in at No. 58.
- You'd swear second baseman Howie Kendrick's career is some kind of cosmic joke on fantasy baseball folk. He hits somewhere around .30o when he's healthy enough to play (92 games last season), and someone gets gulled into spending an early-round pick on him. Then they thick they hate a right to bemoan their lot in life when he ends up pulling a hamstring sometime in the middle of May.
- Outfielder Gary Matthews Jr. is not useless because he's a backup outfielder making $10 million a season. You can always bring him up when some Toronto knowitall starts whining about Vernon Wells having the worst contract in baseball.
- Saunders had just 103 strikeouts in 198 innings, which makes it pretty tough to sustain a 3.41 earned-run average.
- It's too funny by half that the Florida Marlins management made several players cut their cornrows. Guerrero's dreadlocks rate a spot on the all-time all-hair team and it hasn't affected his play.
- Once upon a time, Dallas McPherson and Brandon Wood were supposed to be the left side of L.A.'s infield, at third base and shortstop. That's half-right, since Wood might end up at third.
- The Angels' bullpen was not overtaxed last season since their starters often went deep into games. That could change this season.
- New closer Brian Fuentes apparently replaced Francisco Rodriguez or something,
- SI.com's team capsule includes former Jay Justin Speier as one of their key relievers. That is the same Justin Speier who was left off the post-season roster, if you're looking for a portent of doom.
- Remember the Seinfeld when Elaine gets turfed from Yankee Stadium for wearing a Baltimore Orioles hat in the owners' box? That was inspired by an incident which happened to Larry David at Angel Stadium, when it was known as Anaheim Stadium.
(It was the one where Jerry dates an artist played by Catherine Keener, and they break up, and she sends him a letter that he thinks is heartfelt, until he realizes she ripped it off from Neil Simon's Chapter Two — "I don't offer happiness! James Caan didn't offer happiness!")
- Owner Arte Moreno has a home in Phoenix that's next door to former NFL coach Mike Holmgren. Moreno presumably has the grace not to bug Holmgren about the time he elected to kick a field goal with only two minutes left in the game when his team was down by four points (and ultimately lost by one).
- Sept. 30 will be the 25th anniversary of Mike Witt's perfect game. His game score for retiring all 27 Texas Rangers hitters that day was 97. In other words, he was perfect and still couldn't get 100. And you thought your teachers were tough graders.
- It's a total cheat to include it, but the baseball scene from The Naked Gun did include the Angels (even if it was actually shot at Dodger Stadium).
- No one who is not professionally mandated to do so calls them the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
- Anaheim was a charter member of the late, great American Basketball Association, and ABA represents a theme for the division: Anybody But Angels. Sorry, but familiarity breeds contempt.
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Being the most used sense we have, our eyes sure take quite a beating. They need proper prep-time, sleep, and general care in order to keep up their functioning - as well as appearance. Have you ever woken up completely exhausted with the biggest bags under your eyes? Or how about your makeup removal; do you sometimes feel just a bit too lazy to clean it off properly at night? What about those tiny white bumps under the eye?? Have you ever wondered what are those things? Answers to these questions - and much more are available in this guide of how to properly care for the area around your eyes. Enjoy!
Bags under the eyes are usually the most common side-effect for lack of sleep. Sometimes, before the actual inflated and puffy bags appear, dark circles will surround the lower section of the eye. On top of sleep deprivation, several other factors could play a role in the appearance of dark circles and bags under your eyes. Allergies, bad diet, and even a lack of exercise can all affect those ugly blemishes. Of course, age also plays a significant role as well. While some of these aspects can't be changed, or helped without the aid of sharp medical tools, there are some great eye creams, exfoliants and moisturizers that can significantly help clear up the flawed skin. Make-up is also a nice tool to use as a superficial cover up for your ocular imperfections!
The little white bumps that appear beneath the eye actually have a medical name: Milia. Technically these bumps are cysts. However don't be alarmed by that; they are harmless. You can think of them more like a pimple really. However, unlike a clogged pore, milia is made up of protein that is trapped within the bump. This all happens underneath your skin (again, unlike pimples). Like other eye blemishes, you should try using creams and exfoliants to help the removal of milia. Regarding your exfoliant treatment, you want to be absolutely sure that it is gentle enough for the under-eye area. You also don't want to overuse exfoliants as they can be harmful to the soft skin; try about two to four times per week. Fruit extract exfoliants are infused with vitamins and antioxidants that help to clean up the area immensely - including those pesky dark circles and puffy bags!


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Tuesday, 1 March 2016
The Inexplicables [book]
This novel is set inside the Victorian city of Seattle, walled-in after a scientist's diggings released a deadly gas capable of killing people yet leaving them mobile, as shambling 'rotters'. (That's covered in detail in the first book in the series, Boneshaker.) In this one Rector Sherman, an orphan who'd got into the habit of selling and using 'sap', a drug made from the gas Blight, is too old to stay in the orphanage he'd grown up in, so heads inside the walled city to try to find out what happened to the dead friend who haunts him.
Of all the books in the series that I've read so far, this was my least favourite. The first is boosted by the novelty of the walled city setting, and Briar Wilkes' desire to find her runaway son. Other volumes have the thrill of adventure (air pirates! The – still ongoing – American Civil War! African-American scientists on the run!) and new locations, all with a Clockwork Century twist that makes them intriguing. The alternate history aspect of the other books is also stronger. This time I already knew the city (though it was interesting to see how it had changed and become more organised in the books since Boneshaker) and lead character Rector was pretty hard to care about. Moreover, the plot felt like it was setting the scene for what was going on in the world beyond Seattle, and somehow wasn't as exciting. The Inexplicables of the title felt out of place, almost an afterthought compared to the rest of the plot. That isn't to say I didn't enjoy the novel, because I did. It's just the weakest volume in an outstanding series. I still recommend the whole series.
It's taken me a long while to get round to this because it was a gift from my late mother-in-law. Somehow, reading the last book from her, knowing I'd never read another new book from her, made me reluctant to pick it up. (I'm funny like that; I still haven't read Raising Steam, Terry Pratchett's last novel for grownups. I get it off the shelf every once in a while and then put it back, because as long as I haven't read it, there's still a new Pratchett waiting for me.) However, reading The Inexplicables has reminded me how much I enjoy these books. I'm going to get the one I'm missing and binge-read the entire sequence at some point...
I've also blogged about the fourth book, Ganymede, and the last book, Fiddlehead, in the series.
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I don't think I would seek out such a story but you've got good book taste so I might try one! XReplyDeleteReplies
There's an awful lot of tosh steampunk on the market, but Cherie Priest's books are really good.Delete
Its probably not my scene but as we've been asked to work at a steampunk festival I'll be saving the cover for future reference.ReplyDelete
Did Mum-in-law share your taste in books? xxxxReplies
We both like(d) crime novels. I brought all her Michael Connollys home; I'd meant to give them to a charity shop once I'd read them but haven't done so yet. The steampunk and SF wasn't her thing, though.Delete
Which steampunk festival are you working at? I really loved the ones I've been to; steampunks tend to be an intelligent and creative bunch, and it's really energising being around them.
It's an odd little event, The Acoustic Festival of Britain in nearby Uttoxeter. xxxDelete
Your last comment made me ponder, when it comes to me, rather than not reading the book because there would never be another new one to follow it, I would be far more likely to put it in a charity bag because if it is not there for me to see then I don't have to think about the fact the giver isn't there either. mad I know!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the recommendation. I'm always looking for steampunk and or vintage era books. I'll check this one out. I also have one I'd like to recommend and send you a free copy of. I couldn't figure out how to contact you?ReplyDelete
Love you blog! Keep on with the book recs. I'm making a list!Replies
Hi Tam, I don't take freebies (if I ever get free books, it's as a result of a clear-out at work, and they've already been featured in magazines and are no longer needed), but if you let me know what the book is, I'll look it up. My email address is crinolinerobot AT yahoo DOT com, and I'm @crinolinerobot on Twitter.Delete


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24 July 2008
Hong Kong
Just doing a quick update with photos for now, will add some more stories and pictures from our time in Hong Kong tomorrow.
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20 July 2008
Whitney's homecoming
Our "baby" is home!! Whitney arrived home safe and sound from California via Auckland. She arrived at 11am Thursday 17th July. Whitney actually spotted the balloons from inside the arrivals gate, and was sure it was her family!! She just had to wait another 10 minutes to get to us.
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Backyard update
The three retaining walls are finished and have been filled with soil, ready for: bark & vegetable garden on the bottom level, grass on the middle level, and our the concrete slab for our new and improved patio on the top level. Freyr was out exploring the new backyard the other day, so it was a timely reminder to get some snaps to update the blog.
To give you an idea of the size of this construction...this is the top level, which is also the smallest wall by far.
This one shows Freyr playing on the flat back section that will soon have a very large concrete slab for the patio.
These two pics show where the stairs will go eventually, but they also show nicely the three levels of walls.
This is the side where there will eventually be a slide for the grandkids to go down on.
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Hijab Fashion Magazine
Hijab Fashion Magazine. Fashion Week Schedule February 2011.
Hijab Fashion Magazine
- Fashion is a Canadian fashion magazine published by St. Joseph Media. Established in 1977, it was formerly known as Toronto Life Fashion magazine. It is currently based in Toronto (with satellite offices in Vancouver and Montreal), publishes 10 issues a year and has a total readership of 1,982,000.
- This is a list of fashion magazines.
fashion magazine
- the custom in some Islamic societies of women dressing modestly outside the home; "she observes the hijab and does not wear tight clothing"
- The religious code that governs the wearing of such clothing
- a headscarf worn by Muslim women; conceals the hair and neck and usually has a face veil that covers the face
- A head covering worn in public by some Muslim women
- The word "hijab" or "'" (Arabic: ????', (he-zjab) / ) refers to both the head covering traditionally worn by Muslim women and modest Muslim styles of dress in general.
hijab fashion magazine – Fashion Magazine
Lise Sarfati obtained a master's degree in Russian studies from the Sorbonne in Paris, where she was the official photographer of the Academie des Beaux-Arts. She moved to Russia in 1989 and photographed there for 10 years. She has received the Prix Niepce in Paris and the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography in New York for her work and is a member of Magnum Photos. In recent years she has been living and working in the United States. Sarfati is represented by Yossi Milo Gallery in New York, Rose Gallery in Los Angeles and Magnum Gallery in Paris."
Why Do I Wear That Thing On My Head?
"Yeah, I just got on the bus and I'm on my way home. Okay, Mum, Wa'alaikum Assalam."
I slip my cell into my bag. A girl in a yellow tank top and dark blue cut-offs plops into the seat beside me.
"Ugh, I hate taking the bus, especially in this heat," she says.
I nod and smile.
She raises her eyebrows at my full-length dress and the cloth wrapped around my head. "Aren't you hot in that?" she asks.
I contemplate my answer. The girl shoots another question. "Why do you wear that thing on your head anyway?"
I fiddle with the clasp on my bag. I wonder what I should say. Why do I wear Hijab/Tudung?
Why the Hijab?
It's tough to explain, isn't it? Hijab relates to the basic faith that there is only one God worthy of worship. As Muslim women we want to submit to Allah and obey all His commands. Since Hijab is a clear commandment of Allah (see Quran 24:31), we choose to do it to please Him. If we wear Hijab for any other reason, we may fulfill an obligation without gaining the reward for it.
Ayesha(radi Allahu anha) said, "May Allah have mercy on the immigrant women (from Makkah). When Allah revealed 'that they should draw their veils over their juyubihinna*,' they tore their wrappers and covered their heads and faces with them." [Bukhari]
The female companions of the Prophet(sal Allahu alahi wasalam) gave up the traditions and norms of their society and covered up immediately to respond to Allah, before they knew the proper method.
Only a Head Covering?
"And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw their veils over their Juyubihinna* and not display their beauty except to…" [Quran 24:31]
The word *Juyubihinna, according to most scholars, refers to the head, ears, neck and chest. To fulfil the minimum requirements of Hijab, a Muslim woman covers her entire body, except her face and hands.
Proper Hijab means loose and opaque clothes. Clothes should not be alluring or similar to the clothing of men. What about guys? Islam outlines a modest dress code for men and women. The requirements are different based on the obvious physiological and psychological differences between the two genders.
Hijab does not apply only to clothes. It is a state of mind, behaviour, and lifestyle. Hijab celebrates a desirable quality called Haya (modesty), a deep concern for preserving one's dignity. Haya is a natural feeling that brings us pain at the very idea of committing a wrong. The Prophet said: "Every religion has a distinct call. For Islam it is Haya (modesty)." [Ibn Majah].
What's in it for Me? Five Advantages of Hijab
I can't be messed with! Hijab protects me – Hijab identifies a Muslim woman as a person of high moral standards to reduce her chances of being harassed. "O Prophet! Tell your wives and daughters and the believing women, that they should cast their outer garments over their persons: that is most convenient, that they should be known (as such) and not molested." [Quran 33:59]
As Dr. Katherine Bullock (a Canadian Revert and community activist) observes, "The point to covering is not that sexual attraction is bad, only that it should be expressed between a husband and wife inside the privacy of the home. A public space free of sexual tensions is seen as a more peaceful place for human beings, men and women, to interact, do business, and build a healthy civilization."
I am liberated from slavery to 'physical perfection' – Society makes women desire to become 'perfect objects'. The multitudes of alluring fashion magazines and cosmetic surgeries show women's enslavement to beauty. The entertainment industry pressures teens to believe that for clothes, less is better. When we wear Hijab, we vow to liberate ourselves from such desires and serve only Allah.
I don't let others judge me by my hair and curves! – In schools and professional environments, women are often judged by their looks or bodies—characteristics they neither chose nor created. Hijab forces society to judge women for their value as human beings, with intellect, principles, and feelings. A woman in Hijab sends a message, "Deal with my brain, not my body!"
I feel empowered and confident – In contrast to today's teenage culture, where anorexia and suicide are on the rise, as women attempt to reach an unattainable ideal of beauty, Hijab frees a woman from the pressure to 'fit in'. She does not have to worry about wearing the right kind of jeans or the right shade of eyeshadow. She can feel secure about her appearance because she cares to please only Allah.
I feel the bond of unity – Hijab identifies us as Muslims and encourages other Muslim sisters to greet us with the salutations of peace, "Assalamu Alaikum". Hijab draws others to us and immerses us in good company. Heard These Before? Three Misconceptions Ab
In the three years since its inception, it has received resounding success in the cosmopolitan cities of Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, and Dubai with the creative participation of over 180 designers representing varies cultures and nations – Muslim and non-Muslim.
The ISLAMICFASHIONFESTIVAL is a tangible showcase that reinforces the powerful message that Islam is a progressive religion and a viable way of life.
The collections presented during the festival are based on the basic Islamic principle of modesty, but the designers are encouraged to explore their interpretations of the dress code thus yielding a broad spectrum of dynamic styles and visions.
The ISLAMICFASHIONFESTIVAL is centred on a runway show, supplemented by a fashion magazine and peripheral activities such as Gala Dinners and Charity Benefits.
As the gateway activity. the festival aims to promote Islam beyond the runway and maintain the public's interest in learning more about the religion.
Supporting the operations of the festival is the Style Council, comprised of eminent luminaries in Muslim society dedicated to the uplifting of the Islamic message.
hijab fashion magazine
Who Reads Lucky?
Lucky magazine is the only magazine devoted exclusively to shopping and style. A pioneer in the fashion magazine field, it provides women who are passionate about shopping with a broad range of the best styles and products out there–but a tight edit of the pieces that are worth a second look. As the voice of a friend in the know, Lucky makes fashion and beauty fun and accessible for everyone, showcasing what to wear and how to wear it.
The magazine features gorgeous photography and an endless array of product shots–and every item comes with how-to-get it-right-now information next to its photo (pricing, website, phone number, store location). Readers don't have to flip to the back of the book to read the fine print on how much something costs–and they can buy it right then and there. It's all about instant gratification. Lucky also shows readers a variety of price points—you'll see a pair of $300 shoes next to a $30 pair.
Lucky's editors offer real-life women advice on how to wear the latest trends in a way that's flattering and right for their shape and size: they don't assume one size or trend fits all. It's all about accessibility, and remembering that fashion is supposed to be fun, not stressful. There's also advice on how to "shop your own closet": you don't need to go out and buy a whole new wardrobe each season—just a few key pieces and styling tricks can turn a summer piece into a fall one.
Since Lucky's launch in December 2000, circulation has rocketed from 500,000 to over 1.1 million, proving to be one of the most successful launches in Conde Nast history.
What You Can Expect in Each Issue:
What I Want Now!: Editors' monthly picks.
Style Spy: The latest trends, talent, and fashion news
Lucky How-to: Smart finds, figure fixes, styling tips and advice.
Shoes of the Month: Why we like them, and how to wear them.
Basics: An ideal look for right now, from head to toe
My Foolproof Outfit: A real-life woman in a cool job tells us the outfit that she comes back to again and again, and why
Her Way: Our cover model's favorite fashion and beauty picks
Fashion Babble: Creative Director Andrea Linett's current cravings.
Beauty Spy: New products, great ideas, and easy looks, focusing on making beauty accessible to all readers.
Shopping Report: Round up of new stores, incredible finds, secret sources around the country and online.
Shopping Trip: Guides to the best boutiques in cities around the world. Recent spots include Atlanta, Melbourne, Sydney, and Portland, OR.
Lucky Breaks: Exclusive deals, discounts, and giveaways on clothing, accessories, beauty, and home decor from retailers like Saks Fifth Avenue, shopbop.com, Barney's New York, and Old Navy.
Recent feature articles include:
Mammoth Shoe and Bag Guides: twice a year, we show you the best shoe and bag trends, and pages of pages of everyone's favorite must-have accessories.
Under $100 Guide: A summer's worth of style, all at can't-beat pricing.
30 Days of Outfits: How to build a month's worth of foolproof outfits with just a few key pieces.
Spring and Fall Fashion and beauty trends.
Styling tips and trends from the runway.
Girls on the Street: we go to a different city a few times a year, bring a rack of the season's clothes and accessories, and ask real women to stop and pull their favorite looks.
Magazine Layout:
Every page of Lucky is packed full of gorgeous fashion, beauty and home finds, all shown in an appealing way and with explanations and descriptions of why our editors are loving them. It's very easy to navigate and friendly, clean design, and not at all off-putting or intimidating. The models look like real people–not scary-thin or scowly. Plus, many of Lucky's editors are photographed for the magazine every month–to show how the items look like on real people, and to help the readers feel a connection with the staff of Lucky.
Click on any image below to see select pages from Lucky:
"Evening at its Easiest"
"Lucky How-To"
"The Season's Best Looks for Under $100"
"The Season's Best Looks for Under $100"
"Metallic Sandals"
"What I Want Now!"
"My Foolproof Outfit"
"Beauty Spy: Cherry-Punch Lips"
"Wish List"
Kim France, Editor-in-Chief of Lucky, was Editor-at-Large at Spin when Conde Nast selected her to develop Lucky magazine. Before that, she was a Senior Editor and then Deputy Editor at New York magazine. France began her impressive career at 7 Days and later moved to Sassy as a staff writer. She has also covered entertainment for Elle and contributed to numerous publications, including Rolling Stone, Allure, The New York Times Book Review and Magazine, Mademoiselle, Harper's Bazaar, and The Village Voice.
Andrea Linett, Creative Director of Lucky, worked her way up through the fashion department at Sassy to become the Fashion and Beauty Editor there. She has also worked as a fashion writer at Harper's Bazaar and as a freelance stylist.
Past Issues:
Comparisons to Other Magazines:
Lucky takes the intimidation factor out of dressing! It reminds readers in an accessible, down-to-earth voice that fashion is supposed to be fun. Readers can shop each page of Lucky and feel confident that the editors have combed the fashion and beauty landscape to come up with the perfect finds–in a variety of price points.
The majority of advertisers are fashion and beauty, but categories run the gamut–automotive, consumer electronics, pharmaceutical, entertainment, food & beverage, etc. The ratio of edit to ad is roughly 50-50.
Since its launch, Lucky has won a slew of industry awards, including Adweek's "Startup of the Year" in 2001, and Ad Age's "Magazine of the Year" in 2003. Lucky has also been featured three times each on both Adweek's "Hot List" and Ad Age's "A List."


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As an Arcánús, one of Cupid's blessed children, Amandus's mission in life was to aid his father in bestowing love upon others.Unfortunately, when he found his own soul mate he was incapable of making her perceive their connection. Furthermore, she doomed their love forever. Amandus's only hope is a spell concocted by Cupid: The Arcánús Amator: Spell of the Secret Lovers.
Hailey is desperate for love. She's so desperate that when she finds a spell on the internet that promises to connect soul mates, she decides she must try it. Convincing her friend Hannah to help her, the girls embark on a one-night craze that will produce life-changing results and bring to life what was thought to be only a myth.
She frowned. "What the hell's happened?" She was quite sure this was not how the spell worked. Granted, she hadn't exactly read the entire information sheet on the website.
"No one does," she whined, bouncing on the balls of her feet while staring at the flickering flame of the candle. The thing was more than 20 pages long. It was like reading one of those software agreements. No one read the damn thing. She'd read the instructions and the first page with all the warnings and that was more than enough. Taking a deep breath, she managed to settle her nerves a little. Everyone thought she was the ditsy blonde obsessed with the occult, but she wasn't. She was a hard worker, impatient when things didn't go as expected. It was partially the reason why she'd filed through so many relationships. Why stay with a guy when he clearly had nothing to offer? Some of her friends argued that she didn't give them a chance. She begged to differ. She'd given them a chance, they just hadn't taken it.
True, her impatience sometimes got her into some trouble but it also saved her from a lot of it. That, however, wasn't the case now. Annoyed that the spell had gone awry, she brushed back her bangs impatiently. Whatever had happened was not important. The priority was getting Hannah back home. Scanning the room for her discarded laptop, she did a double take.
Obstructing the exit to the living room stood the most gorgeous man she had laid eyes on. He was massive. His head almost brushed the top of the doorframe. His heavily muscled arms were crossed in front of him, his chest bare except for the intricate design of a red-inked tattoo that started around his left nipple and descended across his side to his hip. Low on his hips, he wore a long black skirt made out of what looked like leather.
Hailey hesitated a moment before finally glancing fully at his face. Her breath stilled as their eyes locked. A clear shade of violet, they were not from this world. Swallowing, she took a step backwards without breaking her stare. The stranger's eyes glittered with curiosity and amusement.
"Careful with the center of the star," he warned.
Hailey stumbled and froze. His voice was deep and commanding and had a familiar ring to it that sent her senses reeling. Shaking her head slightly, she continued moving away from him.
Breath exploded from her lungs as she crashed into a shelf, a few ornaments she and Hannah kept, crashing to the floor.
"—out. Are you all right?"
Hailey winced, the back of the shelf digging into her skin, but she nodded anyway. The stranger flashed her a grin that made her knees weak. Hailey swallowed. The urge to see him smile again clawed at her insides like a desperate hunger.
Ignoring her, he glanced down at the pentagram, his silky dark curls framing his strong jaw and straight nose.
"You don't look like you knew what you were getting into."
Hailey held on to the bookcase behind her. She was afraid that if she moved the whole thing would topple over her head and she'd wake up, realizing that the man in the center of the room was nothing more than a dream.
"Read the first page of the instructions and didn't bother to read the rest, huh?"
His eyes lifted to hers with a sassy smirk that lit up his violet eyes. Hailey stared speechless, the urge to touch the man making her palms itch as if she'd stepped into poison ivy.
"Yeah, you never did care what you got into, Ariadne."
Goose bumps sprouted over her flesh and she released the shelf, rubbing her arms in an attempt to warm her suddenly chilled skin. Ariadne. The name rang in her ears like a long forgotten memory always running at the edge of her vision, just a breadth away from her grasp.
No words came out as he carefully watched her face, almost as if saving every detail of her features into his memory. Her mouth felt parched, her tongue too large, as she searched for words that wouldn't come.
Butterflies danced in the pit of her stomach and her chest tightened, making it difficult to breathe. Fear mingled with a strange sense of joy. Names, places, and moments in time danced in the edge of her vision, taunting her to remember them, taunting her to say them aloud but fleeing before she could take hold of them.
"My name isn't…"
The man raised his dark eyebrows, the shadow of a smile lifting the edge of his full lips.
"I know."
Posted by Nerdy Girl on 20th May 2015
What happens when soul mates are parted, possibly never to be united? Cupid's son, Amandeus finds out when his soul mate, a powerful witch, is unable to recognize their love and they're pitted against each other in battle. Fast forward to the present day where Hailey uses a spell to connect soul mates, and she gets a lot more than she bargained for.
A quick read that uses mythology to create a sexy modern day story of reunited lovers. I wouldn't have minded if there were more details about Amandeus' adventures between the time of the battle and when the modern day story begins. There's an interesting story world here that could be explored more fully. (Received a review copy.)
Posted by LBAS Book Blog on 20th May 2015
This is a heartbreaking story about how someone's quest for power blinded them and made them miss the opportunity to be with a soul mate she has wished for all her life. It is also a beautiful story about hope and finding redemption and of course love. I loved this story for the angsty moments as well as the steamy ones.
Ariadne, a witch who is mad from hatred curses the children of Cupid and at the same time cursed herself to never find true love because her soul mate was one of cupid's children, Amandus.
Fast-forward a few thousand years and Hailey finds a spell and convinces her roommate to join her in the ritual thereby casting the spell of Arcanus Amator and calling forth the children of Cupid once more.
This story will leave you spell-bound. It is beautifully written and romance you can read on the go.
Posted by Bethany-Kris on 20th May 2015
Araidne, a witch blinded by her bitterness and lack of love, meets her mate on the battlefield but is too filled with her hatred and anger to see what she's been searching for has finally been delivered. Dooming the God Cupid's children to a bleak forever where they will never be able to be with their mates, she unknowingly also dooms what should be her own love. Fast forward to the present time, and a seemingly human Hailey is searching for love. Valentines Day gives her the perfect opportunity to use an internet spell she found that will connect her with her soulmate. But nothing is quite like it seems.
Arcanus Amator weaves an interestingly beautiful tale between fantasy and present day. At the heart of this short read, the lesson is clear. The need for power can drive the very person who seeks it to the brink of insanity and blind to the one thing they're looking for. I adored how the author played that lesson into the plot, both the past piece and the future. The short story is hot enough to keep you absolutely enthralled as two soulmates are reunited for just one night. Or ... maybe more. After all, there has to be a way out of every curse.
All in all, I enjoyed the read. I would have liked a little more detail with the fantasy and magical aspect, but the story held well on its own as it was. If you're interested in a short, fan-worthy read that mixes lore, magic, and the present day together, Arcanus Amator is just what you're looking for.


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After having a very busy weekend filled with lots of yard work fun, I decided to get organized for bed about a half hour early last night. I proceeded with my usual bedtime routine of brushing my teeth, washing my face, feeding the cats, shutting my curtains, and turning on my alarm. Well... so I thought.
I had an amazing sleep with no tossing and turning, or having to wake up to empty my damn bladder in the middle of the night. Piper started bugging me a bit in the early hours of the morning - something he's taken to since he had his operation and I decided to let him sleep with me - but it was a usual morning. Until Piper really started bugging me! Usually he just lays on my shoulder, or my chest, or back - depending how I am laying, all while purring his brains out in attempt to wake me up so that I will go and feed him. This morning though, he suddenly started going nuts playing on my chest! Pulling at my blankets and everything! I got mad at him for a second for waking me like that until I uncovered my clock to find the time showing 6:45!!!!! My alarm usually goes off at 6:15! Apparantly, although I thought I set it, I didn't.
Needless to say, my morning was pretty rushed as I tried to shower, get dressed, make and eat breakfast, feed the cats and clean their litter all in less than an hr! Thankfully Piper knew that I had to get up and did his darndest to make sure I did!
Isn't it amazing how animals just know things? Piper knew that I needed to get up at that exact time to be able to make it to work! I thanked him all morning at home and will thank him publicly now --- thank you Piper!!!
***...for those readers interested, Piper has recovered 100% from his surgery and acts younger now than he has in a few years! So glad my little guy is back to normal now! :)


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On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, matthew sporleder wrote:
When was gdbm the default backend?
On 7/17/07, Aaron Richton <email@example.com> wrote:Pretty unviable and quite a bit slower. As an aside, the "default" nowadays is bdb/hdb (Sleepycat) based.
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> I was wondering what the viability of switching to a MySQL-based back-end > would be and how much slower it is compared to the default gdbm back-end. > -Daniel >


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FO's: One of my Sweet Geranium Socks, using fivemoons selardi 4ply.
*Corporate Socks by Don Yarman using Juno Buffy, Superstitions: Wraith on 2.5mm Karbonz dpns,
*Featherweight Cardigan by Hannah Fettig using fyberspates gleem lace, colour 706 sea green on 4mm signature needles,
*Cardigan with pockets by Jane Ellison using Noro Sarubia on 5mm Signature needles,
*Wingspan by Maylin Tan using my own hand spun fingering weight Loop bulls eye bump in colour *Flower Girl on 3.5mm knitpro symphonie circulars,
*Mazarin by Deborah Tomasello on 3.5mm circular
*Warm Embrace by Ruth and Belinda using bulky wool on 10mm Addi Art circulars,
*Brenda Castiel pattern using Sirdar Baby Bamboo on 3.5mm Knit pro symphonies and karbonz circulars.
*Alpaca silk blend on my Ashford Traditional wheel for Dave
*Alpaca from Timmy on one of my drop spindles.
*Sublime lustrous extrafine merino dk in shade 291
*fivemoons sparkle club, Sungold Artemis
*Louisa Harding Amitola, colour 102
Tealtember: Teal is the Ovarian Cancer Charity colour for September. As you can see from this weeks episode it is something I support and hope you feel able to do the same.
Nails: Maxfactor Max Effect - 08 Diva Violet - with a flower art over the top and crystals


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Maya Moore honored by WNBA
Former UConn star Maya Moore was named the WNBA's Western Conference Player of the Week after averaging 19.2 points, 7 rebounds and 3 steals per game as the Minnesota Lynx won a pair of games to become the first team to clinch a spot in the WNBA playoff.
Moore shot 14-for-23 from the field (.609), including 5-of-11 (.455) from three-point range, and helped Minnesota improve to 17-4, the best record in the WNBA.
Moore had 17 points, four boards and three assists in win over Washington. She followed that up with a 22-point, 10-rebound effort that included six assists and four steals as Minnesota beat Tulsa.
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What's more dangerous? Going to a Katt Williams concert? Going to a Hells Angels rally? Or, going to a Donald trump rally?
Well if you happen to be a woman, or a person of color, you might go with the third choice; the Donald trump rally.
Let's face it, Donald's peeps aren't exactly the kind you would find at the top of the human pecking order. Those folks can be rough. I respect protestors and people who exercise their right to protest, but if you go into a trump crowd and you are planning to peacefully protest, you might want to take out some extra life insurance.
Poor Rakeem Jones was assaulted twice at a trump rally while exercising his Constitutional right to free speech. First by an old geezer who sucker punched him, and then by the police. (Yep, you read that right. He was sucker punched and assaulted, and the po po jumped on him.) And let's be clear, the candidate himself has encouraged his people to antagonize and beat protesters in the past. I think he gets off on this stuff. He has even promised to pay the legal fees of those who break the law. (He can start with the loser who sucker punched Mr. Jones. That clown has been arrested.)
"After his supporters beat up a Black Lives Matter protester on video, Donald Trump suggested that they may have done the right thing.
The protester, a black man, reportedly started chanting Black Lives Matter at a rally in Birmingham, Alabama on Saturday. In a video captured by CNN reporter Jeremy Diamond, rally attendees swarm around the man, kicking and punching him as he curls up on the ground." [Source]
But that was just some black man, and no one cares what happens to the black guy. But what if trump's right- hand man finds it necessary to manhandle and assault a white female?
"Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields is discussing her "jarring" physical altercation with Republican presidential front-runner's campaign manager, saying she was "shaken" by the incident.
Fields wrote in a piece published Thursday that she was trying to ask Trump a question about affirmative action during a press conference earlier in the week when she was almost pulled to the ground.
Trump acknowledged the question, but before he could answer I was jolted backwards," she wrote.
"Someone had grabbed me tightly by the arm and yanked me down. I almost fell to the ground, but was able to maintain my balance. Nonetheless, I was shaken."
The Washington Post's Ben Terris told Fields that Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, pulled her. Fields said Lewandowski would "be out of line" if he had taken these actions, even if Trump was done taking questions.
"Campaign managers aren't supposed to try to forcefully throw reporters to the ground, no matter the circumstance," she wrote. " [Source]
Yes, but this is no normal "campaign manager"; this one belongs to trump. The guy who said that he could "stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot someone" and not lose any votes.
I hate to say it, but I think the guy might be right.
The RNC better start looking into some extra security for Cleveland.
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Registered Nut
by Gertrude Stein
Tender buttons, but on tender, tender your buttons, butter your tendons. Strap on your mask to mask the strap. Button the strap on your mask and strap your mask with buttons. Button your yap and yap yap with a strap on your tender buttons. The moon's a balloon and the balloon's a moon balloon too soon in June. The moon's a tender button with a mask or a mask with a moon. Slash the strap and stash the slap and button your yap. Prices slashed on masks with buttons, balloon straps and moons that yap. Tender, tender button-strapped masks and slashed balloons under the yappy moon.


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Last Saturday my apartment was shot for the design*sponge book. Including a 9am wet hair, no makeup, no bra portrait of yours truly because I lack foresight and acceptable "girl" sensibilities.... Buy the book next year and you'll see. Brutal honesty.
The funny thing about having photos taken of your house (or at least my house) is how clean but chaotic it leaves things. Random stuff gets shoved into very funny hiding places. My oven mitts got stashed inside the oven, which I promptly forgot about and I baked them for 20 minutes while preheating to cook dinner. Burnt and stunk. Life is such a comedy.


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Sometimes my showbiz yadda yadda results in interesting insights for the world of programming. Sometimes, I have showbiz yadda yadda insights that aren't interesting in the context of programming, but I want to post them anyway. I already have two other blogs for random interests, a Blogger one and a Tumblr one, but neither one really works, because my other interests range too widely. It's pretty hard to nail down a demographic that wants to read about robots, sociology, current events, science, motion graphics, advertizing, art, advanced Rails techniques, functional programming, acting schools, and screenwriting. If you think my posts range pretty widely, realize that this blog is my focused blog. My other ones are all over the place. But, my showbiz interests are focused enough to result in a good blog, so I'm putting them in one.
When the yadda yadda results in useful ideas for programmers and people in technology, except them to still show up on this blog as well. If you want to follow it for its own sake, here it is.
Sunday, May 6, 2007
New Blog: Spec Scripts And Acting Classes
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I am delighted to report that my friend Lemawerk Ketama from Ethiopia is the Red Bull Wings for Life World Champion. Yesterday's race took place in 35 countries around the world simultaneously.
Lemawerk ran in Austria. The runner-up ran in Peru. The women's winner ran in Norway.
The Red Bull Wings of Life World Run is a unique event. Runners at all the venues were chased by catcher-cars which set off 30 minutes after the race start time of 10:00 GMT and then travelled in pursuit of the runners at identical computer controlled speeds.
When a catcher-car caught up with a runner he or she retired from the race.
With split screen TV pictures viewers were able to see the dramatic scenes from other time-zones.
And so it was the remarkable worldwide race proceeded until there was only one man in the world left running. And this is he.
But it was high drama. It ended in a 'photo finish' as race director Colin Jackson termed it. There were just 90 meters distance between first man in Austria and second man in Peru at the end.
The first three runners each covered more than 78 kilometers (over 48 miles).
The above photo was taken at Vienna's Lainzer Tiergarten, a wildlife park inhabited by wild boar and deer and one of my favourite training venues.
There's a link to the race website HERE.
For the record I took part in a local event yesterday. My first mountain race of the year. There were points in the annual Austrian Mountain Runner series on offer and runners took the opportunity to get them. The weather was sunny and blustery.
Schoepfl Mountain Race, Vienna Woods
7.5kms / 550 mtrs hd+
1. G Schiemer M40 Naturfreunde 33:21
14. M Zöchbauer LC Mank 1L 40:29
28. J Ratteneder LAG Mitte 1M65 45:56
51. G Williams Clayton H 2M65 53:04
65 finishers