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This week:
The Owl Keeper by Christine Brodien-Jones
1. pick your current book up, flip to a random page, share some sentances
2. no spoilers!
Max stared at the skull and crossbones painted beneath the sun and felt his guts shrivel. Asign above the door warned NO ENTRY and depicted a snarling black wolf. Max was stunned. What if Rose was telling the truth and the goverment really used plague wolves to attack intruders?
Check out the fabulous trailer for the Marvelous World books (The Marvelous Effect and Olivion's Favorites) by Troy CLE
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This week:
Deerskin by Robin Mckinley
1. flip to a random page in your current book and find a few sentances to post that are interesting to you
2. try not to have any spoilers!
The court shook itself, and decided to be impatient with the princess, impatient so that they need think no worse.
But the king- did he not speak a little wildly? was it completely...proper... for a king, to praise his daughter so extravagantly?
I'm having fun with this book! its written so well and thoughfully.
At the start of my blog, i asked who you read with and showed a pic of my dog Panda.
Well, i got a super rare picture of all my reading buddies together!
First is Powder, the uninterested very well fed cat in the background. she likes to snuggle right up next to me and purr away.
The chihuahua that looks like shes ready for take-off with her ears pulled back is Coco my stepmoms dog, she normally isnt on my bed and i usually read with her in the living room.
Lastly, Panda. My little one is all smiles and she really is all the time, shes the goof-ball of the bunch and she goes everywhere i go, shes attached to me like glue so she is the most by my side when im reading. (and she lets me know when i need to pet her with a biiiiig drawn out sigh)


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Indians 9, Red Sox 2: Victor Martinez had a two-run double, a solo homer and drove in four for the Indians, who also got a two-run homer from Mark DeRosa. Boston's nine-game home win streak ended.
Twins at Orioles, late: Minnesota's Michael Cuddyer extended his hitting streak to seven games with a single in the ninth inning of Tuesday's 9-0 loss to Detroit. During the streak, Cuddyer has gone 10-for-22 (.455).
Rays at Yankees, late: The Yankees have homered in their first 11 home games this season. Only the 2001 team opened its season with a longer streak, homering in its first 14 games at home.
Mariners at Royals, late: Former Royals All-Star Mike Sweeney returned to Kansas City for the first time as a member of the Mariners. Seattle's Carlos Silva has lost 17 of his last 18 decisions.
Rangers at Athletics, late: Former Yankee Dan Giese will make a spot start for Oakland in place of Dana Eveland, who was sent to Triple A on Tuesday.
Blue Jays at Angels, late: Blue Jays starter Roy Halladay sought his sixth victory, which would tie him with the Royals' Zach Greinke for tops in the AL.
Tigers at White Sox, ppd: The White Sox's Mark Buehrle will wait for his fifth victory as steady rain resulted in a postponement. The Tigers' Dontrelle Willis pitched into the eighth inning of a rehab start.

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Paul McGuigan Directing New Spider-Man
That's right - it's a confirmed fact. Paul McGuigan, the director of Wicker Park, Lucky Number Slevin, Gangster No 1, The Acid House and another handful of similar turkeys, is the latest director to tackle Spider-Man. Personally, I think Wes Anderson would have been an amusing choice for this job...
What's more, you can see McGuigan's take on Spider-Man now. There's a video up on MySpace.
Let me explain: McGuigan has directed the video to Snow Patrol's Signal Fire, as featured on the Spider-Man 3 soundtrack. The clip shows a school play with kids recreating scenes from the Spidey films. Rushmore fans will now understand my Anderson comment.


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Did I ever tell you about the time I broke out of Saddam Hussein's prison with a nail filer, stormed his palace single-handedly and escaped seconds before the entire complex exploded? No?
Good, because it didn't happen. If only Brian Williams could separate fact from fantasy.
The six month suspension NBC News slapped evening news anchor and managing editor Williams with today isn't enough. The breach of trust he created with the public is too deep to fully repair.
That's not to say Williams can't continue his career. There's simply no way he can be the face of a news organization, an institution that must command credibility, when his credibility is shot.
It's one thing to make a mistake in a story or to misspeak. All journalists, me included, can admit to the occasional error as long as it's promptly corrected.
However, Williams' repeated yarns about being in a helicopter that was shot down in Iraq weren't a mere mistake. His fictional account of events provided for some entertaining banter as he sat on the couch across from David Letterman. It made him seem brave. Williams forgot that the news is about world events and the public, not him.
That wasn't a slip up. That wasn't the fog of war clouding his memory. I don't see how any civilian who is rarely in dangerous situations could mistake a life-and-death event like that.
The six month suspension, which will cost him about $5 million, will allow time for the controversy to cool off. Still, I don't see how the public can accept Williams being the mouthpiece for NBC News or its managing editor. He could return to NBC, or elsewhere, as a correspondent with someone fact-checking his work. But he can't be the person with the ultimate responsibility for the entire broadcast.
An honest reputation takes a second to destroy and a lifetime to rebuild.
Now if Williams wants some pointers on writing fiction, I can volunteer. Ever hear about the time right after Hurricane Katrina when Williams' boat was attacked by a mutant, purple eyed gator?


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Mission Accomplished
Dad's officially retired. Mom is officially on leave for one year while she decides if she'll retire. Dad now has an honorary PhD to go with his earned D. Min (doctor of ministry degree), and the only two time winner of the Heisman Trophy stood, along with the faculty, the graduating class and the family in honor of my parents. The building that houses the Religion Department has been renamed in honor of my pops and the University announced that they are sponsoring a lecture series in practical theology* in his name.
Many, many people said many, many nice things about both parents while all of Dad's siblings and all of mom and dad's children and grandchildren listened. This will be the first time in 54 years that the Relgion Department does not include a member of my family (my maternal grandfather came to the university to teach in 1953, my dad in 1969).
Now, we look forward to returning to Maine; we want to watch the Sox score 6 runs in the bottom of the 9th rather than reading that they did it on my blackberry (we were in the heart of Indians country and Tribe Fever is rising quickly as the Indians keep winning); I want to weed the garden and plant annuals and watch the birds eating at the feeders.
The company sold on Friday, in the midst of the more important things we were doing. The official closing will be in the third quarter of this year. I'll wait to see what the sale brings, but I'm 90% sure that we'll not leave Maine for the sake of my job.
*My dad is an Evangelical minister, ordained in the Brethren Church. I think that the focus of his ministry and his Christian Witness is best understood through the a couple of excerpts from the Citation for his Honorary Doctorate:
"....You are known as a professor who cares deeply about his students and has spent countless hours working with those students both in and out of the classroom...
....The relentless dedication has been recognized campus wide and in 2004, the Office of Student Affairs named one of its awards after you ...The (insert Dad's name here) Honor and Integrity Award is given to an individual who encourages others to strive for sound character, offers compassion and empathy and is a role model to students, faculty and staff.....
....In recognition of your tremendous service and dedication, your gentle and gracious heart, your steadfast commitment to this institution and to the betterment of humankind, I have the honor of presenting you to be admitted..."


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What did you want to be when you were 13?
My answer? "16"
The definitive example of cray-to-the-zee?
"A not-so-stealthy "samurai" who told police he was "cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs" is in jail after allegedly abandoning a vehicle on the middle of a busy Indiana interstate to march shirtless with a 35-inch sword."That's the ticket.
More after the jump...
Quote of the Day:
Facebook is like going to a party where you know everyone.
Blogging is like going to a party where you don't know anybody, but you've already had a few and you're feeling amiable, so what the hell. -- HarveyBeautiful, no?
(And I'd rather read what you're up to on your blog than on Facebook. I visit my Facebook page a couple of times a week, but I'm stubbornly sticking to blogs for most of my reading.)
Ear Worm of the Day:
You have no idea how horribly badly I slaughtered those lyrics as a child... and I LOVED this song, even if I had no idea on earth what it actually meant.
For what it's worth, here's the English translation:
Dominique, nique nique
over the land he plods along
and sings a little song.
Never asking for reward,
He just talks about the Lord.
He just talks about the Lord.
At a time when Johnny Lackland
Over England was the King,
Dominique was in the backland,
fighting sin like anything .
Now a heretic, one day
Among the thorns forced him to crawl.
Dominiqu' with just one prayer,
Made him hear the good Lord's call.
Without horse or fancy wagon,
He crossed Europe up and down.
Poverty was his companion,
As he walked from town to town.
To bring back the straying liars
And the lost sheep to the fold
He brought forth the Preaching Friars,
Heaven's soldiers, brave and bold.
One day in the budding order,
There was nothing left to eat.
Suddenly two angels walked in
With a load of bread and meat.
Dominique once in his slumber
Saw the Virgin's coat unfurled
Over friars without number
Preaching all around the world
Chorus .
Grant us now oh Dominique
The grace of love and simple mirth
That we all may help to quicken
Godly life and truth on earth
Hard to believe such a simple song went viral internationally, and then the Singing Nun faded back into obscurity.
I know I already said it once, but I'm saying it again -- when it comes to friends, they come no better than Miss Nancy. I owe her big time for rescuing my camera bag from the hotel in Katy and delivering it to my hotel in Kingwood while I was busy dancing like a maniac at another friend's wedding.
I WILL come up with an appropriate "thank you" and it's going to be a Jim-dandy one, too.
Speaking of my camera -- note to self: It does you not one blinking bit of good if you bring your camera and not one, but two batteries on vacation if you leave the battery charger at home. I can't afford to go buying a new camera every time I do such a stupid thing, either. Just sayin'...
I have pictures -- which I haven't uploaded yet -- and tales to tell from my Texas trip. But I've been up since 4:30 a.m., and I need my beauty rest before heading back to work tomorrow. Stay tuned...


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BBQ Baked Tofu
As soon as the weather gets even remotely warm in Ohio, everybody puts on shorts and flip flops and fires up the grill. As the smell of barbeque wafted down the street, I found myself thinking about making some barbeque tofu. While grilling tofu is not advised, you can most certainly bake it. This recipe is quick, easy, and is great by itself or in a sandwich.
What you need:
One block of extra firm tofu, pressed and drained
¾ Barbeque sauce. KC Masterpiece is fabulous but whatever trips your trigger is fine.
½ small onion, sliced
1 tsp salt
½ tsp pepper
1 tbs olive oil
Preheat oven to 375 degrees (f). Slice tofu into whatever shape is most convenient to your needs. The foodiecall kitchen cut the tofu into neat little squares, most conducive to sandwich making.
Line a Pyrex pan with foil (trust me you want to do this. Saves tons of time in clean up). Lightly oil the bottom with 1 tbs olive oil.
Place tofu in pan and pour sauce over the top. Toss the tofu a few times to coat evenly. Lay sliced onions on top and sprinkle salt and pepper on top.
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Faunadelic Dialogues - Bear and Capercaillie process
Our new set of Woven Narratives continue to progress in the form of Faunadelic Dialogues. Here is our latest image bringing together a North American Bear with the Scottish Capercaillie. We always get excited looking back at how these images develop as they are bounced back and forth across the Atlantic, so Jonathan suggested we share the process of this one in this post.
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4th Annual User Conference
NewmarketPLUS 2007 will feature insight from Newmarket executives,
industry analysts and leading hospitality companies
|Portsmouth, NH - February 20, 2007 Newmarket
International, Inc., the leader in sales and catering solutions for
the hospitality industry, today announced that its 4th annual NewmarketPLUS
2007 User Conference will be held March 18-21 at the Royal Pacific Resort
at Universal Orlando®, a Loews Hotel. The event is aimed at empowering
hospitality sales, catering, and event management professionals to connect,
communicate and compete. This is a unique opportunity for hospitality professionals
to network, learn about new product innovation, and hear about the best
strategies to succeed in todays highly competitive market. Record attendance
is expected for this years user conference along with all new educational
tracks and exciting content.
Newmarkets Chief Executive Officer, Sean ONeill, will give a keynote session on the future direction of Newmarket and the biggest trends in the hospitality industry today. Shawn McGowan, Vice President of Product Development, will present on the innovative, breakthrough new product developments coming out in 2007. This years event will also feature two leading industry analysts and experts, giving conference attendees a chance to hear the results of their in-depth research and market analysis.
NewmarketPLUS 2007 includes educational sessions on the entire suite of solutions including, Delphi, Daylight, MeetingBroker, Delphi Diagrams, eProposal, DelphiSync, I-Server integration, and more. Attendees can select a variety of educational sessions to ensure maximum value from the conference. With over 50 unique educational sessions separated into six tracks, attendees are sure to gain valuable information and insights from this years conference.
Other features for this years event include an expanded Partner Pavilion, allowing attendees the opportunity to meet with technology vendors and learn more about products and services that will enhance their customers experience and help win more business. Additionally, there will be a Certified Delphi IT Professional course prior to the conference. This course begins on Sunday, March 18 and will provide Delphi IT users a clear understanding of how all the Delphi pieces fit together, outline the best way to maximize your integrations, provide troubleshooting tips, security guidelines, and information regarding the latest technologies available.
For more information on the conference and to register for the event please visit http://plus.newmarketinc.com/2007/.
About Newmarket International
Newmarket International, Inc. (www.newmarketinc.com) is the leader in delivering sales, group catering and banquet software solutions to the global hospitality and entertainment industries. Newmarket Internationals suite of business solutions can be found in hotels, casinos, restaurants, visitor bureaus, meeting arenas and convention centers throughout the world. Newmarket International has over 70,000 users worldwide, with over 8,000 installations in 92 countries. Newmarket International is headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with international offices in Barcelona, London, Shanghai, Singapore and Sydney.
Newmarket is the registered trademarks of Newmarket International, Inc.
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|Also See:
|Newmarket International Realizes Rapid Growth in Dubai; Region's leading hotels choose Newmarket's sales and catering solutions for competitive edge / February 2007
|Newmarket International Appoints Patrik Wennerland to Sales Director EMEA; Hospitality Industry Veteran Brings Years of Experience and Expertise to Expand Newmarket's International Reach / January 2007
|Classic Ethan Allen Hotel Taps Delphi Sales and Catering to Book More Business / December 2006
|InterContinental and Crowne Plaza Hotels at Dubai Festival City to Launch with Delphi; Global hospitality firm prepares for dramatic growth in events business / December 2006
|Four BDL Properties Move to Delphi Multi-Property Edition; British firm expects to boost revenue for its marquee IHG franchises / November 2006
|Newmarket International Wins ACE Awards for Customer Support and Project Management; Customer Excellence awards certify Newmarket's outstanding achievement in client satisfaction / November 2006
|Legendary 82,000-Seat British Stadium Installs Delphi Suite; Twickenham Experience Deploys Delphi Sales & Banqueting Suite / November 2006
|MeetingBroker Recognized in 2006 EIBTM World Wide Technology Watch / November 2007
|Starwood Atlanta Cluster Converts 312% More Business With Cross-Property Lead Sharing Solution; Achieves 42% Revenue Gain, 18-Month ROI on Technology Investment / June 2004
|Dolce International Rides Trend of Increased Group Business Leads From Internet Channels; Global Leader in Conference Destinations Shares Leads via Network Technology, Web Connectivity; Group Leads Increase 10%, Definite Bookings Up 5% Over Last Year / May 2004
|Meeting Planners Expand Internet Use in 2004, Web-Channel Group Business Increases 428% in 2003 / April 2004


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The death of Howard Hyde
For some time now, I have been in contact here and there with the family of Howard Hyde, who died in Halifax, Nova Scotia on November 22, 2007 at the age of 45. Howard was tasered by Halifax Regional Police at least twice and he died 30 hours later. His death was ruled accidental. The official cause of death was 'excited delirium due to paranoid schizophrenia.'
Howard's sister Joanna and her husband Hunter unexpectedly found themselves on the very difficult but well-travelled road they now share with all of the families who have lost a loved one so needlessly. At this time, Howard's family is entering into the fatality inquiry process, hoping to finally get closer to the truth about what happened to Howard. It was recently reported that at least part of the inquiry, to be held in Halifax, will be broadcast live via webcast this summer.
Recently, Hunter wrote a very eloquent message to me with his thoughts around Howard's death and tasers in general. With Hunter's permission, I post his thoughts here.
I will try to give you my feelings about the instrument of control (aka t.a.s.e.r.) used by police officers against the citizenry of our country.
Firstly I will give you some biographical background as I try to explain how my thinking has evolved over the last while. I have been a family physician for well over forty years and during the bulk of that time I have worked closely with police forces. I was a police surgeon for some three years in my native Scotland, dealing with everything from drunk drivers to rape and murder.
In 1968 I emigrated to Southern Ontario and was a coroner for ten years. Because the town I lived in (Tilbury) was bisected by the county line, I did both counties and consequently I was very busy and closely involved with the Ontario Provincial Police. I then moved to my present job in Nova Scotia where I was a Medical Examiner for about twenty years and thus closely involved with the RCMP.
This background did give me a great deal of understanding of the difficulties of policing. Fortunately I never professionally encountered taser use as the police I knew did not have it and most certainly did not need it.
To my discredit, I paid little attention to the use of the taser in the subduing of rowdy and difficult "criminals," even when it was occurring in my own Province. This was due to a decision made a few years ago to eschew reading newspapers and listening to broadcast news, my reasoning being that if I did not know what our political class was up to my blood pressure would remain in the normal range and I would live longer and happier.
The case of Mr Dziekanski did manage to penetrate my bubble in October of 2007. Just over one month later it all became personal with the death of my brother-in-law, Howard Hyde, some thirty hours after being tasered. Our source of information in this death was for a very long time the news media.
I, of course, started to research the subject of "death proximal to restraint" because of a faint memory I had of such deaths in mental hospitals. Google took me to the Centre for Canadian Police Research, and conveniently gave me Sergeant Darren Laur's paper on the taser, restraint and sudden death. It also gave me the briefest of email exchange with Dr. Christine Hall. I bought their story being, of course, unaware of their connection with Taser International. I dutifully regurgitated the facts in this document to the Media and anyone else who asked me about tasers and death.
Time went by and my wife and I realized that the Province of Nova Scotia was not about to give us any information about Howard's death any time soon. Neither, apparently, was the RCMP who investigated his death for the Medical Examiner's office. They were also to investigate the conduct of their brother organization, the Halifax Regional Police. The RCMP did a masterly job of telling us nothing at all. We obtained Howard's medical records, the record of his very brief court appearance -- probably lasting only about one or two minutes --- and gave a few interviews and thus hopefully helped the Province to reach the decision that it was in its best interest to hold a Public Inquiry.
During this time my thinking about tasers and the concept of "excited delirium" continued to evolve. Watching the horror that took place in Vancouver Airport shook my long held belief that policemen were mostly honourable and could be trusted. By now I was paying attention to the news and I realized that there seemed to be an epidemic of incidents in Canada requiring the "deployment" of a taser. There also was an obvious death rate proximal to taser use. That such a death rate exists has now been reluctantly admitted by the RCMP, although not by the manufacturer of this weapon. It occurs to me that if the taser were a medical device for which alternatives existed, and such a death rate were noted, it would be abandoned.
That something very sinister happens to the metabolism of people who die soon after being tasered and restrained is, of course, obvious. By giving this metabolic calamity a name, "excited delirium", those parties involved in these deaths shift the blame onto the deceased. The main symptom which seems to be mandatory in making this diagnostic call is death. There are others of course, such as agitation, erratic behaviour and most of all, failure to obey a police officer. Now psychotic and drug produced delirium has been around for a very long time and it does have a death rate. The death is almost exclusively due to accident and misadventure while in this toxic state and does not usually take place if the individual is treated properly. Coursing 50,000 volts through that person's body does not constitute proper treatment.
Now Taser International and police associations will protest that there is no evidence that being exposed to that kind of current kills, and that if the person dies he/she must have had "excited delirium". The convenience of this diagnosis is obvious. There is also no convincing evidence that tasering, particularly when multiple, does not cause death. Taser International et al will say that many of their employees, workers, etc. have been exposed to a taser jolt and have nicely survived. To convince me that this type of electrical injury is completely safe would require an unethical and very risky experiment. Let us take a few dozen or so taser enthusiasts and keep them awake for 4 or 5 nights while being exercised to the point of exhaustion and then treat them appropriately. I would expect a death rate of zero. Now repeat the experiment but this time expose them to a few jolts of a taser weapon. If the death rate is still zero I may now concede that the weapon is possibly safe. I doubt however that the rate would be zero. Obviously such an experiment would never pass an ethics committee and there would perhaps be a shortage of volunteers.
I have seen the video of Howard's tasering many times now. It still has the capacity to fill me with abhorrence that we are prepared to countenance such a barbaric tool. I now understand his fear and his confusion that fellow humans would behave in such a manner and that it would be legal. Joanna heard the soundtrack this morning for the first time and I am sure that it will haunt her.
The inquiry will be a very difficult time, but it must be borne if it will contribute to a total ban on taser use in Canada. Of course it should not take this inquiry nor another single death for this ban to occur. I fear that more families will undergo the pain of such deaths before the obvious solution happens. It is just as much a tragedy when a police officer is killed, but I have yet to see it convincingly shown that a taser would have prevented such an event. If it had I am sure that we would have heard about it in no uncertain fashion.
I have some difficulty in organizing my thoughts on this subject without a kind of rage taking over me.


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When I shot this portrait of Brandi Harris, senior at Chaparral High School, I didn't think it had a chance for cover of Las Vegas Weekly. Though I really liked the way the portrait turned out, and knew the story was going going to be the cover story for this week, I thought the actual cover would turn out to be a collage of images or an illustration of some sort. I was overly excited to say the least when I spied Weekly art director Ryan Olbrysh mocking up the cover last week with my portrait front and center. Below you can see how the original portrait looked and then see the final cover. Ryan did an amazing job. I will never get over having one of my photos printed on a large shiny piece of paper and distributed all over the city.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
From Orange Portrait to Orange Cover
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Monday, September 19, 2011
Male Strippers, Mitt Romney, Elvis and Horse Portraits
To say the least, it has been a professionally strenuous couple of months. August and September have seen the departure of many respected work colleagues. And although I haven't blogged consistently these past fews weeks as much as I would have liked, I still want to share this stuff. Better late than never. So, in one big lump, here are some of my very latest pics. They remind me why I love this job. Even with the ups and downs, I still get paid to take photos. I must not take that for granted.
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Labels: animals, cats, fireworks, football, horses, kids, mitt romney, politics, ramadan, red hats, religion, roller skating, skating, strippers
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Sausages and Accordions
Just a few reasons why I love the San Gennaro Feast: Sausages, lasagna and aggressive accordion players.
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DVAT Due Date of DP-1 Extended to 31st January, 2016
Vide Notification Dated 31st December, 2015, the Delhi VAt Authorities have extended the Due Date of Filing DP-1 to 31st January, 2016. This is to be filed by all dealers registered upto 31st October, 2015. The Penalty for Non Submission of DP-1 shall be Rs 50,000/-.
No.F.3(352)PolicyNAT/2013/1210 - 21 dated 31.12.2015
In partial modification of Notification No,F.3(352)PolicyNAT/2013/1062-73 dated 23/11/2015 regarding submission of information online in Form DP-1, I, Sanjeev Khirwar, Commissioner, Value Added Tax, Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sub-section(1) read with subsection (2) and (3) of section 70 and sub-section (2) of section 59 of Delhi Value Added Tax Act, 2004, notify that the Form DP-1 shall be submitted online by all the dealers latest by 31/01/2016. The form shall be filed by dealers registered upto 31/10/2015.
Rest of the contents of the above said Notifications shall remain the same.


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There's been much speculation in the press these last days that Partners at A.T. Kearney could be presented with the option of orchestrating a management buyout of the consulting business from parent EDS. I always feared ATK would struggle once subsumed by EDS and would love to see the business reinvigorated by a return to some form of Partnership model. Can you see this happening or is it all just a lot of smoke to please the markets?
(For more details click for write-ups in the Computer Business Review, Interactive Investor and Dallas Business Journal)


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much love monday project: RED
After last month's successful Much Love Monday project, I'm now accepting submissions for this month's Much Love Monday. The rules of the game is the same as last time, only now I thought it would be nice to have a little theme: all heart shapes must be in the colour red. Not too hard, right? Especially with valentine's coming up, there should be plenty of red love hearts around! So, here's what you'll need to do...
Do a blog post, which includes:
1. A photo of a RED love heart shape (taken by you)
It can be of anything, as long as a red heart shape is clearly visible. It MUST be photographed by you, not taken from the internet. It can be any size, but preferably a square shape. I will resize and crop all submitted images when I put them together.
2. Write at least ONE thing that you love
It can be anything! Please write it at the beginning of the blog post so I can find it right away.
3. Once you've done the post, leave a link in the comments of this post
4. Submissions will close by the end of February
I will start compiling the photos and posting them starting from next Monday. So if you submit something this week (before Sunday), I'll post it next Monday. If you submit it in the following week, I'll post it on the following Monday. The submissions in the last week will be posted on the first Monday of March.
5. Have fun!
Don't worry if you don't have a fancy camera or don't think you're the best photographer around... it's not about that! I believe that every photo will be unique and interesting, no matter what kind of photography skills you have.
P.S. If you don't have a blog (or if you do, but don't want to do a post), you can email me your image and answer.
*EDIT* if you do choose to email, please put "Much Love Monday - February" in the subject, and do comment on this post afterwards to let me know about it.
Any questions, feel free to ask.
39 little notes:
- Diana said...
yay! love this project!
- February 8, 2010 at 5:55 PM
- Caroline said...
Love love this idea.... just sent you a photo!! xo
- February 8, 2010 at 6:07 PM
- Lorelle said...
This project is lovely! I definitely have to give it a go! Gotta find a pretty red heart first though D:
- February 8, 2010 at 6:43 PM
- Diane said...
Yey, I want to do it:D
- February 8, 2010 at 7:50 PM
- blue eyed night owl said...
Count me in again! I think it will be even prettier because it'll match more. I'm glad to hear you are having another project. I shall think about it for a while and I'll let you know when I'm done.
- February 8, 2010 at 9:01 PM
- daisychain said...
Ohhh I must see what/if I can find that is red!
- February 8, 2010 at 9:07 PM
- A Dreamer said...
As soon as I saw your post, I felt the need to make it happen. So there's the post. Hope it turned out ok.
Thanks for making nice projects!
PS: http://thedrreamer.blogspot.com/, cause it's the last post.
- February 9, 2010 at 12:53 AM
- naomuack said...
awwww too cute <3
i love heart <3
- February 9, 2010 at 1:27 AM
- Sher said...
Can't wait to see the end result of this project:)
- February 9, 2010 at 3:33 AM
- Krissy said...
This was a lot of fun last time, so you'll likely be getting a submission from me again this time. :D
- February 9, 2010 at 4:02 AM
- Mousevox Vintage said...
Ooh! I'm glad you're doing this again. I'm gonna try to participate!
- February 9, 2010 at 6:07 AM
- ♥ Christine said...
ahhh i'm so in love with you blog! it makes my heart melt, almost everytime!
this is such a fun project. i definitely want to participate.!
thanks for taking time to host this project. we are a bunch of lucky readers :)
have a lovely week!!
- February 9, 2010 at 7:39 PM
- SaraJ said...
good prodj:)
- February 9, 2010 at 7:48 PM
- isaksmom said...
Thanks for this project, I enjoyed creating my banner especially for this.
Here is a link to my post
- February 10, 2010 at 2:28 AM
- Anna said...
you are so stinkin' cute & creative! i love it! :)
- February 10, 2010 at 8:36 AM
- natalie said...
Here's my submission!
- February 11, 2010 at 6:52 AM
- Diana said...
ha, i just edited it!! thanks for the tip!
- February 11, 2010 at 8:54 AM
- virgo said...
Hey !
Love your project !!!!
Your blog is beautiful Lady Stephanie !
- February 11, 2010 at 8:24 PM
- onic said...
done :)
- February 12, 2010 at 11:29 PM
- Rebecca said...
I've been looking around for a red heart and I finally found one! My submission is here: http://chumblyface.blogspot.com/2010/02/sweet-love.html
Wonderful project! :)
- February 13, 2010 at 1:04 PM
- twirling betty said...
Love being able to do this again.
- February 14, 2010 at 10:29 AM
- Just like Martha said...
Hi there, just found you thru my buddy - yay - I can play along this week I have a red heart made by luv by ME! Check it out at www.leemills.typepad.com...by the way I LOVE "CRAFTING"..and discovering new talented people!
- February 14, 2010 at 4:28 PM
- Gena @ Thinking Aloud said...
Hi there! new to this, not sure how to join, but here is my submission :
Gena @ Thinking Aloud
a photoblog
- February 14, 2010 at 5:08 PM
- Jane said...
another great BLOG discovered ! hope to get you my heart this week.
- February 14, 2010 at 6:56 PM
- Icy BC said...
I've just post it mine, and I hope I did it right.
- February 16, 2010 at 12:03 AM
- Rhianne said...
I love your projects :)
- February 16, 2010 at 2:31 AM
- Oranges And Apples said...
here's mine for this month:
- February 16, 2010 at 10:55 PM
- Blessing Reflections said...
We also had ours up! This was fun!
- February 16, 2010 at 11:20 PM
- Laura Loo said...
I have a couple photos on my Valentine's Day post..
1) I love making homemade cards!
(see my Valentine card!)
2) I love baking yummy treats!
(see my Red Velvet cake!)
- February 17, 2010 at 9:37 AM
- Matilda said...
I just posted my picture for this project on my blog!!!
Here's the link:
Thank you for having this great idea!
- February 18, 2010 at 6:13 AM
i'm happy i made it. thanks for clarifying this!
these MLMPs are fun!
- February 18, 2010 at 5:12 PM
- Chi Designs said...
Hi Anna,
Love this idea. :)
- February 19, 2010 at 11:46 AM
- 「 Thy Lady 」 said...
Another lovely project ! Perfect timing ! Me blog post is up & I added my "Much Love Monday" photograph & "what I love" - search half way through ze post & you shall find ! x
- February 21, 2010 at 5:04 PM
- blue eyed night owl said...
Ok, I just finished my entry. Here it is:
- February 22, 2010 at 6:49 AM
- Chloe said...
I've just done your project, heres the link
- February 23, 2010 at 9:46 PM
- fiwee said...
This is such a sweet idea! Thanks to you and your lovely blog!
Here's my blogpost, hope you like:
- February 23, 2010 at 10:52 PM
- Alexandra Hoover said...
Just did my post, this was so fun!!
- February 25, 2010 at 3:30 PM
- Cypress said...
What a fantastic idea! Thanks for hosting this! Here is my entry- it's at the top. www.midnight-mantra.blogspot.com
- February 27, 2010 at 1:52 PM
- MissKellie said...
Oops, i forgot to include a heart picture in the blog post I just put up! :O Here's a link to one of my favorite red heart photos, though:
And my blog link is:
- February 28, 2010 at 1:10 PM


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Tonight the CSO, as part of their Pops series, combined two of my favorite things: Music and movies. And not just any music and movies--the score to my favorite movie of all time--The Wizard of Oz.
Here's how it worked--the movie was shown on a large screen suspended from the stage. The dialogue track was kept in, but the music track was removed, so the orchestra could provide it live. And instead of just playing the original score, music that was written for the movie, but eventually excised, was also included. (I caught this in three places: When the Wicked Witch of the West first appears; when the Witch appears after "If I Only Had A Heart", and after Dorothy melts the Witch)
The pops series, in general, has a more populist appeal, and this concert brought out lots of families. I saw a girl dressed in head-to-toe Dorothy costume during the interval, and I also saw kids as young as 14 months old! I think events like this are perfect ways to introduce kids to orchestra--they're seeing something with which they're familiar, and even the music is familiar, but it's played by real people, right in front of them!
The orchestra was conducted by Maestro Constantine Kitsopolos, who has directed orchestral, classical, Broadway and national theater. He was a perfect fit for this event and did a great job at the helm. His experience in theater was greatly useful here since there were times the orchestra wasn't playing, and the cues were more musical theater like (as in, enter when someone says this line), as opposed to the scriptedness of a symphony.
Even though I have been watching this movie for 27 1/2 years (really, I have been watching it since I was about a year old, Remind me to write about that sometime.), I picked up a lot of musical nuance by watching. The low strings--cello and double bass--have a lot to do, with some beautiful melody lines. The harp and timpani have an absolute ball. I bet the timpanist was thrilled to have so much to do. There was also a piano. The brass also had big parts. These are things you don't really notice when you're just listening, but if you're watching it's pretty apparent. Another difference was the use of violins instead of fiddles in certain areas (like when Dorothy leaves Munchkinland), which gave the sound a different texture.
This was a one -night only event, but if you ever get the chance to see and hear this sort of thing, go! Take your kids. There was an intermission (right after they reach the Emerald City gates, but before they go in), so there was bathroom/snack break (the Ohio Theater sells refreshments at intermission).
I had a great time, and I think the audience and the orchestra did, too. Some of the instrumentalists smiled or laughed at certain parts, even while they were playing. And the pathos of hearing "Over the Rainbow" with a real orchestra is pretty incredible. It doesn't matter how many times you've heard the song (and you've probably heard it many, many times): with real instruments backing up Judy Garland, the effect is goose-bump inducing; an excellent way to spend a Saturday night.
The next two CSO concerts are classical ones; the Pops series resumes in late February with an appearance by the Chieftains at Veterans Memorial.


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Roode 2 Styles 3
Roode charges Styles in the corner, but Styles is able to catch him with a couple of rights, then a big clothesline. Styles beats on the champ in the corner, hitting him with a big head butt. Roode catches Styles with a boot to the gut, then a kick to the knee. Roode goes for a clothesline, but Styles avoids it. Styles is able to kick Roode into the corner, but when he charges in, he's back dropped to the apron. Styles yanks Roode's arm down across the top rope. When Styles comes back into the ring, Roode sits down for a pin, and holds on to the ropes to get the three count.
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Styles takes the fight to Roode, peppering him with rights as he's furious about Roode's cheating. AJ takes Roode into the corner and beats on him for a bit before seating him on the top rope. Styles goes up in the corner after Roode and tries for a superplex, but Roode fights him off, avoiding the move. Styles charges up the turnbuckles, launching Roode out of the corner with a top rope arm drag that puts Roode down right on his shoulder. Styles hits Roode with an arm capture belly to back suplex. Styles picks Roode up and goes for a suplex, but Roode kicks away at the knee again, stopping it. Roode goes for a fisherman's suplex, but Styles reverses into a roll up for two. Styles connects with the Pele kick, and gets himself psyched up, much to the delight of the crowd, and we're down to two minutes.
AJ tries for the Styles clash, but with his injured knee he's not able to hit the move as his knee gives out. Roode rolls to the outside, so Styles hits the ropes, and launches himself over the top with a huge tope out on top of Roode, and we're down to under a minute.
The referee is continuing the count, and AJ sees that he only has about 30 seconds left. Both men make it back into the ring before the 10 count, but Roode bails to the outside yet again. AJ gives chase, but Roode continues to evade him as the clock continues to count down. Roode runs down the clock to zero.
3-3 Draw
STILL TNA World Heavyweight Champion: Bobby Roode
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I started this painting thinking that I would go all "Watercolor like", but as I painted it, it became transformed into a mixed media sort of thing. I used paint, pencil, markers, pastels--everything but finger paints.
The trees, the sky, the flowers are all inspired by old cross stitch samplers from the 1800s. Living in Pennsylvania, I tend to be drawn to the whole pen and ink fraktur style as well.
No matter what, I am in love with ships. My heart is always drawn to the water. I love flowering fruit trees, too, which is what the folky stylized trees, front and center, are supposed to be depicting.
Love the bench and the big urn. In fact, I wish I owned a planter like that!!
The Bird's Eye frame on this is simply fabulous, the gold liner and the antique glass are all in great condition. This frame is very gorgeous. Very.
|The outside dimensions are 30" x 16 1/2" and looks great from a distance too. The colors really POP.


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The University, or Study Centre as it was officially known was unable to confer any academic degrees, but the course of study was in line with other universities. The University was one of the cheapest at the time. The teachers received no salaries, no funding was received. The students and professors shared the same overcrowded barracks, the same food and shared the same common pursuit of knowledge and ideal of freedom and justice. It was founded by scholars of three different speaking nationalities. It was important for the three Baltic countries to preserve and further develop their national cultures. The University symbolised the countries fierce stance against the occupation of their countries.
|Baltic University staff and students, 1946 Hamburg
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I am having fun in the studio today making a BIG, huge mess! Today, I'm working on a service assignement with all the other Brave Girls from the Art School.
I have visions of this packaged up pretty in a box with a big giant bow on it, waiting on their doorstep. A simple little bouquet of flowers for a friend.
This still needs some finishing touches before that happens but figured
I'd show you my messy desk today.
Prima Rose Leaves
Liqutex Raw Umber (step and completed project will be shown on Thursday on the eP blog)
Vintage Heart Songs Book Pages circa 1909
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Jack's Stolen Ring
My quest to acquire the perfect stolen ring wasn't as long and crazy as my quest for the perfect skull ring, but I'm also not entirely sure it's over just yet. Jack's stolen ring is probably my second favorite of his rings after the skull ring, and one that I'd feel comfortable wearing on a regular basis (the dragon ring ranks pretty high up there, too). Like all of the pieces for my costume, I wanted to find the stolen ring that was "just right" rather than go with a stand-in ring until something better came along. After looking at lots of photos I decided the Skinny Dog ring once sold at the Disney theme parks was the way to go, and I patiently waited for one in the right size to turn up on eBay. Eventually one did just that, and since the price was right I went ahead and made the purchase.
(Disneyland Stolen Ring)
This was quite a nice ring, good color and a decent stone, but one thing I noticed right away when it arrived was that it was a bit on the small side. Not in terms of my finger size, but in the overall shape of the ring. It was a ring that would look fine with the costume, but not one I'd really want to wear around just for the hell of it. Still, I was satisfied that I'd found the best ring available and tucked it away with my Master Replicas button ring to be worn when I was in full Captain Jack get up.
As so often seems to be the case with these things the story didn't end there. Just a couple months after acquiring the Disneyland ring a new stolen ring turned up on eBay that seemed to blow the other right out of the water. ACME Brand, famous for their Jack Sparrow hats, baldrics, and buckles (as well as the skull ring I currently own) released a new version of the stolen ring. Now here was a fine ring indeed, made of solid brass and sporting the proper "huge" look I was after. So up on eBay my Disneyland ring went, and I was soon the proud honor of the ACME Brand stolen ring!
(ACME Brand Stolen Ring)
The stone on the ACME ring is made of resin and has a much darker look than the bright purple rhinestone look of the Disneyland ring. It almost looks black in the above picture, but don't let the photo fool you. The stone has a nice purple tint with reds and blues that really pop in the right light. It seemed I had finally stumbled across the best stolen ring on the market.
In all reality I likely did stumbled across the best stolen ring on the market. Unfortunately it, too, is not without its shortcomings. The biggest downside to the ring is its brass construction. Sure, that makes it big and sturdy, but on the down side brass is a metal that will quickly turn dull and leave your finger green. This may not be a big deal if you only use the ring when dressing up as Jack Sparrow, but it doesn't make for a ring you'd want to wear all the time just for the heck of it. The high polish brass does give the ring the right "gold" look out of the box, but wear it for a few hours and the oils in your skin turn it a dull gun metal gray color. Interestingly ACME even acknowledges this in their eBay listing by saying "Now made of solid Brass and buffed to a brilliant finish which will patina nicely after you wear it out several times." The problem with this is of course that real gold doesn't tarnish, and Jack's ring is meant to be made of gold. Too be fair a quick rinse in some dish soap will bring the brass back to a shiny finish again, but don't expect it to last long if you plan on wearing the ring for more than a few moments at a time. Both the photo above and the photo below were taken after I'd worn the ring a couple of times and washed it in the kitchen sink. I had worn it one day while working on my haunted house back in October, and after sweating with it on all day it had practically turned black. When I washed it before taking the photos I used a scrubbing pad on it, and that left some scratches on the surface of the brass that can be seen below.
So while ACME has in fact produced the best stolen ring out there in terms of look and size (although the stone could be a bid more elongated, but that's a minor point), it isn't one that works well as a piece of daily jewelry. To be fair the oils in everyone's skin are not all the same, some people are more acidic than others and some more alkali, so there are people out there who might wear the ring and never have a problem at all. Unfortunately I'm not one of them, and the ring tarnished pretty rapidly on me every time I put it on. Still, I wasn't ready to write this ring off as a loss quite yet, and a possible solution seemed to be just around the corner.
The first thing I attempted to slow the tarnishing process down was to apply a thin layer of clear nail polish to the ring. This is a trick I've often heard to use with costume jewelry to keep it from turning your skin green. While it did work to some degree the ring would still patina to a gun metal gray color if I wore it for any real length of time.
But then one day a friend of mine posted a message on a local swap & barter page on Facebook that seemed to be the perfect solution. They had started doing gold plating, and could gold plate just about any metal surface! They even posted a photo of a lever-action Winchester-style rifle of which they had gold plated the barrel! I quickly got in contact with him and told him about my ring to see if he could help me out.
About a week later I had the ring back, now with a 24 karat gold plated finish, and it looked better than ever!
There was one minor side effect after having the ring gold plated, though. The resin stone had lost its luster and now had a rather dull finish that made it look less like a stone and more like the hard plastic that it really is. But not to worry. My friend had shown the ring to a jeweler friend of his and the jeweler promised he could polish the stone right up for me for a couple bucks. So first chance I got I took the ring to the jeweler and left it for him to polish.
The jeweler was a jolly fellow, and I couldn't wait to see the ring once he was finished. He said polishing it up would be easy enough, and I even talked to him about possibly replacing the stone in my emerald skull ring. (The ACME skull ring comes with a glass stone which looks pretty good, but I had accidentally nicked it up a bit while building the haunted house). Unfortunately, polishing the stone on my ring was so easy in fact that it didn't seem to be much of a priority for the jeweler. I'd stop in every few days to see if he'd gotten around to it, and finally after about a month I finally had it back. Luckily it only cost me $5, and too be honest I liked the guy well enough that I didn't really mind the wait. After all, I wasn't in any kind of real hurry. In the end I still look forward to doing future business with him and will likely have the stone in my emerald skull ring switched out sometime in the near future.
So now I had my stolen ring back, and with a nice shiny polished stone and a proper golden look!
I'd like to say the story ends there, but I'd be lying. Naturally I wanted to sport my new shiny ring and show it off, so I wore it a few times. As it turns out, the gold plating didn't completely eradicate the problem of tarnishing, and the ring still turned a dull color and turned my finger green. So to be completely honest I'm now at a bit of a loss. Is the gold plating rubbing off, or is the patina from the brass just coming through the gold plating to the surface?
The great irony in all this is that when it comes to Jack Sparrow's costume (as with most period style costumes) the way to get the desired look of the character isn't to have your costume look pristine and new but rather to beat the hell out of it, weather and age it until it looks old and lived in. And yet the stolen ring is one of the few items I feel should look shiny and new because it is supposed to be made of gold with an amethyst stone; both things that shouldn't really tarnish or age.
So where do I go from here? The way I see it I really have two options:
Option #1: My friend who gold plated the ring told me to bring it back and he would redo it if for some reason it didn't take or if the tarnish came back. Also, the jeweler who polished the stone told me he had plenty of amethyst on hand and that he could easily make a real amethyst cabochon to set in the ring. Obviously a real stone would look better than the resin stone, but would the gold plating take better the second time around? I've read that when gold plating on brass you should have a plate of nickel first as a barrier, so that may be the solution, but at what point will I have spent far more on this ring than it's worth?
Option #2: In speaking with the jeweler he seems like he would be down for making me some cool rings for my Captain McAnen character, so I'd be willing to bet he'd be up for making me a new stolen ring from scratch. I'd still go for gold plating, as a solid gold ring would cost a small fortune, but if he made the ring from scratch he could start with a metal that the gold plating would easily adhere to. And as mentioned above he has already said that making me a cabochon stone out of real amethyst would be easy enough. A great plus to this option would be that I could show him photos of the screen used rings and have him match the size as closely as possible, elongating the top of the ring and using a longer oval stone. As I'm writing this I'm thinking this will likely be my best course of action, so I will probably go to the jewelry store and talk to him about price very soon. Who knows, if it comes out well enough it may even be something other Jack's would be interested in ordering if he'd be down for making more.
At this point I think I should state that while I have been critical of the ACME stolen ring throughout this blog post I am in no way displeased with ACME Brand at all. They offer some truly amazing products that I hope to order in the very near future, and for the money their stolen ring is easily the best one out there at the moment. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have ordered it in the first place. That said, I do think there is some room for improvement, and it's possible that a better version might be just around the corner. And if a better version does come along it wouldn't surprise me at all if it were ACME Brand who makes it! I'll happily be one of the first ones to buy it if they do.
(Wrist Wrap – Unweathered)
I've already discussed my wrist wrap from Yordreem Creations in a previous post, but I wanted to take a quick moment to give an update on it here. Much like the rings it is an item I've happily worn for the past several months on a daily basis, and it has weathered quite nicely. One thing I did do was soak it in some brown Rit dye to tone down the yellow and pink colors of the yarn.
(Wrist Wrap – Weathered)
The Yordreem wrist wrap is definitely one of those "close enough" items, and it looks better than others I've seen on eBay. But that said I may have found an even better one, and I hope to order it very soon. I was steered in the right direction by a fellow Jack Sparrow on Facebook, but more on that in a future post.
I have one other quick item to share with you that isn't necessarily a part of Jack Sparrow's garb, but it is never-the-less another iconic prop from the Pirates of the Caribbean films: Davy Jones Key.
Much like the Headpiece to the Staff of Ra in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", the key of Davy Jones plays a crucial part in the plot to 2006's "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest." Everyone in the movie wants it because they need it to open the chest which contains the still beating heart of Davy Jones. Several scenes in the film revolve around the key and it's location (one of my personal favorites being the scene in which Will Turner sneaks into the cabin of a sleeping Davy Jones and has to steal the key away from one of Jones' face tentacles!).
The key was made by the now defunct Master Replicas, who also produced replicas of the Aztec gold coins from "Curse of the Black Pearl," and that wonderful chest which the key itself unlocks. The chests now sell on eBay for upwards of $400-$500, but who knows, maybe someday I'll even get my hands on one of them.
(Master Replicas Davy Jones Key)
As always, my Jack Sparrow costuming adventures are still far from over, so there are plenty more blog posts on the way. I'm also venturing off into a couple of other fun costuming projects that I may discuss here, or I may even start a separate blog where I showcase them. Either way there are definitely some fun new things coming up over the next few months.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I acquired a brand new laptop computer, and now that I've finally gotten the hang of Windows 8 I've dipped in and purchased the video editing software I've been wanting for months. That means videos for the blog are finally just over the horizon! I'll be shooting them on my smart phone for now (I mean, why not? it shoots 1080 video!), but a new video camera is something I hope to obtain in the near future as well. There's gonna be a bit of a learning curve for the editing software because it's about 8 generations newer and better than my previous software ( I had Vegas Movie Studio 4.0 and the new software is Movie Studio 12!), but I have the utmost faith that I will figure it all out just as soon as I have the time.
Speaking of which, free time is something I'm going to have less of now, but in exchange I'm going to have more money because I've recently reentered the world of the working! Yep, I gave in and got a "regular" job again, which is actually pretty big news, but I'm super excited about it and am looking forward to adding to my Jack Sparrow costume at a much faster rate than before. The new job is working at the front desk of a hotel, but it's awesome because I'm working with friends I've known for years and I'm only working there 4 days a week, which leaves me plenty of time to continue selling stuff on eBay and doing the other odd jobs I was doing before. Things are really coming back together for me this year and continuing to look up, so I couldn't be more thrilled. Having the new job will afford me the ability to get back on track with things I've had to put on hold, and of course will make assembling my costume all the more easy.
I also recently joined a 24-hour gym which is going to make getting back in shape much easier (if I can just stop eating so many cheeseburgers), so I'll likely be posting some videos and blogs about my progress with that as well.
All in all it looks like 2013 might just be the year I finally make my dreams of becoming Jack Sparrow a reality, and in perfect time, too, as we celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the movie that started it all: "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl."
It's a pirate's life for me!


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- Original Title : Haphead
- Movie title in your country : Haphead
- Year of movie : 2015
- Genres of movie : Science Fiction,
- Status of movie : Released
- Release date of movie : 2015-01-22
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- Durationof movie : 70 Min
- Average vote of movie : 0
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- Translation of movie : EN,
- Cast of movie :Elysia White (Maxine), David Strauss (Simon), Joanne Jansen (Tara), Kwame Kyei-Boateng (Lars), Mandy May Cheetham (Katherine), Jonathan Robbins (Uncle Bruce)
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Director : Tate Young, Writer : Jim Munroe
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