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Introductory Remarks
I shall now examine prophecies from the episodes in Garabandal.
The events at Garabandal in 1961 and following years are well documented. You may find details at
which has many photographs, and also
The latter is an excellent site. It has feature-length documentaries you may play on your computer, complete books to download without cost, and the story of Joey Lomangino, who was instrumental in bringing world attention to the Garabandal events. His story, in itself, is fascinating. An important book is Our Lady Comes to Garabandal, which contains the daily diary of Conchita Gonzales. She wrote the diary from September, 1962 to the summer of 1963, and hence it covers a period during many of the apparitions. The book providing the diary was written by Joseph A. Pelletier, famous for his books on Fatima. Another useful book is God Speaks at Garabandal.
Garabandal is a remote village in northern Spain in a rugged and beautiful setting. It lies in the foothills of the Cantabrian Mountains at an elevation of 1,630 feet. It is located 15 miles inland from the Cantabrian coast some 35 miles (50 miles by car because of the winding mountain roads) west by southwest of Santander, the capital of the small Castillian province of the same name. The Pena Sagra Ridge, which rises to 6,000 feet behind it, is hidden by fog much of the time. To the west are the majestic Picos de Europa mountains. The village is small, with no more than 300 people. It is impressively quiet, with no doctor and no resident pastor at the parish church.
In the evening of June 18, 1961, four girls were playing on the outskirts of
the town C
Conchita Gonzalez, Maria Dolores (Mari-loli) Mazon, Jacinta Gonzalez and
Maria Cruz Gonzalez. We see reports that despite the same surnames the girls
were not directly related. However, in such a small town they surely were
cousins to one another. Maria Cruz was eleven; the others were twelve. All
were from poor families.
Suddenly they heard a loud noise, like thunder, and saw before them a figure in heavenly light. They identified this figure as the Archangel Michael. On the following days the Angel appeared to them again in the same place. He announced that on July 2 they would see Our Lady. This was the beginning of the Garabandal events.
The news spread quickly through the region. July 2 was a Sunday and the town was crowded with the curious. There were people from all social levels and many from out of town, among them physicians and priests. At six in the evening the girls went to the place where the Angel had appeared, and to the surprise of the crowd they entered into ecstasy. Our Lady appeared to them accompanied by two angels, one being St. Michael. (Remember, these identities are from the children, according to their understanding.) The reality of the Vision as a beautiful lady may be grasped from their description:
"She is dressed in a white robe with a blue mantle and a crown of golden stars. Her hands are slender. There is a brown scapular on her right arm, except when she carried the Child Jesus in her arms. Her hair, deep nut-brown, is parted in the center. Her face is long, with a fine nose. Her mouth is very pretty with lips a bit thin. She looks like a girl of eighteen. She is rather tall. There is no voice like hers. No woman is just like her, either in the voice or the face or anything else. "
The girls experienced many more apparitions after the first. During 1961 and 1962 these took place several times each week. The four did not always see the apparitions together; sometimes only one would, other times two or three. The appearances might occur at any hour, many times at night, and even early in the morning. Regardless of the hour the girls would arise early the following morning to work in the fields, or tend the cattle and sheep, without showing signs of fatigue.
The entire Garabandal event had about 2,000 apparitions, and more than 40 locutions. Many additional details may be found on the above web sites and in the books I mentioned.
In order to recognize the fearful position of the Church on the Garabandal events note that Bishop Eugenio Beitia, one of the former bishops of Santander, issued a decree on July 8, 1965, in which he refused to recognize the supernatural character of the apparitions at Garabandal. He watered down the import of the Messages and Prophecies by resorting to the principal of doctrinal integrity for the Garabandal message.
AWe point out, however, that we have not found anything deserving of ecclesiastical censorship or condemnation, either in the doctrine or in the spiritual recommendations that have been publicized as having been addressed to the faithful, for those contain an exhortation to prayer and sacrifice, to eucharistic devotion, to veneration of Our Lady in traditional praiseworthy ways, and to holy fear of God offended by our sins. They simply repeat the common doctrine of the Church in these matters.
I shall now describe three phenomena associated with these events.
Ecstatic Walks
The ecstatic walks began soon after the first apparition. The girls would go throughout the entire village C up and down stairways, in and out of homes, at all hours of the day and night, avoiding obstacles without faltering, guided solely by a supernatural force. Frequently, they ran at great speed up and down the steep mountainside, even backwards, so fast it was impossible for the astonished spectators to follow them. Their bodies did not seem to be subject to the law of gravity, but endowed with some sort of spiritual agility.
Those of us who are acquainted with such matters know that a class of invisible beings can manipulate the physical world, and engage in such seemingly miraculous performances. They are recognized as demons in the Bible, but only the evil kind are illustrated in the New Testament. The release of the Apostles from prison, Acts 5:19, Peter=s release described in Acts 12:6, and so on, although assigned to an angel, were the physical manipulations of those beings.
The Miracle with Father Luis Andreu
The only other person to see the Vision at Garabandal was a 38-year old Spanish Jesuit Priest, Father Luis Marie Andreu. The priest had witnessed the apparitions twice before, but without himself seeing the Vision. Beyond his own curiosity, his superiors may have suggested his visits. On August 8, 1961, in the company of about 20 people in several automobiles, he came for his third and final time. The local parish Priest had to leave on another assignment and asked Father Andreu to stand in his place. Although highly skeptical of the events he accepted the request out of a sense of loyalty and duty. At 2:11 in the afternoon an ecstasy began. Conchita, concerned that there was no proof the events were real, asked the Vision for some evidence of their reality, arguing that proof had been given at Lourdes and Fatima. The Vision did not answer. Shortly before the ecstasy ended the Vision said they would have another visit that evening. For the Vision to appear twice in one day was unusual. That evening a recitation of the rosary took place in the village church. While still there another ecstasy began. In ecstatic walk the girls toured the village, praying at various locations. On other occasions this would terminate the event. Surprisingly, as the girls continued in ecstasy they ascended the steep incline leading to pine trees at the top of the hill overlooking the village. Conchita again requested proof. Again the Vision did not answer. This was Tuesday about 10:00 PM. Father Andreu was among the crowd following the children. At the pine trees they stopped, prayed, and sang a hymn. Then, as the ecstasy continued, a remarkable event took place. Father Andreu was heard shouting in a loud voice, AMilagro!@ AMiracle!@ He said this four times. His face turned very grave. Although the girls could not see their physical environment except for one another during an ecstasy they now suddenly saw Father Andreu with them. The ecstasy then ended. To the surprise of the crowd he testified he had seen the Vision.
He also testified to something else. He was shown the forthcoming Great Miracle, but the children were not. The children, in ecstasy, understood Our Lady to say to him: "You will soon be with me." Visibly moved, he departed in the early morning hours with his group of people to return to his parish. He was deeply silently. His final words to his companions in the automobile were:
"Oh! What a sweet and lovely mother we have in heaven . . . how happy I am . . . what a favor The Blessed Virgin has bestowed on me. How fortunate we are to have a mother like her in heaven! There is no reason to fear the supernatural life. The girls have given us an example of how we must act with the Blessed Virgin. There is no doubt in my mind that the things involving the girls are true. Why should the Blessed Virgin have chosen us? This is the happiest day of my life."
Although, he had never had any history of serious illness, and was in excellent physical health, with those words, he bowed his head and died.
The Miracle of the Host
On May 2, 1962, the angel told Conchita that God would perform a miracle so that all people would believe: they would see the Sacred Host on her tongue at the moment of a supernatural Communion and that she would be told and should make this known fifteen days in advance. On July 18, 1962, the
town was crowded with visitors. At midnight Conchita, who had remained in her home continually surrounded by visitors, entered into ecstasy and went out into the street. A short distance from her house she fell down on her knees in the midst of the crowd. Lights were focused on her. She put out her tongue upon which nothing was resting. In a few moments, a white host appeared on her tongue and remained there for a few minutes. A businessman from Barcelona, Don Alejandro Damians, standing less than three feet from the girl, secured moving pictures. In the film there appeared 79 frames of the extraordinary scene. Damians later wrote a report he submitted to the Bishop of Santander, together with a copy of the film. The number of witnesses on this occasion was very large: there were people from different cultures and social classes. Don Benjamin Gomez, a farmer from Potes, wrote:
"I was standing at less than an arm's length from the girl. I saw very well that her tongue was completely clean of everything. The girl did not move. Suddenly there appeared the Sacred Host. It was white, shining and resplendent. It reminded one of the snow when the sun strikes it with its brilliant rays. The girl's face was beautifully transformed into heavenly ecstasy. Her face was angelic. I can certify that she was motionless, moving neither hands nor tongue. In this motionless position she received the Sacred Host. We had enough time to contemplate this marvelous phenomenon without any undue haste, and many of us saw it. I was an unbeliever until that day. I am not such a Catholic as to be subject to any hallucination or imagination. I had not concerned myself about God until then, except to offend Him. I went to confession in April but previous to that time I had not gone to confession for twenty-three years."
The Messages
I shall now list the Messages given to the girls, as provided on the garabandal.org web site, and from Our Lady Comes to Garabandal. (Some differences exist in the references to person from the several sources.) The messages from October 18, 1961 and from June 18, 1965 are understood to be Aformal@ messages, while the others are classified as Ainformal.@ No apparent formal criteria seem to exist to differentiate between the two. You can see from the content why I ignore those classifications.
October 18, 1961
We must make many sacrifices, perform much penance, and visit the Blessed Sacrament frequently. But first, we must lead good lives. If we do not, a chastisement will befall us. The cup is already filling up, and if we do not change, a very great chastisement will come upon us.
June 19, 1962
AThe Virgin told us a message for the whole world and it is this:
AThe Virgin has said to us that we are not expecting the Chastisement. Because we are disregarding her first message by the way we live but without expecting punishment, it will come. Because the world has not changed and now, with this message she has said it twice and we do not heed her. Because the world is worse and must change but has not changed at all.@
I personally feel it was a betrayal of truth to phrase these remarks in terms of a conditional statement. Yes, if the world would become righteous and holy the chastisement then would not occur. The Old Testament prophecies are styled in a similar fashion, but there the judgment is stated in terms of promise, rather than warning. The biblical prophecies are not styled in the hope that mankind somehow will change, but rather if it had changed. See
Ps 89:31‑32
A. . . if they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments, then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with scourges.@
Isa 48:18
AO that you had hearkened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.@
God knows us. He knows the condition of the world, and the inability of present day humanity to live righteous lives. Did the Vision truly expect the world would change by the words from four children in a remote mountain village of Spain in less than eight months? The scene is unreal. One might speculate that the statements were conditioned to satisfy a few people of the geographical region. But would they fare any better in their holiness than the rest of the world? Many of those who were personal witness to the events still did not believe, even though they had direct contact. Even more, the statements are global, not regional. They could not apply merely to some local geographical place.
Perhaps the Vision styled the remarks to be acceptable to the children, and their backcountry adult compatriots. Perhaps their psychology was tuned to such short time frames, and expectations. The many commentaries on the events by Catholic writers show this very psychology. The entire Catholic community shows such religious immaturity.
Or perhaps we have translation through the minds of children that distorted the actual statements and pronouncements, but this suggestion also is not adequate. The entire scenario is unreal.
In this speculative attempt to understand we must keep in mind that the statements as published have been through the hands of editors and auditors who have their own religious agendas. We may not have correct reporting.
We should also keep in mind that the Judgment of the earth was revealed at the time of Moses, and the Old Testament prophets. Hence, to cast this fact as a conditional statement was misleading. Perhaps, because the Church stifled reading and study of the Bible, the Catholic community was unaware of those truths. Then the people needed conditioning to such (for them) radical concepts.
Still another, and more forceful, possibility exists: The strong Catholic images of the Virgin Mary, the Eucharist, the Host, and the Rosary would give authenticity to the messages and the prophecies in the minds of Catholics world wide. Perhaps this was sugar coating to get promulgation of the revelations throughout the Catholic community. I, personally, cannot estimate how much the imagery detracted from the message. We must accept that celestial minds are far superior to us, and that they would know how their work would result in benefit to God.
On such grounds I would reject the Vision. But too many other crucial elements were within the visitations to be ignored. Witness the testimony of Luis Andreu and the physical phenomena associated with the apparitions.
June 23, 1962
"The Virgin has told us:
AThe world continues the same . . . That it has not changed at all. FEW WILL SEE GOD. They are so few that it causes The Virgin much sorrow. What a pity that it does not change. The Virgin told us that the Chastisement is coming seeing that the world is not
changing. The cup is filling up. How sad the Virgin was although She didn't let us see it because She loves us so much and She suffers alone. She is so good! Be good everyone so that The Virgin will be happy. She told us that We who are good should pray for those who are bad. Let us pray to God for the world for those who do not know Him. Be good
. . . be very good everyone"
Maria Dolores Mazon, 13 years old Jacinta Gonzalez, 13 years old
Here we see one of the reasons for accepting the phenomenon. Without doubt, this is a true statement: FEW WILL SEE GOD. Of the billions of residents of this world, FEW WILL SEE GOD. Here we have a radical concept, but within the boundaries of the psychology of the Catholic community.
By late 1962 the apparitions had mostly stopped. They continued sporadically with some locutions and with scattered visionary events for Conchita Gonzales into 1965. Because of the wide attention many clung to any statements she made. She said that an important pronouncement was expected on June 18. More than two thousand people gathered in Garabandal C French, Germans, English, Italians, Americans and Polish, as well as Spanish. The Spanish were in the minority, perhaps due to the fact the apparitions had received practically no publicity in Spain. The French constituted the largest group. There were journalists, TV cameras from the Italian TV network, and cameramen from NO-DO (the Spanish official documentary news program).
The following is from Our Lady Comes to Garabandal, pg 176.
June 18, 1965
As my message of October 18 has not been complied with and has not been made known to the world, I am advising you that this is the last one. Before, the cup was filling up. Now it is flowing over. Many cardinals, many bishops and many priests are on the road to perdition and are taking many souls with them. Less and less importance is being given to the Eucharist. You should turn the wrath of God away from yourselves by your efforts. If you ask His forgiveness with sincere hearts, He will pardon you. I, your mother, through the intercession of Saint Michael the Archangel, ask you to amend your lives. You are now receiving the last warnings. I love you very much and do not want your condemnation. Pray to us with sincerity and we will grant your requests. You should make more sacrifices. Think about the passion of Jesus.
The communications terminated with this pronouncement. The girls no longer were witness to apparitions and revelations.


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Okay, so this is a completely unflattering photo, but it's the only one I have of me nursing in public for the first time when Naomi was 7 weeks old.*
Yes, we took a picture.
Breastfeeding was something I knew I wanted to do, but before Naomi was born the thought of having someone, even a very adorable and tiny someone, hanging off my front all the time made me grimace. That part of my body is under wraps for the vast majority of the day. I'm not one to handle myself in public (aside from the Puppetry of the Penis guys, who is?), so thinking about partially disrobing every few hours was not something I was looking forward to. In fact, there was a part of me that worried that my conservative hang ups would stand in the way of my being able to successfully feed my little one in the way I knew I wanted to.
Fast forward to Naomi's birth and all the naked time involved in the labour process… et voila! Hang ups be gone! It's amazing how flashing your vajayjay for a couple hours will help you get over yourself.
I managed to intellectually become one with the babe at the breast, but breastfeeding did not come without its difficulties for me. Generally, aside from some soreness at the beginning, breastfeeding is no problem for most women. Unfortunately, I had some issues that weren't diagnosed until after Naomi was a month and a half. I'm on the mend now, but my situation was pretty damn uncomfortable so nursing in public when I was inclined to do a Tarzan-esque yowl every time Naomi latched on was pretty much the last thing I wanted to top my day off with.
My first semi-public nursing experience was a few days before this in the waiting room at the doctor's office (I say "semi-public" because I don't think of a doctor's office as a properly public place. A doc's waiting area is a vulnerable location filled with people trying to avoid eye contact at all costs. You'd have to be pretty damn full of yourself to pull off being judgemental). Naomi was starting to fuss. She needed to eat and we were going to be called for our appointment at any moment. I could no longer avoid nursing her in front of perfect strangers. It was time to get over my performance anxiety.
Let's DO this.
I jiggle Naomi with my right arm so my left hand can root around in the diaper bag for my nursing cover. Forgot it. DAMNIT. I grab a receiving blanket and tuck the corner into my brastrap to act as a nursing cover stand-in and pretzel my fingers in an attempt to make it stay put. I'm quietly begging Naomi not to start screaming.
Just a second, Little Bean, I know you're hungry. Mommy's trying to get her act together…
I'm positioning a blanket under Naomi, still fighting with my pseudo-nursing cover, and working to keep Naomi's squiggly body on my lap. I drop one of my blankets. I'm sweating. Naomi is dangerously close to letting loose an all out blood curtling body wail.
So, I'm a slightly damp, blanket entangled mess and I'm trying to look like I have some idea of what the hell I'm doing because I have never done this around non-nursing strangers before and when you have a really little baby you are quietly plagued by the thought that everyone is looking at you and waiting to inform you that you are doing it wrong.** And then, just when I'm beginning to think that nursing in public is NEVER going to work for us and I am going to have to adjust to being a hermit forever… the clouds part, the sun shines directly upon Naomi's perfect little head, and wouldn't ya know it, she latches! SHE LATCHES, Y'ALL! I can hear the "cah, cah, cah"^ of sweet success and I wish someone would hand me a football so I could heave it to the ground and do a 'WHADUP YO!!!" victory moonwalk in celebration of this HUGE accomplishment because HOLY CRAP we did it. At this stage in the game it still hurt and there are blankets everywhere but by golly WE DID IT.
When I look up there is a woman in her late-60's sitting across from us trying to get my attention. She and her husband don't speak English. She doesn't smile, but once we make eye contact she pointedly looks at Naomi and then back at me and draws a circle in the air around us. For a brief moment I am fearful she is going to condemn me for nursing in public. A woman in my city was kicked off a bus for breastfeeding. You hear of these things all the time. I start to tense up, feeling defeated and defensive all at once, and then, with a very slight nod and a hint of a grin, she gives me a hearty thumbs up.
A thumbs up. I could have kissed her.
Naomi and I are pretty darn good at nursing now and I can nurse in public without dropping a dang thing (most of the time). So if you are learning to nurse, hang in there!
A few things that helped me:
- Dr. Jack Newman's Guide to Breastfeeding– every pregnant woman should read this book (or something on breastfeeding) before your baby is born
- breastfeedinginc.ca– Dr. Jack Newman's website, great info (his All Purpose Nipple Ointment is fabulous)
- La Leche League– it's important to know where you can get support before your baby arrives; I went to meetings before Naomi was born, John came with me too because, as my primary support, I wanted him to be on board
- If you are sore seek help IMMEDIATELY, meaning, that day. Don't feel self conscious, just do it. You might think, Oh, I'm supposed to be a bit sore… you're not, actually. You've never done this before (even if this isn't your first you've never nursed with THIS baby before) so you don't really know what is normal. Call La Leche (leaders will often give advice over the phone) or get in to see your care provider. The sooner you get on it, the better. Back in the day we were surrounded by our grandmas and moms and aunts and sisters and we watched them nurse and they could give us advice on what to do. Most of us don't live beside our families anymore so we have to rely on professionals to provide at least partial instruction. Yes, breastfeeding is "natural" but that doesn't mean it doesn't require work. Breathing is natural too, but most of us don't do a very good job of breathing deeply.
Good luck to you. You're going to rock it!
Edited to include points from Shannon in the comments section (thank you Shannon!):
- Reach out for help and if the help you get isn't helpful, keep searching
- KellyMom.com is a great source for info
- If you're feeling uncomforable about breastfeeding in public, just think that you are helping to normalize something that is completely normal!
* I did leave the house before Naomi was 7 weeks old. I just made it home again to breastfeed, nursed her in places with dedicated breatfeeding areas, or nursed her at friends houses.
** It doesn't take long to be better able to handle your babe in public. Of course it's not fun when the little one starts to cry, but you no longer feel someone is going to call Child Protective Services every time the peanut fusses.
^ "Cah, cah, cah" is the sound babe's often make when they are nursing really well, it's the swallowing in the back of their throat. When the two of you are learning to nurse that sound is music to a Mom's ears.

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Just got this recently and so far i'm loving it! I've heard people complaining about it takes an hour for most games to get interesting, well worry not because SR3 dosen't waste anytime getting to the good stuff! The first few missions are as insane as the last missions in most games are. This game is every bit as crazy as you'd expect it to be, you can upgrade and customize EVERYTHING, and you can all do it from the menu screen. The gameplay is as fun as ever, it's not dramatically different from the previous game, though it does have some improvements, such as the "awesome" meter(the Y button), which you can use to do things like hi-jack cars at the push of a button and the upgrade system(though I do miss being able to customize your crib). Also, the game takes a page from Vice City by letting you purchase property and earn money from it, which makes it much easier to buy things. The activities are a mixed bag, the new ones(especially the Running Man-esque one, forgot the exact name) are pretty cool, but the mainstay ones like Snatch, Mayhem, Escort and Trafficking haven't changed a whole lot since the first game, they're still fun, but it's hard not to miss other activities like Septic Avenger and Trailblazing. Anybody else have this game?
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Got quite a bit further today, and I have to make a slight correction-trailblazing Is in the game only now it's different, it's done in the style of the light-cycle sequences in Tron Legacy and it's pretty damn fun! My one complaint is that the story is a bit lacking compared to the previous games and feels sort of rushed, I hated that Johnny Gat was killed off-screen in the most contrived and anti-climactic way imagineable(I would've been fine with him dying if it happened late in the game and it was actually shown on-screen, then again maybe Volition has plans to bring back Gat in the DLC or something like that) and I also surprised to see Loren killed off so early, he's set up as this super-smart bad guy and ends up crushed to death by a freaking globe. Also, Killbane isn't a very interesting villain, he's a generic roid-rage super-freak who snaps at everything. Also, i'm not that big on Shaundi's new VA and her new attitude to go along with it, I much prefered her in SR2, she's still likeable, but not nearly as funny as she was in the last game. The new characters are a mixed bag, I like Kenzie, Angel and Oleh, but Zimos with his auto-tune voice gets annoying after awhile. i'm still enjoying the game, but after reading about it's development history and some of the scrapped content in the game(in one ending, you actually save Gat from the Syndicate) I just have the lingering feeling that it could've been better.


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We are almost back to normal (well, as normal as we are ever going to be!).
Hubby and I had an amazing time in California and then, the day after we got back, his nephew from Costa Rica arrived for a visit.
(that's our youth pastor in the back)
(we visited every fast food place we don't have here - lol!)
I tried to keep my phone off during the conference so I only have pics of all the places we ate - lol!
We've been exploring the island and playing tourist with our nephew.
He leaves tonight and then it's back to our normal routine.
They are at the beach right now (it's pouring rain!) and I'm home contemplating re-arranging my bedroom/sewing studio.
Think I might take the plunge tomorrow and do it - I've even plotted it out on paper just to be safe :-)
So it MAY result in some de-stashing this weekend on Instagram and Twitter.
I did get a teeny bit of sewing done this week.
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DID YOU KNOW? The average woman will spend $2400 & use 11,000 tampons in her lifetime? Save money and time with the eco-friendly safe Diamond cup. Reusable for up to 15 years.
WHAT SIZE DO YOU NEED? Size Small/A made for women who have not given birth or had a Cesarean. Size Large/B designed for women post-childbirth.
NO LEAKS OR ACCIDENTS! No leaks, accidents or odor when properly used and inserted. Easy to insert and detailed directions and helpful video link is provided with every purchase.
FREEDOM FROM YOUR PERIOD!. Safe to wear during sporting, exercise, swimming and virtually all daytime activities. Effective for eliminating nighttime leaks and bulky pad wear. Forget you are even on your period!
Every Body is Different. Here's my review of the Diamond...
If you are always looking for ways to save money and be more kind of our planet chances are you've heard of menstrual cups. But they are an up front investment that makes dropping the cash for one a good reason to read reviews and be sure you've found the one that sounds most likely to work well with your body.
I've had two vaginal births and I'm pretty comfortable with my body so my earliest forays into the world of menstrual cups seemed fairly straight forward. I saved up my pennies and plunked them down on one of the most well known brands. I purchased the size intended for women who are older and who have had babies. Unfortunately, try though I might I never could get comfortable with it. Placement was near impossible. I had literally once got it lodged sideways and that was excruciatingly painful and difficult to remove. For three months I tried to make it work. I crawled Pinterest seeking advice and suggestions, different folds and more reviews. I finally decided maybe it was the size.
• Not everyone's bodies are the same size and shape. I'm glad I went with the small on this because its shorter length was much more comfortable for me. I also found that the width was a good fit as well. If you know your body pretty well I think you should be the judge on which cup size is more likely to suit you. Ultimately for me the size still wasn't a great fit. I could still feel the stem and if you've tried cups before you know that the stem can cause major irritation. The Diamond was better than the Lunette this way but not perfect. If you generally like cups in this style but have found the stem uncomfortable this one is a great option.
• If you have to wear backup protection it kinda defeats the purpose. You're welcome to debate whether my issue was user error or a matter of my body functions but every time I used the Diamond I had some leakage. Never a lot, but enough that it was necessary to wear a pantiliner with it. If that's no biggie to you then drive on sister, personally I would prefer not to.
• When it all boils down, it's got to do it's job without causing pain. What ultimately made me decide I couldn't keep using the Diamond was that no matter that I had it properly placed or that it was working alright I couldn't stand or sit while using it. I found the silicone was too stiff and hard to be comfortable. Laying down wasn't as bad but it put so much painful pressure against my insides that by the second day of usage I had to stop. It just hurt so much it's all I could think about. For some women menstrual cups that sit lower in the vaginal canal are just not comfortable but if you like them and are in need of a new one I think the Diamond is an affordable option that's very comparable to the Lunette and similar cups.
After using the Diamond I went back to using the reusable Softcup. It's not as economical but it's the only menstrual cup option I've found that works well and doesn't hurt. Keep in mind that this has just been my personal experience with it and that your body and it's needs are unique to you. If you're a first timer be sure and do your homework! Read loads of reviews and decide which one sounds right for you and be ready to have to buy a few before you find the perfect one for you. I think the Diamond is a good cup that will last for years and that if it's a good fit for your body you will absolutely love it. It just wasn't for me.
Notes: I received a complimentary product in exchange for an honest review.
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Finally...someone I sort of "know" is reviewing one of these products. Thanks Rhianna!ReplyDelete
I'm not sure I'm comfortable with one of the "stem" style cups, but I've been wanting to try one of these style products. I'd never even heard of the Softcup, so thank you. I'm off to search the internet!
I'm so glad you reviewed this! I've always wanted to try one but I've been scared. Especially since I've had kids. I might get both sizes to try. Thanks Rhianna!ReplyDelete
Highly, highly recommend trying the Softcup Michelle! Not to be gross and TMI but I'm using one right now and can't even feel it. I started off using the single use ones but when Amazon finally got the ones that you can use for a whole period (you just clean it after emptying just like the reusable types) and then toss. Then I tried those and those are now what I use. I stock up every six months on Amazon using subscribe and save. Love it!ReplyDelete
Definitely check it out Book Lover! There are so many styles and everyone's body is different, I still haven't found the right one for me but now that I know it's not a size issue as much as a style issue I feel ready to look at other types, perhaps one with a softer silicone. If you feel comfortable let me know how it goes for you, I'm glad you're interested in trying it. :)


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It's the show that refuses to die. Two months after it was canceled for a second time, the moody crime drama "The Killing" will be revived for a fourth season, to be aired exclusively on Netflix. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix will air six episodes in what is being described as the "final season" of the show.
Series stars Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman will return, as will creator and executive producer Veena Sud. As THR notes, conversations with Netflix began about a month ago after the show was canceled in September. As a result, "The Killing" will air on the DVD rental and streaming service. There is no word on when the fourth and "final" season of "The Killing" will air.
"The rich, serialized storytelling in 'The Killing' thrives on Netflix, and we believe that it is only fitting to give Sarah Linden and Stephen Holder a proper send-off," Cindy Holland, vice president of original content for Netflix, said in a statement. "We are looking forward to offering fans - both existing and new - a series that we know is perfectly suited for on-demand viewing."
"The Killing" debuted in April 2011 on AMC to solid ratings and good reviews. But the series suffered a critical backlash after it failed to resolve the central storyline -- who killed Rosie Larsen -- at the end of the first season. The show never really recovered, and it was canceled after the second season.
Almost a year later, Fox TV Studios announced that "The Killing" would return for a third season, due to a deal between AMC and Netflix, which would enable the service to stream the third season 90 days after the finale aired on TV, according to THR.
The third season of "The Killing" debuted in June of this year, but the ratings slowly declined as the season wore on. In September, AMC announced it was canceling the series. Now, it appears the show has a new home on Netflix.
"It's a true testament to 'The Killing' creator Veena Sud, and the stellar cast led so compellingly by Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman, that fans remained so passionate about the show," Fox TV Studios President David Madden said in a statement. "We're gratified that our partners at Netflix recognized this, and are giving us the opportunity to complete the story in a way that will be satisfying to our loyal audience."


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SHS placement: Frustrated parents besiege Edu. Min.
Some frustrated parents have besieged the premises of the Education Ministry to seek placement for their wards following the challenges that have plagued the exercise.
Reporting live from the premises of the ministry, Starr News' Daniel Nii Lartey said the "place can be likened to a call centre."
Meanwhile, the government has said it is working to solve the Internet-based challenges that have hindered the Computerized School Selection Placement Secretariat (CSSPS).
Speaking at a press conference Monday, a Deputy Minister of Education in charge of pre-Tertiary Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, said, "As I speak, we have acquired new servers. We are making sure there are back up plans. We are working with NIIT in Accra… their place is open for parents who may have connectivity issues."
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Family Concerns over Monorail Destruction
The Snowdon area is well used by families wishing to introduce a remote back-country experience to their children. With its near year round accessibility and easy walking terrain, the Kiwi Burn track offers families, from young children to grandparents, an opportunity to get out and enjoy the wilderness together.
Whilst Fiordland provides many remote experiences for experienced and skilled trampers, the Kiwiburn is regarded as a treasured wilderness for families. If a monorail were built through it, this area would lose its remote backcountry appeal and with it, future generations of family enjoyment.
We see it as your children's birthright to enjoy this area as it is now. Untouched.
Main concerns
The key concerns for families using this area are:
- The loss of wilderness in this unique family-orientated backcountry area. Families cannot enjoy a 'remote' experience beginning at a visitor terminus and passing alongside a track of concrete beams and monorail trains.
- The construction (if ever completed) would last for a number of years. The road will carry the heavy trucks and excavators throughout those years. The road would be continued to be used for maintenance trucks and heavy machinery.
- The monorail and associated construction/maintenance road will break open the forest, destroying the basic qualities that now exist. The swathes of the forest clear felled for the monorail and road will be visible as they cut around the faces.
- The dozing of a road through the forest and river valleys has attempted to be sweetened by it being promoted as a mountain bike track. Indications that a commercial operation related to the principal concessionaire have been made.
- Even with the proposed re-routing of the tramping track and the relocation of the Kiwi Burn hut, the nature of the entire area will be fundamentally degraded.
And why was DOC's own independent landscape audit not used in their Officer's Report??
"There is no doubt that the visual and landscape impact of the Kiwi Burn terminus, the displacement of the Kiwi Burn hut and walking track, the effect of the monorail carriages 'flying' through the forest, the presence of the construction road/mountain bike track, the monorail passing along the Upukerora flats will be very significant. It is concluded that the SBEL (RHL commissioned) landscape report does not provide a thorough, rigorous and defensible assessment of landscape impacts.
There is no doubt that this proposal would significantly compromise the outstanding natural values of the landscape and the the "landscape integrity" of Snowdon Forest Conservation Area and the Te Wahipounamu South Westland NZ World Heritage Area."
Stand up and say "No!"
Now it's time to stop the monorail; take action!


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Interpreting Physical Sketches
Barbara Cutler and Joshua Nasman
We present an algorithm for the automatic interpretation of a rough
architectural sketch as a consistent 3D digital model. We compare our
results to the designer's intended geometry. We further validate the
algorithm by studying the variations in possible interpretations made
by other humans for a set of relatively ambiguous sketches.
In our system, the user sketches an architectural design by arranging
small-scale physical wall modules and simple markers for windows on a
table. These color-coded elements are captured by a camera mounted
above the scene and recognized using computer vision techniques.
The architectural design is automatically inferred from this rough
physical sketch transforming it into a consistent and manifold 3D triangle
mesh representation.
The resulting digital model is amenable to numerous building
simulations including lighting, acoustics, heating/cooling, and
structural analysis.
Figure 1: In our physical architectural design environment a) users gather around a table and construct b) a small-scale mockup of a design from a collection of wall elements and marker tokens. A camera above the table c) captures the layout of elements on the table. Our sketch interpretation algorithm processes these elements to construct a consistent and watertight triangular mesh of the implied architectural design (ceiling removed for visualization).
Figure 2: Intended collinearity can be ambiguous: a) detected primitives, b) annotation by the original designer, and c-f) annotation by other users.
Figure 3: Dividing space into cells by extending tangents and connecting elements: a) detected primitives, b) annotation by original designer, c) wall chains, d) zones defined by the wall chains, e) enclosure, and f) our automatic interpretation.
Figure 4: Designs with non convex boundaries may not be accurately extracted with a simple threshold on the average point or cell enclosure. By minimizing the lengths of unused wall and extra inferred wall necessary to enclose the interior zones we correctly interpret these complex designs.
Figure 5: Challenging examples of designs with multiple rooms. The examples in the bottom row are somewhat ambiguous and have multiple reasonable interpretations for the passageways between rooms.
Figure 6: If the design contains a interior room with no exterior walls, this space may be intended as a courtyard space, uncovered by a roof. The system will require extra information from the designer if the default interpretation does not match his/her intentions.
Figure 7: Domain-specific knowledge may be necessary to correctly interpret sketches that hint at common architectural forms, such as the cruciform used in church floor plans (top row) or to recognize an entrance portico (bottom row). Despite the potential for ambiguity, b-e) most users' interpretations matched a) the original designer's intention. Our automatic sketch interpretation results are shown in f).
Figure 8: Some ambiguous designs: a) the original designer's annotation, b-e) annotation by other users, f) our automatic sketch interpretation results.
Figure 9: A sampling of the variety of collected physical sketch
geometry: the original designer's annotation, and our automated
interpretation of the interior/exterior space.
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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CMMI 0841319 and Grant No. IIS 0845401. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.


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Figs (Ficus carica) are fruit trees that generally thrive outdoors in mild Mediterranean climates. In cooler climates, they serve as an indoor container plant. The inverted flowers that the fig tree produces are often called "fruits," although the seeds within these sweet and tender delicacies are the true fruits. With over 200 different cultivars, growing between 10 and 30 feet tall, there are various types of figs from which to choose. Fig trees have a potential to become invasive in some locations.
San Pedro and Smyrna Groups
San Pedro figs are a group of fig trees that produce two separate crops of fruit. Cultivars within this group produce a first crop called "breba" crop, which develops in the early spring on the tree's previous season growth. The breba crop does not require the help of a pollinating insect. The second crop comes later in the season, developing on the tree's new growth. This crop requires a pollinator to properly develop. Without a pollinator, the crop fails and developing fruits drop to the ground before reaching maturity. Smyrna trees are another group of figs that produce one crop, but require a pollinator in order for the crop to be successful. Smyrna-type figs and San Pedro cultivars that produce second crops that require pollination often fail; therefore, the fruits are generally sold as dried figs when crops are successful.
Cultivars that are known as "caprifigs" produce tiny, non-edible fruit. However, these trees play an important role in the production of edible fig crops. Pollen contained inside the caprifig's fruits is gathered by the Blastophaga wasp. This wasp collects the pollen and transports it to fertilize the Smyrna-type figs and the second crop of the San Pedro-type figs. Without the pollen produced by the caprifig and the help of the Blastophaga wasp, non-self-pollinating fig crops would not develop.
Self-Pollinating Cultivars
Several self-pollinating fig cultivars do not require the assistance of the Blastophaga wasp to produce an edible fruit crop. The "Marseilles" fig, also called the "White Marseilles" or "Lemon" is a tree that produces medium-sized fruits that are yellow in color with tiny green speckles. Thriving in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 6 through 9, they produce fruits that do not have a tapered "neck" like some figs. Developing on thin stalks, these fruits have a sweet, seedy center that is white in color.
"Brunswick," sometimes called the "Magnolia," is a medium-sized fig that is bulbous and hollow in the center. These fruits require a longer growing season before they reach maturity and can be harvested. The "Brunswick" fruit is purple to brown in color on the outside and pink and white when you cut them open. This tree is best suited for USDA zones 8 through 11.
Cold-Hardy Cultivars
Although fig trees are native to warm, Mediterranean climates, some self-pollinating cultivars are also adaptable to cooler climates. Cold-hardy varieties may still be best suited for container growing, as they require some form of winter protection. Fig trees cannot survive temperatures below 10 degrees Fahrenheit.
Trees adapted for colder climate zones include the "Brown Turkey" and the "Celeste." The "Brown Turkey" tree produces large quantities of sweet fruits that have few seeds. The fruits are brown to copper in color with a pink and white center. Plant "Brown Turkey" figs in USDA zones 7 through 9. The "Celeste" tree is known for its aesthetically pleasing shape and small purple-brown fruits. These fruits also have few seeds. Thriving in USDA zones 6 through 9, this tree is known for producing a large crop in a small amount of time.


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NetSmartz Workshop
NetSmartz® Workshop is a program of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® that creates interactive, educational safety resources for children ages 5 to 17. Through age-appropriate activities, games, videos and safety presentations, NetSmartz prepares children to behave responsibly when confronted with issues such as cyberbullying, inappropriate content, online exploitation, revealing too much information, sexting and scams.
In addition to empowering children to make safer decisions when online, NetSmartz also helps families, educators and law enforcement officials to educate children about Internet safety. The entire collection of free NetSmartz resources can be found at NetSmartz.org.
To introduce younger children, ages 5 to 10, to basic Internet safety concepts through interactions with our 3-D animated characters Clicky, Nettie and Webster visit NetSmartzKids.org.
To engage tweens, ages 8 to 12, and teens ages 13 to 17 on issues such as cyberbullying and sharing too much information, cell phones and social networking sites, visit NSTeens.org.


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It is the ideal choice for outdoor, camping, and garden activities.
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Premier Concerts and Manic Presents:
CANCELLED: Stella Donnelly
Faye Webster
Space Ballroom.
295 Treadwell Street
Hamden, CT, 06514
Doors 7:00 PM / Show 8:00 PM
This event is all ages
Stella Donnelly is a proud, self-proclaimed shit-stirrer. On lead single "Old Man," the biting opener of her electrifying debut album, Beware of the Dogs, she targets the song's titular creep, "Oh are you scared of me old man or are you scared of what I'll do? You grabbed me with an open hand. The world is grabbing back at you." When something needs to be said, whether it's to an abusive man, a terrible boss, or a clueless significant other, the 26-year old Fremantle, Western Australia-based musician is fearless in telling it like it is. Delivered entirely with a sarcastic wink and a full heart, Beware of the Dogs proves across 13 life-affirming songs the power in sticking up for yourself, your friends, and what's right.
Cutting her teeth in everything from cover acts to playing in bands like Perth's Bells Rapids, Donnelly broke out in 2017 with her solo EP Thrush Metal. "I played other people's songs for so, so long just sitting in my room before I wrote my own music. Eventually, I got a taste of what I wanted to hear from myself that wasn't that," she says. With just her voice and in her words, "a crappy $100 guitar," the resulting six-song effort was a perfect introduction to her ever-present humor and gutsy songwriting that felt as close as a diary entry. The EP's standout "Boys Will Be Boys," also featured on Beware of the Dogs, was a sobering and poignant assessment of how survivors of sexual assault are victim-blamed. The song won praise from the New York Times and NPR.
Since 2017, she's spent much of her time away from home, playing boatloads of tours and festival gigs. "Everything just seemed really, really fast. Sometimes I felt like I was hanging on by two fingers," she laughs about her ascendant career. Fearing burnout and writer's block, Donnelly returned home during one of Western Australia's chilly winters in June 2018 to finally record Beware of the Dogs. "I needed to really call the shots and have time off. This album was a way for me to take stock of myself," she explains.
She tackles this life-uprooting nature of being a touring musician on album highlight "Lunch". Donnelly says, "Even when I was home from tour, I was feeling this detachment and guilt that I've missed out on things in my loved ones' lives." When she sings lines like "I get homesick before I go away," it feels especially heart-wrenching. This is her gift: she's able to pinpoint uncomfortable emotional truths in relationships' mundane moments a less observant artist would take for granted. Even an awkward family holiday party serves as the basis for Donnelly's "Season's Greetings," where she finds herself avoiding annual encounters by "Sliding edgeways out of strained / Border protectionist debates" at the dinner table.
To flesh out Beware of the Dogs, she recruited a full band of her best friends: bassist Jennifer Aslett, drummer Talya Valenti, and guitarist George Foster. "It really opened my ears to hear something other than my own guitar," she says. Things really clicked when the band played their first show as a unit. Hearing the songs in a new context, with her friends backing her, allowed her to properly piece together Beware of the Dogs. "It was great to go back into the studio and recognize, 'Oh, that worked. That didn't. Let's add that funny bit we did accidentally. Let's add that mistake.' The album would've been so much worse had we not done that," she jokes.
With the help of producer Dean Tuza, Donnelly's band allows the songs to branch out in adventurous ways without losing any of the intimacy and warmth of her EP. Jangly guitars zip and careen over the kinetic single "Tricks," where she takes aim at racist Australian pride and the absurdity of the music industry: "You only like me when I do my tricks for you." Elsewhere, "Allergies" recalls the stripped down ethos of her EP with a performance so emotional and honest it feels like she's in the room with you when she sings, "I did my best to love you, I did my best to stay." Whether it's her career, her country, her family, or her relationships, Donnelly's knack for nuance shines.
Beware of the Dogs showcases an artist totally in command of her voice, able to wield her inviting charm and razor-sharp wit into authentically raw songs. The album is a resounding statement of purpose in recent memory and most importantly, it's a portrait of Donnelly taking charge. She says, "this album made me feel like I was back in the driver's seat. It was really liberating and grounding to realize that no one can fuck with this except me."
FAYE: confidence, trust, belief. People with this name have a deep inner desire for a stable, loving family or community, and a need to work with others and to be appreciated.
With roots in Texas swing and growing up in the creative mecca of Atlanta, home to some of the best lyricist in rap/hip-hop; Faye Webster was destined to become the creative director of her own life whether it be writing songs, performing or photography. The 19-year-old found an outlet in the arts and through that built a soundtrack incomparable to anyone else.
She continued to write songs; crafting her method and found her rhythm as she attended Grady High School in the heart of Atlanta. During that time, Faye formed a close-knit group of creative friends called PSA; a rap/art group she still calls upon for inspiration and collaboration. At just 16 she released her first full-length album, Run & Tell. "That project was more folky country and the lyrics were more generic compared to my new album," explains Faye.
With a career in music in sight, Faye set out for Nashville to pursue a degree in songwriting at Belmont University. After her first year of college, the diversity of people in both the music and creative scene drew her back to Atlanta. "I felt that this city was where I belonged. Atlanta will always be home."
"When I knew I was going to drop out of Belmont, I loaded up on electives including art classes and film photography. I got a camera for Christmas and that's where the photography began." During trips back to Atlanta, she would hang out with her old high school friends, who now had musical careers of their own, and take portraits of them. "It just grew. I was inspired by Brooklyn, NY based artist, Kehinde Wiley's work for my pattern photos. I incorporate the background into the subject matter which creates this monochromatic look that has become my signature style," says Faye. She has since shot hip-hop heavy weights including D.R.A.M., Killer Mike, Father, and Lil Yachty among many others and her photos have been featured in Rolling Stone, Billboard and many more.
Faye has grown creatively in her music pursuits with PSA. "Half of us make beats and the other half rap, that's sort of how it works. I'm more like the Aaliyah/Frank Ocean of the group," she explains. The photographer/songwriter has also found a mentor in Atlanta-based rapper Ethereal who is a part of the Awful Records; a rap clique leading the charge in expanding the hip-hop genre and curating tracks with warped sounds. "He took me under his wing and introduced me to everyone else. I've since then done songs with Father, Keith Charles Spacebar, and Dexter." These hip-hop tracks draw a sharp contrast to the Americana feel of her albums; which also shows her flexibility as an artist and songwriter.
"The photography and music don't relate or inspire one another. I treat them as their own separate entities. My goal right now is to get my music heard more than getting my photography seen," says Faye. During the one month transition from Nashville back to Atlanta, she was full of new ideas and experiences. "I began writing songs for a new album. I truly feel that this album encompasses the fact that I take influences from many different perspectives. Each song tells a story and goes through all of the emotions involved. I've developed a more specific and honest way of telling a story," Faye explains. Drawing from artists she loves ranging from Aliyah to Dawes to Courtney Barnett to Chance the Rapper; this combination has become her new album set for a Spring 2017 release date. "The music displays heart break in the most sincere way possible."
$12.00 - $15.00
**Due to reasons beyond our control this show has been CANCELLED. Tickets refunded from point of purchase**
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Archive for February, 2017
Mini-Lathe Tailstock Way Repair
Posted by Ed in Machine Shop on 2017-02-28
After the faceplant caused by the crappy compound way finishing, I decided to try repairing the tailstock ways as a means of gaining experience before tackling the real problem. The general idea is to see whether filling the gouges with epoxy will suffice.
I'm using good ol' JB Weld steel-filled epoxy, rather than graphite / molybdenum disulfide loaded epoxy, mostly because:
- I have it on the shelf
- This is a non-sliding joint
- My technique needs polishing, too
The key point: the tailstock is (astonishingly) well aligned and, if I can manage to not change how it sits on the lathe bed, this should be a zero-impact operation. Scraping / filing / fiddling with the high spots will change the alignment; I expect I must eventually do such things; this represents a first pass at the problem.
Applying a fat blue Sharpie to the tailstock ways:
After sliding the tailstock back and forth a few times, the remaining blue shows where the ways did not make contact. Those shiny and silvery spots rubbed against the lathe bed ways.
The flat way looked like this:
The patch along the upper-left edge and the small dot near the upper-right corner are the only contact points across the entire flat.
The outside of the V groove:
As nearly as I can tell, that's actually a reasonably flat and well-aligned surface, with small contact points scattered all over. Granted, there's a larger contact patch to the left and less to the right.
The inside of the V groove:
There's a single point near the top left, another over on the right, and that's about it.
I cleaned the tailstock ways with acetone to get rid of the Sharpie / grease / oil / whatever. Under normal circumstances you'd roughen the surface to give the epoxy something to grip, which definitely seemed akin to perfuming a lily.
To prevent permanently affixing the tailstock to the lathe, some folks put a generous layer of oil / graphite / soot / release agent on the lathe bed ways. I used some 3 mil = 0.08 mm Kapton tape, figuring an impervious layer would pretty much guarantee I could get the tailstock off again, no matter what.
So, we begin.
Butter up the tailstock ways with epoxy and smoosh into place atop the Kapton:
Make sure the tailstock remains well-seated where it should be:
Do other things for 24 hours while the epoxy cures, pry the tailstock loose by hammering The Giant Prying Screwdriver between the lathe bed and the underside of the tailstock (just right of the V-groove, where nothing slides on the bed, but I did use a bit of plastic as a shield), chip off excess epoxy, clean things up, etc, etc.
This time, I applied Sharpie to the lathe bed, then slid the tailstock back & forth a few times. As a result, the blue areas now show the contact patches and the gray areas just slid by without touching.
The flat way looks pretty good:
That round dot over on the right seems to be a steel protrusion; I think it's part of the same lump appearing in the "before" picture above. That rather sharp point seems to have indented the tape and produced a low area in the epoxy around it, which may not matter much: it was the only contact point before I did this.
The V groove isn't anywhere near perfect:
On the upside, the ways have much, much larger contact patches spread across nearly their entire lengths, which isn't to be sniffed at.
While reassembling the tailstock, I added a pair of M6 washers above the clamp plate so it cleared the bed with the screw tightened into the cam-lock post:
Which definitely calls for a small bushing, of course. If you put a lockwasher under the screw head, it won't clear the end of the bed casting. So it goes.
Another washer under the ram lock screw changed the phase enough to keep the knob out of the way in both the fully locked and unlocked positions:
I slobbered some Mobil Vactra #2 Sticky Way Oil (thanks, Eks!) on the bed ways, snuggled the tailstock in place, and wow does that thing move! Verily, it slides smoothly and clamps solidly in place: a tremendous improvement over the status quo ante.
Some observations…
- The tape (perhaps the adhesive layer) produces a slightly textured epoxy surface
- The tailstock way's small contact points indented the tape, even though it's only 3 mil thick
- Filling the low areas in the way works well
- The high areas may not have enough epoxy for good durability
- I expect the epoxy will wear faster than steel, so contact should improve with time
- This is not a permanent fix
What I'll do differently next time…
- Apply more epoxy to avoid those small gaps along the edges
- Use a real release agent: smoothed in place, it might provide a better finish. Might not matter
- Verify a good prying spot before epoxying, say, the compound
All in all, though, this worked much better than I expected!
Raspberry Pi 3: Disabling the Build-In WiFi
Posted by Ed in Machine Shop, Software on 2017-02-27
A streaming media player in the Basement Laboratory Warehouse Wing has a concrete block wall between it and the WiFi router, so that even high(er)-gain USB antennas can't grab enough signal for reliable streaming. After some fiddling, I snaked a cable from a hub, along the floor joints, to the Pi and declared victory. It turned out the Pi, an old Pi 1 Model B, had some trouble keeping up with the times, and I eventually swapped it for a Pi 3.
Forcing a static address for the wired port followed the now-standard recipe, with
eth0 instead of
wlan0 in
However, plugging a network cable into the Pi 3 then produces two network connections: the wired one I wanted and the aforementioned unreliable WiFi link through the built-in hardware. The only reliable way to turn off the WiFi connection seems to require applying The BFH through a line in
sudo ifconfig wlan0 down
Removing my WiFi credentials from
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf prevents the hardware from connecting before the hammer comes down.
And then it streams perfectly…
Rail Trail Blockage
Posted by Ed in Oddities, Recumbent Bicycling on 2017-02-26
This big branch must have landed with a mighty thump across the Maloney Road entrance to the Dutchess Rail Trail:
Yeah, some jerk ran a snowmobile up the slope around the tree, leaving a pile of dirt on the ramp. So it goes.
We took an alternate route, I emailed The Right Folks, and (most of) the tree vanished two days later; evidently, the property owner gets to deal with everything to the left of the line of trees.
Cheap WS2812 LEDs: Test Fixture Current
Posted by Ed in Electronics Workbench on 2017-02-25
With the WS2812 test fixture neatly mounted, I plugged it into a six-port USB charger allegedly capable of supplying 2.4 A per port and captured a trace with nearly all 28 LEDs displaying full white:
At 200 mA/div, the top trace shows a bit under 1.2 A, a bit under the 1.68 A = 28 × 60 mA you'd expect; in round numbers, each RGB pixel draws 43 mA. Actually, the WS2812 specs don't specify the maximum / typical LED current and, on belief and evidence, I doubt these units meet any particular specs you'd care to cite.
Also, the supply voltage (measured across the LED array "bus bar" wires) hits 3.37 V, well under the 5 V you'd expect from a USB charger and less than the 3.5 V called for by the WS2812 specs. Although the WS2812 nominally limits the LED current, there's no telling how it varies with supply voltage.
A cheap USB 1 A wall-wart charger produced far more hash:
That's with an additional 20 µF of tantalum capacitance across the power bus bars. The peak current looks like 1.4 A, with marginally more supply voltage at 3.56 V.
Bumping the trace speed shows the wall wart produces nasty current spikes, at what must be the poor thing's switching speed, as it desperately tries to produce enough juice for the LEDs:
The step over on the right looks like a single RGB LED going dark, as it's about 50 mA tall.
The output voltage doesn't show the same spikes, so the LED array acts like a constant-voltage load. Given that the WS2812 probably connects all the LEDs pretty much straight across the supply, that's not far from the truth: we're looking at the forward drop of those blue LEDs.
Now, to let it cook away in the cool and the dark of the Basement Laboratory…
Cheap WS2812 LEDs: Test Fixture Mount
Posted by Ed in Electronics Workbench, Machine Shop, Software on 2017-02-24
Mounting the ungainly WS2812 LED test fixture seemed like a Good Idea to keep the electricity out of the usual conductive litter:
The solid model shows more details:
The power wires along the array edges slide into the rear (thinner) slot, with enough friction from a few gentle bends to hold the whole mess in place.
The knockoff Arduino Nano rests on the recessed ledge in the pit, with M2 screws and washers at the corners holding it down (the PCB's built-in holes might work with 1 mm or 0-90 screws, but that's just crazy talk). I soldered the power wires directly to the coaxial jack pins under the PCB; they snake out to the LEDs through the little trench. There should be another cutout around the USB connector for in-situ programming, although the existing code works fine.
The front (wider) slot holds a piece of translucent white acrylic to diffuse the light:
It's painfully bright: a few layers of neutral density filter would be appropriate for a desk toy.
The array runs hot enough at MaxPWM = 255 to produce a gentle upward breeze.
It looks even better without the flash:
You'll find many easier ways to get RGB LED panels, but that's not the point here; I'm waiting for these things to die an unnatural death.
The OpenSCAD source code as a GitHub Gist:
Cheap WS2812 LEDs: Test Fixture
Posted by Ed in Electronics Workbench, Machine Shop, Science, Software on 2017-02-23
Given that I no longer trust any of the knockoff Neopixels, I wired the remaining PCB panel into a single hellish test fixture:
The 22 AWG wires deliver +5 V and Common, with good old-school Wire-Wrap wire passing to the four LEDs betweem them. The data daisy chain snakes through the entire array.
It seems only fitting to use a knockoff Arduino Nano as the controller:
The code descends from an early version of the vacuum tube lights, gutted of all the randomizing and fancy features. It updates the LEDs every 20 ms and, with only 100 points per cycle, the colors tick along fast enough reassure you (well, me) that the thing is doing something: the pattern takes about 20 seconds from one end of the string to the other.
At full throttle the whole array draws 1.68 A = 60 mA × 28 with all LEDs at full white, which happens only during the initial lamp test and browns out the supply (literally: the blue LEDs fade out first and produce an amber glow). The cheap 5 V 500 mA power supply definitely can't power the entire array at full brightness.
The power supply current waveform looks fairly choppy, with peaks at the 400 Hz PWM frequency:
With the Tek current probe set at 200 mA/div, the upper trace shows 290 mA RMS. That's at MaxPWM = 127, which reduces the average current but doesn't affect the peaks. At full brightness the average current should be around 600 mA, a tad more than the supply can provide, but maybe it'll survive; the bottom trace shows a nice average, but the minimum hits 4.6 V during peak current.
Assuming that perversity will be conserved as usual, none of the LEDs will fail for as long as I'm willing to let them cook.
The Arduino source code as a GitHub Gist:
Raspberry Pi Boot vs. Avahi vs. DHCP
Posted by Ed in PC Tweakage, Software on 2017-02-22
Sometimes, one of our homebrew streaming media players will emerge from reset without starting up properly. The system board LEDs blink more-or-less normally, but the WiFi activity monitor seems … odd. This post documents the results of some exploratory surgery hinting at a possible solution.
I set the router's DHCP server to assign a fixed IP address to each of our homebrew streaming media players based on its MAC address. That seemed less horrible than setting a static IP address in each player's configuration, although I could see advantages to either approach. For
streamer1, the player discussed here, the IP address is
192.168.1.101; that's a non-routable address used only on our network behind the router.
During the Raspberry Pi's boot, the default
/etc/rc.local script finds and displays its IP address:
_IP=$(hostname -I) || true if [ "$_IP" ]; then printf "My IP address is %s\n" "$_IP" fi
/var/log/boot log showed this after one boot:
--- snippage --- Starting LSB: Raise network interfaces.... --- [ OK ] Started LSB: Raise network interfaces.. Starting ifup for wlan0... [ OK ] Started ifup for wlan0. [ OK ] Reached target System Initialization. [ OK ] Listening on Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack Activation Socket. --- [ OK ] Reached target Sockets. --- [ OK ] Reached target Basic System. Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack... Starting Regular background program processing daemon... [ OK ] Started Regular background program processing daemon. Starting dhcpcd on all interfaces... --- [ OK ] Started Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack. --- [ OK ] Started dhcpcd on all interfaces. [ OK ] Reached target Network. --- Starting /etc/rc.local Compatibility... Starting Permit User Sessions... [ OK ] Reached target Network is Online. Starting LSB: Start NTP daemon... My IP address is 169.254.14.12 [ OK ] Started Permit User Sessions. connect: Network is unreachable [ OK ] Started /etc/rc.local Compatibility. Starting Terminate Plymouth Boot Screen... Starting Hold until boot process finishes up...
That mysterious IP address is a Link-local address, about which Wikipedia says: "If a host on an IEEE 802 (Ethernet) network cannot obtain a network address via DHCP, an address from 169.254.1.0 to 169.254.254.255 may be assigned pseudorandomly."
So, having the router hand out IP addresses doesn't quite work the way I expected. The Pi awards itself a link-local IP address before getting one from the DHCP server, presumably because the vast Linux startup Pachinko machine has a race condition. Alas, the pseudorandom LL address doesn't fit in the 192.168.0.0/16 network handled by the router: the Pi can't connect to the network.
My code in
/etc/rc.local starts the streaming player immediately after the default code displaying the IP address, thus joining the race condition: if the player starts up before the DCHP server assigns the proper IP address, it can't connect to the music server out on the Interwebs. My code includes a retry loop with a five second delay which eventually connects, at least most of the time, but sometimes gets wedged.
The most reasonable fix seems to involve forcing a static address on each Raspberry Pi, so it can immediately connect to the network, without any negotiation, and get on with the business at hand.
Rather than configuring that in
/etc/network/interfaces as before, the New Hotness adds a stanza to
interface wlan0 static ip_address=192.168.1.101/8 static routers=192.168.1.1 static domain_name_servers=192.168.1.1
En passant, I killed off IPV6 with this line in
The router doesn't support IPV6 and there's no point in using it. Bonus: less log clutter. Double Bonus: startup happens faster!
All of which may help the NTP client update the system clock sooner, perhaps preventing time jumps like this:
2017-02-14 08:42:24,183 INFO: Player setup for: BR1 2017-02-14 08:42:24,184 INFO: Volume control knob: /dev/input/volume 2017-02-14 08:42:24,225 INFO: Starting mplayer on Ambient -> http://220.127.116.11:7331/maschinengeist.org.mp3 2017-02-14 08:42:27,175 INFO: Track name: [Arcticology - Nocturnal Sounds] 2017-02-14 08:42:27,194 INFO: Track unmuted 2017-02-15 04:25:00,386 INFO: Track name: [Oöphoi - Suspended Matter] 2017-02-15 04:25:00,413 INFO: Track unmuted
The timestamps in the first five lines date back to the previous shutdown. The Pi remains plugged in and powered while it's reset, which apparently preserves the system clock variables, albeit without a hardware clock ticking along: time stands still between shutdown and restart.
In this case, the IP address situation worked itself out before the player started, but the NTP clock reset on the sixth line happened at least three seconds after the log began.
This chunk of
/var/log/syslog has more detail:
highlight="1,5,6,7,8,15,21"] Feb 14 08:42:24 streamer1 dhcpcd[693]: wlan0: leased 192.168.1.101 for 86400 seconds Feb 14 08:42:24 streamer1 dhcpcd[693]: wlan0: adding route to 192.168.1.0/24 Feb 14 08:42:24 streamer1 dhcpcd[693]: wlan0: adding default route via 192.168.1.1 Feb 14 08:42:24 streamer1 avahi-daemon[387]: Registering new address record for 192.168.1.101 on wlan0.IPv4. Feb 14 08:42:24 streamer1 dhcpcd[693]: wlan0: deleting route to 169.254.0.0/16 Feb 14 08:42:24 streamer1 avahi-daemon[387]: Withdrawing address record for 169.254.14.12 on wlan0. Feb 14 08:42:24 streamer1 avahi-daemon[387]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface wlan0.IPv4 with address 169.254.14.12. Feb 14 08:42:24 streamer1 avahi-daemon[387]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface wlan0.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.101. Feb 14 08:42:25 streamer1 dhcpcd[693]: wlan0: no IPv6 Routers available Feb 14 08:42:25 streamer1 ntpd_intres[728]: DNS 0.debian.pool.ntp.org -> 184.108.40.206 Feb 14 08:42:25 streamer1 ntpd_intres[728]: DNS 1.debian.pool.ntp.org -> 188.8.131.52 Feb 14 08:42:25 streamer1 ntpd_intres[728]: DNS 2.debian.pool.ntp.org -> 220.127.116.11 Feb 14 08:42:25 streamer1 ntpd_intres[728]: DNS 3.debian.pool.ntp.org -> 126.96.36.199 Feb 14 08:42:26 streamer1 ntpd[720]: Listen normally on 6 wlan0 192.168.1.101 UDP 123 Feb 14 08:42:26 streamer1 ntpd[720]: Deleting interface #3 wlan0, 169.254.14.12#123, interface stats: received=0, sent=0, dropped=4, active_time=3 secs Feb 14 08:42:26 streamer1 ntpd[720]: 18.104.22.168 interface 169.254.14.12 -> (none) Feb 14 08:42:26 streamer1 ntpd[720]: 22.214.171.124 interface 169.254.14.12 -> (none) Feb 14 08:42:26 streamer1 ntpd[720]: 184.108.40.206 interface 169.254.14.12 -> (none) Feb 14 08:42:26 streamer1 ntpd[720]: 22.214.171.124 interface 169.254.14.12 -> (none) Feb 14 08:42:26 streamer1 ntpd[720]: peers refreshed Feb 15 04:20:10 streamer1 systemd[1]: Time has been changed [/sourcecode]
Given the timestamp resolution, NTP (or systemd) apparently resets the clock three seconds after the IP address changes. That may be as good as it gets, if only because the NTP daemon must find its servers, evaluate their status, then whack the local clock.
After forcing the static address, things look better, but it's too soon to be sure. Many things can clobber streaming, not all of which happen on this side of our router.


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Gucci Guilty Fragrance comes to Brutal MAN's Estate
2010's gladdened girls with the appearance of Gucci Guilty female edition. And it is absolutely fantastic especially considering so sexy Evan Rachel Wood starring in a fab ad campaign. Well, fortunately Gucci brand's decided not to neglect men and announced that in 2011 Gucci Guilty Fragrance would come to Brutal Man's estate, featuring shirtless Chris Evans at the center of things.
Well, Gucci Guilty male edition ad is so hot with brutal Chris Evans on the bridge, so I haven't even immediately noticed the fragrance itself. Then having realized that it is a fragrance ad I try concentrating upon the flacon (and believe me that was really hard!), which I must admit not less masculine and brutal as the ad campaign star himself. The bottle is made of heavy metal and thick glass, being designed uniquely for brutal men such as Chris Evans.
The fragrance includes seductive aroma of lavender and lemon, with orange blossom scents to crown magical bouquet. And to soft this basic notes composition warm woody scents of patchouli and cedar are used.
Gucci Guilty Pour Homme will be available in various volumes, including 30, 50 and 90ml EDT. And fancy that, dear gentlemen! E-v-e-r-y c-o-n-c-e-i-v-a-b-l-e p-l-e-a-s-u-r-e will be accompanied with body care products.
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Management Development Program
Management Development Program / Management Trainee
Salary: $44,000 / year
We know you know GEICO. But you should get to know us for great careers, too. And, right now, we're looking for future business leaders for our Management Development Program to start a GEICO career in Kansas City, KS. Through this fast-track management training program, you will be prepared to quickly move into a management position at GEICO as you grow both professionally and personally.
At GEICO, it's not just a job, it's growth and opportunity.
There's one thing our associates all have in common: they found a career they never expected. With coaching and mentoring, you will find being a part of the Management Development Program, can become a career in the most unexpected and rewarding ways.
- Associates in our Management Development Program earn an annual salary of $44,000/ year.
- Become a top performing supervisor that will help lead GEICO's diverse, growing team of associates
- Interact with all levels of GEICO management and enjoy the support to take your career as far as you want
"As a college graduate, I started in GEICO's Management Development Program in Claims. Through this fast-track program, I was able to learn liability claims while moving into my management rotations." Ashley M., GEICO Associate since 2012
Get ready to join a company you can believe in and work alongside a team of associates who care. Mastering this program through supervisor courses, shadowing top-notch supervisors, and mentoring by managers, you will:
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With year round sunshine and sweltering hot summer temperatures, it should be no surprise that Arizona has the highest skin cancer rates in the nation.With skin cancer being the most common form of cancer, early detection and treatment are essential to preventing and curing deadly skin cancers.
The Expert on skin cancer
To help keep you and your loved ones safe from cancer, Dr. Robert West, a skin cancer specialist at Arrowhead Health Centers, happily answers your most common cancer questions.
• Question #1: What is Skin Cancer?
There are three main types of skin cancer and each derives from a different lineage of cell that normally lives in your skin. When your cells' DNA becomes damaged by the sun, your cells mutate and become cancerous. Cancerous cells grow abnormally and aggressively, spreading throughout your body and invading normal, healthy tissue.
Types of Skin Cancer
- Squamous and Basal Cell Carcinomas
- Both caused by UV exposure from the sun or tanning beds
- Usually forms on the most exposed areas of your skin, such as the face, neck, arms, etc.
- Basal Cell Carcinoma is the least aggressive, but most common
- Melanoma:
- Most aggressive form of skin cancer
- Grows quickly and can spread at rapid rates to internal organs
- Can form on any area of the skin
• Question #2: Who's at Risk?
Anyone at any age of any ethnicity or family history should take precautions to protect themselves from the sun. However, people who meet the following criteria are most at risk:
- Exposed to the sun frequently without taking proper precautions to protect themseves
- Females ages 20-30, and people 50 and above
- Prior history or skin cancer
- Fair skin (whether African-American or Caucasian)
- Genetic predisposition
• Question #3: Is it Preventable?
Absolutely! Prevention is based on reducing your exposure to UV rays, so the more you limit your exposure to the UV rays, the better your chances for avoiding cancer.
• Question #4: What if I end up getting skin cancer?
Skin cancer is serious, but that doesn't mean all hope is lost. Treatment depends on the type, size, depth, and location of the cancer. If your doctor is able to catch suspicious moles and lesions early on, chances are, you'll have a positive prognosis.
To avoid getting cancer, be sure to follow the "slip, slop, slap, shade" mantra they preach in Australia (home of the highest cancer rates in the world).
- Slip on clothing with an ultraviolet protection factor rating of 30+
- Slop on some sunscreen
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- Hang out in the shade whenever possible
Remember, early detection is key in both preventing and treating cancer, so it's important to schedule a skin check every year – or if you've had cancer in the past, you'll need an exam every few months.
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Easy Step by step tutorial to make a gel candle for cheap.
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Recycling baby food jars into coin jars
Recycle baby food jars into Coin Banks, and use chalkboard paint to record the savings. Great project to encourage kids to save and use.
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Magnetic Photo Display Frame (Tutorial)
Turn your foam board into a Magnetic Photo Display Frame with magnetic paint and magnetic disks. Use Damask stencil to paint it in your favorite color and enjoy displaying your favorite pictures or show off your collection. Here's a very good tutorial to make one of these for yourself.
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Threaded necklace with rosettes
I have seen many rosettes around the craft blogs but these rosettes made with yarn look like cute crochet flowers. Make a flirty necklace with rosettes that can also be worn as a bag brooch or a summer fun bracelet. Find the tutorial here
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Make easy crochet rosettes with yarn (tutorial)
These rosettes are so much fun and very easy to make. You can makes tons of yarn rosettes in very little time. Use them in making wreaths, jewelry, brooches, frames and so much more. Check out the tutorial here with some cute jewelry ideas for summer parties
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Folding napkin into a flower
See how you can make this easy napkin flower for your next dinner party, NAPKIN FLOWER
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Check out how I made this simplest origami flower and decorated my bulletin board with it, ORIGAMI TUTORIAL
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Vista Trail – 1.6km
Panoramic bluffs view of the Little Rouge Creek and Rouge River valleys. Easily accessible 1.5 km loop route access, at North Trail Head Pearse House only, also offers panoramic bluffs view of the Little Rouge Creek valley. Steep grades on trail. Steps and steep sections may be slippery during wet or winter weather.
What will you see on this trail?
•A mix of forest and meadow views offers a variety of plant and animal life.
•Steep bluffs of the river valleys.
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By: Santiago J. Padilla, Esq.
Many prospective clients ask me if a real estate lawyer is necessary to purchase a house or condominium unit. Invariably my answer is always an emphatic "YES." A simple example will demonstrate why I always say yes.
Let's assume that the buyer is seeking to acquire a house for a purchase price of $550,000 and will be taking out a loan for 80% of the purchase price, which means that the buyer will be paying at least 20% of the purchase price or $110,000 in cash in order to close the transaction. The real estate contract will naturally have a clause that the closing is subject to the buyer obtaining financing for the loan. However, one problem is that the current standard real estate contract that is used by real estate agents and brokers fails to adequately address the financing issue for several reasons.
One reason is that the current standard "as-is" real estate contract that realtors use, and which is approved by both the Florida Bar and the Florida Association of Realtors, contains a defective contingent financing clause. This "contingent financing" clause states that the closing is conditioned upon the buyer obtaining a Loan Commitment within a certain period of time. Therefore, if the buyer does not obtain a Loan Commitment within the period of time specified in the contract, then the buyer is relieved of his or her obligation to purchase the property and then receives a complete reimbursement of any good faith deposit that the buyer paid into escrow. However, the contract fails to adequately address the issue of what happens if the buyer obtains the Loan Commitment, but for some reason cannot close on the purchase.
Continuing with the example, let's say that the parties sign the contract and provide for a closing to occur within 45 days and that the Loan Commitment must be obtained within 30 days. Let's further assume that the buyer makes a good faith deposit of $20,000 and obtains a Loan Commitment within the 30-day period indicated by the contract. Under the terms of the standard "as-is" contract, upon obtaining the Loan Commitment, the financing condition is met and the buyer is deemed to have waived the financing contingency, which means that if for some reason the buyer does not close on the purchase, then the buyer will lose the good faith deposit.
Yet, let's assume that prior to the closing, the bank informs the buyer that the bank's underwriting department requires that the buyer have at least 6 months of reserves in order to finalize the loan, which means that the buyer must have the equivalent of 6 months of monthly payments in the bank. If the buyer does not have any more money and cannot come up with the reserves required by the bank, then the buyer may not be able to obtain the loan to purchase the property and would lose his or her good faith deposit because the buyer has already waived the financing contingency according to the "as-is" contract.
The specific problem here is that the standard "as-is" contract provides that the financing contingency is waived upon receiving a loan commitment or soon thereafter. Therefore, what the contract needs to provide is that the purchase of the property is subject to the buyer actually obtaining the loan from the bank, including meeting underwriting approval and all other requirements of the bank. In the example above, if the buyer would have had an attorney negotiate the purchase contract and include a clause stating specifically that "this contract, and the buyer's obligation to close the transaction, shall be contingent upon the buyer actually obtaining a loan from the lender," then the problem would have been resolved. This is just one reason why I emphatically respond that a buyer should always have an attorney in order to purchase real property.
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If you have any questions regarding real estate law or issues with purchasing real property, please do not hesitate to contact me, Santiago J. Padilla, Esq., either at 800-483-7197 or via email at [email protected]


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Saturday, November 14, 2020
MGM Springfield
The "City of Bright Nights Ball" is a fund-raising event to support the Spirit of Springfield. The gala event includes a gourmet dinner, entertainment and dancing in an elegant atmosphere. This year's theme is sure to be as magical and memorable as past year's like "Teahouse of the Autumn Moon," "Winter Garden," "Moon Over Morocco" and "Monopoly."
In 1996, sponsor contributions and proceeds from the evening afforded the Spirit of Springfield the opportunity to outline with lights Springfield's Municipal Group consisting of City Hall, Symphony Hall and the Campanile. In 1997, the Municipal Group was again illuminated along with ten Springfield Fire Department Stations. In 1998, 22 halos were purchased and installed on the Memorial Bridge in cooperation with the Town of West Springfield. Completing the Court Square lighting was the focus of the 1999 and 2000 events. Many private businesses have also purchased major displays to illuminate their buildings.