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|A Miniature Dessert table ready for the Christmas Holidays 1/12" scale
|The 3 desserts on the front of this table were from a class I took at a NAME convention. It was taught by Carl Bronsdon.
They are all Fimo and very delicate on very fragile glass plates.
|Another Trash to Treasure Log Cabin. This one was in the free bin. It was very dry looking and a roof was added and re nailed the logs here and there.
|The front is about 12" and the back about 8" across and about 12" high. This is an estimate because its upstairs and I'm not.
This book was found on a road trip to another state with my daughter. Sometimes a chain craft shop in another area has way different items than the one close to home. It was very exciting to find this book.
It is published by Design Originals No. 5431 and the author is Takashi Morito This is the website all in Japanese but you can right click and translate it. The pictures in the header are animals that are made and they are too cute. The book is all in English with detailed pictures and instructions for each animal. http://ameblo.jp/harinezumi-s/ I was really impressed with the selection of pipe cleaners available now. Have not been to that area of the store in a long time. Soft long furry pipe cleaners large size. They had variety packs of all colors and all thicknesses in each. I got a bunch in case they forget to order more and plan on creating some of these cuties at the New Year. All my Grand pups are represented in there and my Grandson would probably enjoy creating these as well. There are even some with little sweaters on. The chain store is Pat Catans, Michael's bought them out, so Michael's might have this book as well. Pat Catans is still in Ohio, Pennsylvania.
The new pipe cleaners could be used for very convincing fur on dolls clothing. They are long a fluffy, black, white, beige, gray and other colors. They just aren't short and stubby anymore.
There are sooo many projects on my work table at the moment. I work in stages on each one until finished, but have been photographing each step so they can be published as mini tutorials. A much needed organizing and cleaning in my work room is going on right now and in the process finding things to make How-to;s out of. Out of site-out of mind.


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Screen printed on full grained cow leather and overlaid with red circles reminiscent of tribal body painting, the Geometric Circle Clutch has been hand-crafted in Kenya for Vivienne Westwood's Ethical Fashion Initiative. Featuring the signature Westwood asymmetric design and fully lined in orange cotton, this clutch is detailed with the brass Orb emblem made from recycled metals and melted car engine parts, finished with a zip puller made from cow horn, whose unique natural pattern is enhanced by a traditional method of boiling, shaping and polishing.
Please note that this bag is an artisanal product made to be purposely unique. The recycled materials, embroidery, hardware and prints slightly vary from bag to bag, and due to its nature may have some marks from its former life, which is not to be considered a flaw. Should you require any assistance with this, please do not hesitate to contact our Customer Service Team.
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Date day turned into date night.
Phil and I decided to go out to eat at a restaurant he has been wanting to try. The place is called The Weary Traveler. When I looked at the menu before heading out to dinner, nothing really caught my eye but I figured I would suck it up and go for him (see what a nice girlfriend I am?! ;)).
The restaurant ended up being pretty unique. I love when places have cool decor.
Phil decided to play with the phone. Could you imagine still having to use a phone like that?! It would take so long to dial a number for a call!
For an app we ordered a sampler of gauc, pico, and pickled veggies. It was very delicious!
For dinner Phil ordered the "Bad Breath Burger" (which was the whole purpose of going out to eat at this restaurant) which was served with a side of greens and potatoes.
Nothing really caught my eye on the menu, so I settled for a Ruben which came with a side of greens and bacon potato salad.
Phil loved his meal. I wasn't a big fan of mine. My stomach bad been bothering me most of the day yesterday so nothing was really appetizing. I'd love to go back and give the restaurant another try but last night it just didn't do it for me.
After dinner we decided to go and see a movie to try and stay cool. Phil's apartment is just too hot lately.
We saw Horrible Bosses. It was hilarious. Go see it. Date night ended with a relaxing evening of playing cut the rope and drop the chicken on our cell phones (yes, we are huge dorks).
I love date days and date nights! 😀


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Wednesday, 28 July 2010
I'm seriously impressed and astonished at how much my boobs don't hurt.
6 days ago I had breast reduction surgery and my breasts went down from a G cup to a D cup. The new size will be confirmed once all settles down in the swelling dept.
And the crazy thing was the surgeon removed almost 3kg from my chest area. That's almost 3 bags of sugar I had hanging round my neck.
Things I know now....
I can now see my toes.
I now realise how flabby my stomach is. Couldn't see it pre-reduction.
I now may be able to purchase bras in colours other than beige and white.
I now realise how much you really need to itch when you want to but shouldn't.
I now think my boobs are tiny. Even though apparently they're not.
I now have boobs that are firm and conical and resemble what mine should have when I was 20. Being now 36, I feel like I'm cheating.
And no, you won't be seeing any before and after shots folks. Sorry to disappoint.
Back on board soon with craftiness.
8 comments:
- Bianca Jae Makes Stuff said...
Woohoo! I know friends that have had it done looked amazing and felt even better!
Congratulations to you and your ladies xox
- 28 July 2010 at 22:47
- Jessi said...
oh i am so jealous! i am a d/dd and would love to be a b/c!!
i hope it makes life easier for you!!!
- 29 July 2010 at 07:38
- Trash said...
Glad that the soreness is so much less than anticipated. How exciting to think a whole new bra world awaits.
- 29 July 2010 at 08:13
- tea and cake said...
ooh, poor you, but wow! at the same time. Hope you're feeling lots better soon. And, lacey, and colourful as well!
- 29 July 2010 at 09:16
- Cass said...
I would love to have mine reduced. I'm a dd/e and would love to be smaller and hopefully have less back pain and find nicer bras. Congratualtions
- 29 July 2010 at 12:34
- mandapanda said...
How awesome Gilly! I'm planning to have this op, and hopefully go down from a H-J to a D. I would rather C's but they won't go down that far. I'm sick and tired of dragging two bowling balls around all the time. Both boobs are each bigger than my head, and it looks so out of proportion. What a relief to know that it won't be mad toe-curling hair pulling ow after wards! And I am in my early 20s...
I had to give up sport and excercising once they got too big as it's hard to do anything, which means I've gained a ton of weight over the years. I can't wait to see my flabby stomach and be able to do something about it without my back killing me!
I'm so glad you've done it, I'm sure life will be so much easier for you now!
- 29 July 2010 at 14:08
- ingrid said...
Ouchy! I hope you have a super quick recovery and enjoy shopping for some new rainbow coloured bras.
- 29 July 2010 at 15:21
- Jenny Wagner said...
I just stumbled across your blog, and have to tell you that I LOVE your boob post! I am a BIG chested woman and can soooo relate. I've wanted to have a breast reduction for over 15 years now. Maybe one day. :D Congratulations on yours!
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Romance is in the air at the Hula-gen house. Teen Angel has a new fella in her life, and boy, is she smitten. They've been on two dates in the last seven days, and you can practically hear the birds singing when they walk out the door. It's J. this and J. that and text, text, TEXT. I can pick out his ring tone from across the house. I'm not complaining. He's a very nice boy. And handsome, too. He is 13,000% better than the last boy she dragged home, and for that, her dad and I am extremely grateful. We like New Boy a lot. We're just amused at the way they moon over each other. It sure brings back some memories; memories which make me feel a little old.
Teen Angel's only been allowed to date for the past year, and most of that time was spent pining over a boy who treated her poorly. He stood her up more than once, didn't keep his word and generally mistreated her. It got to the point that her dad and I finally told her he couldn't call or pick her up for dates anymore. It took her a while to figure out that it was okay to expect some respect in a relationship, and she finally ended that romance last summer. She coasted through the first of this school year, determined to find a decent boy. She hung out with girlfriends and didn't worry about a relationship, which thrilled me to no end. And then two weeks ago, she drifted home on a cloud of pheromones with the news about her first date with New Boy. We all anxiously waited for Friday night for the big first date. Which ended up being postponed because of snow covered roads. Oh, the gnashing of the teeth and wailing over the weather. We were relieved when Saturday came and the sun melted enough of the snow for the big date to take place.
He was polite when he arrived, shaking hands and saying all of the right things. Bless his heart; he even tried to take his shoes off at the front door until Teen Angel explained that we have hardwood so we don't have to worry about that kind of thing. He opened the door for her as they left, and we watched them pull out of the driveway, trying not to let them see us peering from the dining room window. And that's when the memories came flooding back.
Being a teenager and waiting for that special boy to pick you up. Praying to God that your parents didn't say or do anything embarrassing while he was there, and trying to get out the door fast enough to prevent dad's Great Inquisition or Mom's nosey questions. Hoping that he doesn't notice your grade school photo on the wall. Feeling like you're on top of the world while you're sitting in the car with that boy, and thinking that time has never passed so quickly. There's shyness, laughs and that first kiss that stops your heart.
For a long time after they left that night, Hubby and I talked about those teenage dates. He gave me the boy's perspective, which I had never thought about. Nerves, worrying about whether that special girl would actually say yes to his invitation to dinner and a movie, tentatively knocking on her front door, enduring her dad's stare and trying to get out of the house with that girl as fast as possible without being rude. One time, he picked up a girl for a date, and her dad never said a word to him the whole time Hubby was in their house. He never responded to anything Hubby said and to this day has never spoken to him. The man had four daughters. It's easy to understand why he was protective.
This past Saturday night was Homecoming, so we went through the whole special dress, matching shoes, pictures in the living room experience that I remember doing so many years ago. Her red dress was lovely. His matching tie was elegant, and the warmth radiating from their big smiles almost required sunscreen. They were cute, cute, cute, and I nearly laughed out loud when I remembered that all of us girls wore knickers to Homecoming my senior year of high school.
I remember those times well, and it's fun watching Teen Angel go through them, too. It will be a long time before she realizes that this was probably just one of several big dates in her life, that there will be other fancy dresses and other kisses. I'm just glad she seems to have figured out now that stepping out that door with a boy who is nice and caring and respectful is the most important part of the evening.


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Playing with the physics of our
bodies in your bedroom.
We use key instruments of self,
adding friction, adjusting pressure and
temperature in search of
"just right"
Perfect conditions. Tightly wound
body made soft by your hands.
When you feel the vibrations
keep going. Changing states
of matter on your sheets.
Pressure turned higher, heated to the
boiling point. Melting.
Bodies favor the existence of desires.
Reach the center,
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Can you feel my heat?
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This collection felt like it was walking the line between spring and fall. It reminds me of witches, and the harvest, and Halloween, and Salem. Very creative, per usual for Gareth Pugh, but also very simple. Gorgeous and well crafted. Plus that flowerball thing is just spectacular.
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Fashion: Gareth Pugh Spring 2015
This collection felt like it was walking the line between spring and fall. It reminds me of witches, and the harvest, and Halloween, and Salem. Very creative, per usual for Gareth Pugh, but also very simple. Gorgeous and well crafted. Plus that flowerball thing is just spectacular.
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Fashion: Oscars 2014
Love Cate Blanchett. Her acceptance speech was so awesome. And she looks amazing.
Fashion: Ulyana Sergeenko Spring 2014
Ulyana Sergeenko Spring 2014 Couture
"a reimagining of a ride on the Orient Express"
I love how classic and retro her clothes feel. And they look so luxe!
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Fashion: SAG Awards 2014
My favorite looks, in no particular order.
Fashion: Golden Globes 2014
You should know the drill by now. These are my favorites.
Fashion: Puzzle Apparel
So I don't normally plug indiegogo campaigns, but I really like this idea: customize-able fashion. And the designs are really cute.
Puzzle Apparel: Craft Your Fashion
Fashion: Style.com
If you haven't noticed, most of my runway fashion posts come from http://www.style.com/
Style.com has a huge catalog of runway shows.
They post shows almost instantaneously.
And I don't visit as often as I would like because I would spend all day drooling over the shows.
And the reason I prefer Style.com is that they have the entire runway show, not their picks, I like to see the whole thing.
They also have really good quality photos and you can zoom in to see those artistic details. Invaluable.
They also post well written reviews of the various shows.
Have to appreciate good writing about fashion.
If you are into fashion you should definitely check out Style.com.
Fashion: Thom Browne Fall 2013
Thom Browne Fall 2013 Ready to Wear
Lets go back in time a little, to Thom Browne's presentation for the season that is just beginning.
I love the textures and colors, so very fall, and so very British (the vision of UK upper class fashion in the international consciousness).
Luxurious and gorgeous.
And so over the top!
I'm not always into things that are over the top, it can be very much a caricature.
And perhaps people critique Thom Browne for that very reason, it veers to cartoonish.
However, I am newly aware of his work, and I am enraptured.
Some inspiration for fall:
Fashion: Thom Browne Spring 2014
Thom Browne Spring 2014 Ready to Wear
What a crazy collection!
I love the sculptural elements in the pieces.
And I love how disturbed the runway show is, the models look almost grotesque! Awesome.
My favorites:
Fashion: Libertine Spring 2014
Libertine Spring 2014 Ready to Wear
Some of the prints were a bit overdone/too repetitive.
But a good collection none the less.
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Fashion: Maintaining the Illusion
I read an article over at Jezebel called Even if Fashion Is an 'Illusion,' It Still Has to Face Reality.
"As it stands right now, fashion is an illusion. It does not map onto real life. As the British Vogue film strives to show, it promotes an impossible ideal of beauty and body size. And, as the WaPo article argues, it's an illusion in other ways as well: the industry continues to be hideously whitewashed even as America grows more diverse and countless mass retailers are propped up by unlawful and completely unethical labor practices. Acknowledging that "fashion imagery does not equal reality" is a good first step, but the real solution lies in making the world of fashion more accurately represent the real world — not in insinuating that it has no responsibility to."
In reading this article I can't help but think of how popular fashion bloggers have become.
And fashion bloggers are almost the anti-thesis of what fashion magazines claim their readers want.
A person who blogs about fashion (usually) looks like a real person, doesn't have the technical skills to be overly photoshopped, and can't afford to wear "inspirational" clothes.
I've always been bothered by the fashion spreads as inspiration and so there is nothing in there a real person can afford.
I love fashion spreads as art, yes, I do not mean to diminish their beauty and importance in finding inspiration in fashion.
But I believe that those artful and amazing fashion spreads need to be interspersed with other features in a magazine that show clothes the reader can actually buy, and outfits they can actually put together.
And I think this is the void that fashion bloggers fill.
In a way I have sometimes found Tavi to be more inspirational than any fashion magazine I have read in the past 3 years.
And I'm not even going to start in on the fact that I haven't seen a good fashion spread in a long time.
And I love beautiful actresses, but they are not models.
I think that fashion magazines have begun the march towards becoming obsolete because they are completely unaware of their own failings.
Everything has gotten so detached from reality that it's just untenable.
And I don't know where the Grace Coddington I fell in love with went.
All of Vogue is just ads, and half of the ads have ugly clothes in them.
And I love high quality products, they make me swoon, but I don't love the industry.
I mean a well made purse is fabulous, but Marc Jacobs, 400 dollars for fake leather??? ARE YOU KIDDING?
Because I'm certainly not buying that.
I don't agree with buying something just for the name. And I don't like brand recognition.
I don't want someone I see on the street to know how much I paid for something, I don't choose my purses as status symbols. I choose them because I love the leather and the look of them. If they are a no-name brand, are well made, and don't cost 400 dollars all the better!
Selling an "image" is so much a part of the white-washing and "illusion" problem.
You're buying the Marc Jacob's girl status. Her image. Who she is. She's a slightly edgy rich white girl.
I just want to buy a purse.
I want to express my own self, my sense of style, my personality, not a designer's.
I don't need to see an "illusion" to be inspired. How very little imagination they must think we all have.
I know for myself it's so hard to imagine a piece on myself when it's on a model who looks so different, much smaller, a different shape, and different coloring.
Maybe if magazines actually showed how to convert trends in real life wear-ability people would be able to dress better.
I have a lot of feelings about fashion.
And the above is a bit of a jumble.
But the point is that I agree with the Jezebel article, and I hope the fashion industry gets a reality check.
Fashion: Cannes gowns 2013
My favorites from Cannes this year.
Fashion: Cannes daytime 2013
My favorite looks from this year's Cannes festival, in the daytime.
Film: The Door by Ava DuVernay
So I've seen this circulating a bunch of places.
Most recently on Racialicious.
Basically Miu Miu has put out, in support of the clothing brand, a series of short films directed by various women.
And the most recent one is called The Door.
It's an absolutely lushly gorgeous short film.
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Fashion: Golden Globes 2013
So, I didn't actually see the Golden Globes this year. I was working overtime.
But, I of course read/followed the fashion coverage. Or well, I looked at the dresses and formed my own opinions, didn't actually read the opinions of stylists. Anyways.
My favorites:
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Fashion: Emmys 2012
So many people looked amazing! To me, this was the best dressed award show in a long while.
My faves:
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Fashion: Somerset by Alice Temperley Short Film
Absolutely beautiful; and it's starting to feel like fall!
Fashion: Diane Kruger at Cannes 2012
This is my favorite look at Cannes this year:
Surprising I know, especially with all the gorgeous Elie Saab gowns.
But this Versus dress is just so flattering on her, I love the color, I love the shape, and I love how simply it was styled. Just those beautiful shoes to accompany the beautiful lines of the dress. Absolute perfection.
The Jezebel Cannes fashion summary was pretty on point.
Overall not that impressed.
The only other look that stood out to me was Paz Vega in Stéphane Rolland couture:


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Visitor spending in Johnston County topped $200 million in 2013, according to state figures.
A study commissioned by the state's Division of Tourism, Film and Sports Development found that visitors who traveled more than 50 miles to Johnston County spent $204.5 million last year, an increase of 3.5 percent from the $197.7 million spent in 2012.
The study, conducted by the U.S. Travel Association, uses employment tallies, sales figures and industry data to produce estimates of how much visitors spend on hotel stays, food, transportation, retail items and recreation.
"As long as we are showing growth, I feel like the things we are doing in the community are helping drive those numbers up," said Donna Bailey-Taylor, director of the Johnston County Visitors Bureau.
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The Visitors Bureau markets the county's various offerings through traditional and social media. The bureau operates under the Johnston County Tourism Authority, which receives funding from a 3-percent hotel-occupancy tax approved by state lawmakers in 1987.
Bailey-Taylor said with destinations like Carolina Premium Outlets in Smithfield and JR discount outlet in Selma, shopping is the main reason people visit the county. However, she said, visitors are increasingly stopping at the county's wineries and breweries.
The Visitors Bureau recently launched the Beer, Wine and Shine Trail, which highlights the four wineries and two breweries in six Johnston towns. Hotels offer discounts for visitors on the trail, and travelers who go to each destination receive a $30 coupon book.
Across the state in 2013, Johnston ranked 22nd in "travel impact," or the total amount that visitors spent. In addition, researchers say more than 1,660 jobs in the county are tied to travel and tourism, generating a $30.4 million payroll last year. State and local tax revenues from travel totaled about $16.2 million, according to the study.
Other popular attractions included Bentonville Battleground, Clemmons Educational State Forest near Clayton, the Tobacco Farm Life Museum in Kenly and the Ava Gardner Museum in Smithfield.
Deanna Brandenberger, hired in July as the new executive director of the Ava Gardner Museum, said she wants to keep things fresh to attract return visitors.
The museum, which attracts about 10,000 visitors annually, will introduce new exhibits this fall in conjunction with the Ava Gardner Festival, which runs Oct. 3-5. One of the exhibits, titled "Ava's Closet," will showcase the movie star's personal fashion.
"We want to have something that will keep the appetites wetted," Brandenberger said.
In the past 20 years, visitor spending in Johnston County has only decreased twice from year to year, in 1998 and 2009, according to historical data. Since 2004, spending has increased by about $70 million, or about 52 percent.
Across the state, visitors spent the most in Mecklenburg County ($4.6 billion), followed by Wake ($1.9 billion) and Guilford ($1.2 billion).


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The Marrakesh International Film Festival met with an euphoric crowd of more than 50,000 people at the Jemaa el-Fna square for several hours as fans awaited Shah Rukh Khan to grace the event's red carpet. The star seemed so moved that he braved his own security to wave at the thousands gathered there.
Indian cinema has a huge following in Morocco and throughout Africa, which also caused crowd incidents when in 2007 Shah Rukh Khan, accompanied by Rani Mukherjee, Preity Zinta and the late Yash Chopra visited France, a country where a large population of Moroccan immigrants has taken residence.
Prince Moulay Rachid later invited the star to a royal dinner and presented Shah Rukh Khan with the Medal of Honour of Morocco for his contribution to cinema.


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UC Merced named Plenary Properties Merced as the winning bidder for a $1 billion project that will nearly double the size of the campus.
It's the first time the UC system has used a single developer for a multi-year, multi-building project of this scope.
Construction could start as early as September on a 219-acre site that would include classrooms, labs, dining halls, athletics, and living quarters.
Patti Waid with UC Merced says currently 6,700 students attend the university but the expansion will allow for many more.
"We hope to have closer to 10 to 11,000 students by 2021," saus Waid.
According to Waid, the expansion will be a major economic boost to the region estimated at $1.5 billion along with thousands of jobs.
"The project is expected to create more than 10,000 construction jobs here in the San Joaquin Valley and more than 12,000 statewide," says Waid.
UC Merced started in 2005 and is the only UC in the San Joaquin Valley.


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A trip to the beach is certainly a family favorite activity, and you couldn't find a nicer setting then the beaches in Queens. They are close to beautiful neighborhoods like Arverne by the Sea. Whether you already living in Queens or are looking for a great way to spend a day with the family or visiting one of the many great beaches. If you are thinking about moving into one of the family homes available in neighborhoods like Arverne by the Sea, you and your family deserves some sand, surf and sun.
A trip to the beach can be a great family memory, but how do you keep the kids occupied for an afternoon while ensuring everyone is having a good time? Here are some activities that will make them forget their iPhones and handheld gaming devices.
1. Beach Volleyball is one of the most popular games on any beach in queens. Set up a family-fun version of the game that includes everyone. For small children, instead of using a volleyball, which can sometimes be too hard, use a beach ball.
2. Treasure Hunt is always a fun time. There are a couple of different ways families can do this. You can comb the beach for unique seashells and other interesting items, you can invest in a metal detector and let the whole family join, or family members can take turns hiding and uncovering items with a game of "your getting hotter, no now your colder!"
3. Beach Ball Balancing is simple and a lot of fun, especially for smaller children. Set up a "race" track and have member race to the finish line while balancing a beach ball, without using your hands!
4. Sort Seashells is a great way to get kids interested in collecting all of the cool seashells they find. Make it education by sorting the shells by the type of creature.
5. Beach Bull's Eye is one of the easiest games you can play and you don't need anything but your hands and some pebbles or rocks you pick up along the way. Draw a bull's eye in the sand and have family members step several yards away, and see who can hit the bull's eye. You can also give each circle a value and make it a competition.
6. Ping Pong Races is another easy game. All you need are some ping pong balls, or really any type of ball that rolls easily and can be retrieved from the water. Dig a canal leading to the water, be sure there is a downward slope, and have teams race their balls to the water and then retrieve them.
7. Beach golf is just golf with a Frisbee. Set up a "course" using whatever is available. The goal is to hit this objects with the Frisbee in as few throws as possible.
There is always something fun to do at the beach, and there couldn't be a better setting than the great beaches around Queens and close to Arverne by the Sea.


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Hey again everyone!
It has been a minute or two since I did my last write up on this wonderful game back on episode 2 which I thought was one of the best episodes to date, but I was wrong as In Harms Way, has brought the bar up to a brand new level!
This episode was difficult from multiple levels as it makes you question the decisions you've made for sure. Ever had that moment during a game of this type "If I had been more willing to do things differently, would more people still be here and alive?" Well, this game hits you like that around ever corner it seems. One good thing I've learned is this episode wasn't anything like the previous, and as good as the content was I never want to work through that episode again to see if I get any different outcomes…..long pause "Whew".
In Harm's Way takes the characters in this story line to their absolute breaking points, both physically and mentally. All of the scenes you get to live through brought a satisfaction that can only come with The Walking Dead's style, as they gave you a very memorable but yet disgusted since of accomplishment in the game.
This story became dark quickly and all happiness, smiles, and sense of safety was sucked from the monitor you've been watching. Clementine's new family has now just been imprisoned by Bill Carver, the maniac who debuted in Episode 2: A House Divided. Clementine and her gang's overnight escape plans put everyone at risk, and the story line built a very uncomfortable and surprising climax which will make you squirm in your very seat.
This episode takes you down a very dark and hopeless road towards Episode 4, as Bill Carver brings things to a screeching halt and creates a fear among the group we haven't seen yet. is about as bleak as this franchise has ever been, and what little optimism exists is only here to remind you how easily it can be used against you. Carver is probably the most frightening enemy to date, as things escalate to a level of unpredictability on what this mad man will do next each time you make a step in the game.
Telltale games has done something pretty magnificent with this episode as they have made me play Clementine completely different. Her bitterness in previous episodes was changed as she opened up in this episode to the people she found and so quickly became family with. This was all done because of Carver and his psycho tendencies, as it pulled you away and shows what can happen when you become cold and don't cherish life.
My favorite part of this episode was the emphasis, and focus they put on the group of people around Clementine. There was very little exploration out in the environment and completely left the puzzle features behind. This for all intensive purposes is a human episode, so there's little room for the more involved "play" aspects of this adventure game. Surprising enough even though we didn't get the exploration or interaction as we did in previous episodes, this episode made up for it in, discomfort, tension, and emotional character development that in my opinion is the best to date.
I have no idea what the game holds in Episode 4 for Clementine and her group, but I can't wait to see the next steps in the story and see the people Clem is with to a better place.
Until next time!
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Friday, April 11, 2014
Johnson offers bill to combat identity theft
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson has introduced legislation that would permit the IRS to alert taxpayers if the agency uncovers identity theft.
Although the IRS opens investigations when separate tax returns are filed using the same Social Security number, Johnson said, the agency's privacy rules currently do not allow it to notify affected taxpayers.
The Social Security Identity Defense Act of 2014 -- offered with U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va. -- would also allow the IRS to share findings with law enforcement and establish additional privacy safeguards.
"It seems so simple that the federal government would tell a taxpayer when it learns she or he is the victim of a crime," said Johnson, R-Oshkosh. "The rules keeping the IRS from giving that warning were not helping anyone. I'm pleased to be able to clear that obstacle."


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(1) high speed motor centrifugal compressor in air conditioning or refrigeration has been applied and so on various occasions, and with the development of science and technology, more and more special requirements, its application will also be more and more widely. [1]
(2) with the development of the auto industry a hybrid car, small volume, light weight, high speed generator will be fully attention, and in hybrid vehicles, aviation, ships, and other fields has a good application prospect. [1]
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Bearing research is also closely related to high speed motors, because ordinary bearings cannot withstand long running time in high speed system, so new materials and bearings with new structure must be adopted. [1]
High speed motor can have many structural forms, such as induction motor, permanent magnet motor and reluctance motor. Motor in high speed rotating centrifugal force is very big, when linear velocity reaches above 200 m/s, the conventional laminated rotor unaffordable high speed rotating centrifugal force, require the use of special high strength laminated or solid rotor. [1]
In the nearly one hundred years of the development of rotor dynamics, there have been many calculation methods, and the modern calculation methods can be divided into two main categories: transfer matrix method and finite element method.
The equations of motion expressed by finite element method are concise and standardized, and there are many advantages in solving the problems of rotor dynamics or complex mechanical system composed of rotor and surrounding structures. The finite element method is more accurate than the transfer matrix method in dividing the complex rotor system. The development of modern computer technology provides good hardware technology for finite element method. [1]
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The characters in this session were:
- Caulis, a homunculus warlock liberated from its master; has made a pact with certain Faerie Powers.Cephalus T. Murkwater, a dagonian barrister and monk, specializing in martial arts and magical labour law.
- Cephalus T. Murkwater, a dagonian barrister and monk, specializing in martial arts and magical labour law.
- Garvin Otherwise, a human rogue and burglar of the Ravenswing Thieves' Guild, with a very, very peculiar past and a zoog pet, Lenore.
- Vespidae, a waspkin bard/cleric – a sacred dancer with a deathwish, shunned by the waspkin community for complicated ritualistic reasons, and a devoted follower of the Queen in Yellow.
- Yam, an eccentric gnome illusionist and local graduate student at Umbral University. Yam cares little for money. Yam is curious. Yam is Yam.
XP Awarded: 420 XP.
Caulis and Yam both found themselves invited to the same event – a meeting of the exclusive Order of the Auriferous Twilight. Caulis had long been masquerading as a human member of the research collective, submitting research by mail under the pseudonym "Octavius Flasgatherer." Yam's research supervisor, Sebastian Eldridge, was also a member, and had requested the gnome's presence for part of an experiment. The Order had informed Caulis that it was testing out a new invention, the Vitreodimensional Resonator, which could reveal a "hitherto hidden layer of our reality." Yam, somewhat vexed by the increasingly dangerous assignments their supervisor had requested, asked Cephalus to accompany them as legal representation. Vespidae, meanwhile, was convinced by Caulis to come along as a "research subject."
As usual, Caulchurch swirled with arcane vapours and miasmas, though near to the Metamorphic Scholarium the fumes were somewhat less intense than further south towards Goatsbridge. Most of the people in the street here were alchemists and their servants – automata, familiars, and homunculi on errands for their masters. Many of those susceptible to the gases of the district wore protective masks and goggles to ward off any ill effects. Some of the strange creatures bred in the cauldrons and vats of the Alchemist's Quarter could also be seen in the street – one carriage was drawn by a two-headed badger the size of a horse, while a wizard walked a miniature sphinx down the street. A number of gnomes and cambions from the neighbouring districts of Mainspring and Little Pandemonium could be seen around the western edge of Caulchurch as well. The group made their way to the main campus of the Scholarium at the intersection of the Street of Limbs and the Street of Hearts. Caulis made a point to stop in the district to procure a potion to polymorph it into a shape resembling that of a human mage, thus assuming the persona of Octavius Flasgatherer.
The Scholarium itself was a bizarre architectural conglomeration that changes on an almost daily basis, spells woven into the very walls of the university triggering changes in style and substance so that a slender spire that one day might be built of stone or gleaming metal might the next become an imposing crystalline monolith or an elaborate wooden pagoda. Students and faculty could be seen entering and exiting the myriad doors of the strange school, homunculi carrying spellbooks and laboratory equipment. The would-be experimenters proceeded to the Balthazar Voss Laboratory – memorializing the alchemist Balthazar Voss, former president of the Scholarium who died in the explosion that created the Midden – which was currently fashioned from a kind of nacreous substance like mother-of-pearl. Inside the eerily glistening structure was assembled a group of wizards, sorcerers, warlocks, and other spellcasters, the arcanists of the Order of the Auriferous Twilight. At the centre of the hall was a huge mirror framed by complex machines that resembled Librarian designs, though of obviously more recent construction.
The party mingled with those in the hall. These included such characters as Iganatius the Unchanging a senior alchemist at the Metamorphic Scholarium. He earned the moniker "Everchanging" after a polymorphing accident: he fell into a vat of experimental polymorphic potion, and now, as a result, he was continuously altering his shape, one moment appearing as a wizened old man, the next a beautiful young woman, or a stubbled youth, or a barrel-chested man, or a child of six, or stranger forms – a bear-like humanoid, a horned, demonic being, a pale creature with a single eye, an owl-headed beast. Ignatius wore specially glamered clothes that shift to accommodate his myriad forms. Despite the kaleidoscopic, chimerical changes he undergoes every few moments, Ignatius conversed quite calmly with fellow members of the Order, quite accustomed to his periodic shifts in height, weight, and form. Other notables in the Order included Giselle Gnostus, of the Citadel of the Perpetual Storm, Hex's school of Evocation. While most lycanthropes in Hex wee doomed to incarceration in Catch-All, an exception was made for gnomish weremoles. Weremoleism ran in certain elite gnome families and was seen as a great blessing, and care was taken to ensure that lycanthropes marry one another to perpetuate the ability through blood; equal care was taken to ensure it was not passed to those undeserving of the "earth's gift." Giselle Gnostus was one such weremole. She was currently in hybrid form, somewhere between a mole and a gnome. An earth-shaper of terrific skill, she was a professor of great distinction at the Citadel of the Perpetual Storm, akawats accompanied by her familiar, a giant beetle the size of a small dog, which scuttled along beside her.
By the far the most renowned of those gathered in the laboratory, however, was Master Melchior – one of the founders of the Order of Auriferous Twilight and also one of Hex's oldest and most famous wizards. Though in his heyday Melchior had a fleshly body, now he was a preserved brain kept alive through powerful necromantic spells, alchemical preservatives, and transmutation magic. This brain was housed in a spidery automaton with a pair of humanoid forelimbs and a voice-box for speech, Melchior's brain clearly visible in a glass jar at the automaton's centre.
Melchior crept toward "Octavius" – that is, Caulis – and spoke to the disguised homunculus using his voice-box.
"Greetings, Ocatavius," the brain said. "Or, should I say, Caulis?" After intimating that he had been following Caulis' researches for some time, Melchior suggested that the homunculus and its companions speak to him at a later date about a job – something to do with one of the books the party had come across during their adventure. Further conversation was interrupted, however, as the experiment began.
"And now, the reason we have convened this meeting: the Vitreodimensional Resonator," Ignatius said, currently in the form of a towering purple woman with four arms. "It's based on certain technologies salvaged from the Old City through explorations undertaken by Cogswright & Associates." He had shifted in form to the body of a thin, heavily bearded man with ink-black skin. "Professor Tawnish built and calibrated the Resonator. I'll let her explain further."
"Thank you Ignatius," Viola Tawnish said, stepping forward – a conjuror from Fiend's College, renowned for her theories on the nature of transplanar time and chronomancy. She first calculated the shifting temporal differentials between the Underworld and the mortal plane and is said to have twice visited Hell. Dressed in the Diabolique style, she had short-cropped red hair and soft mauve skin suggesting some form of non-human parentage. "The Librarians are known to have developed a network of portals to travel through physical space on this plane, as well as between different planes. Indeed, it may be through such a portal that they first arrived in our world. The vast majority of these portals are now inactive or destroyed, and while we have managed to create temporary gates between planes and to call beings from one world to another, we have not succeeded in duplicating a Librarian portal. Until now." She smiles. "Using certain applications of mirror magic suggested by Professor Eldridge, I have created what I think may be a functional portal-like device, the Vitreodimensional Resonator. When activated, the mirror should become a gateway. On the other side – another world."
"And which plane do you propose to visit?" Master Melchior asked, his robotic voice croaked through his automaton body.
"We aren't sure which plane the Resonator will lead to," Ignatius said. "In fact, that's part of the experiment. The results of this journey may tell us a great deal about the cosmological makeup of the multiverse."
"Yes," Professor Tawnish said. "I am sure you are all familiar with some of the most common theories. Some believe that our world is but one iteration of the Magistra's arcane formula, our reality a program formed out of magical code; other planes are similarly programmed, but with different rules and formulae. Others believe that universes are actually super-organisms, capable of breeding with one another to produce new worlds, or of splitting in two via fission with every choice we make, or every tiny, chaotic fluctuation. There are some who argue that our entire existence is an elaborate illusion, a shadow thrown by some elemental light at the heart of creation., and that other worlds are similar shadows cast by the same flame. And then there are those who think there is only a single universe, and that what seem like other planes of existence are in fact distant planets – that Hell and Faerie and the Dreamlands and even Anathema are but different, vastly disparate regions of the same plane.
"The explorers who venture through into whatever world the Vitreodimensional Resonator reveals must take care to note everything they can about its nature. There may be clues as to the nature of our multiverse which may be uncovered. Those who step foot into whatever strange new world the Resonator reveals should approach it as natural philosophers, cataloguing flora and fauna, noting the presence of any sentient inhabitants, their customs and laws, and also any strange physical laws which this plane might possess…"
With a few invocations, the Vitreodimensional Resonator powered up. The party braced themselves and stepped through the swirling vortex of magical energy into another world…
Emerging through the portal, Yam, Cephalus, Caulis, and Vespidae stepped into a copse of trees just beyond a well-ploughed field, not far from a small farmhouse with a barn and pens for livestock. It felt like they'd entered a pastoral painting, complete with grazing sheep, a blue sky dotted with clouds, and cheerful farmhands tending to the fields.
Other farms could be seen nearby, flanking a road that led down to a broad, clear river. Having looked out over the murky, oily, filth-clotted Radula River of Hex these many days, the sight of such clean, blue water was almost shocking. At the end of the road was a village, built on the riverbank. The village was surrounded by a low stone wall; cheerful-looking plumes of smoke drifted up from thatched roofs. The place looked antiquated, the architectural style reminiscent of buildings one might associate with a feudal past. A small keep presided over the tiny town. To the east a large island could be seen rising from the middle of the river, with swamplands dominating the surrounding banks. To the north a huge forest brooded, and to the west rose a distinctive craggy mountain. South looks to be hilly farmland.
Cautiously the group set out, heading for the farmhouse and the workers in the field.
Meanwhile, some time earlier…
One moment Garvin was walking through Corvid Commons on his way to Rosemary's Receiving. The next, he was standing in the middle of a very different street. Buildings rose about him; though a few wouldn't be too out of place in Hex, many wee glassy, glittering structures, and distantly he could make out some tall spires that might rival those of the Librarians in Engima Heap for height, as well as some sort of bulky metal dome or sphere. Trains on raised tracks rattled nearby, speeding off to some other quarter of the strange but eerily familiar city.
The street Garvin was in wasn't filled with people but with some kind of boxy automata, mechanical carriages. A shrill sound filled the air as one of these machines barrels towards him. He tried to avoid it, but was knocked prone. Soon a crowd of people had gathered around him, pointing strange devices at him that clicked and flashed, and gibbering in a half-forgotten tongue. Panicking, Garvin muttered a quick spell and blinked to a nearby alley, leaving the crowd of people astonished.
"I'm not sure where we are, Lenore…" he said to the zoog still on his shoulder. "But I think I've been here before…"
Fashioning a quick disguise for himself as best he could using his disguise kit, Garvin set off into the city. Using a minor spell he managed to procure on of the small, rectangular devices everyone seemed to carry in this world. This was one was whitish, and had a symbol that looked a bit like a small apple. It seemed puzzling and had a glass panel covered in unusual sigils. Locating what looked like a bookstore, Garvin ducked inside and located what he guessed could be a dictionary or similar tome, hoping that it might help him make sense of the maddeningly familiar language of the people here. After skillfully shoplifting these, he headed for what looked like a coffeehouse and settled himself in a corner…
…only to appear quite suddenly seated on a stump, in the very copse of trees shared by his companions, drawn once more between worlds. Surprised but not displeased by the sudden reappearance of their companion, the party continued towards the farm, approaching one of the farmhands: a dark-haired, hale youth that several of the party members seemed to half-recognized. He identified himself as Jasper Van Lurken, and noted that the farm was owned by his parents, Leopold and Nicolet. The village nearby, he said, was called Blessing.
It was at this points that it clicked: the party was in a world eerily similar to their own, geographically at least. The craggy mountain was none other than Mount Shudder; the river was the Radula, albeit unpolluted. The village of Blessing stood where Hex should have been, or a part of it. But there was no sign of any Librarian structures, none of the alien spires of the Old City, nor the Elder Trees.
They were in a universe in which the Librarians never arrived.
Cephalus, meanwhile, had noticed a nearby gravestone not far from the farm. He used some of the ghostdust he'd secured back at the Puppeteer's lair and, peering into the Ethereal plane, he saw the spectre of a young woman with dark hair, who identified herself as Annette Van Lurken. Having not encountered the Van Lurkens of Hex, he did not recognize her, but was able to discover that she died of some sort of sickness. It sounded as if magical medicine was considerably more primitive in this timeline.
Taking their leave of Jasper, the party headed toward Blessing. The village wall looked like it had seen better days, moss eating away at its crumbling length. Here and there a wooden fence had been erected to patch a gap or extend the extremely modest fortifications. The gate was of stout wood and stands open, guarded by a solitary man in chainmail armour leaning on a pike.
The guard, Roderick, asked a few minor questions about the party's business in Blessing; they identified themselves as a troupe of actors. Roderick was alarmed at the sight of Vespidae, believing the waspkin to be a fairy from the Tangle – evidently that forest existed here as well. He was also perturbed by Cephalus, identifying him as one of the "merfolk" from the swamps. With some fast-talking, the party was able to pass them off as foreigners from a distant part of the world. Asking a few questions, they quickly got a lay of the land, learning that the town was ruled by a woman named Lady Fullblood, that it included several shops and inns, and that it was also the site of a large temple. Curious to learn more, they passed through the gate and into Blessing.
The village of Blessing was so modest that it scarcely possessed true streets, but rather a series of winding paths between the picturesque thatched-roof buildings. The town brought the words "wholesome" and "quaint" to mind; it was like something out of a child's storybook. It was also curiously homogeneous; the people here were almost all human. A few gnomes could also be seen, as well as a handful of stocky, almost universally bearded creatures like oversized gnomes or short humans. Many eyes the party, some with wariness or suspicion but most with curiosity and welcoming smiles. Yam and Caulis were able to identify the bearded creatures as "dwarves" – a species long gone from their own world, sometimes thought to be ancestors of gnomes, and reputedly hunted to extinction by the Librarians during the primeval past.
The group's first stop was the Troll & Tankard inn, a large establishment with an attached stables. A stone stair led up to the door of the common room, from which music and laughter emanated. The skull of a monstrous troll was hung above the bar, which was tended by a broad-shouldered man with an eyepatch who polished a mug and chats with various patrons, most of whom looked to be cut from roughly the same rural cloth as the rest of the townsfolk. The exception here was a fellow who wouldn't be too out of place in Hex: a man dressed in blue robes and a pointed hat, with large spectacles and crazed hair. He sat in a corner booth drinking from a mug of ale and leafing through the first book the explorers had seen in Blessing. Several of the party realized abruptly that the man was the virtual double of the alchemist Valdemar Sluice!
Caulis idly peered over "Valdemar's" shoulder and scanned the pages. There were real arcane formulae there, but mixed in with superstition and arcane nonsense. Noticing the party, Valdemar was delighted to observe Vespidae, and immediately launched into a series of questions, taking the waspkin for a fairy. The party began conversing, asking about the town. It seemed that this version of Valdemar was traveling from elsewhere and had been drawn to Blessing by some unusual rumours about magical happenings nearby. Meanwhile, Garvin and Cephalus noticed that the party was being watched with some alarm by an ill-favoured fellow in the tavern, who quickly left. They slipped out in pursuit and caught up with the man, Cephalus quickly subduing him. He identified himself as Brett, and claimed to have been heading to the local temple to speak to someone called Father Roland, warning the priest of the presence of "demons and spirits" in the town. With some suitably fast talking, he was persuaded that the party were an acting troupe in costume, come to perform a play for the entertainment of Blessing.
Of course, this meant that the party had to either get out of town… or put on a play.
Pondering this problem, the group headed to the local temple. Blessing seemed to have just one temple – a church dedicated to someone called "St. Melchior." The name, of course, was familiar, though Master Melchior of Hex has certainly never been considered a saint. Though probably the most ornate building in Blessing, the church was rather ordinary-looking by the baroque and fanciful standards of Hex, built of plain, grey stone with modest decorations. Despite its lack of grandeur there was something decidedly welcoming and comforting about it – perhaps because it wasn't dedicated to a slavering tentacle entity from beyond space and time, or a primeval demon-lord…
Inside, the church retained its relative plainness, though there were a number of murals painted on the walls depicting the life, miracles, and apparent martyrdom of St. Melchior, as well as statues in his name. He was mostly depicted as a bald, clever-looking man of middle years with a neat beard. He appeared to have been killed while trying to convert a tribe of trolls or similar creatures. A few clerics tended to the church, garbed in loose grey robes without adornment. Those learned in the history of Hex quickly recognized Master Melchior himself – or, rather a version of him – as he looked before he became a brain in a vat. They quickly found Father Roland, a stooped and aged man whose bent exterior was belied by the fierce zealotry burning in his eyes. The Father seemed ready to condemn the group and their activities, but with smooth talking from Garvin and Caulis he was convinced that the party's play would in fact emphasize the dangers of temptation and of dabbling with dark powers. The party was careful not to disclose that they came from another plane. They found out a bit more about the local religion, which had a number of unusual features, revering only a single, simplistic deity and denouncing others as false idols.
Garvin visited the local blacksmith – "Axe & Anvil," which seemed to be the only major smithy in Blessing. The creature labouring at its namesake in the open courtyard is one of the peculiar, stocky beings the group had seen about town in small numbers: what the party's historians had identified as a "dwarf," known in their home-reality through fossil evidence and ancient records. Like the rest of her ilk she had a beard, though hers was quite small. Her name turned out to be Bess Bonnyshield, a dwarven woman formerly of the Groanmount – apparently this world's name for Mount Shudder – before the Wyrm, Scorra Bitterflame, laid her clan-home waste. Garvin bought a dwarf-made dagger, noting the extraordinary craftsmanship of the item.
The party next meandered down towards Pistons & Powders, as Yam was curious about this reputedly gnome-run establishment. This ramshackle-looking building wouldn't have been too out of place in Mainspring, with its small doors and windows, large boiler, haphazard architecture, and plethora of hissing chimneys, though even this structure looked far less intricate than the gnomish buildings of Hex. Inside, a small tinker's workshop could be be found. Though a few crude mechanical oddments were scattered about, it looked like the place mostly deals in basic repairs for pots, pans, and tools. A handful of simple firearms were sold here as well, though they were far more primitive than the complex wheellocks of Hex. A handful of gnomes worked here, mending metal goods.
Yam cheerfully bustled in, only to bump into a gnome. The tinker turned around – and stared into their own face. The gnome at Pistons & Powders was Yam, albeit dressed in oily mechanist's clothes.
"Yam!" Yam said.
"Yam!" Yam responded. "You're not some kind of shapeshifter are you?"
"I'm you from another dimension," Yam disclosed with nonchalance. "Want to come hang out?"
"Sure!" Yam agreed, taking off their apron with a minimum of fuss. They turned their head to yell: "I'm on break!"
The party next headed to the market square at the southeast end of Blessing, near to the small town's docks. Here they began planning for the performance they had now promised to put on, deciding to tell a version of the story of Robin Redcap. The two Yams and Caulis provided special effects while other members of the party, disguised through magic or cosmetics, assumed the guises of Duke Gothmord, Robin Redcap, and other persons. A crowd had soon gathered as word circulated of the performance, and as sun set the party began their impromptu tale, Vespidae using her dancing to enthrall the assembled commoners, while the "troupe's" spellcasters used illusions to lend the performance an air of strange mystery. Hastily written and quasi-improvised dialogue might have ruined the play, but the magical effects bedazzled the bucolic onlookers. As the play concluded to great applause, however, the church bell tolled, and a town crier appeared, screaming: "Goblins at the Mountain Gate! Fear! Fire! Foes!"
The party rushed to the gates, grabbing up their weapons, to discover a band of the hunched, malformed goblins setting fire to buildings and terrorizing townsfolk. In the land of Hex such creatures had been exterminated or placed on reservations, to keep them from mischief, but in this land it seemed they ran amok! Some rode great spiders, apparently denizens of the Tangle, and they carried clubs and crude swords. Cephalus rushed forth, limbs flying, to dispatch the leader, while Yam conjured a cloud of daggers, eviscerating several of the goblins. The battle was brief, and though a few injuries were had, Garvin managed to put a bolt through the skull of a final, fleeing goblin, leaving them all dead. The few remaining townsfolk nearby rejoiced, hailing the group as heroes, though most had fled the battle… but time was growing short, the day long, and the group was eager to return from whence they had come. Yam's double insisted on following them – as did a local girl from the town, who, having seen their power, asked to join them. Impressing upon both that they might not soon return, the party hurried back to the portal at Van Lurken farm and slipped through the dwindling vortex between worlds, back into the Metamorphic Scholarium's laboratory in Caulchurch, with quite a few findings to report…
Images: Brain in a Jar from "Open Graves: Secrets of the Undead."


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Are you looking for a top holiday destination in Asia? Holiday is a special period offered from the office to the professional to relax, enjoy and revitalize their body. Continuous work in the office tires the professional which result in low productivity. People should spend their holiday in top destination to get excellent experience. So, Fiji islands are the perfect holiday destinations for the people looking for a calm and amusing place. There are total 333 islands, 110 islands are habitable and others are submerged or barren. But the barren islands have been converted into resort by Louis Gerard Saliot to attract tourists in the country. This is why it is getting tourists from different parts of the world for its scenic and man-made beauties in the islands.
Upon reaching there, people can enjoy in various activities in the country. One can enjoy yatch and jet boat riding in the nearby seas. High tide surfing done in the country is world famous and extremely adventurous. Snorkeling is done with the help of the professional for whole family (children above 8 years) to see the beautiful flowering plants and animals in the sea bed. Country has the fourth largest coral reef in the world. It is a house of different colorful flora and fauna. One can go for Gamefishing, white river rafting, and kayaking in the Fijian rivers. World class rugby and golf can be enjoyed in the country.
Resorts and hotels are made facing the sea or near the sea to provide a calm experience to the visitors. Sitting in the room, one can enjoy most exotic sunrise and sunset. Traditional spas are available for massaging the body and ease out the tension. Gerard Saliot has made these facilities available in the country to promote the tourism industry. There are restaurants serving the Fijian, Indian and Chinese cuisines of delicious taste. Park, sanctuaries, museums, and gardens are made for tourist to relax and enjoy. People visiting the country carry the everlasting memories in their lives.


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(Yummy recipe coming later this week!)
Sticking with my guide of having at least three coordinating elements to pull off a party's theme, I used four: the party plates and napkins, cherry-topped cupcakes, cherry cupcake liners, and a cherry tag on my cake pedestal to finish it all off beautifully.
No matter what inspires your party's theme, Belly Feathers can bring it to life with handmade items and custom party planning guides complete with ideas for decor, activities, menu items, and more. Contact me today at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Monday, 18 November 2013
18 comments:
Such a wonderful charm to have on your inchie--love itReplyDelete
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Great idea, and a lovely charm.ReplyDelete
)))Зингер)))) класс)))))ReplyDelete
зингер -назавжди))!
What a magnificent old charm! I remember sewing on a machine a little bit like that :-)ReplyDelete
Thank you! Oh yeah, don't we all!Delete
Lovely Inchie - your charm is just the ticket - I love old sewing machines.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you! Oh, who doesn't...Delete
Great thinking! I love old sewing machines!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you! Oh, I know what you mean, who doesn't love them.Delete
What a fabulous charm. Love it.ReplyDelete
This is very old for sure. love the idea of it,great jobReplyDelete
My Mum had a singer sewing machine. Nice inchie.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you! I suspect quire a few of us, or our predecessors, had a Singer.Delete
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The GridWise Alliance, a consortium of public and private stakeholders, has announced that 15 companies and organizations have recently joined this national coalition whose goal is to promote the use of smart grid technologies to transform the nation's electric power system.
New members include American Electric Power; Cellnet + Hunt; Computer Sciences Corp.; Cooper Power Systems; EKA Systems; KEMA Consulting; MainNet Communications; Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator; National Grid; Public Service Electric & Gas Co.; SensorTran Inc.; Siemens Power Transmission & Distribution; Telvent; Washington State University and ZIV USA.
'The passage of the Energy Bill in 2007 and the continued growth of the GridWise Alliance continues to shine a spotlight on the importance of a smart grid in our nation's future,' says Steve Hauser, president of the GridWise Alliance. 'Our purpose is to advocate for change in policies at both a national and local level. Key decision makers are looking to us for better ideas, better information and effective solutions to the pressures being put on the power sector.'


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Hi everyone!
Today I am showing you the birthday card I made for my DS.I did choose the stamp set with bears to have a soft vibe.
For the colors, I choose the green and the brown to keep a masculin touch.
The bears are colored with the brushmarker from winsor & Newton.On the right of the photo above, the Happy birthday is cut in white paper, this paper was covered with double adhesive before to die cut it.
You can open the flap and you'll have:
The full look of the other side othe card:
And finally the sentence "there is no little dreams" is a reference to his studies.
· 6410/0460, Clearstamp, Teddy Bear
· 6410/0459, Clearstamp, Parrot and flowers
· 6002/0996, Cuttingstencil – Mery's circle waveborder
· 6002/0972, Cut Embosstencil – Floral Florishes – Chrysanthemum
· 6003/2016, Pop up cuttingstencil – 4 Leaf clover
· 6002/0667, Cuttingstencil – Happy Birthday
· 6002/0959, Cuttingstencil – Lizard
· 6002/0962, Cuttingstencil – Back and festoon
· 6410/0316, Clear Stamps – there are no little dreams
· 6002/0963, Cut emboss debosstencil, pattern with cubes
· 6002/0621, Ply Besa background (embossing) Background lines
· 8013/0023, Paper for cardmaking cardstock white
· C0204228, Brushmker, vert luxuriant
· C0204223, Brushmaker, vert menthe


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UC Davis officials confirm a plant biologist who worked on campus was killed in Ethiopia Tuesday while riding in a vehicle stoned by protestors on the outskirts of the capital Addis Ababa.
Thirty-one year old Sharon Gray was a postdoctoral researcher at the UC Davis Department of Plant Biology and Genome Center.
Department Chair Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar described Gray as a talented scientist with a sunshine smile.
"Sharon had a very bright future ahead of her. We all knew she was going to be a star in plant biology research. This is a great, tragic loss for the Genome Center and for the Davis community."
Gray worked for three years as a postdoctoral research fellow with the plant biology lab. Dinesh says it's a very close-knit group.
"We are still under shock to know what we can do," explains Dinesh.
"We are trying to help Sharon's lab members and trying to provide everything we can to make sure they're okay."
Dinesh says Gray went to Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa to meet with the Netherlands Institute of Ecology and other charitable organizations for a project.
UC Davis associate professor Siobhan Brady was traveling with Gray when she died. In a written rememberance shared by campus officials, Brady described Gray as a mentor and friend.
Brady wrote that she and Gray "were looking forward to exploring Ethiopia together and working with the bright scientists we met over the last few days."
Brady added that Gray "loved her husband, family, friends, science and the outdoors. She had an infectious smile and giggle, a calm and patient nature. She was truly committed to helping people through her studies of plant biology. Her colleagues (and I) will miss her intensely."
Dinesh who chairs the UC Davis department where Gray worked, said her research was geared toward helping smallholder farmers in Ethiopia, Africa and throughout the world.
It ia not clear how Gray's death is connected to the ongoing unrest in Ethiopia. Anti-government protests have rocked the country since Sunday when a stampede at a religious festival south of Addis Ababa led to 55 deaths.


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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Something you might not have known
Posted by Ellie Finlay at 8:42 PM
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- Anonymous4:36 PM
I understand your point -- and it's a good one -- but I am a little uneasy with crediting the slowest spending in 50 years to Barack Obama. That's not what he wants, nor is it sound economic policy. We need more spending, not less. If we had increased stimulus spending to levels recommended by Paul Krugman, we would be so much better off today than we are now.ReplyDelete
--Bryan Doug
Oh, I completely agree with you, Bryan. My main point here (as I'm sure you understand) is about raising the debt ceiling.ReplyDelete
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For yet another year, Subaru puts its commitment to safety on display by earning the IIHS Top Safety Pick + award for the 2018 Subaru Crosstrek and WRX. This is the sixth year in a row that the Crosstrek has earned the IIHS Top Safety Pick and the third year that the WRX has earned the award. With every Subaru vehicle engineered, safety is always the main focus, and awards like these signify that commitment and the pride that goes into every vehicle.
Both the 2018 Crosstrek and WRX received the 2017 Top Safety Pick award when equipped with the optional Eyesight Driver Assist Technology system, which uses a camera to monitor the road and includes features like adaptive cruise control, pre-collision braking and lane keep assist. When equipped with Eyesight and LED steering responsive headlights, both the Crosstrek and WRX earned the Top Safety Pick+ award.
If you want to learn more about the new Subaru WRX or Crosstrek we welcome you to come join us here at Subaru Superstore Chandler to view our entire selection of new Subaru models in person and experience it all first hand.


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What happened before the knock on the door is fairly well documented. A poet in a laudanum slumber writing raw on 'Alph' and 'caves of ice' is jarred alert to tedious deeds. A businessman from Porlock knocks. He's walked it seems. The Muse is left to marinade in milk and honeydew and what happens next is left to speculation.
I, being one who's quite partial to non-fact founded speculating, would like to think that the ensuing conversation went something like this:
'Hello Sir, I'm looking for a Mr. Coleridge. Mr. Samuel Taylor Coleridge from Nether Stowey. Would that be you Sir?'
'Yes, and very pleased I am to see you. Do come in and allow me to take your coat. You're just in time.'
'But I don't understand Sir, as far as I'm aware no one has been informed of my planned visit. How in that case, could I possibly have 'arrived just in time' for anything?'
'Please, take a seat and allow me to explain. I've got a bit of a problem with this infernal opium habit. It really is most troublesome! It seems that I can only write anything vaguely interesting while under the influence of its dream inducing qualities. I was mid verse when the effects quite unexpectedly wore off. Now I have a poem with no ending. Tell me Mr. Businessman, if you were in my position, what would you do now?'
'I'd probably take some more opium Sir.'
'Not an option. I've run out. 'I'm waiting for Dr. Potter to arrive with a new prescription.'
'Well in that case I'd probably think up an excuse. I expect I'd blame it on some sort of unfortunate circumstance beyond my control. You can blame it on me if you like Sir. Say I interrupted you, I wouldn't mind.'
'Good Man! And where was it you said you were from ? - Porlock was it? And that's spelt: Pee; Oh; Are; Ell; Oh; See; Kay. Yes? Excellent! Thank you very much.'


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The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Like so many other teens, I lived and died for Stephen Chbosky's 1999 book The Perks of Being a Wallflower. When I heard they were making a movie based on it, I was a little worried. But this adaptation is absolutely amazing. The story follows 15-year-old Charlie (Logan Lerman), a socially anxious boy with a talent for writing who has trouble starting high school after his best friend commits suicide. He befriends Patrick (Ezra Miller) and Sam (Emma Watson), a badass brother-and-sister duo. They're into The Rocky Horror Picture Show, swapping mixtapes, and doing choreographed dance moves to "Come On Eileen" at high school dances. But even though Charlie, Sam, and Patrick have tons of fun, they all have dark secrets. This is a movie about diving headfirst into the trials and tribulations of the dark and scary "real world" when you're young. You'll laugh for sure, but you'll also probably cry a lot too. With stellar performances from the entire cast (Mae Whitman and Paul Rudd also star in it!) and an awesome soundtrack (Charlie has a bit of an obsession with the Smiths' "Asleep"), Perks is just an all-around perfect movie. —Hazel
Moone Boy
2012–present, Sky1
On the surface, this is a sitcom about a little boy growing up in Ireland in the late 1980s, but it goes off the rails and way deeper than that. Martin Moone is a weird little kid with three aggressively scornful older sisters, caring but flighty parents, and a grown-ass man for an imaginary friend. He gets bullied, has issues with his friends, and deals with family stuff like communions, his sisters staging rebellions, and strange neighbors. His sisters are my FAVORITE part of the show, especially Sinéad, who delivers the most amazingly sinister and hilarious lines and who, like a lot of big sisters, simultaneously hates and protects Martin. The secondary characters are a big part of the show, which makes this feel less like a sitcom and more like a story. I LOVE the quick animations that show us Martin's inner thoughts about stuff like school crushes and dreaming of shorter route to school, and the stories are super funny and relatable. There's also a sick '80s soundtrack! The imaginary friend is Chris O'Dowd, whom you'll recognize from The IT Crowd and Girls, and the show is loosely based on his own life. —Danielle
The Work of Director Michel Gondry (2003)
The Work of Director Michel Gondry came out before Gondry was a well-known filmmaker, and I probably wouldn't have even heard about it if I hadn't had a bunch of friends who were film students and already hardcore Gondry fans. The DVD is a compilation of some of the exquisitely twee, staggeringly innovative, and altogether crazy-good music videos that Gondry has directed for artists like the White Stripes and Kylie Minogue. It also features a few short films and commercials that he's worked on—so the thing is just jam-packed with amazing stuff. The thing that really made me such a huge fan of the guy's oeuvre/made me want to build a blanket fort with him, though, is a two-part documentary called "I've Been Twelve Forever." It's a look inside Gondry's big ol' super-creative brain; he talks about the process of making some of his music videos and short films and how his work is heavily influenced by a lot of his childhood obsessions and anxieties. Even when the tone is dark, most of what he creates is very playful (the man made a Lego music video!). You can see his inner 12-year-old—that youthful vulnerability and sense of awe—in pretty much everything that he's done, and I think that's part of what makes him and his work so special. —Amber
Turn Me On, Dammit! (2011)
Turn Me On, Dammit! is the feminist alternative to all those American movies about outcast boys trying to lose their virginity. This hilarious Norwegian movie is about a 15-year-old-girl named Alma who just wants to have sex with someone! She drifts into sexual fantasies at work, reads porn mags and even pays for phone sex, but it's still not as exciting as the idea of having sex with her crush, Artur. It's refreshing to see a movie where a teen girl is driven to action by sheer horniness, and Alma's intense sexual frustration is so funny. It's a gem of movie; definitely rent this one! —Hazel
The Age of Innocence (1993)
Not to be gross or TMI but this Martin Scorsese adaptation of an Edith Wharton novel contains the sexiest scene I have ever seen in a movie: Daniel Day-Lewis is Newland Archer, a lawyer engaged to marry a girl named May, played by Winona Ryder, who proves her acting chops by actually managing to seem boring and unappealing. Newland finds himself in the back of a carriage with May's scandalous cousin Ellen Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer), who's just arrived in New York after fleeing a disastrous marriage in Europe. Ellen and Newland are secretly in love, but it's 1870-something and everyone in high society is obsessed with etiquette and propriety, so theirs is a FORBIDDEN LOVE. So they're in the back of this carriage and they can't be together but you can feel their yearning like a fever needing to break, and then she reaches for his gloved hand with hers and he takes off his glove and then slowly and achingly unbuttons and removes her glove to uncover her wrist, its two inches of skin the only nudity in the whole scene, and kisses it. And, like, whoa. It's way hotter than any scene of naked people actually doing it. The rest of the movie is just as great, all epic passions boiling under the thin veneer of Reconstruction Era manners and gentility. It looks beautiful and the music is perfect and Ellen is a proto-feminist hero who smokes in front of men, refuses to be slut-shamed, speaks her mind in the face of social persecution, and basically doesn't give a fuck what anyone thinks of her. —Anaheed
The Princess Bride (1987)
This is one of my favorite sick-day movies—it's basically the visual equivalent of comfort food. Because it's framed as a story that is being told by a grandfather to his sick grandson (played by a pretty adorable young Fred Savage), who interrupts occasionally, it really has the vibe of someone telling a story to you. The story's about a girl named Buttercup who is told that her true love, Westley, was killed by the Dread Pirate Roberts. Her chances of finding love, she believes, died along with Westley, so she agrees to marry the scheming Prince Humperdinck (whose name alone tells you he's going to be a tool). Right before their wedding, Buttercup is kidnapped by three outlaws, one of whom is my favorite character: a fencer called Inigo Montoya who is on the lookout for the six-fingered man who killed his father. The moment he finds this man, Montoya vows, he will greet him with the line "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." I could probably write an essay about all the amazing scenes and quotable lines in The Princess Bride, but I'll just say if you haven't seen it, let Grandpa Peter Falk tell you this fabulous story about swordfights, battles of wits, Rodents of Unusual Size, and, above all, true love. —Stephanie
Stealing Beauty (1996)
I've always liked Liv Tyler (Empire Records and That Thing You Do! are two movies that I hold very dear) but it wasn't until I saw her interviewed on a morning talk show back in the early '90s that I became obsessed with her. She was wearing pink Converse and speaking Elvish and she just seemed like the coolest lady ever. After that, I bought a pair of pink Converse and started making my way through all of her work. That's how I discovered Stealing Beauty—a gorgeous coming-of-age drama directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. In the movie, Liv (she and I are on a first-name basis IN MY MIND!) plays a 19-year-old virgin named Lucy who goes to Tuscany for the summer and stays with her deceased mother's artist friends. Her goals: to rekindle the romance she'd begun with an Italian boy years earlier and to uncover the identity of her biological father. Throughout the movie, all of the older characters observe her and playfully gossip about her—they're fascinated by Lucy, I think, because she represents a type of potential, energy, and sexual innocence they don't feel they have access to anymore. Some of these people are little too invested in Lucy's sex life: there's a scene where Jeremy Irons's character tells her that she's "in need of a ravisher" (which totes seems like something Jeremy Irons would say in real life). So why did I absolutely have to rush out and buy this movie after I rented it? Well, there's the story's stunning Tuscan backdrop, the perfect soundtrack (Stevie Wonder, Billie Holiday, Portishead), and of course Liv, who was playing a character that I—a sexually inexperienced young woman—could sort of relate to at the time. But mostly I love it because it's just really enchanting—lovely and ethereal. —Amber
Stoker (2013)
This film is not for anyone who feels squeamish at the first sight of blood. Mia Wasikowska plays India, a morbid 18-year-old girl whose father has just died. In the days after her father's passing, a mysterious uncle (Matthew Goode) that India never knew about shows up at the house. Though India's mother Evelyn (Nicole Kidman) welcomes him with open arms, India can tell there's something not quite right about this intrusive family member. What follows is a trippy and thrilling coming-of-age story that feels like a fairy tale—but one that includes more blood than most horror movies! —Hazel
Riding in Cars With Boys (2001)
I was drawn to this movie for a three reasons: (1) The cast. Drew Barrymore is one of my favorite actresses and I also love Brittany Murphy and Sara Gilbert and basically everyone else in this movie. (2) I love true stories, especially those about writers. This movie is based on the writer Beverly Donofrio's autobiography of the same name. (3) I love stories set in '60s, especially the ones that examine the conflict that arose as society changed and rebellious teenagers showed their parents that the forced wholesomeness of the previous decade just wasn't working. In Riding in Cars with Boys, Beverly (played by Drew) deals with the consequences of that rebellion. Both she and her best friend, Fay (Brittany), have an adventurous streak, and after they do a little bit more than ride in cars with boys, they both get pregnant and are forced to get married and miss out on teenager stuff like prom and college. The movie has a little bit of a Lifetime movie vibe, but that adds to the charm for me. —Stephanie ♦


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Fields of Snow
Fields of Snow
original watercolor
5" x 5"
I had hoped to photograph some bits and pieces of cornstalks in the fields, partially covered by snow. However, the snow was much deeper than I anticipated, and there were no cornstalks to be found, let alone photographed. So I was content to paint the terraces in the fields with my watercolors.


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Welcome to Experiencing Slow Art
Hi, I'm Stephen Holtzman, the founder of Experiencing Slow Art. The intent of my work is to enhance people's view when being with art.
The experience of art is often accompanied by valuable education and information about the art. Many people try to see as many objects as possible and learn as much as they can. This effort can be exhausting.
When we hear music we love, our focus changes. Viewing a beautiful sunset, many will take a slow deep breath. The same will happen upon seeing an inspiring piece of art.
With music and viewing nature it is not necessary to engage the intellect to feel beauty. Acquiring techniques to enhance the intuitive, we deepen our body sense and become more present. We respond spontaneously from a calm place of mindfulness.
Artists dwell on details of design and technique. If we really slow down and observe we may experience the nuanced detail of the design, penetrate the surface impression of the work of art and perceive its subtle nature and substance.
It takes enormous time and effort to create art. All this effort deserves the extended and persistent gaze of more than a moment's glance. How better can we give artists the respect they deserve than by slowing down.
I have constructed a series of exercises that build skills in relaxing the mind and body to increase our ability to approach art in a contemplative way. As one's subtle response to the visual stimulus grows we join with the art in an intimate and personal experience. We merge with art and become one.
1. The Soft Gaze
We practice slowing the breath in order to relax the mind and body; we enter a state of centered renewal. We let go of worldly concerns and loosen the grip of what is past and future and become more aware of what is happening in the moment. Open with a stress free attitude, we can now be with art with a less judging, critical mind.
2. Touch Without Touch
We learn to develop a child's instinctive and playful way to be with sculpture. We practice enhancing sensitivity in our hands to feel the energy that is always around us and can be felt with training. This proprioceptive awareness allows us to experience sculpture in a way that quiets the analytical brain. We open ourselves to being present and feel the reflection of the artist's creativity.
3. Being Moved
We start to move our bodies very slowly, subtlety and express the deep, nuanced somatic way we experience art. We amplify our awareness, we improvise what we sense. This frees us to feel more spontaneously about what we see. It is a deep experience of feeling beauty with few or no words, like when we are moved by music. It has been said that when one really experiences Chinese painting, one hears it as music. Can we then move to this music?


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Ras Malai
My little one turned two and i am reminiscing the day he was born, which is like yesterday to me. I think all mothers think likewise too. He was born a day before my birthday, which made him the best birthday present ever i could ask for. Let me check myself here, before i become too sentimental. Wishing my little one and myself a happy birthday !
I made this ras malai for the first time, which turned out quiet well.....
1/2 gallon - Whole milk
1 cup - Vinegar
For sugar syrup
5 cups - Water
1 cup - Sugar
For making ras for malai
1 can - Sweetened Condensed milk
2 can - Evaporated milk
( recommend carnation brand )
1/4 cup - Almonds, chopped
1/4 cup - Pistachios, chopped
A few saffron strands
1 ) First to make malai, boil milk to the boiling point and pour vinegar to curdle the milk. Stir continuously. The milk will curdle and whey will separate. Take off the stove and let it stand for a few minutes.
(In picture boiling milk and then curdled milk )
2 ) Pour the contents to a cheese cloth placed on a sieve. Squeeze & drain out all the whey to get fresh paneer /malai.
3 ) Wash the paneer well with water. You can run water into the drained paneer in the cheese cloth, by placing under a tap.This will remove the vinegar taste.
4 ) Squeeze & drain all the water very well.
- Then you have to knead the paneer very well. You can knead with hand ( which you will really have to knead for a long time to get soft paneer dough ) or place paneer in food processor and do as dough is made for chapati.
- Meanwhile to make sugar syrup, boil water and add sugar to it. Once the sugar has dissolved. Bring the syrup to a good boil, simmer then add the paneer patties to the syrup.
- On a medium heat cook the paneer patties with lid closed for 5 to 8 minutes. Paneer will double up in size. Switch off the heat and take off the stove. ( It's best to cook paneer patties in small batches, since there should be space in pan, when paneer doubles up)
6 ) To make ras - Mix together evaporated milk and sweetened condense milk.
- Drain paneer patties from sugar syrup and add to the ras.
- Then add chopped up almonds, pistachios and garnish with few saffron strands. Refrigerate for an hour.
Serve cold and enjoy this sweet treat.