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He's pretty cute, Snap. And, he will never leave. lol
I have a goodly number of that species of "bird" in my yard.
Squirrels can be obnoxious, but they are so cute. Their saving grace, I suppose.
He looks good in blue. ;) So cute.
What wonderful photos!!! Indeed, his is making himself at home!! Caused me to laugh out loud! Have a grand weekend! And...yes, it is the most wonderful time of the year!
Cute little critter. I like that feeder too.
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he will eat you out of house and home!!!!
The most adorable photo! Love it.
Cute, but very annoying, I had to stop feeding the birds since the squirrels would eat all the seed before the birds found it.
Awwwww Of course I had to stop by, cuteness overload :)
Have a happy weekend!
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Hello, what a cute new feeder. It looks like a gourd? The squirrels are always the first to dine at the feeders. Great shots. Thank you so much for linking up and sharing your post. Have a happy weekend!
The squirrel is cute and adorable. Have a wonderful weekend!
I love your new feeder and your little guest!!! I so wish I had a wee yard like yours. I know how blessed I am to have found this townhouse and I certainly have made it home, but at times I so long for a little spot of earth to call my own. Thank you for sharing yours.
Those grey squirrels can be quite endearing but as everyone agrees, they can also be a nuisance.
If he keeps eating, he won't be able to get out.
Yes, doesn't he look comfy, the little so-and-so!
That's the prettiest feeder I've ever seen! Cute little varmint munching away...definitely not a bird! Your header is gorgeous! Very festive.
darling I'm interested where Etsy??
Thanks for making me smile :))
Those are the cutest photos of the squirrel! My, but they are clever cheeky little critters!
I love the aqua colour of the bird feeder and yes, the squirrel looks too comfy to want to leave any time soon.
So cute!
mercy! I'm glad you can laugh at the squirrel; they drive me crazy!
So cute! I like the squirrels as much as (if not more than) the birds.
What a hoot! Very cute photos.
Cute photos. I think you have a new bird there for life ;-)
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There are so many things to do in Amsterdam, it's fair to say we absolutely loved the place. We couldn't have picked a better city to finish our nomadic adventure before heading back to Australia for the foreseeable future. The sun was shining, the weather was warm and the streets were filled with happy people going about their business. There was a real buzz to the city and everyone just seemed to be enjoying life. I'd like to think it was the changing of the seasons and not the copious amounts of wacky weed being smoked in the 'coffee shops', but it was a really great place to spend a few days.
Because the weather was warm the locals had brought their indoor furniture outside and were soaking up the rays. They were either tapping away on laptops, reading a book or had gathered a few friends for a few drinks and a laugh. As I walked the streets I imagined what it must be like living in Amsterdam, at least when the sun is shining, and I liked what was flashing through my mind.
We spent four nights in Amsterdam but could have spent many weeks and months here. It's a beautiful city sliced into many pieces by the hundreds of canals flowing in every direction imaginable, but it feels very much like home for residents and visitors alike. Some places we've visited are so beautiful you don't want to touch anything for fear of breaking something (like Bruges), but Amsterdam is completely different. From the moment we stepped out of the train station we felt like we were at home, comfortable enough to relax and enjoy the city for everything it's worth.
Amsterdam highlights
- Hire some bikes – As they say, when in Rome do as the Romans do. In this case, hire bikes to explore the city because that's how the locals get around. It's a flat city small enough to get around and see everything with ease. We had Jack sitting on the back in his seat and there was no problem at all.
- Dam Square – Featuring the National Monument, De Nieuwe Kerk and Royal Palace, this is the busiest part of town with a number of attractions visible with a simple 360 degree turn.
- Red Light District – While it may sound sleazy, it's a fascinating area of town where the 'ladies of the night' parade themselves from their booth windows, and the 'coffee shops' do a roaring trade in marijuana and alcohol. This area is also home to Oude Kerk (Old Church), Amsterdam's oldest surviving building in the city centre.
- Museumplein – For those who love art, this area is where you'll find the Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum and the Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art. It was also the sight of the giant 'I Amsterdam' letters during our stay.
- De Pijp – This is a trendy part of town with great cafes, bars and shops, as well as the famous Albert Cuypmarket. Here's where you can pick up a bargain as well as munch on a raw herring sandwich served with pickles and onions, a popular meal in this part of the world.
- Jordaan – Another lovely suburb in the city, filled with quaint little bars and restaurants, lovely antique stores and independent art galleries.
- The Nine Streets – De Negen Straatjes was our favourite part of the city. It was filled with expensive boutique stores and excellent places to grab a bite to eat. Real estate is out of reach for most for obvious reasons, but we made sure we explored the streets in this area every day we were here.
- Voldenpark – Amsterdam has plenty of parks to escape the action of the city streets, and Voldenpark is the biggest of them all. We rode our bikes through just a fraction of the 47-acres, and there's a great playground to send some time with your children if they need a run around.
The eight things to do in Amsterdam we've mentioned above are just the tip of the iceberg, there are so many more things you can do during an extended stay. Amsterdam is one of those cities we could easily see ourselves moving to if the weather was just a little kinder during the winter months. But for those wanting to settle down for a few months when the sun is shining, there are fewer better places in our experience than Amsterdam.
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Mr. Rogers' Cabinet of Curiosities: Dissecting "Epitaph For A Legend"
Various Artists - Epitaph For A Legend 2CD digipack with 40 page booklet (Charly/International Artists Snax 620)
Official webpage.
The 1980 IA retrospective, Epitaph For A Legend, is now on its third or fourth go-round in the digital era. This 2010 iteration from Charly is, by all appearances, the 'definitive' version, if such a term can accurately be ascribed to an album that's mostly famous among record collectors for being so remarkably un-definitive.
A large part of the problem with Epitaph is its maddening lack of self-definition. Is it a greatest hits package? No. IA only had two of those, and neither are here. Is it a rarities package? No, because several of the rarest singles are excluded. Is it a smorgasbord of previously unissued goodies, carefully selected for quality? No, nearly one-third of the 27 cuts had been released. Epitaph, then, is 'none of the above,' a jumbled potpurri of sounds, presided over by their original producer and Svengali, Lelan Rogers. Epitaph less resembles a dignified 'epitaph' than it does a hastily-organized rummage sale held by distant relatives after the death of an eccentric but somewhat appreciated uncle. Some jewels are to be discovered, to be sure, but one has to dig through piles of rubbish to find them. For example, Bubble Puppy, IA's biggest group, are nowhere to be found on Epitaph -- the first clue to the buyer that things here are quite amiss. (Years would pass before we realized why: the Puppy had been produced by Ray Rush, not Rogers, and Lelan was only-too-happy to keep the focus on two bands he produced, the Elevators and the Red Crayola. Despite its Top 20 status, 'Hot Smoke & Sassafrass' passes unmentioned in Jon Savage's interview with Rogers, enclosed within both the original double LP and this CD.)
And it wouldn't be an IA album without a garish, hand-drawn cover too amateurish-looking even for a tax write-off or vanity labels. Each of the original 12 LPs are given their own tombstone (the singles apparently weren't given a proper burial -- an unintentionally ironic statement on the album's contents). Anyone expecting, say, a photograph or two of the bands has clearly set their expectations way too high. In the packaging department, Epitaph for a Legend fully complements the DIY non-aesthetic of contemporaneous early garage-psych bootlegs like Boulders and Texas Flashbacks.
Retrospectives of this sort almost always include some information on the artists. Even the most oblivious, only-in-it-for-the-money discount label knows this. But clearly this, also, is expecting too much of Lelan Rogers, who instead of providing information on the bands or recordings, merely inserted his 1978 Jon Savage interview into the original package, as if it constituted the final word of IA. Actually, the interview raises more questions that it answers (not the least for its omission of Bubble Puppy), and much of what Rogers says is of questionable accuracy. It is not wholly without value, but I believe much of what he said has since been supplanted by better research. This is not to denigrate the man too much. We should not forget that Lelan's job at all times was to sell records, not write history books, and at least he was making an effort to do something, within his limitations.
Lelan Rogers, amidst his paisley curtains, working the phones in an attempt to create a hit, 1960s.
Mistaking the enthusiasm of a few LA, Texas, and UK record collectors for a larger, general interest, Rogers pressed several thousand copies of Epitaph, but his naïve optimism for the revived IA label was soon met with cold reality: only a few hundred copies actually sold at the time of release, and Lelan was forced to wholesale the rest at cost to Midnight Records in New York (where it was a list staple now for decades). It probably never occurred to him that sales might have been stronger had the album been responsibly packaged and logically laid out. Lelan's timing was off, too – interest in obscure sixties labels and music was only then getting off the ground (Pebbles Volume 1 had just appeared), and years passed before a real market developed for this kind of thing. If he had waited until 1986, and had spent a little more thought on packaging and track selection, Lelan might well have had an underground 'hit' with Epitaph.
Billboard 13 October 1979
Charly has seen fit to finally give the album the proper liner notes it should have had back in '80. Mole from the Higher State has sorted out what was originally released and what wasn't, helpfully filling in whatever info has come to light over the last three decades. Jon Savage's interview with Rogers is presented here yet again, with a thoughtful new introduction for context. Remarkably, Jon reveals that his introduction to IA came in 1971, when he discovered a copy of Easter Everywhere at Doug Dobell's 77 Charing Cross record store. He was thus as prepared as anyone to chat with Lelan, whom he recalls 'had exactly the right amount of passion mixed with just that hint of carnival chicanery' -- one of the 'old school' of record business operators who could work the phones and BS with enough DJs enough to help create a national hit, even for a local two-bit operation like IA.
Disc 1
The Chayns - Night Time (Is The Right Time)
Epitaph begins with a bit of a let-down: a San Antonio garage band's inept and redundant version of the Strangeloves. This was released on the strictly-local 'Alamo Audio' label first, and, after apparently becoming a minor hit, was licensed by IA for some hoped-for larger distribution that never happened. (This 'buy-in' was unusual; most of what IA released was recorded by them.) One wonders if Lelan was even aware of the Strangeloves' vastly superior version, which hit #30 in the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1965.
The Patterns - In My Own Time
This is more like it: an unknown group tackling a little-known Bee Gees album cut. Would have made a respectable single at the time.
The Chaparrels - I Tried So Hard
Another unknown group, but presumably the same Houston bunch who put out 'Roxanne' on the Notsuoh label when IA passed on them (comped on the Houston Hallucinations LP). One of the few real surprises of Epitaph, 'I Tried So Hard' is an energetically fuzz-driven, harder-rocking cop of 'Along Comes Mary' that practically screams 'hit.' Though Lelan presumably produced the original session, no explanation is given as to why it was left unreleased.
Thursday's Children - A Part Of You
One of Houston's better rock bands of the era, Thursday's Children had two highly regarded singles for IA. They didn't sell, and were rare and unheard at the time of Epitaph. Surely that meant their inclusion was warranted here, yes? Er, no. Instead we're treated to 'A Part of You,' which is decent, but sounds demo-y, and not nearly as good as any of the four single sides.
The Rubayyat - If I Were A Carpenter
Strangely credited to Electric Rubayyat on the original Epitaph LP, we now know that this was Danny Galindo's post-Elevators group, comprised of Austin and San Antonio players (including Bill Hallmark from the Golden Dawn). This was released as a single in early 1968, and is a pleasant though pedestrian cover of the Tim Hardin/Bobby Darin hit from two years prior. The American Blues released a stronger version at approximately the same time.
Sonny Hall - Poor Planet Earth
Forgettable novelty nonsense from a washed-up lounge/country singer, completely out-of-place here. This didn't deserve its' original 45 release, much less a reappearance on what was supposed to be a rock/psych-oriented retrospective.
Inner Scene - Communication Breakdown
Led Zeppelin goes to the garage. A fun, originally unissued version, though, like the Rubayyat's 'If I Were a Carpenter,' redundant, and hardly worth dredging up when far superior material was left waiting in the wings.
The Red Crayola - Hurricane Fighter Plane
Mono version of the master take of this psych goodie, the closest any Texas band got to sounding like early Pink Floyd; presented here sans the extraneous 'freakout' noise (and lousy fidelity) of the familiar fake-stereo version heard on Parable for Arable Land.
The Red Crayola - Pink Stainless Tail (Demo) / Nickle Niceness (Demo) / Vile, Vile Grass (Demo) / Transparent Radiation (Demo)
Rough drafts for songs that were re-recorded for Parable. Lelan obviously had a soft spot for this group, whom he thought were 'gimmicky' enough to hit as a novelty act, a la the Mothers of Invention or Tiny Tim. One demo would have been appropriate here; four is excessive overkill.
The Emperors - I Want My Woman
Los Angeles-area group who recorded this for Lelan's Sabra label in 1965. Nothing to do with IA, therefore perfectly appropriate for inclusion on Epitaph.
Lost And Found - 25 M.P.H.
Basic demo of a dull, unissued song from this underachieving Houston group. Their IA album Everybody's Here captures a third-rate Elevators copy band that never really outgrew their roots as surf instrumentalists; however they rallied to create a fabulous single-only release, 'When Will You Come Through' in '68. That would have been the logical choice for Epitaph, but any listener still expecting logic at this point in the programme is an exceptionally slow learner.
CD 1 thus concludes with just 14 tracks, at least six of which are redundant and/or mediocre, and less than 40 minutes of music.
Disc 2
Big Walter - Breakfast In Bed
Besides Lightnin' Hopkins, pianist Big Walter Price was the only African-American artist to record for otherwise lily-white IA. Walter had recorded some R&B for Peacock in the fifties, and 'Breakfast in Bed' is basically ossified early fifties R&B dusted off and given a contemporary rock gloss. Like the 'The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions' LP, it's 'blues rock' not likely to please either blues or rock audiences. Certainly not bad, though for curiosity value only.
Dave Allen - C. C. Rider / Saturday A.M. Blues
Dave Allen was a white bluesman who had some singles for Jin and a worthwhile 1969 album for IA, Color Blind. It's apparent from listening to these two that they are from the same session that produced Big Walter's 'Breakfast in Bed.' Neither are as good as anything on Color Blind. 'C.C. Rider' is a generic version of the done-to-death standard, and 'Saturday A.M. Blues' is a forgettable Lightnin' Hopkins imitation.
Lightnin' Hopkins - Conversation With Lightnin' Hopkins
This could have been entitled, 'Conversation With Two Incoherent Drunkards' and no one would have known the difference. This is apparently Lelan attempting to 'interview' Hopkins, an excerpt of a three-hour tete-a-tete recorded during the Free Form Patterns sessions.
Lightnin' Hopkins - Black Ghost Blues
A good outtake from the otherwise forgettable Free Form Patterns LP. Typical Hopkins.
Roky Erickson - Interview with Roky (KSAN 4/1/78)
A complete waste of space. 'Roky, what do you think of the Sex Pistols?'
The Spades - You're Gonna Miss Me / We Sell Soul
The first LP appearance of Roky's pre-Elevators garage band, originally released on the Zero label in Austin. That might raise some eyebrows: 'What are they doing on an IA comp, then?,' you might ask. Dunno, though it must have been exciting to obtain these two rare, practically unknown tracks at the time. Though far superior vinyl rips could be (and have been) made from the 45 using today's technology, that would be expecting too much, and Charly has opted instead to use the dreadful needle-drops done in the '70s for the original LP.
Roky Erickson & Clementine Hall - Splash 1 / Right Track Now
Two 'unplugged' Elevators songs, exposing their folk music roots and sympathies. Mysteries when they appeared on Epitaph, years of archaeological research has established that these are Easter Everywhere outtakes.
The 13th Floor Elevators - Wait For My Love
By far the most significant track on Epitaph when it appeared was this previously-unknown Bull of the Woods-era pop-rocker from Stacy Sutherland. Recorded after Lelan left IA, it is the most commercial song in the Elevators' entire canon (after 'You're Gonna Miss Me') -- and yet, astonishingly, was rejected both as a single and an LP track. The band achieves a tightness largely absent from the '68 sessions, and 'Wait For My Love' compares favourably to Moby Grape's first LP – not a sound one would readily expect from the Elevators. An inferior rewrite, entitled "Til Then," did finally make it on Bull of the Woods.
Aurally, this sounds like a second-generation tape dub, and since the exact same version appears on the 2009 box set, we must assume that it's all that survived. A newly-remixed version was released as a new IA single this month (April, 2011).
The 13th Floor Elevators - 60-Second Radio Spot for 'Bull Of The Woods'
Interesting radio commercial from 1969, aimed at a San Francisco audience, where it was presumed they still had a following (though we now know that they hadn't appeared there since '66).
The 13th Floor Elevators - Fire Engine
Mono single mix. Mildly different from the stereo version, but something like the mono single version of 'Levitation' would have been a far better choice. But that would have actually required some thought and deliberation.
CD 2 finishes the programme at a mere 13 tracks: four pedestrian blues numbers, two 'spoken-word' pieces, two Spades tracks unrelated to IA, two acoustic Elevators demos, and one great track, 'Wait For My Love.' An exceptionally poor showing.
And there you have it. Twenty-seven tracks on two CDs, well over half of which would have been rejected for Pebbles Volume 89; nothing at all by two of IA's greatest bands, Bubble Puppy and the Golden Dawn (and no explanation for their exclusion); four tracks that have nil to do with IA; a clutch of unremarkable demos; a couple of rambling spoken-word pieces; and – almost by accident! – a few great tracks that almost justify the hype. All in all, Epitaph was/is a textbook example of why label owners should leave this sort of thing to the fans. It could have been great. But the same could be said of IA as a whole, couldn't it?
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I've always treasured the Red Krayola demos - without a doubt my favorite recordings by them. That's the kind of rarity that made this set worthwhile.ReplyDelete
I also like the interview with Roky, though it does have nothing to do with IA. Lightnin's Black Ghost is a great track too.
Too bad nobody ever asked Rogers about his work at Sabra.
Bought the original vinyl in '80/'81ReplyDelete
Charlie Helpinstill said that 'A Part Of You' was recorded in 1969. Not sure who produced it but he lined them up in a row ('like classical musicians' said Charlie) and recorded them that way.ReplyDelete
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Expresso is currently a growing company that specializes in delivering and providing the best quality groceries to any customer. In addition to this, Majeed Ekbal is a well known philanthropist that has donated to relief foundations. One of the foundations that he is the most generous with is the human relief foundation that is helping Nepal. His goal is aligned with Mr. Rahim's goal which is to help Nepal as much as possible and to save many lives. With not only care, but also generous donations, this goal will soon be accomplished by both men working together to relieve the effects of the earthquake. Visit Majeed Ekbal's tumblr page for more information.


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There's no denying I'm a die hard Revlon lip product fan. Whether it's the Revlon Kissable Balm Stains or the Revlon Lip Butters I'm all over them. So when I was casually browsing the aisles of Boots and I noticed these I knew I needed to try them. My small town Boots didn't have the biggest selection so I picked up one neutral shade and one brighter shade. The Revlon Ultra HD Lipstick in Hydrangea is a bright bright fuchsia pick, perfect for really perking up your makeup. These lipsticks apply like a dream, with a rich creamy formula you get great pay off and application in an instant. With the brighter of the two shades I picked up this is lovely, however it does mean you have to be a bit more careful and steady with your application to make sure everything looks precise. Once on the lips neither of this lipsticks feel drying, in fact it's the complete opposite. Moisture is not a problem with these lipsticks, although this does mean the lasting power is slightly reduced. These won't last through eating or drinking and will need a few re-applications throughout the day.
The more neutral option I picked up is Revlon's Ultra HD Lipstick in Rose. This is a lovely rosy everyday colour that adds a bit more of a pink tinge to my normal bare lip colour. The range comes in a lovely silver style packaging with a clear lid. Although these lipsticks get bonus points for their ease of spotting the different colours, with the formula being so creamy if you catch the edge of the product when popping its lid back on don't be surprise if you chop a chunk out of the side. The lipsticks also have a slight sweet smell to them, while may not sail your boat. It really doesn't bother me but I know some people detest the scent. While I love the shades and formulas of these lipsticks they're the type I've been opting for if I know I'm not too fussed about a long lasting staining colour. I probably won't pick up any more shades for now, however if you have drier lips I'd really recommend you try these out.
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As part of the national strategy for the European Research Area (ERA), Germany is expanding its collaboration with the EU13 member states. These include Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. The ERA Fellowships programme supports capacity building in the field of science management in the EU13 and strengthens networking with German research organisations and universities.
Time period:
From 6 weeks (minimum term) starting 1 September 2016 up to 3 months (maximum term).
Number of funded guest stays:
26 at maximum (at least one fellowship per EU13 state is envisaged)
Application period:
20 November 2015 until 29 February 2016, extended until 8 April 2016
Please note: The call for applications for the ERA Fellowships is now closed. Thank your for your interest in this programme.
The selected host institutions will be informed once the evaluation process is finalised.
Who is it for?
The programme is designed for science managers (middle administrative management level) from research organisations, research funding organisations or higher education institutions in EU13 states (EU13 fellows) and German research organisations, research funding organisations or higher education institutions (host organisations) interested in exchanging knowledge or establishing / expanding a network.
How does it work? Theory and practice
Guest stay: During their guest stay at a German science organisation or higher education institution, the EU13 fellows gather practical experience in science management. They will get in-depth insights and exchange views on scientific management procedures and processes on an expert level. Before a fellowship begins, a structured training concept will be agreed with the German host institution.
Campus weeks: In addition to the guest stay at a host organisation, the ERA Fellowships programme features a theoretical part. An attractive programme awaits the participants on campus: Structured in "thematic days" on, inter alia, knowledge transfer, EU research funding, or internationalization, the campus weeks will provide opportunities for learning, the exchange of experiences and intensive networking. German experts will lead discussions and study trips. The weeks on campus are part of the programme, so participation is obligatory for the EU13 fellows. Colleagues from the German host organisations are welcome to participate in the activities subject to the availability of seats.
Campus week 1
Time period: 1-9 September 2016
Venue: Bonn
Campus week 2
Time period: 10-14 October 2016
Venue: Berlin
Information on venues, accommodation and programme will be made available in due course.


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1979 Fiat Spider Restoration
Produced from 1966 to 1985, all Fiat Spiders came from the factory with a twin-cam four-cylinder motor, five-speed manual transmission, and four-wheel disc brakes. The body was designed and built by Pininfarina, the same Italian coach-builder that gave us the original Nash-Healey, the Alfa-Romeo Giulietta Spider, Ferrari 250 GT, and many other classics.
For 1979, Fiat changed the name of the 124 Spider to Spider 2000. A minor redesign included new front grille and hood, flush-mounted door handles, and larger 14-inch wheels. Engine displacement increased from 1800cc to 1995cc (2.0 litre), and the points-style distributor was replaced by electronic ignition. This was also the largest production year, making 1979 Spiders more commonly found.
The Purchase
I found this car for sale in the parking lot of a restaurant in Myrtle Beach, SC. The body was straight, the convertible top and tires were new, but the car needed mechanical attention. During the price negotiation, the owner offered to drive it to my house, which was 200 miles away. Not only did this save me the hassle of having it towed, it showed it was a reliable car.
Before buying this Fiat Spider, I looked at several classic British sports cars, including a 1974 Triumph TR-6 (the seller would not negotiate) and a 1973 MGB (the seller changed his mind and kept the car). There was also a Porsche 911 that was priced well under market value - turned out car's drivetrain was not original.
Restore or Ignore?
In fair-to-good shape, Fiat Spiders sell between $3,000 to $5,000, making them affordable restoration projects. Aftermarket parts and supplies are not very good, but there's plenty of enthusiast sites on the web.
Fiat Spider Electrical Issues
Electrical issues on old Fiats can usually traced a bad ground. Spider models have fuse panels under the dash just below the steering wheel to the left. The fuses are the older European style, like early VW Beetles. These fuses are made of aluminum and sometimes copper.
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Many old car electrical problems are as simple as loose and corroded connections, a blown fuse, or a melted fusible link. If several electrical components aren't working, that may indicate a fuse or ground connection.
read Old Car Electrical Problems
Sometimes simply turning (rotating) the fuses in their holders will help get a better connection. Many Fiat Spider electrical problems can be cured by replacing the original fuse boxes with a modern-style fuse box and fuses.
Fiat Spider Engine
Although the Fiat Spider engine was of an efficient design, cars sold in the U.S. were required to have pollution devices, regardless of whether they were really needed. In order to continue selling to its largest market, Fiat complied by adding on smog equipment, which burdened the motor, choked performance, and caused driveability issues. The 1974-1979 carbureted models with emissions systems had the lowest performance, and subsequently are the most affordable. The last of the carburetor Spiders were 1979 and early 1980 models. These are the worst performers in stock form, but can be retrofitted with an earlier intake manifold and carburetor.
Fiat Spider Engine Upgrades
An aftermarket carburetor like a Weber is an easy bolt-on upgrade. It will add more power to a stock engine, but will be more effective with other modifications, such as aftermarket cams and headers. Most carbs you see offered will have an electric choke, which makes installation easier.
One of the best intake manifolds to upgrade to is the original factory piece on 1975-1978 1800cc Spiders, casting number 4264350. It is a single-plane intake manifold and will accept downdraft carbs with up to 34mm bores without modification. These can be hard to find, but they did come on other Fiat models as well as Spiders.
Timing Belt Replacement
Timing belts on the 2.0 Spider motor are only rated for 20 to 25k miles. If you're not sure when it was last done, replace it before you start driving the car. If a timing belt breaks, the 2.0 engine will free-wheel. On earlier 1800cc engines, broken timing belts will damage engine parts.
Timing Belt Replacement on the Spider is time-consuming and frustrating. The crank pulley, auxiliary shaft sprocket, intake cam sprocket, and exhaust cam sprocket must be perfectly lined up as the belt is installed or the car won't run it's best.
read Timing Belt Replacement
Exhaust Manifold Oil Leak
Turns out that a few of the exhaust manifold studs on the car had been previously replaced with bolts, which was allowing oil to leak on the exhaust manifold. The Fiat Spider exhaust system was gone over from the engine back.
read Fiat Spider Exhaust
read Fiat Spider Brakes
Minor Notes on Fiat Spider Restoration
- Wheel options are limited because Fiat used an odd 4x98mm bolt pattern.
- Steel brake lines are an uncommon "bubble-flare" metric size.
- Unfortunately, Autopart International is no longer in business.
Factory Manual
Knowledge is the best tool you can have, and having a shop manual that covers your year and model is invaluable. You'll end up referring to it over and over again.


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Welcome to Nourish Coaching.
How are you? I hear maybe you've been struggling lately with your mood, your energy, your relationship to your body, food or the people around you. That your sex drive is in the toilet and if one more person needs something from you, you just may go a teeny bit crazy on them. That you've been wondering why you feel so tired, checked out, irritated, out of balance. Why "being healthy" has to feel so overwhelming and juggling all these balls has to be so hard. And that these feelings cause the rebound effect of guilt, shame, and self-blame because you don't have it all figured out and handled. Does this sound familiar to any of you?
Has anyone ever told you that it might be your BODY that is out of balance? Not your willpower, not your self-discipline, not your motivation or organization...but a physical root cause for the way you're feeling? That there may be something going on in your body that is causing you to be on edge, out of sorts, crave sweets and refined carbs, have unexplained weight gain (or resistant weight loss) and feel exhausted?
Check this out.
The health of your digestive system is foundational to the rest of your health, period. If that system is offline, you can guarantee there are going to effects elsewhere in your body and mind.
Dealing with autoimmunity, skin issues, seasonal allergies? 80% of our immune system is housed in our GI tract. Struggling with anxiety or depression? 90% of our serotonin, one of our most important neurotransmitters, is produced in the gut. Having a hard time losing weight? You may be eating something that your body is reacting to, causing inflammation and bloating. Or your body may not be properly absorbing the nutrients you are taking in causing you to overeat, have endless cravings, exhaustion and hormonal imbalance. Not pooping? Well, now you're holding on toxins and excess hormones that should be excreted, creating hormonal imbalance and toxic overload. And did you notice how I mentioned hormonal balance already? Yep, that's right, our hormonal balance is intimately tied to the health of our digestive systemand that includes thyroid, insulin, cortisol and your sex hormones. And we know that imbalances here create a multitude of problems for us.
To get a sneak peek at how to begin to heal your digestive system and balance your hormones, head over to the How to Tame Sugar Cravings page and sign up for the free infographic and email series on how to begin to implement changes, starting today.
So what if I told you that once you fix the root cause of what you are struggling with that you could straightforwardly resolve your symptoms? That your symptoms are simply your body's way of telling you that something's not working and once you give your body the raw building blocks it needs, it will heal itself and function as it's designed to do? The idea should not be to repress or avoid symptoms using whatever means necessary but rather to determine what is causing them in the first place and correct it, thereby eliminating the symptoms altogether. There is so much you can do to correct your own symptoms. The solutions are simple and resonate on a deep level. And it doesn't require multiple prescriptions, trips to the doctor, cases of wine or running away. Yay!
I believe in the capability of women to be in charge of their health and their lives. I believe in the power of women to fully come into their most healthy and authentic selves and the beautiful ripple effect that will have on families and communities.
I work with:
- Women who need permission to take care of themselves.
- Women who are ready to create space in their lives for self-care.
- Women who want to have a stable mood and be able to respond, instead of react, to stress.
- Women who need liberation from trying to do everything perfectly.
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My name is Stacey Day and I am the owner of Nourish Coaching. I am a wife and mom + an emergency room Registered Nurse + a Functional Nutrition and Lifestyle Coach. I work individually with clients to implement nutrition and lifestyle changes to create optimal health. This means that in working together we find the root cause of what is keeping you from feeling the best in your body and create and implement a plan to resolve it. This could be something as simple as getting more sleep to as complex as determining what's creating inflammation and autoimmunity in your body. I specialize in teaching women how to create digestive health and hormonal balance through nutrition and lifestyle, so that you can show up in your life exactly as you choose to. Not react, not manage, but participate and enjoy. In our initial 4 week package, you will get:
- Four one-on-one 50 minute sessions with me
- A detailed inventory of what's going on in your body and your health
- A detailed vision for what you want to be experiencing instead
- Lab and supplement recommendations and education specific to your individual needs
- Nutrition counseling on areas that can be optimized and/or foods that may causing sensitivities and creating reactions; step by step plan for removing any foods that are not optimal for your health
- A step by step plan, created together, that shows you where to add in self-care for stress resilence
- A step by step plan for the behavior change that's needed to accomplish your specific goals and outcomes
- Support and accountability to get from where you are to where you want to be
- Unlimited email support between sessions, with a 24 hour response time (except weekends, cause ya know, balance!)
Sign up below for a 20 minute introductory session where we discover what your vision and desired outcome is and what has been stopping you from getting there so far. This session alone is eye opening and transformative and gives you a glimpse into what's possible for you.
You are completely worth it and everyone you come in contact with will benefit from you showing up as your most vibrant, energetic, authentic self.
Finally, please know that as much as I love coaching women into their most heathy version of themselves, I am not trying to get as many clients as possible.
My focus is on quality vs. quantity.
What that means— the timing has to be right for us to work together. I only want to work with women if I can truly make a difference in their lives. Women who are ready to commit and invest in themselves so that they can reach their full potential.
This is not a quick fix. It's intense, rewarding and an ultimately transformative experience.
So if you're ready to feel great in your body, at ease in your mind and see what you're truly capable of— AWESOME, let's do it!
If not, that's okay too. You should always make choices aligned with what you believe is right for you.
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The BD-11 Valor Fitness Hard Power rack is the perfect unit for the HARD CORE POWER LIFTER.
Built using 2.5" x 2.5" 12 gauge steel frame, the BD-11 offers multiple options.
1. Squat Rack: Rated for 650 lbs of weight. The BD-11 has 2 solid steel safety chrome bars for added support. 4 bars supports are supplied for a variety of bar adjustment heights. Recommendation is to perform the squats and bench press inside the cage for added safety measures.
2. Pull up station: Allows user to focus on "pulling" muscle workout and not just the pushing motion found in bench press.
3. Add a variety of utility benches, like the Valor DG-1 stationary bench, and you can now focus on military presses.
4. Solid steel weld plate in lower rear of frame adds extra support to the over-all frame structure.
- Main Frame: 60mm x 60mm x 2.0mm
- Assembled dimensions L 46" x W 48" x H 87"
- 4 Solid Steel Chrome adjustable weight bar supports.
- 2 Solid Steel Squat Safety bars
- 17 variable positions for bar supports ranging in height from 18" to 68"
- Solid Steel Chrome pull up bar with knurled grips
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Do not wear yourself out to get rich; do not trust your own cleverness. Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle. Proverbs 23:4-5
Getting wealthy is the goal of many people. They desire to have a lot of money. The reasons for wanting a lot of money can vary from person to person. Some want all the large things; some want to be able to give more away; others fear any debt; others may want to provide everything for their families; and yet there are many other desires for wealth.
In order to get the desired wealth many people will go to extreme measures. They will work extra long hours or work an extra job. Many will even work a job that they hate, only because it pays so much more. As they strive to be wealthy, many will try out different get-rich-quick deals. People will bounce from selling one product to another, just to make a lot of money.
The common factor in all of these is that people are wearing themselves out in order to gain more wealth. They can never get enough.
Solomon says to just give a quick glance at wealth, because they will be gone quickly. Wealth is here today and gone tomorrow.
Take a look at your paycheck. It doe not matter how much it really is or how little it really is. Either way, once payday hits, within a few short days it is usually gone. Bills are paid, food and gas are bought, needed items are purchased, and suddenly all the money is gone. All that hard-earned wealth has disappeared.
In light of eternity, all wealth is very fleeting. No matter how much you have it will be gone soon. As Solomon says it sprouts wings and flies off quickly.
As you are going through this life, do not make getting wealthy a high priority in your life. Seek God and find out what He wants you to do. Make doing God's will your highest priority. Then be content with what He has given you.
God will give you all that you need to live an abundant life. This may mean you may or may not be wealthy, but it will mean a full life. Don't wear yourself trying to get rich.
I pray today that you will know God's provision in your life; that you will know the abundant life God provides you; that you will not trust in wealth, but in God alone; and that you will be used by God to reach this world for Jesus.


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encourages your growth and affords you the opportunity to reach out
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We're The Collective Group, a nationally recognized leader in providing IT Infrastructure Services and Solutions in support of complex enterprise computing environments. Our hundreds of clients range from Global 50 giants to mid-tier businesses highly dependent upon their IT infrastructure. We engage directly with end customers or often, through our significant partner relationships with Symantec/Veritas, Dell, EMC, NetApp, HP, Microsoft, VMWare and others all of whom rely on us to architect, design, implement and manage their complex products at their most demanding customers.
At Collective, we believe that we live or die on the quality of our people. We continually strive to foster a culture of inclusion and collaboration. Our Team Members (employee is a word we never use here) drive our business forward and each and every one of us acts and is treated as a business owner.
Collaboration is at the heart of our success. We long ago learned that the most complex problems can only be solved through the complete sharing of skills, information and experiences. We've built our culture and process around promoting, measuring and rewarding collaboration. The very name of our company, "Collective", was chosen to reflect this philosophy. It's a nice idea but what it really means is you are never alone. Every customer problem is a shared problem and every solution is the result of having vast technical resources at your disposal. Our clients view Collective's consultants as capable of solving even the most oblique and challenging infrastructure issues. They may even come to regard you as a "Rock Star" when in fact; you are the portal for delivering the unified thinking of your colleagues. Imagine the opportunities to shine while learning from these collaborative interactions. In turn, you'll get the satisfaction of helping others by applying your own unique skills and experiences to their most daunting challenges.
We recruit and hire using a unique model - unlike anything you've experienced in the past. We strive to learn all about your abilities and goals and we openly share an immense amount of information about ours as well. It starts with our highly trained recruiting team and culminates with a peer-based, collaborative decision process designed and managed by the Collective Team Members to ensure you have the support and backing of the team from day one. In the end, you'll be able to make the most informed hiring decision of your life.
Because we thrive on the cutting edge of IT innovation, our Team Members are encouraged to constantly cross train, learn and certify in the latest technologies. And, to promote continual learning, we offer a certification bonus program that rewards achievement of certain industry certifications. As importantly, we'll work with you to help you sharpen your critical consultative and interpersonal skills.
Lastly, we like what we do and we enjoy working together to accomplish our goals. If you want to work with the very best people in our industry and experience life in a company that understands the importance of the individual, consider Collective.
We are constantly recruiting for a range of technologies that span our diverse Infrastructure Practice areas.
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CNN recently aired a documentary titled "Gary and Tony Have a Baby," where CNN's Soledad O'Brien followed a same-sex couple in "their struggle against the legal and personal obstacles to become parents" and their quest to achieve a life as mainstream as possible. How do you feel about gay couples having a family? Should they be allowed to adopt and be foster parents? What if you had a gay member of your family and they decided to have a baby through adoption, surrogacy or sperm donor? How would you react to it?
Divine Love is the basis for the desire to bring a new soul into this world.
One of the ways in which we can know the Infinite, is as the perfect expression of Divine Love. God as love sees only the good in the hearts of those who desire a child.
In other words, the principle of Divine Love includes everyone. No one is excluded from the free expression of Divine Love. I'm in favor of same-sex couples raising a child (having a baby through surrogacy, sperm donor or adoption). Also, I am in favor of the single parent (either female or male) who has the desire to raise a child.


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For many people the last thing they will think about when thinking of redecorating their kitchen is the type of kitchen lighting design that they want and normally this the first thing that they will cut from their budget. But if you want your kitchen and function well then good lighting is a must. A good kitchen lighting design plan will blend into the architectural and decorative details of the room.
When it comes to uses lights in a kitchen the most common mistake made by many people is that they try to light the entire room by just using a ceiling mounted fixture. But unfortunately this will results in the room being visually overpowered by the light fixture and even recessed lighting isn?t much better.
Therefore plan for the layered look and kitchen that is well lit will layer and blend 4 different kinds of lights and any kitchen redesign or remodel or new build should include the following:-
1. Task Lighting. This is the workhouse element of kitchen lighting and will provide adequate light for when you are chopping vegetables or reading recipes. The optimum place for such lighting is between a person?s head and the actual work surface (and that is why lighting located below cabinets on the walls are very effective).
2. Ambient Lighting. This will create a warm glow to your kitchen and will fill the room as well as soften shadows and makes those entering the kitchen feeling instantly welcome. If you have cabinets which do not reach up to the ceiling then ambient lighting can be placed there. Of the four kinds of lighting you can include in your kitchen ambient is the most overlooked.
3. Accent Lighting. This will give depth and dimension to any kitchen and accent lighting is those fixtures which are placed inside a glassed front cabinet in order to illuminate the china, glassware or collectibles that are contained within it. Also recessed and adjustable low voltage fixtures used as spotlight art can be used as accent lighting.
4. Decorative Lighting. This type of lighting will add a sparkle to any space.
However when planning a kitchen lighting design is best if you plan ahead and you don?t have the money in your budget then install a series of pendants in the room but whilst the remodeling work is being carried out also have three junction boxes installed. Thus when you have the money available to purchase fixtures at a later date they can be easily added to your kitchen.
Lee Dobbins writes for Kitchen Decorating Ideas where you can get more ideas on decorating your kitchen as well as find out about kitchen lighting design.


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During the 1990's, Western Civilization went through two radical, irreversible transformations. These societal upheavals were so significant that future historians will likely pinpoint the 1990's as the social and economic turning point of the Western world (or at a minimum, the second greatest turning point after the 1960's).
This 90's change was the permanent loss of two pillars of Western society:
1. Lifetime Employment
2. Lifetime Marriage
The loss of these two conditions is fascinating history, but what's even more interesting, at least to me, is the radically different ways in which society reacted to these two losses.
How Society Reacted to the Loss of Lifetime Employment
It's amazing how fast people forget how things were just a few decades ago. Prior to the 1990's, and for most of the 19th and 20th Centuries (if not longer), when you got a job as a young man out of school, you more or less stayed at that job, or at least stayed at that company, for your entire working lifetime.
You got your job as a young man, worked at that firm for 40 years, then retired. They gave you a gold watch and a pension that was virtually guaranteed income for the rest of your golden years, and then you reached the average age of life expectancy and died.
Things like job interviews, resumes, and job searches were barely relevant and not nearly as integral as you and I consider them today. Once you got a job, you were pretty much set. I realize there were exceptions to that rule, but they were the exceptions.
I was born into this world. My dad was raised in this world. I relay the story in my book about how my dad was utterly confused that I was making all the money I was making as a very young man, even though I never had a job on my resume that was longer than about 18 months. In his world, a world that no longer existed, you got a job and were more or less set for life, or at least for a very long time. If you worked at a job for just a few years, it looked "bad" on your resume and no one in their right mind would want to hire you.
Nothing lasts forever though, and things change. With every decade, government grew, and grew, and grew. Regulations increased. Taxes went higher and higher. (Tax rates eventually decreased, particularly for the rich, but the actual mount of taxes paid by the typical family increased, and increased dramatically.) America went off the gold standard and started printing money, crashing the purchasing power of the dollar. Inflation increased.
On and on this went.
Finally, after decades of this, during the early 1990's, regulations on business and employers became so expensive and difficult that companies discovered they could save literally billions of dollars by shipping their jobs overseas to third-world workers.
And so they did. The free market reacted to changing government conditions, as it always does.
For those of you who are my age or older, you remember what happened. Millions of people were instantly laid off from their jobs. Blue collar workers who had worked at their companies for over 20 years suddenly found themselves not only jobless, but with skills companies no longer wanted.
All over the country, the news screamed a new word: "downsizing." Corporate downsizing was the greatest news story for years. Millions were furious as the West converted from a manufacturing economy to an information-based economy. People screamed. People cried. People committed suicide. It was very hard for everyone.
Yet, about ten years later, by the early to mid-2000's, society adjusted. People emotionally accepted that lifetime employment was gone and was never coming back. They accepted that the company you worked for could no longer be trusted to be loyal to you, and would likely fire you or lay you off the instant they didn't need you anymore.
People learned new skills. Blue collar guys grudgingly became HTML guys. People who never before gave a shit about their resumes polished them off and made new ones. People went back to school to learn new skills.
Society said, "It really sucks that I can't rely on a long-term job anymore, but okay, if that's the way it is, I'll adjust and make do so I can feed my family."
Today, in the 2010's, no one even thinks about this anymore. Everyone knows that when you get a job, you'll be there for just a few years (at best!) before you need to find a new one. It's become the new normal that everyone has accepted.
Now let's look at the other thing society lost in the 1990's, and how people reacted to that…
How Society Reacted to the Loss of Lifetime Marriage
A few decades ago and for most of modern history, when you got married, it was for life, barring the statistically rare exception to the rule. The divorce rate in the 1950's was around 7%. Even if your marriage was horrible, even if you cheated or your spouse cheated, you stayed together for The Good of the Marriage™, for The Good of the Children™, or because it was God's Will™.
Cultural pressure to stay married no matter what was immense. Even men who tried to divorce their wives would get laughed out of court by the judge who would say, "What? You're trying to divorce your wife? You can't do that! Get out of here and get back to your family! Next case!"
Moreover, most women were unable to support themselves financially due to cultural reasons, so if you were a woman who actually got divorced, you were in very big trouble. So married women just stayed married, even if they hated their husbands, which they often did.
Then came the Sexual Revolution of the 1960's and second wave feminism of the 1970's, and things started to change. Slowly, women started to detach from husbands and set their own paths. Slowly, courts started letting people get divorced more liberally. Slowly, religions became more accepting about people getting divorced.
My dad was one of the statistical exceptions. In the mid-60's, he got divorced from his first wife. Today, damn near everyone over the age of 30 has been divorced, but back then, a middle-aged divorced man was a pariah. When he tried to marry my mom, her Catholic family was horrified. "You can't marry a divorced man! That's disgusting!" The intolerance against divorced people was so intense that my parents almost didn't get married. (Fortunately, they did and created me, or else you wouldn't be reading this blog right now.)
However, over time, as more and more people started getting divorced, even the most conservative people in my mom's family started accepting my dad as "normal."
So, in the 60's, the divorce rate increased for the first time ever. In the 70's, it increased again. In the 80's it really shot up, but was still not as prevalent as it is today. When I was a kid back in the 80's, there were always one or two kids in my classroom who had divorced parents, so it was a normal and understood thing, but there was just one or two of these kids in the class. Today, almost all the kids in the classroom have either divorced parents or never-married mothers.
By the 1990's, marriage had reached a breaking point. The divorce rate in many cities in the US and Europe went north of 60%. Lifetime marriage was now officially a thing of the past unless you were an exception to the rule.
Since then, the divorce rate has grown even worse. I'm not talking about the overall divorce rate, which is a ratio of marriages to divorces in any given year, or per capita divorce rate, which is the number of divorced per capita. These numbers have actually gone down since less people are getting married. I'm taking about the divorce rate among people who actually get married, which now hovers somewhere around a staggering 70%, and is still rising. (Feel free to read the stats I lay out here if you think that number is not correct, or at least not close.)
How did society react to all this?
The answer is… they didn't. Other than getting divorced more often, they didn't change their behaviors much at all. The divorce rate kept climbing and climbing, but people still got traditionally married in droves anyway. The cheating rates kept climbing and climbing, but people still got monogamous anyway.
For decades, everyone just covered their ears, said "lalalala!" and pretended that it was still the 1950's. Men still married women, planned on staying married to them for the rest of their lives, and planned on their new wives to never change their minds. Women still had babies with irresponsible dumbasses, assuming their new husbands would always be around and would always be financially solvent. Virtually no one got prenuptial agreements, since those were "not romantic" (said the women) or "cost too much money" (said the men).
When warned not to get traditionally married, people said, Fuck you! That won't happen to me! I know what I'm doing (said the men). We're really in love (said the women). I'm not stupid. You're just being negative! And then they got married. And then they got divorced.
And the divorce rate continued to climb.
Men got divorce raped left and right. Men had their children torn from them. Men lost their homes and their retirements. Many men were sent to jail because they couldn't afford their child support or alimony payments.
And men kept getting married anyways… and kept recommending marriage to others.
Women got cheated on left and right. They got divorced, and many of them couldn't receive child support because their deadbeat husbands didn't make enough money, got under-the-table jobs, or moved far away. The economic status of the typical mother plummeted. Women filed bankruptcy. Women became depressed. Children suffered. Millions of women went on welfare, food stamps, and "disability." Millions more went on anti-depressant medication. They spent their entire lives cursing their ex-husbands and living in financial lack. The average happiness of adult women plummeted; the studies and surveys clearly showed it.
And women kept getting married anyways… and kept recommending marriage to others.
And the divorce rate continued to climb.
Society emotionally accepted the loss of lifetime employment. Yet, even though we're almost into the 2020's, to this day society still has not accepted the loss of lifetime marriage. While people are waiting a little longer to get married today, they're still getting long-term monogamous, still getting legally, traditionally married, and still expecting it to work.
I'm not saying they eventually didn't react at all. People in their 20's are avoiding marriage, that's true, but according to the census data, the number of unmarried people suddenly plummets as soon as they hit their 30's. People aren't saying no to marriage. They're just waiting a little longer, getting married in their 30's, and then getting divorced.
Many people are now embracing serial marriage, where they get monogamous, legally married (with no prenup), and plan on getting divorced anyways. Yet even these people are the exceptions. The vast majority of people who engage in TMM (traditional monogamous marriage) actually expect it to last forever, base all their future plans around it, and are shocked and furious when it doesn't last forever. And it usually doesn't.
So, one huge shift society accepted within a quick, ten-year time span (lifetime employment going away), but another huge shift (lifetime marriage going away) society still refuses to accept after 25 years.
Isn't that interesting?
This won't last forever, of course. Eventually, and it might take another decade or two, normal, everyday, Societally Programmed people are going to finally have to admit that traditional marriage doesn't work anymore and that men should probably look at one of the other eight options for relationships.
Until that day, more people will get divorced, more men will be financially raped, more women will be cheated on, and more children will get screwed up.
Sometimes we are slow to learn.


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The Year 7/8 Extension Reading Group has been working with Carol for 40 minutes each week to create Book Trailers. They viewed some examples on the internet, and decided they could do even better!
Mollie loves horses, and hers was the first book trailer to be finished ready for the blog. Here it is! Enjoy!
(The difficult to read list of credits at the end includes the Creative Commons images used in this video).
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Mollie's Book Trailer Video - 'Chosen by a Horse' by Susan Richards
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Well done Molly for managing your time so well that yours was the first book trailer to be finished.ReplyDelete
I like the way you have alternated writing and images to keep the trailer moving on. I sounds like a bit of a sad read. Who would you recommend it for?
Sorry Molly - I seem to have a sticky letter on my keyboard. I was supposed to say that it sounds like a bit of a sad read.ReplyDelete
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Board Certified Plastic Surgeons, Facial Plastic Surgeons, Dermatologists, Cosmetic Dermatologists, Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Emergency Room Physicians and Ob-Gyn physicians which seek to develop a Medical Aesthetics Program for their patients and to attract new clients that are willing to pay to out of pocket for their specific facial skin and body treatments can have a fully developed program by integrating a Comprehensive Clinical Skin Care Program. The nurse can become dual trained/ certified and licensed as well the aesthetician whom would be providing the clinical skin care support measures for the surgeons/physicians office/practice/spa/ skin care clinic.
A Clinical Skin Care Program can provide the doctors a much needed boost of new clients that are not needing "medication", surgery or another cosmetic product. These programs are extremely competive and the canidates seeking this kind of "clinical management" want the doctor, nurse, and aesthetician to give their facial aesthetic concerns personalized attention.
Medical Aesthetician was first coined by Anna D. Rinehart, CIDESCO Diplomat at the first Medical Aesthetics Clinical Skin Care Education program at Scott and White Hopsital in Temple, Texas. No plastic surgeon or dermatologist can take credit for pushing forward this word, definition or clinical skills outside of Anna D. Rinehart. She is truly the pioneer for this evolutionary skin care practice beyond facials and beyond nursing protocols.
Medical Aesthetician is is defined as a licensed aesthetician that has obtained medical understanding of dermatology, plastic surgery and oncology patient care procedures. A medical aesthetician is not a nurse or aesthetician through the primary education obtained for their license. Medical Aestheticians are also referred to as Clinical Aesthetician and Licensed Skin Care Specialist. Doctors seeking a licensed skin care specialist with advanced training in aestheticis and medcal procedures would primarily seek a medical aesthetician.
Plastic surgery departments at some of the major medical teaching hospitals have stated that the clinical contributions of the medical aesthetician goes beyond nursing and general aesthetics education. The medical aesthetician literaaly is the only other speciality and licensed health care provider that creates a revenue to facilitate the continuity of patient care and provides a more likliness of optimum outcomes for plastic surgery patients and dermatology pateints as well.
Rinehart is an international lecturer, author, product developer and business owner that can help physicians develop a highly effective, competive medical aesthetics department without the high costs of lasers and over priced skin care products.
32 years of clinical practice and massive facial aesthetic skills developed has made Anna D. Rinehart, the international skin care expert for Medical Aesthetics.
Typical questions asked in the Medical Aesthetics Hands-On Workshops are as follows;
How does a Clinical Skin Care Program differ than a beauty program?
The program provides enhanced personalized attention through a comprehensive analysis, assessment, and in-depth skin care planning.Services performed are performed by the physician, nurse and clinical aestheticians. This is an ongoing facial aesthetics program which addresses both the medical and non-medical concerns of various skin conditions. A beauty program is a in and out kind of program and does not provide the indepth consulting or clinical skills deemed necessary in Medical Aesthetics.
Who performs the procedures?
Dermatology/ Plastic Surgery Skin Care Specialist, Anna D. Rinehart, CIDESCO Diploamt, Medical Aesthetics FACE Skin Care Associates in Harker Heights, Texas performs skin care treatments for her clients without using lasers. There is simply nothing a highly professional skin care specialsit can not provide in regards to skin rejuvenation without high costs of lasers.
The physician will will perform many of the minimally invasive procedures such as Botox®, Restylane® and possible Ellipse® Laser Peels. The physician should always be available for bottom line " patients needs". The nurse ( LPN,RN, NP ), can many times step in and complete these procedures by addtional touchups or offering other other services within a specific time frame.
The clinical aesthetician ( licensed aestheticians with specialized training in Medical Aesthetics ) would be performing the facial aesthetics procedures designated by the physician. Many times the client will say she choose his/her doctors medical aesthetics program because of the execution of skills, personalization and positive outcomes.
How does a Clinical Skin Care Program compete with Beauty programs?
There is no competition. Hands down everyone is looking for more specialized treatments that do not necessitate downtime , cost-effective, addresses their facial qualm, delivers results, performed by licensed skin care professionals, provides an ongoing skin care planning program specific to their needs.A beauty program as delivered from general cosmetologists do not have the training, skills, technology and do not have specialized training in Medical Aesthetics.
What specific skills does an clinical aesthetician provide in a Clinical Skin Care Program?
The clinical aesthetician should provide assessments, analysis, consulting, followups, establish communication between the physician and patient as ongoing, deliver skin care treatments that include facials, extractions, SPFL treamtnets, AHA, SPFL peels, microdermabrasion, chemabrasion, stretch marks reduction, tatto reversl technques, electrolysis, and so much more.
Clinical Skin Care Programs address the patients needs for a comprehensive clinical skin care management program delivered by licensed skin care professionals. To be extremely succesful the physician, nurse and clinical aesthetican should be cross trained. Even if the aesthetician will not be performing injections of cosmetic fillers, Botox®, lasers treatments or other preselected Medical Treatments; it is necessary for the clinical aesthetician to have a sound knowledge of the skill and effectively communicate with the doctors medical aesthetics program.
Doctors from every medical speciality can learn together with nurses and aestheticians how to perform various clinical skills and how to develop a competive program.


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VIVA FOREVER! tells the story of a beautiful, talented girl and her best friends who get swept up in the obsession of today's TV celebrity culture. As she follows her dream, the musical charts her journey into the world of overnight fame and its impact on her relationships with her mother and the friends she thought she'd have forever. From London to Spain and back again, as they confront the bitter reality of fame and as the world judges her, she and her mother learn to empower themselves and be who they really want to be.


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If you're a tweeter, as I am (but just barely), then you've seen the Twitter banner page. If you're an anal-retentive grammar nerd, as I definitely am, then you've been bothered by said banner page.
Who to follow. This is wrong. Who, in this case, should be Whom. It is the object of the verb follow.
Who is correctly used only in the subjective form, that is, when it's the subject of the sentence, e.g., Who is the best one to follow? Who is the subject of the sentence, similar to he: He is the best one to follow. (No, I'm not being sexist; of course she also works, but I'm using he for a reason, which you'll soon see.)
In the objective form, when it's the object of a preposition or verb, who becomes whom: Whom should I follow? Follow him. (Notice how they both end in "m" -- that's the trick I use, and that's why I'm using only the male pronoun here.) You wouldn't say Follow he, so you similarly shouldn't say Follow who? or Who should I follow?. (You could also turn the sentence around to figure out which is right: I should follow him (whom).)
Now, if you're my father-in-law, you simply bellow "WHOM!" whenever you hear who used incorrectly. And you charge a nickel for each offense. Generous person that I am, I'm sparing you -- and Twitter -- that expense.


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The ornaments from Santa's Coming To Town were die cut with the corresponding 2011 Heirloom Ornaments Nestabilities.
I stamped them in Memento Toffee Crunch, and distressed generously with Pumice Stone/Frayed Burlap Distress Inks - like the rest of the elements. The centers were sponged with Versa Magic inks in Aquatic Splash and Pink Grapefruit.
Visit the Waltzingmouse Sketch blog, to see more from the Mischief Makers and link up your entry! We're changing the rules from this week onwards, and you don't need to use WMS stamps any more, to play with us! However, only the entries with WMS images stamped somewhere on them, will be eligible for the prize, so it's well worth it! Not to mention that Waltzingmouse has some of the sweetest stamps out there... :)


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Kimberly is the Founder and Chief Heroics Officer at ContentPark--an Atlanta copywriting agency that provides kick-ass copywriting on demand for creative agencies. She is a content marketing specialist + SEO nerd who possesses an uncommon ability to distill complex ideas into digestible content that converts website visitors to customers. She was born in the South back with Apple was "Apple Macintosh" and kids delighted in playing Oregon Trail on its glowing green screen. When she's not saving the world with stellar content, she's making plans to take over the word from our top-secret headquarters downtown or nestled on the couch at Starbucks, sipping on anything but coffee.
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I'm available in a number of ways. If you want to say "hey" hit me up on twitter @atomicbutterfly
Or you can fill out my client questionnaire and I'll get back to you with a time for a video call to discuss further.
For collaborations or advice, you can DM me on Slack in the techlondon channel using my twitter handle. I usually check-in on Fridays. If you're a designer, find me on Designer Hangout or Spectrum on Fridays, same time, same handle.
All of the above are free.
To book a direct video call without taking the questionnaire, I ask for £1.50 for 20 minutes of my time because it helps keeps the conversation focused and productive and makes sure I'm not clearing my calendar for a no-show.
Considering the price of bus fare or petrol these days, you won't find a cheaper meeting from someone with the kind of multi-discipline expertise I bring.
You might think "but I can stop by X's office and chat for free".
Sure you can. But the time you spend on travel should be worth more to you than £1.50, and to be honest, if X doesn't value their time similarly, then I'm a little worried for them or what they're producing that makes their time so cheap.


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Today I wanted to share something exciting with you all, It is something new for all my followers and Stampin' Up! customers
Are you ready???
Crafty Bat's High Flyer Club
This club is very exclusive and rewarding it will be the only club I shall be running like this.
So What is the High Flyer Club?
It is for a minimum of 6 people to each take it in turns of being the hostess for the month which gets you the hostess benefits for the month.
All 6 members must be able to agree to a minimum spend of £25 a month (you are welcome to spend more if you like) on any Stampin' UP! Products of your choice from the current catalogue and new catalogue if it has released during your period as a hostess.
This will be for 6 months, so it is fair and each member gets to be the hostess for a month and get the hostess benefits. Please do not sign up if you can not commit to the 6 months at £25 a month as this would not be fair on the members.
Once we have 6 members I will then enter you into a secret group on Facebook, This is where I will pick the hostess for each month - This will be done either via putting your names in Random.Org or on a live video in the group and picking each name out of the hat and telling you which is your month. In your month you are more than welcome to collect outside orders from friends, family, work colleagues and so on, this way you can take advantage of higher hostess benefits the more the order is the more benefits you get for your month.
At the end of the 6 months each of you will be sent a voucher from me which is only redeemable with me along with first refusal on the next 6 month spaces (you do not have to take a space if you do not want to, you can sign up again at anytime)
All orders must be placed and paid for by the 14th of each month and no later (if you would like to order and pay earlier you are more than welcome to) Your order will be sent to you within a week .
Once all 6 places have been assigned the club will then be started this will depend on how quick the places get taken up but I am aiming to have this all running ready for May.
Once all 6 places have been assigned the club will then be started this will depend on how quick the places get taken up but I am aiming to have this all running ready for May.
Like what you have read? Want to Join?
Simply fill in the sign up form below with *High Flyers Club* in the comments box and I will get back to you as soon as possible.
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IBM today released the results of its annual global survey of chief financial officers, who judging from the study are struggling with how to get the most relevant financial information into not only their own hands, but to the rest of the management team as well.
The most striking thing about the IBM survey is that 74 percent of the CFOs surveyed said that driving information across the enterprise is a major priority for them, but only 39 percent said they were good at doing that. That's all the more perplexing when you think about how many CIOs report into CFOs. It would seem that most CFOs have spent all these years thinking about how to contain IT costs, rather than employing IT as strategic tool.
Obviously, the change in the underlying economy is driving more CFOs to want to at least embrace IT, and business intelligence in particular. This is especially true now, said Doug Barton, IBM worldwide product marketing manager for financial planning management and analytic applications, because more CFOs are now being asked for strategic input into business decisions on the assumption that CFOs have critical information concerning product line profitability and cash flow at their disposal.
Unfortunately, there is a divide between the finance unit and the business units within most companies, resulting in almost two different sets of books. The central finance systems are managed almost in a batch mode that is updated weekly, while various business units update their own systems on a daily basis. The goal, says Barton, should be to have one seamless information system that spans all the business units.
That means the only real question is do CFOs really have the political fortitude and political capital needed to build these systems? For the most part, the answer to that question has been "no." But following the recent economic collapse, IBM at least is betting that the answer is going to be increasingly "yes."
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First we have to question ourselves, whether even more numbers crunching will do the trick at all. After all it has been the Americans virtualisation spleen that has caused the financial crisis. Further there are a lot of countries, companies an local economies that have done much better over all the years without even half the amount of figures and abstraction you get taught about in mass universities.
Indexes, ratings and rankings and dashboards, if we are really honest, seem to have no other purpose, than the justification of an ever increasing number of average intelligent overhead staff that still tries to look competent in a virtual battle, where it would often be better, they would not say anything.
So I do not think, that even more of finance tools will do any better. The crisis is not about tools, but about a general lack of trust in our capability to justify and predict the future and our inability to form it. This is not the tools' fault. It's more a general lack of hands on competences that drives manager into quote driven adrenalin junkies rather than solid navigators with commonly agreed long term plans and stamina to build the future. Just more tools of the same kind will just increase the bean counting index.Reply
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On our 2013 aid mission to the Gumpa Centre in Kathmandu, Nepal, (see attached 2 photos) FTLOCS had provided $2,000 in funding for the Centre's running costs and were pleased to learn that with the addition of the temple and monastery it has become more self- sufficient. The Society helped build this orphanage to help homeless Nepalese and Tibetan children that currently has 25 children residing. Tashi Lama, the priest is also conducting monastery teaching for other children in this district. This year an additional $1,200 was provided to the Centre for food, clothing, educational supplies and $1,666 for tiles to repair the roof.
New Art School in Bhaktpur
Suresh Pariyar, our agent continues to reach out to more destitute children by teaching them basic education and enabling them with an opportunity to learn the art of Thanka painting.
A further $2,714.00 was provided by FTLOCS for one year to cover for books, other educational supplies and rental costs for 3 rooms.
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You have become lost in Harper's Woods on the way back from a rock-hunting expedition. You set your gun down, (there are a lot of poisonous snakes in these woods), and take a good look around. No doubt about it, you are most definently lost. It is beginning to get dark, so you decide to wait until the light of day before trying to find your way out. You prop up against a tree and wait for morning to come. Suddenly, a huge old two-story mansion magically appears before you. You had heard old rumors that a mansion such as this would appear in these woods on the same night every year, only to dissappear before dawn, following screams of terror from within and a raging fire that engulfs the mansion in flames. Supposedly, a mansion did once stand in these very woods many years ago. On one fateful night, the mansion was destroyed in a blazing fire.
Dr. Benjamin Kingsley, his daughter Alexandria, and their maid Rosa all perished in the fire. It is speculated by some that Dr. Kingsley went insane, murdered Alexandria and Rosa, then upon realizing what he had done, in a state of guilt-ridden madness, set the fire himself. No one knows for sure the exact events of that horrible night.
This is the first part of an adventure. It seems the second part never has been written.
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Need to find a walkthrough guide for this. I've been looking for it since 1998 XD
With the walkthrough I wrote tonight you can finally solve it :)