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How to end Shame and Stress about Facial Hair or any Body Issue!
ShoomKloom Editorial Staff
Embrace and love your body, it is the most amazing thing you will ever own…
Do you have facial hairs and feel ashamed of them? Is there a part of your body you dislike and want to change?
Some of us experience body shame which is an extreme form of negative body image. Maybe you believe that you can't love your body or that you are not worthy to be loved just the way you are.
Here is my story of feeling ashamed of having facial hairs and finding my way to be at peace with myself, facial hair and my body.
This blog can be a support for anyone dealing with body shame and body issues.
The Power of a Hair! What was so Upsetting about my Facial Hairs?
I have blamed my facial hairs for 20 years. I felt ashamed and thought I was not feminine enough. I plucked hairs in 'secret', in the bathroom, toilet or in bed, praying my partner or friends would never find out. While plucking; I complained about everything that was wrong with me.
In my mind, these hairs meant I was:
- Not good enough
- Not beautiful enough
- Not sexy enough
- Not feminine enough.
My body just didn't live up to the smooth socially expected standards. The idea that someone (especially a man) would touch my chin and feel a coarse hair, horrified me.
It took me years before I gathered my courage and bypassed my embarrassment to talk with girlfriends about facial hairs. I was surprised to find out how many were busy with the same thing. I then started to tell boyfriends and the truth was that this was not an issue for them. It was clear that I had made a problem out of these hairs and their meaning.
What was upsetting was the idea about what these hairs meant about me!
What was Really Going on in my Head? Why did These Hairs Have so Much Power Over Me?
When waking up, I would immediately feel my chin. It was my first action of the day; followed by plucking each coarse hair which appeared. These hairs were constantly on my mind; together with not feeling good enough!
In 2015 through a self investigation process of my beliefs, I started to see how self-obsessed I was and busy with my small me-world. How I was missing the point in wanting to be happy with the choices I was making. It became so clear to me how I was stressing myself and wasting time with my focus on these hairs. I was completely identified with the thoughts of what these hairs meant about me.
I needed to unravel my thought patterns and misidentifications! I learned the following:
1. Seeing the Reality of Thoughts and Feelings.
I was used to believing each thought that I had to be true and I realised that when I don't add my usual narrative to a thought or a feeling, a new world opens up!
Scenario 1:
I meet someone I like and think: 'Oh, I hope none of my facial hairs are visible'. Here is a brief moment of embarrassment about my facial hairs. But in not adding extra thoughts to this initial feeling thought; this embarrassment actually dissolves. Because it needs my attention, effort and story-telling to survive and have an impact on me. If I don't give that attention, the thought has no meaning or substance and is just a simple thought that comes and goes.
Try it out for yourself when you hit an embarrassing moment. What happens when you don't add extra thoughts to what is going on?
2. The Way we Talk to Ourselves, is What is Hurting us.
I realised that the way I talk to myself can be:
- extremely harsh
- super demanding
- very judgemental
Scenario: A colleague says that you should put make-up on the spot on your chin. Than you start in your head: 'What an asshole, how dare s/he say that, s/he doesn't know anything, just always criticizing. S/he has a problem, not me! I do hate this spot as well, why do I have spots and now I have a headache. S/he had a spot on the forehead last week, so what is this that about…' and we go on in our head adding more weight to that initial thought of someone else!
My inner critic can go on relentlessly (even long after a disturbing event).
This has nothing to do anymore with someone else's comment. Also when someone tells me they love me; my critic can easily jump in action to prove they don't really mean it. In this way whatever someone says, it is my choice what I do with it.
So yes, our own interpretations are hurting us. And that is the good news, because then we can choose differently!
Can you see that as long as you listen to your inner critic, there will always be something wrong?
3. Learning to Not Take Everything Personally.
I was so used to taking any criticism and comment about me personally (in my case this meant believing there was something wrong with me) that I was always on guard, hoping to avoid anything bad from happening. I was thinking: 'Please don't mention anything about my facial hairs!' I was triggered very easily by what people said like:
– Someone telling me that I have a moustache
– My 5 year old niece asking if I had a beard
– A lover commenting on feeling some prickly hairs while kissing me
I felt offended and hurt, believing that these hairs meant that there was something wrong with me. What I heard was that the other person confirmed there was something wrong with me. Yet it was my own interpretation that was hurting me.
Now if someone tells me that I have facial hairs; I can shrug my shoulders. It is easy to just say: yes I have facial hairs. And it is also easy to take care of the hairs and be kind to myself. What do facial hairs actually have to do with me?
Imagine how you would feel if you don't take these comments personally.
4. Replacing Complaints with Gratitude.
I realized that I was not being grateful for what I have. Actually I would often say that I was grateful because it sounded good but in reality I was ungrateful and complaining about what I didn't have. Complaining about not having:
- hair free skin
- my own house
- more money
- a relationship when I was single
- freedom when I was in a relationship
I came to recognize that there is more to me and life than my facial hairs on my chin and upper lip. I learned to be kind and caring with myself. To shift my focus from a few hairs to all of me and life. This might sound very obvious to you, but we all have an area in life where we get stuck in a drama and lose our perspective!
We all have these amazing bodies. They come in different shapes, sizes, color and ability. Most of us have a healthy body that walks, talks, hears and sees by itself. Some of us have certain disabilities. But is it ever worth to be agonising about facial hair, about wanting to look different (to the point of considering plastic surgery for that perceived ideal beauty idea)? Of course some body conditions need medical care and (plastic) surgery.
The question I needed to ask myself was: 'What do I value?'
Practice thanking your body for all it gives you. What happens when you are truly grateful for everything that your body gives you?
How I Reclaimed my Power and Came to Know: ' I Am Not My Facial Hair!'
After my self investigation process I still have the same hairs. I still shave the hairs and I have the same thoughts and feelings about them: I still don't like them.
BUT what is different is that what I feel or think about them is no longer bothering me. I know to not hook into the thoughts and feelings of shame. I am no longer lost in an emotional drama. And in case someone notices my facial hair, I can meet that moment of embarrassment (if that is what arises) and come to a place of ease without it ruining the rest of my day.
For me, the hairs are no longer a problem. They no longer define who I am or what I think and believe about myself.
I know that the hairs:
– don't mean anything about me
– don't make me wrong, bad or better
– don't make me unattractive, less sexy or unfeminine
They are just there as part of the amazing body I have. And I can easily take care of them. I am grateful for the body I have: I can see, walk, talk, laugh, hear, smell and sense. My body is such a joy. I know to appreciate the body instead of being busy with what I don't have or dwelling in shame because of some hairs on my chin.
Truth is that the female body comes with hairs and often with excessive facial hairs. It can have a medical reason which might need attention. But it never means that there is something wrong with you. And with my preference to not show my facial hairs, I am grateful to have so many options of hair removal available to me.
So if you struggle with how you feel about your body or with having facial hairs and want to stop stressing, check us out on www.shoomkloom.com.


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Ezra Miller on 'Perks of Being a Wallflower,' Being Bisexual & More
Ezra Miller on 'Perks of Being a Wallflower,' Being Bisexual & More
Ezra Miller, who steals the show as a gay teen in the coming-of-age film 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' opens up to Marlow Stern about his own bisexuality and the bullying he experienced—plus myopic Republicans, marijuana, and more.
The plight of Patrick, the gay high school senior in The Perks of Being a Wallflower who is relentlessly bullied for his sexuality, hit close to home for 19-year-old Ezra Miller.
The actor, who earned critical raves for his performance as a disturbed, archery-obsessed teen in last year's We Need to Talk About Kevin, steals the show in the new film, a beautifully acted Bildungsroman set in the early 1990s. Miller's Patrick leads a gang of misfits that includes his stepsister Sam (Harry Potter's Emma Watson) and their latest recruit, an introverted freshman named Charlie (Logan Lerman).
"I've fallen prey to my fair share of moments of the phobias of others and the way that that can become an attack," Miller, who recently described himself as "queer" in an interview with The Advocate, told The Daily Beast. "In my middle-school years, I was at a show for a band called Attack! Attack! I was wearing a green velvet jacket—not your common attire for the metal/hardcore scene—and was doing sort of vaudeville-reminiscent dance moves in the mosh pit. I was walking away from the mosh pit after having a wonderful time and the word 'faggot' resounded in my ear. I turned around just in time to see someone snapping their fist down on my left eyeball … I have a scar on my eyebrow from the incident."
While many felt Miller's comments to The Advocate meant that he's gay, the garrulous young actor says that's not entirely the case.
"The way I would choose to identify myself wouldn't be gay. I've been attracted mostly to 'shes' but I've been with many people and I'm open to love wherever it can be found," he says. "I think a lot of people are projecting their own troubles and fears concerning sexuality onto those around them, and it does result in the perpetuation of a lot of hateful notions. As long as I can remember, I've felt really horrified watching those dynamics play out. It really hurts and divides us all, and in the end, so much of the human experience is shared, so we only end up hating and fearing our own damn selves."
Miller, it seems, has been overcoming hardships all his life.
Ezra Miller. (Guillame Baptiste, AFP / Getty Images)
Born with a debilitating stutter, he was inspired by his kindergarten teacher to enroll in opera training at her conservatory at the age of 6. After a year, his stutter was completely gone.
"I had been doing speech therapy, and it had been making me more aware of the stutter, which actually made it worse," he says. "It was a breath-line stutter, so I wasn't breathing in enough to complete a word, and opera training is all about control and manipulation of the breath."
He attended the Hudson School, a prestigious private institution for "intellectually inquisitive students," in Hoboken, N.J., but dropped out at 16 shortly after the release of his critically acclaimed debut film, Afterschool, in 2008. Working outside school allowed Miller to disengage from the usual high-school-college-employment track, he says, adding that he wasn't a fan of the high-school formula of "completely unrelated courses for 45 minutes each." Plus his status as a working actor made him a bit of an outcast among his classmates.
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text: Researchers at NIST Develop Magnetic Switch in Graphene to Control Quantum Property of Electron By Menahem, Zen firstname.lastname@example.com | May 26, 2017 01:46 PM EDT Researchers at NIST have found a way to control the quantum property of electron with a magnetic switch in the circular graphene resonator. This allows the scientists to regulate the twirling of an electron in the graphene sub-atomic particles. A phenomenon of the strange quantum property of electron makes the movement of the electron to be unpredictable. Electron and sub-atomic particles follow the rule of quantum theory, where they always move around a closed path. This makes the effort to control the quantum property of the electron and sub-atomic particles to be difficult. A physicist and project leader in the Electron Physics Group in the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) at the National Institute of Standard and Technology, Joseph A. Stroscio has been studying the quantum property of electron for years. Recently, he and his colleagues from the have found a way to regulate the movement of the sub-atomic particles, according to the official announcement of NIST. Watch video Stroscio and his colleagues have published their research to control the quantum property of electron in the May 26, 2017, issue of Science Magazine. They have found that the quantum property of electron can be restrained using the magnetic field. In their research to find a way of regulating the quantum property of the electron, Stroscio studied the electrons corralled in special orbits within a graphene with a nanometer-sized region. The corralled electron orbited the center of graphene similar to the property of electron to orbit the center of the atom. The orbiting electron retains exactly the same physical property after traveling the complete circuit of graphene. However, when a magnetic field was applied to the critical value, it acted as a switch that altered the shape of the orbit. As a result, the shape of the orbits is altered and the electrons possess the different physical property after completing its circuit. The researchers at the CNST NanoFab used the geometric property called the Berry phase to control the quantum property of electron. The implication of this research can benefit the future electronic device and computer. Watch the insight into the CNST NanoFab below:


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Monday, April 19, 2010
One Day by Goldensun Design!!!
This kit is so happy, bright and full of lots and lots of lovely pieces. Lots of possibilities - and of course, the book :) Available HERE
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Author: Catherine Beebe
Publisher: Ignatius Press - 1994
St. Dominic led a life of excitement and adventure. As a boy he sold his books to feed the poor and offered himself as ransom for a prisoner. His greatest adventures came when he walked from town to town and stood fearlessly in the market to preach.
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- Dan BattyAsked on January 28, 2015 at 01:48 PM
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We do not have phone support at this time Dan, but if you want to talk to our superiors, you can do so through our emails. If you want you can do it through our forum as well, but I would suggest emails as a better choice in that case.
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TUSTIN – Mixed martial arts fighter Kimo Leopoldo was arrested Monday afternoon on suspicion of possession of methamphetamine and wearing a stolen Long Beach Police Department uniform, according to Tustin police.
Two plainclothes detectives at about 3 p.m. saw the 6-foot-3, 235-pound man wearing a Long Beach Police Department jumpsuit, the kind worn by police special enforcement teams, along with flip-flop sandals, in the parking lot of a shopping center at Irvine Boulevard and Jamboree Road, across from the Marketplace mall, said Tustin police Sgt. Jeff Blair.
They approached the 41-year-old to find out if he was a Long Beach policeman, and if he wasn't, why he was wearing a police uniform, Blair said. Leopoldo gave the officers conflicting statements about where he had gotten the jumpsuit.
When the officers searched his car, they found a glass pipe, which can be used to smoke methamphetamine, and a small amount of meth, according to Blair. Leopoldo was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance, having drug paraphernalia and having stolen property.
The UFC and PRIDE fighter, who lost to Royce Gracie in Ultimate Fighting Championship 3, had been campaigning to be executive officer for the California State Athletic Commission, which regulates professional boxing, kickboxing and mixed martial arts, and amateur kickboxing in California, according to the commission's Web site. Leopoldo's most recent fight was in 2006.
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Parallel Extensions to .NET Framework 3.5
It seems there is no end to microsoft innovation with .NET; the latest being a managed model for data & task parallelism. An MSDN article delves into this technology (TPL) and illustrates how the new Parallel.For syntax can be more effective then using native ThreadPools.
In addition another team been working on parallelising LINQ with a new technology called PLINQ. Interesting this library wasn't originally built on top of the TPL's stack… although there is plans to redevelop the engine to make use of the new TPL extensions.
It seems the dynamic language push is coming to the fore in all areas of the .NET framework. Now all we need is a new&innovative way to enable debugging these threads and handling parallel exceptions!


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There was an error during mirroring failover that seemed to delay the recovery of all the databases on the server.
Login failed for user 'stash'. Reason: Token-based server access validation failed with an infrastructure error.
So complete failover took about 9 minutes, but 7 of those minutes appear to be due to an issue with one database. Applications were able to connect to databases in the meantime. The only concern is that cross-database queries would not be able to access databases on two different servers.
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Good morning to those in the Central Time Zone and good afternoon to everyone in the Eastern Time Zone. We're back at The Fieldhouse in Merrillville for Day 2 of the 2011 Eric Gordon All-Stars Classic.
All three EG10 teams are competing for tourney championships today, so be sure to visit the blog often. Like the NCAA Tournament, it's win and advance or lose and go home. In most scenarios, it will take three victories in the single-elimination bracket to bring home the hardware.
I'm looking forward to seeing how things play out in my first AAU Tournament of the season. The fans are rolling in by the hundreds. The shoes are squeaking, the whistles are blowing and the popcorn smells good. Enjoying six games at once from a first-class facility is a good way to spend the first day of May.
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Currently all registered shoot dates for 2018 are set. You can check on the available details concerning each shoot in the events tab of the Home page. However, all shoot dates are also listed below.
May 26th & 27th (Southern zone Shoot)
June 9th & 17th – AIM & ITA State Shoot
July 21st – BSP Youth Fundraiser – Shoot for the Cure
July 26th* thru 29th – ATA Central Zone Shoot
September 1st thru 3rd – (Pow Wow Indians & Silver Dollar Shoots)
October 13th* & 14th
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Community Lunch & Info Session - October 19
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Champaign Unit 4 School District will host a Sunday Lunch and Info Session on the upcoming high school referendum.
Where: Booker T. Washington STEM Academy (606 East Grove Street, Champaign)
When: Sunday, October 19, 2014 from 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Join us for lunch provided by Seaboat and an information session about the November 4 high school referendum as well as other important developments in our community schools!
For more information on the November 4 referendum, please visit: http://futurefacilities.champaignschools.org.


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Cazza wrote:Brilliant stuff! Carl, eagle eyes indeed
I found a prototype Action Force Triad Fighter pod in a massive job lot I was buying from the son of an ex Palitoy employee. It was made of metal and had hand drawn decals. I told him to keep it to remember his Dad by. Hope he still has it!
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My book about the Lynx is not due for publication until March next year. Indeed only yesterday did I receive the first set of proofs and there's a great deal of work to do to get the formatting right. However, imagine my surprise when I went on to my Amazon pages the other day to see the book advertised for pre-order. I spoke to my publishers and they apparently release the cover very early and let Amazon do their thing. Anyway - there it is ready for all of you to buy and only have to wait another mere seven months!
I guess this means yet another change to my FB profile picture as well as the one on this blog. Writing the things is much easier than all the other hassle!


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Did I mention that they designed the invitation suite themselves?! That's talent.Kate & Jason, best of luck for your upcoming wedding! Thank you for sharing your invitations!
p.s. you can see the invitation post on Kate's blog right here ...complete with more photos and information on the fonts and paper that were used to create the suite.


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This track has been downloaded 809 times
Uploaded: Thursday, August 18, 2016 - 09:24 pm
Type: National
Have been working on this for roughly 2 weeks and I think it turned out pretty good. Tryed to make something different and as you might see above this track there's another track called "Fleget" which is placed on the same map but it's a different layout(like on stock tracks). Hope you enjoy!
REVIEW by Goonzig: https://youtu.be/9fC1lHLqxGw
My channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSRabhxCDt-Jkbr31Goss8Q
Motoazo's YT(will be a promo video of it soon): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDKTOH0LzZjMwQ4PRtAYT8A
Thanks to: HurrenMX, Promonster, Veikkeli, Lucas, C4, Snake, Logan, Empire, Ktm6060 for testing and to redrider for giving me his banners that he made for GH.
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|ethanktm111 - August 19, 2016 - 12:50 am
|what is the difference between this one and the other one
|Huskie - August 19, 2016 - 04:05 am
|"and as you might see above this track there's another track called "Fleget" which is placed on the same map but it's a different layout"
|zread240 - August 19, 2016 - 05:05 am
|dude these are masterpieces!! great work
|HurrenMX - August 19, 2016 - 05:16 am
|cool cover pic
|templin43 - August 19, 2016 - 08:42 pm
|Promonster73 - August 20, 2016 - 06:50 pm
|Download and see Huskie 😅
|Darkslides19_2 - August 22, 2016 - 02:16 am
|Forgotten credits in the description: HurrenMX for the textures and the cover pic and kidzorro for the crowd.
|NitroNeo - August 22, 2016 - 01:37 pm
|it is sweet
|seanspicer - August 28, 2016 - 03:15 pm
|Man this is great! reminds me of a sand pit made into a track near me.
|v0lfr4m - September 21, 2016 - 10:23 pm
|Love this one, has a very "organic" feel to it!


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Hi all! I am Evlyn, working in supply management, an artist and hair lover...especially loose natural hair! I consider my hair to be 'kinky', though when describing it I often refer to it as my 'fluffy halo'...despite the fact that the wearer herself may not be uber saintly.
I have an EXTREMELY fussy, fluffy halo that rejects the majority of products most naturals swear by. For example, shea butter, protein, coconut oil, olive oil...ALL REJECTED. The list goes on. SIGH! Thus, other than castor oil and the Kimmaytube leave-in I have yet to find my holy-grail-go-to-no- matter-what-products.
Hair Type:
I consider my hair your typical, severely dry (especially the ends) 4C kinks with ultra fine / fragile strands. Overall, even though all my stands are fine, I have about 3 hair textures on my head...with the front 1/4 portion being much looser (4B??) with somewhat a curl pattern when well moisturized. It is more positively receptive to products as well. This area is also great at maintaining twist outs etc for longer but conversely the hair here is much more fragile and requires ABSOLUTE gentle handling. If I was a major heat user I would assume I had heat damage in this area.
Heading backwards, the right portion of my hair, approximately running from the middle of my head (the crown) to the nape is 4C but possibly with slightly thicker strands and requires slightly less gentle / baby care. I reached this conclusion based on the fact that this area is thicker compared to other areas of my hair and retains length much better than the rest of my strands. The beauty of shrinkage though is that this fact is easily disguised. Lol!
The left portion running from the middle of my head to the nape is very fine 4C for REAL! The crown portion of this area is especially so with length retention a major issue. Gentle handling is the order of the day.
Hair Journey:
I have been natural since February 2005. I long-term transitioned..then not knowing the term though. As summer approached and my roots got waaaay too thick I cut the relaxed ends at the back 1/3 of my head creating a styled cut (think Halle Berry circa Boomerang). This left me with my relaxed ends at the top which, due to lack of knowledge I regularly blow-dried and at times flat-ironed to blend the two textures. SIGH again! However, as summer changed to Autumn and then Winter, it became difficult to maintain the front in a 'neat' straight look as moisture in the air was just too high. I then spent one entire November weekend installing long box braids by myself...for the first time. It turned out good and became my signature style for almost a year...being reinstalled as necessary.
I actually stopped relaxing after finding a dime / 10kes size bald patch on the right of my head just above my ear. As confessed above...I love hair, so for me this was devastating! I wrongly concluded that it must have been due to a bad chemical burn in that area which I had not noticed from my last 'retouch', though my last retouch was in no way a bad experience. There and then in front of my bathroom mirror, in real fright of loosing more hair I vowed NEVER to relax my hair again. I was so afraid. I visited my GP who looked at my scalp in that area and confirmed that my follicles were healthy but asked if I had been under severe stress of late....OMG...DING! I burst into tears as yes I had...starting from the last quarter of the previous year. I wrongly internalised the stress without knowing how it would affect my health. So, relaxers were not to blame but since mentally I had decided against relaxing, I continued with my creamy crack rejection.
My intention was to eventually lightly texturise my hair once it had grown out. The Jamaican stylist who at that time did my 'Cholesterol' treatments and flat ironing advised me that texturizing would be the same as relaxing in the long run. I listened and kept well away. I won't lie though, there are many times I get fed up with the gentle handling my strands require and since I am an unashamed length chaser, this amounts to immense time spent on 'hair business' (as LO and I call it). At those times the idea of texturizing runs through my mind....but my love of thick lush hair and my desire to show LO that being natural is beautiful and very much a viable option she could choose as a grown-up quickly gets me back on my 'natural' track.
Between braiding etc, I continued my blowdrying and / or flat ironing ignorance for a long while..honestly for the first 4 years of being natural. Ignorance is bliss...NOT! I naturally (no pun intended) lean towards a more natural way of being so for example I ditched Vaseline and such years ago before becoming natural and now as a natural I started using castor oil on my hair, though I applied it as I continued frying my strands. My hair suffered of course. My initial length gains and thickness disappeared. As a solution, I increased my braiding periods...especially the year leading up to my wedding but when my hair was loose...it regularly met with heat. Big Sigh! Note at this time I did not know anyone who was natural..or at least a natural that inspired me so I was wading alone in the dark.
Circa 2009, after having LO, I was a SAHM for a while and also at that time hubby gifted me with a blackberry. This meant, I had the internet every and anywhere at the touch of a phone button. I then happened upon natural hair sites, blogs etc...OMG...I was in hair heaven. Learning and experimenting etc... There were many but specifically, I recall the blog Black Girl with Long Hair. Talk about inspiration, a real eye-opener. I tried new tips such as baking soda to wash my hair etc...let's just say I did this once AND never will again. LOL. It was too harsh...my hair broke so I had to re-condition my hair to get the ph levels right again! I kept reading and experimenting and discovering new sites etc. I would say my discovery of Natural Haven by oh-so-factual-and- knowledgeable JC and Kimmaytube really was when I saw mega improvements. The greatest knowledge I received from them were science based techniques on how to handle my fluffy halo. Techniques such as washing my hair in loose braids, using a leaving a leave-in, reducing or cutting out heat, using a silk bonnet etc to sleep in etc. My hair grew thicker...somewhat longer but as discussed above, because my strands are super fine and require very gentle handling, length retention is a major challenge. Having said that, I love where I am at...it's long enough to style in numerous ways.
Hair Regimen:
My current routine is pretty much as follows when I have time, I pre-poo for a minimum of 1 hour with olive oil mostly or on occasion, coconut oil as they are penetrate into the strands strengthening them. Because I am shampooing these oils out of my hair afterwards, I ignore the fact that they make my hair feel stringy. As I apply the pre-poo I finger detangle. This process is usually done as I takedown a PS. I then braid my hair into 6 single loose braids, wash with a sulphate free shampoo, condition (mostly) with a silicon-free conditioner, sometimes with heat but usually under a plastic shopping bag and towel for a minimum of 30mins though sometimes I complete several chores, such as cooking Sunday lunch, doing homework with LO, processing orders for my side hustle Embody Accessories etc before washing it out.
Thus, DC could be for several hours but as JC says and a fact I LOVE, 30 minutes is enough to gain full DC benefits. Sometimes I mix up some home-made DC using oils, honey etc. Before I wash the conditioner out, I do use a wide tooth comb to lightly detangle further...sometimes I gently use my Denam brush but with my fine strands I limit its usage...sadly. The oils are from most local supermarkets such as Nakumatt, Chandarana and Tuskeys. The only sulphate free shampoos I find and have tried are from Healthy-U. I sometimes buy conditioner there too.
I then blot dry the major water drips with a towel before wrapping my hair in an old t-shirt to let it dry for a few minutes as I clean up the bathroom. Over the last few months I have found that instead of adding my leave-in to sopping wet hair it's best for my hair to be more damp than wet. This results in softer hair once it drys...for longer. Go figure! I used to work on very wet hair believing I was retaining more moisture for my severely dry fluffy halo. You see, still learning some 8 years down the road. I will experiment but I mostly use the Kimmaytube leave-in that I mainly mix with a cheap silicon free conditioner such as Sauve Coconut or Tressemme Naturals. These, when in stock locally in Kenya are at major supermarkets...though not Tuskeys. When I have someone traveling between Kenya and the USA I send them shopping at Wholefoods for Kinky Kurly Knot Today which I use to make the leave-in as per the original recipe, instead of these other conditioners. It imparts a thicker consistency and silkier feel. I then seal my hair mostly with Ideal castor oil. Again, widely available locally from all major supermarkets listed above. I look forward to trying some 'guaranteed' cold pressed castor oil which Irene Chola of our natural community is about to unleash onto the market. YEAH! I tried finding out about Ideal castor oil's manufacturing process but the company went tight lipped. Though I still use it, I am uneasy about it as a result. The only 'intel' I could garner was that they import the oil into Kenya from India and package it for sale.
Anyhoo I digress...I usually have my hair in a PS and as of mid 2012 I have been drastically reducing the use of extensions in my hair (especially the readily available synthetic ones). As the hair grows in a PS, it gets more tangled into these very strong synthetic strands making takedown a greater challenge adding to the time to complete this process and risking greater edge and mid-strand breakage. I occasionally rock mini twists but the take down after 6 weeks is a real task taking several days in order to limit breakage. I currently wear my own hair in medium sized cornrows for 2 / mostly 3 weeks before take down. These are styled into a bun. For added glam and volume when needed, I attach a 'fake bun' over my moisturized, sealed and tucked-in ends. I also add an accessory. When in a PS I rinse my hair to remove dust and increase moisture once or twice a week...often times with a silicone-free conditioner whilst in the shower. I then seal with castor oil.
Other times, another PS I wear is a loose wet bun...previously with eco-styler gel but over the last 2 weeks I have experimented with homemade flaxseed gel and I must say I am a convert! I love that it's all natural and chemical free. I never thought my real 4C fluffy halo could be held down by flaxseed gel. It also makes what little texture I have pop. Again you see, I am still learning. I most often wear my hair out for at least a week before installing a fresh PS.
Honestly speaking though, I LOVE wearing my hair out BUT because of my super fine / fragile strands coupled with the major length-chasing-cross I carry, I must do PSs regularly to increase length retention and deal with my HIF syndrome. Plus it saves me time. When loose, after my initial style retires.... or fails, I revert to my quick, neat and fast go-to style...la puff. It's easy. Moisturise, puff up and out the door. If anything, that's what I miss about relaxed me as get-up and go hair was so much more a reality then. Note, wet-bunning is increasingly becoming a go-to-style.
I highly doubt I will ever revert to relaxing. I love thick hair and I now know with my fine strands, relaxed me could grow my hair to a good length with proper care BUT I will certainly not have that fullness. I now do not even crave flat-ironing. Blowdrying (which as a norm I do once a year around Christmas time) gives me the stretch I want without loss of volume, so that's enough heat for fluffy halo.
I also truly cherish living as chemical or processed free as possible in all aspects of my life. However, the MAJOR reason now that I strongly doubt that I would ever return to relaxing is my LO who incidentally has gorgeous strands which for now she loves. I want her to see me living what I preach and not just hear me talk about how our God given fluffy halo is to be cherished just like those with God given curls, waves or straight strands on their own heads.
Having said that, as mentioned above, I love hair...it's healthy care and STYLING, so for me locs are a major No-No. Locs to me are like wearing a permanent PS such as permanent braids etc. LOL. Having said that, when I see beautiful, flourishing and healthy locs I am impressed...such as Josie of our natural hair community. Recently I have seen two random women when out and about with absolutely beautiful sister-locs. What I like about these are that they are fine enough to easily manipulate into a multitude of styles just like loose hair. Compared to loose hair, the maintenance / care would be a bit easier reducing time spent on this 'hair business'. Additionally as I have bared my soul here...I am a length fanatic so the length retention in sister-locs would be AMAZING for my super fine strands. In summation, though in the past I swore I would NEVER loc my strands, I can not guarantee that in the future I will not go the sister-loc route.
However, for now, I am still very happy on this loose natural hair journey and enjoying reaping the benefits of the care and time I have put into it. I look forward to seeing how far I can take my fluffy halo.
Thanks Nina for allowing me to wax lyrical about my natural hair. It's great seeing someone who used to 'politely' side eye me when I talked about washing my hair in loose braids, not combing my hair etc now an active natural champion and educator. Here's to team natural.
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Piercing Side Sweatshirt
Unique and edgy piercing side sweatshirt that has attractive ring pierced detailing along the side hemlines. It has a regular high round neck and full sleeves. It is made of a unique cotton blend.
It is available in black and red colors.
We ship all orders via DHL/FEDEX/UPS which takes between 1-3 business days in the U.S and 3-5 business days outside the U.S to deliver. Some orders are processed faster. You may expect your package to arrive within 3 business days after you have received a tracking number.


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"T.F. Green Airport (Warwick, RI) Welcomes Our Troops" What It Means To Truly Support The Soldiers In Iraq Part 1
Somebody's got to know right from wrong, don't you think? So what happens to them, that generic (yet so possessive) category "our troops" that they can so easily acquiesce to such wrong? I mean Iraq and the misapprehension that their work has been an act of liberation instead of a rearrangement of the people's existing oppression.
I had a youth group once. Back in Cincinnati, between seven to ten kids from four or five families. All but two were boys. One got pregnant – one of the girls – the rest joined the marines or the army. We were sponsored by a mostly white, local Presbyterian Church. We had a little income-generating project – a printing cooperative. Some of them were smart and some of them weren't. They were pretty normal kids. They lived in subsidized, recently rehabbed housing in the Mt. Auburn neighborhood. We would play pool (I won most of the time) and basketball (I lost most of the time). I can't remember what we talked about.
Our sponsors paid me to be an "urban youth minister" but I didn't talk much about Jesus or redemption. One of their mom's smoked lots of weed but I didn't lecture about drugs. I wanted them to stay out of trouble, go to college, but I was no more adept at helping them into school than my parents were in helping me. I wanted them to stay out of jail, yet the only choice that seemed viable to them was as confining as any prison, at least to me. I can't conjure their names right now but I can see their doe like eyes (the boys especially had the prettiest dark brown eyes) and scrawny adolescent frames and I still smile at the silly, mildly mindless behavior that characterizes one stage of male adolescence. The girls were, of course, more clearly focused and desperate for freedom. While there were fights and gang activity, the violence we most feared in the early eighties, at least in Cincinnati, was from the cops (how little has changed).
I don't think any of them wanted to go to war. I thought we had seen enough of death; we all were relatively young and black in the city, in a city that frequently killed African-Americans for no good reason.
So the members of my youth group aged and graduated from high school and enlisted. Today they would be in their late thirties or maybe forty years old so unless they became career military or joined the reserves they probably aren't in Afghanistan or Iraq. Still I think of them and I look at the teenagers I work with now and I worry. I worry that they are being taught to kill and taught that killing in the name of our government's goals is a good and honorable thing. I worry that they have been sent or could be sent to do to another country what some conquering army did (in the case of immigrant and refugee kids I work with now) to their parents' countries. But here's the big problem for me. I don't support them in this dangerous and unnecessary war. I don't want them to think that I -- as a citizen, as a woman who works with women, as a person who in some way has worked with and supported young folks through difficult times toward the promise of safe and honorable adulthoods -- support their involvement in this horrible activity.
In the face of the September 11 attack most US citizens had no meaningful outlet for a response. As a nation, those of us who were born here had not, for the most part witnessed mass violence at the scale of that event. We had not, as civilians, experienced the violence of war. The majority of us know nothing of hours and days of bombs falling, homes being destroyed, those we love missing, injured, raped, maimed, dead. And from that place of desperate need to respond and dangerous ignorance we say we support our troops. We say, in ways that are criminal in their lack of reflection and critical analysis, that invading a country because a man who was not elected president misrepresented and continues to misrepresent the reasons for that invasion is ok and we should support other US citizens in acting out that man's unlawful and certainly immoral intentions.
Our leaders, and sometimes we, make solemn and shallow pronouncements about our brave troops, our courageous troops, our troops liberating the Iraqi people. And we become directly complicit in that man's lie. I know the young men and women in Iraq need to feel like they are brave and that we support them and that the Iraqis are grateful. I know, for the most part, the lowest level troops aren't responsible for the lack of power, order, income and safety most Iraqis experience in the zones controlled by US troops. Their superiors, the officers, the Defense Dept., the frightening-ly inept Donald Rumsfeld have created those situations. But as long as those lowest level troops think we think they are doing something good, this grave injustice will not be rectified. We know from Vietnam that when veterans and active duty soldiers begin to question the actions they have performed in our name (perhaps only then) will the majority of US citizens in any vocal way demand a stop to this adventure in oil imperialism. I fear it is only the soldiers who can perform this ultimate act of patriotism. Their fellow citizens are too fat and sated on media propaganda and consumerist indulgence to recognize the current effect or future cost of our greed.
Next big post will be what it really means to support our troops.


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Platte County took a big step toward repeating as Suburban Conference Blue Division champion with a tight dual victory Tuesday, April 11 in Kansas City, Mo.
Platte County and Winnetonka were part of a three-way tie for the league title a year ago, but Winnetonka swept last year's season series. The teams will only meet once this year due to the creation of a Blue Division Tournament, and Platte County took a 6-3 victory.
Platte County jumped to a 4-2 lead in singles with wins for Noah Singer, Spencer Klopfer, Brayden Percival and Jack Lawver. Spencer Kunz and Klopfer (No. 1) and Payton Anderson and Lawver (No. 3) won doubles matches to seal the victory.
Platte County 6, St. Joseph Central 3
The Pirates improved to 6-0 in full duals, taking the majority of doubles and singles matches on Thursday, April 13 in St. Joseph, Mo.
Singer, Klopfer, Anderson and Lawver won singles matches to give Platte County a 4-2 lead. Percival lost in a tiebreaker with the Pirates nearly clinching the win before doubles.
Singer and Percival won 8-3 at No. 2 doubles to secure the victory, and Anderson and Lawver battled back from a 4-1 deficit to grab a 9-7 victory at No. 3.
Park Hill 9, Lee's Summit West 0
The Trojans lost just five games in a doubles sweep and then won all six singles matches Tuesday, April 11 at Barry Park in Kansas City, Mo.
Park Hill had 8-2 victories from Grant Martin and Jake McFee at No. 1 and 8-2 wins for No. 2 team Cooper Hayes and Chandler To and No. 3 team Matt Zhang and Ryan Decker. Hayes (No. 1), Martin (No. 3), To (No. 4), Zhang (No. 5) and Decker (No. 6) were all straight set winners.
Martin and Decker were both 6-0, 6-0 winners, while McFee needed a tiebreaker to win at No. 2.
Park Hill 8, Lee's Summit North 1
The Trojans won a second straight in Suburban Conference Gold Division play, improving to 3-0 with a near sweep Thursday, April 13 in Lee's Summit, Mo.
Park Hill won all three doubles matches, and the lone loss in singles came at No. 1 where Hayes lost 11-10 (7-4) in tiebreak. Martin scored the biggest victory, winning 10-2 at No. 3.
Pembroke Hill 8, Park Hill 1
The Trojans dropped to 11-4 overall with a loss to Class 1's premier program Friday, April 14 at Plaza Tennis Complex in Kansas City, Mo. Martin won the lone match for the Trojans at No. 3 (8-5), although Gabe Rau hung close in an 8-6 loss at No. 6.
Rau and Zhang also lost 8-6 at No. 3 doubles.
Park Hill South 6, St. Joseph Central 3
The Panthers earned their first win of the season in their Suburban Conference Red Division opener Tuesday, April 11 in St. Joseph, Mo.
After going 1-2 in doubles matches, Park Hill South took five of six singles matches to win. Alex Hammond won 10-0 at No. 6, but the other four victories were tight. No. 4 Brandon Crabtree was a 10-5 winner, but Jason Jeong (No. 2) and Andrew Robaska (No. 3) were both 10-7 winners.
Joe Badalucco took a 10-8 victory at No. 1 for Park Hill South, which started the season 0-5 in duals. The Panthers are at 1-6 overall after a 9-0 loss to powerhouse Rockhurst on Monday, April 17.


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Vietnam: The Long Unknown – What's in the Bag(s)?
So what the heck does one take with them for a month long motorbike trip through Vietnam? This post could partially help with the answer…
I'm not good with packing. I tend to cram in completely unnecessary things and forget the essentials. Somehow vital items get carefully wrapped and packed away in a choreography of rolling and folding, yet my phone charger and toothbrush sit idly by the side. With this in mind I took it upon myself to pack the rucksack today, with the hope I'd learn from past mistakes and know exactly what I was and was not taking with me. Yes, the flight is 3 weeks away, but I like to plan early!
Firstly, initially I was only taking the rucksack. The decision to take a smaller bag became necessary as the helmet I had already bought for the trip was coming on as hand luggage, and not going in the hold of an aircraft where it'd get bashed and smashed to smithereens. There are some forums out there that suggested I wear the helmet as I board the plane, although in this day and age I doubt that'd go down well with… well, anyone. So a second bag was decided upon, which would allow me to carry daily things on the trip too, like food and water, or easy-access items such as my Canon camera. Obviously whilst riding I'll be wearing the helmet, and when we've stopped the helmet will be carried with us or stowed in a hotel room.
So what's in the bag(s)?
Small bag:
Open face helmet, goggles (came with the helmet!), iPad, Canon 550D, 11-16mm Tokina lens, 18-135 Canon lens, 50mm Canon lens, 8mm fish-eye lens, 3x 16GB SD cards, 2x Canon batteries, GoPro Hero3, GoPro cable, 8x GoPro mounts, GoPro links, GoPro waterproof case, GoPro helmet extension arm, iPhone cable, headphones. Oh, and 8x screws… I'll explain later!
Big bag:
Waterproof jacket and trousers, spare jeans, tennis shoes, 2x pairs of shorts, 4x socks and pants, 4x t-shirts, 1x casual shirt, deodorant, toothpaste, toothbrush, DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ quadcopter (yes, really!), quadcopter controller, 2x Phantom batteries, Phantom charger, towel, anti-malaria tablets, bug spray, H4N Zoom microphone, pocket radio, 3.5mm audio cables.
What does all this cover?
The clothing options cover me for the travelling to and from Vietnam, riding a motorbike in both wet and dry conditions, and extras if we try the nightlife. The Canon 550D and lenses covers me for both photography and any video documenting. The GoPro and all the accessories cover the video aspect of us ("Clarence" and I) on the bikes. The DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ quadcopter is, quite simply, a radical piece of kit to shoot video from the air and provide awesome shots of us on the bikes. Totally unnecessary and overboard, but wicked nonetheless.
What's with the microphone and cables?
Well, we're not making a piece-to-camera documentary of our travels. However, I do have somewhat of an idea in mind for a video. Of course I'll want to share a kick-ass video with you when this trip is all over. So the mic will record wild-track (essentially a few minutes of ambient sound of a particular area for the edit process), as well as recorded sound of the bikes, etc. I also have an idea to start and end the video as if a radio is being tuned in, so the pocket radio and cables will allow me to scroll through several frequencies and capture real-life radio in Vietnam and use that sample for the video. The items are small enough to be inconsequential to the weight of the rucksack anyway.
Security is another thing that I've been concerned with. Clearly neither "Clarence" or I want to be kidnapped, robbed or to ride off a cliff and never be found. With me being a geek, I've set up some measures to help us along the way.
Firstly, both bags have a bluetooth tracking device installed. There's also one on my keys, and I'll likely stick one on the bike (for a giggle). These TrackR StickR devices communicate with an App on my iPhone, and keep regular track of where the items are. If any go missing, I can use the App to see their last known locations, and hone in on them. The devices also communicate two-way, so by pressing a button on the bluetooth device (which is no bigger than a pound coin) the iPhone rings. Or I can press a button on the App, and the TrackR rings. Fingers crossed these items work as they should and nothing goes missing.
One major benefit to the TrackR App is that if I do lose an item, and someone else is running the App, and they are in close proximity to a missing device, their App (without pairing) will update the last known location on my map. So something hundreds of miles away could still be found, thanks to another TrackR user and their "Crowd GPS" function.
Secondly, I've installed an app on my iPhone called FollowMee. This App runs in the background and updates my location to a server online. If there's no internet connection is records the GPS data anyway and uploads it whenever it gets the chance. It's also clever in that it doesn't run the battery flat with unnecessary uploads as it only updates if the location has changed, and by the specified update times I choose (anything from every minute to every 12 hours).
The benefit of this App is that our friends and family can keep track of our location by checking out my blog, where an embedded Live Map will track us in realtime. They don't need to download some "Friends" app, nor do I have to give them any log-in details or get them to register on a special website. It's hassle-free with a link I can email them which takes me to a secure and private map, or I can choose to embed the map anywhere I like (in this case, my travel blog!).
The App can also show where we've been, by keeping the last 24hrs worth of GPS logging data visible on the map. If we go missing, at least you'll know roughly where we went missing! There's no subscription fee for this service, just the £1.89 price of the App. There is also a free version, but that doesn't keep the 7-day history.
They also have the ability to store 45 days or 90 days worth of location data, although you'd need to pay for this separately (a very reasonable $5 and $10 per YEAR respectively).
The App works on iOS, Android, Windows phones, Blackberry and the Amazon Kindle Fire.
Of course all of this security depends on having an internet connection. I've spoken with my phone provider and they've unlocked my phone so it can be used anywhere in the world, and on any network. This means when I get to Vietnam I can switch out my UK SIM card with a pre-paid Vietnamese SIM card, pre-loaded with data and calls. I'm reliably informed there will be full coverage along the way, even if it drops to 2G/EDGE. It should be enough to keep us connected to the internet, and our locations known.
As a back-up, I've also installed an App called myTracks, which can either record your GPS location 24/7 or be set to short-record anything from 1min-24hrs. The App can then export/email the data and be used to trace a route at a later date. Both Apps will run for the duration of the trip. This App doesn't upload our location, but stores the data locally.
Now, back to this helicopter… I appreciate that not everybody thinks of taking a remote control helicopter with them on holiday, but the opportunity to get amazing tracking and aerial shots is too good to miss. Yes, my friends and I have joked that I could start a war, should anyone decide that my drone is some sort of threat and it a) gets blown out of the sky, or b) it gets blown out of the sky and I get arrested. Either way, it's packed.
So what's with the 8x screws? Well, the only way I could fit the DJI Phantom into my rucksack was to remove the lower landing legs. All the cables stayed intact, but with the screws removed it means the legs can be folded over and out of the way. Otherwise the biggest and bulkiest thing in the rucksack is the quadcopter!
Personal Power
My first digital SLR camera was a Minolta 7Hi, and it went through AA batteries like I eat hot dinners. Many years ago several reviews pointed toward Fameart 2500mAh rechargeable batteries as the best on the market. I've still got them, but they no longer hold their charge for any long period. I can charge them one day and they'll be dead the next, without them being used.
My Canon 5Dm2 and Canon 550D have their own proprietary batteries and so I haven't needed the rechargeable AA's in a while. But recently I've purchased a lot of sound kit, all of which use AA batteries. So I've started looking at the latest rechargeable technology to see what might work best for me. Many places online (including "The Gadget Show" and "Which?") recommend the 3rd generation Sanyo Eneloop 2000mAh battery. They have "Low Self Discharge" technology, meaning stored power doesn't ebb away quickly. In fact, they'll still hold 70% of their charge even after five years in storage. That is incredible!
Digging deeper, there are other variations of these cells. The 2nd generation Eneloop 2000mAh batteries are quoted as retaining "75% of their capacity over 3 years", whereas the 3rd generation are quoted as retaining "70% over 5 years". Their latest variation is called the Eneloop XX, which hold 2500mAh, but I've read a few things about them that make the 3rd gen ones better. Namely, the 2500mAh cells have the same Low Self Discharge technology and can hold their charge up to 75%, but only up to ONE year, compared to three for the 2nd gen. Also, the 2500mAh ones are rechargeable up to 500 times, compared to the 2nd generation recharging 1'500 times and the 3rd generation 1'800.
I guess it depends how power-hungry your equipment is. As an example, the Yongnuo 465 flashgun has been documented to last 360 flashes with the 2000mAh cells, but 460 with the 2500mAh.
On a day where I'd be using all the sound equipment I'd need eight AA batteries in total; 2x cells for the Sennheiser E835 wireless handheld microphone, 2x cells for the Sennheiser EK-100-G3-GB Diversity Receiver, 2x cells for the Sennheiser EK-100-G3-GB Bodypack transmitter and 2x cells for the Zoom H1 digital recorder. That's a lot of AA batteries.
Now, at the moment I don't know how much power my sound kit will actually use in a day, but in essence it'd be nice to have a fully charged set in the kit whilst shooting, and a fully charged back-up set. Sixteen batteries! I'd also need 4x chargers in order to get the drained cells recharged whilst I was using the back-up set. Logistically, this seems a nightmare. However, it might turn out that the batteries last several days so there'd be no need to carry any extra kit. For the moment, I just don't know but I will get back to you…
I should also point out overall cost here (and there is some maths involved so bear with me)… A standard 4-pack of Duracell Plus batteries cost £3.50. That's £14 for 16 batteries, for one days use (for arguments sake). Whereas I can buy 16 Eneloop 2000mAh rechargeable batteries for under £28, and they will last up to 1'800 times. I could recharge and use the Eneloop batteries every day for nearly 5 years instead of just one day!! Financially it's a "no-brainer". But… you must also factor in the cost of electricity to recharge each battery. But this works out to be less than a penny to recharge each one.
The biggest spend is probably on a charger, if your batteries didn't come with one. I've been recommended the PowerX MH-C9000 "ultimate" recharger, due to it's built in LCD screen and clever electronics which will help keep your batteries in the best possible shape. It has independent charging circuits so you can charge 1, 2, 3 or 4 batteries independently. It has Charge and Discharge functions to extend the life of your batteries. It has temperature sensors which monitor heat during recharge, and it also has an Analyser to check battery health.
You can also be smart in another way by using some sort of solar powered battery panel to recharge the batteries… Now although the solar panel idea seems a little crazy, I currently own a Voltaic Fuse 10w solar panel kit with two rechargeable batteries. The solar panels will recharge a Voltaic V60 universal battery in 10 hours of direct sunlight. One Voltaic battery would recharge 8 AA batteries no problem. It's free electricity, and environmentally friendly. Even better for me, the V60 battery has a switched output which means you can charge anything USB powered, or anything that uses 12, 16 or 19 volts. I use the Fuse kit to recharge my Macbook pro when I'm out and about, and use a cigarette lighter adapter to recharge my Canon DSLR batteries too! It'd be a fair point to suggest this only really works in the summer due to the British weather. If you live in Los Angeles, you'll be fine.
I didn't realise how 'green' I was till now!
UPDATE: The PowerX MH-9000 charger did attempt a "break-in" cycle to recharge the old Fameart batteries which initially seemed to work. However the batteries are still incapable of holding charge. Also, thanks to a seller taking advantage of confusion on the Amazon page, I ended up with Generation 2 batteries instead. Rather than send them back I've just kept them. As stated they came near enough fully charged, needing only 10 minutes in the charger to boost them to 100%. Brilliant. If you want a charger and batteries, go for Eneloop and a PowerX MH-9000.
Get Out And Shoot!
This morning was mostly spent researching various freelance jobs on the internet. I'm at the stage now where I have a full production kit list of DSLR equipment, and a strong passion to make great pictures. I know jobs don't just appear and aren't going to come to me. I also know that to learn anything and be successful I need to get out and shoot and gain experience and trust. So that's the plan.
Recently I've overloaded myself with knowledge on shooting and lighting interviews. I've seen dozens of tutorial videos of other people using DSLR cameras in their own fields of work for assignments and music videos. I've seen do's-and-don'ts and behind-the-scenes clips, how-to's and making-of documentaries. They're all good for taking away great ideas, but nothing really compares to actually going out with a camera and creating something.
As a freelancer I have a few companies who I regularly get work with. Although, I have only been freelance for a year and I know that not all of that work is going to be continual and never-ending. I've recently found out that one of my employers are closing down the majority of their London office. Statistically, this takes away just under a third of the work I was getting. Yes, it's bad news for me. It's worse news for the 100 staff who will soon be job hunting themselves.
Armed with this information I've taken the leap I have always intended to take and started contacting freelance studios and production companies, in the hope someone is looking for someone with DSLR kit who is more than willing to learn for free. I know full well that getting ahead in this industry is a mix of experience and contacts. With little experience the best option for me is to do any offered work for free, or for less than what others charge, to get onboard and grab the experience required to get ahead.
Some of the work is done. I picture the "ball-that-needs-to-roll" as an actual toy ball, perched atop a confusing and well constructed puzzle game. It's just a case of waiting for someone to give it a nudge and let it take a course.
Glidecam XR 2000 Update
Last week I smugly ordered two quick release mounts with plates from eBay which would allow me to remove my camera from the Glidecam system and mount it on my Weifeng/Fancier 717AH fluid head that's on my Glidetrack and tripods. The idea was to have kit that was all compatible with each other. Unfortunately for me the quick release mounts are not compatible with the Glidetrack. Why, I hear you ask? Well, the quick release mount has a safety button on the side which stops the plate from sliding out completely should you not have the lever tightened and it tip forward. But the diameter of this safety button is larger than the height of the mount itself.
This means the mount would not sit flush on the top of the Glidecam system. And the trigger catch isn't adjustable, so if it did sit flush you wouldn't be able to lock the plate into place. Also, the mount does not have the usual screw holes in the bottom. Instead of one 1/4 inch hole (standard to a lot of tripods and kit) it has a hole in each corner which did not line up with the pre-drilled holes on the Glidecam plate.
So these EI717QK mounts and plates will be going back on eBay as they are no use to me. Such a shame, considering all the hands they went through to get them from New York to the UK.
After a bit more research (I did lots already) I decided upon the Manfrotto 577 quick release mount with 501 plate. This is perfect for the Glidecam. It sits flush with the Glidecam plate and the quick release mechanism is moveable so that it doesn't interfere with the camera or the Glidecam plate. It can lock and loosen within 90 degrees. Perfecto!
However, this means that in order for me to stick to the compatible-with-all ideology, I now need to purchase Manfrotto tripod heads that are comptible with the 501 plate!


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WITH this Boro shirt I thee wed. Avid MFC fan Ashley Brown is proud to sport his club's colours wherever he goes.
So it seemed only natural to wear his Boro shirt with pride on his honeymoon in Thailand.
But new wife and fellow Boro fan Rachael didn't mind.
Ashley's loyalty to his club has earned the couple an invite to watch the team train at Rockliffe Hall.
Also included is lunch, attendance at the weekly press conference and a quick chat with manager Tony Mowbray.
It all came about after 26-year-old Ashley, from Linthorpe, took part in a competition organised by pawnbrokers Ramsdens, the club's shirt sponsor.
He entered a picture of himself wearing a Boro shirt in the Take Boro Into Europe competition and won a monthly top prize.
Ashley, a Lance Corporal in the Royal Engineers, is currently serving in Northern Ireland.
But he will enjoy his prize when he is next on home leave.
He said: "Me and my wife are both life-long Boro fans but I have never owned a season ticket as I'm in the British Army.
"But every time I'm home, I do all I can to get to the match.
"I'm massively proud to be a Boro fan."
Ashley and Rachael didn't just honeymoon in Thailand, they were married there, too.
He said: "The beach where we got married was literally a tropical paradise. It was already a perfect wedding but to then find that I had won such a brilliant prize in the Ramsdens competition has made it even more memorable."
Supporters are being asked to submit photos of themselves wearing a Ramsdens-branded Boro shirt at their holiday destination and there are monthly prizes for the best ones.
Another recent winner is Steve Flett, who comes from Acklam but is currently living in Vietnam and working as an English teacher.
He has submitted the most entries to date, showing him wearing an MFC shirt in places as diverse as Everest base camp and the Indian slums.
Steve, 31, said: "I have quite a few trips planned around South East Asia over the next year, where I'll again be proudly displaying my love for my home-town club."
The best of the photos can be seen on the club website www.mfc.co.uk .


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