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photos by Jennifer Johnson | When we find a product that we can't stop raving about, we have to share it with you! Your Super is one of those products. You know it's great when you walk into a friends house to tell them about it and they physically hand it to you instead. This has been happening to us since the day we discovered this product, and we couldn't wait to tell you about it too.Read More
words by Rebecca Treon | photo by Jennifer Johnson | We love anything make ahead to save us time in the kitchen, whether cooking during the week, or for entertaining on the weekend. This breakfast treat is one of our new fall favorites, using the amazing grits as it's base from Delta Blues Rice.Read More
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Salt is one of the most crucial elements in cooking, bringing out the full flavor in a dish. Today, there are dozens of varieties of salt available, some of which offer their own signature flavors, colors, and textures. Today we're talking with Karen Mordechai of Sunday Suppers, one of our favorite cookbooks and lifestyle brands about the inspiration behind her brand, including ILA, her high quality line of pantry staples. Be sure to check out her salt-inspired menu in our new summer issue!Read More
words by Rebecca Treon | photo by Jennifer Johnson | We're celebrating National Blueberry Month all month long with a new blueberry recipe every Thursday using the products from Bow Hill Blueberries, a small family-run business in Washington State. To learn more about them, head over to the blog today. You can grab the recipe for these smoothies there as well as find a discount code to sample their products for yourself.Read More
words by Mackenzie Wise | photo by Jennifer Johnson | The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) estimates that the United States imports more than ninety percent of its seafood. A significant amount of it is caught by American fishermen, exported overseas for processing, and imported back to the States for consumption. If it seems crazy and inefficient, that's because it is. Here's how one company is hoping to disrupt the seafood supply chain.Read More
Matt Beaudoin of Mystic Knotwork owns the oldest knot shop in the entire country. Learn more about them on the blog today in our meet the maker profile.Read More
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What's better than a delicious homemade bread to bring with you for the holidays? A bread that tastes homemade but is so much quicker!Read More
While falafel and hummus have been popular in the US for quite some time, tahini, an essential ingredient to hummus, has yet to take off in the same way. Soom Foods, founded by three Philadelphia-based sisters, is helping to change that.Read More
While Maine-based The Rope Co. is fairly new, founded only in 2013, it is steeped in proud New England traditions and legacies. The owners, Logan and Hannah Rackliff, have taken a key part of Maine's lobstering community, the rope used to haul traps in and out of the Atlantic, and turned it into beautiful and durable household goods.
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Maritime Constructions required an 8.5m solar security street light for the perimetre of their latest infrastructure development, a $40 million Marine Support Base constructed located at Onslow, in the North of Western Australia.
- The lighting was required to have in ground battery storage.
- Must be able to withstand some of the toughest cyclones in Australia.
the GFS-400 Solar street light was a perfect solution for this project as it delivers high output at full power all night. The underground battery system was modified to fit the clients requirements and the outcome has been very positive.
The feedback we've had has been extremely positive and you can read the full press release HERE for more info.

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winter King
Media: Graphite Sketch, Photoshop
It was time to revisit an old friend. Winter King was created originally in 2008 for a college assignment. I revisited and recreated this piece in 2013 applying new skills to it. Now it's 2016 and Winter King's message is stronger than ever – the Polar Bear's demise will mean the demise of us all.
Once again I'm revising this piece, increasing its size and detailing, again bringing new skills to this piece. If only I could rejuvenate the sea ice in the way I can rejuvenate this piece.


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We create experiences.
At NTSQ Sports Group, we specialize in creating elevated experiences in the sports industry.
We're often asked what NTSQ stands for and the answer is Never The Status Quo. It's more than a bold statement - it's our promise to you. It's a commitment that whether we're organizing an event, creating digital content or providing a VIP touchpoint, we'll search for something that's never been done before and not settle for what's expected.
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In our first year we've featured the likes of: Tim Don, Helle Frederiksen, Linsey Corbin, Jesse Thomas, Kara Goucher, Trevor & Heather Wurtele, Patrik Nilsson, Liz Blatchford, Sarah Piampiano, Emma Pallant, Sofie Goos and many more.
We have years of experience in the formulation, strategy, creation and execution of events of the highest caliber. Our current portfolio of events includes:
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We believe we create gamechanging experiences for sporting events, companies and athletes. If you're looking to elevate an experience for your customers, audience, sponsors, executives, fans or even your friends, get in touch with us first. What you'll get is never the status quo.


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Face of Today x WE
On Saturday, May 5 2018, Face of Today Foundation (FOT) and WE Charity officially announced their partnership to create awareness around mental health. This exciting initiative is designed to shift perceptions by educating and eliminating the stigma around mental health.
"WE x FOT is an exciting partnership that will work to eliminate the stigma around mental health and create a world where individuals are accepted and feel supported," says FOT founder, Kasondra Cohen-Herrendorf. "I have been following Marc and Craig's charitable impact for many years; I could not think of a better organization to join forces as we both believe in youth and have similar cultures, core values and goals."
Since 2009, Face of Today has raised more than a million dollars to support youth-based charities and programs across Vancouver, creating opportunities for the leaders of tomorrow. Face of Today's new initiative stands for social change to end the stigmas attached to mental health, through awareness, support and experiences.


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Oli of WPLift.com published 9 ways you can make money via WordPress. None of the items on his list caught me by surprise. The question is, are there any methods of generating income via WordPress that he missed?
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Everyone always covers the general stuff :)
– Email opt-in for coupon, to get people to hit email confirm landing page offer.
– SMS opt-ins and confirmation offers, they cost money to send but can be worth it.
– Recurring email video series can do well in the right markets.
– Using API's to access and promote SaaS services.
– Video micro billing for higher quality videos, downloads, or multi-device.
That's my quick list… got any that you would add?
Joshua Parker
WordPress can become anything you want it to be, with the right amount of good code – a social network, a freelance website, an online store, etc. the sky is the limit. So ultimately, WordPress is just a fantastic platform and with the right tools and knowledge you build almost anything on top of it.
We are more limited if we are not allowed to change anything in WordPress, but keep it as is, out of the box. This is an important restriction for the discussion, I think, as otherwise we can go on forever, naming ANYTHING that can be built online using WordPress.
We've seen even Integrated Game Development Environments in WordPress, remember back in 2011? http://2011.toronto.wordcamp.org/session/using-wordpress-to-build-interactive-games/ Toronto WordCamp? Again, the sky's the limit.
Dr Dave Kunselman
I'm new to WordPress – but very interested in helping to build an interactive blogsite for small-business entrepreneurship for college-age young adults. It is my personal belief that if we take Mark Zuckerberg as an example – we are currently overlooking and missing out on a lot of talent that could make them, us, and (my burden) the neediest in Central America "richer" than they are now. What do you think?
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OPEC's El-Badri urges IEA to end release of oil
Abdullah El-Badri, secretary general of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, urged the International Energy Agency to reverse its earlier decision to release 60 million bbl of oil over the coming 30 days.
Eric Watkins
OGJ Oil Diplomacy Editor
LOS ANGELES, June 28 -- Abdullah El-Badri, secretary general of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, urged the International Energy Agency to reverse its earlier decision to release 60 million bbl of oil over the coming 30 days.
"I hope this practice will be stopped and stopped immediately," El-Badri told a news conference in Vienna after the scheduled 8th ministerial-level meeting of the energy dialogue between OPEC and the European Union.
"We don't see a good reason to release this quantity, and I hope the IEA will refrain from using this practice," El-Badry said, also telling the Kuwait News Agency that IEA had wronged OPEC with its decision to release the oil.
"The agency did not give OPEC an opportunity to increase its output before deciding to draw from the strategic reserves of its 28 members," he said, noting that such a move is justifiable only as "a final resort in extreme emergencies" and not to control prices.
"As international organizations, IEA, which represents the interests of consumers, and OPEC, which represents producers, have to work together for the stability of the market and to maintain fair prices," El-Badri said.
His remarks were in line with those of Iran's OPEC Gov. Mohammad Ali Khatibi who blasted the IEA's decision to release the strategic reserves as a politically motivated intervention in "the ordinary function" of the oil market.
"Following the failure to bring down the prices at 159th ministerial meeting of OPEC in June 8, the US and Europe are using all the means to push oil prices lower," he said ahead of the meeting with the EU.
Tamas Fellegi, president of the EU's energy council and also Hungary's development minister, said there is "obviously" a disagreement on the issue of the IEA's decision.
"Even if the IEA made this action, it has to remain extraordinary and limited in time, this is very important, and should not undermine the cooperation between the EU and OPEC and should not disrupt the market mechanisms," Fellegi said.
That view matched remarks by IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka, who told reporters in London the agency took its decision as a short-term measure to ensure the availability of supplies while awaiting a production increase by Saudi Arabia.
"We are simply saying we will just fill the gap before OPEC or Saudi is going to produce supplies for the market," said Tanaka. "We are just filling the gap—we can't continue forever."
Tanaka expressed confidence that Saudi Arabia—which he said has "about 3 million b/d of spare capacity"—would produce more, as it had pledged, but that the extra supplies might take "a couple of weeks" to reach the market.
"We are very sure this tightening of the market will happen in July, August when refinery maintenance is over," said Tanaka, who repeated that the current stocks release was for 30 days after which the agency would reassess the market.
Kuwait's Minister of Oil Mohammad al-Busairy shared Tanaka's view of tightening supplies and said the global oil market will be in "dire need" for some 2 million b/d of oil during the third quarter, with demand falling to around 1.5 million b/d in the last quarter of the year.
Noting Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the UAE alone have the necessary spare capacity to meet the growing demand, al-Busairy said his country should take advantage of the situation while prices are high.
"We should not miss such opportunity, particularly under the soaring prices, and the increasing demand in the market, and we have the ability to meet such demand," al-Busairy said, adding, "This is an output policy in the interest of our country, and we are following it."
OPEC has not officially issued a statement concerning IEA's decision to release oil from its reserves.
Contact Eric Watkins at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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By Nechama Piekarski for COLlive
I am a simple working mother living in Crown Heights, the Rebbe's shechuna. My children attend the local schools, walking to and from events alone or with friends, their fears escalating each year.
I have lived in Crown Heights for the past 20 years and I see the deterioration of neighborly tolerance and basic respect. At the same time, I have some very decent non-Jewish neighbors with whom I share mutual esteem. I strongly believe that every human being should be treated with value and dignity.
This past Shabbos (May 5), my 13-year-old son was walking to mincha when one ATV vehicle in a group of three, driven by a black adult male, sped up onto the sidewalk aiming straight at him.
After jumping out of the way, my son watched in horror as the ATV then sped toward two bochurim who jumped out of the way in the nick of time.
My husband and my son approached a policeman on the corner of Eastern Parkway and Kingston afterward. They were told that they could not file a police report and there is nothing to be done about it; it is a common occurrence.
We, the Crown Heights community, have experienced four violent anti-Semitic incidents in the past month and those are the incidents that have been publicized on COLlive and elsewhere. But many others are not publicized, and sadly, we treat them as part and parcel of everyday life.
But Jewish blood is not cheap. Our children should not be victims. We already vowed once, Never Again! Let us not go like sheep to the slaughter!
I call upon our community leaders to demand that the local schools incorporate tolerance for all, including Jews, into the curriculum.
I demand that our leaders insist that the leaders of the African-American community develop a detailed proposal to combat hatred and bigotry toward others, including Jews.
It is not enough to give a press statement; action is needed immediately. A comprehensive plan, where tolerance workshops are given throughout the black community and violence against Jews is condemned is in order.
A program should be implemented where all incidents are reported with immediate repercussions for the perpetrators regardless of whether or not the victim has actually been hurt.
None of our communities can afford failure if we want to live in safety and unity.


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It's amazing to see two folks you care about get married to each other. Dino and Emily's wedding was just that. Here we begin with Emily getting out of a vintage Cadillac!
Ceremony: St. George Orthodox Church, Norwood, MA / Reception: Larz Anderson Auto Museum / Catering: Domenic & Anthony / Design & decorations: Mother of the bride & friend, Helen Gregory / Glass centerpieces: Luke Adams Glass / Flowers: Judy's Village Flowers / Hair: Marilyn's Hair Design / Makeup: Leather & Lace Creative / Officiants: V. Rev. Fr. Joseph Kimmett and Fr. Angelo Pappas / Violin & Cello: Cat O'Toole / DJ: John Zucco


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Ebony Glenn is an illustrator and artist living on the quiet outskirts of Atlanta, Georgia. With artistic representation from The Bright Agency, she aspires to bring stories to life with fanciful illustrations that are filled with whimsy and charm to provide rich literary experiences for readers. She also seeks to create joyful and heartwarming crafts to satisfy her endless need to always make new things.
When Ebony is not giving in to her creative itch of art-making, you may find her lost in the pages of a good book, learning some new hula-hooping tricks, or going on an adventure with her pup, Louie.


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Hi! Do you remember blogs? Well, this used to be one. Now it just serves as an archive for my multiple Twitter accounts.
Now that was bound to happen. I thought it would happen a bit later, but there it is. Three months is already nice, isn't it?
I didn't quite know what I was getting into with this calendar idea. Actually, I did: I knew very well I could fail, but I didn't expect the reason for it would be that. Not that it's hard to make one picture per month (even I can commit myself to that). Not that it's hard to make a calendar picture per month (which multiplies the difficulty ten-fold, because you have to frame the model from head to toe, and it has to have some kind of meaning, and fit in the wallpaper format, etc., what a pain). But because I had decided to take pictures of bloggers. People who spend their time controlling their image, and only exist in seduction (and choosing to specialize in gay bloggers certainly didn't help), posing naked? Right.
So there we are: rather than spending another fortnight convincing another blogger to take off his clothes, then strike a pose, then accept the publication of the best picture (and you know how bad I am at compromise and negociations), there won't be an April 2004. Nor a May, June, etc.
I would offer to hand the project to someone else, but it's a bit late for April, and that's just as well. This has been too troublesome, I'm actually rather glad it stops. Even that early.
Besides, completing an endeavor? Me? That would ruin my public image.
Je préfère les films de Chabrol dans lesquels il se passe quelque chose. Si, au moins, Magimel faisait un strip-tease.
Google to unveil free e-mail with 1GB per user. Will it still be there tomorrow?
Argh. The weather's incredible, and I can't go out tonight. It's the beginning of the month, I haven't bought my subway pass in advance, my check hasn't been credited yet, I'm as deep in the red as I'm allowed to be, because I started spending too early.
Tomorrow: rain. Damn.
C'est avec un brushing comme ça qu'on va gagner l'Eurovision ?
Je ne me souvenais pas que les candidats étaient si mauvais que ça, au casting. Ni le jury.
Dire que j'étais fan de Marianne James. D'accord, moi aussi, j'insulte mon public. Mais je n'essaie pas de vous vendre un spectacle en parallèle.
En avril, ne te découvre pas d'un fil."
April 2004 is brought to you by Diabolito.
I've had a bit of trouble with the colors, as always when there's too much red stuff on the picture. Too bad that none of the pictures in the bathtub series (see the bonus tracks) was usable for the calendar. That's what was planned for originally. For April's Fools ("April's fish" in French).
You know what? I'm fed up with white and light blue. It's time to reset the random layout generator.
Gmail (Google Mail) hasn't disappeared after April the first and seems to be quite real. (Though I doubt the announcement date is a coincidence — nice way to get twice the pre-launch buzz, thanks to all the bloggers wondering if it's for real.) Who would have thought there was still money to be made from a free webmail?
It'll be interesting to see how the competition is forced to evolve. Funny that I was criticizing Six Apart's expansionism, but I trust Google. It's instinctive, and I can never much justify what's instinctive. Is it Movable Type's not really free license? (As a programmer, I can very, very well understand the choice not to use the GPL, but I never considered the "free only for personal use" license to be quite elegant.) Or Typepad's incredibly high prices? Or how they granted exclusive rights on all their licenses in France to Loïc Le Meur?
The fact is that Google's net credibility is unrivaled. I was going to write "unshakable", but nobody is, particularly in that field. What's really interesting in their offer is the gigabyte of data. (No, really?) Because of its direct consequence: unlike all the other webmails, they will have an excellent reason to include an efficient anti-spam / anti-virus system. Since nobody will ever delete a message from their account, they'd better provide good filters.
Now I hope nobody gets garoo @ gmail.com before I do (and also that they bought other domains, because that one isn't quite hot).
I'm jealous. Dead jealous. Look here. The column on the right. Jealous I am.
I've never been much for fan-arts and always thought it was a bit silly and not quite useful. But I'm still jealous. So I was thinking that if ever, by chance, people sent me some fan-art, I would create a category in my sideblog and publish them along the blog. Voilà. Just saying. In case.
(Rules: a body part of your choosing with "garoo" written on it, for real. The second fan-art on the page I linked above hence does not qualify, as nice as it is.)
Well, I was just thinking aloud here, you know, not meaning to say anything.
Too many complex words to translate at 5am, sorry:
Ca y est ! Je savais que ça arriverait un jour, et c'est devenu officiel ce soir. Je suis une vieille fille acariâtre et intransigeante. Célibataire à vie. Plus qu'à élever des chats par dizaines.
Fan art: XIII
Worldbest sur TF1 (via + clair)
Zut, j'ai raté quelque chose.
Fan art: lolo²
kom y avais eus un accident et que le nocte euh nokte euh enfin le bus de nuit koi ben il avais du faire une deviation ben on a dus faire toute la deviation dans champygny et finalemnt on a meme du prendre l'autoroute un petit moment et ct trop cool. pk normalement les bus y vont pas sur l'autoroute. pk c des bus et ke l'autoroute c pour les voiture enfin vous avié compris non? bon et ct bizar pk on est passes par la ou avant nous on passais kan on revenais de continent a ormeson et meme que continent ca existe plu ms de tte facon on est pas passe devant, mais sur le chemin y avais un ronpoint alors k'avant y en avais pas. ct bizar ca m'a fait droles . enfin voila ct juste pk y en a ki trouve que je raconte pas assez ma vie alors voila ct pour leur faire plaisirs un peu.
Proof that I buy crap and that's not new:
— Hi. It's about a refund. I'm not quite satisfied and I'd like to go back to your store and…
— Oh, I'm sorry, Sir, but lives are not returnable, that's our standard policy.
I dreamt of Sylvie Vartan and when I get up she's on TV. Spooky. Why can't I ever use my psychic powers in more productive ways?
Quand il est descendu du Noctambus, je me suis dit que ça serait marrant que je le croise un jour sur un chat.
Trois quarts d'heure plus tard, je le croisais sur un chat.
J'ai décidément une vie passionnante, quand je prends le Noctambus.
En passant, je me demande si la fréquentation des bus a changé, ou si c'est moi qui suis plus vieux et blasé. Quand je le prenais, il y a quelques années (à vue de nez, quatre ou cinq ans), ce n'était pas forcément le moyen de transport le plus rassurant. Maintenant, c'est surtout plein de tapettes (l'avantage de prendre la ligne qui passe par Vincennes, je suppose) et de littéraires à dreadlocks. Je ne suis pas sûr, mais j'ai quand même vraiment l'impression que c'est plus calme qu'avant — et plus rempli.
D'ailleurs, si le prix du ticket a été divisé par trois, c'est bien que ça doit être plus rempli.
Je devrais me tenir plus au courant, je ne savais pas que la déclaration obligatoire de séropositivité était
revenuepassée (et pourtant, visiblement, c'est pas récent). Quand ils avaient commencé à en parler, je trouvais que c'était une mauvaise idée de faire peur aux gens qui doivent se faire tester, parce que la priorité est surtout que les séropositifs connaissent leur statut. Et… ben, je continue à le penser. Même si, d'après une recherche rapide, ça ne s'applique pas aux centres de dépistage anonyme, ce qui m'échappe un peu — mais je n'ai pas fait médecine, je ne dois pas pouvoir comprendre.
Est-ce qu'il ne suffirait pas plutôt de compter les tests positifs, en demandant à chaque positif si c'est la première fois ou s'il a déjà été compté ? Le nombre de réponses fausses serait sûrement plus faible que le nombre de positifs anonymes qui n'iront jamais chez un médecin après.
Spending my money has never been so hard. No shoes I liked, no clothes I liked and, more importantly, no trace of the Samsung V200 in any of the stores I went to. I finally saved the day when I found a little jacket at Auchan, but that's not satisfying.
Regarding the phone, I'm worried. I had gotten quite used to it, virtually. I had looked up how it works, I loved how the swiveling lens was the most inconspicuous imaginable way of stealing people's souls — uh, I mean image — in the subway. What's a garoo to do now? It was the cheapest cameraphone on the list, and it looked perfect for me. That was too good.
I have a problem with earplugs: I used to like the simple yellow foam cylinders, but now all I can find in stores are pseudo-ergonomic rocket-shaped thingies that blow my ears out so badly I wake up after an hour, feeling my head is about to explode. (Reminder: there are two computers in my bedroom and I never turn them off.)
And then, a miracle: two weeks ago, I buy a Samsonite light-blocking mask-thing (can't remember what it's called), thinking I'll throw away the accompanying earplugs. And it'll be the opposite: I'm going to get rid of the mask (I can't sleep with that — I did expect so, but I had to try) but the earplugs are high-tech, soft, comfortable and efficient. And, as a bonus, they stay clean. Recommended for anyone living in a server room or near an international airport.
I could have made some stylistic efforts in order to make this uninteresting post a bit more worthy, but I don't feel like it.
Not to mention that the picture is lame, because the camera had some trouble with bright orange.
The third monitor is an old 14-inch that isn't connected but just occupies the desk space until I get a 17-inch. I better not get used to having some free room on my desk.
Le métro de Paris en 1937. It's hard to imagine they could build that three thousand years ago.
Deux candidats des Colocataires qui viennent de DialH, ça ne peut pas être une coïncidence. Et ils n'ont même pas encore tous été présentés dans la presse, je me demande ce que ça va donner ce soir.
Ils ont réutilisé le fichier de chatteurs démarchés pour Queer Eye, ou tous les casteurs de télé-réalité se donnent rendez-vous là ?
S'il se passe des choses la nuit, j'imagine qu'ils ont prévu de ne rien diffuser sur M6 et d'organiser des fuites sur le web.
P.S. Si je mets un lien vers leurs comptes "picsers" respectifs sur citegay, c'est une atteinte à la vie privée ?
Bah, c'est pas la peine, de toute façon, ça ne va pas tarder à circuler.
P.S. Trois tapettes minimum (bon, pour l'un des trois, le deuxième dialheur, ça saute moins aux yeux, vous n'avez peut-être pas vu) : je ne sais pas ce qu'ils avaient en tête en planifiant le casting mais ça a l'air raté, je suis le seul blogueur à en parler !
The next big thing: JewelEye. Ewwwww.
A location-based Friendster. Excellent idea.
Does it make any sense to buy a 200€ camera phone, considering I can have a Palm or Clié with camera, wifi, web browser and much more stuff for just three hundred more francs1?
Does it make any sense to buy a PDA, considering I spend a lot of time in public transportation and I'll never dare take it out in the bus when I've got notes to take — and, if I do take it out, I risk not seeing it ever again?
Does it make any sense to buy either, considering that, three months from now (damn, three months!!2), either I'll be exiled in Normandy and I won't have any use for it, or I'll be largely able to afford better?
Argh. I'd better wait until I just forget about it. But I've always dreamed of having a vibrator (mmh) and a portable Internet access.
1: Oops, got the wrong units again. This afternoon, it's only after I paid that I realized 7.50€ for crappy rice and crappy steam raviolis was a lot.
2: Did you notice how I was meaning to write three exclamation points but couldn't, because it's evil?
PalmOne inexplicably has only one model with an embedded camera, the Sony line is so messy that there aren't two stores presenting the same models, and it would definitely not be reasonable to spend a fortune for a PDA.
I could buy the cheapest gadget camera, plus the cheapest vibrating phone, and feel richer and much less guilty. But much less satisfied, too.
I have no need for a Clié. I have no need for a Clié. I have no need for a Clié. I have no need for a Clié.
After all, who needs wifi when you've got cybercafés?
(Skipping the part about asking my readers to tell me how the all-night Paris cybercafé works.)
To keep you up to date, since I know you're particularly enthusiastic about my adventures (just judging by the number of comments on those posts, as opposed to my real-TV posts), I'll try to run into an electronics store tomorrow and seize a Samsung V200, if they have one (which is far from certain — their website says they do, but I haven't seen it on display). This way I'll be rid of the problem, and I'll just buy a top of the line Clié later, when I can really afford it. (Popular electronics store, center of Paris, a Saturday… it's gonna be hell… but I have to, it's an emergency.)
And, since blogging is about telling you what I do when I happen to do something, please note that I have just started the reprogramming of GayAttitude. More grey, more frames! Yippee! Oh, and a ton of Javascript too! Bliss! But I need that to make it work.
When I'm done (which isn't going to be soon, considering I'll have to rewrite absolutely everything in order to make as much of it static as I can), I may create a light version, with limited functionalities, so that people can chat through wifi on a Clié — random example, of course.
For the past three weeks, I've been losing two pounds per week (a new diet — I'll tell you more about it when I know if it works, i.e. if can stabilize my weight when I'm done) and each time I look at myself in the mirror I look fatter. Great. The thing is my body tends to spread fat all over (either because I started early, or because I have a very low testosterone level, who knows) but, like for all men, the hardest part is losing my belly. So, when I'm overweight, I look smooth as a baby; when I'm less overweight, all I've got left is a patch of fat around my navel, and a jelly butt. If I didn't need to wear a belt so that my pants stay up, I'd believe my scale1 is lying.
1: Babelfish translation. I have no idea what the correct idiom is for that thing you step onto when you want to know your weight.
Did I tell you I was unlucky with technology purchases? I've had to go through three Dartys (those are large, cheap electronics stores) before someone told me the V200 and P400 weren't quite available any more and I was unlikely to find them anywhere (thank you very much to the Darty website, which claims that "
The information about model availability is updated permanently. A model that is specified as available in a store actually is at the time of your connection."). Once I'm at the Madeleine Darty, I choose the X600, which is a bit more expensive but has a few more functions and a nicer interface. Let's not care too much about the fact that the box was open and the battery was precharged, so I'm probably not the first one using this phone, but everything seems to work, it's clean, there's nothing to complain about. Except for the fact that I had to go through three more Dartys for someone to tell me that the connection kit doesn't exist in USB and won't be available anywhere (contrary to what one of the first salesmen had told me).
Result: the phone looks much more modern and nice than the one I intended to buy, but it's one hundred euros more expensive when you include the PC connection kit (which I knew before I bought it — it just happens to be the cheapest acceptable model); it makes 640x480 photos but insists on beeping even in silent mode (damn recent cameraphones); I haven't got enough serial ports to plug in the modem, the Wacom tablet and the phone; for fifty more euros I could order on Sony's webiste a Clié TJ37 with a camera and wifi access.
I'm tired of technology. I'm tired of people, too, especially on Saturdays in malls. I'm tired of technology and people, which makes perfect sense since technology is designed and realized by people. I can't wait for second-generation robots.
Fantastic: since the Wacom driver is monopolizing the first serial port even when the tablet isn't connected (the Wacom drivers are particularly… uh, oddly programmed, I'll say), when I want to connect the phone I have to unplug the dialup modem.
I'll confess it's pretty pleasant to edit the phonebook on the computer and find out afterwards that everything got updated in real time on the phone's side. (Sorry about this, Garoo is discovering recent phones, he was using a Nokia 6110 until today.)
As for transferring files, the system isn't extraordinary, but it's usable. And, with my G3, I was already used to having to use the device's menu to erase the pictures after I had uploaded them, so it won't be new to me.
And the picture quality? Well, it's about what I expected. (Which means, yes, a bit crappy.) You'll see some samples in the left-hand column as soon as I have coded the PHP scripts to URL-brand them automatically.
Additional serial ports seem to be amazingly expensive.
Maybe I'll rather switch to a USB Wacom tablet, I'd get a free port and it wouldn't hurt either. No, tablets are really too expensive.
I sent an e-mail to my cell operator to ask them if I was entitled to use WAP (I have a particular contract, with free calls on nights and week-ends, which basically entitles me to be treated like a pariah they want to get rid of), but I don't understand their website. I don't know whether it's interesting (I wouldn't mind developing a WAP version of gayattitude… and of my blog's administration pages, of course) but, more importantly, I don't understand how much it costs. Is it an all-including low price, or do you have to pay an additional fee for each operation? I have hardly ever seen such a confuse offer on a commercial site. I can't even find any mention of access to another WAP site than Vodafone's portal.
On the other hand, there's the French i-mode site, which is quite clear: it's expensive — and that's what makes me weary of SFR's offer. Figures that, with the profit operators make from SMS addicts, they're not going to refrain from taxing e-mails. That sucks. Instead of my wifi Clié, I would have liked to use WAP chats, WAP mail and a WAP ICQ gateway.
Your access is restricted for lack of payment."
No Internet access and tiny judiciary threats, how sweet. Two possibilities: either they screwed up (you should expect anything with Tiscali) or I made a big mistake when I paid the phone with my debit card (it was a reflex, I didn't think about the weekly maximum debit).
Of course, it had to happen on a holiday.
First post away from home, ever. Now that's something. But I don't know what to write. Hi, my name is Garoo, I'm connected from the XS Arena on Boulevard Sébastopol, the keyboard is quite unpleasant to use, and I have nothing to say. Well, not exactly: I had mentally noted a bunch of things to write about, but it's out of my mind for now.
So, in no particular order, just as it comes: I'll have to check the comments' IP addresses as soon as I've got a connection again (I created a special user, whose password I'll change regularly, so that I could administrate my website from the café — and I'm gonna be so happy I installed SiteBar on garoo.net — but I'm not going to risk typing my MySQL login from here), because I think it's evolving oddly. It was getting out of hand on the French Idol post, so I closed the comments; now it's getting weird on the Entrée des artistes (another show, quite similar, but targeted more toward older viewers) post, even though it had been completely left alone until then. Now, on the same day, two commenters have asserted they had been on the show (but then, why not, they're allowed to use Google like everyone else), and a fan insults my readers (and me). As a result, comments on this post are not only closed, but removed: true that some of them could be considered insulting — I had only validated them because, for me, "faggot" isn't an insult, but I can understand some people would disagree.
What else? I have a feeling that the Samsung's sound isn't too great, but I won't be bothered to make a real comparative review; the battery is already dead, but since I had never charged it myself — not to mention that, for lack of an Internet connection, I have used my free night communications like I never did — it's too early to judge. I already knew, before I bought it, that the battery indicator wasn't quite reliable, so I guess it's to late to complain about that. Or about the fact that the screen is so bright, there's no way you can be unnoticed while photographing, even when turning the shutter sound all the way down. Or that when the battery is low the screen's backlight doesn't turn on anymore and it gets absolutely unreadable. Or, more generally, about all that's a bit annoying throughout the user interface.
I mustn't ever make tech purchases again. The phone? Disappointing. The Matrox triple-head card? I've had it for months and I still only have two screens. The camera? Oh, no, the camera works just perfectly, but I didn't buy it myself. What a coincidence. Same thing about the computers. I'm doomed, that much is clear.
I had other stuff to say, but I didn't carry my notes. I wasn't sure I'd go to the cybercafé. Because that thing is scary. It's full of… uh, computers? Oh, no: people. They're awful, people.
So that'll be all for now. I have some intense surfing and catch-up to do.
P.S. Oh, looks like the blog's home page has a problem on Internet Explorer. I may thing about it later. Or maybe I'll just choose to forget.
Cameraphones replacing GPS. Hard to believe.
Missed my night bus by very exactly ten seconds, so I'm back here for an hour (well, fifty minutes, because otherwise I'll miss my bus again). I don't know yet whether I'm actually happy to spend one more hour on the web, or if I'll fall asleep in front of the keyboard and have a little 3€-an-hour nap. (Incidentally, the keyboard isn't as bad as the one I typed my previous post on, it's getting better. And there's no contest that working with an LCD monitor feels nice.)
If someone's nearby, now's the time to meet Garoo! Well, I've got no ICQ, no mail, my cell's battery is empty, but still, I'm there! A few meters away from you! (Well, probably not you, but at least some French readers.) Can you realize?
P.S. Oh, yes, the T1-or-something connection isn't bad either. Good thing there isn't the whole comfort of an apartment around me, or I'd get used to that.
Here I am, back to my faithful computer 9-11 (isn't that kind of a bad omen for a computer ID?). It's my faithful computer of mine, because it has the brightest screen of the aisle, and brightness settings are locked on most of them. Plus, the keyboard works relatively fine — I'll only have to try another one to see whether Alt-Tab is willingly deactivated in the whole café (I have no idea why it would be, but I have no idea either why all would work but Alt-Tab).
I was just wondering if, since I'm turning my back to the whole room, I would hop onto a gay chatroom, and then I turned around and saw… a gay chatroom, full-screen at the other end of the room. If I had good eyes, I'd be able to recognize who's in front of the keyboard.
What I don't like in this cybercafé is that everyone types roughly as fast as I do. This is not the place where I'll get people to marvel at my talents.
California vs. GMail. Whatever.
Being connected from a cybercafé entails an unpleasant pressure I wasn't used to anymore: paying per hour.
I have all my bookmarks with me, the whole list of sites for my daily reader's digest on the blog (because the whole world needs it!), but I still keep wondering how I usually manage to keep myself busy all day on the net.
And, more importantly: is the time I spend in front of this computer really worth what it's costing me? There's no hesitation about a 25€ monthly contract; but accessing the web for two euros per hour? I've got some doubts. But, if I don't get online here, what am I going to do with my time?
Which means I'm now entering the more annoying, less intellectually gratifying part of my work, and it's hard getting motivated — even though I have no choice, with the webserver crashing more and more often (which you may have witnessed on this site no later than tonight, by the way).
Fourth day without Internet at home. The first withdrawal symptoms are gone, and I'm now up to the third wave of symptoms: I'm shaking all the time, having trouble standing up, my fingers type in the air, etc.
So, in order to try and fill the void a bit, I went to the computer store district and bought a new modem. I needed that. To survive. No, actually, I needed that to get a spare serial port — I had a choice between buying a USB Wacom tablet, or a USB-IrDA adapter, meaning I would have bought the phone connection kit for nothing, so I chose the third option: keeping the cable (which has the advantage of also charging the battery, and being simpler to use than activating IrDA each time in the phone's options screen) and switching to an USB modem (which is cheaper than a new tablet).
And now you ask me, how is buying a second modem less a waste of money than owning both a serial and an IrDA phone connection kits? Simple: my modem was old, I thought changing it couldn't harm and it could only work better. And in any case I'd have a spare modem at hand, which can be much more useful than a spare phone connection cable.
In the end, it's much better than I hoped: the new modem connects to my provider on the first try, I have no connection problems, and the DNS works immediately. I had had doubts when I tried connecting to another provider on Monday and it wasn't working too well. But now it's confirmed, and I don't get it: how can a modem (an old guy who went through a heat wave last summer) work in a perfectly normal way except for having some trouble initiating connections and… contacting DNS servers?
It's Samsung season (kitty pics included !).
There are homeless people every ten meters on the Rue de Rivoli, I've been asked for money three times in ten minutes; I'm going to start feeling guilty for spending my money on cybercafé hours like a dumbass I am.
This gives me an idea. After the bloggers' calendar, the bloggers' karaoke (a.k.a. Blog Idol): each month (or week, why not?), a blogger sings a song of their choosing. It wouldn't really be interesting, but I'm sure there'd be candidates. For the past few years France has been rediscovering singing (through reality television, but it's better than nothing), we should go with the flow.
There's just the copyright problem. But many French bloggers are using radio.blog, a Flash applet that broadcasts music, so it wouldn't be worse. And then, instead of hosting the MP3s on a website, how about throwing them into Kazaa?
Friday has passed and I still have no Internet at home. Could I really dream that my ISP's billing services would be working tomorrow and processing my paperwork? Nahhh. Feels like it's going to be a great week-end. And the weather isn't even going to be good.
In other news, I had never quite realized that the advertisment we publish on Gayattitude, being just one inch (uh… inches indeed) below porn, can be just a bit embarrassing when you're logging in from a cybercafé.
I was wondering why my connection was slow, and whether I had had bad luck choosing a computer tonight, when I realized: this is Friday night, the rooms are full (well, let's say two-thirds full), the connection is slower. The Internet really sucks, you know.
Yeah, I know what I'm writing tonight is just breathtakingly interesting. But I'm not in the mood — for anything. Some days…
Squatting another phone line to connect to a pay-per-minute provider, which can only be cheaper and is much more comfortable.
My phone's WAP access is now configured, and it's just magical. To anyone who thinks WAP is useless, I suggest to check http://wap.google.com/ out. (Spoiler, for those who can't try for themselves: Google allows you to access any site — particularly, any blog — from your phone.) All I have to do now is find an ICQ gateway (I found one on SourceForge, but it requires a Windows webserver, yuk) and program a WAP version of my blog's interface. With (a lot of) luck, I may even be able to upload pictures directly from my phone. (Otherwise, I'll just MMS my website.)
In the meantime, I have a couple of days' worth of photolog to upload. And I'll reming you that photologging cost me 300€, so you better click the thumbnails.
A super-light version of the blog (with only the five last articles, minilog excluded) is already available on wap.garoo.net, and I can validate comments from my cellphone. As soon as I manage to get a form to work, I can moblog, send mini-mail (and maybe even read mail, someday), etc.
I've got two free months of WAP access; that should allow me to develop as many functions as I can, and to decide if it's worth six euros per month.
Well, it looks like my telco's WAP gateway doesn't acecpt <input type="file"> and I can't upload directly, and freely, images from my phone. Makes sense: it would allow you to do too much for free.
Still have the MMS option, but that means I'd have to make a server-side script to fetch the pictures, and… I'd pay for each upload. I don't like the idea of being billed every time I blog.
Not to mention that typing something, even a short post, in a microscopic <input>, without T9 and with a typing system that contradicts the phone's, is just about unusable.
It's a pity that the one thing WAP would be good for, text blogging and chatting, is sabotaged by the browser software.
Oh, and, for the paranoids who are interested in the subject:
The Mobile Access Gateway Server always sends the end-user's subscriber ID in each HTTP request to your Web server. The data (along with some other environment variables) is stored in the HTTP request header.
Fan-art: Ange étrange
Dual-user PC. Huh.
Save me from the countryside! Right now I'm checking out everything I can access with WAP so that I can survive the day I'll have to spend in the middle of the countryside tomorrow.
I found an MSN Messenger client, but it doesn't seem to warn of new messages: you have to click a name in the contact list in order to display the history, which means you can't read messages from people who aren't in your list. (But is that an advantage or a drawback?)
Since I also have a mail client (that allows me to read messages, but not really send any), it means that those of you who'd want to save me from boredom tomorrow, between rougly 9am and 9pm, can send me e-mail to wap(thingy)garoo.net, including their MSN address. Then they may receive, someday, an MSN message from garoowap(thingy)hotmail.com. Or maybe not. I know you like the way I handle interpersonal relationships.
No MMS-powered photolog, though: seems like my phone isn't properly configured, and I couldn't retrieve my telco's welcome message. I still have the blog's WAP interface so that I can update you about my day, but… I don't think I'll have much to tell. Or maybe I will and my blog will finally look like an SMS-powered blog, with those countless, useless, spelling-impaired short messages. Decidedly, I can't wait to be tomorrow. Night.
Here's the final setup. Third monitor courtesy of Paumé.
Note to self, for the day I'm back to my room: my stereo is still on daylight saving times, and it might be a problem if someday I need to wake up on time.
It's time to see wat my phone can do, autonomy-wise — hoping that GPRS doesn't empty the battery too much.
Crap, I knew I had forgotten something: an RSS aggregator. Tough luck, the one I could find on wap.google.com, Bloggo, is incompatible with either my phone or my gateway. I'll have to think of installing an RSS translator on wap.garoo.net.
Even in a truck, with no shock absorbers, nor foam in the seats, at 130 kph you don't feel like you're movig. I don't know how the other drivers manage not to lose their licenses, but when I see that I'm quite glad I don't have a car. Ain't no fun in those conditions.
Here I am on the train, I survived, it wasn't so hard this time, except for the neverending journey on a truck and out of the highways. And look, I can blog! Sitting comfortably in the train, I can blog. Don't you envy me yet? (I'll have to decide for a carriage return shortcut, because the WAP browser doesn't seem to have implemented that.)
Maybe I should invest in a DVD burner — I didn't know prices had become so affordable. It's been a while since I last transferred my pictures on a CDROM, because my sessions don't fit on a single disc anymore. It's nice that I have lots of room on my hard drive, but on the day it dies I'll lose all the pictures I've made in… a very long time.
Read in Le virus informatique (dates back to February, but I didn't know, so maybe you don't either): a ZIP archive can lie about the name and type of the files it contains.
What does it mean? That you double-click a ZIP, opening Winzip or WinRAR or whatever, you see a JPG file in the list, double-click it and, tough luck, an EXE file starts (a virus, a worm, etc.).
I don't know if some of the archiving programs take that into account and prevent it from happening, but the most obvious workaround is to never launch a compressed file directly from the interface, but first decompress it into a temporary folder.
The scarlet letter license plate. So progressist.
Vends photos de Nothing, les yeux rougis par les excès d'alcool, de tabac et de sexe. Ecrire au journal qui transmettra.
En même temps, c'est tellement pas original, ça ne devrait intéresser personne.
En plus, les photos sont pour l'instant coincées sur mon téléphone, parce que le logiciel de transfert refuse de se connecter au téléphone, là, tout de suite. Il doit être de mauvaise humeur. C'est comme ça, quand on est dépressif, on n'a envie de rien, même pas d'ouvrir la connexion avec le téléphone. Je comprends ça. Mais c'est chiant, j'ai une photo d'escargot à récupérer ! (Non, ce n'est pas une façon de parler, c'est un vrai escargot — je le dis sans attendre de récupérer l'image parce que, de toute façon, même si j'y arrive, elle sera trop sombre pour que je la publie.)
Did you know I like trains? They're pretty.
— Sinon j'ai une nouvelle adresse mail, firstname.lastname@example.com
— Naaaaaaan
— si si
— Je suis jaloux juste pour le principe, sur le fond je m'en fiche
— […]
— Sinon pour t'achever : je vais m'acheter un Powerbook
Free Cone Day. I didn't think they'd do it in France.
I mustn't be reading the right blogs: I didn't see anyone complain about Gmail encouraging bad quoting, i.e. answering above the quoted text, transforming e-mail exchange into ICQ conversation logs, whereas this media had always been so apt at handling discussions point by point, idea by idea, paragraph by paragraph.
It was already hard fighting the bad habits Microsoft encouraged with Outlook, but if Google gets on the train e-mail is definitively screwed.
Let it be known that I reserve the right to blacklist anyone who misquotes e-mail replies. That'll be my effort to make the world a better place.
Je m'étais toujours demandé à quoi ressemblaient les panneaux d'affichage 4x3, en-dessous des milliers de couches de papier et de colle.
Pourtant, il a fallu plusieurs semaines pour que je réalise que ces panneaux en métal, devant lesquels mon RER passait régulièrement, étaient justement ça, et pas des restes d'échafaudage.
A dirty cop story? I expected to hate it. But, all of a sudden, I understand why everybody was so ecstatic about it.
With CCH Pounder as a bonus.
Women, in jail, see their menstrual cycles progressively synchronise. It's hormonal. Now, bloggers who synchronise their productivity cycles, is that hormonal too?
Maybe it's because, with spring coming, we're all obsessed with sex. And, since most of us are good-mannered, we don't blog about it. So we haven't got anything else to write.
Hormonal, indeed.
The Explorer layout bug seems to be fixed. Looks like the <img align="left"> added its width to the containing table — which doesn't happen anymore when I replace it with <img style="float: left;">. There may be some subtlety I'm missing, but I'd vote for a weird MSIE bug, rather.
Doesn't really matter anyway, I feel like doing a redesign. But I haven't got "time". Actually, I have more urgent projects to work on.
Bon, ben… je présente mes excuses à Tiscali, je suppose, pour le mal que j'ai pu écrire ici, et l'encore plus de mal que j'ai pensé. Il se trouve que, d'une façon très mystérieuse, la signature de l'autorisation de prélèvement s'est effacée en cours de transport. Ils me l'ont donc renvoyée dès le 14 avril, mais à ce qu'il paraît la Poste a décidé de ne pas nous livrer le courrier pendant la deuxième semaine de vacances. (Parce que j'habite dans un lycée, que pendant cette semaine-là il n'y avait personne à la loge, et qu'il faudrait pas demander au facteur de faire la différence entre le courrier du lycée et le courrier personnel qui arrive à la même adresse.)
C'est la faute de la Poste, donc.
Bon, c'est un peu aussi ma faute, c'était une mauvaise idée de signer l'autorisation à l'encre sympathique, mais c'est surtout la faute de la Poste.
Release 1.48 fixes a security bug on courier-imap
(previously courier-imap-1.7.1)
Right. No wonder my IMAP server isn't working anymore. Just when I needed it for my personal wapmail solution.
Apart from that, no, I'm not blogging. Because, when I'm not working on Gayattitude, I'm working on the calendar, and, when I'm not working on the calendar, I… have nothing to say.
I just installed ZoneAlarm, out of curiosity, in case I'd need it, or because I was bored and I wanted to have something new on my computer. And, well, for something that's supposed to bring you peace and safety, this thing is an amazing anxiety. I had only just launched the program, and I was already flooded with alerts, every two minutes, reporting that someone tried to contact my computer. Ooh, I'm scared. Since it's evidently common, or even normal (well, it's the reason people install firewalls in the first place, isn't it?), what I don't understand is why the default configuration decides to show all those useless alerts.
If I was Joe User and I installed ZoneAlarm and saw all those people trying to hack into my computer, my first reaction wouldn't be to check the "Do not show these alerts in the future" box (nor to buy Zone Alarm Pro), but to throw my modem out the window.
Hallelujah, my Internet access is back!
Which goes to show that it happens much faster if you do sign the paperwork when you're supposed to.
Je n'arrive pas à croire qu'Yvan Attal est devenu la doublure officielle de Tom Cruise (il n'a rien de mieux à faire que de piquer le boulot à ceux qui sont spécialisés là-dedans ?). n'est déjà pas génial, mais je ne peux pas imaginer ce que ça doit être de le subir avec une VF pareille.
Did I tell you I felt like playing around on my computer with some toys? Once again I did a roundup of all RSS aggregators, found a new one that's quite alright (doesn't crash, reads pretty much all formats, is well put together, knows how to group articles from all blogs and display them in reverse chronological order, etc. — uh, no, actually, it does crash, but not too hard), spent some time adding fifty RSSs to it, and… came back to the same conclusion as always: it's useless, because a blog is meant to be read in its original layout. Even when the layout is ugly and not personalized, it's still part of the blog, and the author almost always takes it into account in the way he writes. And, as for being notified within the hour of someone posting… either I'm bored and I'm already browsing all blogs myself every 30 minutes (even when they're not updated, there can be new comments, which are almost never RSSed), or I'm busy and it can wait.
Case closed, once again.
P.S. Case reopened: I should find a web-based aggregator, from which I could fetch the results and convert them into WML, so I could read blogs on my phone when I'm bored in the subway. Because Google's gateway is convenient, but it isn't quite practical.
Sainte Censure, protège-nous. "Injures raciales"…
Well, it's not that I needed it (I have 50 free MMSs per months for two months, but afterwards I'd have to pay) but the moblogging script works. I found a simple script, stolen from pMachine, that I could adapt easily enough, so why wouldn't I take advantage of it — all the more as I should be able to get a few elements from the script into a real, functional, personal wapmail solution.
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Clams Casino - 32 Levels/
Producer Clams Casino, known for tackling music with a bunch of big names such as FKA twigs and A$AP Rocky, has released his debut LP 32 Levels. The record features a wide array of artists from several genres, and combines elements of both hip-hop and electronica into one collection of songs.
There's two clear halves to this record. The first half is a very hip-hop centric collection of songs, while the second half takes a poppier route. Clams Casino produces beats and instrumentals for the tracks - and those are always spot on. The problem, however, lies with the features.
The first half of the record is very much hit-or-miss. Instrumentals are never the problem. There are some okay tracks like 'Be Somebody' featuring A$AP Rocky and Lil B, with a great instrumental but lyrics that just feel like one big name drop (with no real point of doing so) and 'All Nite' with Vince Staples which has a strong message but a horrible delivery. Then there's songs that have absolutely nothing interesting going for them - 'Witness' is just plain trash, while the next two tracks are just completely forgettable. The hip-hop half falls into the trap of becoming way too self-obsessed and sits itself on a high horse, perhaps the fault of the features. The lack of variation and climax makes it come and go, as if it never happened.
The poppier half has a more agreeable composure. Lots of strong voices bring a more refreshing palette to the album, a good contrast from the monotonous hip-hop side. Mikky Ekko sounds huge on 'Into The Fire', finally giving the album some feeling of exposition nearly three-fourths of the way into it. The same goes for 'Back To You' with Kelly Zutrau, the only song on the record that has some excitement to it with the build in its second chorus. Kelela features on 'A Breath Away', the song featuring Indian percussion that really adds a nice color to the record. Sadly, the second half has more going against it than it does for it (though, it has more to brag about that the earlier part of the album). Same Dew's track 'Thanks To You' starts promising but gets really repetitive with its slowly punching in-and-out synth instrumental, the slow and glitchy track not going anywhere for its three minute run, making the entire track blur together. 'Ghost In A Kiss' is some odd ASMR fusion with hip-hop, and it just doesn't go down well under any circumstance. The last track lacks any finality to the album, leaving it on a down note, as is the case with much of this record. There's no climax found anywhere in any track. Light choruses and slow verses rule this record, and there's nothing within them to show for.
Clams Casino produced some fantastic instrumentals, but failed to bring those anywhere of worth. This album fails to have a big defining moment and feels like background noise for much of it. A single track on this record has any sense of excitement in it. If you're looking for something to put on the background as to not pay attention to it, this is the one, because nothing will go on during it. Perhaps he should stick to getting his production credits.
Favorite Track: Back To You
Least Favorite Tracks: Blast, Witness, Ghost In A Kiss
Rating: 56 / 100


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Public Events
Here at the Sunroom, we feel that our community and customers are part of our family. As a way to extend our hospitality and love for home cooked food to those who aren't hosting private events at our facility, we open our doors to the public for special occasions.
In the past our public events have included Dinner and Entertainment, Mother's Day Buffet, Thanksgiving Buffet, and Concert Series.


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It is the highest expression of the being in recognition of itself.
It is the unity of Being.
Your being just radiates this love - effortlessly.
You are just your Self.
It is a state of emptiness.
It is there when you leave your luggage outside.
Luggage means who you think you are and
who you want to be.
Then it simply awakens in you because there is a space now for the beautiful One,
the presence of the Holy Father, the Holy Mother, the Holy Spirit, the One Supreme consciousness.
Be empty of 'you'.
And It shines in that space - timelessly.
~ Mooji


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Oct 30, 2014
Temples – Shelter SongThe only thing I knew of Kettering prior to Temples releasing their debut album was Wicksteed Park – I'd been there as a kid in the 60s and remembered a few big slides and took my own kids there a few years back and it seemed to have grown in to a huge theme park! Maybe the park is the backdrop for Temples sound, probably not. When I first heard this song I expected them to be from Australia and was pleasantly surprised that the sound was from near to my birth town. Enjoy the Jingle... read more
Oct 29, 2014
The Flaming Lips – My Own PlanetIn the days before they discovered their Yeah Yeah Yeah, Flaming Lips were actually a mighty fine Punk Rock band, and this is a mighty fine Punk Rock... read more
Oct 28, 2014
Joni Mitchell – Court and SparkI always listen to music on my iPhone whilst showering and find using the "Shuffle" feature a great way of being re-accustomed with songs I've not listened to in ages. This morning was no different as, in between Magnetic North's "Warbeth" and Massive Attack's "Three" it played Joni Mitchell's wonderful title track to her 1974 album "Court and Spark". Gawd bless ya Joni and Shuffle... read more
Oct 24, 2014
The Stranglers – Hanging AroundThe Stranglers had it all; talent, attitude, timing and great songs. It's hard to choose stand out tracks from their vast album output as there are so many but Hanging Around from their 1977 debut "Rattus Norvegicus" is definitely one.... read more
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The Crown Construction Company, Inc. was founded by Willie Anderson in 1986.
Willie has a life long interest in building. He has a BS in Construction Management from the University of Wisconsin-Stout. His great-grandfather, August Anderson, founded the The Crown Sidewalk & Block Company in 1885 and poured sidewalks and manufactured cement block for homes and businesses in Minneapolis for three generations and 90 years. Willie is proud to continue this tradition and carry on this family name.


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New Hartford Highway Department
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Road replacement Open802-898 W Hill Rd New Hartford, CT 06057, USA - TorringfordOn the Torrington/New Hartford line, the road is basically non-existent. Cars have to literally stop here to navigate the pot holes, and it is a heavily traveled road.
Greenwoods Road - New HartfordThis road is becoming almost unpassable
511 Town Hill Road New Hartford, CT - TorringfordFor decades a beaver dam has existed where West Hill Road crosses Cedar Swamp Brook, causing no harm to anyone. Today the dam was destrored by the Highway Department. There was no reason to do this, and it will harm the wetlands -- never mind the beaver. The dam should be restored.
Stop Sign is unnecessary ArchivedCedar Lane At Niles Rd New Hartford, CT - New HartfordThe stop signs on Cedar Lane at Niles Road and at Winchester Street are unnecessary. I think they were placed there to slow traffic but traffic just speeds up again. What they do cause is increased fuel consumption and a lessening of importance of stop signs where they do belong.
East Cottonhill Rd & 202 New Hartford, CT - New Hartfordthere are certain times of the day you will never get out of there, and they are not doing the speed limit. it's a dangerous intersection.
Road is a disaster! OpenSe Rd New Hartford, CT 06057, USA - New HartfordLarge pieces of pavement are missing, making for very hazardous driving conditions.
Central Avenue New Hartford, CT 06057, USA - New Hartford CenterCentral Avenue is very narrow road with two way traffic and on the street parking. Cars often have to stop at one end or the other for one lane to get through. Cars turn off Main Street a very busy road into Central Ave. Make this a one way road until the realignment has been done. It's been 4 yrs already.
Speeding - Open320 Farmington River Turnpike - New HartfordSpeeding/Excessive Traffic for unpaved & paved road!
Stop Sign Open35 E Cotton Hill Rd New Hartford, CT 06057, USA - New HartfordIs there really a need for a stop sign here going to Rt 202? You are just feet from the end of the road.
falling apart Open533-677 Steele Rd New Hartford, CT 06057, USA - New Hartfordparts of this road are sooo far gone that you cant go more that 5mph!!!! this road would be better off dirt!!! the town of new hartford has ignored it for years... TIME TO FIX IT!!!!
Torn-up ROAD! Open20-98 Merrill Rd New Hartford, CT 06057, USA - New HartfordThis section of raod between Sabolick Rd. and RT-202 is horrible. It is always washed-out and pot-holed. It has become dangerous as cars cross into opposing traffic lanes to avoid damage to thier cars. This road has been in poor condition for over four years now!
Unsafe police practice Archived1149-1161 Litchfield Turnpike New Hartford, CT 06057, USA - New HartfordAt 6:35 p.m. Monday, a police car (don't know if it was state or local) was PARKED on the side of the road near the red light on Cedar Lane in New Hartford. The cruiser had all of its lights OFF. I pulled along side to make a RIGHT turn. When the light changed, the cruiser zoomed out and took a LEFT turn IN FRONT OF ME presumably to catch someone who ran the light. Close call. I think if we hit each other, he would have been the worse for wear. An unsafe practice to stop an unsafe practice.


text: DGP Senkumar who was in loggerheads with the Kerala Government has been reinstated to his post after a 11 month long legal battle. He has got a little over 2 months to complete his tenure though he has moved the Supreme Court asking it to extend his posting by 2 years as was promised during his promotion. Senkumar is the ... Read More »


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JERUSALEM (AP) - The widow of the slain rabbi and mother of two children gunned down at a Jewish school in France this week issued an emotional plea online Friday in the memory of her loved ones.
In a letter published on the website of Orthodox Jewish Chabad movement, Eva Sandler wrote that the "spirit of the Jewish people can never be extinguished."
She urged all Jewish parents to honor her dead family members by loving their children and teaching them to love "their fellow man."
Rabbi Jonathan Sandler and the couple's sons, 5-year-old Arieh and 3-year-old Gabriel, were killed outside their school in Toulouse by a man on a motorcycle. The three were buried in Jerusalem on Wednesday, along with 8-year-old Myriam Monsenego, the daughter of the principal of Ozar Hatorah Jewish school, who was also killed in the school shootings.
During the burial ceremony, hundreds of sobbing mourners thronged around the bodies laid out on stretchers as eulogies were delivered. Among the mourners were grieving relatives who arrived from France, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe and leaders of the French Jewish community.
The suspected killer, Mohamed Merah, a 23-year-old Frenchman of Algerian descent, was killed Thursday after police raided the Toulouse apartment where he had been holed up for 32 hours in a standoff with authorities.
"May no one ever have to endure such pain and suffering," Eva Sandler wrote. "I thank the Almighty for the privilege, short though it was, of raising my children together with my husband. Now the Almighty wants them back with Him."
Sandler has one remaining child, a toddler girl Liora, and Israeli media have reported that she is pregnant.
"Parents, please kiss your children. Tell them how much you love them, and how dear it is to your heart that they be living examples of our Torah, imbued with the fear of Heaven and with love of their fellow man," Sandler wrote.
On the Web: http://www.chabad.org/


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I'm writing today to admit something to you.
A few years ago I went to an event on a full moon that had a rotation of teachers and guides. A young woman was sharing her story of how prayer healed her relationship to her body.
Her talk was beautiful and inspiring, but for some reason I felt like I was on fire in my seat. I found myself looking for every possible criticism of her that I could find.
I held onto an uncomfortable tension regarding this event for months, until I saw this quote:
"Unharm someone by telling the truth you could not face when you struck instead of tended" – Nayyirah Waheed
And then I understood- I was jealous and afraid.So jealous and so afraid.
She was doing exactly what I wanted to do but didn't have the courage for, and there was this awful feeling that she was going to get eaten alive by the crowd.
I felt ashamed and sad that I had let such a beautiful talk from a beautiful woman eat me alive for so long. (She seemed totally fine, by the way)
I've come to realize that the stings of jealousy and comparison between women seem to be in the water. It's like we've been drinking this virus since birth. And I believe that we have.
I believe that this consciousness to suppress women's voices (enter thyroid epidemic), comes from both men and women, because honestly we've probably all been a woman in past life or a man who watched a woman suffer for standing in her power. This is about all of us. Divine feminine. Divine masculine. Everyone on the same team.
So when we see a powerful woman, some kind of fire begins to burn inside of us.
Either the fire of 'Why can't I do that', or the fire of "Don't do that! Your'e going to get hurt (burned, stoned, etc).
It's time for a new wave of consciousness, and it starts between women, because we certainly can't undo centuries of re-calibrating all the waters of the world in just a day, and we need all the help we can get!
Instead of jealousy, comparison and protective voices that creep in from eons ago, lets begin with invoking these words from Erica Jago + Mari Sierra's La Mar Retreat:
When seeing other women as a threat, we are prompted to ask: "What can I do spiritually to soften that wound and say, I see you and your power to transform the world"
Let us remember this prayer: Woman of light,vessel of truth, I thank you. You reflect my own power, safety and sovereignty. I am you. We are one wave.
This prayer can be said for the divine feminine in all beings, because the feminine is the vessel. Gather with me to share, meditate and pray for the waters of the world, and to learn about my journey of becoming a vessel in my next webinar!
In order to de-stress the masses from the debates, the webinar is rescheduled for this Wednesday at 7p PST. Sign up here to receive the call in instructions! I'll be giving away a free color copy of the VESSEL Retreat guidebook to one woman on the call, and sharing a really special announcement and gift with everyone present
Hope to see you there!
With love and reflections of your own light,


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Burn After Writing is an interactive book that invites you to face life's big questions. Who are you now? How did you get here? Where are you going? Some questions are fun, some are deep and some are just plain random. Approach them with courage and creativity. There are no wrong answers. You can take it deadly seriously, or just have fun with it, or both. It's up to you. This is the practice session for the big interview exclusive you will doubtless face when the world finally discovers how amazing you actually are.
A personal journal encompassing a collection of gently probing questions, mind games, thought experiments and homework assignments – all on your favourite subject: yourself.
Don't answer these questions the way you would make a status update. Nobody will read it. This is the one private space left in your life. The only place you can speak your own truth freely without consequences. Then in 15 years time when you finally do nail your career and meet 'the one' you can refer back to your answers and witness how completely and utterly wrong you were about absolutely everything. This book will be a unique picture of you as you are right now, as you will never be again.


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The Best Bad Valentine's Day
The Best Bad Valentine's Day
by Addison James
Genre Contemporary Romantic Comedy
Tags Romance, comedy, Vermont, Valentine's Day, art
Releasing February 7, 2014
Content Editor Marni McNiff
Line Editor Greta Gunselman
Cover Designer Cora Graphics
Words 7406
Pages 32
Price $2.50
Back Cover
A fall during the height of passion fractures Susan's tailbone disrupting romantic Valentine's Day plans for Susan and Roger. Can they avoid the gossip in their small Vermont town? Will they have a chance to rekindle the passion? And what mischief does Susan's best friend, Terri, have in store this time?
"Now, where were we?" Dr. Lane asked a question but clearly he already knew the answer, as evidenced by his rapid return to Susan's side, his hands removing her remaining clothes and his lips capturing hers. Soon, both their clothes pooled at their feet.
"Upstairs," Susan mumbled between passionate kisses.
"No, here," Roger said as her pressed her firmly against the wall, but his collection of paintings of Vermont landscapes from local artists shook with their passion.
"Damn," he said once he noticed the quivering frames. Susan looked at the painting just inches from her head and exhaled angrily.
"Damn," she echoed.
Roger looked around the room with new eyes. His furniture and objet d'art were no longer just about their original function or placement for flow in the room. He assessed each area, each piece of furniture with only one purpose in mind, and certainly not the purpose it was originally created for.
"Here." Roger took his arm and pushed away the candles from the large wooden dining room table. It was formerly a barn door that Roger had resurfaced for its new purpose. Multiple purposes.
"Here?" Susan asked incredulously.
Roger answered by grasping her shoulders, passionately kissing her lips whilst moving her backward toward the table. Her backside soon met the side of the table, as Roger lifted her on top of it.
Susan looked at her lover with a mischievous eye. "Really?" she asked, her voice suddenly deep and breathless.
"Really." He paused from kissing her to answer, as he slowly, carefully, lowered her against the tabletop, and then moved on top of her.
Their passion steamed up the windows of his nineteenth century home.
"We've never done it here," Susan said amidst kisses.
"There's a first time for everything," Roger replied with more kisses.
Their passion caused the table to creak.
As they were reaching their peak, everything seemed to slow down. Before, rushed and frantic, their passion seemed to speed up time. It began to move incredibly slowly once Susan realized that she was no longer on the table, but rather in mid-air with a one hundred and eighty pound doctor on top of her. One second her passion was so intense, she thought they were like weightless astronauts somersaulting through space and time. The next second she realized there was nothing beneath her. Unable to brace herself because her arms were still entwined with Roger's, she crashed onto the hardwood floor directly onto her tailbone.
Pain. Extreme pain shot from the base of her spine radiating down her legs.
"Ow," Susan said, her voice echoing the pain in her body. "Ow. Ow. Ow."


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process your birth
I offer group and individual sessions to help women process their birth experience. Group sessions take place at Blooma Minneapolis. For a list of upcoming workshops, click here.
If you would prefer a more private setting, I also offer individual Process Your Birth sessions. These sessions are a unique blend of birth story processing and intuitive energy healing. Sessions take place at Blooma Minneapolis or over the phone.
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I figured that we could race the setting sun before the days got any shorter.
I grabbed your hand and we ran together through twilight, fumbling,
Hoping we could reach the horizon before anything else did.
With the stars on our heels we made it to winter.
We slipped on the ice and I lost your hand
Because the sun didn't follow us here.
The blank sky hung over us like
A sheet of ice as we slid apart
And we learned that
Sunsets bring


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Beyonce & Jay-Z Just Dropped A New Album And We Are Shook
Beyonce and Jay Z just made a bid to break the internet! Hip-Hop's royal couple just released a surprise joint project on the internet called Everything Is Love.
Beyonce tweeted on Saturday June 16th that the project is now available to stream exclusively on Jay-Z's TIDAL music service. No word on when it will be available for purchase or on additional music streaming platforms.
Credited as being performed by 'The Carters,' the EP is composed of 9 tracks. SUMMER, APESHIT, BOSS, NICE, 713, FRIENDS, HEARD ABOUT US, BLACK EFFECT, and LOVEHAPPY round the runtime out to 38:17.
(This article originally appeared on iHeartRadio and is republished here with permission.)


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Board of Directors
Dr. John Sullivan - President
Virginia - Served since 2011
John is the founder of the FCT Foundation. He formed the Foundation to provide a not-for-profit platform for the FCT Model. His goal is to eliminate the need for out of home placements for children while strengthening families of all types. The Foundation's goal is to make FCT services available on a wide scale by offering a most cost effective and progressive evidence based model.
John guided a team of dedicated and gifted therapists over a 20 year period while working as the co-founder of the Institute for Family Centered Services (1988 to 2013). The result was the development of a unique practice based model that became Family Centered Treatment. His past "front line" experiences were the foundation to this model. Prior to co-founding the Institute he served as a nursing assistant, live in house parent, peer group therapist, residential treatment program director and national consultant. In all positions he always paid constant attention to the point of service delivery. While accepted theories and research support the FCT model, John acknowledges families, practitioners and stakeholders as the ones responsible for the model's relevance , applicability and evolution.
William Painter Jr. - Past President
North Carolina - Served since 2008
William E. Painter Jr., MS has become known throughout his 30 year career as a national pioneer in the field of family preservation. He has facilitated over 300 training workshops for public and private agencies on topics including; parenting the sexually traumatized child, reunification with parents after the termination of parental rights, attachment issues, and performance based mentality / anonymous personality. He has guided the development of the practitioner developed Family Centered Treatment® model and the corresponding training curricula; "Wheels of Change©". Currently, he serves as the Senior Director of Organizational Development for the Institute for Family Centered Services (IFCS) / National Mentor Network, where he is providing leadership for the national recognition and expansion of Family Centered Treatment.
Dr. Mike Lancaster
North Carolina - Served since 2011
Michael Lancaster, M.D. currently serves as the Director of Mental Health Programs for North Carolina Community Care Network, Inc. His direct responsibility is to implement the Mental Health Initiative which supports the integration of behavioral health care with the primary care clinical homes throughout the state of North Carolina. He is the lead mental health champion who advocates for the implementation of evidence-based practices for integrated care in primary care settings across the CCNC program. Dr. Lancaster has maintained a part-time private practice as a board certified adult and child and adolescent psychiatrist in Raleigh, NC. His history of professional work experiences range from being employed as the Clinical Director of Child and Adolescent Services of Holly Hill Hospital -- a private psychiatric hospital -- regional medical director of the MBHO Value Options in North Carolina, and most recently as Chief of Clinical Policy for the Division of Mental Health/Developmental Disabilities/Substance Abuse Services in North Carolina.
Jody Lagioia
Virginia - Served since 2011
Jody Lagioia joined the board in 2011. She brings a range of ideas and perspective from her work as a volunteer with cultural and educational organizations in the U.S. and Europe. Ms. Lagioia worked for 15 years with the US Department of Agriculture, focusing on IT Systems Security and project management. During her tenure with the Department of Agriculture, Ms. Lagioia served as the liaison between her Agency and the Department, managing inter-departmental negotiations on IT contracting. She was part of a large nation-wide office computer system installation and specialized in end-user training and development of software user manuals. During her time living in Europe and since her return to the US she has focused on communications and marketing activities for non-profit organizations.
Hazel de Burgh
Ontario, Canada - Served since 2014
Hazel joined the board in 2018 after serving for 4 years as a volunteer advisor to the FCTF. Hazel is a CPA from Canada with accreditation as a Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional, a Specialist in Investigative & Forensic Accounting, a Certified Fraud Examiner and a Fellow in Board Governance. Passionate about helping organizations to do the right thing, she has over 30 years of senior management/consulting experience, initially as a forensic accountant in Canada and the UK, then as Corporate Chief Compliance Officer for Marsh & McLennan Companies. Her career highlights include overseeing the reforms required by the LAPD, instilling a culture of transparency and accountability in a Fortune 500 multi-national and improving the investigative processes of a telecoms company that violated US/Dutch anti-corruption laws in Eurasia.
Hazel's volunteer work includes serving on the Board of Outward Bound Canada, coaching car enthusiasts on race tracks, and teaching youth with cognitive challenges to downhill ski.
Robert Essink
Maryland - Served since 2018
Bob is a senior executive who has held business development, strategic decision-making, sales, marketing and operational leadership roles with for-profit and non-profit corporations. He has extensive experience in education, healthcare, and non-profit sectors with the majority of his leadership focused on achieving growth and revenue expectations.
During his career, he has held leadership positions with Kaiser Permanente and Accelerated Learning Solutions. With Kaiser Permanente, he served as the chief marketing officer in the Southern California and Central East Divisions and developed a value proposition that positioned these divisions as market leaders. Most recently, as President of Accelerated Learning Solutions, he secured regulatory approval for the establishment and management of multiple charter schools serving at-risk students with compelling missions, support services and instructional models.
He is also a board member of The Treatment and Learning Center in Rockville, MD., a non-profit school and social services agency for special needs students and Action in Montgomery (AIM), an Industrial Areas Foundation affiliate in Montgomery County, Maryland.
Non-voting Members
Tim Wood, LPC
Executive Director FCT Foundation
North Carolina - Served since 2010
Tim joined FCTF in 2010, bringing 12 years of experience as a provider, trainer and supervisor of mental health, developmental disability and traumatic brain injury services. Tim received his graduate degree in Rehabilitation Studies from East Carolina University. As a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Rehabilitation Counselor, Tim has helped develop and implement training curricula for family preservation practice, system of care coordination, utilization review and staff competency and development.
Currently, Tim serves as the Executive Director of the multi-state non-profit organization Family Centered Treatment Foundation, which owns the evidenced based family preservation treatment model, Family Centered Treatment® (FCT), and the related training program, Wheels of Change©. Prior to joining FCTF, Tim worked in utilization review for Value Options Inc., and as a director at the Institute for Family Centered Services. Tim has served as a practitioner, trainer, supervisor, and has assisted with the ongoing development and oversight of the FCT model.


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These days, pretty much each and every cabinet firm is offering specific sort of discount to their prospects in order to attract them towards their shop. Unless you are going to be repainting your entire kitchen you will likely want to use a complimentary color on the cabinets. Note: When painting close to an inside corner, paint out of the corner, not into it. This will support stop paint develop-up in corners. Green is a soothing colour and soft sage green cabinets appear wonderful for a cottage appear.
If you are going to reposition the hardware or set up a different style, drill the new mounting holes and fill the old holes with heavy spackling paste by Zinsser or a wood filler. Flush Hinges: Flush hinges have both wings mounted internally so they are concealed and the knuckle and pin exposed. For these cabinets, your cabinet hinges will receive the most wear and tear due to the fact the doors are a continuous stress weighing down on them. Metal cabinet hinges , knobs and pulls are generally what you will locate in most properties.
Lets assume you have determined that a reface is the way you want to go. Lets move on to discussing the procedure as well as offering you with some sources for the difficult to get materials like cabinet doors and veneers. These sorts of applications need specialized locking hinges, hinges capable of securely locking into location at precise angles. If you have your own tried and true approaches for cleaning cabinet hardware, tell us about it. We really like to hear new tips, especially if they've already been experimented on an individual else! A partial wrap hinge only wraps around two sides, but still presents plenty of assistance to your cabinet doors.
Related to plastic and metal cabinet hardware, glass cabinet hardware is super simple to clean. Inset Hinges: Inset hinges are semi-concealed hinges (see above) that extend into the carcass of the cabinet. Cup or Euro Hinges: Cup hinges are becoming additional popular now because they're super tough. Here in Australia, we have a solution known as ESP (easy surface preparation) and I swear if you use it, you paint will not chip. You have some thing to hold on to when applying paint and also someplace to write the paint colour name, quantity.
Heavy coats will run or sag Practice your brushing capabilities on a scrap piece to get the hang of it Bear in mind to paint doors with vertical brush strokes and drawers with horizontal brush strokes. There are tens of thousands of cabinet knobs, pulls and hinges out there in just about every shape, style, color and design. Commence by removing all hardware pieces, cabinet knobs, cabinet pulls and cabinet hinges. To reach an ultra smooth finish on doors and drawers, you might want to sand amongst coats of the acrylic enamel.