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Bacon & Eggs for twins - see I told ya! Would make a perfect shower gift for a Mama expecting two! God bless any woman expecting multiplues - I so feel for her right now!
And a little Campfire Marshmellow - I love this one as we have been making an art of smores lately!
And I had to add this one since I have a little Mario fan - he thinks we should buy this one once his sister arrives!
Yep it's all cute, feels good on the skin, and makes very nice use of waste product. What more could you ask for!
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More than 65 million homes in the U.S. use natural gas for their stoves, water heaters, and other appliances. Natural gas is one of the safest and cleanest fossil fuels. It is also better for the environment as it produces mostly water vapor and carbon dioxide and significantly fewer greenhouse emissions than burning oil, coal, or wood.
Natural gas is highly combustible, meaning it can produce a lot of heat when you burn small amounts. Thus, a natural gas leak can increase the risk of fire and explosion since it spreads quickly and goes up in flame easily. If you have a leak in the house, an electrical spark or fire source can ignite the combustion.
It's important for everyone in your family to be educated about gas leaks, as a leak in or around the home can be quite dangerous. In fact, a natural gas leak can, at certain levels, kill you. To help ensure that you live safely using natural gas, be aware of the signs of a gas leak.
Keep an eye out for the subtle signs of gas in your surroundings. Never ignore even the slightest indication of natural gas in or around your home.
Inside the Home
- Smell: Natural gas is delivered to the home with an odor additive which makes it easier to detect. The smell added to natural gas is described as a "rotten egg" odor. If you can smell gas in your home, it is a sign that you may have a gas leak.
- Sound: A hissing sound coming from the area around a gas appliance is a sign of a gas leak.
Outside the Home
- Air: A gas leak can cause dirt to be thrown into the air or plants to be blown as if by a breeze. Air coming from the ground near the home is a possible sign or a gas leak.
- Bubbles: A leak in a gas pipe can sometimes cause bubbling in moist areas around the home.
- Dying Plants: Plantlife near a gas leak will become sickly and eventually die. While plants can certainly wilt and die due to a variety of reasons, plants that die without an obvious cause could indicate a gas leak. A natural gas leak blocks a flower's source of oxygen and fruits and vegetables will change color when they come in contact with natural gas. If you see dead or discolored plants surrounded by healthy green plants, that's a sign of a gas leak.
- See fire coming from the ground or a flame that appears to burn above the ground.
- Observe a dry spot in a moist field.
If you suspect a gas leak in or around your home, stay calm, stop what you're doing (don't turn any electrical switches on or off or unplug anything) and go outside. Inhaling high concentrations of natural gas can also lead to asphyxia in which your body is deprived of oxygen, and potentially death. Once you're at a safe distance from the house, call your gas company to inspect for a leak.

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Patio Rocking Chairs For Sophisticated And Elegant
Patio rocking chairs – The garden at home is the place where, in contact with nature, the air, the environment, we will pause to the tireless movement of daily life and concentrate on ourselves, breathe and rest. To do ours, it is necessary to infuse our personality through details, colors and furniture.
Chairs, swings, patio rocking chairs and benches should another break, encourage us to, inevitably, throw into the abyss of contemplation and tranquility. In this book of ideas, homely presents a series of rocking chairs, some traditional, others less so, but all will invite you to relax and your dreams to undulate in the wind!
With the intention of providing a space for relaxation, rest and recreation for the owners, Ipalma Architects , Mexico, created this outer room, a little Campinas, somewhat rustic, something contemporary but with an atmosphere of tranquility unmatched!
The patio rocking chairs is a huge wicker truncated sphere, subject to a metallic structure that stands for balance, and the seat within the sphere consists of huge pillows and cushions invite only to rest!
For a sophisticated and elegant break, how about this twisty rocking chair? A delicate terrace protruding from a building concrete, sandstone, wood, glass, and throws us from the sun, can only be complemented by a refined design furniture. The rocking chair is a piece of sharp curves that resembles a dried leaf, swaying in the sun.


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So obviously I had to share this goodness. And, man, you do not know how long I've been waiting to share this with you.
I regularly pattern test for a few people and sometimes patterns come along and I'm just so excited by them. The Jenny overall pattern by Closet Case Pattern has definitely been one of these oh-man-this-is-so-amazing-I-want-to-share-this-immediately patterns.
Heather released this pattern this month, and I even wore it to meet up with her when she was in London.
Sadly, the cheap-o zipper I used broke and I've had to work out how to fix a zipper into a finished pair of overalls. But now that's all fixed I can finally share some photos with you.
(Also morale of the story: do not buy cheap zippers people!)
I've not been in a very picture-taking mood, so it's taken me a while to get the snaps. But now that's out of the way I can share all the goodness with you. So here we go – a down and dirty review of Closet Case Pattern's Jenny overalls.
This is the newest release from that style goddess – Heather from Closet Case Patterns. The Jenny is a wide-legged overalls and pant pattern with a fitted waistband that sits high on the waist.
There's a lapped zipper on the side (on two sides in some of the larger sizes) which could be intimidating, but Heather's instructions really walk you through each step. So before you get a chance to freak out, you're done!
FYI because of my issues with the zipper I had to reinsert the zipper and I lost the lapped zipper look. I could probably retrofit it to get the lapped zipper back, but I love this gold on black action, so probably will keep as is.
This gorgeous heavy-weight denim was given to me by the lovely team at Hart's Fabrics. It's a really beautiful quality Italian denim that has a really hefty weight behind it. The original fabric was not quite as black as this – it has more of a mottled look which I really like, but I had my heart set on a jet black pair of overalls. In the end I dyed the finish overalls using one of those Dylon throw-in-the-machine dye packs in soft black.
Sadly this denim is now out of stock. But fear not – they recently ordered in some beautiful jet-black denim that is all sorts of amazing.
What I love about sewing with heavier fabrics like this denim (and this canvas) is that it makes sewing such a joy. It stays in place without pins, barely frays, and you can get away with finger pressing as you go.
It's the little things 😁
Sourcing good overall clasps and a few useful tools
Just a quick word about finding dungaree/overall clasps. I don't know about you but I sometimes find the quality a bit mixed. And if you made a Cleo last year (like I did here) you know how hard it is to source clasps sometimes. Last year it turns out that stocks had almost disappeared!
Luckily it looks like supply is back. I know Tilly and the Buttons has good clasp sets (I used a silver pair for my Cleos). The bronze set I used here is from Jaycots and I'm really happy with them. Heather also kindly sent me a pack of the clips she's selling and those are great quality too.
A final few words of advice on inserting your clasps. It can seem a bit intimidating. You need a hammer and ideally a few other tools. But it's actually not too tricky once you grasp a few basic tricks.
First, I'd recommend using an awl. It's a funny looking letter-opener type tool. It helps you pierce a neat hole in your fabric and to make the hole wider without tearing your fabric. They're not very expensive and they come in super handy whenever you insert metal jeans buttons, rivets, and clasps.
Secondly, I'd try and get a toolkit to instal grommets. It's not quite made for clasps (the clue is in the title) but the kit really gives you more control by holding the button/ firmly in place while you hammer. I used the tools from this kit that a friend gifted me last Christmas.
And trust me this works. I actually started one side with a hammer and a flat surface. It went in OK, but the second side I did was a bit of a disaster! The screw ended up crooked and the button a bit battered.
But after I pulled out my kit, I got a new screw and redid the button which came out perfectly.
Construction and alterations
As I was pattern testing I didn't make any alterations to the pattern and followed the instructions.
Even though I didn't make any changes myself, I know Heather's made some modifications to the pattern since I made this. The big ones are:
– the legs are now slimmer than they were in the tester version
– the waistband has a little more ease than in the tester version
– the rise has been adjusted so it sits lower than the tester version (I have a short rise and even these can be a bit eye watering if I try to make certain movements!)
I mean, you don't need me to tell you that this is an amazing pattern.
Not only is it i-n-c-r-e-d-i-b-l-y flattering, but the instructions are (as always) super easy to follow. I also really love the fact that it's a wide legged overall pattern, which I just find a little more flattering on me than narrow-legged patterns.
And, I mean, how amazing would these look like in linen for the summer or velvet for the winter? Oh man, in a deep plum velvet for Christmas. I mean seriously.
OK, so basically, this is definitely a pattern you need to add to your arsenal (as well as an awl and a toolkit for installing grommets).


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Cowichan Valley School District offers a wide range of scholarship opportunities for students.
Provincial scholarships are just one of the several types of scholarships, awards and bursaries available to students in the Cowichan Valley. There are also District and School-based scholarships provided by both the school community and the local business community.
Applying for scholarships can be a lot of work – but it's worth it! It is each student's responsibility to research the kinds of scholarships he or she may be eligible for. But remember, your school counsellor is always there to guide you.
Few scholarships today are awarded solely on the basis of marks. Increasingly, a service component (either school or community-based) is required. Get involved!
For more information on provincial, district and school-based scholarships, as well as university and college entrance scholarships and scholarships offered by external companies, organizations and athletic leagues, contact your school's counselling department.
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Every major question in history is a religious question. Hilaire Belloc
"What threatens democracy today? ...First, there is the inability to be reconciled with the imperfection of human affairs. ...a sort of secular messianic belief has penetrated deep into the general consciousness. ...The notion that all history to date has been the history of bondage but that now, finally, the just society can and must be built soon is propagated in various slogans among atheists and Christians alike..."—Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
"…For the State has returned with all its ancient terrors out of antiquity; with the Gods of the City thundering from the sky and, marching with the pageant in iron panoply the ghosts of a hundred tyrants; and we have begun to understand in what wide fields and playgrounds of liberty, the Faith that made us free has so long allowed us to wander and play."
From "The Return of Caesar", by G.K. Chesterton
"Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure... are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments."—Charles Carroll of Maryland, Roman Catholic and signer of the Declaration of Independence
"When a man does not believe in the institution of Private Property, as understood by the old Capitalists, he generally does believe all the more absolutely (we might say abjectly) in the institution called the State, as worshipped by the Socialists and Communists; or, for that matter, by a good many of the Fascists or the Hitlerites."—G.K. Chesterton


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Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Addicted to Stamps...and stars!
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I agree with you, that star does look amazing. I love the stylish colors also!ReplyDelete
This stamp is a beauty! I like that it isn't scored to create the dimension because this looks wonderful how it is!! The silver and midnight muse are a perfect match too. xxReplyDelete
Absolutely stunning Shana! Love how you used the snowflake embossing with it. Beautiful colors too.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 4, 2013 at 5:25 AM
Lovely card and lovely star. I really like the layout with the rounded and square corners on the back ground panels. Chantell JAIReplyDelete
what a fab star and that background embossing is perfect xReplyDelete
Love the elegant colour scheme of your card and the embossing! Thanks for joining us this week at Just Add Ink :)ReplyDelete
Gorgeous Shana! Love the look of silver embossing over Midnight, such a different effect. Thanks for joining in at Just Add Ink.ReplyDelete
WOW...what a beauty this is! Simple, elegant, STUNNING! Thanks for playing along this week in the Create with Connie and Mary Thursday Challenge!ReplyDelete
Oh, love the large star matched with the Northern Frost folder...and the little greeting in the corner! Very pretty card! Thanks for playing along with the sketch challenge this week on Create with Connie and Mary!ReplyDelete
Beautiful layout and the colours really work together. The embossed white panel really makes the lovely star pop. xxReplyDelete
This is such an awesome stamp! And I just love how you used it for this card! The silver really looks so elegant against the Midnight Muse! Thanks for playing the challenge at Create with Connie and Mary!ReplyDelete
I like how your beautiful star pops out with that lovely embossed background panel. Atleast cutting out this image it has straight lines, but a star framelit would makes things a lot quicker! Thanks for joining in with our challenge this week at Just Add Ink.ReplyDelete
Absolutely beautiful! All your design elements work so beautifully together. The star looks amazing with silver over navy! Thanks so much for joining the sketch challenge this week at Create with Connie and Mary!ReplyDelete
This is a really lovely, elegant, card Shana - a beautiful Christmas colour combination. I agree with you, about the versatility of the Christmas Star stamp - it's fabulous. Thanks so much for joining us at Just Add Ink this week.ReplyDelete
Absolutely gorgeous! Love the texture and the layout - beautiful card!ReplyDelete
Don't you just LOVE that start Shanna? And the silver encore over the Midnight Muse turned out beautifully!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2013 at 10:48 AM
Hi Shana. This star is a show stopper!!! Great card and layout. Have a lovely day! MonikaReplyDelete


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When contacted, Pahlaj told BT, "Matheran is a weekend getaway where owners of heritage properties are allowed to open up their homes to tourists. The property is not in my name per se, but it belongs to my family since 1956. A home stay is not the same as a resort. This isn't illegal. Many local families run this business. I feel I am being targeted. Now that there is no row in the Central Board of Film Certification, I am being dragged into this. We have the Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation's permission and I have nothing to fear."
When we reached out to the State Tourism Board, they told us that they do allow homestays under their 'bed and breakfast scheme' according to which anyone who owns a property and has over five rooms, is registered. This is not considered a commercial business. The official website of MTDC, however, doesn't have Nihalani's said property listed under that scheme or under their Mahabrahman scheme. Their official in Matheran remained unavailable for c0mment.


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As the number of online businesses grows, competition has increased. People are stepping away from traditional 9 to 5 roles, which mean the number of startups are developing and require support.
Identify Your Business
New businesses must have a plan about what they are offering to the world. Is this a brick and mortar business, online or both? The business plan must include a detailed description around this and map what is the best approach to proceed.
Do The Research
Before any action is taken, extensive research must be conducted. Businesses will need to have legal checks with regard to registration, trademarks, and copyrights. This starts the developing of the business identity and intellectual property. Also, understanding the competitive landscape is important to an effective strategy.
Getting Set Up
Once you have identified your business, completed research on competitors, developed a plan, you should be ready to create your online profile. It is very important to establish your online visibility to grow your business. This means getting a domain name/hosting, website and marketing through various PR and social media channels.
Forward Launch
According to your business type, there are several marketing strategies that could be implemented to improve your profile and search engine rank. There are various sources and partnerships to increase visibility. There are revenue sharing programs, incentive partnerships and paid advertising. There are several offline and online strategies; each method is unique to your business to reach new customers. With a targeted plan, they can add exceptional value to new businesses and raise your online IQ.
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Takehisa nació el 16 de septiembre de 1884 en la prefectura de Okayama en oku.
Parece ser que nunca estudio dibujo ni estuvo matriculado en ninguna escuela de arte, sin embargo este pintor y poeta gozo de gran popularidad.
Yumeji Takehisa (竹久 夢二 Takehisa Yumeji, September 16, 1884 – September 1, 1934), was a Japanese poet and painter. Takehisa died in 1934 at the age of 49.
He never studied drawing in any painting school nor under any teacher formally. He hated the concept of the 'artist', feeling they were rather pretentious which unsurprisingly upset many of the artists of his time, leading to poor reviews from the so-called elite.
Outside of the art circles, Takehisa's works acquired great popularity among ordinary people and to this day have many ardent fans in Japan and abroad. At an earlier stage in his life he intended to become a poet, but knowing he could not make a living as a poet, he began drawing pictures.
He was born in Oku (now Setouchi), Okayama, Japan. His childhood home has been preserved and opened to visitors. He is buried in Zoshigaya Cemetery in theIkebukuro area of Tokyo.


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Humble beginnings & friendship…how MAK Studios started
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Sony's upcoming NGP has no UMD reader. It will, however, support at least a limited kind of backwards compatibility with the PSP through emulation. This method allows the NGP to support the library of PSP games available on the PlayStation Network.
Sony is also continuing to work with publishers in order to encourage them to make their older PSP games available on PSN. Moreover, Sony stated some past UMD games may see a re-release on the NGP's new-game media. Sony did also state, however, that due to rights and licensing issues it is possible that some PSP games will never see their way over to the NGP.
The NGP appears to be packing some serious power under its hood, so it is no surprise that it could handle PSP emulation. Sure, complete PSP backward compatibility would have been nice, but UMD did not exactly prove itself as a great media standard. The inclusion of a UMD drive on the NGP would likely make the device even larger, and spinning and playing UMD games would likely deplete the system's battery even faster.
It seems like Sony's approach to backwards compatibility with NGP is actually pretty close to its position with the current PS3 models available. If PS2 games are released on PSN the PS3 can certainly play them, and Sony has been re-releasing some enhanced PS2 games on Blu-ray discs. Perhaps they will take a similar approach with the NGP. Re-released versions of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and God of War: Ghost of Sparta that support the NGP's twin sticks and have updated PS3-eque graphics would be pretty awesome.
What do you think? Do you think publishers will take the time to release their old PSP games via the PlayStation Network if they are not already available? Do you think Sony's take on backwards compatibility is enough regarding the NGP and PSP? Are you still holding out for a UMD disc reader that could be used to transfer your PSP games to your NGP? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
Sony's Next Generation Portable is expected to launch before the end of 2011 in at least some regions.
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Very good picture quality. Awesome 3-inch touch-screen LCD. Clever slide-show modes, with music.
Menus could be more organized. Clumsy stylus. Expensive, even for an ultracompact.
Bottom Line
The Sony Cyber-shot DSC N1 is a unique ultracompact that combines good shooting and photo viewing.
With its signature slick, stylish design and a large, 3-inch touch screen, Sony's latest Cyber-shot DSC-N1 looks very cool, but it has a lot more than good looks going for it. This 8.1-megapixel ultracompact doesn't unseat the current ultracompact Editors' Choice, the Canon PowerShot SD500 Digital Elph, but it has a lot of great features that make it an appealing choice for style- and performance-conscious shutterbugs.
The DSC-N1 features a 3X optical, 7.9 to 23.7mm zoom lens (which is a 35mm equivalent of 38mm to 114mm zoom range) with a maximum f-stop range of f/2.8 to f/5.4. It also offers features (many of which you can find on other cameras in its class) such as a live histogram, 11 shooting modes (including a slow sync mode), and the usual flash options.
What truly sets the DSC-N1 apart from other cameras is its album mode. Each time you take a picture, the camera automatically stores a VGA-size photo in the 26MB onboard album. You can then play back the images in a slide-show presentation on the LCD screen, with accompanying music (which is stored in a 6MB space set aside just for this purpose), and PowerPoint-like transitions and effects that you select from several presets. The camera has space for 500 VGA album images. When the album is filled up, it begins deleting the oldest files. You can, however, save or protect select images so they are not automatically removed.
Another cool feature is the paint mode, which lets you draw right on the image on screen, using a large, flat, plastic stylus. You can "illustrate" your photos with drawings or stamp them with various graphics. The camera saves the resulting image automatically as a new file, rather than overwriting the original. A very early version of the Nikon Coolpix line allowed drawing on images, but we haven't seen this feature on any other camerahigh-end or low-enduntil now. The large stylus was clearly an afterthought. As the paint-mode feature makes the stylus more important to the camera, Sony should have designed a small one that you can slip into the body after you finish using it, like the one Kodak has on its EasyShare-One camera. Sony lets you hook its stylus on to the strap, but that just looks silly.
The DSC-N1 lacks a glass viewfinder, which would have been useful in very bright light. Mercifully, the LCD is quite bright, doesn't solarize the image when seen from an angle, and does the job in most settings.
We were a bit disappointed by the scattered, disorganized way the DSC-N1's menus were structured. With such dynamic functionality and features, you need menus that are clear and uncluttered. It would also be great to have some on-board help screens. The DSC-N1 includes some controls over manual settings, but you're limited to just three f-stops: either f/2.8, f/4, and f/8 at wide-angle, or f/5.4, f/8 or f/16 at telephoto. On our tests, we saw no noticeable difference between the burst modes and the standard mode. And the DSC-N1 also includes the same gimmicky multiburst mode found in the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H1
Like the DSC-H1, the DSC-N1 stores video clips using MPEG-1 video format instead of MPEG-4. MPEG-1 files take up much more space than MPEG-4 files on your memory card, decreasing the amount of video you can shoot. Still, the video footage, in its highest fine mode, looked fairly smooth and had minimal aberrations. Because the camera has no image stabilization, you might notice a jumpy quality to the footage, but the color is excellent. You can film 640-by-480 video at 30 frames per second until the Memory Stick Duo is full.
In our still-life test shots, the DSC-N1's images were fairly sharp, showed very little noise, and had excellent color saturation and accuracy. There was some strong fringing in places, more prominently than on the test images of the SD500. Overall, we found a very good exposure, but as we've seen with several other Sony cameras, the DSC-N1 blew out the highlights somewhat.
On our flash-test shot, we found the flash coverage to be a little weak, leaving the image underexposed. The flash shots displayed very little noise, even less than the SD500. Color was excellent, and there was almost no fringing in the image. The flash image had pretty good overall exposure, although it displayed a bit too much contrast, which blocks up some of the details in the shadow areas.
The DSC-N1's resolution averaged 1,750 lines, which is on the low end of the range for an 8.1MP camera. It has a very quick boot-up time at 2.2 seconds. The 1.8-second recycle time was excellent, and there was just a hint of shutter lag. When testing for lens distortion, we saw no pincushion distortion, but we did see some loss of image quality and sharpness near the corners of the image at the wide-angle end of the zoom.
The DSC-N1 is very good camera, but at $500, it is a little pricey. It can't quite match the SD500 Digital Elph, but there are not many ultracompacts that can.To generate a side by side features comparison table of the DSC-N1 and other digital cameras, click here.
Benchmark Test Results
Check out the Sony Cyber-shot DSC N1's test scores.
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- Toad Hall Restaurant
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- Billy Bob's Country Western Saloon
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Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What appears bad manners, an ill temper or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone ~ Miller Williams
Life is hard.
It doesn't seem fair. And there are days when it's no fun.
It makes sense that people dip into a deep blue funk (that's what I call depression).
The Masquerade of Perceived Bliss begins early in life.
Lullabies hushing little ones to stop the tears – don't cry – we'll buy you something. Won't you delight in one more snuggly stuffed animal?
We don't want to see your tears.
Who called you a name at school? It'll be ok, have some milk and cookies.
We can't handle your hurt.
They made fun of your new jeans? Let's go get the right jeans, then.
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The coach is being rough on you? Don't worry about mowing the yard or getting your homework done – this is a blow to your self-esteem.
Just don't cry. Please, don't cry. I can't stand to see you cry.
Stop the tears with food, clothes, money, video games, and alcohol…please, don't be sad! You have no reason to be sad – look at everything you have!
Can we stop hot-wiring happiness?
There is no instant elation.
We are humans, created with crevices of imperfection. Sadness, anger, bitterness, jealousy, confusion, grief, anxiety, arrogance…
Yet, it is faster, easier and not only acceptable – but expected - to throw a cloak over the pain. You had better do just that, camouflage any emotion – you know you only have three bereavement days for the loss of your immediate family member, right?
Stuff all those tears. Take these pills. Read this book. Listen to this song.
We are complex beings and we regularly dismiss the intricacy of our souls for the sake of time-management.
We teach and we learn to impersonate emotional perfection. The childhood grief, adolescent pain, adult anxiety and fear begin to feel less important – maybe even imagined.
But the authentic soul aches to be seen and heard. If you don't allow it a voice, its desire to be recognized will twist within your body. The pain is determined to be witnessed.
Not everyone has earned the privilege to bear witness to your pain. And that may be one of the most difficult steps of ending the Masquerade.
Your pain deserves to be validated, cared for, and supported and when we expose our emotional rawness to someone who doesn't hold it sacred, the hurt is magnified.
Living in your truth is risky and takes courage…so, go slowly and remember this is a journey.
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Having managed to actually stick to my resolution this year and get through 50 full length books (a lot of it poetry, admittedly), I thought I'd take the opportunity to produce some cheap #content for this blog and make a top 10 list. As it turns out, trying to say something interesting about books is actually quite difficult (particularly so when you read them a whole 11 months ago), and reviewers deserve lots of gratitude for doing something they surely do not get paid enough to do, but I digress.
A lot of these books did not actually come out in 2017, so this is expressly my 2017 in books. Nevertheless, much of what I read this year felt timely, especially since I chose a lot of it in response to news stories of the day. I read about ISIS in the weekend of the London attacks, Juliet Jacques's memoir just as the press seemed to ramp up a smear campaign against the fabled 'trans lobby', In Defence of Housing in the wake of Grenfell.
In some things I haven't done as well as I might. I could have read more narratives from outside my own culture, and I wanted at least half of the authors I read to be women, which I fell just short of. This I will make sure to do better on in 2018. I feel I should also try to read more classics and game-changing texts, and push myself beyond the authors and titles that naturally reach me on social media.
That being said, I think I have read a lot of good stuff this year. In a first full year entirely out of education it's been fun being able to follow my nose, follow up on recommendations, and branch out into some new subjects. I hope you all had a good year yourselves.
The Full 50
Fiction (12)
Utopia by Thomas More
No one belongs here more than you by Miranda July
The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Home by Marilynne Robinson
Good Bones by Margaret Atwood
The Census-Taker by China Miéville
The Last Days in New Paris by China Miéville
How to be Both by Ali Smith
Tales of the Early World by Ted Hughes
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
Drama (1)
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes by Tony Kushner
Non-Fiction (10)
The Village Against the World by Dan Hancox
The Rise of Islamic State by Patrick Cockburn
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money: A Reader's Guide by Geoff Mann
October by China Miéville
From the Ruins of Empire by Pankaj Mishra
The Making of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
The Production of Money by Ann Pettifor
In Defence of Housing by David Madden
Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
Four Futures by Peter Frase
Essay, Interview & Memoir (7)
The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue by Matthew Beaumont
Against Everything by Mark Greif
Trans: A Memoir by Juliet Jacques
Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Poetry (20)
The Harbour Beyond the Movie by Luke Kennard
Stranger, Baby by Emily Berry
Selected Poems by Mary Ruefle
The Gold Cell by Sharon Olds
Hip Logic by Terrance Hayes
Faithful and Virtuous Night by Louise Glück
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
Happiness by Jack Underwood
Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds
Tandem by Dalton Day
81 Austerities by Sam Riviere
POETRY Magazine January 2016 – the ecopoetry edition
Exit, Pursued by Dalton Day
Space, in Chains by Laura Kasischke
The Mystic and the Pig Thief by Fran Lock
Hard Love Province by Marilyn Chin
House of Lords and Commons by Ishion Hutchinson
Kumukanda by Kayo Chingonyi
A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause by Shawn Wen
Plainwater by Anne Carson
Needless to say, my choice for a top 10 is again only a list of the books I personally enjoyed most, for whatever reason that might be, and not a representation of what I think are the best of the 50, let alone a slight on the work excluded (except for The Vegetarian – I'm still annoyed I read that book to the end). In no particular order and without further ado:
My Top 10
Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole
It is hard to summarise a book as eclectic and expansive as Teju Cole's first book of essays without trying to approach the qualities of the man himself. Cole makes a marvellous cicerone; a true cosmopolitan, he guides the reader through Lagos, Rio de Janeiro, across the US-Mexico border and back, indulging his wide interests in sections on literature, photography and travel. Cole seems able to write with a cool authority on whatever takes his interest. In reading this book I realise that I probably first came across him in 2012, when his essay 'The White Savior Industrial Complex' went viral. The piece is a quietly seething response to Kony 2012 (remember Kony?) and the vain and wrongheaded ideas it unearthed in the liberal American imagination. As he puts it, 'The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality.' As great as this piece still is, its wrangling is really a departure among essays where Cole can be found wandering, in both a literal and figurative sense. He is a flâneur, writing with a peculiar appreciation of place, even in essays where the nominal subject is a work of art or writer; he retraces James Baldwin's journey to Leukerbad in Switzerland in 'Black Body', tries to recreate a René Burri photograph among the high-rises in 'Shadows in São Paulo'. In his afterword Cole observes that 'we write in the hope that what we have written will somehow outdistance us.' The original meaning of essay is attempt, and appears to be a perfect match for Cole's relaxed and searching intelligence.
Four Futures by Peter Frase
You might notice that I've read quite a few books on the increasingly du jour topic of Universal Basic Income and Automation this year. These books frequently read like manifestos, but manifestos that envision something much more ambiguous and technocratic in the fine print (UBI does of course have proponents among Silicon Valley billionaires such as Elon Musk, as well as the left). Peter Frase's book is different because it explores this future in a paradigm that injects politics, and specifically class struggle, back into the picture. His book is split, as you might expect, into four chapters: two on Environmental Apocalypse, two on Full Automation, one of each where the working class succeeds and the other where it does not. These are Communism, Socialism, Rentism and Exterminism. The book has a very good introduction that expounds the debate while touching on other interesting topics such as the potential of science fiction. Perhaps surprisingly, Frase's speculative work ultimately has a more convincing take on where our society could be heading than the more pollyannaish post-capitalism bros (Paul Mason, Rutger Bregman, Nick Srnicek, etc.) for the fact that its visions appreciate that UBI and automation are not political solutions themselves so much as possibilities within a political context where so little has yet been won.
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
Already canonised as a key text of fourth-wave feminism, I read this book in response to #MeToo and the wider shit show surrounding the Harvey Weinstein story. This book was exactly what I needed to read, methodically separating the strands of some of the knottier myths about rape and violence against women with the hard facts where necessary, wit and brio elsewhere. Solnit makes short shrift of every incarnation of male whataboutery, and I found myself using her arguments to dispatch opponents when it came to our own Westminster scandal. It is rhetorically muscular stuff and served me, personally, to read something so clear-sighted. The only disappointment is that what is great about this book often ends up detracting from 2017's The Mother of All Questions, in that Solnit rehashes a lot of her best anecdotes, statistics and arguments. Some of the essays in TMoAQ read like an overlong dance remix of a song you'd really loved, but I suppose this serves as further testimony to the power of the first.
Stranger, Baby by Emily Berry
Emily Berry's latest book is about the death of her mother. It is a very different book to her debut; at surface a light and playful collection, the poems in Dear Boy offered an assortment of characters and scenes only obliquely linked by private struggles with mental health. Whereas the voices in Dear Boy revealed their anxieties in spite of themselves, Stranger, Baby addresses the author's depression head on. Although the poems can be arch, still performances of a kind, in Stranger, Baby this appears as a reaction to professionalised care as well as a satirisation of her tendencies as a writer. There are lines to be drawn between the performative and ineffable dimensions of her suffering. Unlike some of her contemporaries, Berry does not feign to express any elemental nature of grief, eschewing that in favour of writing that is more personal – that interrogates, refines, missteps, resolves and shows its working. Some of the fragments of text in the later pieces in particular could have been cut straight out of a journal. As such, the book validates all of the silliest and most unspeakable thoughts dredged up by the grieving process – poems with snot up their wrists, written full caps and all. Of course, I can't really pretend to comprehend the kind of pain Berry is writing about. At times the poetry in Stranger, Baby is so emotionally acute it feels like a four-dimensional object, like I only glimpse angles of it as it passes through my three-dimensional world. It is messy, but the collection charts a process from beginning to end that is ultimately hopeful. It's a deeply humane and affecting book.
A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause by Shawn Wen
I bought this from indie press Sarabande Books on a whim. Rarely do I get round to reading, let alone enjoying, these impulse buys, which will usually gather height on my windowsill like some sort of ramshackle totem to my skittish good intentions, but in this case I made the effort and was pleasantly surprised. A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause is a crossbreed of essay and poetry on the life and work of pioneering mime artist Marcel Marceau. At a lean 120 pages, the book is a quick and satisfying read, leading the reader through Marceau's life story in a series of vignettes written in lapidary prose. The most interesting aspect of this book, as you might expect, are the descriptions of Marceau's performances, which are made vivid in Wen's words. In her review, Thalia Field notes how 'Wen holds an uncanny mirror between the mime's non-verbal brilliance and the pleasures of the text.' I think there is something in this. A greater feel for language and more original turns of phrase could have elevated this for me, but it turned out to be well worth a punt.
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Unexpectedly gripping; I practically inhaled it between boxing day and New Year. The story centres on a menage a quatre involving students Frances and Bobbi, and wealthy, 30-something couple Nick and Melissa. Frances and Bobbi are ex-girlfriends turned best friends and something of a double-act, making waves as a duo in Dublin's spoken word scene. The older and more established writer Melissa publishes a profile on them both, and in turn they are introduced to her enigmatic husband Nick. Bobbi is drawn to Melissa; Frances quickly strikes up an affair with Nick. What stands out is how well the author understands her characters; the book is packed with razor-sharp social observation as it charts the burgeoning relationships between them. The balance between first-person interiority and plot is pitch-perfect, and the three-dimensional detail in each of the character arcs impressive (I thought the group dynamics when all four friends go away on holiday together were particularly well-observed). I am not the biggest novel reader, but I found it unusual to feel so involved with a whole cast of characters at once, rather than the concerns of a sole protagonist. To have this in a novel in which each of the relationships are so tightly wound with one another really heightens the drama. The romance is realistic and touching, and it is genuinely exciting, as it is in a new relationship, to witness the characters get to know each another over the course of the book. This is helped in no small part by Rooney's talent for dialogue. I now eagerly await the commission of a BBC adaptation with lots of lens flare and Saoirse Ronan as the lead (budget permitting).
From the Ruins of Empire by Pankaj Mishra
In From the Ruins of Empire, Pankaj Mishra offers an alternative history of the East, focusing on three lesser known but highly influential thinkers – Rabindranath Tagore, Jamal-al-din-al Afghani and Liang Qichao – as they try to come to terms with the imposition of Western modernity in their thousand years old cultures. I have huge respect for Mishra: well-known for his piece taking Niall Ferguson's 'Civilisation: The West and the Rest' to pieces in the LRB in 2011, From the Ruins of Empire can be read as a fully-footnoted fightback against the kind of self-satisfied supremacism peddled by the Fergusons, Starkeys and Scrutons of the world. Mishra reveals their understanding of history as not merely small-minded, but destined to become an artefact of catastrophic hubris to some future generation, if not our own. Beginning the book with a defeat for the West at Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese war in 1905, Mishra compiles a panorama of responses from future leaders including Mahatma Gandhi, Mustafa Kemal, Jawaharlal Nehru, Mao Zedong, who as young men receive news of this first defeat for the West as a dawning of previously unthinkable possibilities. By standing both the anointed heroes and villains of the West's narrative shoulder to shoulder in witness of this instigating event, Mishra's prologue faithfully foreshadows the rest of his book's work: a history that is morally complex, its judgements not preordained. Throughout the book, Mishra remains sensitive to the specificities of each country's struggle while also managing to finally draw out the wider themes and consequences in his brilliant conclusion 'Asia Remade'. It's a really great piece of work, extensively researched and entertainingly told, and part of an education process for me that is long overdue and ongoing. This is the book I outright learnt the most from this year.
No one belongs here more than you by Miranda July
Titled like a @sosadtoday tweet, No one belongs here more than you might at first glance, if you are anything like me, raise your suspicions. In a way these stories are everything you might expect: vignettes for the emotionally immature and perennially lovelorn. But beneath their surface quirkiness, I think there is insight here – about loneliness and fantasy, love vs. dependency. July's stories seem to find a sweet spot between feeling light without being lightweight. She also has a happy knack for finding a metaphor that will put you on your backside. I dare say her voice will irk some, but I enjoyed this book a lot.
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
I read my first Ocean Vuong poem in the May 2015 issue of Poetry Magazine. Sometimes a poem just sort of stops you in your tracks. I read it once, then read it a few more times, scrutinising the lines on the page as if I were lost and trying to place myself on a map. Titled 'A Little Closer to the Edge', it begins: 'Young enough to believe nothing / will change them, they step, hand-in-hand, / into the bomb crater.' It's a pretty audacious poem. Imagining his parents as young people, images of sex, violence and life juxtapose and crescendo euphorically, and finally conclude with what seems to be Vuong's own conception. Set to the backdrop of post-war Vietnam, the poem confers a narrative to his and his family's existence that is at once irony and miracle: life dropped from the lips of war's bloody maw. However this strikes you, the poem is indubitably stunning. A glance at Night Sky's contents pages might prompt you to raise an eyebrow: 'Ode to Masturbation', one poem called 'Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong'. But if this is you, listen to him actually read it. Vuong's is a bitter and vulnerable voice, exploring what it is to be caught between places, what to discard and what to hold onto from his lost life in Saigon. Reading Vuong's work for the first time reminded me how bloody exciting poetry can be. It's the kind of writing where the approximation of language to feeling and thought is so close as to make its pleasures immediate. Reading him again in 2017, after winning the Forward Prize and innumerable other awards, that sensation has not dimmed.
Plainwater by Anne Carson
As a classicist, Carson has described her interest in ancient Greek poetry as like going back to 'the dawn of language.' In Plainwater Carson recreates that feeling with language made new, unburdened, selcouth. Beginning with translations of verse by Greek poet Mimnermos, Plainwater sojourns on subjects as diverse as phenomenology, renaissance art, Christian pilgrims, and ends in the realm of personal essay. Carson is a writer of capacious learning, with a talent for finding just the anecdote to make the ideas she explores get up on their feet and walk. My favourite essay in the book is 'Just for the Thrill: An Essay on the Difference Between Women and Men'. Carson documents a fling with an Ancient Chinese scholar (which she reveals is her first relationship with a man) in which she imagines herself as the concubine to his Emperor. It is a deeply meditative piece which weaves the account of a road trip with him with ruminations on anthropology, Chinese proverbs, stunning landscape writing, and memories of her father. The writing is sublime; layered, riddling, often dreamlike in its intensity. By strokes Carson is able to shift from teasing meaning out from arcane aperçus to a prose style that is almost elemental. 'Water Margins: An Essay on Swimming by My Brother', the piece that ends the book, is special in that it operates almost exclusively in the latter mode. The essay animated in me a kind of joy I had forgotten I knew how to feel. This was the most moving reading experience I had this year. It's an astonishing book.


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Hey guys!
We have survived the polar vortex! Okay, I know people are probably tired of hearing other people complain about the cold, but y'all this week was brutal! Like when I stepped outside, I couldn't see anyone's faces because everyone was all bundled up. I crossed my fingers everyday that my car would start because this weather literally drains all your batteries. Luckily the cold blast has moved past us and we're expecting warmer temps this week and I can go back to wearing cute sweater dresses instead of all these layers!
Anyways, let's get to my week in blogging!
Let's get started!
I had a pretty slow reading week but I enjoyed both of the books I managed to finish!
I'm pretty hyped about this book and I hope it lives up to my expectations.
The ARC gods have truly blessed me this week and I'm so excited to read these two upcoming releases!
➳ [January 27] The Weekly Rewind: January 27, 2019
➳ [January 28] Mini Reviews: Road Trips, Weddings & A Problematic Twist
➳ [January 29] Binging the Backlist: Welcome to the Point by Jay Crownover
➳ [January 30] WWW Wednesday- January 30, 2019
➳ [January 31] The Monthly Recap: January 2019
That's all for this week! Comment down below and let me know how your reading/blogging week went!


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Two things concern me;
1. On one of the screenshots for home, I see four resources, and then a fifth that looks like cash currency
2. On another ss, I see colored backgrounds and rarity stars on the portrait.
If this has the usual gacha farce then won't even bother. That's actually the only redeeming point for kancolle (for me).
@boukyaku probably safe to say it IS cash currency
colored background is not the issue. kc also got that.
the real question is about getting the girls / equips with free stuffs like ammo, etc (same rate as premium one? / all hail discrimination?)
about gacha. kc construction is also gacha. there's a general info about 'use a b c d amount of resource for a chance in getting girl x' but in the end it is still called gacha (not 100%) >_>;
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Beside if the Gatcha done right, it would be not bad.
KC main drawback is high rarity girls are not different from low rarity girl much. So you have almost no incentive to farm for high rarity girl drop beside fill your shipgirl dex.
It's been confirmed that they are trashing the 4 resource system to have something similar to Azur Lane's system of only having 2 resources, one for sortie and one for construction.
I didn't notice this before, but it seems like footage of CBT has been posted on youtube. You can find them by searching for either アビス・ホライズン or アビホラ. There's an ~8 hour video upload (~5 hours of AH, rest on other games) where the guy practically goes through everything.
Also other official review videos where the commentator, I assume from the developing company (btw is it true morningtec japan is chinese company??? LOL), talks about the future of the game and functionality.
Here's the 8 hour upload; AH starts around 8 min in (click on youtube icon after opening this video) BTW SPOILER ALERT
A lot of stuff has been reviewed. I'll let the original poster type down the details of all the functions/features :p. The most important thing (for me) I noticed was that construction of ships/weapons requires blueprints, and those drop from stages. The enemy ship girls also drop etc etc. Instead of kaizen, you upgrade the rarity. You can also have ship girls learn new skills or upgrade their skill- OK, I will let original poster explain rest if he wants :p.
Having played 崩壊3rd, I can see this being easily doable on bluestacks.
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well looks like Kancolle and Azure Lane will run for their money if Abyss Horizon will come out and if they put post-WWI and WWII ships when will we see a LCS (either USS Freedom or USS Independence [LCS]) in this game (also i hope another Arleigh Burke class DDG-will be added here soon my suggestions will be USS Michael Murphy,USS Arleigh Burke (the lead ship) or USS Winston S. Churchill (the only Arleigh Burke class DDG to be named after the British Prime Minister)
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This will be released on 06/28/2018 10AM JST, 17 hours from the timing of this post. You can already d/l the game from googleplay or appstore.
I was able to d/l, open, and update the game with no problems using bluestacks. Plan to play on テウルギア server.
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The ingame control took a while to familiar with.
Having played the open beta, I can safely say that Abyss Horizon is clearly a very lazy kancolle arcade clone. In terms of combat, the mechanics are almost identical to Kancolle Arcade. Carriers rule supreme over everything else, and with a full squad of six carriers you can kite the AI into oblivion unless it also has carriers on a given map (or it's a boss).
The missions are repetitive in the extreme, being either battles against the AI, quasi-open-world battles a la Kancolle arcade, or battles against giant versions of the Abyssal Princess' attached demon. The story feels lackluster at best, and there's only one resource to harvest, steel. Building shipgirls is controlled by a set of "tickets" that you can farm through expeditions or missions (though a lot of the expeditions seem not to have been implemented properly).
The worst part is the character design. Apart from a few standouts, like Enterprise, BCG (yes, they have guided missile ships) Kirov, and HMS Queen Elizabeth, the character designs are about as generic as can be. Moreover, there aren't any differentiated weapons or aircraft designs; a carrier launch from even a WWII carrier like Shokaku is comprised entirely of B1 Lancers and F-18 Hornets, regardless of the aircraft a carrier has equipped.
The centerpiece, however, is a mode unlocked at level 25 that allows you to take "pictures" of the girls on a remote vacation island. And that seems to be the main purpose of the game.
Otherwise, a very lazy attempt that should merely serve as a wakeup call for the Kancolle devs to move beyond what they have now with the browser game and Kancolle Arcade.


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|Project by Brian Brace Fine Furniture Maker
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Well It is not my furniture ,but it is a finished job that we did here in Black Mountain last year with my landlord and it was custom built for us. We worked together and designed it for shop below with two doors up top for separate entrances. There is about 1100 square feet of living space with about a 400 square feet of showroom office upstairs!My shop downstairs is about 1500 square feet. I helped build most of it and even did the finish on the cabinets and installed.
Oh ya and the picture with the mountains is form the top deck that is 6' x 50' long! A lot of while running a business! Glad to enjoy now.
Brian Brace
furniture maker
-- Brian Brace Fine Furniture Maker,Blk Mt NC http://www.finefurnituremaker.net/
8 comments so far
#1 posted 09-12-2012 03:12 PM
now that is an "addition" to be proud of. fine work, everyone who made that happen should be proud!
#2 posted 09-12-2012 09:43 PM
Whoever said that you can never have everything must ought to see your place! Cool. All rolled into one.
#3 posted 09-12-2012 11:07 PM
Nice work and you did not have far to tavel from your shop!!
-- Jim Jakosh.....Practical Wood Products...........Learn something new every day!! Variety is the Spice of Life!!
#4 posted 09-13-2012 08:02 AM
Nice work, looks great look fwd to seeing inside as well.
-- Ken, "Everyday above ground is a good day!"
#5 posted 09-13-2012 11:11 AM
That is nice. I too look forward to seeing the inside.
-- Mike - Northern Upper Michigan
#6 posted 09-13-2012 12:05 PM
I have some photos of the inside . Maybe I can get a few together and I will do a few of shop set up also. Thanks Everyone.
-- Brian Brace Fine Furniture Maker,Blk Mt NC http://www.finefurnituremaker.net/
#7 posted 09-16-2012 12:22 AM
Nicely done. A really nice addition to your space and what a great view.
-- Chris L. "Don't Dream it, Be it."- PortablePastimes.com (Purveyors of Portable Fun and Fidgets)
#8 posted 09-22-2012 05:39 AM
would be nice to work and live so close. never owe anyone money,cuz they'll know where you live.
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