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Stamping Plate: Messy Mansion Lily Anna 08
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
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Stamping Plate: Messy Mansion Lily Anna 08
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Awesome!! I also really enjoy the book series. Love the stamped nails, they match the rune idea so perfectly :)ReplyDelete
This is so pretty! I love it :)ReplyDelete
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I love those glitters :)ReplyDelete
That looks amazing!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 27, 2013 at 12:01 PM
I got the same plate from MM too and I think this might be my favorite of what she sent me!!ReplyDelete
Really cool manicure.I think I need that stamping plate even if my stamping looks like a toddler did it. You always have such neat clean stamping! I love it with the matte top. I really liked the books but the movie of the first book was just so so. I really hope they make the next one and do a better job at following the story line.ReplyDelete
everything looks like it was put in a kit and made for one another - fantastic job nicole!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks hun! I was so excited to see how well all of the polishes went together!Delete
That looks so cool! I've really been wanting to read those books, but when I checked the first one out of the library someone put a hold on it and I had to return it without reading it...poo.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 27, 2013 at 7:40 PM
LOVED The Mortal Instruments book series! These fit them perfectly! (and + points for Scofflaw! Squee!)ReplyDelete
Now that you've read The Mortal Instruments, definitely read The Infernal Devices! It takes place many, many years before The Mortal Instruments. It's exciting when you recognize tie ins between the two!Replies
I'm definitely starting that after the end of the MI series!!Delete
Hello. impressive job. I did not anticipate this. This is a splendid story. Thanks!ReplyDelete
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Wow, the rune design is amazing and I love the subtle gradient. Loving the matte finish too. Gorgeous mani, one of my all time faves that you've done!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks so much, Anna! I really loved it too! I wore it for a solid week and was so bummed when I had to take it off to do some swatching. :)Delete
Great mani! Love the rune symbols!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 28, 2013 at 9:01 AM
Love it! The runes are so cool :-) and these work perfectly together!ReplyDelete
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thats and awesome plate!!ReplyDelete
I love it when gradients are so smooth like these ♥ very pretty!ReplyDelete


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Epoch Times: What's your take on the economy?
Bill Laggner: The real economy keeps going in reverse and yet the central banks, the primary dealers, and the political economy keeps growing.
If you are part of the political economy, you are doing really well. But your progress is coming at the expense of the productive sector.
Epoch Times: How come?
Mr. Laggner: The political economy doesn't take its foot off the accelerator. And so you misallocate more and more resources toward these political experiments, central banks' experiments, however you want to phrase it.
But the entrepreneurs today are very apprehensive, because the signals they receive are very distorted. They cannot tell what is real or just an unintended consequence of intervention.
The growth of the leviathan has essentially come at the expense of the small- and medium-sized business. That's the backbone of America. The growth of government comes with a cost and we are only in the early stages of witnessing these costs.
Epoch Times: How can you tell?
Mr. Laggner: Clearly we are going into a profit recession, everybody who is intellectually honest can see that. Profits are continuing to roll over. We are talking about nonfinancial operating businesses, their profit margins are shrinking. Their top-line growth has rolled over.
Let's forget about the financials for a moment because there is so much hocus-pocus there. Let's just focus on some of the operating companies. The operating companies are having trouble.
Listen to the Cisco Systems conference call. There is a company with a global footprint, definitely a good business in terms of gaging corporate demand. They lowered the bar considerably for fiscal 2014 and I never really heard their CEO John Chambers that cautious.
He has a pretty good handle on what corporations are seeing. People are apprehensive and they hoard cash. They may buy back some stock or fire a few people. But there is very little investment or vision into the near-term future. The same thing with IBM.
You are going to see this play out through a variety of businesses. Look at even some of these mid-sized companies. Hertz for example is saying their holiday bookings are the lowest in years.
Epoch Times: So what's going to happen next?
Mr. Laggner: There are very high expectations on earnings. As always, they will be disappointed and they'll lower the estimates. We think earnings are going to be extremely poor. And now that real interest rates have gone up in the United States and elsewhere, the difficulty lies in sustaining this false economy.
The economic actors are in trouble and probably a lot of things that should have happened this year and the second half of last year, which were essentially delayed due to unlimited money printing by central banks rolling over sovereign debt. All of the events that should have taken place will come to fruition in 2014.
Epoch Times: For example?
Mr. Laggner: We are looking at a deflationary contractionary shock. The bulk of the money being printed just finances fiscal deficits around the world and the real economy is becoming more and more fragile.
If the real economy continues to contract, which it is, then the fiscal deficits for next year [will be much higher.] That will force the central banks to print even more money to mop up the sovereign issuance, because most people are becoming apprehensive about the global economy and they are becoming reluctant to lend to sovereigns at such low interest rates.
Epoch Times: What is going to be the trigger for that shock?
Mr. Laggner: I think the financial markets today are a very distorted bunch. They are run by high-frequency traders, carry trading, algorithmic models where people rent [assets] for a week, a day or an hour.
You have got commodity prices that are down now for the last several years. Are these traders posting commodities as collateral and then borrowing and investing in stocks? Or are they posting sovereign debt as collateral as a lot of these primary dealers just speculate?
Knight Capital in 2012, their algorithmic desk blew up. And that was a small broker-dealer. If you get a larger player like a big bank in the United States like Goldman Sachs or JPMorgan or Morgan Stanley…
Epoch Times: So what's the first shoe to drop?
Mr. Laggner: It could be any number of things. We don't know what particular pool of collateral is impaired. If you go back to the 2007/2008 bubble, we saw the housing collateral roll over in 2005/2006 but it really didn't do much of anything to the broad market until early 2007. That's what all the manufactured credit was based upon.
This time it's based upon sovereign debt. If the economy keeps shrinking, it will force the professional speculator to move to the side line. I don't know what goes first, what goes second; I don't know what the domino order looks like.
Bill Laggner is the co-founder of Bearing Asset Management, a Dallas-based hedge fund. With almost 30 years of Wall Street experience, Mr. Laggner worked as a stockbroker and fund manager before founding Bearing in 2002. Mr. Laggner and his partner Kevin Duffy correctly predicted the bursting of the subprime bubble using Austrian economic theory.
The interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.


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----Well, I guess I was wrong about DK and Melton being gone, because they are here in the results. I love the big push of Michael/CJ as top babys. I bet their match vs Randy/Tucker was good.
Derrick King and Cody Melton start the show with an interview. Derrick tells everyone in the crowd exactly why Stan Lee quit and about everything that's been going on with the building's owner. He then says he wants back complete control of EWE and the best way to do that is to take the Heavyweight title from Christian Jacobs. CJ and Jon Michael come to the ring and CJ tells Derrick that he and Jon Michael already have a scheduled match with The Prodigies later in the night, otherwise he would be glad to make him tap out. Derrick tells them "ok...good luck with your match tonight," and everyone leaves the ring.
Rude def. Tommy Redneck after Redneck is caught with several chains
Seth Knight def. J.R. Manson for Manson's spot in the Elite 8 tournament. After the match, Derrick King and Cody Melton attack both men and hit the superkick and backstabber on Knight. Christian Jacobs runs to the ring and throws Melton over the top rope and then puts Derrick in the sharpshooter. DK is tapping like crazy as Melton pulls him out of the ring. DK teases getting back in the ring, but then thinks better of it and heads to the back.
Tommy Redneck comes to the ring and says that he wanted to prove himself tonight. He says that he was cheated out of his match for no good reason and calls out anyone willing to fight him. Out comes Tatt2.
Tatt2 def. Tommy Redneck after Redneck is once again caught trying to use a chain. Tatt2 says that he doesn't want to win that way, so he asked for the match to be restarted. He then pinned Redneck for the win.
EWE Heavyweight Champion Christian Jacobs and Jon Michael def The Prodigies by count out after the clothesline/catapult splash combo on Rockin' Randy to the post on the outside of the ring knocked Randy out cold. After the match, DK and Cody Melton come out with a mic. Derrick says that since he is still 50% owner, he has the power to make matches too. He then tells CJ and Jon Michael that they have another match. This time it's against himself and Cody...and Tucker and Randy in a 4 on 2 handicap match! After a brutal fight, CJ goes to spear DK, but Rockin' Randy pushes Derrick out of the way and takes the spear himself for the 1-2-3. As CJ and Jon Michael celebrate a huge win, Derrick grabs the Heavyweight title. This was a distraction and The Prodigies jump CJ and Jon Michael from behind. Derrick hits both men with the belt and then proceeds to put the sharpshooter on CJ while Cody Melton forces an unconscious CJ to tap out!


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Today's Trip consists primarily of Photos along the
(Be sure to click on the photos for the full dramatic look)
At mile 179 from Deadhorse is the last Spruce tree on the
Last Spruce Heading North
One of the most striking features as you cross
After we crossed over
We noticed that the mountain erosion here did not look like the erosion in most of the mountains the lower 48 states. There is more rubble at the lower end of the canyons and they are not washed clean, leaving larger rocks and boulders, like you would see in the
Mountains Slowly Wearing Down
Rain was immanent
Most days had some clouds at different
Dropping further down towards the plains and eventually the tundra, we came in sight of the
Martha made one last photograph of the terrain before dropping down into the valley between the hills. It features marshland and Pump station #2. This is called Last Chance station and has a pullout for viewing the Coastal Plain. Migratory birds from around the world come here to nest. Porcupine and Central Arctic Caribou herds migrate through here, to and from the calving grounds.
Bird watchers come here to view King eiders, Spectacled eiders,
To the east of the road is the Franklin Bluffs, a low range of bluffs from a worn-down range of hills. It was a welcome sight since it is only 50 miles from Deadhorse.
Check the May side bar for previous episodes of the
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We hope you have enjoyed this week's episode of mostly Photography.
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Phenotype Switching in a Self-Regulating Gene
To address this, Goldenfeld and Luthey-Schulten have solved the problem of phenotype switching due to a single self-regulating gene with positive feedback. The technical advance that they and their CPLC associated postdocs introduced in this context was to use WKB and Hamilton-Jacobi methods to go beyond simple mass-action results. The key result was that the different phenotypes' lifetime is significantly altered, with increased parameter range for bistability. The mean switching time is lowered by many orders of magnitude even for a very moderate amount of extrinsic noise, which is important for bacterial communities that exploit heterogeneity in order to inhabit new ecological niches, for example. The semi-analytical results were validated through state of the art stochastic simulations available through the Luthey-Schulten's Lattice Microbe software (E. Roberts et al. JCC (2013)).
The intire article can be viewed at Phys. Rev. Lett., 2013, Volume 111, Pages 058102.


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Basic Guidelines For English SpellingsREAD THESE ARTICLES
1With the subtraction of.'what's ninety three minus seven?'
take away, take from, take off, deduct, debit, abstract, discount, dock, remove, withdraw
- 'One profit measure was net farm income from operations, calculated as total revenues minus total costs.'
- 'However, its gross profit margins - revenues minus the cost of manufacturing goods - were lower than expected.'
- 'The credit is equal to the lesser of 7.5 percent of the cost minus any government financial incentives or $4.50 per rated watt of the system.'
- 'Second, proprietors' equities at the end of the year equaled proprietors' equities at the beginning of the year plus revenues and minus expenses for the year.'
- 'The Electricity Commission levy will recover the cost of securing reserve capacity, minus the revenue from any electricity sold from the reserve generation.'
- 'Well I can factor out the imaginary unit number (i or the square root of minus one) and plot the result on the same graph.'
- 'He is demanding the total cost of the course minus the deposit amount as a refund.'
- 'But Argentina also has a primary budget surplus - the difference between revenues and expenditures minus interest payments.'
- 'When you look at gross revenue minus payroll, dairy is No.1.'
- 'In other words, saving is the baker's real income (his production of bread) minus the amount of bread that the baker consumed.'
- 'But since equity equals assets minus total debt, a company decreases its equity by increasing debt.'
- 'First, the Civil War period saw Congress define net income as revenue minus expenses.'
- 'Which is to say, the number of breaks it takes to completely split a chocolate bar into small squares equals the number of squares minus 1.'
- 'Corporations are taxed on their revenue minus their expenses.'
- 'This many people paying this much a month plus this much for the game and expansion packs, minus this much for costs equals this much profit - each and every single month.'
- 'This would net a profit of £50, minus the price I paid for the option.'
- 'From 1989 to 1999, the total wealth or net worth of households (their total assets minus debt) more than doubled.'
- 'Each player's score for the hand consists of: the total value of any bonuses they are entitled to, plus the total value of all the cards they have melded, minus the total value of any cards remaining in their hands.'
- 'Ninety minus 20 because the winds are going in different direction.'
- 'They are paid 93 pence per item, minus 11 percent mark-up.'
- 1.1informal Lacking; deprived of.'he was minus a finger on each hand'
deficient in, lacking, lacking in, wanting, wanting in, in need of, low on, short on, missing, with an insufficiency of, with too few …, with too little …
- 'In the spring, Blackburn returned to an astonished Gloucester, minus his fingers, half of each thumb, and most of his toes.'
- 'It's as though he's desperate to fool us into thinking we're watching a Hollywood action flick minus machine gun fire, explosions, and fast cars.'
- 'Lots of pink neon and bluish glass brick, it had the feel of a fancy health spa minus the weight machines or half the lightbulbs.'
- 'Eventually he was given the machine back, minus its disc - which had apparently been destroyed.'
- 'He stayed for six months initially and developed a machine that lifted the beet from the ground minus the stones that used to cause a lot of damage to the machinery.'
- 'Finally getting fed up with the whole thing, I decided on the outfit Mattie had made me wear while we were in Florida… minus the shorts.'
- 'City of God director Fernando Meirelles is joining three of the film's stars to answer questions and premiere their latest short film before the party kicks off, minus the young men with guns.'
- ''He was detained a short time later having left the scene minus a shoe and bleeding from the elbow,' said Sgt French.'
- 'Greg and I were in a band for a short moment with the members of Elefant minus Diego called Debutaunt.'
- 'I walked down the road, trying not to look like I'd been attacked, robbed and dropped on the other side of the city minus my short term memory.'
- 'The wallet was in fine condition, minus my missing credit/debit cards, ID, etc., but everything else was there.'
- 'Think of the Foo Fighters minus the glossy production with an apocalyptic pop sensibility, and you come some way to understanding of what Rival Schools are about.'
- 'Five hours, minus lunch, and his team loved him because he still managed to get a lot more done than average.'
- 'Easkey were minus five regulars David Rolston, James Cawley, Kieran Brennan, Shane Kennedy and Dessie Sloyane.'
- 'Easkey were minus five regulars Kieran Brennan, David Rolston James Cawley, Shane Kennedy and Dessie Sloyane.'
- 'At the end of 1994, the Beatles, minus Lennon, released 'Free As A Bird'.'
- 'The rest of the travelers, minus Mai plus Hachiko, followed.'
- 'Instead, five different drivers were chosen to drive the cars, minus bombs, to Dublin.'
- 'It's kind of addictive, since it has everything I like about the boardgame, minus all the math…'
- 'I have that one on tape, minus about five minutes.'
2(of temperature) below zero by.'minus 40 degrees centigrade'
- 'Bills for winter heating came to 200 for gas during a particularly cold month last year when temperatures dropped below minus 20 degrees.'
- 'At temperatures below minus 5 degrees Celsius in heavy snow, small debris and snow can pack around the warm saw motor and form a solid ice pack.'
- 'This is a major problem as the winter temperature drops below minus 10 degrees at night.'
- 'The organizer has built a large refrigerator covering 1,500 square metres and temperature inside is kept below minus 14 centigrade degrees.'
- 'At lunchtime on Saturday, Coldstones weather station was recording a wind chill temperature of minus 10 degrees.'
- 'Heavy snow and ice blanketed the Balkans on Christmas Day, blocking roads and closing airports as temperatures plunged to near minus 20 degrees centigrade.'
- 'The temperature dropped to minus 25 degrees centigrade early last Tuesday morning while survivors were waiting for the arrival of relief materials.'
- 'Temperatures will drop to minus 26 degrees centigrade and the team of eight are likely to suffer altitude sickness on a mountain used by many as final preparation to summit Everest.'
- 'With temperatures plunging to minus 7 degrees centigrade, this new snow facility ensures a winter experience in this rainforest country.'
- 'The temperature was minus 10 degrees centigrade so we gathered around the campfire inside, talking, singing and getting to know each other.'
- 'These tough creatures, which can survive temperatures as low as minus 57 degrees centigrade, evolved from two different lines.'
- 'Drivers were warned to look out for black ice as they headed for work today after one of the coldest nights saw temperatures plummet to minus 5 degrees centigrade.'
- 'Even when the temperature falls to minus 30 degrees centigrade, it is still quite cozy living in such a cottage.'
- 'The temperature outside was below minus 20 C, and after three nights, I got very sick.'
- 'All outdoor work is suspended when the temperature drops below minus 48.'
- 'All the three months, the temperatures were minus 35 degree Celsius and below.'
- 'Zero Kelvin is minus 273.15 degrees Celsius, theoretically as low as a temperature can get.'
- 'The average winter temperature is minus 7 degrees with an average annual snowfall of 74 inches.'
- 'At the top of the troposphere, the temperature reaches minus 55 degrees C.'
- 'But it was an experience because we were shooting in minus 20 degrees temperature, two people had died of cold, and the doctors had advised us to be careful as we had to do a running sequence the next day.'
1(before a number) below zero; negative.'minus five'
unencumbered by, unaffected by, clear of, without, devoid of, lacking in
- 'This brings Limerick West fractionally above the minus five per cent limit.'
- 'Zero and minus one John Dillon Street, are the unusual addresses for the pair of semi-detached town houses, both a modest 1,200 sq ft.'
- 'So why can't we devise a mathematical system that allows two plus two to equal seventeen, ten to equal zero and the square root of two to equal minus three?'
- 'So rapid has been the increase in debt that the savings share of household income was minus three percent in the March quarter of this year.'
- 'Such systems use target zones that are relatively wide, that is allowing the exchange rate to vary by, for example, plus and minus 10 per cent around a central rate.'
- 'Salford was 11 th on the list, with a population decline of minus six per cent, or 12,500 people, to 216,500.'
- 'In the commercial space it was minus 19 per cent and in the SME space it was 13 per cent.'
- 'Deflation would be equivalent to an inflation of minus two percent pa, with prices generally decreasing.'
- 'The Plaintiff submits that from the Defendant's own report, cites the Gartner Lee report and refers to the till of the site as having hydraulic conductivity of about ten to the minus five meters per second.'
- 'It is a movement from minus nine per cent to plus 17 per cent growth.'
- 'Neil Kinnock is at minus 1, Chris Patten at minus 2, and Peter Mandelson at minus 49 percent.'
- 'The fixed income sector, a long-time top performer among all MPF funds, posted a slight loss, with an average return of minus 0.96 per cent.'
- 'She had an approval rating of minus 33 per cent last May.'
- 'Non-residential investment growth fell from 9 per cent to minus 5 per cent.'
- 'Total shareholder return is minus 34 per cent over the past five years.'
- 'Waterford Wedgwood's figures were minus 15 and minus 20 per cent.'
- 'The real problem is that people receive a plus 2 to minus 2 percent return on their money in Social Security, depending upon the life expectancy of their ethnic and gender group.'
- 'Ashikaga's capital adequacy ratio, a measure of a bank's financial health, had fallen to minus 3.7 percent at the end of September, Takenaka said.'
- 'Total domestic demand is estimated to have grown 2.8 percent in the US, 0.7 percent in the EU and minus 1.4 percent in Japan.'
- 'A household savings rate of minus 11 percent is not good news for New Zealand - it is very bad news - and the Government could be taking a first step by backing our amendment.'
2(after a grade) rather worse than.'C minus'
- 'In fact, all the minus grades (A-, B-, C-) had relatively low graduation rates.'
- 'Emergency medical care in the USA rates a C-minus, with hospitals increasingly facing overcrowding, a lack of financial support and a growing number of uninsured patients.'
3Having a negative electric charge.'What texts don't usually tell you is that charges both plus and minus attract uncharged things.''A quark has an electric charge of plus or minus one-third or plus or minus two-thirds; so when two are combined they add up to plus one, minus one, or zero.'
1short for minus sign'Specifying a plus or minus before a number allows relative positioning.'short for minus sign'A minus in front of a number indicates an outflow of funds.'
- 1.1A mathematical operation of subtraction.'"Minus" is a binary operation (performed on two numbers).''Minus, on the other hand, is the subtraction operation.'
- 1.1A mathematical operation of subtraction.
2A disadvantage.'for every plus with this equipment there can be a minus'
disadvantage, snag, downside, stumbling block, catch, hitch, pitfall, fly in the ointment
- 'The two surveys have different pluses and minuses and, in my analysis of the labor market, I give weight to both.'
- 'As Els has pointed out, doing what he is currently doing has no minuses and many positives for all concerned.'
- 'The discrepancy stems, in part, from the different methodologies - both of which have their pluses and minuses, researchers say.'
- 'This should include better communication with growers on what the pluses and minuses might be in planting different seed varieties.'
- 'On top of just possessing different battlefield items, they all have statistic bonuses and minuses that they can add to each character.'
- 'We agreed there were pluses and minuses - more minuses.'
- 'Unfortunately the minuses of the disc so outweigh the scant positives.'
- 'There were pluses and minuses, and an assistant secretary for intelligence could coordinate with an assistant secretary for C3, but we did not end up with a strong feeling on this issue one way or the other.'
- 'To the author's credit, he does a nice job of discussing pluses and minuses of both, and ultimately he suggests that both have value and may appeal to those with differing values on what is most important in making their decision.'
- 'You lose some control and some reaction time, but the pluses outweigh the minuses.'
- 'In this way I may know the pluses and minuses of my works,' he said.'
- 'Let's do a quick analysis of the pluses and minuses (not 'pros' and 'cons', for obvious reasons).'
- ''This has pluses and minuses for us,' Marquez says.'
- 'There are more pluses than minuses, but we have to use the technology carefully and wisely.'
- 'One is dealing with a case where you have a relationship of parent and child and a relationship which has, in a sense, pluses and minuses, all amounting to the experience, if I can use that expression, of parenthood.'
- 'He shakily concludes that, in Roosevelt, 'one senses a presence larger than can be conveyed by any balance sheet tally of pluses and minuses.''
- 'While spending an enjoyable afternoon chatting over cups of tea with Norm in Manchester yesterday we talked (among many other things) about some of the pluses and minuses of this blogging business.'
- 'We are just like any other country in the region, with our pluses and our minuses.'
- 'There are pluses and minuses to living at home,' Ashton said with a roll of his eyes.'
- 'There are pluses and minuses for each type of program.'
- on the minus side
Used to introduce a negative statement.'on the minus side, the economy is unbalanced'
- 'On the plus side I'm somewhat handy with lumber and tools, on the minus side I'm pushing 71.'
- 'On the minus side, no sooner had the money been saved than the city had to tap it to cover an unexpected $4.5-million deficit.'
- 'On the minus side: I arrived around 1pm and there was no room available for check-in.'
- 'On the minus side, boot space is limited - but big enough for two people travelling light with a toothbrush.'
- 'On the minus side, man-made fibres are less breathable than cotton and don't absorb moisture as well, so they can be less comfortable in the summer.'
- 'On the plus side, this means our division has very experienced teachers with a community history. On the minus side, they're more expensive.'
Late 15th century from Latin, neuter of minor 'less'.
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Blazer to Vest Refashion
This is going to be a quickie post for a quickie project! Project Runway Season 10 is in full swing, which means my sewing itch is in full effect as well! Hubby and I have been busy with house projects so I have not had any spare minutes for random fashion sewing sprees. I was inspired by this picture on Pinterest (imagine that!) :
I thought, cute vest, I have a few old blazers that I don't wear, wonder if I could make this?! I also was itching to play with my SketchBook program on the iPad again. :) So here is what I did:
Above I am pointing to the label as being "cheap"... not the awesome hanger craft friend Meesh gave me for being her bridesmaid ;-) Thanks Meesh. it's so perfect for my blog I can hardly stand it!!! So the cheap label is Miley Cyrus from Walmart...but it gets better...I got it from the thrift store! So basically sooooo cheap they should have paid me to take it ;-)
When I cut the sleeves off (above) I left about 1 inch beyond the sleeve seem. This was enough to fold inward and sew down. (below)
Note the time above? No wonder I have not been making it to my 6:00am BodyPump class at the Y like I was last year!!
That's it! Anyone else get inspired by reality TV? :)
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014
More Than A Feeling: The Cup that Faith and Marriage Share
green snow-day fleece.
Monday we burned it up in an energized flurry of painting, baking, game-playing and general getting-alongness. Tuesday, quite another story.
What I'm finding is that I'm a snow day Jekyll & Hyde. Every blue ribbon day is followed by one that we survive by way of 17 hours of cartoons and scrounged up left-overs.
It's just so cold out. I have not stepped beyond the front door since Sunday at 3pm.
Bah. Enough of this stupid weather talk! Who have I become? Why do you guys stick around??
So, did any of you watch Sean & Catherine Lowe get hitched Sunday night? Being ABC-less, I did not. I tried last night but ABC's website hates me because I don't have a satellite TV provider, and all I can say to that is, IF I HAD SATELLITE TV I WOULDN'T BE IN THIS POSITION IN THE FIRST PLACE!
But nevermind my yelling. (I'm a little cooped up.)
The thing about the Lowes is that I just love them. It's nothing new for me to have unbridled, irrational hope in a reality TV couple, but this is different. I'm going to put it out there: I read their tweets from the day of their wedding and I'm sold. This is a guy who knows who he is and what he's about. And aside from the unusual way we came to know their names, they are actual people. He has a favorite meal and she has raggedy sweatpants that we'll never, ever see. They get their feelings hurt and speak in anger and forgive. They navigate their faith just like normal people do, imperfectly, and with the scary addition of a spotlight.
I'm rooting for them. I'm grateful for their courage. And geez, I just love a sappy love story.
Three nights back Cory and I were up until after 2 a.m. with our oldest, talking about funny things and inconsequential things and eventually, really important things. The kid asks hard questions and this lady right here was fumbling for answers, praying so hard for the right words that I don't even remember what they were.
He wondered what we mean when we talk about God leading us in some way, or speaking to us. How do we know? Do we actually hear it? Because he never has. He had his moment when everything fell away and he sat at rock bottom with nothing but the truth that there was something much larger than himself, a God who created and loved him, and that he needed him.
But now what? What does it mean when all those feelings drift out to sea and life busts you in the face? Was something lost? Was that feeling never really his to hold?
I found myself returning again and again to the story of my marriage, the irrational, ridiculous, falling-in-love of his parents, complete with all the bells and whistles and roses and tears.
I told him about the night I stood in the center of the soccer field, a stubborn twenty-year old myself, so sure that this was the man I would love forever, how I begged God to let him be mine and knew that feeling could never blow away.
God did let him be mine, almost 15 years ago.
But that feeling hides sometimes. It gets lost in life and appointments and bills and different kinds of tears.
I wish it wasn't this way.
If I could, I would have gathered up that soccer field feeling and kept it in a tiny bottle by my side, spritzing a little onto my hair everyday, the elixir of perpetual bliss.
Instead, I got the gift of that moment, as clear as the ice tracking my window panes, the certainty that it was real. It was love.
And anything real can last.
And anything love can last.
Some days it feels like the sun on my shoulders or his hand on my own, a tangible thing.
Other days it's a promise, drifting and shadow-hiding, but still known.
We sell our hope for a tired dime when we tie our marriage or our faith to a feeling, cooking the intended complexity of holy communion down to dregs.
Call me an introvert, a thinker, dispassionate, practical.
You're at least half-right.
But I hear that song on the radio on a day that's gray and my heart is beating on the far-away side and it worries me, because this feeling very well could be wrong. And I don't think worship is something we "get on".
Worship, like love, is a certain steadiness. It's staying consistent and present when the days are too long and the nights are lonely. It's all the little things, the small obediences and unacknowledged tasks. Worship is the salt-tracks of grief and quiet reflection. Love is toes touching under the covers when words have been scare or raw.
Faith, like love, is staying up when you're tired. It's walking miles and miles when your feet are sore. It's keeping a thing that can't always been seen, trusting you won't be left alone and knowing you won't be the one to walk away.
I don't know that Robert really understood all we were saying, because all this God stuff is brand new and he's never known the kind of love that keeps on staying.
But that's what I'm wishing for him, and for the Lowes and for you and for me. I'm wishing we keep finding a way to stay IN this. That we ride the flows and all the ebbs and keep our feelings in the corner when they're uncooperative or playing hide-and-seek.
God is so much bigger.
Love is so much greater.
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Beautifully said.ReplyDelete
Feeling DO come and go, you are so right! Part of what I am teaching this week is that when we face difficult situations we have to stand on FACTS and not depend on our feelings....which is why it is of utmost importance for us to know scripture!ReplyDelete
Praying for Robert to be drawn close. Praying for you to stay sane in the face of all the snow days.
I was sitting at the table feeding the baby on yet another day home from school and I thought, 'I'll read Shannan's new post real quick' and now I am crying, just sobbing right next to LK's oatmeal. She is a little confused. Your words are beautiful and you have done a good job of capturing a feeling that is hard to convey. God knew what He was doing when He sent Robert your way. Stay warm, friend!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you and amen and oh boy do I need this post.ReplyDelete
The word that comes to mind is Abide. Why is it so hard?ReplyDelete
I'm home with two littles sick today(one has been sick since the weekend) and I'm trying to get my Abide on.
Praying for Robert and for you all today.
{i'm a snow day Jekyll and Hyde... haha... that made me laugh because i hear ya friend... i'm the same way...}ReplyDelete
you really have a way with words... i so enjoy reading your posts!
this is so goodReplyDelete
oh, girl. i so know this right now. just staying all in even when times are hard. believing that all uphills have a downhill. in marriage and in faith.ReplyDelete
This is a great post...but I have no idea who the Lowes are :) Really.ReplyDeleteReplies
So much bad theology in that song! Glad someone else noticed. I don't want to bash, but I wish the Christian music industry would get a grip! Or maybe stop being an industry. So anyway........you're great. Keep being awesome :)ReplyDelete
The wedding ceremony was darling and dreamy - it should be "unlocked" on ABC by next week, I think?? Sean tweeted, "Jesus may your name be known today" (swoon!) and HE WAS.ReplyDelete
We all need a Robert to ask questions that push us and move us, and when we don't have all the answers, that's ok. We can lay them down next to the God who is big and loves big. He's the cup bearer, the glue, the motivation, the answer.
I do not even begin to understand it all, but was struck the other day while cleaning and putting up Valentine stuff by two verses that my son was asking about 1) God is love. 1John 4:8 and 2)Love is patient. Love is kind....from 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a. If God is love, which I believe he is because the Bible says it than he is what Love is...meaning God is patient. God is kind...God never fails. All the things that love is described as in the Bible are descriptions of our God. I don't think I can really put my head around it and grasp all that this means, but it is certainly awesome to think about. Will be praying for you and Cory as you share with Robert that God would use you both.ReplyDelete
I totally feel you with the weather - I live in Central Indiana (Pendleton area). I am so done with winter and this cold. Hope you all make it through! Also, I was wondering if "Labels for Education" is the same as box tops. My son was noticing them on some groceries and since we homeschool we don't have a need for them and I thought about your kids' school, but wasn't sure if they were the same thing or not. Sorry for the long windedness! Hope that all made sense.Replies
Most schools collect both kinds of labels. We sure do! :)Delete
And love this: " All the things that love is described as in the Bible are descriptions of our God. "
Robert is so lucky to have you for his parents; just so blessed. As are you to have him. But the three of you already knew that. It helps to think of love not as something you feel, it's something you do. Faith, same thing.ReplyDelete
well. i am smitten with you. and yes. i wish so badly we could have a bottle of those feelings, those ones that made us crazy. but i'm banking on something better. i'm banking on a gigantic bucket of feelings by the age of ninety, which i'll grip with gnarled wrinkly old fingers and kiss on a wrinkly cheek and know--THIS, honey, this is why we held on. for this, right here.ReplyDelete
I love it when you write like this.
and yeah, we don't get our worship on. =)
(i totally get you and all your cryptic references.)
Regarding the Lowes....in case you haven't discovered it yet...here is Sean's sister's blog & she has 2 posts recapping the weekend :)ReplyDelete
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the wedding was dreamy…i cried. shocker. :)ReplyDelete
i wanted to stand up at the end and do a back flip…Jesus' name was lifted up and glorified on ABC through the bachelorette. whooooooooooooo hoooooooooooooooot!
hopefully, you'll be able to watch it this weekend. surely, they'll unlock it!
love that robert is asking hard questions…love that you don't know all the answers.
love that he trusts you guys enough to ask….praying for him as he opens himself up to loving and trusting Jesus more and more. he's on a beautiful journey…
praying for y'all..that you don't ever feel the need/responsibility to pick it all up….praying you keep trusting and knowing that Jesus started robert's journey when he was knit together in his mom's womb. i know you know this..but it sure is hard to remember when the hard questions come.
If you have a newer tv - like last 5 years you can get a pretty good antenna at Walmart and get the local channels in - you can probably get them better than us since you live in a city. I think we paid $30 for our RCA one - it's like a small flat box and a cord - we can get cbs, abc, nbc, and fox most of the time for free. We watch everything else on netflix - on a good day we can even get the bps channels - which includes Pbs kids.ReplyDelete
Introduced recently to your blog. As a korean-adoptee, along with a twin sister, I love your honesty about the journey your son is going on about his own adoption experience. A few years ago I had the opportunity to travel to Seoul, Korea and visit the orphanage from which I was adopted from. An experience and desire I've had since I was a very young girl. Now, at the age of 39, wife and mother to 5 amazing sons, I continue my journey through this. I will say this- my desire to know my birth mother is still there, however, it has never had anything to do with the quality of parenting I had. I will say that my adopted parents are amazing and wonderful. God placed this desire on my heart but never my sister's. Stay encouraged that you are exactly the mom God needed your children to have. Their gaps will look different just as my own children's gaps will look different. God knows those needs and will fill them. Would love to share more. Contact me if you'd like.ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness! You like the Lowes!!! You like the Bachelor!!!!!! Sorry - I'm way behind on this. Just now reading your blog (and loving it). You like the Bachelor!! Woohoo!ReplyDelete
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Yesterday I was out having dinner and I saw that the majority has their cell phones out on the table. People was not talking much to each other, not paying attention to each other, they were looking with long faces at their cell phone. At some point the cell phone vibrates or makes a small sound and they really fast take it, read something, smile, sometimes they show it to the persons they are with, they smile. Then this person answers really fast, puts the cell phone over the table again and the long face returns.
I've seen the same behavior in bars, clubs and other places where people is suppose to be hanging around with friends, and also in lecture rooms, buses, trains, offices.
I guess here we all have read that most communication is non-verbal, well I guess right now here in Belgium that is completely wrong. You just need to let your cell phone home so that you can focus on what is happening around you, and you'll see that most communication between people is happening through SMS, which are composed by words and acronyms.
I've never liked cell phones so I find this behavior horrible. I think many of them are completely addicted to the sms, they get 2 seconds of satisfaction while reading them, then they enter into a stand by mental state where they can't focus on anything and just get annoyed if anything different than a new sms comes in to their way.
What is your opinion about this?
Do you think is polite, impolite or neutral to put the cell phone in the table and wait until an sms arrives?
Is this type of communication a harmful addiction?
Is it helping people to connect better with each other, is it alienating people or none?
Is this making people to be happier?
My point of view is that this new type of communication affects directly in the attention of people. Face to face communication is decreasing, eye contact is decreasing, the interest of making new connections and interacting with strangers decreases, empathy between each others decreases, human contact decreases. I believe those things are very important to achieve some type of fulfillment in live, and do not like to see them being erased little by little.
Again all these thoughts might be biased by me not liking the cell phones on the first place so I would be glad to know your opinions about it.


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Technology Review - May 27, 2009, by David Talbot
IBM's Watson will showcase the latest tricks in natural-language processing.
For decades, humans have struggled to create machines that can extract meaning from human language, with all its messiness, subtle context, humor, and irony. Traditional approaches require a great deal of manual work up front to render material understandable to computer algorithms. The ultimate goal is to make this step unnecessary.
IBM hopes to advance toward this objective with Watson, a computer system that will play Jeopardy!, the popular TV trivia game show, against human contestants. Demonstrations of the system are expected this year, with a final televised matchup--complete with hosting by the show's Alex Trebek--sometime next year. Questions will be spoken aloud by Trebek but fed into the machine in text format during the show.
The company has not yet published any research papers describing how its system will tackle Jeopardy!-style questions. But David Ferrucci, the IBM computer scientist leading the effort, explains that the system breaks a question into pieces, searches its own databases for "related knowledge," and then finally makes connections to assemble a result. Watson is not designed to search the Web, and IBM's end goal is a system that it can sell to its corporate customers who need to make large quantities of information more accessible.
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After thinking and praying about it, I decided that I was going to do a unit on the Fruit of the Spirit. I wanted to spend a week on each Fruit. To Google and Pinterest I went. While I found a lot of lessons designed for Sunday School classes, but not a lot for a homeschool unit. I would need to create my own.
(Disclaimer: Our week is only 4 days long because we go to a homeschool co-op one day each week.)
After finishing our week on the Fruit of Love, we started our next week studying Joy.
Day 1
- Review Galatians 5:22-23.
- Discuss that joy and happiness are not the same thing. We can have joy even when our circumstances aren't what we like.
- Discuss what is NOT joy.
- Complaining
- Being mean - kicking, hitting, and using unkind words
- Raising your voice
- Pouting
- Temper tantrums
- Refusing to answer when someone speaks to you
- Talking back
- Being jealous and dwelling on it
- Boasting or bragging
Day 2
- Read Nehemiah 8:10. Talk about how we get our joy from the Lord.
- Read Psalm 119:111. Talk about how we get our joy from God's Word.
- Talk about how we can turn to God and the Bible when we are having a bad day in order to renew our joy.
- Read Acts 16:16-40. Talk about how Paul and Silas had joy in spite of their circumstances. We can also have joy no matter what our circumstances are.
- Talk about how Paul and Silas sang praises while they were in prison. Make a list of songs we can sing to praise the Lord.
Day 4
- Read Proverbs 15:13. Talk about what a cheerful countenance looks like.
- Make self-portraits of our cheerful countenances.


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Family lifestyle photo session on the beach
I had a lovely morning recently, photographing three generations of this fabulous family on the beach in Devon. We spent a couple of hours at Teignmouth, which is such a gorgeous location. The colours are just beautiful, with the soft pastel hues of the water and the sand, with all the painted beach huts lined up behind. And, more to the point, I absolutely love being on the beach! Plenty of opportunity for digging in the sand, skimming stones and splashing in the sea, and wandering along the shoreline. It was really wonderful to capture some memories of all the family having fun together. Here are some of the images...
The Barn at South Milton: an outdoor humanist ceremony
I really love a humanist ceremony, as it is always just so personal to the couple. To be able to photograph a humanist ceremony taking place outdoors with stunning views over the South Devon coastline is something really quite special, so you can imagine why I was so taken with this particular wedding at The Barn at South Milton. The Barn, in South Devon, is an absolutely wonderful venue for a relaxed, rustic, outdoorsy wedding day. With its newly converted barn, a camping field for wedding guests and a beautiful sandy beach just ten minutes walk away, it's a really gorgeous spot for a summer celebration.
I was lucky enough to photograph this beautiful wedding there last summer, and am really pleased to share some of the photographs here on the blog. Paula and Paul opened The Barn at South Milton in spring 2013, so it was still incredibly new as a venue when this wedding took place in July, although you wouldn't have known it. The bride and groom and all their guests were able to share the most wonderful day there, certainly one of the most emotional weddings I've photographed, and just an amazing day of celebration for everyone involved. Starting with the relaxed guest arrivals, beach visits and setting up tents that took place all morning, to the outdoor ceremony on hay bales overlooking the sea. The bride and groom wrote their own vows, the ring bearer wore a spiderman suit, and friends and family spoke and played music during the ceremony. This was followed by drinks in the yard in the sunshine, beautiful sob-inducing speeches in the converted barn and wonderful platters served on long tables for the wedding breakfast. Later on the guests enjoyed the evening sunshine, dancing outside the barn, with swing music from The International Jazz Disaster drifting across the field, children sword-fighting on the hay bales and the sun setting behind the flags. It was magical.
The bride and groom prefer to stay anonymous, but are more than happy to share some of their wedding photos here, particularly to show how wonderful everything was at The Barn. I hope these images give you an idea of how beautiful the day was:
Family lifestyle photography session on a Devon farm
A family lifestyle photography session is not about posing for the camera and forcing a smile. It's about capturing your family in a very relaxed way, doing what your family does, being exactly the way that your family is. I don't want your children to sit nicely and say cheese for the camera, I want to see them playing together, laughing naturally, thinking, getting cross, running around, doing the things that they normally do. I want to spend time with you all and create a set of images for you that really captures your family as you know it. I want you to be able to look back in many years time and remember just how your family was at this point.
Just over a week ago, I had the chance to do this with the lovely Simmons family, spending a morning with them at one of their favourite places, a farm owned by their friends just outside Exeter. We explored in the rain, played on the swing, splashed in the river and clambered up and down the hills around the farm. We stopped for a hot coffee in the gorgeous farmhouse, then played some more inside the barn. It was brilliant fun and it gave me the chance to capture the family in all their wonderful, chaotic normality. Two devoted parents, three young boys, boundless energy, fresh air, muddy boots, laughter, runny noses, soggy gloves, play fighting, climbing, chasing and hiding, and lots and lots of love. A beautiful record of this one wonderful family, at this particular point in their lives.
You might also like to have a look at:
Newborn baby and family photography in Devon: Marina and her sisters
Newborn twins in Devon: Bertie and Polly
Family lifestyle photography in Exeter, Devon
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River Cottage weddings: Lucy and Scott's wonderful day
Last September, I had the pleasure of being the wedding photographer for Lucy and Scott's celebrations at the famous River Cottage HQ in Devon. I loved photographing Lucy and Scott's wedding. Loved it! They were the loveliest couple to get to know, and everything about their day was just gorgeous. Even the rain didn't dampen spirits, with lots of brightly coloured umbrellas, soggy but smiling morris dancers and a whole load of people bursting with happiness all day long. Lucy looked absolutely incredible in her exquisite Kate Walker wedding dress - I thought it looked especially good with the wellies later in the day! Lucy and Scott's wedding has been featured on the wonderful Rock My Wedding, so you can read more about it from Lucy's point of view here.
I was so excited about photographing at River Cottage, and it completely lived up to my expectations. With all the special little touches that Lucy and Scott had put together for the wedding day, everything looked incredibly beautiful, and the farm location completely added to the rustic charm of the day. From the yurt, to the restored barn, to the walled kitchen garden and the views across the rolling hills, it was such a gorgeous venue and I loved the relaxed atmosphere throughout. It was also, without question, the best wedding meal I have ever eaten...
I also have to share this incredibly lovely feedback that I received from Lucy and Scott. I am always so aware that even though I photograph a lot of weddings, each time it is that one special day for the couple, and I never ever take lightly the responsibility to capture that for them. So it is always just the most wonderful thing to receive feedback like this, and it means a huge amount to me to hear these words:
"We just wanted to say a Massive thank you for being so AMAZING on our special day... I don't know how you did it but you have just so beautifully captured the very essence of the day and we can not thank you enough. You worked so hard and that did not go unnoticed, we really really appreciate not only your obvious unbelievable talent but your dedication and passion for what you do. We feel incredibly blessed to have found you and had you there on the day, it would never have been the same without you. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Lucy and Scott"
Thank you, Lucy and Scott, it was a pleasure from start to finish! Here is your gorgeous wedding:
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I began my Sunday remembering something the brilliant spiritual teacher/philosopher Eckhart Tolle said in a speech I'd heard two days prior: (basically we humans tend to allow conditions-such as weather- to direct our moods and hence how we will ultimately feel at any given time.)
I mention the above because the weather here in San Francisco Sunday morning was… um, cloudy, kind of cold, and miserable, BUT I found myself heading to a San Francisco event I'd not been to in years; CARNIVAL, so I was willing to trust the weather a little.
I learned from the event's MC that Carnival came to life in San Francisco way back in 1979. A little before my time, but I've had the pleasure of attending about three total Carnivals so far, and this one… this one was amazing.
This post comes a little late in the day for one reason in particular: I shot over one thousand photos. Trying to sort through all that to find the ones I wanted for the post was not only a big deal, but a big job and I wanted to get it right.
Well, those of you in the know realize Mondays (the day after Sunday in most places) here on Obzervashunal and at my buddy Dale's site diary of an internet nobody are dedicated to our 'K'lee and Dale's Cosmic Photo Challenge.
This week, Dale's had the helm and the prompt he gave us this past Friday was:
I can honestly say, as I headed to the Carnival celebration, I knew I wanted to speak to the movement prompt with shots taken on Sunday and so, without making you wait any longer, here's a taste of the thousand or so photos I took yesterday. Let me also say by noon yesterday… the sun came out and just made it amazing:
I saw lots of it at the Carnival celebration. It was spectacular. No one I noticed was all that down because of the early cold, cloudy weather. It didn't matter and once the sun parted the clouds, it really didn't matter…
Happy Memorial Day to those of you who find this post in the U.S., and a great Monday to everyone else!
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A man walking through Beardsley Park in Bridgeport made quite a discovery - a goat head.
Michael Serfillippi spoke to the Connecticut Post after he found the goat head on Sunday. He says the head was complete with fur, beard, horns, eyes and teeth.
"I couldn't figure out where the goat came from. There was no blood. It was a little creepy," he told the newspaper.
Police are investigating.
This is the second case of dead animals showing up around Bridgeport recently. Two weeks ago, police were called to investigate two headless roosters hanging by their feet from a tree.
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Seeing those photos of charred and incinerated journals at Freedom Press was a bit shocking. We'd already scanned one of our back issues of "Anarchy", the 1960's periodical (monthly for most of its run) when we had an enquiry from an academic researching Landauer (or was it Buber?) and, it turned out, our grim Northern library was one of the places that had Anarchy No. 54.
Scanning journals is time consuming and you don't immediately see any results (i.e. the people benefitting tend not to visit the premises). But seeing those burned editions of Freedom was quite an eye opener. It's not the paper, it's the words on the paper. And Bradford is a place where buildings burn down mysteriously all the time. It works out pretty well for the slumlords who can get the missing piece for their development plan on easy terms from obdurate independent types suddenly finding themselves in charge of a smouldering ruin, or exchange a high-maintenance low-income historic mill for a zero-maintenance pay & display car park with the toss of a match. Allegedly.
So, as part of our cataloguing frenzy we've scanned the first 10 editions of Anarchy, from 1961, and most of them are online now (there are a few upload issues outstanding) – they're in searchable PDF format and you can also just download the text.
If you're local to Bradford you could help us by coming in sometime to help us catalogue, scan, or sweep up (these are all necessary tasks of equal value and glamour). Check the 1in12 website for dates, or leave a comment below. Further afield, you can (a) let people know about our efforts, on your blog or whatever passes for conversation nowadays, or just send a big cheque to The 1in12 Library, 21-23 Albion Street, Bradford BD1 2LY.
Although, in the immediate, if you're sending money anywhere it should probably be to Freedom Press.
Meanwhile, if you have a new-ish scanner you don't need, we'd love to have it. Currently we have to use an old (slow) computer to scan as the scanners we have won't talk to the newer computers. It takes ages. Get in touch.
Finally (1), if you're one of those people who enjoys filling in grant funding applications we're pretty sure this is the kind of project that has "give me your money" written all over it. And we do owe the 1in12 Club about 15 years in peppercorn rent and utility contributions. So get in touch if you know the magic words that can crack open the wallets of babylon for us, and if you can look at those forms without getting a migraine.
Finally (2), If you enjoy building work we've got a serious ceiling insulation project booked so we don't have to suffer another expensive and chilly winter in the library. This isn't going to happen imminently as we've no money for materials. But we have plans (including a groovy Library Disco) so, eventually, there may be some kind of bring-yer-tools weekender. Watch this space.
The journals are here: Anarchy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, – note we don't have a copy of no. 2, but we do have some doubles of other issues. Get in touch if you can help.


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"We used the results of several previous studies of individual nutrients to design a comprehensive multi-vitamin/mineral supplement that could improve many different aspects of nutritional status. We have been doing research on vitamins and minerals for children with autism for over 10 years, and we are very pleased to see that research culminate in the release of ANRC Essentials."
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- Methyltetrahydrofolate (MTHF as Quatrefolic®) – one of the most bioavailable forms of folic acid.
- High amounts of vitamin B12, which works in conjunction with MTHF.
- Strong antioxidant support.
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- Excellent source of sulfate, which is usually low in ASD.
- L-Carnitine, to provide energy for the body and the brain.
- Mixed vitamin E (primarily gamma-tocopherol, which is the primary form in fruits and vegetables).
- Mixed carotenoids (the precursor for making vitamin A) and some pre-fromed vitamin A as retinyl.
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- Lithium – many children with autism/ASD and their mothers have low levels of lithium. For more information see here.
- Four forms of vitamin B3 (niacin, niacinamide, NADH, and nicotinamide riboside), to ensure substantial increase in NADH, the bioactive form of B3. Note that our previous study (Adams 2011) found NADH was significantly lower in ASD, and a recent study found nicotinamide riboside was significantly lower in children with ASD.
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Can Medical Marijuana Help People With Lyme Disease?
Ah, the Great Outdoors! Fresh clean air, freshly rolled blunt, sun gently caressing your face. Every step an adventure as you hike deeper into the woods.
But there is something small and fast stalking you through the grass and you better do something about it. Ticks love tall grass, all the better to hitch a ride on you, human. And ticks carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease to the tune of 300,000 new infections every year in the U.S.
The Borelia burgdorferi bacteria cause Lyme disease and is carried by deer ticks. The disease is especially prevalent in the Northeastern U.S. though it occurs in half of the 3,110 counties in this country.
This bacterium has adaptive modes which make it difficult to detect, and therefore kill. It has a double membrane envelope and tends to hide in deep tissue. It can also change shapes to disguise its identity.
Left untreated, 60 percent of patients develop pain and swelling at joints after a few weeks. This pain can last for days or months and is known to move from one side to the other.
Stages of Infections
Initially, an infection may seem like the flu – fever; chills; swollen lymph nodes; fatigue; headaches; body aches, and stiffness especially of muscles and joints. Check the bite site. If there is a bulls-eye marking circling the bite, get thee to a doctor. This is early stage and antibiotics can help.
In the second stage of the disease, heart and nervous system problems can arise. Ten percent of sufferers will experience abnormal heart rhythms. A stiff neck and severe headaches may be an indicator of meningitis so visiting a doctor is highly advisable. Also, there may be abnormal sensations in limbs that can last days to months and shifts from one joint to another.
The third stage can result in motor and sensory nerve damage and brain inflammation. Studies have shown that Lyme disease patients have a higher rate of anxiety and depression. There's also a host of possible symptoms such as changes in mood or sleeping pattern; difficulty concentrating; fatigue, and memory loss. Serious cognitive problems.
Cannabis and Lyme Disease
So where does medical marijuana fit into this miasma of symptoms? Most of this early research is based on anecdotal evidence and the reader is reminded that we are all different physiologically when it comes to drug sensitivity. "Low and slow" is the way to go when first experimenting with cannabis.
Smoking is not the most efficient delivery system of all the healing chemicals in weed but it is useful for anti-nausea; some pain relief; mood stabilizing, and appetite stimulant. The best way to get the most benefit from marijuana is to eat it.
Cannabis oil is a concentrate from marijuana through an extraction process. It typically has a good balance of THC and CBD, which most experts agree work synergistically to achieve optimal effects.
THC, tetrahydrocannabinol, is the compound in weed that imparts that "high", cerebrally stimulating quality. CBD, or cannabidiol, is the compound that has the muscle-relaxing, anti-seizure qualities.
Currently, CBD paste is being studied for its antibiotic characteristics by an unnamed university in the U.S. Anecdotally, cannabis is a virus, bacteria and fungi killer. All five major cannabinoids have been shown to kill MRSA, the highly infectious hospital-borne illness.
CBD is also great for latter stage symptoms as pain; spasms; nausea; headache, and peripheral neuropathy.
Medical Marijuana -- Useful Qualities
In Shelly White's book, "Cannabis for Lyme Disease and Related Conditions," she enumerates the benefits of medical marijuana for chronic diseases.
- Marijuana molecules kill bacteria
- Anti-parasitic
- Cannaflavins, compounds found in most plant life, are 30 times more effective than aspirin as an anti-inflammatory
- THC also has medicinal qualities. Also an anti-inflammatory; anti-nausea; anti-epileptic; appetite stimulant; lowers blood pressure; anti-cancer; pain reliever and alleviates glaucoma eye pressure
- Stimulates dopamine and serotonin release that increases pain relief and improves outlook
- Decreases brain inflammation called Lyme encephalitis
- Prevents cell damage and known as a powerful anti-oxidant
- Improves anxiety and depression moods by activating serotonin receptors
- Muscle relaxant
- DNA protectant
- Anti-arthritic
- Effective for migraines; brain fog, and insomnia
- Symptom management for PTSD
White's book is based on cannabis research done in other countries and anecdotal evidence. Obviously, much more research needs to be accomplished in this country to substantiate these claims.
Chronic Diseases and Florida's Constitutional Amendment 2
Lyme disease is not listed as a qualifying condition for current medical marijuana use. But, Florida voters changed that with a "Yes" vote on Amendment 2, which expanded the class of patients eligible for medical cannabis. Physicians will also have the authority to recommend marijuana for other debilitating illnesses not enumerated in the amendment.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that cannabis oil, taken orally in tinctures; pills; drinks, and edibles could actually help the body heal from Lyme disease but the course of medications may be extensive, considering the seriousness of Lyme disease. So good luck in healing thyself with medical marijuana.


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The Real Cost of College Aid
I've been giving a lot of attention to the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act lately (including in this new interview and Monday's daily podcast) because it is the biggest thing going on in education right now. Even more important, it is a revolting example of bankrupting, political business as usual that is flying below most peoples' radar.
Touted as miracle legislation that will reduce the deficit and create or expand numerous government programs -- including increasing Pell Grants at a rate faster than inflation -- CBO estimates show that SAFRA would actually end up costing taxpayers tens-of-billions of dollars over the next decade. And now, it turns out, even those estimates may be too conservative.
Today, Inside Higher Ed reports that buried in the OMB's "mid-session review" -- the document released yesterday predicting a record-destroying $1.6 trillion federal deficit for FY 2009 -- is the projection that Pell Grant funding will cost $27 billion more over ten years than predicted just a few months ago. That's based, importantly, on big recent increases in college enrollment that could very well decline as the economy recovers. But with President Obama pushing to get more and more people into college, it offers yet another, powerful reason to conclude that far from saving taxpayers money as the bill's supporters claim, SAFRA is going to cost them bundles.
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The open seas, the particular clear blue air and the fresh air few experiences can beat a cruise vacation to help relax the particular weary mind and body. In recent times, cruises have become well-known alternatives for many travelers who desire a getaway from the daily grinds of modern day lifestyle. Its an experience to enjoy and treasure for many, many years. Hence, the cruise vacation is one thing that should be prepared for to make it as perfect as possible. One way to ensure this can be by availing of cruise insurance.
Cruise insurance is made necessary for your protection against unwanted eventualities inside your desired journey with the high seas. You would want your cruise vacation to be one of the most enjoyable occasions of your life, after all. And luxury cruise insurance can guarantee this. Additionally, a cruise getaway entails a lot of investments, not only of the financial variety, but also with regards to efforts as well. Luxury cruise insurance can help protect your investments in this regard, as well.
Lets check out five reasons why any cruise insurance package could be most beneficial for your cruise trip vacation.
1. Cruise insurance would certainly cover your medical expenses that may be incurred as a result of any injury, illness or illness you might suffer on your trip. The more comprehensive the cruise insurance will be, the more medical hazards that can be covered by the same. Some cruise insurance packages actually include existing health conditions in their coverage.
2. Luxury cruise insurance would protect your very best self interests against journey interruptions like delays and cancellations. You would be repaid of the expenses which may be incurred as a result of the said interruptions. The high seas can be treacherous. We never know how the waters behave.
3. Cruise insurance would give an individual peace of mind, from the moment you deposit your repayment to the time that you get home safely. This might surely result in a hassle-free vacation for you.
4. Cruise insurance might cover baggage reduction. You wont have to worry about your luggage being sent to an additional ship. Your cruise insurance can either give you an allowance or reimburse once again the expenses that you would incur as a result of this unlucky happening.
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Brittany Fuson: Custom Bridal Illustration
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Brittany Fuson is a local Nashville artist who combined her love for fashion and paper products and launched a fabulous line of personalized stationery. Brittany is super talented, her bridal illustrations are like a modern, chic caricature and would make a wonderful gift for any fashionable woman in your life. Brittany Fuson has a lot of different collections in her line from everyday, couture, holiday, maternity, and of course, bridal!
Brittany offers what is called a custom bridal illustration of the bride in her wedding dress and they are stunning! Such a great gift idea for a shower- I've already gone halfsies on two of these for friends who are getting married and they both LOVED them!! You send Brittany photos of the bride and of the dress and she studies the pictures. Then she recreates the dress in as much detail as possible and also incorporates special details like a specific piece of jewelry, shoes, hair piece, etc. so that it is a true reflection of the bride on her special day!