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In his essay Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson opens with a critique of looking backward, writing " Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes." It's a call for looking at the world with new eyes, new values, and new perspectives and a useful reminder that all of these end of year posts sites endlessly push at us may not have that much value.
Today, though, I'm going to reject Emerson's advice and offer one last retrospective look, not at our most-read or least-read posts, but the ones that I hope that you either read this year or will consider taking a look at over the brief, quiet interlude we'll all have before the legislative session comes to town.
While perhaps politicians and the press are, like sharks, dead, if they stop moving forward, it's easy to lose sight of stories that matter past the moment they were published and should be recalled when candidates decide to run for office in the future.
Back in a truly terrible 2005 editorial about Conrad Burns and Brian Schweitzer, the Independent Record offered some insight I'd forgotten about, they told us that they abandon stories without "a new news peg," suggesting that the publication of such old news renders the newspaper stale. While I understand the argument they're making, that's also how stories about government corruption and malfeasance get forgotten in subsequent campaigns and even how some issues that deserve continuing attention seem to fade away.
Overlong introduction accomplished, here are a few of the pieces we hope you'll experience for the first time or re-read and give new thought to.
Thanks for sticking with us for another year and making 2018 the best year at the Montana Post!
Steve Daines is More Outraged About Criticism of the NRA Than the Deaths of Children
When contrasted with the rote expression of prayer for the victims of one mass killing after another, Daines seemed almost human in his response to Delta last night, and most importantly, actually said he would take action instead of offering empty words. There was no promise from Senator Daines after Parkland, Sutherland Spring, Las Vegas, or any of the other sites of horrific carnage to do anything about a country that makes it easier to get a weapon of war than access to healthcare, but when a small discount for NRA members flying was threatened, our Senator leapt to call for action.
Senator Fielder and Representative Manzella to Celebrate Racist, Anti-Government Extremists This Saturday
It's tempting to dismiss this band of misfits who like to play dress up and pretend they are a militia, but as the SPLC and FBI have both noted, these groups provide fertile breeding ground for domestic terrorism ranging from armed standoffs with law enforcement to lone wolf actions.
Daines Calls Kavanaugh's Victims Liars on National TV, But Won't Allow FBI Investigation, Why?
I will not be debating our one-term Senator Steve Daines on this point, but merely pointing out that he is calling all of these accusers liars as his use of the term "smear campaign" states that he does not believe these victims and would prefer to victim shame and use justifications rather than assess the facts as they come.
Must Read: Public Lands Opponent Matt Rosendale Staged His "Public Lands" Hunting Photo Shoot on Private Land
It's perhaps even more telling that Rosendale was misrepresenting a private parcel owned by a rich Marylander as public land because that's the ultimate aim of East Coast elites who want to transform our state into what many in the anti-public lands movement want to see: fenced off parcels only open to those well-heeled or connected enough to gain access and closed off to the rest of us.
"Commander" Zinke Cannot Help Himself from Screwing Over Veterans
Zinke has sold out Montana's and America's veterans, conservationists, disabled, children, and elderly (well most everyone) because he is beholden to a corrupt administration that reflects his values. Shame on everyone who got him to where he is.
Tim Fox Guarding the Hen House
When you're surrounded by the three stooges of misanthropy at the federal level in Zinke, Daines, and Gianforte at the three stooges of Helena in Stapleton, Arnzten, and Rosendale it is easy to fly under the radar and that is Tim Fox's master plan. Do nothing and hope no one on either side notices.
Too Busy Posting Mugshots and Human Misery, the Local Paper Ignores Incredible Student Achievement at Helena High
A monthly rogues' gallery of mug shots certainly helps us observe human misfortune, but it does nothing to help us see the causes of crime or solutions we haven't considered. We might see pain and desperation, but we certainly don't understand it better or empathize any more when these stories are presented as an opportunity to sit in judgment over people who have not yet been, and may never be, convicted of any crime. It's despair pornography, and it debases our community.
Senator Daines Takes Credit for Butte Veterans Home He Voted Against
Steve Daines is the model for what is broken about American politics. In his undistinguished term, while his Democratic colleague has had thirteen bills signed by a Republican president, Daines has had to satisfy himself with making headlines for pandering proposals to ban flag burning that went nowhere and proposals to prevent abandoned federal buildings from becoming blights on their communities the way the one in Billings has that went nowhere.
Are the Billings Police Above the Law?
Are the police in Billings out of control? I'm not talking about the fact that Billings police officers killed two people within 24 hours last week, nor even that 12 people have been shot and killed by law enforcement officers in Billings in just the past six years. While those deaths—and the shocking number of "officer-involved killings" in Montana certainly deserve more attention, my focus today is on another way officers are not held accountable: when they are involved in professional misconduct and not named.
TAX SCAM FALLOUT: Billionaires Get Richer, Corporations Begin Firings and Wages Stagnant for American Workers
Wage growth will not happen by politely waiting around and hoping our benevolent corporate overlords throw us some table scraps. We need to take it. We must demand higher wages. We must demand a living wage in every state or organize to collectively bargain for fair wages.
We're #1! In income inequality, that is
The phony "populist" message of a Donald Trump: deregulation or immigrants stealing your jobs or "tax cuts paid for by growth" or repealing Obamacare… are all wearing thin. So, Democrats, don't shy away from a progressive, economic message. A living wage would be a good start, as would a more progressive tax system and a single-payer health care plan. And maybe we can put a dent in income inequality in Montana and the rest of the country.
Why Won't the Secretary of State's Office Respond to Public Records Requests?
I'm not a reporter, just a citizen, but the beauty of the Montana law is that it protects the right of every one of us to inspect the records produced by government officials. Montana's transparency laws are some of the most powerful in the nation, protecting our right to know how government officials are spending their time and our resources. They don't have the right to hide embarrassing information or information that might hurt them politically; they're obligated to provide what we ask for so that we can provide a check on government abuse, waste, and fraud.
There's nothing wrong with "identity politics"
Which leads to this: for God's sake, get behind the Williams for Congress campaign. Here's hoping she is more aggressive on single-payer health care, campaign finance reform and environmental issues, but you know incumbent Greg Gianforte will do everything he can to rollback any progress made for anyone outside of wealthy white male Americans.
President Scott Sales and Montana Republicans Want a Sales Tax
In a radio interview with Voices of Montana, Senate President Scott Sales said he wants a statewide sales tax, so Republicans can eliminate the income tax in Montana. Republicans continue to pursue backward policies that make the rich pay less in taxes while the middle class and Montana families pay more.
Incompetent Corey Stapleton Just Cost Montanans A Quarter of a Million Dollars
I'll be honest—I assumed we had reached peak Stapleton when Montana's Secretary of State spent state resource urging voters to invalidate their own ballots by signing them. That led to Stapleton threatening to sue this publication before realizing (or being told) that there is an almost absolute right for citizens to laugh at their government officials. But never a man to let a little competence get in the way of completely mishandling his job, Stapleton seems to have topped himself, this time mailing 417,000 inaccurate Voter Information pamphlets to the people of Montana.

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Historical Dictionary of the British Empire
Historical Dictionary of the British Empire
Historians will soon be evaluating the significance of the twentieth century, and the collapse of the European empires and the Soviet Union will no doubt be viewed as pivotal events for the people of the world. the colonial empires of Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain imposed a certain political and economic order on the earth, as did the subsequent Cold War power exercised by the United States and Soviet Union. the demise of these empires and the end of the Cold War have left the world with new challenges. Scores of ancient ethnic hostilities, long suppressed by external political powers, are asserting themselves with a vengeance in Africa, the Balkans, Central Asia, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent, and the former Soviet Union. the world seems a more violent place today than ever before, and the solutions to the violence are complicated and elusive. Without question, the empires and superpowers engaged in racism and ethnocentrism, and they flagrantly exploited the peoples of their dependencies. However, we may yet remember the era of imperialism and the Cold War with at least a small measure of nostalgia, if for nothing else than the order they imposed on a chaotic world.
Of all the European empires that developed in the wake of Christopher Columbus's voyage to the New World, the British empire became the most extensive and the most long-lasting. in the 1490s, John Cabot explored the northern North American coastline for Britain, and a century later several prominent English promoters--Humphrey Gilbert, Walter Raleigh, and Richard Hakluyt-- made abortive colonization attempts in North America and called for more extensive English colonization activity there. By that time, the English had already established plantations in Ireland, especially in and around Dublin in what was known as the Pale. By the early 1600s, joint stock companies from England had financed the first permanent settlements in Bermuda and Jamestown.


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Dallas Sports Celebrities Sing For Super Bowl
Get ready to cover your ears. The continuous promotion of Super Bowl XLIV at Cowboys Stadium has begun. Last weekend North Texas sports celebrities kicked off the promotion of Super Bowl XLIV in downtown Fort Worth at the Faith Hill concert. The patrons who were lucky to get tickets to the Bass Hall concert got a special pre-concert treat. The emcee explained to them that numerous people had auditioned to become Faith Hill's opening act and that they had a few of the audition tapes. The rest is pure comedy. Never in my life have I seen so many horrible singers. Tony Romo, Roger Staubach, Jerry Jones, Dirk Nowitzki, Emmitt Smith, Nolan Ryan were just a few of the big names who took part in this hilarious/lame ad promo for the North Texas Super Bowl in February 2011. Personally, I think that TCU head football coach Gary Patterson sang the best…..but that's stretching it a bit. Check out the video below:


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© 2011 Rob Dunlavey
It's interesting to watch the seasons through the eyes of the blogging world. All over facebook and flickr my friends and acquaintances have posted many pictures of mushrooms. A few have posted photos of bleak autumn landscapes and some are still lingering on balmy beaches. Me, I'm trying to get the house ship-shape for winter… …like I do every year. It's that dance between preparation and simple enjoyment of the many fleeting moments.
Oh, there's another sunbeam! Gotta go!!


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Are you wanting to shed eons of inner clutter from the past so you can step forward with confidence, vision and radical loving?
Are you tired of not having your voice be heard so that your great work in the world can make far-reaching impact?
Working with Rebecca is transformative. She guides you, never leads you. She honors you to dig up what is inside you that is gold. She confronts you with compassion and grace. She holds you accountable for doing your work. She is the mentor who brings out your best self even when it is hiding and anxious, stubborn and skeptical. She works compassionately and completely to allow you to unfold as a precious being of light.
There are several different ways to work personally with me.
Please take a moment and review the different options below.
How Do We Begin?
When you contact me about Mentoring we will set up a time for me to hear from you exactly what it is you're are needing support around at this time in your life. My time is complimentary. I spend this time up front before I work with someone to make sure I am a good fit for you and to answer any questions you might have about our mentoring relationship.
You could be looking for some deeper clearing of old issues in your life that you are aware are holding you back. You also might be wanting on-going support to manifest your big work in the world - what I call your 'sacred ambition - and want to work with someone who knows the territory. This kind of support always makes the journey easier and not so alone. After all, you don't have to do this by yourself.
Then, after our initial conversation, I make a proposal of what I think would serve you at this time. The proposal could include virtual sessions using an online program that connects us virtually OR we could work in person where you come into my office either over a series of weeks/months or over several days - which is what I call an Intensive.
Below is more information about the different ways I can work with you. But please know, each person is unique and so how we work together will be tailored to you.
An Individual Clearing Session
During this hour session, we will focus directly on an issue/behavior/challenge or habitual response that you are SO familiar with and SO OVER. I will assist you to clear your energy field of past ancestral conditioning, limiting beliefs and judgments. Often times these core patterns can be held in place by past lives.
NOTE: This is not a session of story-telling but a focused session for freeing your heart, clearing blocks in your consciousness and getting you unstuck.
Question: What if I want to do more sessions with you?
Answer: It is often wise to have one session and then schedule more if desired. You can let me know after we have had a session together.
Multiple Individual Sessions
Let's face it. Many times one session is just not enough. There may be many levels of clearing and several different times in your life that are tied to a specific issue, challenge, limiting belief or fear. The several session mentoring package gives us more time to make sure we cover what needs to be cleared thoroughly and allows time in between our sessions for integration. This mentoring package could also include a Noetic Balancing which can be done long distance or in person.
NOTE: Works well around one challenge that you would like to learn new tools to continue clearing and shifting.
Deep Dive Intensive or a Personal Retreat
Have you ever wished you could have a custom made-for-you spiritual intensive where you and your Guide have the time, space and clear intention to do the deep work necessary to shift a deeply entrenched belief system, trauma or reoccurring issue in your life?
In an intensive, we combine the luxury of time, intention and the guidance of your Soul to bring forward, in a grace-filled way, just exactly what needs to be cleared, released, healed and processed.
Plus we also have the time and clarity to create the next steps in
The Intensive also includes a Noetic Balancing – which clears your aura of blocks in your energy field from past physical, mental and emotional disturbance and how you have used these experiences against yourself.
NOTE: This Intensive can be done over 2-3 days in Santa Fe NM or long distance using Skype. Either way, you are encouraged to set aside these days as a personal retreat time so that maximum clearing, healing, and integration can take place. (approximately 10 hours of personal mentoring plus a follow-up check-in session for next steps)
Here is my invitation to you. If you would like to explore working with me further, please complete the Contact form below and let's set up a time for our initial conversation. And also, please know, that if I feel the work I do would not serve you at this time I will tell you. I want you to find the support you are seeking. My interest is for your greater good. But if I feel we would have a great partnership and I know the work would benefit you greatly, you can count on me supporting you 100%.
I look forward to hearing from you!
"Sacred Ambition Mentoring is a path of Self-Awakening. It is time to let go of the old and come out of hiding."
Your Sacred Ambition is expressing the essence of who you are through your deep soul calling …and doing it with courage, strength, clear seeing and inspired action.
Your Sacred Ambition is the outer expression of a much deeper
Your Sacred Ambition speaks to you through the places you feel the most vulnerable…and yet those are the places that hold hidden treasure.
Yes, it will challenge how you limit yourself and what part of your personal power you deny. But it will give you new eyes to see the greater vision for your life – the life you came here to live.
You will see that divine spark mirrored in the eyes of those that are walking with you. And you will know and accept all parts of yourself through their support and through their compassionate witness.
Your Sacred Ambition Mentoring is a 12-month intensive program designed to up-level your business, your clear path of personal and spiritual truth, your unique talents and gifts and your connection to following your Divine Guidance.
The 12-month mentorship covers
- Learning the inner spiritual tools to create a new inner foundation based in self-loving and self-compassion.
- Creating new reference points inside yourself for Loyalty to Self,
essenceand blessing, embodying Divine Power, and knowing and living your sacred ambition.
- Practical business guidance in making your 'vision' real so that you can build a level of momentum in your business or social initiative that pulls you forward on your intended path and bypasses the pitfalls that can sabotage inspired action.
Included in your year will be
Three retreats, Thought Leadership Calls, Self-Mastery Wisdom School One and Two, Professional Courses for business manifestation
A Participant shares about her experience of Sacred Ambition Mentoring
In her own words, Bianca shares her experience of participating in the Sacred Ambition 12 month Mentorship. Her experience of 'surprise' is often the case when we set out on an inner journey to bring our sacred calling out and live into our sacred ambition.
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We are building an arsenal, a resource, a loving place for people to go as they step out and learn to listen more to what God has to say. We know it takes encouragement and a lot of prayer, and you can come here for both of those things.
So to that end, if you have a story you would like to share about how this ministry has impacted you, your walk with the Lord, your marriage, or another relationship, would you share it with us?


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Having read some of your writing I will hazard a guess as to why it is that people are expecting more from you and your work: Your characters are extremely boring.
We're kind of off-topic here as far as the original question, but since you brought it up I will attempt to help. When I read your screenplay excerpts, I found them readable. I found them readable, like I find daytime soap operas watchable. That is, there was nothing wrong with the dialogue and how it flowed It was polished enough, it wasn't bad, but there was nothing there that made me give a chimpanzee's nipple about any of the characters.
This was mentioned in at least one of the critiques I gave you. More importantly, it was a running theme in most of the other critiques you got. Your characters all talked the same. None of them talked like human beings. There were no quirks, no idiosyncrasies, no peculiar turns of phrase or uses of slang or variations in accents indicating these were real-life people from different walks of life drawn together by whatever the situation was. They did not reference their personal lives, at least not in any way that was of interest. They did not crack jokes. They did not dig at each other. They were like cardboard cut-outs with voice-boxes installed. They all talked like you. They all over-explained, reacted with the same indifference to the information. They did not forget to put sugar in their tea or walk out of the bathroom with their fly unzipped. They did not get over-excited. They did not seem to have personal vendettas against each other, nor friendships for that matter. There was no undercurrent of emotion. Did character x (can't even remember any of their names - and I just re-looked thirty seconds before this post) have a particular like or dislike for other-character y or thing p? Don't know. Can't remember. Because it simply wasn't there.
All this might sound overly harsh, but if you're serious about understanding why people are not reacting more positively to your work, what you need to focus on IMO is not backstories for rapists but presence of personality. I understand in screenwriting it can be difficult, but understand that -- as you mention -- screen audiences are not looking for internal explanation of character. What they are looking for is external explanation of character that hints at internal character. What's the difference? The difference is in the kind of external character you create. Like an iceberg, you don't need to say everything that is internal (or anything, actually) but it needs to come across in other ways. They don't need you to be explaining things left and right but they do need you to develop and know these characters in a way that makes their external behavior (actions and dialogue) reflect an internal self that can then be suggested. Your characters all profoundly lack external character, so there's nothing to base any of that on.
I expect your next question is going to be 'oh okay thanks oh well how do I create good characters then?' if so, please don't bother. It's not something you will learn from a forum. It's something you will learn through going outside, watching people engage in the real world (particularly the kinds of people you are trying to write about in your work) and capturing who they are honestly and consistently as you pour your heart and soul and blood and toil into writing honestly as opposed to merely accurately.


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Bentley Motors celebrates its 100th birthday today by unveiling its vision of the future of luxury mobility at The Home of Bentley in Crewe. The Bentley EXP 100 GT is a physical embodiment of the future Bentley brand, reimagining Grand Touring for the future.
Beyond mere mobility, the Bentley EXP 100 GT concept car will enhance the owner's Grand Touring experience, whether driving or being driven autonomously.
Bentley EXP 100 GT is borne from pure Bentley DNA and inspired by the company's deep understanding of the desires of its intelligent, forward-thinking customers. Beautifully styled, it embraces Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a means to reassert the car as a place for creating, experiencing and capturing extraordinary human experiences and emotions.


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What is Drug Abuse?
1. pharmacology drug: a drug, especially one derived from opium, that has effects ranging from mild dulling of the senses, pain relief, and sleep, to stupor, coma, and convulsions. Most narcotics are addictive.
2. drugs illegal drug: a drug whose use is illegal, whether or not it is an addictive narcotic Encarta® World English Dictionary
Links to Laws on Drug & Alcohol Abuse
Involuntary Commitment
California Health & Safety Code 11550. (a) No person shall use, or be under the influence of any controlled substance
Welfare and Institutions Code 5170. When any person is a danger to others, or to himself, or gravely disabled as a result of inebriation, … place him in a facility …
Holding of supreme court that Welf. & Inst.C. ? 6650 providing that husband, wife, father, mother, or children of mentally ill person or inebriate (drunk) should be liable for his care, support, and maintenance in state institution of which he was an inmate denied equal protection of laws did not bar recovery by county from mother for medical care of son, who had been injured in automobile accident, and who had been admitted to county hospital at request of mother when he was 20 years old. Alameda County v. Kaiser (App. 1 Dist. 1965) 48 Cal.Rptr. 343, 238 Cal.App.2d 815. Child Support 113
The Americans With Disabilities Act gives full protection to students who have suffered from drug addiction or alcoholism in the past (not using currently). Information on college policy and procedures to be used when working with these students is avail able to all faculty. Specific accommodations must be determined on a case by case basis.
In Re: Spinks – Criminal Case having to do with Addiction
5350. A conservator of the person, of the estate, or of the person and the estate may be appointed for any person who is gravely disabled as a result of mental disorder or impairment by chronic alcoholism.
California Drug Courts Pasadena Dept. G.
The Commissioner in that department is truly a caring and compassionate Lady and Jurist.
One recent client should have gone to state prison, and she had said so before, and that he would if he failed out of the program again. He did fail, then split and jumped bail. He got caught. Maybe it was my eloquent plea, but it was really her not wanting to give up on him. A really smart talented young adult who spiraled out of control when a parent died. He's now in county awaiting a bed at Impact in Pasadena, one of the best toughest, but best programs I'm betting he makes it and he will go to thank her after its all said and done. Marc Legget, Esq.
Mental Health Criminal Division LA Superior Court
If the defendant successfully completes probation, he or she will be eligible for probation to be terminated, a PC 1203.4 dismissal or other result as contemplated by the initial plea agreement.
Links to get help for Drug & Alcohol Problems
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Leaving the EU with no deal would have "an impact on protecting the public", according to the home secretary.
Opening the second day of debate over the PM's Brexit withdrawal agreement, Sajid Javid backed her deal, saying it would ensure the UK stayed "one of the safest countries in the world".
But he admitted there was "further work to be done" on future co-operation.
Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said, at its worst, the deal would be "leading us off a cliff, on security".
Mr Javid also revealed his intention to publish a White Paper in December detailing plans for a new immigration system – but he could not guarantee the date.
He had earlier told the Home Affairs Committee that he hoped it would be released before the meaningful vote on the Brexit deal next Tuesday.
But pushed further about its publication date, Mr Javid said: "This is the most significant change in our immigration system in 45 years.
"Rather than rush the White Paper, it is important that we focus on the detail and we get it right and we get it out as soon as possible."
Ms Abbott said there had been promises the plan would be published several times since the summer of 2017, but it was still "missing".
She added: "What confidence can anyone have in post-Brexit immigration policies when ministers still seem as though they don't know what they want and they can't agree on what they want?"
'Fatally flawed'
Although Wednesday's eight-hour debating session is focusing on the two issues of security and immigration, former Tory minister Sam Gyimah took the opportunity to speak from the backbenches for the first time in six years.
Mr Gyimah – who quit his job as universities and science minister over Mrs May's Brexit deal – told the Commons he "loved" his job and did not take the decision to step down lightly.
But, he said the deal was "not politically or practically deliverable". He added: "Before we are Leavers or Remainers, we are British and it is the national interest that we care most about.
"The home secretary admitted that it might not be perfect, almost implying that this was like trying on a pair of shoes that were not the right colour and may be a little bit tight, but you could get on with it and it would be fine.
"But these are like shoes that have got holes in the sole. This deal is fatally flawed."


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Introduction: Laser Etched Leather Bracelets - Valentines Gifts
Create lovely leather bracelets etched with your favorite sayings/poems.
This project uses a laser cutter. You can make it at the Tech Shop http://www.techshop.ws/
I made these bracelets at the Mid-Peninsula Tech Shop on the 45 watt Epilog laser.
I teach these and other leather craft workshops at the TechShop MP. To find out when the next leather class is scheduled contact firstname.lastname@example.com or check the website for classes
The files are included for three bracelets with and without poems for use with Corel Draw or Adobe Illustrator.
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Step 1: Gather & Prep Your Materials
1. Vegetable tanned leather in any thickness between 3 oz to 6 oz (3/64" to 3/32")
2. High quality acrylic Ink in a light color. For this tutorial I used Daler-Rowney F.W. Acrylic Water Resistant Artist's Ink in pearl white and pearl pink.
3. Paintbrush
4. Water
5. A sponge
6. Paint pallet
7. Flexible acrylic varnish. Either a brush on or spray on. Kryolon spray varnish or a brush on craft varnish.
8. Elastic cord, ribbon, leather cord, or other fastener
Tandy Leather Factory - tandyleatherfactory.com – leather and leather tools
Wickett and Craig - wickett-craig.com – leather
Weaver Leather - weaverleather.com – leather and leather tools
Hide House -hidehouse.com - local leather supply in Napa CA
Blick - dickblick.com – arts supplies, ink, paints, brushes, varnish, paint pens
These items are also available at local arts and crafts supply stores. Support local businesses.
Michaels or JoAnns Fabrics – art supplies, jewelry supplies, glue, some leather tools
Prepare your leather:
Cut your leather to size 7" x 3"
Dip your leather in clean water
Sandwich the cut leather between two straight boards to flatten the leather. (see photo)
Leave for an hour or two, or overnight until the leather stays flat.
Step 2: Paint Your Leather
Light color inks will allow your etched poems to show up. If you use dark colored inks there will not be enough contrast to see the etched image.
Using two compatible colors as you paint adds visual interest. In the first photo yellow and light green were allowed to blend as they were painted onto the leather.
There are two sides of the leather, smooth and textured. Paint on the smooth side. Leave the suede, textured side unpainted.
1. In your paint pallet add pearl white ink in one compartment, pearl pink in another compartment, and a mix of the two colors in another compartment. Each time you dip your paintbrush into the ink dip into a different color. Allow the colors to blend on the leather as you paint.
2. Stroke your brush in a deliberate pattern such as along a diagonal line. Allow streaks of ink to show to add texture. Clean up globs of ink that collect on the side of the leather.
3. Allow the ink to dry before adding more coats. Add as many coats of ink as needed to get a color you are happy with.
4. Let the ink dry completely before using on the laser. Keep your leather flat.
Step 3: Prep Your Leather and Laser
The painted side of your leather should be dry so the paint does not smear. However, it can help to laser your leather when it is wet. Wet leather will lay flatter on the laser bed and will be less likely to scorch.
To wet the leather:
Turn the painted side over onto a clean piece of paper. Use a wet sponge to soak water onto the unpainted suede side of your leather. You will notice the leather getting darker where it is wet. Wet until it is evenly dark with water.
Make sure your leather is not dripping wet. Check your painted side to make sure that no touch ups are needed.
Place your leather in the upper left corner of the laser bed. Focus the laser according to manufacturer instructions.
Focusing Tip for Leather:
Leather is a natural material and can vary in thickness. Focus your laser in a few different places on your leather. Choose the focus setting for the thinnest part of your leather.
If your leather edges are not cut evenly you may want to set a new "home" so your vector cut will be inside the edge of your leather.
Step 4: Laser Settings
Open the "love bracelets" file in Corel Draw
Change your artboard size to 7" x 2.5" and center the artwork on the board if needed
Make sure your 0/0 point is in the top left corner of your artboard
I used the following settings in Corel Draw. Your settings may vary depending on your laser, the thickness of your leather and other factors. It is always best to bring extra material to test your settings.
45 watt Epilog Laser
Resolution: 400 dpi
Job Type: Combined
Piece Size: Horizontal 7" Vertical 2.5"
Raster Setting: Speed 55 Power 65
Image Dithering: Floyd Steinberg
Vector Setting: Speed 20 Power 60 Frequency 500
Print: 2 copies
Note: Three vector passes and/or a lower speed may be needed for thicker leather.
Step 5: Finish Your Bracelets
Your leather may have scorch or soot marks.
Get your sponge damp with clean water, not dripping wet. Gently wipe the soot marks off the leather.
Be careful not to rub so hard that you smear your ink.
Wipe the cut edges of the leather to remove soot.
Allow the leather to dry completely.
After the leather has dried spray or paint on an acrylic varnish to protect your painting from dirt and sweat. Do not use too much varnish or it will crack. A light coat is all that is needed.
Allow the varnish to dry.
Cut a piece of cord or ribbon about 11" long for each bracelet. Adjust for the size of your wrist. String through the holes of the bracelet. Place the bracelet on your wrist. Tie the ribbon or cord.
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Nice instructable Alyssa - interesting to know wet leather is better!
Thank you :) Yes, if you are using veg. tanned leather it does help to get it wet. You can also etch on garment/oil tanned leather. Oil tanned leather does not like to get wet, it can stain. See you at TS.
Wonderful! Do you happen to know if this would work on fake leather or vinyl? Thanks!!
The laser etching would work but not the dye
Please email me back, Thanks
Hi, I have replied to all the messages I received from you. I am not available to make you a custom order. Thank you. Sincerely, Alyssa
Why not?
Please email me back, Thanks
How much would you charge for a custom one? I would like a John Wayne Quote!
Hi Ethan, I'd be happy to, please contact me at my website for custom orders http://ravenwoodmasks.mysupadupa.com/contact
It's brilliant, and perfect for many other occasions!!!
Thank you J :)


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"It's rare to see a comedian really grab an audience by the balls and take them on the ride with them, but that's what you get with Mark. From the second he steps on stage you notice him. He's everything that a TV comic would love to be; clever, fearless, constantly improving and in less than a year of gigging, he has left a massive stamp on the circuit, which gets bigger with every gig" - Just For Laughs
For the last few years Mark has been plying his comedy trade across the UK. Constantly evolving, usually unpredictable; he is garnering positive reactions everywhere he goes.
During this time Mark has shared the bill with likes of Gary Delaney, Shazia Mirza, Nick Helm & Isy Suttie. In 2010 he was one quarter of the Edinburgh Fringe Show �No Free Lunch� and returned in 2011 with the show �Journey to the Centre of Somewhere.�
A gay comedian who bucks the trend by being about as camp as a Die Hard boxset, Mark thrills crowds with his tales of dead end jobs, his family, being the less than grateful winner of Bedford Comedian of the Year (although we're quite proud of his win) as well as his sexuality.


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What better way to start the year than with a clean e-mail slate?
I went through my e-mail accounts on New Year's Day to process it back to Inbox Zero – the state it was in weeks ago, which I wrote about in a blog post here.
It took me less than a day to process the e-mails that had accumulated in December. It took much less time because I had done the grunt work in September. For weeks after that initial work, I was able to maintain the Inbox Zero state of my main e-mail account with regular reviews.


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Come join Mo and the gang for a fun chat with Leslie Kelly!
The chat will be held Wednesday night (June 20th) in the RRT chat room starting at 9:00 EST.
Link to the chat is here:
Or go to www.romrevtoday.com and chick on the chat icon.
The chat will be held in Mo's Book Buzz room. No need to register a chat room nickname or password is needed. Leslie will be giving away a door prize.
Check out Leslie's website: http://lesliekelly.com/


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Dill is a tasty and versatile herb. The Superdukat variety is specially bred for flavour and for a compact shape. Plants high yielding, slow to bolt and easy to grow. Plants reach a height of 50-60cm and are suitable for the garden and containers. The leaves and seeds are used to flavour salads, savoury dishes and condiments. They have very attractive flowerheads and are great ornamental plants.
Dill Superdukat grows best in a sunny place in light soil. Leaves can be harvested from about 60-80 days and trimmed at regular intervals. Sow every few weeks for a continuous supply. Stop cutting once the flowers grow and let them set seed, as the seeds are used ground or whole for flavouring.
Pack of approx 500 seeds. Sow outdoors directly into the soil from March to July. Seeds can be started in small pots and transplanted later. Sowing instructions and a colour photo are printed on the seed packet.
See how your seeds are packed.
For indoor cultivation: Sow in spring on the surface of small pots of moist seed compost. Cover very lightly with compost or vermiculite, and keep at room temperature. Germination takes 2-3 weeks. Water sparingly and give the plants good light. Protect the roots on transplanting as they do not like disturbance. For outdoor cultivation: Sow late March to July directly in the soil 5mm deep in rows 15cm apart, and thin to 20-30cm apart. Sow in a sunny place with well-drained soil. Sow regularly for a continuous supply of leaves.
Water plants during dry spells. Harvest leaves regularly, not taking too much from the plant at one time, as more leaves will grow. Excess leaves can be frozen. Stop trimming leaves once the flowers form and harvest the seeds once they have dried. Naturally dried seeds are ground or used whole, and are good for sprouting. Discard plants once seeds are harvested and sow again in spring. Plants are likely to self-seed.


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Hi everyone,
So I live in qld (2hrs north of nsw boarder) and have been trying to find information on how I can get into the state forests for a self guided hunt. In qld we just need permission from the land owner as we dont have access to public land, but I am getting a little confused with what steps to take from here. I know I need an R-type licence but can not find information on obtaining one specifically for new as a qld resident. If thes application for a r license requires I be in an approved club does that have to be state specific as well? Sorry for the silly questions but I am new to hunting (or having the desire to hunt) and reading the DPI NSW website isnt answering everything I want to know.
Thank you in advance for any info u can provide.
Aif (0_o)


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England has the winter roast, Russia brings out the Borscht, France provides the delicious onion soup, but if you're heading to South Australia, it's Pie Floaters that stand out as one of our most iconic dishes. While not everybody is a fan, it's definitely something people seek out in the colder weather, so we've pulled together a list of where you can find some traditional, some weird, and some wonderful versions of the dish that usually consists of a meat pie nestled in some warming pea soup.
The West Oak Hotel
One of the best pie floaters in town is right at the West Oak Hotel. With a treasured recipe handed down from head chef Tim West's ancestors, you can expect a pie from the famous Red Door bakery but with a twist, you'll find the pie floating in a pool of peas, topped with the delightfully South Australian Beerenberg tomato sauce.
West Oak offers pub grub on another level, Tim's time with his mother and Maggie Beer at Pheasant Farm has taught him what honest Aussie pub food, done the right way, can accomplish. Everyone can enjoy (now that there are vegan, nut free, gluten free options available) something with chips on the side.
Kings Head Pub
If you want to expand your taste range, the Kings Head Pub on the corner of King William and Sturt Street offers a choice between a mean brisket floater or a leek and spinach option, on a bed of green pea soup.
The Archer Hotel
The Archer Hotel in North Adelaide also houses a beef, mushroom and stout pie on pea puree.
Café De Vili's
Who could go past a late night pie floater at Café De Vili's! Open 24/7, it's always there for when you get a sudden pie floater craving. Grab one with their traditional beef pie option, or mix it up with one of their flavoured pies. You can hit up with their Blair Athol location, or Mile End South.
Bakers Edge, West Beach
This little neighbourhood bakery in West Beach offers up cafe food and coffee, plus of course, the all-important Pie Floater. You'll find them at 9 West Beach Road.
Agent Go Go
Make it a floater! Branching out from simply using pies, Agent Go Go are offering up a Pie Floater upgrade on any pastry. Just add $5 to the bill, and you can add Julie's tasty pea soup into the mix. You'll find Agent Go Go at 46A Semaphore Road, Semaphore.
Black Dog Gallery
This has to be the FANCIEST pie floater we've come across. It's almost not a pie floater, but we thought it included all the key ingredients so we'd add it to the list. This dish serves up pulled Char-Siu pork with Tonkatsu sauce and Mozzarella cheese, in house-made pie crust, on Edamame pea puree and Mentsuyu nap sauce. Confused? Just look at the photo. It looks DELICIOUS. You'll find them at Shop 4/455 Greenhill Road Tusmore.
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We welcome the return of this iconic Aussie winter meal and encourage you to order it when you're out next. Know of anywhere we've missed? Email [email protected] to add your favourite to the list.
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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Has anyone read the entire text of the stimulus package?
The ambiguity of this question is intentional.
For those reading this post who have read the entire text, would you please comment on it? What are the highlights, what are the important hidden details, do you think it will work, whatever you want to say.
On the more literal interpretation of my question, how many people do you think actually have read the entire text, particularly those in Congress and the Administration? My supposition is that very few have, and I wonder even if Obama has read every single page. This would not be a surprising revelation, but rather a practical "necessity" of our current political process. Presumably each decision maker has a staff of people who do read and analyze every clause in a bill and who summarize for their boss.
Now, if it's the case that no Member or Senator has actually read the entire final draft of the stimulus package — and even if some have but the majority have not — then this says something interesting about the crowdsourced nature of our body politic. But I'm not sure what :-)
Would legislation be different (and how) if everyone who proposed, voted on, or had veto power over legislation actually read every word themselves?
Would we, the People, be better off, worse off, or the same?
Assuming that crowdsourcing the legislative process is a practical necessity, how could that process be improved (practically speaking)?


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"Park Place" Student Housing, LA Tech University
Joint Venture with Ashe Broussard Weinzettle Architects
New $17 million apartment style student housing of 550 beds
This project was a Joint Venture of the Tipton Associates/ABW Architects team. Park Place student housing added 348 additional beds to the new campus housing community. Opened to students in August 2009, it was designed as a catalyst for denser urban development to join the campus to downtown Ruston. The five unique unit types support a diverse student resident population which includes both undergraduate and graduate level students.
Over the past eight years, the team has completed over $55 million of uniquely designed facilities that will serve our campus for many years. From the beginning, the team engaged a wide range of individuals from the campus community to conduct focus groups that determined our unique design features. These exercises yielded a consensus on the campus and ultimately resulted in award-winning design. In addition, every phase of the construction process was delivered in the allotted time, within the budget, and with craftsmanship that exceeded our expectation.
— Dr. James King Vice President Student Affairs
Ruston, LA
117,545 sf
Construction Cost
$17.5 million


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When you try adding a new user through the Add New User screen it will either give you an error: "Only characters A-Z allowed", and/or it will freeze on that screen and you have to click "stop" on your browser or it looks like the page just keeps trying to reload.
The user is actually still being added regardless of the errors, but I need to get this functioning properly for the client. Thank you!


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U.S. Capitol police are investigating the discovery of at least two suspicious packages in Senate office buildings and "the individual who delivered them is being questioned," Sergeant at Arms Terence Gainer said on Wednesday.
Gainer said in an email the packages were delivered to at least two Senate offices.
The development comes on the day after a letter mailed to Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi was found in two preliminary tests to contain ricin, a potentially fatal poison. The letter was intercepted at an off-site facility where all mail to the Senate is screened.
It was not clear whether there was a connection between the letter and the envelopes.
Other officials said one of the packages had been discovered in the Russell Building, and the second in the Hart office building.


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Practical Tips for Home Defense
Guess what: Someone has broken into your house, and he's in the next room. You have your firearm drawn and ready to defend yourself and your family or maybe it's just you and your fish (I have a Beta fish named Sushi). If you are required to shoot an intruder you should think about some things.
TIP 1: Be mentally prepared. Practice awareness of your surroundings under pressure. Certainly decide if you could respond to an intruder with lethal force. Being in a life and death situation and suddenly realizing that you cannot respond is not a situation that anyone wants to be in. Know the law and abide by it.
TIP 2: Develop your shooting skills. Know how to handle your gun, practice different shooting positions (safely) and practice, practice, practice.
TIP 3: Light helps dim fear. Keep a flashlight near you if you do not have one attached to your firearm. Practice holding both at the same time. Don't be afraid of flipping the light switch to the on position. I know, right? Who would have thought sweeping a room with the lights on makes it easier. You would be surprised.
TIP 4: Keep your keys close to your bed. If you think someone is in your house, or even outside trying to get in, you would be surprised by how effective a car alarm can be as a deterrant. Also, should you escape, you will want to be prepared to get away from the intruder.
TIP 5: Plan, plan, plan. Know where your family is, have a code word or plan, one that is simple for everyone at any age to follow, one that once barked out there is not a lot of stone faces looking back at you asking questions. Know safe bullet trajectories and make sure you practice positions that do not fire into your loved ones' rooms.
TIP 6: Pets. I know my fish is not going to do much against a group of armed assailants, heck it does not do much against the food I put in its bowl, but dogs, even the smallest, will bark, and this gives you an advantage. An early warning system that will lick your face and its own butt. Ahhh puppy love.
TIP 7: Cover and concealment. Knowing the difference is very important. Concealment hides you but would not stop a bullet, cover on the other hand is a surface that will stop a bullet. Don't forget that bullets can easily penetrate drywall. This is important to remember defensively and offensively. While your couch can hold you and 10 of your friends up while you jump around and cheer on your favorite football team, stuffing is a poor deterrent for a bullet. Go to your safe area.
TIP 8: If you are with someone (and not a lonely shut-in), don't lock them in the "safe area" and go wandering looking for trouble. You only expose yourself and them to danger. Call the police. Barricade behind cover or concealment and call 911. Don't put yourself, your family or your fish in harm's way. If you are locked up and are safe in the designated safe area, and they can not, or are not going to get you, stay put.
TIP 9: Prepare your home. Makes sure you have whatever combination of lights, locks and landscaping make your home as safe as possible.
In the end, if you are in a situation where you are required to use your firearm to protect yourself and your loved ones and you are required to talk to the police, listen to this advice if nothing else. Don't say anything without a lawyer. I am not advocating not talking to the police, I have the utmost respect for those who are willing to lay their life down to protect mine. Unless you are a soldier of fortune or a gun for hire, pulling the trigger on another human being can be very traumatic. You need time to absorb what has happened. For example if you tell police you fired two shots, and they look to see you fired everything you had plus reloaded twice, they may look at you a little differently. Again under stressful situations things move and happen at a different pace.
None of this should be considered legal counsel. If you have questions about self defense you should consult an attorney familiar with your local laws and regulations. For further questions regarding these tips, please seek an NRA certified counselor or take a Personal Protection in the Home class.


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Hey, the first inning went down easily enough. Both pitchers issued walks; both runners stayed on first. But...
Orlando Hudson led of with a line single, and Kyle Banks followed with a double to left that had Matt Diaz running in circles. But Kevin Correia hung tough; he allowed one run to score on a bouncer, but managed the inning pretty well after watching his right fielder do the reel. Mat Latos had no such problem; the Bucs went three up, three down.
Will Venable started the third by whacking a first pitch meatball into center for a leadoff knock, and stole second on the next pitch. Jason Bartlett smacked an 0-2 curve to short; Venable had a Lastings Milledge moment and was thrown out trying to get to third. Maybin walked on four pitches, more due to ump Brain Runge squeezing the plate than with Correia's control. Jesus Guzman made up by banging a first pitch slider to short; Wood started a 6-4-3 DP.
With two away, Xavier Paul collected the first Bucco hit when he rolled a ball up the middle. The euphoria didn't last long; two pitches later, he was caught stealing.
Not only did Correia pitch a clean fourth, but he picked up a pair of K's while he was at it. Latos also put the Bucs away without a peep. After four, it was 1-0 San Diego.
Correia kept dealing; the Padres went down 1-2-3. Unfortunately, so did Pittsburgh. With two away in the sixth, Guzman worked KC for a nine pitch at bat, finally dropping a soft single into center and Hudson followed with a five pitch walk. Blanks, hitting .182, walked on a 3-2 fastball to load the bases.
KC got ahead of Logan Forsythe 1-2. After not getting the call on the next pitch, he left a slider down the middle and Forsythe banged it into center to score a pair, and he went to second on the throw home. Forsythe has 3 RBI this game; he had three all season coming into today. And Brian Runge is probably off Correia's Christmas card list after this inning.
That brought in D-Mac. Correia went 5-2/3 innings, giving up four runs on five hits with four walks and three K's. McCutchen intentionally walked Luis Martinez to load the bases and get to Latos. D-Mac wild-pitched a run home - Dewey had already saved him once with a block - before getting the out. Two sliders in the dirt against the pitcher...that's a lot of respect. And it made the score 4-0 San Diego as they continue to maximize their scoring - five hits, four runs.
Wood opened the Buc half with a single. Steve Pearce pinch hit; his soft roller to second moved Wood up a station. Paul and Diaz hit into routine outs to leave him there.
Brad Lincoln came on; Venable drilled a single up the middle to welcome him back to the show. he stole second and went to third when Dewey's toss went into center. Bartlett poked a curve softly into right, in front of Jones to bring Venable home. Bad Brad quickly recovered to get the next three outs, two by strikeout, throwing 93-94 MPH. The Bucs went down in order again.
Blanks opened the eighth with a double to right center. The next hitter, Forsythe, was HPB. After a strikeout and sac bunt, Venable drilled a first pitch heater for a two run double to make it 7-0.
Dewey singled to start the eighth off for Pittsburgh. Pedro fell behind 0-2, took a couple of pitches away, and lined a knock up the middle. That was enough to bring Chad Qualls on for San Diego. Wood gave him a rude welcome by pounding his seventh homer of the year a few feet inside the left field pole to make it 7-3.
After an out, Paul rapped a single into left, and McCutch grabbed a bat to pinch hit. He hit into a force, as did Walker, and the rally fizzled. Hanny came out of the pen to work the ninth, and mowed down SD just as if he was clinging to a one run lead.
Josh Spence worked the ninth for the Padres. With two away, injury was added to insult when Dewey got nicked by a pitch. Pedro bounced out, and the Bucs finished 0-7 on a homestand they had to have.
Well, we got a look at Bad Brad. He's challenging guys now instead of nibbling, but living too much in the center of the plate. His command and maybe plan of attack have a bit of fine tuning to go. Pedro is still hitting with two strikes all the time, but at least today he got a knock and hung tough against a lefty, so he's slowly getting on track Time to pack up and head to the coast; a change of scenery can't hurt.
Charlie Morton takes on Ryan Vogelsong tomorrow night in San Francisco.
- This is the first time in team history that the Pirates have gone winless in a homestand of seven games or more.
- The Padres scored 35 runs on 40 hits this series and stranded just 19 runners.
- Today's attendance was 35,601 for a series total of 112,618, the fourth largest three day crowd in PNC Park history.
- The Bucs ended last night's game with a team meeting called by Matt Diaz. We'd love to have the walls rat out what was said, not that it helped any.
- Derreck Lee missed a fourth straight day with a bruised hand. But for the first time, he was listed as available for duty although he didn't get in the game.
- Alex Presley took early BP with the team and then headed to Bradenton to begin his rehab regimen.


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It has been pushed off the literary map for 200 years, but now Somerset is fighting back. It is about to wage a campaign to reclaim the Romantic poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, from the Lake District.
Galvanised by a new film about the two radical writers, which has just been shot on location in the area, the West Country is feeling bullish. 'I suppose it is surprising that we have not made this link clear before,' said Elaine Ford, one of those working for recognition of Somerset's stake in the so-called 'Lakeland Poets'.
'We certainly have a very special story down here, and I believe people will find it fascinating to come and see some of the places that really inspired these poems. It is something that will be particularly interesting to visitors from overseas.'
In a concerted attack on the accepted idea that Dove Cottage in Grasmere is the true birthplace of the Romantic movement, West Country historians and tourist officers are pointing out that the two great poets of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries actually met and wrote some of their best known lines in the South West, and not in the Lake District.
'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', the haunting story of the curse of the albatross, and the fantastical poem 'Kubla Khan' were both composed by Coleridge after long walks near his Somerset home. He also plotted out the shape of the Lyrical Ballads with his friend and neighbour Wordsworth during walks they took together on the Quantock Hills in 1797 and 1798.
Cumbria and the Lakes have benefited for far too long, Ford and her colleagues in the Somerset tourist industry believe, from an interna tional literary association which turns out to be debatable.
Coleridge was born in Ottery St Mary, Devon, and lived in Nether Stowey at the foot of the Quantocks. Wordsworth, who was born in what is now Cumbria, moved to Alfoxton in Somerset with his sister Dorothy in the late 1700s. They went back to the Lake District at the turn of the century and spent the remainder of their lives up there, but the time the young poets spent together in the West Country was arguably their most productive and influential period.
Last summer film stars Linus Roache and John Hannah went to the Quantocks to shoot Pandemonium , a film version of the turbulent friendship. They shot one key sequence inside Wookey Hole, the vast cave network Coleridge visited, along with the nearby Cheddar Gorge, just before he created his mysterious Xanadu with its 'caverns measureless to man'.
While it is true the poet also took three grains of opium to ease the creative process, literary historians agree the caves and gorge are the geographical features that sparked his imagination. The poet was famously prevented from completing this work when a 'person on business' from the nearby village of Porlock disturbed him.
Coleridge's longer, ghostly poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' begins as a seafarer tells his story in a harbour that must be that at Watchet, on the edge of the Somerset Levels. So far the coastal town celebrates its claim to fame with a single, faded window display. In October things are due to change.
'Our booklets and new tours for small groups will highlight all the important places to visit,' said Ford, for whom the project has become a crusade.
Her fellow tourist officer on the other side of the county, Martin Woods, is more resigned about the way the Lake District has stolen a march on Somerset.
'The trouble is we have concentrated on the traditional coastal resorts like Minehead, and rather assumed the Lakes had already got the Romantic poets for good,' he said.
But for Marc Haynes, who runs a museum near Yeovil, the problem is that the county has been disorganised. 'We have had too many different district officers working on their own. Somerset is not a big county and we really should have been working together to get our message across.'
The Wordsworth Trust, based in Dove Cottage, Grasmere, is confidently waiting to knock back the West Country challenge.
'This is where Wordsworth grew up and it is where he returned in 1799 and lived for most of his life,' said Dr Robert Woof, who is the trust director. 'It is true that the period they spent in Somerset was perhaps the most vital vortex in English literature. It was a crucible, but it was not the whole story.
'Much of Wordsworth's work there in his Lyrical Bal lads was a reflection on his childhood years up here.'
This week the trust is running a winter school to mark 200 years since Coleridge and Wordsworth went to the Lakes together. 'We want to celebrate their amazing friendship and I hope this new film will do the same. I believe they did shoot some scenes up here as well.'
Woof has two concerns about Pandemonium ; first, the story may be used to champion the importance of Somerset over Dove Cottage and, second, Wordsworth may be portrayed as a traitor to the friendship, even as a spy. 'The relationship between them was symbiotic and so, of course, it was a difficult one. Coleridge's growing addiction to opium obviously caused them problems.'
Woof also suspects that the story will be simplified - yet, despite the coincidence that his daughter, the actress Emily Woof, will be playing the part of Dorothy Wordsworth, he was not consulted on the film.
'These men had a very close friendship and they only fell out for a short time. I would like their work to be celebrated all over Britain.'


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- Wooden Furniture (visible grain & knots are especially nice)
- Paint - I used "Cilantro", non-shiny finishes are best.
- Paint Brushes - I like synthetic.
- Drop Cloth / Old Sheets
- Orbital Sander + Pads: Coarse & Fine
- Protection: Gloves, Goggles & Mask. Safety first!
- Minwax Polycrylic - Satin
Gently stir your seal. This is important! I made the mistake once of not stirring, and my "satin" came out "glossy". The company explained that if it settles that will happen. So learn from me, and stir (not shake) that polycrylic. Use a synthetic brush and start coating your seal on. One coat is enough for basic protection, but if you think it will get heavy use, go with a second. I actually did a third on just the seat for even more protection. You're done! Here's mine:
I especially love that top piece there. Turning a rounded edge into multiple flat edges definitely gives this chair a hand chiseled look. So how did you do? This is my favorite technique by far. Just think, those who don't ask will assume you chiseled this chair piece by piece from some old tree, and that's just fine. It just goes to show that the furniture we already own can almost always be brought back to life instead of tossing them aside.


text: After Sunday Mass at 11 a.m., enjoy a Valentine's week banquet lunch at Windsor Avenue Bible Church on Feb. 10. All churchgoers are welcome. The dining hall will be decked in red and pink, and there will be a bounce house and play area for children. Lunch is free. Register at windsoravenuebiblechurch.org.


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Well, the season one finale of The Fosters left us with plenty of questions to tackle in season two. Will Callie get adopted? Can Jude possibly get any cuter? Will Timothy actually be a good dude and sign that contract? Are we going to be dealing with Lena and Stef's totally stupid decision to go ahead and get pregnant without a signed contract forever? Did Mike make Ana disappear? There's plenty of drama set up for next season, so until June this is our last batch of #GaydyBunch tweets and you all brought you A game.
Come back later for the full recap.


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ANTROPOMORPHIA In The Studio Recording New Album Merciless Savagery
December 3, 2018, a year ago
Unholy Dutch death metallers Antropomorphia are currently busy in the studio recording their next long-player, Merciless Savagery. The album is being recorded at Aftermath Studios and will be produced by drummer Marco Stubbe. Mastering duties will be handed over to the infamous Dan Swanö in December for a tentative release in spring of 2019.
Comments Antropomorphia: "As we shred closer to the end of the recordings of our fourth full length album, everything feels more pervasive than ever before. While we went through some unsettling dark and overwhelming times during the writing of this album, which is not necessarily something negative in our realm, it gave us the hostile anger and exact perspective to move forward and create this audial landscape. Our origins are weaved within the structure of this album but there was a lot of new ground to be discovered. It's brutal, it's dark, it's hateful, filled with infectious riffs and a 'fuck you' to a mostly repetitive scene."
In other news the band had a lineup change just recently. Bassist Marc van Stiphout has left the band and Antropomorphia have called Jeroen Pleunis to duty. "Marc parts ways with us with no hardship or ill will. Marc's follow up is Jeroen Pleunis (Villainy), Jeroen is no stranger to the band and he will bring his talent and raging madness to our fold. As the landscape changes a new era begins, gates will open and spew forth a beast of hellish ferociousness."
Antropomorphia lineup:
Ferry Damen - vocals, guitar
Jos van den Brand - guitar
Jeroen Pleunis - bass
Marco Stubbe - drums
(Photo by Dennis Wassenburg)


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Christine Monson always does thorough research into the historical settings of her books and then serves up a great story. Such is This Fiery Splendor.
Annalise Devon was the daughter of a missionary to China where she was raised until her mother died. Then her father took her to India. It was there in that beautiful, mysterious land that she met and fell in love with Col. Derek Clavell, a wealthy aristocrat and an officer in the East India Company army. When her father suddenly dies, 17-year-old Annalise is made Derek's ward by her father's wishes. Then Derek is severely wounded in a battle at the Khyber Pass and must return to England.
In England, Annalise and Derek become lovers yet she knows he will never be hers. Not only does he have a beautiful fiancé, but he has just become his father's heir to the title. She is just the poor daughter of a missionary. So she returns to India and finds a man who loves her…
Monson gives us some very exciting scenes as Derek pursues the woman he loves and he and Annalise are caught up in the Indian Rebellion of 1857, depicting the horror of the battles where civilians were killed along with the British and Sepoys. And in the midst of it, Derek's fiancé shows up.
All the history is here, rich in detail. Great characters, well drawn and meaningful dialog. And more angst than you could want. You'll have to find it used but it's worth it. Highly recommended.


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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the primary cause of death amongst women, killing 8.6 million worldwide every year – more than all forms of cancer combined. But because the traditional view of CVD is male-oriented, many women remain unaware of the specific risk factors and assume they are less likely to suffer from stroke, heart failure or heart attack. Evidence shows that this assumption is dangerously incorrect, and that there are significant gender differences in both symptoms and disease progression.
The contest attracted a number of very high quality entries, with the Latvian Society of Cardiology declared the winner by a panel of experts. The submissions from the Society of Cardiology of the Russian Federation and the Spanish Society of Cardiology were commended and awarded second and third place respectively. Each of the top three receive a financial contribution to the cost of running their campaigns, while campaign templates and materials are freely available to other national societies to adapt to run within their own countries.
Professor Marco Stramba-Badiale is internationally acclaimed as an expert on CVD in women. He is Director of the Department of Geriatrics and Cardiovascular Medicine at the Instituto Auxologico Italiano in Milan and is a former chair of the ESC's 'Cardiovascular Diseases in Women' task force. "The belief that somehow women are protected from cardiovascular disease is completely wrong," he says. "Statistics from the World Health Organisation in 2008 actually show that 55% of female deaths in the EU are due to heart attack, stroke and other conditions compared to just 43% of males. There is also a sharp increase in risk in post-menopausal women due to hormone changes and weight gain."
Research has highlighted the disturbing gender gap in many aspects of CVD. For instance:
Commenting on these findings, Professor Stramba-Badiale observes, "Thanks to the work began by the ESC back in 2005, researchers are now ensuring better female representation in clinical trials and are beginning to report results by gender. This is good news, but much more needs to be done. It's crucial that we continue to emphasise that women do not have a lower risk of CVD than men. What they have is a delayed risk and, because the symptoms and progression do not follow the so-called classic pattern, anything we can do to inform women of the danger signs is positive and worthwhile."
The qualifying criteria for the contest required, as a minimum, that campaigns involved at least two other national or local organisations, and that the outcomes could be measured. Applicants were strongly advised to ensure that their campaigns took full advantage of existing support materials produced by the ESC, EHN and WHF. Summarising the top three entries:
The ESC project follows on from the successful Red Alert for Women's Heart research and conference undertaken as part of the EU-funded EuroHeart project. A similar programme was created by the American Heart Association called Go Red for Women and is run globally by the World Heart Federation. Both aimed to highlight the disturbing gaps in public awareness of the risk factors to women from CVD. The objectives of the Women@Heart contest are fully aligned with the ESC mission to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease in Europe.
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VIPER movie series was once 'booming' in the country around the mid-1990s for ever aired by one of the national private tv station. In this film, looks a silver advanced nan futuristis silver car driven by the main character. The car was nicknamed "Viper Defender".
According to reliable sources, the Viper Defender is built on a Dodge Viper RT / 10 coupe that has been modified in such a way as to the exterior and interior. Unfortunately, it is not known what about the engine. However, it is estimated that the default Dodge Viper RT / 10 standard.
Noted there are 14 units Dodge Viper RT / 10 used for the making of the film. And amazingly, everything was done manually for 40 days by a home modification workshop located in Las Vegas, United States called 'Unique Movie Cars'.
This workshop also builds the cars used in the movie "Back To The Future" and "The A-Team".


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When I was growing up my dad lived on Foster Street at the mouth of Weequahic Park. It was a block that always had a lot of working class families, a building for seniors and other units with a big mix of people. The park was the place where everyone gathered but you didn't see these stark differences between them anymore. There was all sorts of people that would use it coming...
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Come this time of year, and especially a few hours from now, there will be two topics of conversation:
- Who got left out and who shouldn't have gotten in.
- Who the #1 seed are.
A lot of times we more or less know who the four #1 seeds will be heading into The Selection Show, but today there will be definite drama.
Related: See the latest bracket predictions from Andy Bottoms.
Kentucky and Syracuse seem to have #1 seeds locked and sealed. North Carolina also seems like a look regardless of what happens in today's ACC Tournament Championship Game.
That leaves one #1 seed up for grabs, with a number of teams seeming to have solid cases for it.
Potential 4th #1 Seeds
- Record: 25-7
- Strength of Schedule: #1
- RPI Ranking: #4
- KenPom Rank: #3
- Record versus top 25: 8-5
- Notes: Tied for Big Ten regular season title; split season series with Ohio State; playing Buckeyes today in Big Ten Championship game.
Ohio State Buckeyes
- Record: 27-6
- Strength of Schedule: #16
- RPI Ranking: #6
- KenPom Rank: #2
- Record versus top 25: 7-5
- Notes: Tied for Big Ten regular season title; split season series with Michigan State; playing Buckeyes today in Big Ten Championship game.
Missouri Tigers
- Record: 30-4
- Strength of Schedule: #106
- RPI Ranking: #10
- KenPom Rank: #8
- Record versus top 25: 4-1
- Notes: Won Big 12 Tournament title; beat Kansas at home; lost to Kansas in Lawrence.
Kansas Jayhawks
- Record: 27-6
- Strength of Schedule: #18
- RPI Ranking: #7
- KenPom Rank: #4
- Record versus top 25: 5-4
- Notes: Won Big 12 regular season title; beat Missouri at home; last to Missouri on the road.
Who Should Be The 4th #1 Seed?
As far as I'm concerned, the winner of today's Big Ten Tournament Championship Game should receive the 4th #1 seed. My reasoning is as follows:
- The Big Ten has been the best and deepest conference in the country this season. That Michigan State and Ohio State both have tougher strengths of schedule rankings than Kansas and Missouri helps to prove that.
- Coming into today, Ohio State and Michigan State both have at least two more top-25 wins than Kansas and three more than Missouri.
- The Buckeyes and Spartans tied for the Big Ten regular season title (with Michigan), and they split their season series. Whoever wins today's game can truly lay claim to being the better of the two and thus deserving of a higher seed. Missouri is the Big 12 Tournament champion, but Kansas won the regular season title; they split their two meetings. Though I think Kansas' resume is more impressive, there is not clear line of difference between the two, making them perfect to be on the same seed line.
- In terms of the eye test, both Michigan State and Ohio State are playing terrific basketball right now, each having dispatched top-15 teams as recently as yesterday. Missouri is obviously peaking as well, but no more so than either MSU or OSU, and thus not enough to compensate for their comparative dearth of quality wins.
So that's my pick: the winner of the Michigan State-Ohio State game should be the 4th #1 seed; and I think that's who will get it as well.
For the record, Joe Lunardi has Michigan State on the #1 line right now and Ohio State as a #2, leading me to believe that he's swap the two if Ohio State wins. Our Andy Bottoms also has Michigan State on the #1 line, so I think he'd do the same.
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Just a reminder, the Blue Gray Breweriana Show takes place this week. The show runs Wednesday, February 11 through Saturday, February 15, in Fredericksburg. This year marks the 30th Anniversary of "the biggest breweriana show in the East." In addition to loads of breweriana, there's a hospitality room that offers opportunities for tasting a wide variety of beers, including special brews sent in just for this event. I've got a busy schedule this week, but I hope to get by the show at least once.
See the Blue Gray Show web site for more details.
Some guy's shooting journey, capped with a good beer at the end of the day.
Whiskey and cigars too.
Sic semper tyrannis!
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Blue Gray Breweriana Show Is This Week
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1 September 2015
CIP Publishes Updated Construction Environmental Manual
Construction Industry Publications (CIP) has updated its Construction Environmental Manual, providing even more support to companies to improve the way they manage environmental issues during construction.
Written by experts from a wide cross section of the UK's leading construction companies, the latest edition of the Environmental Manual will provide those at site management and supervisory level with an understanding of the key legislation, details of what must be done in order to comply, and best practice examples in both the planning and construction phases.
The new edition includes:
• Descriptions of the most common Environmental Assessment Schemes for construction projects
• New Ecology and Energy Checklists
• The Building Management and Post Occupancy Evaluation process
• The Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme Regulations 2014 (ESOS) and the requirements for compliance
• The Energy Company Obligation (ECO)
• Updated information on the areas of UK under 'water stress' and the amendments to the Permitting Regulations (EPR 2010)
• A section on Embodied Carbon and the Circular Economy.
The Construction Environmental Manual is priced at £160 + P&P and CIP is offering a 25% discount for all customers who buy it in January and February making it just £120. Members are eligible for a 10% discount which also applies to all other construction-related publications purchased from CIP.
To place an order with CIP, call 0870 078 4400 or visit the CIP website.


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The Liberal Democrats have urged the government to take action on sharply rising homelessness by making the nation's pavements more comfortable to lie down on.
'We Liberal Democrats are entirely content with the Government's plan to cut everything drastically and immediately, potentially making thousands more people homeless,' said Lib Dem peer Shirley Williams. 'But I understand concrete is terribly hard and cold. If Britain's pavements were more comfortable perhaps it wouldn't be such a trauma for people to lose their jobs and homes and prospects.'
Chancellor George Osborne is said to be 'sympathetic' to the idea of scattering cushions on pavements, but agreed that the underlying problem was the rising level of homelessness. 'Oh absolutely, homelessness is a terrible thing.' he said. 'It's going to make me look like an awful Chancellor, for instance.'


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I'm not used to this new energy that courses through me in bolts and waves. I've never had this sort of pain linked to loss linked to love linked to my universe.
I've had pain before, but not the constant, grinding, nagging, persistent pain that I am feeling today.
How is it that so much can change so quickly? Over the weekend, I was in another world for a time. Now, I am back to the decay that is our relationship. It is so like the leaves… shedding from the trees at the slightest breeze. There is nothing that can stop them. They will fall, they will fall more rapidly as time goes on, until just a few remain. Those few stolen remnants that will not be forgotten; brown, dried, skeletons, not what they once were. Up in barren trees they flutter about in colder and grayer winds. It isn't sometimes until the newness of spring's NEW leaves, that the old, faded from months of bittered darkness, finally give way. Memories of the past finally letting go into whatever vast portal they go, to be reclaimed, taken back, and transformed.
My heart jumps and flutters, but it is the opposite of the jumping and fluttering of love found. It is pain linked to loss linked to love linked to my universe.


text: It's been a little while since I last did a Makeup Rotation post, and that's mostly because I went into a bit of a shopping ban phase which meant I wasn't feeling inspired to try new products or change up my routine! But I've fallen in love with some the products from Chanel's Automnales Fall 2015 line. The eyeshadow palette Entrelacs and their Rouge Allure lipstick in Pensive. I also started using my YSL Youth Liberator Serum Foundation, which is quickly becomnig one of my favourites again 😀


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LABOUR Issue #1
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LABOUR addresses the general conditions of feminised labour, and how a feminist reading of work benefits a critique of the current scenario for art workers. The periodical arises from a series of four meetings of practicing female artists entitled 'A conversation to know if there is a conversation to be had', held at semi-public spaces in 2010 and 2011 respectively in New York (Dexter Sinister), Amsterdam (Kunstverein), Berlin (Salon Populaire), and London (Raven Row). Labour is printed on a newspaper format.
Contributors: Rachal Bradley & Jessica Wiesner, Emma Hedditch, Henry VIII's Wives, Kaisa Lassinaro, Avigail Moss, Nina Power, Lisette Smits, Claudia Sola, Meredyth Sparks, Marina Vishmidt
Publisher: Labour
20 pages
67 black and white illustrations27cm × 33cm
Format: Paperback
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