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Camouflage, a hunter's best friend, can be the difference between the one that got away and bagging that trophy buck. Dymondwood's sensational coloration is reminiscent of a camo ring. This camo jewelry is also equipped with a genuine deer antler inlay, offset running through the natural wood. Get this great titanium camo ring for the hunting lover in your life.
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Welcome to the World of Café WE!
Inspired by the quintessential French cafe, combined with modern features, Café We is the perfect place to relax or catch up with a friend for a stylish meal in a sophisticated ambiance. The Café has large French windows in black, while inlaid floor line the entrance. This gives way to the main dining area with charcoal floor and plenty of wooden panelling which makes you feel like you walked into a modern day French bistro.
Enjoy your morning coffee or stop in for a quick lunch or surprise your sweetheart with a candlelit dinner. With its chandelier-clad ceilings and walls lined with antique paintings, to visit this café is to step into a world of your own.
As much elegant diner as stylish café, the laid-back yet chic ambiance will appeal to many, from the jet-setters wanting a few secluded moments to writers and artists who want to gather their thoughts and those who just want to enjoy a pleasant meal. Café We is stylish and welcoming with a tasty selection of treats for everyone to enjoy.


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Founded by sisters Eunice and Sabrina, Hello!Lucky is equal parts creative, adventurous and colourful. Like us, the San Francisco-based design studio loves a super cute print – mermaids, unicorns and fried eggs are just a few of its favourite motifs.


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Imaginary Friends by Wendy Hornsby
When I was a very little girl, I had a just-pretend friend and a just-pretend purse. I have no idea what the friend looked like, but the purse was pink and shiny and I carried it with the handle over my forearm, elbow bent at ninety degrees, the way Queen Elizabeth carries her handbag. One day we – Mom, my sister and brother and I – met my aunt and my cousins at the Owl Drugstore in Montrose for lunch. There were six kids altogether, and the oldest was probably all of seven, so there was a lot of distracting activity at the Owl lunch counter that day. It wasn't until afterward, when we were walking away down Honolulu Avenue, that my just-pretend friend noticed that I had left my just-pretend purse behind. Who knows what was in the purse that day – it always held exactly what I wanted it to – but it must have been quite valuable because I set up a big enough fuss that Mom, no indulgent pushover she, walked me all the way back to retrieve it.
At some point the purse and the friend, whose name and description morphed as needed, were left behind. But as I think about it, all of my life I have made up people and things and put them into stories. It must have been a relief to everyone around me when I was old enough to write down my imaginary people and their adventures instead of walking around with them and, from time to time, forgetting them at the odd lunch counter.
Maggie MacGowen is my longest-running imaginary friend; our first book together, Telling Lies, was published in 1992. Because I get to make her up, Maggie hasn't aged much during the twenty years and seven adventures since. Or gained weight, or lost her chutzpah; never mind about me, I'm only her enabler. Maggie is an investigative filmmaker, a muckraker for the video age. She is very independent, tough, tender, and occasionally lusty, and she is brave to the extent that she is occasionally reckless as she sets out to thwart injustice and save the world, captured on film, of course.
The Maggie MacGowen books are considered hard-boiled because of the mean streets our protagonist walks down and the perils that she overcomes, both physically and emotionally. But what do I know of the mean streets? By day I am a professor of history. I can talk with you about millennia of murderous, odious malefaction that emerged out of the dark recesses of the human soul, but, to tell you the truth – and don't hate me – I've led a fairly sheltered life. Daily, as a writer, I curse my parents for being so loving and supportive.
To write Maggie's stories, to imagine her within their milieus, I needed to get out of the library, out of my little world, to walk her turf, talk with people who would be involved in her fictional crimes and their perps. Doing research for the books is nearly as much fun for me as writing them.
Every book begins with an actual event that gets embroidered into a plot populated by whole communities of just-pretend people based on people I have met or observed. For the books, for you, to get things right, I went to Skid Row at midnight, coursed the streets of South Central in the wake of the 1992 riots, talked with survivors and convicts, went to jail – a visitor – rode along with the police, hung out with D.A.s, took the Cook's tour of the LA County morgue, followed a murder case from "wet spot" to death penalty, and so on. God I loved it. The bits and pieces I gleaned from those endeavors give verisimilitude to the stories and their people. I have learned so much about the real world that I would not have if I had stayed in my little ivory tower.
By the way, Maggie does not carry a shiny pink purse. Hardly her style. Instead she carries a "bag" that is never described but that, like the purse I left on the lunch counter at the Owl Drugstore, always seems to have exactly that thing the Maggie needs at the moment, from gaffer's tape (duct tape) to video cameras. And occasionally a handy firearm. It's fiction, right? The product of imagination.
Wendy Hornsby is the Edgar Award-winning creator of the Maggie MacGowen series. The picture at the top of this post is a young Wendy--with her imaginary purse. MysteriousPress.com has published seven of her novels, which you can find at this link.
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I just looked up the first match. 4-6 in the first but then pretty smooth sailing at Brisbane. He probably didn't give it a second thought and figured on doing the same thing 3 years later. I'll wager he'll be way more prepared this time.Yeah, he seems to struggle at times his first go around, but I actually think the US was his second time playing him, and I think he struggled in that match as well.


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The editors recently called and e-mailed more than a dozen club operators and talked to two industry consultants to find out how club operators fared in January. As you can read in the news story that we wrote based on these conversations, the month seemed mixed. Although one of the consultants spoke to several club operators who had disappointing Januaries, I only heard back from one club operator who had a disappointing month. I'm not sure if that's because only club operators who had good results wanted to share.
So, let us know how your January went. Were your new member numbers higher or lower than January 2008? What about your revenue? How was your attrition in January 2009 compared to last January's? Did you offer deals to get people through the door? What kind of performance expectations do you have for your company this year?
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Kidding Recap: S1E4 (Bye, Mom)02 Oct 2018
By Lucas Allen (Web correspondent)
The fourth episode of Kidding's first season expands a little more on Jeff's personal life outside of his TV series. This is the episode where his optimism is put to the test that could affect him in such devastating measure. You can feel his happiness and sadness split down in the middle affecting his overall sanity. Once again, it's the testament of Jim Carrey's acting and how it parallels with the actor's own personal life.
Jeff just had his one-night stand with cancer patient Vivian believing it could be the start of a new relationship. He returns to his old house, where he tells Jill everything about the night before. Both she and boyfriend Peter thinks it's a great thing that Jeff is finding someone new in his life and ready to move on. Feeling more confident, Jeff sends Vivian a text on his mobile phone hoping to get back together with her.
Upon returning to the studio, he waits a while for a response thinking maybe her phone is broken. Deirdre thinks that there's a possibility she may have already succumb to her cancer, which he doesn't believe. Jeff later talks to his father Seb if the show ever did any harm as much as good. Jeff can't help but look at the barrel special effect and wonder if any kid ever tried to imitate such a thing. We then flashback to 1992, where a young kid takes a barrel and white sheet to try to do such a stunt.
Afterwards, Jeff was picking up his son Will when he runs into one of his son's friends smoking a pineapple. The young punk tells him that it's true what the dark web says about him supposedly working as a sniper for the army. Suddenly feeling the need to get into character, Jeff intimidates him by telling him how killing those enemies made him feel good before grabbing the pineapple bong and throwing it at a tree.
After picking up his son, the two of them went to a phone store so that Jeff wish he can get a new phone thinking his old one doesn't work. Will assures him that maybe Vivian doesn't have the time to answer back because she was busy. The scene also reveals that Jeff has been sending money to the guy who caused the tragic car accident to help pay for his bills and enough more for his daughter.
This revelation leads Jill to confront him in one of the episode's last scenes. It's good that his heart is in the right place, but she argues it's still hard for her to handle the hurt inside she still feels from the tragedy. She also exclaims that he needs to get back into the real world by accepting that Vivian will never call him back. This puts Jeff in a moment of darkness until a text response puts him back at ease.
Meanwhile, Deirdre feels more conflicted than ever feeling her marriage is coming apart. She even takes out the frustration on her daughter Maddy when she's helping her with her loose tooth. At the studio, she works on a giant Mr. Pickles head that her brother naturally disapproves. In spite of what Seb wanted for the show, Jeff is certainly irreplaceable.
As you watch the episode, you may ask some questions about whether things are true or false. Truth and lies seem to dominate this episode and though you may not get all the answers, it'll still make you want to look at the world in a different light. Hopefully, more of the truth will present itself later on in the season.
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Missa – Sanctus
The Eucharistic Prayer is a section of the Mass which is found in the Liturgy of the Eucharist and follows the Presentation of the Gifts. It is a very special point in the liturgy because it truly is the heart of the Liturgy and of the Mass. In preparation of this prayer we find the Sanctus, which is part of the Ordinary of the Mass.
The word sanctus means "holy" and the prayer begins by repeating this three times. The first part of the sanctus comes from Isaiah 6:3 and as well as Revelation 4:8, which also uses the three "holy's". The second comes from the Gospels and reminds us of the triumphal entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday.
It is interesting that so much of the Mass uses this picture of "procession", from the Entrance, to the gifts, and here the words from the triumphal entry. I suppose that the idea is to focus on movement, or more specifically to point out that the Lord is moving or active in our midst. In his covenant with Abraham he proceeds through the sacrifice, the incarnation he comes and dwells among us, he proceeds to Jerusalem and eventually he will bear the cross and again picture the idea of procession. In the end He is now still in movement as we participate in the mass and as He moves into our hearts. I am thinking of all of this when singing the Sanctus because all of this is essential but there is something more. As we conclude the Sanctus we will begin the Eucharistic Prayer and it is at this time that our gifts of bread and wine will become the Body and Blood of Christ. The Real Presence in the Eucharist and the concept of communion are all hinted at in the Sanctus by our profession of Holiness and Christ coming, for now we are entering the Holy of Holies of the mass. As the song concludes the people kneel and until the completion of Communion and the Host has been put away we will either stand or kneel in the Presence of the Lord.
Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus
Dominus Deus Sabaoth.
Pleni sunt caeli et terra gloria tua.
Hosanna in excelsis.
Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini.
Hosanna in excelsis
Holy, Holy, Holy
Lord God of hosts.
Heaven and earth are full of your glory.
Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
Hosanna in the highest


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Representatives and leaders from Ooredoo Kuwait visited Silicon Valley in California USA to seek ways to serve its customers better. The visit will include various meetings at several technology companies and organisations.
The visit to Silicon Valley began with a meeting held at CISCO, a worldwide leader in IT and networking; whereby Ooredoo Telecom management met a number of executives.
Ooredoo Kuwait delegation is headed by CEO Sh. Mohammed bin Abdullah Al Thani.
"The main objective behind our visit to CISCO comes in line with Ooredoo strategy "Digitise to Differentiate", whereby we focus on digital as a key pillar to transform our customers' experience and enrich our breadth of offerings, while adopting a mobile-first mindset," said Al Thani "With the support of CISCO, we will be able to deliver the best in class services to our customers, and move forward with our network modernisation plans to bring the best cutting-edge technology services to the Kuwaiti Market."
Ooredoo Kuwait's delegation will be visiting a number of renowned tech companies while in Silicon Valley and the visit will continue for a week.


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The A-Z of Me Meme
A - Available/Single? Neither ... very happy with hubby ...
B - Best Friend? Nald, Allan, Zel, Sherl, Jacq, Jeff, Neri, Arny
C - Cake or Pie? definitely cake
D - Drink Of Choice? fruit juices
E - Essential Item You Use Everyday? my celphone ...
F - Favorite Color? blue
G - Gummy Bears Or Worms? none ...
H - Hometown? Cebu City, Philippines
I - Indulgence? sweets, chocolate, DVD's of TV series
J - January Or February? january ... new beginnings ...
K - Kids & Their Names? the tornado
L - Life Is Incomplete Without? love of family and friends
M - Marriage Date?
N - Number Of Siblings? 6
O - Oranges Or Apples? Fuji Apples ... with iodized salt sprinkled on them ... YUMMY!
P - Phobias/Fears? heights ...
Q - Favorite Quote? "An eye for an eye ... harharhar!"
R - Reason to Smile - my life ...
S - Season? Fall
T - Tag Three People? Miss Suzy, GrayMama, Waya
U - Unknown Fact About Me? I used to be in the honor roll back in my school days ...
V - Vegetable you don't like? eggplants ... YUCK!
W - Worst Habit? not caring about what others think ... hehe ...
X - X-rays You've Had? head, chest, legs, arms ... yep ... complete klutz plus frequent fainting spells
Y - Your Favorite Food? shrimp
Z - Zodiac Sign? Scorpio
Vader's Mom tagged me for this fun! A - Available/Single? Neither ... very happy with hubby ... B - Best Friend? Nald, Allan, Zel, S...
Thursday Thirteen # 7
13 things I need to do before Christmas (and its 25 days away ...) 1. finish my Christmas list 2. send out Christmas cards to relativ...
Love Thursday # 10
Love is thinking that the expression on B's face is the cutest expression ever. When he was still barely a year old, he loved making this face. He no longer does it but I sure am happy that I was able to capture this moment.
Happy Love Thursday everyone! Hugs!
Love is thinking that the expression on B's face is the cutest expression ever. When he was still barely a year old, he loved making ...
super mini halloween snack
Come and have a bite with me.
w/o parmesan cheese w/ parmesan cheese I know its a wee bit late but I had to make use of the Halloween paper plate that was sent to...
anger management
Yesterday, I spent more than 4 hours on the phone with a Telecom Company arguing with them over my phone that came with a postpaid subscription. I filed a complaint last November 13 that the camera thing was not working. I was promised that it will be replaced and I would be given a call the Friday following Nov. 13. It didn't happen. They called me Nov. 25 ... to tell me that there still wasn't any stock available. Of course I was not happy. Okay, I was livid. I figured that if they didn't call me for almost 2 weeks, they should have good news for me. So I gave the rep an ultimatum that they should have found a replacement for me by the 27th which was yesterday.
10am in the morning I called to check if it was there. Rep was still not in. I informed them to tell rep that she needs to call me before 1130 am. She does. And tells me that I need to wait another week or so. I refused and told them to go look for one ASAP or find another replacement. Hubby was upset as well because it's been 2 weeks already. I believe I was too livid and it caused the rep to uhm, break down. I didn't mean for her to cry. I was not cursing at her nor screaming but I was seriously upset and she must have gotten affected. It irritated me more but I felt compelled to tell her to not take it personally. I told her that I was not mad at her but at the system and the situation. She composes herself and she tells me that she will call me back.
Everytime this line is uttered, I get upset. Why? Because they never call back on time. So I give them time specifics like in 30 minutes or an hour.
To make the story short, I ended up talking to 2 managers and 5 customer reps. One of them was a real b!t.. though. So I filed a complaint against this woman. I mean, she mocked me, raised her voice, talked on top of me, put me on mute, and was just rude. I was so upset with the way she treated me that I told the manager she should be fired.
The other reps I spoke to were nice. They allowed me to vent and expressed empathy and what have you. This one was just a rep from hell.
Now, I realize that I shouldn't have stooped to her level. Nor asked the manager to fire her. I was just so affected by the entire fiasco with the phone. The 1st manager was not helpf ul at all then I encountered a bad rep. ARGH!!!!
I did get the replacement. It's just so frustrating that one needs to b!t.. around first for anything to be done in this country. I saw the rep I spoke to in the center (the one who cried) and I apologized to her about getting upset. I told her it wasn't her I was mad at. *there was no way to say the same thing to the other 4 reps since they were in a call center somewhere in the city*
Late last night, I get a hate text. I suspect it's the b!t... rep coz she has access to my number on their system. I guess she was sanctioned. Do I feel bad about it? A bit.
I need anger management classes when it comes to customer reps. I just blow up easily on them. Maybe because I'm in the same field and I know what they should be doing and what they should not be doing. Sigh.
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Yesterday, I spent more than 4 hours on the phone with a Telecom Company arguing with them over my phone that came with a postpaid subscrip...
Monday Blues
Don't worry about me ... later I'll be fine and chirpy again ..
I've a B moment last night ... B and I were in his crib and I would make this crazy lil sounds like "gukuruku" and he would just laugh like he was being tickled. It was the sweetest thing. And if I tell him to hug me or kiss me, he'd run straight at me and jump and kiss me or hug me.
See, I feel better now.
What gets rid of your Monday blues?
Sigh ... it's Monday again and tomorrow I'll be off to work at 3am. I am grateful but... it's just so nice to wake up at the tim...
munimuni # 8
This week has been a wee bit frazzling. Here are the things I am thankful for.
1) my parents 27th year anniversarry yesterday ... I only hope that hubby and I will be able to celebrate until our 75th year together
2) that we are still alive after last night ... our tire got torn apart while we were driving in the highway but luckily, it did not blow up or else, I would be either in heaven or hell ...
3) good health and safety ... our guardian angel sure is working doubletime keeping us from any harm ... THANK YOU!
4) our jobs ... though the time is a wee bit skewed, at least, we have jobs
5) the fact that I am able to create things with my hands that other people think is nice
Thank you dear God up above. For more reflections, visit Judi.
How was your weekend?
This week has been a wee bit frazzling. Here are the things I am thankful for. 1) my parents 27th year anniversarry yesterday ... I onl...
SPH # 8: Time
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TIME For today's photo hunt, the theme is TIME. So today, I am making a tribute to my parents who have been together for 27 years now....
feeling a lil ragged
I'm so thankful the hubby is willing to take me to work. See, he works 10 minutes away from our house. I work in a place that's about 2 hours away from our house with traffic. Without traffic, its 45 minutes away. So now, hubby has to get up at 245 am, we leave at 320, I get to work at 350, and then he has to go back all the way home so he can get to his 5am shift on time. Tiring huh? I feel tired just reading it.
January, I gotta transfer work, hopefully, somewhere near the house.
What do you do when you're tired?
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I feel just a lil bit tired from all that's happened this week. Looking back though, I can't even remember everything. I guess it...
Feast 119 # 19
Have you ever changed a flat tire by yourself?
- NEVER! I don't think I ever will ...
Do you have an "innie" or an "outie" belly button?
- I'm an innie! lol! My Mom put a coin on my belly button when it fell off and tied a cloth around my tummy to make me an innie.
Name a new paint color and describe it.
- skydance ... it will ba a combination of blue and lilac and will make anyone seeing it feel whimsical ...
Main Course
What is your favorite holiday tradition?
- exchanging gifts ... love it! (hint hint)
If you were a cookie, what kind of cookie would you be, and why?
- I'd be hard on the outside ... soft inside ... warm when you touch ... and melts inside your mouth ... sensual but cozy at the same time ...
Appetizer Have you ever changed a flat tire by yourself? - NEVER! I don't think I ever will ... Soup Do you have an "innie&q...
punch me hard
this is the newest toy that B has ... he LOVES it!
Thursday Thirteen # 6
(tribute to Thanksgiving)
- good health, I was sickly as a child and I still have the occasional fainting spells but overall, I'm pretty healthy
- safety ... in this crazy world we live in where people get shot or stabbed for no reason, I am thankful that my friends and family are all safe from harm
- my lil tornado who always manages to fill my heart with so much love
- hubby ... for putting up with my crankiness
- my family ... for all the support they've given me
- my MIL,FIL, and SIL ... for loving me and accepting me into their fold
- my tornado's nanny ... I would not have survived Mommyhood without her
- my friends ... been there since we were kids and will be there till we are old to be grannies
- my job ... it may be insane but it pays the bills
- my blogfriends ... you guys inspire me to write and tap into my creativity
- my life as a whole ... all the lessons learned made me a stronger person
- my collection of so many things ... I will have loads to pass on when I'm gone
- the internet especially gmail, blogger, multiply (photos, blog, and vids galore) and youtube (I get to watch shows I love in the office giving me more time to be with my son) ... what would I do without them? hehe ...
13 things that I am thankful for (tribute to Thanksgiving) good health, I was sickly as a child and I still have the occasional fainting ...
Love Thursday # 9
Love is keeping this lil work of arts eventhough it will never sell or be shown in art galleries. Thanks Mom!
For More Love Thursday, go here.
my work of art when I was 5 or 6 years old Love is keeping this lil work of arts eventhough it will never sell or be shown in art galler...
christmas goodie swap
the Holly figurines with mini Xmas tree
the Xmas tree and card
the table runner which my Mom and MIL both want ... lol!
the Santa hat
close up picturesque the Holly figurines with mini Xmas tree the Xmas tree and card the table runner which my Mom and MIL both w...
munimuni # 7
This week was filled with lil surprises here and there. A lot of good moments and catching up with friends. So here are my lists of blessings that I am very much thankful for for this week.
1) good health for all of us
2) all of us were able to get home safely every single day
3) going to see Dad and Mom later ... bonding time!
4) took lots of pics and vids of my lil tornado ... it was fun!
5) fixed my multiply site so friends and family can view it better
6) had a drive through date with hubby yesterday .... we looked crazy eating McDo in the parking lot
7) got a Sesame Street 8in1 DVD for only Php80 (that's less than $2)
8) lost a bit of weight
9) was able to shop for clothes, a bag, and shoes ...
9) had a manicure pedicure for only Php100 (that's $2) my feet looks good ...
10) talked to relatives and sent them loads of pictures of my lil tornado
Plans for the coming week:
1) make a poster size collage that's framed already for my parent's 27th anniversarry ... yey!
2) send out the goodies for my swapmates
3) create stuff for 3 new lovely friends ... GrayMama, Vader's Mom, and Jeri Ann.
Happy & Blessed weekend everyone!
This week was filled with lil surprises here and there. A lot of good moments and catching up with friends. So here are my lists of bless...
a christmas meme
1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
hot chocolate
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
wraps present ... the excitement is in ripping off the wrapper
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
colored light ... looks more festive
4. Do you hang mistletoe?
nope ... doesn't work here ... lol!
5. When do you put your decorations up?
before, around october, now end of november most likely
6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
fuji apples ... i associate it with xmas ...
7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
hmmm ... lemme think ... hmmm ... way too many!
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
about 9 years old I think ...
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
we open all gifts on Christmas Eve ...
10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
we prettify it ... we have M&M lights so it looks real cute
11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
I wish we had it here. But alas, it melts even before it hits the ground ...
12. Can you ice skate?
I can't even ride a bike ... =(
13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
not really ... I don't have a favorite one ... yet!
14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
being with family .. .getting them something they would love ... and all the love being shared ... it's enough to make you giddy ...
15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
nothing in particular ...
16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
giving of gifts and greeting strangers Merry Christmas ...
17. What tops your tree?
an angel ... I hope ...
18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving?
19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, jackfrost nipping at your nose ...
20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum??
Got this from Vader's Mom ... 1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? hot chocolate 2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tr...
sign of love
yep! this battery is a sign of love from hubby ... he got me two of this, which give me 12 batteries ... which gives me more than 300+ pictures to shoot ... whoopeee!!!!
yep! this battery is a sign of love from hubby ... he got me two of this, which give me 12 batteries ... which gives me more than 300+ pict...
layouts galore
with my elementary friends .. used up the Coffee Bean post cards as background with my gorgeous mom at a wedding .. I used the invitatio...
Feast 118 # 18
Argh! I'm late for Friday's Feast. I thought it was supposed to resume last week. Eeeekkk! Better late than never.
Do you believe there is intelligent life on other planets?
- - of course! It's way too arrogant of us to think that we could be the only creature on this entire galaxy. I'm not saying ET is out there though that would be cool. But I believe even some sort of bacteria exists there.
What is one thing you said you'd never do, but you eventually did?
- - be a mom. Lol! I never thought I'd have kids. I just wasn't the type. But now, I have my lil tornado.
Who is the teacher that influenced you the most in school?
- hhmm ... it's gonna be a split between Ms. Victoria and Gng. Hernandez ... they were my Social and Filipino teacher respectively ... man, they were tough and demanding!
Main Course
If you could trade places with anyone for one day, who would it be and why?
- It would be hubby. I wanna know what's going on in his everyday life ... or, lil tornado. I wanna be able to do baby stuff but with the understanding of an adult.
What is your favorite dish to prepare?
- Ground Pork rolled in Fresh Lettuce easy to make but really fancy looking =)
Argh! I'm late for Friday's Feast. I thought it was supposed to resume last week. Eeeekkk! Better late than never. Appetizer Do ...
SPH # 7: Plush
This theme's week "Plush" had me stumped a lil bit. I was thinking, plush = comfort, so here is my lil tornado all surrounded with plush. Just like his Mom, he loves being surrounded by lots of pillows when sleeping. There's a lil twist though. When he's really deep in sleep, we HAVE to take away all the pillows because he gets irritated when he can't roll over and sleep with his tush sticking up in the air just like this.
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PLUSH This theme's week "Plush" had me stumped a lil bit. I was thinking, plush = comfort, so here is my lil tornado all su...
crafty memories
What was the first crafty thing that you made?
We all have created something by hand at one point in our life. The first crafty thing that I made was this cut outs of animals that I fo...
lay outs for B
These are just a few of them. =)
Here are some pages from B's scrapbooks. To all the other people who view this blog, do share your scrapbook tips to this budding scrapp...


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goodies – the adopted cigar of New Orleans has earned its place atop the local cigar market through it's truly New Orleans attitude and fine manufacturing. Bringing together a top of the line imported filler blend and an unmatched Connecticut wrapper, we've created a smoking experience you're not going to forget any time soon. Available in uniquely New Orleans tastes, check them below:
Strawberry Daiquiri – Diane Millsap
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FYI: Discovering God's Will
Posted Saturday, September 18, 2010 at 12:56 PM
For those who like to know a little more about the studies, FYI is a feature where posting additional information about a Sunday morning study to help if you'd like to "further your investigation" of the study or speaker outside of life group.
About the Speaker:
Andy Stanley is senior pastor at North Pointe Community Church outside of Atlanta, GA. In addition to his pastoral duties, Andy encourages next-generation church leaders and emphasizes the keys to leadership in many of his books and conferences.
Additional Biographies and Information:
Related Blogs and Podcasts:
Podcast Entries Relating to the Study:
- Part 1: The Adventure Begins
- Part 2: Asking for Directions
- Part 3: Checking the Compass
- Part 4: Unfolding the Map
Additional Podcast/Blog/Etc.
- North Point Community Church: Weekly Message Podcast
- Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast
- North Point Community Church - YouTube


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Senior School Production
The Scotch College Senior School production of Dunsinane opens this week. First performed by the National Theatre of Scotland in 2010, Dunsinane is a gripping tale which illuminates the tricky relationship between the invader and the invaded, vibrantly told by a talented, sword-wielding ensemble of Year 11 and 12 Scotch and PLC students. Performances will run from 14 - 17 June and tickets are available now via this link.
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Though, as has been mentioned earlier, only certain accomplished people are allowed to give up manual labor for intellectual studies, every Utopian child receives a thorough education. The Utopians believe that it is through education that the values and dispositions of citizens are molded. The success of the Utopian educational system is evident in the fact that while most Utopians are engaged in manual labor as a career, in their free time Utopians choose to follow intellectual pursuits. Utopians conduct all of their studies in their native language.
In science the Utopians are rational and accomplished. They have the same general level of understanding as Europeans in the fields of music, logic, arithmetic, and geometry. They are adept at astronomy and no one believes in astrology. They are able to predict changes in weather, though, like the Europeans, the underlying causes of these changes remain at the moment beyond their grasp.
In philosophy, the Utopians are uninterested in the abstract suppositions that are the rage in Europe and which Hythloday finds empty. The foremost topic of Utopian philosophy is the nature of happiness, and the relation of happiness to pleasure. In such matters they ground their reason in religion, believing reason alone is ill equipped to handle such an investigation.
Utopians believe the soul is immortal and that there exists an afterlife in which the deeds of life are rewarded or punished. They further believe that if people were skeptical of an afterlife, all intelligent people would pursue physical pleasure and ignore all higher moral laws. Belief in an afterlife means that pleasure exists only in acts of virtue, because it is these acts that will ultimately be rewarded.
Utopians make a distinction between true and counterfeit pleasure. True pleasure involves any movement of body or mind in which a person takes a natural delight, such as reflecting on true knowledge, eating well, or exercising. Counterfeit pleasures are those sensations that are not naturally delightful, but that distorted desires have tricked people into believing they pleasurable. Examples of such counterfeit pleasures are pride in appearance, wealth, or honorific titles. Pursuit of these counterfeit pleasures often interfere with pursuit of true pleasures, and so Utopians do everything in their power to root counterfeit pleasures out of their society.
Utopians believe that their understanding of the relationship between pain and pleasure is the height of reason. The only possible way to gain a deeper understanding, they hold, would be if God were to send some religion down from heaven to "inspire more sacred convictions."


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Duby: Reddit Meets Instagram Social Network for Marijuana Lovers
As more states approve cannabis for adult use (recreational marijuana), Duby—the Reddit-meets-Instagram social network that allows marijuana enthusiasts to post content anonymously—celebrates vigorous growth over the past two years. Duby is the go-to app for cannabis aficionados to unite and share their favorite images, videos and messages about the plant. Duby is a gamified app that leverages a proprietary algorithm to reach hundreds of thousands of consumers based on their location in real time, offering dispensaries a unique digital marketing play with quantifiable results.
Recently, Duby has experienced an over 20 percent month-over-month growth, and the number of Dubys—in the form of a picture, video, or text—passed to fellow users has increased 20-fold from 10,000 to 200,000 per day. The average user now spends over 20 minutes per day on the app. Duby recently introduced the app on Android, garnering 40,000 users. The app also works with over 300 industry partners—including the oil and vape industry leader O.penVAPE—to drive sales in retail locations.
"In step with the cannabis industry as a whole, we are growing in leaps and bounds," said Duby co-founder Alec Rochford. "Cannabis enthusiasts love the way they're able to share their excitement about marijuana with like-minded users, while dispensaries benefit from quantifiable advertising results, in-depth customer analytics and customer re-engagement that we provide. As cannabis becomes more mainstream, we expect to see this viral social network continue to experience explosive growth."
Duby's unique algorithm allows users to share information anonymously so that their privacy is protected. The premise of the app is not to collect friends, but to increase your influence score by posting content that gets passed around among legal cannabis users providing the opportunity to reach millions of people.


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A Look At The Savannas
This is a collection of photographs I took at the Savannas Wildlife Preserve in St. Lucie County, FL All were shot on a Canon EOS Rebel G using Fuji 35mm film. Yep, that's right: I'm old-school.
A little history of this photo set… These were taken in 2005, shortly after my husband had filed for divorce and put me and my then 3-year old daughter on the street. This is where I ended up living for some time, in my little tent while still holding a full time job. This collection is truly a statement to finding the positive and the beauty in any situation we are given to handle. I hope they inspire you as well to look around you, no matter what you're going through, and try to find something beautiful to hold onto. Even the smallest thing can be enough to keep you going when you've lost everything else.
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Hammer Projects: George Raggett
Los Angeles artist George Raggett presents his sculptural installation of an off-kilter gazebo in the Lobby Gallery. Poking fun at false cheer affected by popular, Westernized interpretations of the Chinese art of feng shui, Raggett's radically asymmetric gazebo calls attention to its own disfunction. This giddy garden getaway cultivates myriad other references—to the history of landscape and park design, the tradition of the English Picturesque and English garden follies, religious festive objects and modernist plinths, for example—all of which visually collide in a dizzying, disorienting architectural enclosure which undermines expectation of the gazebo as a calming space of meditation and retreat.
Co-organized by James Elaine, curator of Hammer Projects, and Claudine Isé, former assistant curator at the Hammer Museum and now associate curator of exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio.
George Raggett was born in 1972 in Las Vegas, Nevada, and received his B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1996. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He has shown at Acme and at Cirrus Gallery, both in Los Angeles, and at White Columns in New York. Reviews of his work have appeared in Time Out New York and the Santa Barbara News Press. This Hammer Project is Raggett's first museum exhibition.
By Claudine Isé
A gazebo is supposed to be a place of tranquil reflection framing a "perfect view," but Gazebo! (2004), George Raggett's off-kilter version of this classic garden idyll, subverts these ideas at every turn. Gazebos are a type of garden "folly," so named for their extravagant and essentially useless nature. Gazebos are places of contemplation, rest, and quiet conversation, often of a romantic nature. Generally they are tucked into slightly out-of-the-way garden locales so that it seems as if one is happening upon them by chance rather than design. For his architectural installation in the Hammer's Lobby Gallery, Raggett draws on the history of garden follies along with that of the English Picturesque style, which is characterized by a pastiche of different architectural idioms—most typically those of Late Medieval cottages and country houses from the Tudor, Elizabethan, and Jacobean periods—brought together in harmonious balance. In contrast, the asymmetry of Raggett's garden folly cum site-specific museum environment calls attention to its own dysfunction. Devoid of either curves or right angles, Gazebo!'s wood-frame exoskeleton is crystalline, even appearing at points to thrust menacingly toward the sitter's body rather than to symbolically embrace and protect it. Projecting outward from one side of this structure is a long plank or bench that bridges the gazebo and the gallery walls while also providing a conversation and lounging area for Raggett's viewers/guests. Carpeting flows out from the gazebo toward the gallery's entrance, providing a literal pathway for viewers that also serves as a material bridge between the interior and exterior of the gallery proper.
Gazebo! was conceived in part with the Lobby Gallery's unique location in mind. The gallery is adjacent to a major thoroughfare of museum traffic, the entryway from the parking structure into the museum lobby, where floor-to-ceiling glass windows provide a view onto the sea of traffic flowing through the intersection of Wilshire and Westwood Boulevards. The placement of the gazebo in a gallery near the museum's main entrance highlights an ongoing way-finding issue with the Lobby Gallery and its environs: museum patrons have a tendency to walk past this room in their haste to "get to the art," never realizing that their first potential encounter with it lies just a few steps away from the parking lot. Other viewers hesitate before entering the gallery, unsure whether access is permitted, where to proceed, or how. In this way an encounter with Raggett's Gazebo! depends almost as much upon the principle of "accidental wanderings" as do real garden gazebos.
Raggett's architecturally inspired sculptures and site-specific environments also make reference to the protoplasmic, organically inspired contours of contemporary architecture and design--forms that often appear to ooze and spread, in complete antithesis to the modernist tropes of cube, stack, and grid. Today architecture and product design speak the language of intimacy, particularly with respect to the human body; contemporary design objects are often pocket- or palm-sized and portable in nature: think iPods, cell phones, and Palm Pilots. In fact, this new breed of designer objects are a lot like pets: companionable, soft to the touch, eager to please.
This "friendliness factor" is seen in many of Raggett's earlier works, such as Nightlight 1, 2, 3 (1996–98), The Pet (1997), and The Climb (1997). Nightlight 1, 2, 3, a glowing, craterlike blob form that plugs into an ordinary light socket and looks like an amoeba or a supermagnified view of a follicle. The Pet lies on the floor like a small cat or dog curled up for a snooze. Its smooth surface and rubbery, rosy hues (shades that bring to mind a dog's lolling tongue) seem to crave human touch. The sculpture simply comprises the letters Y-E-S: a statement of affirmation and permission that seems to sum up much of Raggett's philosophy. The Climb—there are only three steps in all—is a pale, cotton-candy pink. Resting on the floor like stepping stones, a bridge, or yet another sleeping pet, the piece can be easily overlooked. But if a person does take those steps, she will find that each footfall slightly reorients her view of the room, altering her perception of her own body in space. Raggett is well aware that works like The Climb might not be immediately recognized as interactive in nature. The risk of their "failure" is part of the point. But to view his works as traditional "hands-off" sculptures set off from their environment would be to profoundly misunderstand them and, for that matter, to miss out completely on the whimsical perceptual epiphanies that they frequently supply.
Gazebo!'s goofily utopian premise is that these turbulent times call for a new and radically user-adaptive form of public sanctuary. Dangling from one side of the gazebo are a proliferation of colorful beads and trinkets, culled from various regional ethnic markets, that look like a feng shui device gone haywire. These plastic gewgaws are given an artificially windswept movement through Raggett's addition of a small portable fan aimed directly at them. The traditional Chinese practice of feng shui—the science of placement—is meant to bring harmony to spaces filled with discordant energy. This is achieved by balancing the energy flow, often through the strategic placement and/or rearrangement of objects within the home or business place. An ancient practice, feng shui has been popularized over the past few years into a designer trend emptied of any real cultural or philosophical meaning. Raggett, with his signature blend of irony and sweetly unabashed optimism, gently pokes fun at the colonization of this practice by the language of contemporary interior design while at the same time asserting a very real need to inject a little peace and harmony into a world that feels increasingly insecure.
For Raggett, a sense of balance, an opportunity to engage with one's surroundings in fresh and meaningful ways, is something that one must willfully seek in order to find. An encounter with Gazebo! suggests that making peace with one's environs calls for active, not passive, engagement: a willingness to take a step in the wrong direction, to tweak one's view of the ordinary, in order to transform the everyday world into a twenty-four-hour-a-day adventure.
Claudine Isé, former assistant curator at the Hammer Museum, is now associate curator of exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio.
Hammer Projects are made possible with support from The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, and members of the Hammer Circle.


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Yesterday I shared this home from House Beautiful on the Between Naps on the Porch Facebook page. I've posted some pretty awesome houses on Facebook before but they usually don't get seen by that many folks since Facebook has such a complicated algorithm for sharing.
Well, I'm not exactly sure what happened yesterday, maybe the FB share-blocking-machine temporarily broke down because this beautiful blue home was shared over
1,690 1,900 times, at last count. Wowza, that's a lot of sharing! With that much interest in this stunning home, I knew I had to give you a tour of the inside.
This house looks like it belongs seaside, doesn't it? It is on water, but not the ocean kind. This wonderful home is actually located on Lake Michigan and though it may look old, it was built just six years ago.
Let's go inside and take the tour. Oh, and in case you're wondering, the exterior color is a Pittsburgh Paint color called, Citadel Blue. Such a pretty color! It looks like the color of the sky, doesn't it?
The Interior Designer for this home, Martin Horner, wanted to give the home a one-of-a-kind look so he incorporated design ideas from many different countries and cultures. He was greatly influenced by a trip he had taken to Morocco so you'll see a lot of Moroccan influence throughout in the way of pattern, decorative tile and dark wood.
In an interview with the designer HERE, Mr. Horner said, "In Michigan, people are expecting boats and buoys, and then they walk in and say, 'Wow.' Here are all these treasures — handwoven fabric, exotic tile, ebonized furniture inlaid with mother-of-pearl. It's as if the clients came back from a trip to the Orient with all these artifacts and incorporated them into the house."
The Marlin hanging above the fireplace was caught by one of the owners during a family fishing trip. The tile around the fireplace is kaleidoscope Moroccan tile from Urban Archaeology.
In the library you'll find a Fortuny light, wood columns that were carved in Bali, throw pillows made from Japanese orbis and a vintage American flag. Each room is filled with lots of pattern but it all works together per the designer because "the palette is so consistent."
Mr. Horner said in the interview, all the pattern and texture throughout the home works because everything is in shades of blue and cream.
Love all the flow blue and blue/white transferware! It's so pretty contrasting against the white of the cabinet.
I really like the blue mercury-glass pendants. Even the ceiling got a special design.
A close up of the backsplash tile…
Wow, look at that amazing view! Do you like the dark ebony island in the kitchen? It provides a nice contrast, doesn't it?
Would you be brave enough to mix this many patterns together in one room? You have to really be fearless and go with your gut. I count 9 patterns: wallpaper, chest, rug, chair, top of the seat at the foot of the bed, pillow shams, medium size pillows in front of shams, small darker blue pillows and whatever the item is in front of the small pillows. Looks like there may also be tile on the top of side table by the chair…that would make a 10th pattern.
There are two more patterns on this side of the master bedroom, the fireplace tile and the stool, bringing the count to 12 visible in just these two photos.
Mr.Horner said he chose a softer and more soothing color/pattern for the tile around the fireplace in the master bedroom since it's a bedroom.
This wall of the master bath was tiled, kind of hard to see in this photo. Again we see the ebony-stained woods coming from the Moroccan influence.
A blue and white wallpaper for the master bath…
I love the nautical influence in this room. The 3 1/2 inch plantation shutters are so pretty for this space.
You'll find additional photos with more information about light fixtures, furniture, fabrics, etc… in this article at House Beautiful where the above pictures were found.


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He is here to bromance you
Swedish DJ Avicii, world number six in the international electronic dance music circuit, will be in the city preparing for his stint at Sunburn. We caught up with him to talk about serenading Indian listeners and spreading some bromance
What did you listen to when growing up?
I don't know what really lead to finding my sound. My father listened a lot to Ray Charles and '60's rock when I grew up and that definitely influenced me a lot.
Which DJs have influenced your music?
Swedish House Mafia and Eric Prydz; they were the ones that got me into house music in the first place, and they're still a really big influence on me today.
There has been some debate about what Seek Bromance tries to convey.
That track has done a lot for me. I had a really good feeling about it from the first moment I started it. It really started taking off, and we were going to release the instrumental on Ministry of Sound, but they really got into the vocal version, so Amanda sang everything again and we released the vocal version. I'm not sure how the video came into play; it was Ministry of Sound's idea. They sent us a draft of what they wanted it to be. It wasn't my idea. I didn't think of anything.
What has been your most memorable collaboration and how did it come about?
I'd have to say that Laidback Luke has been most helpful with my music, and I look up to Ti sto the most.
Would you like to collaborate with anyone from India?
Right now I am very busy touring. Hopefully sometime in the near future you might get to hear something from me in collaboration with someone from India.
When did you realise that you wanted to be a DJ? If not music, what other career can you imagine for yourself?
Well I've always been into music! Even though I never went to a music school, a lot of my friends did. So I've always been surrounded by people who know music! Then I got into playing guitar and around the same time I started listening to house music as well, and heard about all these different programmes and decided to download one and give it a try. I got instantly hooked and have been producing it ever since. I can't imagine doing anything apart from this.
What are you looking forward to the most at Sunburn?
I'm so excited to be in India and to experience the crowd. I am very thrilled that the crowd will get to hear me play. I have heard a lot about Sunburn and the crowd and I'm just very glad to see this beautiful country. I wish I had more time for sightseeing.
Avicii will perform today at the Turf Club, Mahalakshmi. Get tickets on www.bookmyshow.com
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Sunday, March 30, 2008
Great Britain Publishes Proposed Welfare Guidelines for Hoof Trimming; Distinctions Held Between Farrier, Trimmer and Veterinarian Roles
The two-page document speaks firmly to the need for painfree trimming of barefoot horses, while adding a proviso that newly-barefoot horses may be painful during transition. According to the guidelines, sore barefoot horses need to be aided with oversight "including the use of protective boots and limited workload to ensure there is no pain or suffering."
The provisional text adds that "Care should be taken to ensure that any protective boots are fitted properly to avoid significant injury from straps and fixings."
In what appears to be a victory for those making a living as hoof trimmers, the regulations stop short of specifying any sort of minimum training standards, examinations or registration for trimmers. Farriers, on the other hand, will still be required to complete college training and a four-year formal apprenticeship before being allowed to shoe a horse for pay.
Under British law, only a registered (graduate) farrier may apply a horseshoe. Under the Farriers (Registration) Act of 1975 horse owners have the legal right to trim their own horses' feet, but may not put on shoes or attempt to change the shape of the horse's feet.
The new regulations specify the involvement of a veterinarian in the treatment and management of horses with hoof disease or lameness, but the language is quite vague as to when a horse's hoof problems are considered lameness vs. superficial or mechanical defects or hoof capsule deformation that may cause pain or gait abnormality.
In 2006, two British horse owners were convicted for following what were deemed to be "radical" methods advocated by German veterinarian Dr Hiltrud Strasser; the court held that the practices used lead to the unnecessary suffering of the horses in their care. No veterinary supervision was provided in that case, which involved laminitis. (See Hoof Blog posts for 17 July 2006, 31 August 2006 and 7 September 2006.)
The true acid test of the new guidelines will no doubt be the treatment of laminitis by hoof trimmers without veterinary supervision. Many claim to obtain excellent results on laminitic horses with changes in lifestyle, diet and judicious hoof trimming and dismiss the need for pain medication, radiographs and veterinary supervision. The new guidelines would suggest that trimmers should obtain precise interpretation of the new equine welfare violations if working without veterinary supervision.
"Having a code of practice will allow the (equine welfare) charities to intervene at an earlier point when they see someone is doing work that should be undertaken by a vet or farrier," commented the British Equine Veterinary Association's Chris House, who is chairman of the NEWC's equine hoofcare sub-committee.
Attached to this post are two jpeg files (below), each representing one page of the proposed British guidelines. If I have created these documents correctly, you should be able to click or double click on them (depending on your web browser setup) and they should enlarge to full page size for you to read on the screen or print out on letter-size paper. (Sorry, if it doesn't work on your system. They are large high-resolution files that may take some time to open or download.)
These documents are part of a legal process and should not be altered. Please respect the posting of these documents for your personal information. Remember that these are "in process" documents provided for comment and these regulations only affect hoof trimmers in the United Kingdom.
Blogger's Commentary: It's not likely that any proposed regulations could please all parties. I'd interpret these rules as a victory for hoof trimming as an unregulated profession in a country where almost everything else seems to be regulated. As I read this document, it is also an endorsement of the value of hoof boots when fitted properly and a warning that improper use of hoof boots would be contrary to horse welfare regulations.
Hoof Blog readers from Great Britain may comment to the NEWC using forms available on their website. Deadline for response is midnight, April 30, 2008.
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If you follow the debates on the UKHSU site, you will know that there
is a great deal of discontent about new rules allowing farriers from
EU countries to work in the UK "temporarily" (up to two years)
without any real certification or qualifications, as long as they can
claim having done farrier work elsewhere. There are complaints about
farriers from Poland working in England and charging 1/2 the going
rate. Meanwhile, the UK farriers must still comply with the rigid
training and registration requirements there. There seems to be
considerable sentiment for deregulation of the entire trade, as the
more vocal UKHSU members a unhappy with the disadvantages and costs
of regulation imposed upon them. I get the impression that the FRC
regard the UK Horseshoers Union as a bunch of mouthy hotheads.
The militant's view is that the FRC is now simply a heavy-handed and
expensive bureaucratic operation focused on self-preservation, rather than on animal welfare, which was the original intent of the farrier registration act. They are also very unhappy with the lack of enforcement of rules to which they have adhered voluntarily for years.
Clearly, the UK system, which has done so much to maintain high
standards in the trade will be changing as the UK accepts more
integration with the EU. Whether that is good for horses of farriers
remains in question.
Best regards,
Mike Miller
- Wednesday, April 02, 2008
- Fran Jurga said...
Hi Mike,
Well, I think this is one of those
"is the glass half empty? or is the glass half full?" sorts of questions.
Remind me to tell you sometime about the Polish farrier who took a bus, a train, and I think even walked part of the way to France for a farrier meeting once. When he got there and saw all the tools and shoes, he couldn't handle it.
Bernard Duvernay from Geneva took up a collection from all the exhibitors and they sent him home with a crate of new tools and shoes. The man wept.
A few years later, he hosted a clinic in Poland (he's the FEI farrier for his country) and had Bernard come and be the clinician and see what he had done with the tools and how he had been trying to teach the farriers in Poland.
It's a two-way street, as long as people work in the spirit of improving hoofcare the whole world over.
Poland qualified for the World Cup in Dressage last week for the first time in eons. I like to think that the farrier industry people at that meeting in France had a hand in it.
- Thursday, April 03, 2008
I read your comment, and I actually agree with most of your sentiments on this. Un-level playing fields eventually get bulldozed over, and that will happen in the UK.
Having been involved in the WCF testing system, I certainly don't idealize the British system, nor does Chris Gregory, Doug Butler, or Mike Wildenstein. I do think that they have maintained a good standard, but their system is too rigid, with little benefit from all of the rules imposed on their working farriers.
The WCF, at least, deserves a lot of credit for keeping the craft alive during the bad times after WW II when it almost disappeared, and that's one reason that I admire their work. UK farriers do plenty of mediocre work every day, FRC or not.
As a famous orthopaedic surgeon once said: "The average orthopaedic surgeon is average. " The same applies to farriers.
- Thursday, April 03, 2008


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It's called the I-con-2004. It's a desk with an embedded computer and is the work of one Michiel van der Kley (yeah, with an "i"). We're not sure just how long this piece of furniture/PC has been around (we suspect 2004, but what do we know? the -2004 suffix to its name might mean anything at all!), but, as long as we're allowed to swap out those ugly legs, we wouldn't mind owning one at all.
The completely integrated design assures that no cables are visible and specs include ATI Radeon 9100 graphics, 1GB of DDR400 RAM, a 160GB HDD, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi.
Now, the word "concept' is tossed around here and there, so no firm price is to be seen. What's more, the website happens to include the most incompetently designed FAQ section ever (just click on one of the questions). So, we're calling bs on this one.
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Moist homemade lemon cupcakes topped off with lemon curd cream cheese frosting. A fun and flavorful dessert, perfect for any spring or summer occasion!
I'm beyond excited that spring has finally sprung around here. The leaves literally popped in a matter of a day or two recently. The weather couldn't be more amazing, outside of some rainy days here or there. Not a huge deal. I'd rather rain than snow! The only downside to spring is the bugs. And it's not even mosquitoes, because those you can typically spray for or use some kind of treatment or whatever – both on yourself and yard. But the May flies are seriously the worst.
I'll be outside a lot this spring for softball and baseball and I seriously cannot handle the bugs. They generally don't bite but they're a huge nuisance. I'm always the person waving my hands around just trying to keep the bugs away. I don't know how people can manage to not be bothered but things buzzing around them. My solution… a mini tent that has mesh sides! It's perfect for sitting or standing – literally just hanging out watching spring sports. I can't wait for it to arrive. It's so silly to be excited about spending hours upon hours inside of a tent, but it means bug free time. If I have to be outside – it needs to be bug free. Fingers crossed it works well and isn't too unruly. It folds flat but then you have to twist it to package it back up. I'm sure it'll be comical to watch me folding this thing until I get the hang of it!
I just started watching the first season of The Handmaid's Tale. Everyone I know that's watched it has absolutely loved it. I mean completely raved about it while also stating how creepy it is compared to what we're dealing with in our country currently, and even the world. I may have to cave and pay for Hulu to watch season 2. I'm not sure I'll be able to wait until it's available elsewhere, since that'll easily be next year at this rate. Have you watched it yet?
Once spring rolls around… or even before then, to be completely honest, I get become so obsessed with lemon flavored goodies. Gimme everything lemon flavored! Maybe it's the bright cheer color after a long dreary winter. Or maybe it's the pop of flavor. Though it's probably a bit of both! Can you blame me for wanting something bright and cheery after the winters we have in New England?
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This is a weird post. Too long for Twitter. I guess I would normally put something like this on Facebook, but I don't want to give certain people the satisfaction of seeing it. Yet I have to get it out for my own sanity.
A little background for those who don't know: I have sleep apnoea. I'm not allowed to drive (since May) until it's under control. The CPAP machine made it worse, so investigations are being done to find out the cause, and hopefully to fix it.
In the meantime, I exist in this foggy half-life. I can function as a normal person, working hard, smiling and laughing, for maybe 5 days in a row at most. Then, the effort of maintaining that facade hits me. I can barely get out of bed at weekends. When I am up, I yawn so much my jaw hurts (coupled with bruxism, from grinding my teeth, trying to stay alive in my sleep).
If I try to tell people, a colleague at work for example, just how exhausted I am, I get told in a mocking tone "yeah, I'm always tired too – I just don't let it bother me".
Comments have been overheard too, people talking about double standards, and why I'm not being disciplined for having a few days off here and there, and refusing to accept that they all relate to an existing condition.
I've heard the term "invisible illness" before, but only now do I fully understand just what that means, and what effect it has on the person suffering with it.
Today I slept through all of my alarms. When I finally woke, after I should have been at work already, it was just all all I could to phone and tell them I couldn't come in, before falling back asleep.
I'm cancelling more plans than I'm actually going to. Often letting people down at the last minute as I just can't find the energy to get ready.
My life is getting smaller and smaller.
The depression I've suffered from since I was a teen, has taken on a whole new lease of life. It's more powerful than it ever has been before, at a time where I barely have the energy to get out of bed.
I think it's starting to beat me. And I'm so scared. I'm scared of never driving again (my God, do I miss it). I'm scared of seeing my colleagues' posts on Facebook later, about me having "yet another" day off (ambiguous enough so I can't prove its about me, but still very obvious and hurtful). I'm scared that my life will just continue to get smaller and smaller until one day there's nothing left except tears.
But most of all, I'm scared that the latest round of tests/studies will reveal nothing. And that it really isn't going to get any better than this.


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This is pretty much how I feel most days (from my favourite doodler, Paige Pooler of Eyes Wide Apart):
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Posted in Distractions on February 16, 2007| 4 Comments »
Zuzu's tag
Posted in Distractions, Random Ramblings on January 22, 2007| 2 Comments »
…via Sage.
The assignment:
tell us at least 5 things you love about yourself – your body or your personality. Don't be shy! And no self-deprecation.
1. I, like Sage, have perfect teeth. Straight, white, and no fillings. And I didn't go to a dentist until I was old enough to pay for it myself, so there. Also, I have a great smile.
2. I'm funny. I am seriously sarcastic, and my sense of humour is kind of off-beat sometimes, but I am a fairly entertaining person. And I'm the first to laugh at myself.
3. I have great hair. It grows really long, and it's got a great natural wave, but it's easy to straighten if I want, and it's always healthy and silky no matter how much I torture it. It's starting to go white a little bit here and there, but for now, I colour it. Maybe I'll give up that vanity one day, but not while I go to school with people 10 years younger than me!
4. I have really nice skin. It helps that I know exactly how to look after it, and how to enhance it with makeup, but it's really nice. Porcelain. One of my friends used to call me Snow White, another calls me the China Doll. And the other day, someone said they thought I looked about 23. (by the way, the secret is SPF. Everyday. And a good cleanser, AHA, and topical Vitamin C.)
5. I'm smart. I can learn just about anything. There wasn't a subject in school that I couldn't do, and do well. And it was easy. Still is, mostly. Also, I have a lot of knowledge – just general, trivial sorts of stuff. I think I have a photographic memory, or something. I just remember things easily, when I'm interested. And I have a lot of interests.
6. I'm pretty fair. I do my best to treat people well, with kindness, no matter who they are. And I gave up judging people a long time ago. What a burden that was!
7. I love hard. I'm loyal, and a true friend. Those who have my love have it for life, no matter what circumstances might keep us together or apart. I'm very forgiving, and generous. There's nothing I wouldn't do for my dearest lovers and friends. This just might be my tragic flaw.
8. I have an excellent aesthetic eye. I can see how colours go together, how space would best be filled, what sort of textures go nicely together. I've got an eye for form, lines, and structure. If I wasn't doing what I'm doing, I could easily be an interior decorator or designer.
9. I have pretty eyes. Kind of green, with golden flecks around the pupil. Almond shaped, big and bright, crinkly when I laugh, very expressive, long eyelashes, great eyebrows. And perfect vision.
I put off doing this exercise for a while. I just wasn't sure about it, I thought I might not want to think about this too hard. Being modest is held as a virtue, especially for women, and it's something I think I've internalized a bit. It does feel like you're bragging, or being conceited, which is something a lot of other people have said in answering this tag. But in reading other people's answers, I came to realize that these are the things we should celebrate. And for others to recognize how great we are, maybe it's a good idea to recognize it in ourselves!
Posted in Distractions, Sheer Entertainment on December 2, 2006| 1 Comment »
oh my, Denzel. I just saw Deja Vu. Great movie – really unique storyline. I loved it.
But back to the matter at hand. Denzel.
I swear that man gets better and better looking every year. I've loved him long time, since I dunno the late 80s? I could go on and on but I don't want to embarass myself.
Denzel rocks the house. that's all I have to say.
Posted in Distractions, Sheer Entertainment on December 1, 2006|
It's been about two years I think, maybe three, since I discovered the music of Damien Rice. I immediately got my hot little hands on everything he had recorded up until that point in time, and played it pretty much incessantly. I forced it on all of my friends, who fell in love with him as well. I was a woman obsessed.
It's been about two weeks since Damien Rice's new CD came out. It's all I want to hear, it's all I play, it's constantly in my head. I wake up singing it, I sing it in the shower, I play it in my car, I sing it to my cat, I hear it everywhere I go. I don't know what it is, but I am completely obsessed, insane, enraptured, eaten up with this singer. His music is so haunting, so beautiful, so cozy and familiar. His lyrics are so puzzling, so filled with regret and sorrow and complexity. His voice is imperfectly lovely and true. And I love it. He's amazing. Go buy his CDs and you'll see what I mean. (It doesn't hurt that he is, like, the cutest little Irishman ever, and that he seems to not much care for the fine art of selling out. He's like the Johnny Depp of music or something. which can't be bad – Johnny's pretty awesome!)
in case of boredom
Posted in Distractions, Sheer Entertainment on November 6, 2006| 2 Comments »
… try this!
(in honour of the season's first flurries, currently falling outside my window!)


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Small candy bouquets made in inexpensive containers
are great for party favors, teacher's gifts, team parties,
co-worker surprises, fund-raisers or any occasion.
A good source for containers is Dollar Tree, WalMart,
thrift stores or even your own pantry. Keep an open
mind and open eyes for bases for small candy bouquets.
In addition to a base for a small candy bouquet you will
need clear tape, candy, small wooden skewers (or even
toothpicks for really little candy), and foam.
One of the most inexpensive containers that I used in
experimenting/playing around in making small candy
bouquets is colorful plastic disposable drinking cups.
Valentine's Day
St. Patrick's Day
Team Spirit (my favorite team is Auburn...colors orange and blue).
If you are having a themed-birthday party, these fun
re-usable cups from WalMart are less than $1 each...
...Dollar Tree usually has seasonal-themed containers too...
...these seasonal cups are from WalMart...four cups for $1...
...red metal pail from Dollar Tree; purple silk pail from thrift store.
Because these small containers don't have much weight to
them, you need to use smaller (or lightweight) candies to
keep them from tipping over. Bagged mini candies
are a great resource for these small candy bouquets.
These are Easter candies pictured above. It is better to used wrapped candies for the candy bouquets.
It used to be that you could only find miniature candies around Halloween but now you can find
bagged miniature candy bars year-round. The wooden picks in the photo above are called
"sandwich picks". They are larger than toothpicks but smaller than most wooden skewers.
With a lot of the smaller candy that you will use for these
small candy bouquets, you will just use clear tape to
attach the wooden skewer to the back of the wrapped candy.
With some of the mini candy bars, there is a flap on the back.
If you want to hide the skewer as much as possible, here's how:
Pull the flap up, place the skewer next to the fold,
tape the skewer down along the fold, pull the flap down
over the skewer, tape the flap down.
Some of the candy is so small you can even use toothpicks
for these small candy bouquets. I happened across some
plastic cocktail "forks" at Dollar Tree which worked also.
The foam that you use can be floral foam (which is usually green)
or styrofoam (which is white or green).
All of the above foams came from the floral aisle at Dollar Tree.
Any of them would work for a small candy bouquet.
Any of them would work for a small candy bouquet.
Here is floral foam in a cup (left) and then a cupcake
paper liner on top of the same type foam to disguise it.
If you are making lots of small candy bouquets, you might
want to consider using spray foam. It is trickier than pre-made
foam but less expensive. Here is a link if you want to look
into spray insulation foam as a filler..
"How To Use Spray Foam As A Filler For Candy Bouquets"
"How To Use Spray Foam As A Filler For Candy Bouquets"
When you are pushing the taped candy into the foam, push
on the skewer/toothpick/plastic fork more than the candy.
The candy might pop off of the support if you put too
much pressure on it.
If you want to add more embellishment or hide the foam
in the small candy bouquet, here are some ways to do that...
"Decorative Fillers For Candy Bouquets".
"Decorative Fillers For Candy Bouquets".
Here are some more pictures of the small candy bouquets
that I made. They only cost about $2-3 each but the joy
that they brought to the people that I gave them to was
far beyond that monetary amount.
Candy bouquet in solo cup with paper napkin embellishment
Candy taped onto skewers and home-made foam painted ready to go equals...
Pail from WalMart ($1) with ($1) box of Princess chocolates
and message hearts boxes (33 cents each).
and message hearts boxes (33 cents each).
Spring/Easter candies in green solo cups with full-sized paper napkins pushed
into cups before foam was added.
Easter cups (4/$1) with candy and Easter grass added on top of foam.
Green solo cups and candies/gum for St. Patrick's Day
For disposable cups that will just be thrown away you can
add some glue to the bottom of the cup to help hold the foam.
For cups that folks might want to re-use, don't add glue.
Solo cups with team colored orange and blue candies added along with curly ribbon fillers
The variety of these small candy bouquets is only
limited by your imagination...have fun making them...
I know that I did!
If you want to see more ideas for candy bouquets, click
on this highlighted link...
"Make Your Own Candy Bouquets In Lots of Ways".
"Make Your Own Candy Bouquets In Lots of Ways".


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"I am convinced that it is at the place of the devotional that the spiritual life is made or marred. (Selwyn Hughes; Introduction to his 'Every Day Devotional Bible')
I love feeding the mind by studying the meaning of words, and understanding the context in which passages of Scripture came to be penned. As Paul said
"I will pray with the mind, and I will pray with the Spirit."
What we will be seeking above all to do here is to take a verse of Scripture and meditate with the Lord on how He may wish to apply it in our hearts. We will find God coming to us in precious ways as we do this.
We are starting this new series with the memoires of Nehemiah. We hope you will gather a great deal of manna for your soul from the insights that we share – but the real key is to be open to what the Lord has to say to you directly as you interweave your own pilgrimage with the Scriptural account.
The Memoirs of Nehemiah
The Memoirs of Nehemiah – Where we come from matters
Manna for the Soul – Asking the right questions
Manna for the Soul – Sharing with People in distress
Manna for the Soul – Sit Walk, Kneel, Weep
Handling Grief and Processing Loss


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At DC-8Models.com, we are pleased to be able to offer discriminating aircraft model collectors re-cast 1/50th scale aluminum DC-8 models in period liveries. Each of our models is customer commissioned and built in the same style as the original DFMs, polished to mirror grade, painted with non-fade paints, and clear-coated for long term preservation and display.
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These fabulous aircraft display models were produced in both 1/72 scale and 1/50th scale, in very limited quantities, and were presented as gifts to the airlines. Typically, when a new DC-8 was delivered, the Douglas Salesmen would take the models on the delivery flight to the awaiting airline executives.
Douglas produced the models from very elaborate and precise molds, with the fuselage being produced by joining two hallow sections to a tail section. The wing section would bolt into the fuselage with the stand attached by a bolt attachment through the centre of the wings. The aluminum pieces were polished to mirror grade, then the models were painted and finished in airline liveries with decals, and supplied to the customers in custom wooden shipping crates.
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For quite some, Anchor Electricals had been on the lookout for a technology partner who would be helping the company to optimize its IT operations and achieve its target of doubling revenues by 2020. Moreover, the company needed to enhance its agility and scalability for its IT Infrastructure to support its business expansion plans, while minimizing IT operational costs by 10%.
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