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To track some personally noteworthy events, observations and thoughts, letting them age and savor/regret them again a long time later.
Saturday, August 26, 2017
Dr. Florida got it wrong and we paid the price
LKY was so impressed with him and like other global cities we bought his ideas and now we are paying for it. He was also partly responsible for turning LKY gay friendly because the data seemed to suggest that wherever the gays congregate the place is more creative.
Now Dr Florida after observing his ideas put into practice across so many leading cities have concluded that he was wrong.
Today we are all paying a hefty price for that mistake. Now our public libraries do not even bother to carry his latest book.
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Thursday, August 24, 2017
Role reversal: Singapore and China
The Chinese used to look to us to learn as much as possible to bootstrap their development. Increasingly the roles are being reversed as in more and more sectors we will be learning from them. It has now gone to the using technology in the courts. We were an early innovator in this game but the Chinese have clearly sped ahead of us.
I once told my ex boss that in business and employment, the most difficult moment for us is when the Chinese are catching up and overtaking us. It will get easier when they are ahead of us. Globally this is clearest when the developed world were the customers for the Chinese but it is now shifted very much to the Chinese being the customers instead.
Fortunately not all economic sectors suffer this transition at the same time or the strain may be too hard to bear. But it is coming, one by one and like it or not, all of us in Asia would become economic vassals to China. Then the Chinese will use their economic might to bolster its military and extend their security umbrella over Asia challenging the Americans inch by inch with the Indians, Japanese and Aussies among the last to fall in line. This is not the foregone scenario though, the future reality will also depend on how the Japanese, Indians and Americans react to China's obvious strategy. We do not need to care about these big powers except how they might price the external environment which we must make a living out of. The issue is can we pay the Chinese price? Everything falls into the place after that.
If you cannot make enough sense of what is happening, you would say the future is unpredictable and bears watching closely developments. That is the stance of our PM and his ministers. The issue is not its unpredictability but our inability to make enough sense of it. Without having a sufficiently clear idea of what might come, we do not know how to get ready for tomorrow. Singapore performance as a society and economy is going to suffer.
We have done quite well but I am not sure if we know how to continue doing so. How do you know what to pack for the trip when you do not know where you are going? Meanwhile a party which place its interests ahead of the nation will prevent the next LKY if we have one at all from emerging. As always good is the enemy of the great.
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Wednesday, August 23, 2017
More youths dying of Colon Cancer
A friend's daughter died from this slightly more than a year ago. She was barely 22 years old. This threat has appeared on the scene stealthily, and it is probably not unique to America which the story is based on. A month before the Israelis have reported similar findings among its youths. Perhaps we are well on the way to knowing what the data for us is like. I hope I am wrong but would not be surprised if the trend here is similar to the Americans and Israelis, rich societies with somewhat similar lifestyles.
This is not Science yet but eat and run about like your parents when they were young and it might helped reduced your risk.
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Monday, August 21, 2017
National Day Rally 2017
The PM spoke on three issues this year: pre-school education, diabetes and smart city. Seemingly smart things with big impact down the road. Nothing mentioned on our external environment which suggests to me that he has finally taken Kishore Mahbubani advice that he is not LKY. We do need our leader to share with us what he thought of the region and the larger world because we are totally dependent on what is outside for our security and livelihood. Unfortunately he cannot do it safely or with sagacity.
Remember we are price takers. We can make all the plans we want but as always it will be what happens outside Singapore which will finally decide the choices available to us.
We badly need someone who can climb up the tall mast and look ahead. Every year the old map bequeathed to us by LKY gets more outdated.
Update: Aug 22 4:30 pm
share his views publicly on this issue. At home our PM had kept mum and since then I have told friends this year NDR speech was the worst ever.
Quoting Dalio from his essay,
History has shown that democracies are healthy when the principles that bind people are stronger than those that divide them, when the rule of law governs disputes, and when compromises are made for the good of the whole—and that democracies are threatened when the principles that divide people are more strongly held than those that bind them and when divided people are more inclined to fight than work to resolve their differences. Conflicts have now intensified to the point that fighting to the death is probably more likely than reconciliation.
That is between countries but within America, he had observed backed by repeated poll numbers and concluded,
..the majority of Americans appear to be strongly and intransigently in disagreement about our leadership and the direction of our country. They appear more inclined to fight for what they believe than to try to figure out how to get beyond their disagreements to work productively based on shared principles
I don't believe our PM is ignoring the elephant in the room. I think he does not have the confidence to talk about it publicly. Earlier this morning I came across this by Bilahari Kausikan.
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Sunday, August 20, 2017
Bad idea: Reserved presidential elections
What is the difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter? They could be the same person depending on which side you are looking from. So is the reserved presidential elections system a unique stabilizer? Not to me but I am open minded enough to understand there are other ways to look at this. I just happen not to agree with them.
A reserved elections make minorities look like losers i.e., they can't compete on their on merit and need help. This brings us closer in thought and spirit with Malaysia's pro-Bumis policies than one based on meritocracy.
I am for giving more help to the Malay community to achieve but not for lowering the bar for them. The community will lose self respect. They are not suffering like in a game of reading, handicapped by dyslexia. Even my daughter worked to overcome her dyslexia over time and she competed as equals with her course mates by the time she got to university. If I thought like the PAP government then I would have asked NUS to give her more time for her exams. Bad idea. Instead we worked hard to overcome her handicap. Never give up.
With such a loser attitude encouraged by the government, the Malay community will fall further behind. I do not wish for the Malays to spoil their votes in the upcoming presidential elections reserved for them, but I would understand why if they do. For their own self respect.
The Malays are as Singaporeans as the Chinese. If this is not true then we will find convenient reasons for all sorts of discrimination e.g., against women, older workers etc., In fact we are already doing all these as hypocrites. Now the hypocrisy is enshrined in the highest public office. We are not foolish enough to fast track ourselves to hell but not wise enough to avoid the slow long road to perdition.
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Saturday, August 19, 2017
Nazis against Nazis – Germany's most involuntary charity walk
My daughter was telling me about this amusing incident in Germany she caught off Huff Post. I saw a version of it this morning from the NYT.
Non-violence with faith and patience works. It is not natural because it is spiritual. I recall from the 80s a remarked made in the movie Gandhi played by Ben Kingsley, "An eye for an eye, makes the whole world blind" The Christians were learning their own teachings from a non-believer. God is "promiscuous" and surprising because Jesus Christ is the only way to him.
Quoting from the NYT article with reference to the methods of Martin Luther King,
This reminds me of the importance and effectiveness of the spiritual disciplines, many of them from even before the Roman Catholic church which was passed down through millennial.
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Prayer answered: Bannon is leaving
Woke up to the news that Steve Bannon has been fired. This is wonderful news. He will do what he wants to do but the White House is not the place for them.
When is Trump going to resign? I would think he would prefer that than get impeached and kicked out.
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Wednesday, August 16, 2017
We are less happy with our employers
Deja Vu for me. I remember day after day as a young executive looking at those people at least 20 years older than me back then. They lived such comfortable lives working out of those rooms and we secretaries to do their chores. If only their boss, the VP wouldn't so demanding they would have succeeded at creating heaven on earth. I am still in touch with this VP who has long retired from the company but none of these self centered managers.
I recognize how at personal or atomic level it could be aggregated into findings in this ST story despite the many years of separation. All the opportunities I had to try new things and learn were mostly driven by this VP but what can one person in a large division do? In the end all of us left for other employers only to discover that by and large we are ruled by happy golf playing bosses who work out of rooms and resist change, only interested in the sweet spot they have navigated themselves into.
It is a different world now. Most of those rooms have been torn down but that basic bo-chap attitude find every opportunity to surface. The only exception was the time I was at a leading Wall Street bank when people like that inevitably got shown the door, where bad luck was also your fault but the bonuses if you can survive was really good and embarrassing if you perform.
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Saturday, August 12, 2017
SG: Between American and China, an adjustment of course
Standards has been falling at ST and also the SCMP. I was surprised at the writing in this article. Midway I detoured to check who wrote this. It was one of our own veteran journalists, Zuraidah Ibrahim. Her other half is Cherian George, a good writer and incisive thinker. We lost both of them to Hong Kong.
To me this was the most important sentence in the story.
"maturation process" in SG-China relationship.
Ms Ibrahim provided the context for our expulsion of Huang Jing by reminding us of our the expulsion of the first secretary of the US embassy here way back in 1988. Fast forward our relationship with the US strengthened. Ditto what will follow from our action against Huang Jing. In private, Singapore is steering a different direction, not a complete change of course but just as in leaning in more toward the US before, we will be building our relationship with the Chinese more rapidly like we had with the US now. In other words the environment changed, we adapt. Whoever drove the change we ride with the driver. Post Cold War it was the US, now it is China.
This just a game of best friends and better best friends. The focus is on "best" rather than "better". Whoever makes more sense and earned the "better" that country now is China.
It does not mean that our relationship with America will weaken but it does mean there is more growth between us and China vis a vis the Americans. The ball is in America's court when it becomes post Trump to catch up or lose out.
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Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Fake news: ICA fuel tank scanner
Only two of them follow up with messages that the news was fake.
The fake news problem is getting more serious but this is also the moment to get familiar with them and learn to spot them. Some of us are conscientious students but most are either lazy or stupid, swallowing hook, line and sinker.
My worry is that as part of the natural sorting process, the shrewd and the suckers are organized into separate groups. We will have to depend on common members of both groups to keep pointing out such hoaxes to the lazy gullible ones. I have noticed some are just too lazy to learn, always leaning on others to look out for them. To add insult to injury, quite a few even enjoy fake news because they are often juicy and conspiratorial. I have also noticed agnostics and atheists seem to do better.
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Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Changi Airport T4 Open House
Took quite a few photos at the Terminal 4 open house yesterday and reproducing by favourite three here.
Beautiful ornamental orchids line the whole length of the departure hall.
All in it was quite fun.
Beautiful ornamental orchids line the whole length of the departure hall.
This is not just a picture, it is fully animated between three shows but this one showing how luggage overly creatively handled was wifey's favourite. Good for distracting restless people as they wait for their turn to have their travel credentials and security checked.
The the picture before part of this wall is animated as well. It presented a show of romance between a Peranakan young man and woman who were neighbors. The show ends when the couple got married.
Mr. Singh wore one of the most beautiful turban I have ever come across :-)
And I just have to add that the temperature was a slightly chilly 22.2C but give me this anytime over the hot weather outside.
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Monday, August 7, 2017
Halimah running for President
If this is a reserved for Malays only presidential elections, I am not voting for Halimah. I have nothing against her, in fact I like her. It is the PAP that I have a problem with. So if the high court would to rule that only the next PE is a reserved one, I might vote for her.
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MTR 10-hour train delay
This is not our MRT but the standard setting HK MTR. I was keen to study the difference between them and us during such an event.
I don't track such things closely enough to compare the potential penalties they face vis a vis our MRT in an incident like this. What is noteworthy though is that they have a much clearer idea of what went wrong. For us, we would simply have said, "signaling fault". With them they explained how three computers controlling the signaling to ensure the tracks are safe had experienced an unprecedented failure, which had not happened in well over ten years. In other words they know their system much better than we know ours. For us, we cannot even anticipate a sliding door coming off its rollers and intermittently tripping the power. Looks like we have a near impossible problem and the solution is to replace many bits of the system gradually until we know the behavior and health of each bit. This will take many years. The government and operators screwed up but never come clean about it and so we also never stopped getting angry with them. I believe HK commuters would mostly just brushed off this rare delay. Here we would asked for heads to roll but of course to no avail. What for? Rolling heads will not solve our problems. The guys now in charge for fixing our system aren't the ones who created the problems in the first place but they are getting all the brickbats.
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Bloody Maria – Mezcal Mary
This south-of-the-border spin on the classic brunch cocktail is equal parts spicy and refreshing. Swap your Eggs Benedict for Chilaquiles (Mexican breakfast dish of braised tortilla chips layered with cheese, salsa, and beans) and your Fiesta is in full effect!
- Salt rim highball glass ( wipe lime flesh around the rim and dip in salt)
- Fill with ice
- Pour in 2 ounces of tequila (Bloody Maria) or mezcal (Mezcal Mary)
- Top with 4 ounces of Chef's Cure Mix
- Garnish with cilantro, lime and fresh jalapeno

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We have no interest in meeting you or any other useful idiot apparatchik so that you can incrementally infringe rights you have no claim to. We know the end game and we're ceding no ground from which to launch the next incursion. That would make as much sense as throwing a scrap of flesh to a circling pack of hyenas and expecting it to sate them and persuade them to be on their way.
If he didn't file police reports, I call BS.
Nowhere does he quote anyone actually saying they are going to do him harm, and even if he did it would be on him to prove he didn't make it up or it didn't come from a fellow "progressive" trying to make gun owners look like terrorists. Instead he cites predictions of what would happen if he tried, which we of course know he would not—his type expects other men to gear up and do the risky wet work.
As an aside, that the phrase "Molon Labe" is new to him shows a person profoundly ignorant of those he would turn into enemies. In fairness, his readership admittedly could leave most of us in the dust if the topics were men's fashion tips, mixing the perfect martini or where to go for the best mankini wax job.
Not to be outdone, sometime writer/actress Lauren Shippen shows "progressives" aren't about anything if not stale and unoriginal ideas. I blocked out some words in the above graphic that you don't need to guess very hard to discern, but if you want to see it uncensored, it's still on her Twitter feed. While some might be tempted to just ask "Who?" and dismiss it as a leftist nobody (albeit Forbes considers her one of their "30 under 30" up-and-coming young media luminaries) making noise for attention, note that at this writing her tweet has amassed 65K "likes."
"There is abroad in our land the growing thought that America is now in fact two countries sharing a common border and (mostly) a common language but divided along the answer to this question: DOES THE GOVERNMENT SERVE THE PEOPLE OR DO THE PEOPLE SERVE THE GOVERNMENT?" my friend and colleague Mike Vanderboegh often observed on his Sipsey Street Irregulars blog. "Two countries, two world views, two contradictory histories. Each irreconcilable with the other."
It's not a matter of agreeing to disagree. That opportunity will not be presented by those who would rule over all. If they reach the point where those pulling the strings feel emboldened enough to try for full-blown citizen disarmament after decades of incremental erosions, there will be those who defy them and those who actively resist orders articulated by Dianne Feinstein when she advocated "Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in."
And it's not just so-called "assault weapons." Remember, the Brady Campaign and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence both started with the goal to ban handguns. Those goals haven't gone away, and Nancy Pelosi admitted that the piece-at-a-time strategy is still in operation with her "slippery slope" advocacy (echoed by Chris Murphy's commitment to "baby steps" toward disarmament.
We've recently had major media outlets and a retired Supreme Court "justice" call to repeal the Second Amendment. A Congressman just demanded "Ban assault weapons, buy them back, go after resisters" (disregarding the fact that the right of the people to keep and bear "ordinary military weapons …that… could contribute to the common defense" is precisely what "shall not be infringed"). And from Dave Holmes' melt down over the Santa Fe High School killings, we see that shotguns are also on the verboten list from those who want it all (and Fudds take note).
If and when those who demand the total citizen disarmament get around to trying it, odds are a core of armed citizens, possibly around three percent, will resist it. And if the Republic devolves into all-out civil war, those pushing gun owners into a corner from where there is no retreat might want to do the math and decide how the numbers look for "their side."
This is existential. If Americans once more rebel against tyranny, there's no reason to expect history will not repeat itself as far as the very personal and often violent Patriots vs. Tories conflicts that happened last time. If that does, those for whom no gun laws will ever be enough, and who egged it all on, should not delude themselves into thinking their roles will be overlooked if any of their opponents decide to adopt Bill Clinton's rules of engagement. I'd also bring up Julius Streicher as an historical example of how such instigators have been treated in the past, but they'd start howling about being threatened by the mean old extremists (and lest they bring up the First Amendment, they're the ones always reminding us of its limitations, and how speech they disapprove of "is not free speech.")
So instead I'll express gratitude for the wisdom of the Founders, who knew that just as arms in private, moral hands discouraged individual aggressors — most of the time without a shot being fired — so too does the knowledge of an armed populace work on a societal scale. And believe it or not, I'm also grateful for the impulse control-challenged leftists who just don't have the self-discipline to stifle their outbursts. They confirm in ways they can't take back that all the talk about "commonsense gun safety laws" is just a smokescreen, that what the totalitarians really want is everything, and the guns are just the start.
Anyone who scoffs that no one is talking about taking away your guns can be shown to be a liar. Thanks to the unabashed prohibitionists, that genie is now out of the bottle and can never be put back.
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By Dorothy Irwin
Carrboro Commons Staff Writer
The PTA Thrift Shop is much more than the average thrift store, and it is currently expanding its Carrboro location.
Often a favorite source of secondhand treasures, the PTA Thrift Shop has also been a staple of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro community since it opened in 1952. The store uses its resources to provide for the community through social outreach, supporting many local nonprofit organizations.
"They're just really supportive and involved in the community, and really reliable," said Jamie Rohe, homeless programs coordinator for the Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness.
A groundbreaking ceremony was held on Jan. 24 for the PTA Thrift Shop's new building project at its Carrboro location on Jones Ferry Road. The first phase of the building project will consist of 22,000 square feet, of which 14,000 square feet will be designated to the PTA Thrift Shop's operations, including retail space, offices and donation areas, according to Barbara Jessie-Black, the PTA Thrift Shop executive director.
The remaining 8,000 square feet will be leased to Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS) Pre-K and Head Start administrative offices. This first phase of the project, which is in progress now, is scheduled to be completed by the end of August 2013, she said. Phase two of the building, which does not yet have a timeline, will consist of more lease space for restaurants, retail and office space.
The PTA Thrift Shop's Chapel Hill store on South Elliot Road is remaining open, and a temporary Carrboro location is open at 201 W. Weaver St.during the new building construction.
Local Schools
The PTA Thrift Shop's primary recipients are PTAs in the local school system, amounting to over $200,000 in donations annually. The individual PTAs are then responsible for determining which programs within their schools to fund with the contributions, Jessie-Black said.
According to Debra Scott, principal at McDougle Middle School, the funds have been used in the past to add technology and fund cultural arts programs for each grade level. Last year the PTA Thrift Shop helped fund a program that brought Holocaust survivors to the school to speak with eighth grade students, she said.
McDougle has parents organize for students to work at the PTA Thrift Shop as a fundraiser, and the school's PTA pushes the involvement every year because it is such a great program, Scott said.
"We have really been able to see a difference this year without their support," Scott added. "Our funds are down and we have had to cut back across the budget for programs at McDougle."
Local PTAs, however, are only a portion of the organizations that benefit from the PTA Thrift Shop. The store also contributes to the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service (IFC), the Orange County Department of Social Services, TABLE, and Project Connect, among other nonprofit organizations.
Inter-Faith Council
According to Kristin Lavergne, community services director for the IFC for Social Service, the IFC receives clothing vouchers from the PTA Thrift Shop that clients can use to pick out what they need from the store. Each household in the IFC's Chapel Hill/Carrboro service area can get one voucher every six months; these vouchers are free for IFC clients.
"It's really helpful to us because our clients are in need of clothing, but they don't have the resources to buy things they need themselves," Lavergne said.
These vouchers are the IFC's main resource for helping people get the clothing they need. The IFC has tried to host its own clothing closets in the past, Lavergne said, but those are a lot to manage. They found out from experience that it is beyond what the IFC can handle. With the PTA Thrift Shop vouchers available, it's more efficient for everyone to have it set up this way, she said.
The IFC gave out 1,287 PTA Thrift Shop vouchers in the last fiscal year (July 2011-June 2012) from its Carrboro office alone. The Carrboro location primarily serves people who have a place to live but just need some additional help, Lavergne said. Vouchers are also given out at HomeStart and Community House in addition to those given out from the Carrboro branch.
Lavergne has not heard many complaints from IFC clients about the main Carrboro store being temporarily closed. Normally if people are unable to find what they need at one location, they can check the other, but that option is not available during the construction. While limited transportation can also be an issue, ongoing communication has made this transition better, Lavergne said.
Project Connect
The PTA Thrift Shop starts collecting coats in the spring for Project Connect's annual event according to Rohe, who is the project's lead coordinator. Though over the years the store has donated different items such as tote bags, the PTA Thrift Shop's main contribution to the annual day of service is coats. They donate several hundred coats each year, and people have come to expect it, Rohe said. According to Jessie-Black, they donated 230 coats in 2012. People can look through the coats and pick one out, and there is always a large variety, Rohe said. The majority of the event's coats come from the PTA Thrift Shop. Volunteers are also provided from the PTA Thrift Shop's executive team for Project Connect's big event each year, Jessie-Black said.
The relationship with TABLE is more recent and consists of an annual in-store food drive benefiting TABLE. Between 2010 and 2012 the PTA Thrift Shop donated about 500 pounds of healthy non-perishable food to TABLE to support its emergency food aid programs to local hungry children, according to Joy MacVane, TABLE executive director.
Jessie-Black said the store also partners with other local nonprofits on a more limited basis depending on the need.
CHCCS Community
The PTA Thrift Shop periodically has events during which they market to their customers the opportunity to purchase gift cards to be distributed to families in need in the CHCCS district, Jessie-Black said. Once collected, the gift cards are passed on to the school district for distribution to families based on need.
Environmental Efforts
In addition to helping local schools and nonprofit organizations directly, the PTA Thrift Shop has received national recognition and awards for its environmentally friendly and sustainable practices. It received the 2010 Progress Energy Sustainable Business of the Year Award and has received "Green Plus Certification" through the Institute for Sustainable Development.
"Our core values include supporting the tenets of the triple bottom line of sustainability," Jessie-Black said, "which includes people, planet and performance and how those three components, when equally concentrated on, contribute not only to the organization's sustainability and success, but also to the community's."
Community Leader
According to Rohe, another interesting dimension to the thrift shop as an organization is Jessie-Black's dedication to making the community a better place.
"She's a very bright woman – very effective – has really good connections and relationships and is very involved as a community member," Rohe said.
Jessie-Black serves on the leadership team of the Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness. She serves on the Job Partners Committee, which focuses on helping people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless become job-ready and find jobs, as well as finding employers who are willing to hire at-risk employees. Jessie-Black has also employed people at the PTA Thrift Shop who were previously homeless, Rohe said.
"It's great for an executive director to be able to look past her own organization to the needs of the community," Rohe said. Jessie-Black cares deeply about the community and contributes a lot of time and energy to serving it.
"Every organization is a strong reflection of its leadership," Rohe said, "and Barbara as a community member and a community leader cares deeply about community justice and the well-being of this community."
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Sunday, 22 March 2015
Whether Kylie's lips are a thing of the past or a still circulating in the media, the Jenner sister's lips are a long lasting favourite to me. I did one post a while back on my recreation of the overdrawn, brown-pink nude lip and it still stands as my post popular post, and you can view that here. It focused on high end products, and the lip liner is now a stub and I've lost the lipstick, so I've been searching for a drugstore alternative for quite some time now, and I think I've got it.
While at the Essence counter I was overwhelmed by the cheap pricing, as well as the range of products, and began to hunt through the lip products immediately (I also got a rather good liner pen). The first is the Lipliner in 11 In The Nude, a creamy yet matte liner that is not drying but long lasting. The best part? It cost £1.00 and is pretty much the Kylie Jenner lip shade, I recon you could rock this alone and have the look nailed for a quid.
For a lipstick, this isn't as matte as I wanted but it isn't glossy by any means, and is the shade 05 Cool Nude - rather self explanatory in colour. I think alone is is slightly too pink for the Kylie look, but because the lip liner is quite brown it seems to level out and give a pretty good colour.
I can tell this is going to be my new lip combination for everyday wear, and it's such a universal look it goes with pretty much any look.
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Labels: Brown , Drugstore , Dupe , Essence , Kylie Jenner , Lip Liner , Lip Stick , Lips , MAC , Matte , Nude , Overdrawn , Pink
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So for those who follow this blog, or at least check in occasionally, you might've noticed I haven't updated it in a while. I have a list of excuses about a mile long: work, visitors, laziness, secret swap pieces etc. But honestly, I still had some pieces to share and talk about. The actual reason why I didn't? I was feeling a bit "meh" about it all.
A part of it was the fairy door I finished in a great hurry just in time for the challenge deadline. No one's fault but my own, I spent too long "designing" it rather than building it. It was a project close to my heart; I even wrote a whole post on how I created it. But once it was completely done, down to the last spray of PYM ii, something felt off. In theory, it matched my design. Inspired by this lovely peacock palace door, it had a "head" decorated with peacock cane slices, a stone cabochon to add some more color, decorative metal door with a blingy knocker and some matching walls. But once I'd taken the pictures and everything, I wasn't completely satisfied.
Fairy door
The other thing that happened to put me off, just a bit, was some not-so-great swap experiences. I started participating in swaps last year, and for the most part, it's been great! I've gotten some lovely pieces, people have been wonderful about what they received and I've learnt a fair bit. The clay community is very friendly, so I thought it'd always be that way. The first bad experience I had was with a charm swap at the beginning of the year. As usual I couldn't decide on one thing, so I created a bunch of charms and sent them off last minute just before I left for a long trip. Now I created each of these pieces with a lot of care and tried to include a variety of sizes and colors so the recipient would find something she liked. Once I sent it off, I waited and waited to have an acknowledgement of SOME sort that she received it. Two weeks and nothing. At that point I sent a couple of private Facebook messages, spaced a few days apart asking if she received the package. Still no response. Finally, I tagged her in a post on the group asking if she received it. She finally responded saying she did and she was sorry but life was very busy so she hadn't had time to upload pictures or make my swap. She promised to do both as soon as possible. It's been three months, she never uploaded pictures and I haven't received my swap.
Honestly, the part the hurts the most is that she never took a moment to say, hey, I got the package. It's no small thing to make something, pack as carefully as possible, go to the post office and mail it out. I think the least someone can do is acknowledge all that by just saying they received the package. There's just no way anyone is so busy that they can't find a moment of time to do that. If they were, they shouldn't be participating in swaps in the first place!
I think part of it is that is it's a mutual swap and they haven't sent out their pieces yet, they might be embarrassed about it. I know I felt that way at first, I wanted to be able to say "your package is on the way too" along with thank you. But then I realized I don't really mind if the other person is late in getting their package in. It doesn't matter even if they never get it to it. I just really want to know if they received their package and okay yes, I'd love to know if they liked it. Isn't that the point of a swap? To send your work into the big black hole that is the universe and pray that it reaches someone who appreciates it? Maybe my work isn't the prettiest or the most professional looking. I'm the first to acknowledge that I have a lot to learn.
But I take a lot of effort to send neatly finished pieces that I would love to receive. I try to find out something about the recipient so I can send something they'd like. I search through all the clay groups I belong to and try and find pictures they've posted or things they've commented on. If it's a mutual swap, I reach out and ask about their preferences. I make many test pieces, spend as much time as possible finishing them neatly. Almost always, I send a few extra pieces with different sizes and different techniques, so there'll be something that suits the receiver. I include a little note with all my packages explaining the motive behind the pieces and apologize for any imperfections I may have noticed at the last minute. No matter what I have going on in my life, I make sure I get the package out as soon as possible and double check tracking numbers, if any, to ensure that it has been delivered.
I think the main thing all swappers should keep in mind is COMMUNICATION!! Everyone has a very busy life with many, many obligations. I understand that. Maybe you were gloriously free when you signed up for the swap, but something happened and that changed. Maybe you're busily working on the swap piece but it's taking longer than you anticipated. Whatever the case is, do let your swap partner know. I'm sure they'll understand and be sympathetic. And no matter what's happening with your end of the swap, absolutely let them know when you receive their package. The minute you open their package you have an obligation to let them know you got it. Sometimes I'll put off taking pictures and posting them because I'm too lazy to pull out my light tent: I'm trying to get better at this. But I will get on my computer and send off a message saying I received it. I know not everyone checks their mail every day. That's okay as well. But the minute you do get the package in your hands and open it, do let the other person know!
Okay, that's my rant! I swear, I wasn't planning to go off the deep end about it so much. But this has happened a couple of times since. I haven't received my swap and I have no idea if the other person received my package (though USPS says she did). With all this, I think I'm ready to take a break from swapping. I have one found-object swap that I signed up for a couple of months back: I'm working on that. But I don't think I'll be signing up for anything else for a while after that.
I also want to acknowledge some good experiences I've had! Esther Schmidt received her butterfly pieces from me and sent me an additional heart set after that! Amy Hucks sent this wonderful lion fish tin that must've taken forever to put together! And here's a wonderful owl from Angela Thompson, who was also kind enough to share how she made it.
Swaps I've received
Ahem, on a more positive note, here are a few random pieces I managed to make over the last couple of weeks when I wasn't obsessing over swap etiquette. I finally tried the faux opal technique from Donna Kato and was very pleased with the results. Here are a couple of pieces in a faux bone bezel from Tina Holden's tutorial. Also some Holo pendants with glitter clay. I'm loving that Lumiere paint crackle on the glitter clay, I'll be experimenting some more with that.
Faux opal pendants and Holo pendants
I made some Ikat leaves using Lindly Hunani's wonderful technique. Of course the minutes I used up half the cane for these, I decided to use an Ikat veneer for a zippered box. So I made another cane, this time using Kato. I like the brighter Kato primaries, I think I might soon switch over to using primarily Kato clay, especially for canes.
Ikat leaves
The box was made following Iris Mishly's brocade tutorial. I have another square box blank waiting to be decorated. I haven't decided what pattern to use yet. I did make another round box with a poor attempt at the gorgeous effect Helen Breil creates with mica powders. This weird blotchy effect was not what I was going for! When done right, the clay sheet resembles rich and silky fabric. I'll need to try that again. The box itself is quite nice though.
Polymer clay zippered boxes
At the peak of my meh-ness, I decided that clearing up my extremely messy work area would inspire some creativity. That had me staring at a pile of scrap clay that either had to go into my already overflowing scrap box, or be worked into something interesting. I was bored to tears with Natasha beads and lentils, so pulled out some scrap clay tutorials and gave them a go. Here're are my pieces using Randee Ketzel's scrap clay hearts and art deco swirls from 2 Good Claymates.
Art deco earrings and scrap clay pendants
I decided this would be a good time to test what I learnt from Ginger's sanding and buffing ebook. I didn't pay enough attention before baking and had to be fairly aggressive with sanding, so some of the pattern on the scrap hearts were lost. But the pattern is still fun and the pieces feel wonderfully smooth. I had much better luck with the shadow cane domed piece. With the high amount of translucent clay, it picked up a beautiful shine! In the picture, the flat piece on the right has a layer of resin and the one on the left has been sanded and buffed. It might not be visible in the picture, but the shine on the two pieces is comparable! When I first looked at the buffed piece, I thought it was wet and tried to rub the water off it!
Shadow cane pendants


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It's the beginning of the story, the scene's in your head, and all of a sudden, you hit a snag.
What would your hero do when a stranger gropes his ass and offers him a doughnut at the same time?
All right, so perhaps that's not what happens in your particular story. But for a lot of us, there will come a time in our story when we're not entirely sure how our characters would react. Would our hero take the doughnut and remove the hand? Take the doughnut and the hand both? Throw the other man down and use the doughnut as a cock ring?
It's a real conundrum.
Usually, a bit of thought, or a few false starts, will get you through this. But sometimes it can go on for days. The story stalls as you try, and try again, and still feel like your character is beyond your ability to fully comprehend.
When that happens? Try this.
Take him shopping.
Go to an on-line store, a mall in real life, a market, anything that has a lot of items. Then ask yourself a series of questions about the character and their interaction with the goods you see. The questions can be anything that you think will help reveal part of his character to you, but here's a few ideas.
1. What item would your character desperately want to buy?
2. What item would your character rather die than bring back to his house?
3. What item would your character want, but never admit wanting, to anyone?
4. What item would your character need, but not even admit to himself?
The author Jill Knowles suggested the above concept to me, along with a lot of the questions I've used. I'll admit, I've only used it a few times, but it's been very useful when I have.
Another way to get to know your character?
Explore their personal information.
Not the information you already know, or even the traits you plan to put in the story. I'm talking about the little, trivial crap that no one would even want to read about. The stuff that sits in your brain once you know it and pops out at odd moments in the story when you least expect it. Some examples?
Body - Favorite body part on HIS body. Most hated body part. Traits like allergies, freckles, moles, old injuries and scars, the way his dick curves a little to the left.
Likes and dislikes - Favorites and most hated in music, entertainment, accents, countries, morals, food, drink, morning-after scenarios, pets, political parties.
Childhood - Pets, family, friends, humiliating and exhilerating moments, education, attempts at hair cutting and sheep shearing.
Sex - position favs and dislikes, first time, last time, frequency, payment method, experimentation, reputation.
Housing - address, style of furniture, decorating scheme, lighting, country or city.
You can only imagine how long you can make this list, eh? But often, it just takes a few items on a list like this to get your brain energized, immersed more fully in the character as you make up the small scar on his left knee from the time Billy Bob tripped him in the school yard.
And the scar on his right knuckle from when he punched Billy Bob in the mouth and hit a tooth.
As always, I think what works is a very individual thing, but hopefully, the above methods may resonate for some of you and help you with a rut or two of your own. :-)
Monday, February 22, 2010
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Nature has its own consciousness. This is one of the things I've learned from traveling to sacred sites. For a long time, I thought I had to go to these faraway places to experience the refined energy, but I was wrong. It is possible to cultivate a relationship with nature in your own backyard or neighborhood.
I've always been drawn to places with water. Many people enjoy the relaxing qualities of the beach or lakes, so that is a given. On a psychic communication level, I have found that nature spirits will communicate if there is a sacred water source nearby.
It is no coincidence that on my past travels, the first place I remember seeing was a body of water. When I first arrived in Paris, I walked to the Seine River. The first picture I took in Peru was the Pacific Ocean. At home, I walk daily to a freshwater pond where many animals and plants.
When they say water is life, this is more than just words. Water has its own spiritual essence, thousands of years of people worshipping it, medicine men and women tending to it not only as a physical life giving essence, but a spiritual being.
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by Ammie Bryant, Sheerar Museum Director
The Sheerar Museum of Stillwater History begins its 42nd year of service to the community in 2016. Dedicated to collecting, preserving, and presenting Stillwater's unique history and rich culture, the Museum features exhibits focused on Stillwater from its founding to the present.
As a non-profit, the Sheerar Museum relies on donations from Associates, contributors, sponsors, and volunteers to remain open free to the public as well as to produce quality programs and exhibits throughout the year. Annual donations given by Museum Associates, grants, and fundraisers are responsible for much of the Sheerar Museum's operating budget. Donated funds invested by Associates and contributors pay for the Sheerar Museum and Cultural Center's utilities, phone service, office supplies, and staff salaries in addition to the costs to maintain and care for the collection. Contributions pay for new exhibits and educational programming as well.
In 2015, the Sheerar Museum accomplished several goals through donations and other forms of public support. Highlights from the past year include the annual award-winning education program "How Oklahoma Began," the ninth season of the Cool Classics Summer Concert Series, and opening the new exhibit "Stories Unfolding: A 30th Anniversary Celebration." This exhibit looks at the history of Stillwater's sister-city relationship with Kameoka, Japan and is a result of a partnership with the Stillwater Sister Cities Council. The Museum also made improvements in its care of collections with upgrades for two of the Museum's onsite collections storage areas. Finally, the Museum was able to repair and replace the damaged north steps of the historic Sheerar Cultural and Heritage Center. All of this was made possible through the support of our Associates, contributors, and other organizations in our community.
The 50,000 + items within the museum collection are gifts as well. The purpose of a museum is to collect, preserve, and interpret material cultural and without the many artifacts and archives given during the last 41 years, the Sheerar Museum would not be able to fulfill its purpose. Without many gifts of time, artifacts, and funds the Sheerar Museum and Cultural Center could not offer the Stillwater Community educational programming and exhibits as well as the preservation and interpretation of its history.
As the Sheerar Museum enters a new year, the Staff and the Stillwater Museum Association Board of Trustees wish to thank its many supporters. From the volunteers to the individuals and families who have given their heirlooms and collections to the Sheerar Museum to the Associates and Corporate Sponsors as well as the City of Stillwater who support the museum through monetary donations, memorials, contributions, and grants on an annual basis. Thank you for the myriad ways that you have given to the Sheerar Museum and Cultural Center through the years, in doing so you have given much to the Stillwater Community, to preserve its history for the enrichment of its future.
To learn more about how you can support the Sheerar Museum of Stillwater History, please visit the Museum at 702 S. Duncan or call the Museum Office at 405-377-0359. Open free to the public, Tuesday through Friday 11am-5pm and Saturdays and Sundays, 1pm-4pm, the Sheerar Museum is administered by the Stillwater Museum Association, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization.


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The latest batch of Kylie Lip Kits apparently featured some reformulation, and, sadly, they may not only be poorer in quality but also an ingredient-for-ingredient copy of a far cheaper brand.
The $29 sticker price (up to $40 after tax and shipping) on Kylie's standard kits which include a lip shade and a matching liner pencil already seemed a bit steep for so little makeup.
Still, name brands have always sold for a higher price under the assumption they provide a higher quality product.
Beauty blogger and industry professional Stephanie Nicole recently decided to research the ingredient lists of both Kylie's product and its oft-compared competitor, ColourPop's Ultra Matte liquidlipstick.
Stephanie discovered, excluding a few extra ingredients in the $6 ColourPop option, the ingredient lists of both products are almost identical.
The real issue lies not in the similarity of the products' formulas, but their gap inpricing.
Stephanie calculated ColourPop's matching product, plus one of itslip pencils, PLUS tax and shipping amounts to just $16.82, unlike Kylie's kits, which run customers $40.13 each after tax and shipping.
The beauty expert's concern over the $23price difference has much to do with the reduced quality of Kylie's new formula and the lab that created it.
In a review of the product on YouTube, she explains,
Spatz Labs was rumored to make both Kylie Jenner's lip kits and ColourPop's formula If you guys look up SeedBeauty.com, right on that main page it shows ColourPop and Kylie Cosmetics.
Stephanie then reads an excerpt from Seed Beauty's site that explains how the company is using Spatz'snew integrated innovation system to prioritize speed over research and development when creating new products for consumers.
She continues,
Basically what you just told me there is you throw sh*t against the wall and see what sticks, and then when it's broken, you'll worry about fixing it later. At 5 and 6 dollarColourPop prices, I don't really have a problem with that. When I'm spending, you know 40 dollars for your lip kit, I've got a problem with that.
Just how different is Kylies new formula from the first generation lip kits? It has apparently been altered enough that both the texture and the color are noticeably different.
Stephanie tells followers,
I do feel like the formula is much thinner. The first formula is mousse-y and creamy, and the second one is significantly more watery.
Considering the fact Kylie's kit and its ColourPop sister product are almost indistinguishable, Stephanie insists the extra $23 customers pay for Kylie's Lip Kits are going straight to the 18-year-old in charge.
She says,
That's a 23-dollar-and-31-centprice difference for the same exact formula, the same exact product Clearly ColourPop can manufacture those same exact ingredients for less They have to pay Kylie Jenner because her name is on here. So that's where all that extra money is going It's not going for product development. It's not going for better ingredients. It's sure as sh*t not going for faster customer service. All she's doing is basically lending her name out, which is a brand, to a company that knows no matter what it is that people will wait in line for this.
Holy crap, you guys. Stephanie Nicole is the Woodward and Bernstein of Kylie Lip Kits.


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So I close out May with the last of the Heisei Mothra movies. This movie was one of the harder movies to find back in the day because while the first two movies got a VHS and DVD release, this one never got an official release in the US. It did get a Sci-Fi channel premier, coincidentally on this very day back in 2003, which is how some of the non-die-hard fans knew about this movie. Granted, I was not one of those people and wound up buying it on VHS years ago and recently, when they released the entire trilogy on Blu-Ray, I bought that, which is how I come to be watching today's movie, Rebirth Of Mothra III (a.k.a. Mothra 3: King Ghidorah Attacks).
The plot: On Infant Island, Belvera breaks into the temple and opens a box that contains the Elias Triangle, a sacred treasure of the Elias. When Moll and Lora confront here, a sphere containing three triangles emerges from the box. Belvera grabs the triangles and tries to escape on her mechanical dragon Garu Garu but the Elias quickly call Fairy, who rams into Garu Garu. Belvera drops two of the triangles, saying that the Elias will need them as the King of Terror is coming, then flies off. Moll and Lora examine the two triangles, which say Wisdom and Courage, and discover that the triangle for Wisdom fits in the hilt of Moll's dagger, transforming the blade into a sword. In space, a giant meteor approaches Earth when it suddenly breaks apart and the fragments enter the Earth's atmosphere. A man returning home from work notices the shooting stars and tells his family when he arrives home. They head outside to watch and witness a large meteorite crashing into the nearby forest. The next day, everyone is getting ready to leave but the parents wonder why the oldest son Shota refuses to go to school. In the forest, Moll, Lora, and Fairy investigate the meteorite and discover that it contains the essence of dinosaurs in it and she realizes that the monster that killed the dinosaurs has returned. At a school, a classroom sees something approaching but when it passes overhead the children mysteriously disappear, as do some children playing in a park and Belvera, who is investigating what happens says that it is King Ghidorah. Meanwhile, Shota rides his bike to where the meteorite crashed but finding the police trying to keep reporters and onlookers out of the area, he sneaks into the woods to try and make his way there. The Elias see King Ghidorah and, noticing that the children have vanished, they summon Rainbow Mothra to battle the space dragon as Ghidorah attacks the nearby city. In the forest, Shota uses a cave to make his way deeper into the forest and comes across a giant, pulsating sphere, which is where Ghidorah is keeping all of the children. When Ghidorah returns, Shota quickly hides, as the children inside the sphere try to hide as well. Rainbow Mothra appears and begins attacking Ghidorah but her attacks seem to have no effect as Ghidorah flies off in pursuit of the giant moth. Ghidorah attacks Rainbow Mothra and easily overpowers it, knocking Rainbow Mothra to the ground then grabbing her by the wings and repeatedly slamming her to the ground. The Elias and Fairy try to help and Ghidorah simply stares at them before throwing Rainbow Mothra into the woods before heading out to attack the city. Fairy manages to avoid being struck by Rainbow Mothra but as Moll asks if Lora is ok, Lora, having been infected by Ghidorah's evil when it locked eyes with her, attempts to strangle Moll. They both fall off Fairy and fall towards the sphere but Fairy is able to rescue Moll while Lora is sucked inside. Belvera investigates the dome and, seeing all the children inside, decides to steer clear of it when she is attacked by strange tendrils which grab her and Garu Garu and drag them into the dome. Shota is using binoculars to look at the dome and notices that his younger brother and sister, Shuehei and Tamako are trapped inside. He doesn't notice the tendrils approaching him but he is saved by Moll and Fairy, who explain what is going on. Meanwhile, Shota's parents arrive at the school after hearing the news reports of the missing children and when they hear that the children were spotted inside the dome, Shota's father tells his wife that Shota knows how to get there using the Wind Cave. Back in the forest, Shota, Moll, and Fairy enter the Wind Cave and travel through it until the come to Rainbow Mothra, and Moll tells Shota it is ok to approach her. Inside the dome, Belvera is trying to repair Garu Garu when Lora suddenly appears. When Belvera questions why she is there, Lora grabs the triangle from around Belvera's neck and after placing it in her dagger, she attacks Belvera. Shota's parents make their way to the forest and when they see Shota's bike, they head towards the cave entrance and start to make their way inside. Moll tells Shota that Rainbow Mothra plans to go back in time to when King Ghidorah first appeared on Earth and try to kill it then but Moll is worried since Mothra will be unable to return to their time. Rainbow Mothra flies off, transforming to Aqua Mothra to better travel through time and Moll begins singing in order to lend her strength to Aqua Mothra as she makes the journey. When Aqua Mothra makes it into the pass, Moll falls off of Fairy and Shota races to where she falls. Moll asks Shota to free Lora from Ghidorah's influence, as Rainbow Mothra will need her power in order to defeat Ghidroah, and gives him her sword to give him courage before she turns into a statue. Shota makes his way to the dome and after preparing himself, taunts Ghidorah, who quickly sucks him inside the dome. Inside, Shota begins looking for Lora, Shuehei and Tamako when suddenly, acid starts emerging from various openings in the ground as Ghidorah prepares to eat the children. Back in the past, King Ghidorah is feeding on dinosaurs when Rainbow Mothra begins attacking it. Rainbow Mothra seems to have the upper hand but Rainbow Mothra is still not fully recovered from it's wounds, and Ghidorah manages to get the advantage. Inside the dome, Shota manages to find Lora but Belvera warns him to stay back. When Lora tries to kill Shota, Belvera pleads with her to stop and Shota tells Lora it was Molls last request that she help Mothra. Lora changes back to normal and collapses and Belvera watches as Lora's sword merges with Moll's. Belvera manages to get free and has Shota hand her the sword, which she combines with her own to form a powerful sabre. She explains that the three powers of Wisdom, Courage, and Love can work independently but are meant to work in unison, then Belvera attempts to destroy the dome. Back in the past, Rainbow Mothra manages to blast off one of Ghidorah's tails, which quickly burrows underground, but Ghidorah proves to be too strong and she finds herself mortally wounded. In the present, Lora comes too and after Shota tells her that Rainbow Mothra needs her help, she begins singing, lending her strength to Rainbow Mothra. Rainbow Mothra manages to escape Ghidorah's death blow and grabs Ghidorah, flying the monster towards a massive volcano and dropping it inside, killing Ghidorah when the volcano explodes. Rainbow Mothra is thrown by the force of the explosion and crashes to the ground and three ancient versions of Mothra approach her and begin encasing her in a cocoon. In the present, Ghidroah and the dome disappear and Shota is reunited with Shuehei and Tamako. They join Lora and Belvera at Moll's body but Belvera thinks it is strange that even though Ghidorah and the dome disappeared, nothing seemed to have changed. Suddenly, Ghidorah appears out of a giant fireball and begins taking the children again, in spite of Shota's parents efforts to save them. Belvera tells Lora that they are the only ones that can fight Ghidorah and the two ride off on Fairy to confront Ghidorah as Shota, Shuehei, and Tamako watch. Suddenly, the mountainside breaks away to reveal Mothra, now covered in armored plating, emerging from her cocoon. Armored Mothra easily overpowers Ghidorah and finally kills the space monster, after which it transforms into Eternal Mothra. As everyone is gathered by Moll's body, Eternal Mothra speaks to Belvera and Lora, and they place the sabre in Moll's hands, where it disintegrates and restores Moll's life. Belvera comments about not always agreeing with her sisters before she flies off on Garu Garu. Shota, Shuehei, Tamako, and all the captured children are reunited with their parents and Shota and his family wave to the Elias and Eternal Mothra as they fly back to Infant Island.
Now while I was on the fence with the Mothra movies, today's movie was definitely the best one of the set. The acting was pretty good and the main characters seemed to show more emotions than they have in the past. The story was good and I liked that they had Mothra fighting a fan favorite in Ghidorah. The special effects were pretty good regarding the monsters, but when they went to the past, the effects with the dinosaurs looked kind of week and there were still some times where the rear screen effects didn't look that good. One thing that i did find funny is that it felt like they kind of ripped of The Legend of Zelda with the whole Elias Triangle plot point. Still, this is a very solid kaiju movie and one that is well worth watching.
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We've had a wonderful time, visiting my lifelong friends in the Charente region of France, eating far too much fabulous food, making chocolate and then spending an other wonderful week in Paris (eating lovely food and too much chocolate - you've probably got a good picture of me now!!). We've people-watched whilst sitting at cafes, seen a fleet of tiny dogs in pink tracksuits, seen a happy motorbike riding terrier, seen some eye-popping parking and looked at some amazing art in shop galleries - in all, Paris as we like it. We've done the touristy stuff before, so this time we hunted out areas not previously visited and found some gems.
|Parc des Buttes Chaumont looking towards the Sacre Coeur
I found plenty to inspire me and I will be trying out some new ideas very soon. I was intrigued by a shop I found that sold absolute weirdness - no other way to put it! You could buy dolls arms and legs of all sizes and eyes of all sizes, old and tattered scrapbook pieces and all kinds of other strange and wonderful things. I had several items in my hands to buy, but then common sense took over as I contemplated what I could actually do with them! I'm sure that customs would have questioned a suitcase full of eyeballs!
This week represents a week of change for me. This is my last week at my day job of 17 years. It would be my dream to sustain myself by making jewellery, but I'm not sure yet if that can happen - anyone want to help me make it happen? I'm hoping to start teaching some small classes on a variety of subjects. I have a workshop in mind for card makers and scrapbookers, who I know are always looking for different ways to embellish what they do. I'd also like to teach some jewellery making for people who want a change from beading, something that can be done with the most basic toolkit (even tools they might find in dad's or OH's sheds!!). I hope to make the courses accessible by visiting groups in their own premises, ie at home for a small group or meeting place (guides, Women's Institutes, etc.), but obviously I can only travel in a relatively small radius of where I live.
So, all change in the SlickSilver household!
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The news had been expected after Rolls-Royce touted its 100EX convertible concept car at motorshows throughout the year to promote the marque's centenary.
But the plan to launch a new model appears risky.
Sales of the Phantom, the first Rolls-Royce built by BMW, have yet to take off and the company has seen the departure of two chief executives in just five months.
Shared architecture
Rolls hopes to reduce costs, and thus the risk, by sharing parts between the Phantom and the new convertible model.
In this way, the development costs for the new model should be brought down well below those incurred ahead of the Phantom launch.
The two-door, four-seat convertible, codenamed RR02, will share the Phantom's 6.75 litre V12 engine and it will be based on the same engineering principles, although its design will be closer to the 100EX concept car Rolls developed to celebrate its centenary this year.
"It will be slightly smaller... [but] the look of it will be heavily influenced by the 100EX," Graham Biggs, head of corporate communications, told BBC News.
Since Rolls-Royce cars are built by hand, the convertible will not require a new factory. Instead, it will be constructed by the existing 500-strong workforce at the Rolls-Royce manufacturing plant at Goodwood in Sussex.
Not about numbers
It is not yet known how much the RR02 will sell for, but it will probably be more expensive than the £250,000 Phantom.
This is unlikely to hamper sales of the RR02, given that Rolls-Royce customers tend not to be particularly sensitive to price. But it is premature to talk about numbers, Mr Biggs said, as no sales targets have yet been set.
Indeed, no specific sales targets have been revealed for the two-year-old Phantom either. All the company is prepared to say is that it will sell an average of 1,000 cars per year during the model's 12-year life cycle.
So far, sales have fallen short of such targets. During its first year, just 300 cars were sold. This year, however, sales will "more than double that" and sales will continue to grow as the Phantom becomes better known in the market place, Mr Biggs said.
Mr Biggs declined to give a specific prediction about sales. "It's not really about the numbers," he insisted, stressing that Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is in the black in terms of operating profits.
Return on investment
That is not to say sales do not matter.
Given that only 556 Phantoms were sold during the first 10 months of this year, it appears fairly certain the firm will not sell 1,000 of the cars in 2004.
According to some estimates, the cumulative revenue shortfall for 2004 could top £50m if sales come in at, for example, 750 cars this year.
But by the same estimates, that would still leave annual revenues at, or close to, the £150m mark and there is every chance that BMW, which originally invested £105m in the business, would be satisfied with this.
Of the initial investment, £40m was payment to the jet engine maker Roll-Royce plc for the rights to the Rolls-Royce Motor Cars name and the Spirit of Ecstasy mascot.
The remaining £65m was invested in the Goodwood factory. Fresh cash injections from the German parent should not be required.
But this is a thorny issue which BMW is reluctant to discuss - beyond Mr Biggs' insistence that "our business is in good shape".
On the day of the announcement that the convertible will be built, there was no word from the Rolls-Royce's acting chief executive Stefan Krause, BMW board member in charge of finance.
No fall-out
Mr Krause took charge of Rolls-Royce late last month when the former chief Karl-Heinz Kalbfell was poached by Italy's Fiat Group to spearhead a revival operation for its Alfa Romeo marque.
Fewer efforts were made to keep Mr Kalbfell's predecessor Tony Gott, Rolls-Royce chief executive until May this year.
Yet, in a recent interview with the BBC News website, Mr Panke denied rumours that Mr Gott had departed under a cloud.
"There was no fall-out," he insisted. "We met afterwards and we talked, there's no tension in there."
But Mr Panke also acknowledged that he had been in favour of Mr Gott stepping down.
"We had different understandings about what direction we should be taking, whether it was the company's strategy or what Tony Gott should do," he said.
The search for a new chief executive is now on, though with the decisions already made about the company's two models, the Phantom and the RR02, the next to hold the top job will have little influence on the company's immediate future.
It seems clear that these days Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is firmly controlled from BMW's headquarters in Munich.


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Write Camera Action! Monday 17th Jan. at CCA. Registration is between 6-6.50 p.m. for a 7.00p.m. Start. £5/£3 cons incl. refreshment. 4 scripts being work shopped in January plus improvisation workshop. Many participants in allfields attending WCA are headhunted for productions so come along, showcase your particular skills, and have fun!
'On Camera Audition Skills Class' Sunday 30th Jan 6 week class £60.
The purpose of this class is to prepare actors for the audition environment by giving a realistic idea of what is required in an audition. This is an on-camera class and students will see their work in class. For more info & booking please email Michelle: firstname.lastname@example.com 'I highly recommend this as a natural next step for WCA actors as your audition performances will be filmed and viewed on the night' – Linda WCA.
WCA 'KICKSTART 2011', a networking night at CCA on Saturday 29th Jan 7.00-9.30 p.m. We're all passionate about film but are you interested in producing your own film? Or acting in it? Directing it? How do you source ideas, script, cast, crew, equipment and locations? Then what?! WCA hosts a night of networking with independent producers & directors and meets the groups housed under the CCA umbrella in the pursuit of filmmaking! Discuss the production process of two short films to be screened on the night! Plus, the winner of the WCA short film script competition will be announced! £5/£3 and networking at CCA bar afterwards. Further info at firstname.lastname@example.com 2010 Write Microphone Action was a great success (and lots of fun) and we look forward to more sound recording sessions initiated by Bernd Porr & in collaboration with WCA/CCA in 2011! ALL WCA participants (past and present) are welcome to access the sound recordings produced at WMA for their own indie productions. See link below and email Linda with details of your production to access password. hhttp://www.berndporr.me.uk/bh/wma.php N.B. This is anongoing offer to WCA participants involved in independent film.
CREW CALL: Editor Req'd
'Many of us have watched 'Lager & Lipstick' being workshopped for some months now and got a lotta laffs along the way. I'm now delighted to put out this call for the team – Linda.
Lager And Lipstick, a rom/com webisode for the internet, is now in production
and seeks a voluntary freelance film editor to edit HD footage in 'Pro Res 422' format.
The series consists of six webisodes, shot in a music store over 5 days, with footage ready to edit for the beginning of March. A clapper board will be used and the sound recorded separately which will need synced. Everyone involved is passionate about their field and involved because they want to produce a high quality, light hearted series to be proud of. Incentives include: An experienced Crew, guaranteed exposure through the web cast medium, PLUS a great CV booster and networking opportunity. If interested please contact Producer Andrew Greer at firstname.lastname@example.com with contact details and any experience you have.
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Suppliers and manufacturers of industrial machinery have a legal responsibility to ensure the safety of their product, irrespective of whether it is only used in-house or placed onto the market.
To give you confidence that your machinery is safe, we are running a series of half day Workshops where you will gain an understanding of the actions you must take to be legally compliant, an understanding of the individual regulations and how to comply with them.
The workshops will cover placing equipment on the market, not only in the EU through CE marking but also in the UK after BREXIT. To optimise market access, it is important to ensure products meet all national and international regulatory and technical requirements.
The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (PUWER) is applied by end users to ensure that both old and new equipment can be used safely, this also includes equipment used by manufacturers to produce a finished component or product. PUWER is a continual process as machines should be constantly reviewed and where identified, upgraded.
There are dangerous overlapping areas between PUWER and what would be classed as "new machinery" after significant changes have been made.
Join us on 17th September to see that Machinery Safety doesn't need to be complicated!
Workshop Content
• An introduction to CE marking
• Market access post BREXIT
• An overview of the PUWER Regulations
• Q&A and Lunch
Who should attend?
• Directors and senior managers
• Project and design engineers
• Duty holders and maintenance engineers
• Health & Safety professionals
• Anyone else involved in the manufacturing, using and maintenance of machinery and equipment


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Government should be what you have been working on! We started the government information last Wednesday. We are moving quickly through these standards as I have said in class you will need to make sure you stay on top of the work and your learning to make sure you understand and can ask any clarifying questions in class.
Monday: Review the Legislative Sessions: Communities, and the bill process
Tuesday: Revenue for the State, formative assessment on Legislative Branch
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College basketball: Derrick Williams -- the outlier who skirted the grassroots basketball hype machine and still made it
Arizona forward Derrick Williams (above) is perhaps the best player in college basketball. He's as strong as a power forward, as versatile as a guard. The 6-foot-8, 241-pound sophomore is averaging 19.5 points and 8.4 rebounds and shooting 60% from the floor. There's not many like him, if any at all.
On Saturday night, Williams, this season's Pacific 10 Conference player of the year, will lead the fifth-seeded Wildcats against third-seeded Connecticut in the NCAA West Regional final in Anaheim's Honda Center.
This puts Williams just 40 minutes from a Final Four, and he'll be playing in front of many family and friends in a place that's about 15 minutes from where he grew up in La Mirada.
After this season should he decide to leave, Williams will become a millionaire many times over. He will be a lottery pick. Material objects once thought unobtainable will not be any more.
This is the back end of the traditional rise-to-basketball-stardom narrative. That story arc is a familiar one. It has been around for some time. In past decades, it has taken a new form, which is as follows:
-Star for a household name AAU team that travels the nation, performs in front of large crowds and numerous NBA scouts and college coaches, and also happens to be bankrolled by a big-name shoe company that also happens to help bankroll several big-name college basketball programs that thereby all but guarantee a coach from one of the said big-name college basketball programs will see you in person.
-After having been hyped to the point that your name has several stars by it and a few well-watched YouTube highlight videos showcasing all your strengths but none of your weaknesses in turn causes respectable print publications and television news stations to fawn over your talents and produce "puff pieces" showcasing them, it's time to accept a scholarship, probably from one of those coaches who wears the same brand of sneakers you did on that AAU team, which would mean you fell into the pipeline.
-And, once at that college, you must develop to become the NBA player you were supposed to become. It was foretold that way. If you should get into trouble and stray from your predetermined destiny, things become shaky. But if you don't, you will prove the so-called experts right. You will become a lottery pick. You will become a millionaire many times over. Once unobtainable material objects won't be anymore.
That last step partly applies to Williams, though few if anyone ever said he might one day be an NBA pick back at La Mirada High. But none of the previous three steps have anything to do with him. He is not the product of the grassroots basketball hype machine. He is an extreme exception, an outlier. Here is why:
Williams attended La Mirada High, a school an hour and a half or so southeast of Downtown Los Angeles that's known for Brianna Glenn, a track star; Jennie Finch, an Olympic gold medalist softball pitcher; and not much else. It hadn't produced any Division I basketball players in more than a decade, but Williams didn't transfer elsewhere.
"You don't need to go to a powerhouse school," his mother, Rhoma Moore, told him. "If you're good enough, they'll come find you."
Even though Williams was good enough, college coaches still weren't coming to find him. They were preoccupied by the other players in the Southland, which at the time was uber-rich with talent. There was Fairfax High's Renardo Sidney (now at Mississippi State), Compton Dominguez High's Jordan Hamilton (now at Texas), Sylmar High's Tyler Honeycutt and Santa Ana Mater Dei's Wear twins, David and Travis (all now at UCLA), among others.
It wasn't until Williams' sophomore year at La Mirada that he gained any notice, and even that came by accident when Tim Floyd, then USC's coach, came to a game to watch one of his recruits, Compton High's DeMar DeRozan, and came away impressed with Williams.
"Honestly, I didn't know anybody was at this school," Williams said Floyd told him, "and then I saw you."
When Williams did join an AAU team, it was a renowned one: Team Odom. But, at that time, Team Odom had several top-100 players, including Hamilton, who shot it whenever he touched the ball.
"Everybody knows how Jordan is," Williams said recently. "Every shot is a good shot for him. That's just his mentality. He's a great player. I just had to use other aspects of my game so I could score and show what I could do. That's basically what I did. If he shot, I just wanted to get the rebound and get a put-back. If I'm not going to get that many shots, I'll just get more rebounds."
Needless to say, after being "the man" at La Mirada High, as he said, Williams was relocated to the background and didn't get much attention on Team Odom, the principal reason most players join an AAU team. Still, he was able to become more efficient, which is what he's known for today.
"He refuses to take bad shots, especially after playing with Jordan," said his childhood friend and La Mirada assistant coach Charlie Torres.
In terms of the lack of attention while playing with Team Odom, it didn't help that early in high school Williams was, as Arizona Coach Sean Miller said, "a very thin, long, gangly young player."
But that frame was a result of a gigantic growth spurt. Williams was 5 foot 9 around the end of eighth grade when his ankles and knees began hurting day and night. Moore said it was a similar spurt to when he was about five years old and the pain was so severe "he would go to bed and he would cry."
By the end of ninth grade, he was 6-5 and had changed shoe sizes six times in about a year. He would grow to be about 6-8. He's a little over 6 foot 9 with shoes now.
Despite his growth, both as a person and a player, it was slim pickings when it came time to pick a college. The unheralded recruit eventually signed with USC after receiving interest from University of Nevada, Reno and a couple other schools.
But he ended up at Arizona after then-USC coach Tim Floyd abruptly resigned amid an NCAA investigation that ultimately found former USC star O.J. Mayo had received improper benefits while in college.
Following Floyd's resignation, Williams asked to be released from his commitment and he was. Arizona, which needed players, scooped him up, not knowing he'd be great but finding out soon enough.
Now to that last part, about working hard to develop into an NBA player, that's why Williams is where he is today, with NBA scouts drooling at his feet.
"I would never tell you he was going to be a top-five pick in the NBA, but I'm not surprised. I think it's just a byproduct of his hard work," said Steve Schuster, La Mirada High's head coach who was an assistant when Derrick played there.
Part of his work ethic was instilled by Torres, who spent hundreds of late-night hours with him in the La Mirada High gym, working out and going through various drills, and took him Williams to pickup games across Los Angeles County — at Amelia Mayberry Park in Whittier, Lord's Gym near Echo Park and in Compton, Downey and elsewhere.
"He knew I wasn't going to score, was going to get banged up a lot, wasn't going to get any fouls," Williams said.
Another part of his drive was instilled by his mother.
"Never stop working," Moore said she told him. "There's always room for improvement. There's always somebody better than somebody."
Yet in the seedy underbelly of grassroots basketball, there are always people who come along with intentions that are less than pure. Moore, aside from just instilling a work ethic in Williams, told her son to be wary of such people.
"She just told me to just stay away from people that caused a lot of trouble and be my own person...and don't let the wrong people influence you to do stuff you normally wouldn't do," Williams said.
Add all these factors up, and Williams took one of the most unusual paths when compared with what is now considered "normal." He is not a product of the grassroots basketball hype machine.
He is an outlier.
"It's kind of crazy, just going from where I was before to where I am now," Williams said.
When compared with what's now considered normal, that's putting it lightly.
-- Baxter Holmes
Photo credit: Lucy Nicholson / Reuters


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Chris has extensive experience working as a Physiotherapist with both recreational and elite runners. He has worked for Team GB supporting their endurance athletes throughout numerous championships including the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 2017 London World Championships, as well as travelling to Diamond League athletics competitions and a number of high altitude training camps in Kenya, South Africa, America and the French Pyrenees.
Having originally helped develop Salford University's Running Performance Clinic, he now provides 3D running gait analysis at MIHP. Chris is currently completing his PhD at the University of Salford, investigating the biomechanics of running related injuries and biomechanical differences between elite and recreational runners. He has co-authored a number of peer reviewed articles on running biomechanics and has also written articles for Magazines including Runners World.
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The Leadership Institute was proud to host Dr. Andrew Shankman, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University – Camden, to discuss his recently published book, Original Intents: Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and the American Founding. Dr. Richard Demirjian, Assistant Teaching Professor and Director of The Leadership Institute, facilitated a series of questions based upon Dr. Shankman's research and how theories of leadership have shifted over time.
Several students who attend reported a discovery of a newfound interest in history such as LJ, who mentioned, "I never considered how interested I would be in early American history as a business student". Arianna reported that she looks forward to applying some of the discussed historical leadership concepts to her final papers.
We are very grateful to Dr. Shankman and the Rutgers University – Camden Department of History for joining our students at this timely event.


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Dr. Marlene Feisthamel is a native of Brookfield, Missouri.
She graduated from Nebraska's College of Dentistry and began her dental career as a Certified Dental Assistant in Glendive, Montana. After completing her pre-dental studies in Billings, Montana, she went on to complete her Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center. After receiving her degree in 1994 she began her own practice in Aurora, Missouri.
Dr. Feisthamel practiced in Aurora, Missouri for ten years prior to moving her practice to Battlefield, Missouri in 2004.
Dr. Feisthamel completed a Master of Science Degree in Applied Anthropology at Missouri State University in 2012 and currently assists local authorities with forensic dental and anthropological identifications.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – By reaching a new deal with Kenny Vaccaro, the Titans have solidified their secondary and removed the back end of the defense from concern from the conversation in free agency and the draft.
Ian Rapoport of NFL Media says Vaccaro's new four-year, $26 million deal comes with $11.5 million guaranteed and that the Titans have now also officially cut Johnathan Cyprien. The Titans have since announced both moves.
I tweeted that the news surprised me. That's because, even after Landon Collins lined up a giant deal from Washington, there was a large number of safeties ready to hit the market and I expected supply and demand to play out over months.
This puts the Titans in fine shape with Kevin Byard and Vaccaro as starters at safety with second-year man Dane Cruikshank as the third option. The Titans have Adoree' Jackson, Logan Ryan and Malcolm Butler as their top three corners, with LeShaun Sims and Tye Smith and depth. [unlocked]
Byard is in line for a big extension with his rookie deal expiring after the 2019 season. Ryan, who had an excellent year in the slot, is also up after this year.
With concerns all over the lineup, the secondary is likely to go untouched moving forward.
The Titans need at least one outside linebacker, at least one defensive lineman, at least one interior offensive lineman, at least one receiver and they should upgrade at backup quarterback from Blaine Gabbert.
They should bring in more than one player at a couple of those spots and can also add a tight end.