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Must Have : Beauty Cosmetics Face Precision Kit + GIVEAWAY!
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I'm honestly excited to try all of these brushes as I really wanna see if they're comparable with Sigma brushes - quality, longevity, etc :)ReplyDelete
April Perez
Hi Jannie! I am eyeing on the Tapered Precision Brush from BC. I love how dense their brushes are, since I have the flat top kabuki that you've recommended. :)and I also tried the other brushes from them when I dropped by their store @ Rob Ortigas :) hoping to win!ReplyDelete
I wish to win..cross fingers ~ Thank you for this giveaway Jannie and beauty cosmetics :*ReplyDelete
Pwede bang lahat excited to try? Hahaha. I always wanted useful brushes to play with eyeshadow makeup. =DReplyDelete
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I'm so excited about the Tapered Precision Brush, because I've been applying concealer with my fingers.ReplyDelete
Krystel Jabonitalla
Beauty bloggers and make up gurus really inspires me to make my own.ReplyDelete
I'm a 20 yr old mom wjo loves make up:)
Among the 5 brushes. Slanted precision was the first thing I love the most. Its perfect for contouring along the hallows of the cheeks and sides of the nose. Its perfect for a round shape face like mine.ReplyDelete
Sandra Mae O.Facturanan
hi miss jannie :) iwant to try all of them.. if ever na ako manalo this is my first brush. na iinspire po kasi ko mg make up everytime nkakabasa ako ng mga post nyo, mga make up hauls.. hope manalo po ako..ReplyDelete
thanks! and more power :) godbless
aiko borja
i like the round precision brush,i like to apply different eyeshadow on my eyesReplyDelete
sherry ann gole cruz
I'm exited to try everything! But Round Precision Brush is what i really want to try. Aside from the fact that it's really versatile, the bristles are so jam-packed and surely can be comparable to Sigma! I believe it can give you that flawless skin too. Wooo! Praying to win! ♥ReplyDelete
Desire Loreto
If I had to choose just one, then I'm most excited for the Round Precision Brush because I love how multi-functional it is. That's one of the best things you can ask for concerning any brush!ReplyDelete
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I'd like to try out all of the brushes :) I only own 1 brush and its a blush brush! :)ReplyDelete
Golda Monzon
I would like to try Slanted Precision Brush for applying Conceiler or Liquid Foundation to all over my Face :))ReplyDelete
Jennylyn Bautista
I would like to try the Slanted Precision. Been meaning to get a set actually but I always end up getting something else.ReplyDelete
Mitch Carvalho
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I like the round precision and I'm excited to use it coz I love putting eyeshadows and yes it's rounded like fingers and I think it will work amazingly, as we all know that fingers are some of the best tools for makeup :).ReplyDelete
France Marie Platon
I really want to try the round top brush because it would be great for concealing and applying eye primer.ReplyDelete
Stephanie Godornes
I wanted to try all of this no specific brush, sorry! I really like to have many brushes, ever since I started my love in make up. I really hope I will be LUCKY to have this soft brushes! Thank you so much for this chance :)ReplyDelete
Lean Diwa
I am def excited about flat top precision brush 'coz then it would be easy to conceal dark undereye circles or even correcting the redness on my nose. ;) *fingers crossed*ReplyDelete
Carlmel Joy Escuadro
I want to try them all, of course, but what excites me the most is the round precision brush. Since it's your favorite, it's must be really good.ReplyDelete
Michelle Grace Magramo
I want to experience the round precision brush! I find it hard to apply concealer using just my fingers on my under eye area. It tends to melt away foundation and creates premature wrinkles if not done properly.. Hoping to win this amazing set!ReplyDelete
Andrea Mae Baltazar
I would like to try the Round Precision Brush for putting eyeshadow primer and concealer under the eye area. I have a bad case of dark circles and eye bags! :DReplyDelete
Marie Gisela Aquino
I would like to try round precision because this brush is great for a lot of things.ReplyDelete
Catherine Kjell Buama
I wanted to have the Round Precision Brush.ReplyDelete
Belinda B. Ibañez
I dont know much about brushes - I only have 1 kabuki and a blush brush so I am excited to all the brushes and wanna try how it works on the diff. area of my face.ReplyDelete
Henley Tabal
I'm most excited for the Round Precision Brush!!ReplyDelete
Say Yap
My favorite is the Angled Precision Brush! I like applying blushes and bronzers a lot!ReplyDelete
Carla Catedral
I like to try the Angled precision brush.ReplyDelete
Abigail sy
Joined and hoping to win..I want all them all and my fave is to own the angled precision Brush..ReplyDelete
Maricel Fajardo
I like to try the Round Precision Brush. I like that it is versatile and it's your favorite; that must mean its a great deal. :DReplyDelete
Sheela Richen Daminar
I am excited to try the flat top precision brush because I would like to use it to cover my acne scars and other blemishes.ReplyDelete
Judy Ann Chio
I like to try the Angled Precision brush.ReplyDelete
Alta Infante
Love the Round Precision Brush ,,,because you can easily blend eye make up with it.ReplyDelete
Marine Rose Decena
Round Precision Brush because as you've said it's good for blending concealer around the eye and because it's your most favorite out the five brushes, I want to try it. :)ReplyDelete
ariane dela cruz
Round Precision Brush because as you've said it's good for blending concealer around the eye area. I want to try itReplyDelete
Round Precision Brush! Well actually lahat! ITs a must have hindi kasi to common sa market :)ReplyDelete
Katleya Ballada
I wish to win all the brushes.. :) I wanna try them all. ♥ReplyDelete
Rhealeen Bayot
I would love to try it all :) But the round precision brush is the one I would like to use. I don't have that brush yet :)ReplyDelete
Kathleen Jane Reyes
i would like to try it all,because i want to try them to my face..ReplyDelete
helen gatbonton
I'm exited to try everything! i want them all!ReplyDelete
Judith Albius
Definitely try this all! Thank you for the giveaway! =)ReplyDelete
Ma. Krystal Jade Coronel
Slanted one - but really, I'm excited to review all of them.ReplyDelete
Kim Yap
Thank you :)
I want this soooooo bad! Been eyeing them eversince but since i'm pregnant my responsibilities and budget has changed. This is will be an awesome post-pregnancy gift for me! <3ReplyDelete
Paula Nazareno
hi ms jannie, i want to try it all, coz i dont have those kind of brush.ReplyDelete
thanks, god bless
Mariel Ann Rivera
wanted to try those brushes . mukang napaka lambot sis . i was planning to buy b4 pero alam muna wlng budget hihi .ReplyDelete
Out of all the brushes in the precision kit, I am definitely most excited about the round precision brush! It's compact, dense, and just the right size to blend out my concealer, adding more foundation in the harder to reach areas of my face, aaaaaaandddd, it's pink! Also, I love love love it's larger version which is the round kabuki brush from the face perfection kit (which is also my most favorite and used brush in that set hihi), so yeah, I think I'm gonna love it's baby version too <3 HOPE I WIN! :) Best luck to everyone too.ReplyDelete
Maria Eileen C. Caballero
Angled Precision Brush for easy contouringReplyDelete
abigail ong
I'm most excited to use the FLAT TOP PRECISION BRUSH! I've got some blemishes on my face and I'd love cover it up with concealer and this baby. :)ReplyDelete
Roshelle Pauline Natividad Casimiro
I'm excited to try the Slanted Precision Brush because I'm in to concealers and I want to practice the craft of putting it on my flaws perfectly with the use of this brush.ReplyDelete
Crystal Marie Cañete
I'm very excited to try your Angled Precision Brush. As you can see I am born with a round face (and I am proud of it), well this brush will help me give emphasis to my cheeks. People will get to notice my cheeks instead. :pReplyDelete
Mertevchel Cañete
I want to try out the tapered kabuki brush because it will be able to reach areas of the face usually unreachable.ReplyDelete
Myril Mae Magdael
i would like to try the slanted brush for my eyes..thanks and God bless...ReplyDelete
maricel p. villanueva
i want to try the angled precision brush, yet actually I want to try them all :D that's pretty exciting!ReplyDelete
Jubilee Macatangay
Angled precision brush, I would love to try it for contouring my cheeks :)ReplyDelete
Stephanie Lee
Angled Precision Brush, since it's perfect for contouring!! ♡ Yay! Thank you for the giveaway!ReplyDelete
Apol Marie Duque
Love to try out Slanted Precision Brush for easy, no fuss makeup applicationReplyDelete
Emiliana Sison
I would like to try everything as this will be my first set of brushes. But if I were to choose just one it would be the Tapered Precision Brush for the concealer.ReplyDelete
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Actually, I wanted to try it all because eversince I dont wear make up so its my first time to use some make up brushes. :)ReplyDelete
Mary Joy Supetran
I am excited to use the top precision brush for concealing since wala pa akong ganito! :)ReplyDelete
Actually I want to try it all because hopefully its my first time to have a set of brushes because i dont really wear make up except lipstick and face powder.ReplyDelete
Mary Joy Supetran
I prefer Flat Top Precision Brush for covenient application for concealer on Sun spots, blemishes or any small imperfections on the face. I've read reviews that it is more effective to use brush than bare hands.ReplyDelete
Monica Kerstin dela Cuesta
Slanted Precision Brush because it will be my first set of brush.ReplyDelete
Jenny Esplana
Flat Top Precision Brush - ideal for applying concealer on my blemishesReplyDelete
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I'm excited to use the Flat top Precision Brush because it's very unique (never saw one before) and might give a big help for applying my concelear.ReplyDelete
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tapered/dome end brush for blending! :) ive been eyeing these kind of brushes eversince the sigmabeauty precision brushes came out :D i bet these are a great dupe!ReplyDelete
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I really want to try all of these brushes especially the Tapered Precision Brush for the concealer because i don't usually use any brushes for my concealer.. so thank you for the giveaway! :)ReplyDelete
Rhea Juaton
Tapered Precision Brush from BC for my wife to try.ReplyDelete
Allan Reyes
i like the angled precision brush and the slanted one :) this will definitely complete my makeup brushes collection :)) thanks for this giveaway! i"m really hoping to get lucky :DReplyDelete
micah dela cruz
I want to try the slanted brush. but im excited to try it all :)ReplyDelete
Rose Dimarucut
I'm looking forward to trying the angled precision brush for contouring :)ReplyDelete
Keren Pascual
I am excited to use the Flat Top Precision Brush. It looks like the perfect tool to conceal my occasional pimples.ReplyDelete
Kirsten Allysandra San Juan
angled precision because it's perfect for bronzers and blush-ons.ReplyDelete
Wendy Rose F. Santillan
I want it all, it all looks cool.ReplyDelete
Jessiemer Abing
Flat Top Precision because i think it will help to conceal my under eye problems.ReplyDelete
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I want to try the Flat top Precision Brush :)
I want to try the Round Precision Brush.ReplyDelete
Gie Cruz
I want to try the angled precision brush!ReplyDelete
Julie-Ann Sta. Ines
I want to try everything. Since I only just started to learn how to put detailed makeup on my face. I just usually wear Founda, Eyeliner and Mascara :) email@example.com
I want to try everything. Hehe. :) To discover what's the best brush to use. :) ♥ email@example.com
I want to try everything! to discover new effective brushes. :) ♥ email@example.com


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2:31pm PT by Keith Caulfield, Billboard, THR Staff
'Breaking Bad' Finale's Last Song Surges With 9,000% Stream Gain
Badfinger's "Baby Blue" is suddenly red hot.
The song, which closed the finale of AMC's hit series Breaking Bad on Sunday, Sept. 29, has suddenly risen into the top 20 on iTunes' top songs list and is poised for a return to the Billboard charts this week.
Industry sources suggest the song is set for a nearly 3,000 percent sales gain in the week ending Sept. 29 and sold nearly 5,000 downloads just since Sunday night. Remarkably, that one-day figure should immediately make the 1972 song earn its largest digital sales week ever. It has never sold more than 1,000 downloads in a single week, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
PHOTOS: Beyond 'Breaking Bad': What's Next for the Show's Stars
On Spotify, global streams of "Baby Blue" are up 9,000 percent since the East Coast broadcast of the Breaking Bad finale.
The tune was originally a top 20 Billboard Hot 100 hit for the rock band, reaching No. 14 on the chart dated April 29, 1972. It was one of six chart hits for the act. The tune was lifted from the British group's album Straight Up, which was produced by Todd Rundgren and George Harrison. It was released on the Beatles' record label, Apple.
Official sales figures for "Baby Blue" (for the week ending Sept. 29), will be released by SoundScan on Wednesday, Oct. 2. The song could return to the Billboard charts as well, most likely with a placing on the Rock Digital Songs chart.
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Splash News
Cap'n Cook about to be a dad, y'all! Congratulations are in order as Aaron Paul and wife Lauren Parsekian are expecting their first child. And of course, we're gushing over their adorable pregnancy announcements that are breaking our hearts ... bad. (Ha, get it?)
The 38-year-old actor and his wife of four years are over the moon about their baby news and celebrated in the best way on the 'Gram.
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"Hey everyone. Look what I did," the dad-to-be captions on a photo of Lauren's growing bump. "Words can't express how excited I am that this little one has entered our lives. Just thought it was time I would share this beautiful news with all of you."
More from CafeMom: 12 Best Celebrity Pregnancy Announcements
Lauren took the throwback route on Instagram, sharing this cuddly collage of her and Aaron when they were kids and their baby on the way.
"Oh hi!" Parsekian writes.
Love it!
Hmm, wonder if baby Paul will be good at chemistry?
Congrats again!


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[STREAM] Kokayi (CZRS) - 'Pro Deo Et Patria' LP
QN5 is proud to announce that Kokayi is baaaaaack with his new CZRS project, Pro Deo et Patria. (That means "For God and Country" for you non-Latin speaking folks). This electric 10-track follow up to 2009's All Hail album (under the retired moniker of 'the Caesarz'), is a focused effort of soulfully afro-punk infused all-sung prog-pop. Pro Deo et Patria is yet another gem in Koke's ever expanding discography of self-produced mayhem.
Since the release of his criminally slept-on QN5-debut, Robots & Dinosaurs, the triple threat has already released a trio of instrumental albums (see his bandcamp) and even an improvisational jazz album as a vocalist for the internationally known Proverb Trio. Switching styles faster than a Honey Badger bite a Cobra's head off, Koke presents the culmination of his many influences here.
From the first track, you instantly know you're in for an eclectic musical adventure as only Kokayi can bring you. With "Birdus Ghetti", Koke may be the first musician to ever blend grimey 808's, distorted synths and a fucking banjo while singing about helicopters flying over the ghetto. Actually, strike that, he HAS to be. Blowing your doors off with socially conscious wailing on "Wayyts", swerving your ass island-style on "ZaZa Hey", waxing poetic on long-term relationships with guest vocalist Alison Carney on "Been Thru", even showing off some circa '82 Minneapolis funk on "Eaux Matic" – this one is guaranteed to expand your musical palate.
We've had this on repeat since he blessed us with an advanced copy last week. So, share the music and get your copy via the link below to support one of music's most vibrantly progressive independent artists.
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
Month: December 2012
Man of Steel trailer #2
Superman's the first male superhero I adored in my childhood. Yes, I believed in the late Christopher Reeve and felt that "Can You Read My Mind?" is romantic. I am thrilled about this new franchise though, because it obviously has advanced digital effects and has a more complex story. The trailer gave me chills. Can't wait for Superman to come back!
The Rise of the Guardians
The trailer wasn't able show how wonderful this movie is. After seeing the movie, I was surprised to feel that even as an adult now, I missed how excited I felt about the involvement of these characters in my formation as a child. Some pragmatic parents refuse to raise their kids believing these fictional personas, but this movie clearly explains why these myths are important in keeping the hope and wonder alive within us.
Dreamworks animation clearly comes to par with Pixar for this visually arresting film. You don't have to watch it in 3D to appreciate the details of their hard work in animating Sandman's particles, the liquid stealthiness of Pitch, and the intricate creeping of Jack's frost, just to name a few. Peter Ramsey directs, William Joyce (the author of the books) & Guillermo del Toro produces. The stellar voice cast featuring Chris Pine (Jack Frost), Alec Baldwin (North/Santa Claus), Hugh Jackman (Easter Bunny), Isla Fisher (Tooth Fairy), and Jude Law (Pitch/Boogeyman) all brought out the happy vibes in their alter egos. It's a fun, wild time having all of them in one room! Of course, the storyline always has to have those destiny questions that we can all relate to: what is your center? What are you meant to be doing? Why do you need to do it? Is it just for yourself, or for the good of the many? How do you conquer your own fears and doubts?
It's probably the BEST movie I've seen all year. One critic said that it's bound to be a Christmas classic in all its worth, but it hasn't made much of a dent in the box-office in the US because more people watched that friggin' vampire movie. Go watch it while you still can! It's worth bringing your whole family along, it's worth buying the original dvd, it's worth re-watching every Christmastime!
Let fear not cloud our hearts. In our children there is hope, and in adults who believed in our invisible friends, you'd have to agree that the little seeds of wonder and wishful thinking these legends instilled in us helped make dreams come true!
(Now lemme get a hold of the Guardians of Childhood books this film was based on. I'll try to collect them. I wanna get a Sandy plushie toooooo!)


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Category: Evaluation
Forms and Conventions (Evaluation)
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
While looking at our short film, it can be considered to follow conventional codes and conventions of the 'Spiritual Tragedy' (sub-genre Romance). While d
oing research we constructed our narrative to suit the genre of our research. Our narrative tells the story of a stereotypical teenage boy, who was content with his life and his memories but is ripped away from his reality to be placed in his own limbo state of mind/world. The narrative is stereotypical as inspired by 'The Answers', Isaac wakes up confused and frantic. Isaac continues to look around the room finding items from his life, allowing him to travel into his memories. Once Isaac came back from his slip from reality, he sudden goes towards the door, finally able to open it. The unanswered ending to our short film is open ended to allow our audience to provide their own ending if Isaac dies or survives.
While looking at sound, we decided that the audio would have a greater impact if there was no main dialogue/monologue. This is to focus on the visuals and narrative, beginning starts with a detached white sound noise rising in pitch until the character wakes up. After the character has woken, there is a continuous background soundtrack of a single chorus of guitar notes.
The echoing soundtrack works well throughout the short film as we left the only dialogue in the memories, slightly muffled and echoed to show the conventional dialogue within the memories only; adding to effect of seclusion in limbo world. At the beginning and end of the short film we had a heart beat highlight the limbo world and have the conventional it slowing and fading until the screen goes black. This is common within short films we researched as story line ends with the music continuing into the credits (seen within both short films; 'The Life of Death' and 'The Answers')
The premise of our narrative is the idea of Limbo and an afterlife. After doing research for short films, the common ideas were to develop the narrative immediately to fit the story line into a short time. As we only had 5 minutes to create the short film, we followed a similar process of our short film. Isaac is the generic teenage boy, who follows the narrative concept of having to overcome his obstacle of accepting his fate. This is common within short films that we've researched, such as
'The Answers' we watched as the main character, asks unanswered questions of his life which contribute to him accepting his life and the mistakes he has made, following up to the open ending of the character saying asking 'is this the end?' with no seen reply. We follow the same structure of Isaac needing to overcome his situation helped through the 'triggers' of the objects used to make memories. This then leads to the ending of the short film, which having an open ending, allows the audience to interpret it themselves.
We used a variation of shot types to portray certain emotions within 'Isaac', looking back over our research to see what types were used as a way to tell the n
arrative story of an afterlife world.
Memory scenes:
- Mid shots allow the audiences to see the characters and their personalities (e.g. Isaac and his girlfriend comfortable together, connotes to the audience that they've together for a while, as there's the prom scene,
the Halloween scene and the sparkler scene). We got this idea from 'The Answers' as they show a range of romantic scenes throughout the short showing the couple together, mid shots of the both of them on the counter, close together to show the comfortability and that they've chosen to be close in the area around them.
- We used close ups to show the emotions from Isaac, his distress (when he yanks on the door handle). This shot type is significant for our short film as we use close ups from our first shot to our last. This is to show emotions clearly for our short time slot, portraying the emotions of Isaacs clearly. This is used within 'The Answers', where all the scenes within 'Limbo' are close ups of the male characters life, portraying each emotion as he looks along at his 'answers' to his personal life.
- Establishing shots were used less throughout or short, but are used to show give the audience more of an insight of what is yet to come from the narrative as there are hints within the limbo room of other objects that have yet to be seen.
- There are a couple of panning shots which was to move as the characters move, as near the end we witness Isaac running towards the door. This is to show the ending/ Isaacs rush to the end his time in Limbo.
- Using low angle shots are within our short film, as we used low angel shots and side views to show curiosity as there is low angle shots with both main characters showing curious faces. As the shots are all pan up low angle shots, we break conventional shots as there aren't any low angle shots in the shorts films we researched and inspired our short film on.
Double page spread:
While doing research for my ancillary 2 double page spread, I found there was a common design lay out for the way the movie was presented. Most double page spreads use half the top two pages for their images and have the context underneath, leaving as much space for the image as for the writing. I wanted to continue with the white theme limbo world, using the first clip of the short within limo as my main top image within the double page spread.
I used the first clip of the double page spread as it was pleasing to see and didn't give away any of the storyline. The complete white background makes the audience focus on the character and become more interested on the short film as the mise-en-scene created sensory pleasures for the audience.
When looking at the main reasons for our success of our short film 'Isaac', a large amount of it was to do with the effect of Limbo. As the majority of the main shots are within Limbo, it was priority to create an atmosphere of an unnatural world. After research we discovered other real productions share a similar technique of using one main colour (usually white or black) to portray the concept of Limbo. Using this we used a plain white room with the basic necessities to show what a plain room looks like. As well the white room, we used the 'glory' filter on Final Cut Pro. This created a glow around the white areas of the room, making a surreal effect on the footage.
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When looking for actors, we had a unconventional character from his ethnicity, but his conventional good looing clean cut looks is common within real productions. Within all short films I have researched, all leading characters are white males. As we have cast a slightly ethnically diverse characters, we've developed our media conventions, widening our audience type. Isaacs clean cut look could be consider to connected to the idea of limbo, the unreal world; showing the best of his life, meaning the best representation of himself. The actress follows conventional role of the beautiful girlfriend. She is portrayed to be likeable through her girly stereotypical actions of taking pictures, having fun with him at prom and with sparklers and her creative Halloween makeup.
My poster portrays individual clips of the memories shown within my short. This has led to numerous pictures of my main character Isaac in different locations. My poster is unconventional as through my research most posters only displayed one image, focusing on one iconic moment within the production. I wanted to display all the triggers within the memories to draw the audience in with the different scenarios. As the posters design is considered a montage of the memories, I wanted to focus on only the memories, considering my double page spread is based on the theme of limbo.


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21 Aug -- Street Audubon Nature Center
On Sunday we went for a hike at the Street Audubon Nature Center. It was a bit wet/soggy...we shall have to return when this place dries out a bit.
We had a good time by the pool.
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20 Aug -- Pool Party
By the way...a pool party just means we are swimming in the pool--but since there are 6 of us, it feels like a party!
Inspired by the Olympics.
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20 Aug -- Bok Towers, Lake Wales, Florida
On Saturday we went to
Bok Towers
in Lake Wales, Florida...a quick 15-minute drive.
It was a really nice place!
The grounds were super well kept and Henry didn't want to waste a minute!
The "singing tower" has a 60 piece carillon bell set that plays frequently. The music was beautiful and can be heard throughout the grounds.
Brotherly love!
Jane speaks for the trees.
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19 Aug -- Assumption of Command
I assumed Command of the
598th Range Squadron at Avon Park Air Force Range
We had the Avon Park High School JROTC Unit do the Color Guard -- they were great!
Kind words from Col Sumja.
Military stuff.
Say 'cheese!'
George loved being an only child at the event.
The guys flew four jets down from Moody Air Force Base.
Pool party time!
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15 Low-Impact Exercises To Burn Calories, Reduce Pain, And Recover Fast
The "no pain no gain" mantra is quite self-explanatory when it comes to the exponential rise in exercise injuries (1), (2). Sharp and dull pain and swelling indicate that you are exercising the wrong way or need to change your exercise program (3). So, if you have been doing vigorous strength training and HIIT, take some time off and do low impact exercises (4).
These will help you burn the calories without making your joints cry, be easy on the heart and lungs, and suit women and men of all ages. Read on to know the best low-impact exercises that you may include in your fitness routine for as many health benefits as any other high-impact exercise. Swipe up!
15 Best Low-Impact Workouts
1. Walking
Walking is one of the most popular low-impact exercises. In 1990, walking started gaining popularity, and by 1995, the Centers for Disease Control and the American College of Sports Medicine started recommending walking at 3-4 mph (5). Walking regularly can protect you from cardiovascular diseases, improve your posture and musculoskeletal strength, and speed up your recovery from an injury. You can either walk outside or on the treadmill at your own convenience (6). Click here to know about the benefits of walking in detail.
2. Cycling
If you enjoyed biking or riding on a cycle as a kid, it's time you take up the activity again. Cycling is a low-impact exercise that works on your hamstrings, quads, calves, and glutes without knocking off your knees as sprinting would do. Also, cycling regularly can protect your heart, help you lose and manage weight, and may reduce the risk of cancer (7).
3. Tai Chi
Tai Chi is a traditional Chinese exercise that uses controlled breathing technique and slow sets of motions. Practicing Tai Chi is a great way to improve balance and flexibility, increase strength, de-stress, and reduce the fear of falling (8). Join a Tai Chi class and practice it regularly to see a huge improvement in your mind and body balance.
4. Swimming
Swimming is a low-impact whole body exercise. But you must be careful and be monitored by an instructor and take the help of floaters if you are recovering from an injury. Over a period, your strength and flexibility will return, and the strength of the upper body and arms will increase. You will sleep better, lose weight, and be more proactive (9).
5. Elliptical Training
An elliptical machine can help you burn calories while working on your arms, shoulders, traps, chest, thighs, and calves. Ditch the treadmill or running and use this machine to tone your body – minus the sharp bone, joint, or muscle pain. Do a slow 20-minute workout on the elliptical machine under the supervision of an exercise therapist if you are recovering from an injury.
6. Power Yoga
Yoga is an ancient breathing and movement technique developed in India. There are various asanas that you can do to help build strength, stamina, flexibility, and balance and fight various fatal diseases without vigorous cardio or strength training (10). Practicing yoga will also help you de-stress and enhance mental peace.
TRX training is a body-weight strength training exercise that you do with the help of a resistance band. You can buy the TRX band from the official website and start training your core, glutes, upper body, and lower body. The TRX exercises will improve your body composition by helping you build lean muscle mass and improve bone strength and posture without injuring you or aggravating the existing injury (11). Click here to know more about TRX exercises.
8. Pilates
Pilates was developed by Joseph Pilates to help injured soldiers recover quickly. It is done on a Pilates machine that helps you do a full body exercise either standing up, sitting, or in the lying position. These exercises bring the best of Eastern and Western exercises and help build stamina, strength, endurance, and flexibility (12). Join a Pilates studio and do a 30-45-minute session every alternate day to see results in two weeks' time.
9. Green Gym
Green gym is the age-old gardening therapy that will help you sweat and burn calories. You get to you spend a considerable amount of time in Nature and de-stress. You can either have a garden at your home or be a conservation volunteer at a nearby park.
10. Dancing
Dance forms like foxtrot, salsa, and waltz are good calorie burners. They will improve your posture, help you learn a new skill, and build your social skills as well. Join a beginners dance class, where you can explore more about a dance form rather than concentrating on perfecting the moves. Learn and build on it as you progress.
11. Nordic Walking
Nordic walking is a type of slow walking with the help of poles (like walking on snow). It works on the abs, lats, thighs, calves, spine, and the shoulders. Nordic walking helps in improving lung and heart function, puts less stress on the joints, and speeds up recovery.
12. Cardio Circuit
If you want to burn maximum calories in a short period without harming your bones and joints, do cardio circuit training. With the help of your trainer, design a circuit routine of 1 minute of exercise and 1 minute of rest. Do this for 6-7 minutes, and you may burn up to 100 calories. If you are recovering from an injury, do not put stress on your joints and bones. Do exercises that will help you regain strength, range of motion, and flexibility instead of focussing on burning calories and aggravating the injury further.
13. Rowing
Rowing is emulating the "rowing" action on a rowing machine at the gym or your home. It works on the biceps, triceps, shoulders, lats, and pectoral muscles. Here's how to do it.
How To Do
- Sit on the bench and strap your feet on the footrest.
- Grab the handlebar. Keep your hands shoulder-width apart, relax your shoulders, keep your back straight, and look ahead. This is the starting position.
- Push back and straighten your legs.
- Lean back slightly and engage your core.
- Flex your elbows and pull your arms back, bringing the handlebar close to your chest. Squeeze your shoulder blades.
- Release your arms, lean forward, flex your knees, and push yourself back to the starting position.
Sets and Reps
3 sets of 12 reps
14. Bridge With Chest Press
Bridge with chest press is a low-intensity strength training and body balance building exercise. It works on the glutes, lower back, biceps, triceps, and chest. Here's how to do it.
How To Do
- Hold a dumbbell in each hand and lie down on a mat.
- Straighten your hands up right above your chest. Keep your palms facing forward, knees flexed, feet flat on the mat, shoulders relaxed, and abs engaged.
- Lift your hips and squeeze your glutes.
- Hold this pose and bring the weights down to the side.
- Exhale and press the weight back up to the initial position.
Sets and Reps
3 sets of 12 reps
Note: Do not do this exercise if you have a low back injury.
15. Dumbbell Thruster
Dumbbell thruster is a low-impact weighted squat. It works on the glutes, hamstrings, quads, calves, shoulders, and lats. You will build rounder buttocks without having to sweat at the gym or do vigorous strength training. You can also take care of your posture, which you may ignore while doing quick reps. Here's how to do it.
How To Do
- Hold a dumbbell in each hand and lift them up to your shoulders.
- Stand straight with your feet shoulder-width apart, toes pointing out slightly.
- Push your back and lower your body and squat. Make sure your knees are not overshooting your toes.
- Stand back up and press the dumbbells up.
- Bring the dumbbells down to your shoulders and squat.
Sets and Reps
3 sets of 12 reps
These are the 15 amazing low-impact, calorie-burning exercises that you can do every alternate day or as per your trainer's instructions. Make sure to consult your doctor or physical therapist before you do any of these exercises in general and especially if you have an injury. Doing these exercises regularly will make you physically fit and mentally strong. So, go ahead and burn some calories without the risk of injuring yourself. Cheers!
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- "'Good Pain' Versus 'Bad Pain' for Athletes" Johns Hopkins Medicine.
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- "Tai Chi" PubMed Health, US National Library of Medicine.
- "Swimming – health benefits" Better Health Channel.
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It is time once again to ROCK THE PINK!
Rockcastle Co HS Rockets Football is partnering with Rockcastle Regional to spread the word about Breast Cancer Awareness month. This year, we are also proud to welcome RCHS DanceBlue into the partnership.
On a special Thursday night game, October 30 at 7pm, your Rockets will host Wayne Co in the annual "Pink" game.
T-shirts will be available for pre-ordering beginning now through Oct 13. This year, proceeds from the sales will benefit Rockcastle Regional's Hope Fund (for local families dealing with cancer), and UK DanceBlue (more info below). T-shirt order form is attached.
We hope to see everyone in PINK and at the game!
What is DanceBlue?
DanceBlue is a student-run charity organization based at the University of Kentucky that raises money to fight childhood cancer. The organization enhances the lives of suffering children and families across the state by assisting those treated at the University of Kentucky DanceBlue Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Clinic.
What does RCHS DanceBlue Club do?
DanceBlue Club helps students at RCHS raise money for the UK DanceBlue marathon total, which then goes to help the patients and their families while they are undergoing treatment at the UK Clinic. The money this club raises will help cover medical expenses, buy groceries, pay for the families to get hotel rooms to be near their child, staff a therapist at the clinic, and buy toys to raise the patients' spirits while they are undergoing treatment.


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I would like to pick on one point Heffer made. He introduces the idea that from 1951 (perhaps not so coincidentally the year the Conservatives returned to power) to about 1955, the British war film reigned supreme over a country that was 'at ease with itself', as Sir John Major put it. Then came the scourge of American rock 'n' roll, which unleashed the barbarous Teds, who liked nothing better than to rip up cinema seats to a rock 'n' roll soundtrack of films like Blackboard Jungle The British war film reinvented itself somewhat in the face of this threat, but the great dams of British culture had been breached, and the hedonistic Sixties spoiled much that was good. (For some reason, partisan columnists like Heffer always overlook the hedonistic Eighties, made possible by their beloved Mrs Thatcher.)
The problem for this aspect of Heffer's thesis is that the pass may have already been sold to American culture before Bill Haley rocked around the blackboard jungle. When reading a book like Dominic Sandbrook's Never Had It So Good, one is regularly reminded that the guardians of British culture stood constant watch against the threat posed by America. (Another interesting book on this topic is Adrian Horn's Juke Box Britain, which starts the story of the American threat during the years of the Attlee government.)
The history of the influence of American pop before 1953 is the absence of 'pop chart' information. But have a listen to The Stargazer's 1953 #1 'Broken Wings'. I would suggest it isn't so far removed in character from American hits like Jo Stafford's 'You Belong to Me' or Les Paul's and Mary Ford's 'Vaya Con Dios'. One of the two founders of The Stargazers was Dick James, whose short American obituaries did not go far enough in explaining how he was a key figure in British music, with a performance lineage going back to Henry Hall. The Stargazers were founded in 1949 (or maybe 1950), a half-decade before Heffer's arrival of Americanisation.
And let's leave the trad jazz fad of the postwar period with just a mention, or this post will get far too long.
The sort of popular 'historiography' on display in Heffer's programme is simplistic, and arguably reflects more of a focus on a kind of 'living memory'. Heffer's parents will certainly have remembered the 1950s scaremongering about the Teds. He and I were born a matter of weeks apart, and Teds were still a bit of a 'thing' in the 1970s and 1980s. It might be more interesting to think about the fears of Americanism in 1950s Britain in the context of the American presence from 1942 until 1944. Are we seeing a fear of allies turning into occupiers? Or are people like Heffer and myself projecting into the past concerns about the way globalisation is destroying the local, at least how it is viewed through the kind of mass culture distributed by major corporations?


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Tragically, 2018 has already seen an unusual increase in the number of drowning victims, especially among children. Every year hundreds of children drown in swimming pools throughout the nation and thousands more people (including adults) are hospitalized. Knowing the causes and ways to prevent them saves lives.
Sweltering hot summers are characteristic of the Dallas metro area, as well as most of Texas. On a sizzling summer day, a swimming pool starts looking like a great place to spend some time. Fortunately for baked Dallas metro residents, thousands of local households and apartment complexes have swimming pools. Additionally, numerous public swimming pools dot the landscape to beckon those who don't have access to a swimming pool at home.
The abundance of swimming pools in our communities renders the heat much more tolerable – and a more dangerous as well. Swimming pool accidents happen every regularly throughout the summer months in Texas. Here are some causes and helpful tips for prevention to keep your family safe.
Causes of Swimming Pool Accidents
The fact that swimming pool accidents are almost always entirely preventable makes the problem all that much more frustrating. Some of the most common causes of swimming pool accidents include:
- Overcrowding
- Malfunctioning pool lights
- Untrained, negligent or absent lifeguards
- Lack of markings and/or restraints sectioning off the deep water section of the pool
- Missing safety equipment
- Negligent pool maintenance
- Lack of access restrictions, such as fencing or gates
An Ounce of Prevention…
The best way to deal with a swimming pool accident, of course, is to prevent one from happening in the first place. With that in mind, below are some basic precautions you can take that should dramatically reduce the risk of a swimming pool accident.
- Build a sturdy fence around your pool. It should be at least four feet tall and include a gate with a childproof lock.
- Supervise children at all times. The younger the child, the closer the supervision required.
- Make sure someone who knows how to swim is near the pool any time the gate is unlocked.
- Keep a lifesaver or other sturdy flotation device in the pool area, but don't depend on it as a substitute for someone who can swim.
- Be aware of the drowning risks even in hot tubs and shallow "kiddie pools", and take common-sense precautions.
- Be aware of and take precautions against risks other than drowning, such as head injuries caused by slip and fall accidents during horseplay.
Premises Liability
Texas premise liability law makes it easier for a person injured in an accident on someone else's property to file a personal injury or wrongful death claim against the owner. It applies to both personal residences and commercial establishments such as public swimming pools. Although premise liability law is somewhat complex and includes many legal nuances, it generally requires a property owner to repair or warn guests of dangerous conditions on his property that he knew of or should have known of.
The Attractive Nuisance Doctrine
The attractive nuisance doctrine is a legal principle that makes it easier for even a trespasser to file a personal injury or wrongful death claim against a property owner under certain circumstances. It is normally difficult for a trespasser to file a claim against a property owner for an injury caused by a dangerous condition on the property. It becomes much easier, however, when the trespasser is a child who was injured (or killed) by a hazard that is likely to attract children (such as an unguarded swimming pool) as long as the child is likely to have lacked the ability to appreciate the danger of the hazard.
Don't Try to Handle Your Claim on Your Own
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The Lee Family. Once upon a time Noel and Rena got married and had 2 kids - Doris and Donald. Then one day, Doris got married to Jeremy and had her own 2 kids - Vince and Edda. We all live far apart, and keep moving around. It's hard to keep tabs on each other. Welcome to our blog.
Monday, January 12, 2015
Plumbing and Chinese
Of all the household repairs, I like plumbing the best. I think it's genetically programmed into me. My parents both are adept as designing piping systems in nuclear power plants so I think it is natural that I like to fit pipes together and move fluid from one place to another. If I had a lot of time, I would do all the plumbing work in the house. I've replaced wax rings on toilets in this house and I've repaired a number of faucets. Plumbing involves so many interesting materials: there is the PVC piping and the chemical welding, there is copper piping and the solder with the blowtorch and then there is (if one is brave enough) the gas piping. This weekend, I replaced an incorrectly installed drain from our laundry tub. We didn't notice that it was installed backwards until Saturday morning when it started leaking.
I bought Vince a five pound bag of gummi bears. When I started working with Vince to improve his Chinese grade, I started to introduce to him all the habits I have from years of being a good (a.k.a. anal) student. I taught him about calendars and how to write down when everything is due and how to not leave everything until the last minute. I taught him about flash cards and how to use them effectively. There are study habits which involve using a timer and a set reward and there are certain rituals that I invoke to delineate "study time" from non-study time. Jeremy watched me teach all this to Vince and asked if anyone taught all these quirky habits to me. No one taught these habits to me, I've always thought that everyone knew how to study. It never occurred to me that anyone needed to be taught how to study.
Anyways, Vince is working a little everyday on his Chinese. Most days, the studying goes fine. Some days (maybe once or twice a week) he's really mad about studying and rolls his eyes at me. His final is tomorrow. He told me this afternoon he feels really well prepared. The gummis are his daily reward for reviewing his lessons, he gets only one at the end of each daily study session. I told him when he gets through the whole bag, he'll be fluent. OK, maybe not quite. Maybe 2 bags? 3?
By Doris at January 12, 2015
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- Noel said...
I don't know whether you know this or not.
Mom and Dad used our spare time to do some subcontracting plumbing work for house remodeling contractors. Usually, we got paid $400.00 per job. It wasn't bad at all for one whole-evening-work considering that was ~20 years ago.
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He is a lot warmer than his misogynist front line NYPD women in his office that hang up the phone on victims of sexual assault and NYPD coercion with CO lowering crime by breaking laws..... James O'Neill has the rudest most unprofessional NYPD women in his office the worse like the corrupt NYPD woman detective that hung up on me at the First Precinct.
Just because they are women doesn't mean they are not party to misogynist crimes as my audios posted on YouTube prove from the under PC O'Neill/ Chief Boyce Sex Crimes Unit horrible detective violates protocols and under Ray Kelly and Charles Campisi IA Sgt Mary O'Donnell refuses evidence and uses Ron Kuby's letter to pretend no crimes from the MD's to the First Precinct to Internal Affairs. Zachary Carter still using Ron Kuby's letter to pretend no crimes and I alerted the First Division all these years the city with held my attacker Delita Hooks signed letter openly threatening me again and I allege Joe Tacopina ghost wrote the letter Delita Hooks signed written to Det Andrew Dwyer that Lt Burgos signed off on. DI Ed Winski in the loop making all crimes vanish and he got promoted.
Under Winski hear NYPD PO Magori or Migori a corrupt woman cop who you can hear on audio lie to me telling me I cannot report my attacker's false cross complaint because I am not a detective or from the DA a FLAT out LIE and sgt Chen violates protocol refusing to come down to date he is one of many of a gang who's face I don't know because they hid like KKK and no badge numbers because they all refused to meet me hear Sgt Chen refuse to meet me and I call DI Winski who clearly was party to all crimes and got promoted typical for misogynist NYPD.
Police Commissioner james O Neill was polite but in his office the women NYPD officers I spoke with are the most abusive and rude so it's a surprise he behaves himself in public but I guess he has to
the Handschu agreement and violating it I have video outside the
Manhattan DA as well.
Part 5 Mutual of America James O'Neill no PAL remodel ditto Bratton and Ray Kelly. Questions I'm under oath about my case, Eric garner's hand written law suit under Ray Kelly and a lot more. I used to donate to PAL but Ray Kelly, Bratton and O'Neill decided to teach me a lesson and I don't think it worked out the way they and their pals at the First precinct starting with NYPD PO Eugene Schatz, Det Tommy Moran, DI Ed Winski, Lt Angelo Burgos, Sgt Chen, Det Andy Dwyer and his partner and Detective John Vergona and his partner planned when the broke laws or were party to breaking laws lying in police reports, coercing me using Ron Kuby's letter to pretend no crimes including my attacker' Delita Hooks response openly threatened me again in a signed letter to Det Andrew Dwyer.
Ask Cy Vance and NYPD Chief Boyce how they made sure no Harvey Weinstein victims would ever be arrested.
Part3 See and hear me confront James O'Neill about my case and the woman detective has my 2 Justice Cards that tell my story and demand Justice for all victims even NYPD DA apology wall, NYPD app Tracker report crimes the NYPD IA DA and Zachary Carter either won't let you or are complicit protecting! I call for a permanent new commission in to NYPD Internal Affairs DA corp counsel corruption.
I bumped on to a political figure who said the People should vote for Police commissioner and for City council speaker.
Sex Crime Victims (Special Victims) Detective violates protocol refuses to give me badge numbers
like the First Precinct Det squad supervisors that participated in coercion and lying in police reports, and top cops NYPD IA that I also asked for badge numbers starting with Ray Kelly, Chief Esposito, Chief Charles Campisi...
the detective also REFUSED to take a message asking her supervisor to call me back and this is under NYPD PC O'Neill and Chief Boyce!
please excuse terrible typos sent from my iPhone
NYPD Eugene Schatz started all this with his facebook pals the NYPD detectives that committed crimes Det John Vergona and Det Andrew Dwyer and I wonder if they got the results, that they, Lt Burgos, DI Ed Winski counted on acting on the I allege Joe Tacopina aka "Bob Dobalina" on YouTube the threat to turn the tables on me.


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Or: Alex Grim's Guide to Financial Ruin and Emotional Distress
I haven't been posting here in a while. There are a few reasons, like that I can be lazy and that I have a job that takes a lot of my time and generally leaves me tired as all hell and also cranky. But I have at least one decent excuse: I've been working on an EP. It's a heavy as hell (IMO) four track that will be called When the Sky Fell when I finally get it done. As of this writing, I still have to record the vocals for two songs and the drums for all four. I have next week to get that done.
I guess we'll see.
Perhaps preemptively, I present to you:
Alex Grim's Guide to How You, Too, Can Make a Record (of Arbitrary Length) and Annoy Your Friends.
Step One: Write Some Songs
There's actually a somewhat optional Step Zero first, wherein you conceive of the record. I say optional because some people either write in their own particular style consistently enough that once they've written enough songs, they could do a record. There's another class of people who aren't worried about being that consistent on a single record, and so similarly are basically just fine to put a few (or a heaping handful) of songs that they've written that they like in some order and then worry about cover art. I actually especially admire this second group, and maybe one day I'll have the balls to just do a record that's all over the place. Purple, by the Stone Temple Pilots, is all over the place and it's brilliant. So are a bunch of Zepplin records. Some artists (like Nirvana and the Foo Fighters, no doubt entirely coincidently) have essentially two kinds of songs on their records: singles and other stuff that sounds only very slightly like the singles. "Scentless Apprentice" and "Heart-Shaped Box" sound so little alike that one could be forgiven for thinking they were by two different bands, or possibly very different stages of the same band. But nope, they are, in fact, tracks two and three of In Utero. For me, I like to pick a sound or idea to explore and really get into the mindset of whatever that may be (in the case of When the Sky Fell, death/doom with lots of jazz chords) In any case, regardless of your stance on Step Zero, you still have to come to Step One: write some songs.
How you write your songs is your own damn business. I usually fuck around on guitar for awhile until something good comes out, record it on my phone, and either keep playing with the idea until I have a few parts figured out, or just move on and come up with something else entirely (or have lunch). Having done that, I'll usually go back and listen later and decide if anything I recorded was worth keeping. About eighty percent of the time, it's yes, but I'm also a whore, so don't necessarily aim for that. You really should be brutal with yourself when writing songs, but also not until they're done. Just write the damn thing and then decide if you want to keep it later. If you spend too much time worrying about getting it right on your first go, you're just going to be stuck. So, for riffs, ideas, and doodles, cull, but not excessively. My only real criteria are that it sounds original, and not "suck," a highly technical term.
So far I've been talking about song writing as a solo process, because for me it usually is; if you've got a band or someone that you like to jam with and the however many of you write stuff that way, do it that way. I would say, however, to be cautious with jams. They're usually super fun, but they tend to go on and on. If that's how you're writing material, make sure you're recording and make sure you have the patience to listen to those recordings, or at least have the discipline to stop the jam when you hit on something, start recording, and then remember to hit stop before you run out of room. I have never, ever met anyone who can remember every cool, worthwhile idea that happened in a jam, but I have known a lot of people and bands that spend all of their time jamming and never write a full song, much less enough to record an album. Music is supposed to be lots of fun, but it also has to be hard work sometimes. So write some damn songs.
Step Two: Demo That Shit
I'm swearing and wandering more than usual. I think it's because I just read The Martian, by Andy Weir (I saw the movie first. Full confession: I didn't even know there was a book until I was leaving the theater). It's a great story with great characters but some clunky writing. Andy, if you're somehow reading this, know that your ideas are great but you need to lay off of the adverbs; you do such a good job on your characters that we almost never need to be told that Watney is moving "groggily." He was just knocked out for a few hours, of course he's fucking groggy.
Anyhow. Demo that shit. I use Reaper because it's awesome and only costs $60. Garage Band is fine, too, or even Audacity. I've done entire songs in a day in Garage Band on my iPod because I was bored at work. Whatever you use, do it. Demoing is important because it forces you to make decisions in a way that merely coming up with a song does not. Is the last chorus a double? Is the solo four bars or eight? Will you do that neat key change or is it too weird? You have to make up your mind. Demoing helps make those choices because you can try it a few ways, walk away for a week, and then just listen to your three versions or whatever and decide which characteristics you like best. Sometimes you'll have a tie, but that's ok. It's art. You can do it that way live sometimes, or do a "(slight return)" sort of thing, or just collect enough cool, different demo versions and eventually do a whole album of those. It's your art, maaaaaan. In any case, most of the time, demoing will make you finalize the song structure.
An aside on lyrics: When should you write them? Well, Kurt Cobain once said that music always comes first, but Elton John made an entire career on fitting music to the poetry of Bernie Taupin, his primary writing partner. As a songwriting exercise, I recommend making yourself do both. For me, I find that having the music, and therefore at least a framework for a vocal melody, makes it much easier to write lyrics, because you know where things have to fit. It is, however, pretty exhilarating to pour a piece of yourself into a poem and then write music around it. This is another one of those "however works for you, maaaaan" things.
One thing that you super-duper should do is figure out your tempos and time changes, if you have any. I mean, you will have a tempo (…probably), and setting your Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) to play you a click track is so beneficial it's basically just stupid not to do it. Having a good click track makes it so easy to punch in edits, move sections around, experiment with extending or cutting parts, and just generally makes your life easier and your music sound better. Obviously, there are exceptions, and some bands simply do sound better if you record everything all at once and they just play off of each other. It's more fun to do it that way, too, but if you're playing most or all of the instruments yourself, or sending files to other musicians to record their parts, or doing anything at all with MIDI or programmed drums, you will *need* that tempo map. If you write weird stuff, said map is both much harder to make and even more critical. The EP I'm doing has a lot of pretty weird stuff, and getting it tight would have been impossible without a metronome.
Step Three: Make a Plan for Recording
This is a pretty involved step. You need to be able to answer all of the following questions:
-Who will play the instruments?
-Who will sing?
-Where will I/we record?
—If at home, how is your room? Your gear?
—If at a studio, which one? Do you need to provide any gear?
-Once it is recorded, who will mix it?
-Once it is mixed, who will master it?
-Once it is mastered, how will you distribute it?
-Who will do the art?
-How much will it cost and what is my budget?
There are obviously legions of other questions, but most of the ones I can think of stem from answering these (what sort of microphones should I buy?) and the rest (What am I doing with my life? Where is my rent? Fuck!) are more ephemeral and are probably best answered by your high school philosophy teacher. Except the rent one. You're on your own there.
(In regards to the microphones, oh man are there too many choices, but if you want to record heavy guitars, it's really hard to go wrong with a Shure sm57. An Audix I5 or a Sennheiser e835 are similar choices. The Audix is slightly scoped out of the box and the Sennheiser has a smoother high end (the Sennheiser is my favorite vocal mic of the three)).
Anyway, have a plan. A flexible plan is fine, but make sure you know and answer to all of those questions and at least have a good idea about the answers to any second-order stuff that pops up.
Step Four: Record the Motherfucker
You ideally want to do this as quickly as possible without rushing. It can be hard to maintain momentum if you're chipping away over the course of months, not to mention the difficultly in maintaining consistency in sound and recording quality. That can be hard enough day-to-day, much less over the course of six months of Saturdays or whatever. This is currently the step I'm on now with my EP. I've been doing the most of my work on Wednesdays and Thursdays, the days I have off from work. It is not ideal, but it also the reality of living with people who go to bed at reasonable hours.
This is not my first rodeo; I've done two more records. Full lengths, in fact. I've never played every instrument before, though, which is what I'm trying to do now. I've done everything but drums before. I've engineered, mixed, and mastered everything myself on the other two; this time I'll do everything but master, because I want a fresh pair of ears on the project. In other words, some of this is uncharted territory to me, as well. But, as Frank Turner says, we're all in this together, there is no God, let's have a beer (paraphrasing).
Some Final Thoughts (That I Stole From Something Else I Wrote a While Ago)
An album is no small thing. It should be somewhere between thirty-five and fifty minutes, ideally. Longer is pushing it, while any shorter and it starts to feel like an EP, a different kind of release. An album is big. They used to call them "LPs," which stands for Long Play, a term that has fallen out of relevance with the advent of the compact disc and now iTunes and web streaming. An LP is longer than an EP, Extended Play, a term which is still around today. An EP is a smaller work, though it was originally an improvement on the 45rpm records at the time. The original EP format was designed to compete with the LP format. Turns out they just had different uses. EPs are for going off on tangents, or for releasing songs that didn't fit on the last album but a band or a musician still want to release. Jar of Flies, by Alice in Chains, is a great EP. It's clearly the same band, but their typical metallic grind is replaced with acoustic guitars and a deeper, rounder sound. It would not work as an album, but it is a near-perfect EP. An album should say something, and there should be a unity to it. An album does not have to be like a novel, a monolithic story, though it certainly can be. An album should, however, be much like a collection of stories or novellas which are related. Musically and lyrically, an album should be unified. This is not to say that every song should sound the same or be about the same thing, but rather that the songs should logically lead into each other, and that the lyrics should all contribute to the overall atmosphere of the album. Failing these things, an album becomes a lesser thing, a collection of songs that happen to fit all on one disc. The visual aspect of an album should not be overlooked. Album art should contribute to the music of the record. Pink Floyd were excellent at this, though many are as well, of course. The cover photograph for Wish You Were Here, two men in business suits shaking hands, one of them engulfed in flames, is a perfectly surreal compliment to an album dealing with loss and the damage the music industry can do to those working in it. An album requires a lot of work. Songs have to be written, every instrument must be played and recorded, and then those performances must be edited and mixed together in such a way that each part comes through in just the right way. It has to be loved and tortured forth into the world, and once it's out it is tied forever to its maker. In that way, an album is a little like a prominent tattoo. It is not able to be ignored, and is a time capsule of the state of a musician at the time of its making.
In my particular case, I'm calling my record (a catchall term) an EP due to its length (four songs, clocking in at around 25 minutes), but it terms of atmosphere and construction, I do feel comfortable using the term "album," as I defined it above. Maybe I'm just fooling myself. In any case, drop me a line when you make your records, dear readers. I want to hear them. I'll be posting mine here soon enough.
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Bruce W. Maki,
This mid-1970's house has a walk-out basement with a deck above.
But the deck needed handrails. It's an eight-foot drop to the
concrete below the deck, which sounds a bit dangerous.
I thought it looked kind of bare... like a face without a
I removed the block and hammered the post back into the
proper (and plumb) position.
I made a quick CAD drawing of this handrail design to help me
keep track of dimensions. Maybe this will be useful to some readers.
The blue lines represent the intermediate posts. I don't show all of
the spindles in the frontal view.
I began this project in my workshop. I made initial measurements
of the spacing between the deck posts, and then I pre-assembled
sections of handrail about a half-inch longer than the measured
Why make the sections longer? Experience tells me that 1) Nothing
Ever Goes As Planned, and 2) it's much easier to cut a board shorter
than to correct a board that is too short.
Besides, the deck posts were badly warped and twisted, rather
out-of-plumb, and just not very precise. The way I deal with such
lack of precision is to make the pre-assembled sections a little
extra long and trim them to length prior to installation.
Also, before starting I gave all pieces of wood a quick sanding
with a random orbital sander. The instructions on the stain I used
insist on removing the "mill scale" with a light sanding.
This took about half an hour.
The other sections were more challenging because they had
to be connected to intermediate posts.
That diagonal piece of wood was necessary to straighten the
outer pair of joists, which had warped over the years. Without
straightening, the post would lean badly.
The diagonal block of wood is basically half of the
old-fashioned cross-bracing between joists. Cross bracing can
be a pain to cut because of the odd angles. It's more common
(and easier) to use solid wood blocking made from the same
material as the joists (2x10 in this case), but I didn't have
any large lumber with me, and it's too far into town to
justify driving to a lumberyard.
To force the double 2x10 outer joist into a plumb position,
I wedged a long 2x4 between the joist and the concrete slab
below, and hammered the base of the 2x4 until the post was
plumb. Ah... the joys of working with wood... nothing's ever
One cheap and quick solution is to shim the post where it
attaches to the joists, but this would not solve the problem
of the joists being too flexible, and the entire railing would
feel flimsy.
At the top I pre-drilled a hole and drove a 3" deck
screw into the post.
At this point the left end of the railing is loosely
held to the corner post, and the white post is only
clamped to the joist.
Note how the railing is resting on blocks of wood (with a
shim to help make the section level).
Note that the face of the horizontal 2x4 is set back about
5/16" from the face of the post. This setback makes the railing
assembly centered relative to the post.
With the railing attached to the intermediate post, I attached
the other end to the corner post, using the same method as the above
two pictures. Of course, I made sure the railing was level and plumb
before I attached it.
Note the big washers. I always use large washers to spread
the clamping force over a larger area. Without washers the
screw heads tend to sink in and crush the wood fibers, which
(I believe) causes the posts to loosen over time.
Also note the pieces of OSB behind the post. I needed these
because I made a mistake in measuring and cut the post notches too
deep. This is one drawback of working away from the job site... it's
harder to check your measurements.
To recap my railing installation approach:
Keep in mind that there are many ways to install
handrails... this is just one method that works well with
pre-assembled sections of railing.
One alternative is to install metal angle clips to the
underside of the bottom rail, and screw these to the posts.
Note in the picture above that there is a slight
"chamfer" or angled edge to the corners of the top cap. I
made this with the belt sander, and it took only a few minutes. This
reduces splinters and looks a bit nicer than the rounded edge that
comes with the lumber. Besides, the rounded corners are not always
the same radius on different boards, and this is a way to avoid that
minor problem.
The first step was to mark the location of the upper post
and cut the hole in the deck boards. The upper post was set to
its final height, but the lower post was left too long.
These deck posts did not need to be notched like the other
I held the post in place with clamps and shimmed it plumb.
I laid a 4-foot level against the steps, then placed a
12-inch speed square on the angled level. Using a shorter
level (held perfectly horizontal) I read the angle on the
speed square.
The nose angle was 34 degrees above horizontal.
I laid a long 2x4 on top of the upper post, and clamped it
to the lower post, guessing about the angle.
This is much easier to do with a helper holding and
adjusting the lower end of the board.
This represents the top edge of the upper rail, and
the underside of the cap.
Using a miter saw I cut the angle on the lower end of the
rail. In this case it was 34 degrees away from a
normal square cross-cut.
Then I placed the lower end of the rail against the lower
post and held the rail in place with a clamp.
This cut was not exactly the 34 degree angle
I expected (of course)... because... it's wood... everything is warped and
One advantage of this technique is that it tends to make
the rail a tiny bit too long after the first cut. (If you
understand the geometry of triangles you'll understand
why...you are getting the hypotenuse of a long skinny right
triangle, when you want the long side)
But this just means that I have to make an extra cut to
make the rail to fit less tightly. I prefer it this
I cut a pair of spacer blocks (red arrow) and held them in
place by just pushing on the spindle.
The spindles on the short horizontal railing had been pre-cut in
my shop. I intentionally left several spindles extra-long, knowing
that the sloping handrails would need longer spindles.
Once the first spindle was cut and checked, I cut the
remaining spindles to the same length. To install the spindles
I held spacer blocks (one upper and one lower) in place with
clamps while driving in 2½ inch deck screws.
Note: In some areas building
codes require a "graspable" railing on stairs, so
this 2x4 top cap may not be acceptable by itself. I have seen
projects where the builder had to install a narrower piece of wood
on top of a railing like this. Ask your local Building Department
for a list of suitable materials that meet this
"graspable" requirement.
After all the carpentry was completed I finished the railings in
the following manner:
In some pieces of wood the grain is distinctly visible through
the coating, because the smooth-planed lumber shrank after milling,
leaving bands of high and low material.
The material costs for this railing, about 29 lineal feet, was
around $120, not including the paint. While this railing was built
with ordinary pressure-treated Southern Yellow Pine lumber, a
smoother appearance can be obtained with various types of cedar.
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It seems that each year the stores start Christmas earlier and earlier! This year I went to Walmart the day after Halloween to find some dress up clothes on sale (Halloween costumes) only to find all the Halloween items gone and Christmas items were being stocked on the shelves! I have often found myself upset by this…what about FALL? What about Thanksgiving? I have a friend who always puts up her Christmas decorations on or around the 1st of NOVEMBER! ( Yes I'm talking about you Christina!) I couldn't believe this at first! But as this year has gone by, I find myself ready for Christmas early too! I LOVE Fall….it's my favorite time of year… but what do I like about it? The crisp weather, the beautiful leaves, and the holiday season! Maybe because last year here in GA we had almost no winter, or becauase it's been cold lately….but I'm ready for Christmas! We're having Thanksgiving at my house this year so at first I wanted the house to be decorated for Fall and Thanksgiving. But I think I'm ready to join all the other crazy people out there! I think I WANT the Christmas season to last longer than the days between Thanksgiving and New Years. Since we get a real tree I'll have to wait until the Christmas trees are available here, but I am definately going to start decorating the rest of the house!! It makes sense anyway! It's a lot of decorating to do everything in one weekend…but by doing the house first then the tree later I can take my time and make things look like I want! So thanks to all those crazy people out there who showed me I don't have to box my Christmas up into a pre-determined set of days! 🙂
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In Moscow, a group of Europeans and Americans are sitting in a small, chilly room with headphones on. An interpreter drones through the headsets, relating what young people are telling a research moderator on the other side of the glass. What the respondents are saying is insightful, stunning, and bad news. As participants in the new Russian free market economy, these young Moscovite men and women declare, they do not want to be office drones. They want to be jet-setting billionaires, with limousines and jewels and romp all night with attractive models.
All of which makes the advertising our client has been airing—the punchline being two office schlumps giving each other high-fives over their office cube wall—terribly wrong.
Of course, the fact that we've discovered this within the first hour of talking to consumers makes the disconnect more egregious.
And that double clicks on the real problem.
We spend so much time and money and meetings micromanaging execution, but inversely not nearly enough time focusing on what we will call Problem ID—identifying the true problem or opportunity.
Examples abound. Gap's recent new logo debacle was hardly solving for their real problem of being relevant in a world of similar choices. (The logo refresh may have been the introduction of a Brand New Gap with better organization, design and merchandising, but now we'll never know.)
Harley Davidson zealously markets its choppers, when the sad fact is that its baby boomer bikes just don't appeal to younger generations born to be wild on Japanese rockets.
Then there's the story of the beer company that tried to get into the Chicago market. They launched their big ad campaign and had major first trial, but zero repeat business. Turns out the refrigerator cars on the Chicago-bound train went out and skunked the beer. Skunk happens.
There are (at least) two reasons for this. The first is that product and marketing managers rotate between brand groups at an alarming rate. Hitting the ground running, new managers are often unable to put in the upfront time and resources to identify the right problem to execute against. Instead, they get a new agency. They get a new campaign. They invest in social media. They Tweet.
The second is that everyone everywhere is overtasked. We have at least three meetings we could be at during any day part. And forget about lunch.
Where to focus?
The answer is in problem ID. Drill down to identify the real problem or opportunity you are solving for.
Part of the answer may be in those stacks of consumer studies your predecessor left behind. The answer may be out in the streets. But if you're new to the post and have a fire to put out in Bentonville, and Target is considering thinning your SKUs, it's easy to get distracted.
Problem ID may be a simple reframing. Turn the problem on its head. As Sir Kenneth Robinson says, "Imagine if the paperclip is made of foam rubber!" Or, to borrow from design thinking, How many marketers does it take to screw in a light bulb? Why a light bulb?
Your problem may be service, pricing, distribution, the sales team, or even the product itself. (Recall Toyota.)
Another answer in problem ID might be soul. Discovering the deep-skin emotional attachments people have (or don't have) toward your product or service is not just insightful, it's inspirational, even revelatory. "We never knew that!" are four words always thrilling to hear, because now we're not just problem-solving, we are leapfrogging to brand reawakening and fresh opportunities. There's a new there out there.
When problem ID solves right, sales follow. Once Domino's identified their real problem: their pizzas sucked—and (bold move) they admitted it—they gave themselves a fresh perspective and renewed vision. Today they have some very saucy sales figures.
Zappos takes the tactile indecision out of Internet shopping and famously gives female shoe shoppers the ability to try on different styles, just like real-world 5th Avenue. (The inside secret? Order five pairs and return the ones you don't like. Free shipping is awesome!)
AT&T identified that their service sucked—so they countered that with a buzzworthy exclusivity pact with Apple iPhone. (AT&T may have to problem ID again very soon when we can all get both an iPhone and opt for Verizon's state-of-the-art service.)
Digging in and uncovering the real problem takes mammoth concentration and often new discovery tools. But finding the right solution propels the entire sales force forward—and not just the brand team, but also regional salespeople, people sourcing product, upper management, your consumers, and everyone in between. And sometimes, like in the Domino's case, it takes some hard and honest evaluation. But it's worth it. And definitely better than spending millions, only to find you've been running down a rabbit hole.
Identify the problem first—then deploy your resources to help solve it. Now, that's a solid reason to high-five your co-workers over the office cube wall.


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I remember there was a time when I couldn't look at a baby bump without breaking down into a blubbering mess, I couldn't look at a new born, I couldn't even here the word baby or pregnancy without wanting to crawl into a hole and be alone forever.
And though I am over those feelings ( mostly ) since having my rainbow after the storm, there then comes a different feeling. Yes there are feelings of thankfulness and gratefulness but those aren't the ones I'm talking about.
I'm talking about being out in public and wondering who's heart you're ripping out. How holding your little one may be making the woman next to you want to crawl into a hole. I'm not saying that I'm not glad I am where I am, it's just that many lights have been turned on. That just like the women that were in their own world enjoying their blessing didn't know how it made me feel, I am now in that world. And since then there are times when I'm out and I look around and I wonder " hmmmm, is she a part of my world or is/was she in a blissful ignorance?" Does she have a whole other story that I know nothing about? Even with friends or people that I know of that have had a loss/es I try to be sensitive, I try not to parade my joy around for fear of hurting them because I don't want to cause a pain that I know so well. This path is such a delicate one and it sometimes leaves you spinning. And again I am not saying I am at all ashamed of the blessing God has given me at all. I love him and my angels with all my heart.
These are just thoughts really that I needed to get out, to look at, to see if they make sense. ( I'm hoping they do, but not too sure yet, lol)
I am just amazed sometimes at how a life event can open your eyes. No the people that I pass everyday may not be dealing with loss, but I wonder if they are dealing with something. Have they dealt with something.
Throughout these past few years I have met many different types of people and I find myself wondering what makes them tick. I believe it's true that everyone has a story, it's just that some may be a little rougher than others.
But I guess I will quit babbling and end here........
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As Naked Lunch Café prepare to host an exhibition of unseen early Shack photos, Getintothis' Paul Fitzgerald takes a look back to the distinctly baggier times of the early 90s, as the band were writing what was to become their acclaimed and much loved Waterpistol album.
Yes, we all know the stories. The tales of self abuse, lost tapes and disappointment. The drugs and disorder of Michael Head's past lives have been much discussed here and just about everywhere else.
Framed in the context of his recent and long awaited return to peak fitness, rude health and sell out audiences at every turn, 11 years since his last release with Shack, 2017 saw him back to full Mick with the release of The Red Elastic Band's first album Adios Señor Pussycat.
The critics fell over themselves to heap worthy praise in his direction, and the fans, who'd never actually gone anywhere, found themselves fighting online to get their grubby mitts on tickets for his frequent gigs. And that's another sign of the power of this man's recovery. The workload. He's simply never worked so hard. Rumours abound that he's already started on a new record, less than six months since Pussycat hit the shelves. His label, Violette Records celebrates its fifth year in 2018, with more surprises no doubt in the bag. Times in Michael Head's life are good. The vibes are strong, and the mood is optimistic.
Back in 1990, Shack were in a similar place, forward facing and full of the chemically enhanced optimism of the era. The times were good, the mood distinctively baggy, and the wheels hadn't yet started to come off. Head and the band were putting a brace of fine songs together, songs which would eventually go out into the world as the Waterpistol album, and were holed up in Crash rehearsing and writing most days.
Photographer Paul McCoy was invited to get some press shots, and joined them in their Stanley Street bunker for a session or two, as well as taking them on a somewhat sedated, neck-risking escapade across the crumbling roof of Central Hall.
A couple of the images were used at the time, but time marched on, the contact sheets were placed in a box and he mentally filed them in a section marked sketchily 'in a box somewhere', until their accidental re-discovery last year.
Picking up on the new energy of the Michael Head story, McCoy has now brought the remaining black and white images together into an exhibition titled I Know You Well, which will be showing at Naked Lunch Café throughout May. The launch event on Friday 4 May, coinciding with the Smithdown Road Festival weekend and is free to attend.
McCoy says, "We had some good times back then, its one of those hazy, sunshine memories for me. I shot a few gigs of theirs too. There was one in the Citadel I particularly remember, probably for all the wrong reasons. I'm glad we can get these images out again though, and Naked Lunch is a great place to show them. It's a co-op, they're great people, Smithdown's on the up again, and the Café's a cool space, run with all the right intentions, so its perfect for me, and for the I Know You Well exhibition. I'm really looking forward to it"
The exhibition will tour various cities after the Liverpool run, and will be at The Social, Great Portland Street, London in September as well as the Shiine On Weekender at Minehead Butlins in November.
The exhibition runs for the whole of May, from the weekend of the Smithdown Road Festival, May 5-7, and prints are available for sale.