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God Is The One We Should Rely On: Lipscomb On Human Government

David Lipscomb was a very influential leader within Churches of Christ in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Lipscomb served as a minister, an educator (a co-founder of the Nashville Bible School, which exists today as Lipscomb University), and an editor of the very influential Gospel Advocate.

Lipscomb was also a pacifist, and in some sense, a Christian anarchist: he believed that Christians had no business interacting with government, including voting in elections or serving on juries. My own views on government are not as extreme as Lipscomb’s, but I do think his thoughts serve as a helpful corrective to what I see from a lot of people.

It has been distressing to me during this election cycle to see so many Christians who (based on their comments on Facebook or Twitter) seem to be placing so much of their hope for the betterment of our world in political candidates (regardless of which party they happen to support). To these folks, Lipscomb offers some helpful words:
“Everyone who honors and serves the human government and relies upon it, for good, more than he does upon the Divine government, worships and serves the creature more than he does the Creator.”

On Civil Government, p. 50
With all due respect to Lipscomb, I believe that it is appropriate for Christians to vote, and that ideally, Christians should use their vote to reinforce the values of the Kingdom. And sometimes it can be easy to get pretty wrapped up in the political process, because those values can mean a lot to us.

But I think he is right on the money about this: let us never think that the president we elect or the government we put into place is the ultimate source to which we should look for guidance, protection, or good. Those things come from God, and He still sits firmly on His throne, in control of all the things we debate and worry about.

A God Who Is Not Far From Us

St. Paul Preaching in Athens, by Raphael

In a well-known passage in Acts 17, Paul addresses the Areopagus in Athens:
“Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.”
The Greeks were a very religious people—I can remember studying in school about the various Greek gods and goddesses—and Athens was filled with temples, statues, and idols in honor of them. Apparently, in addition to these deities, they even worshipped an “unknown god”, I guess to make sure they didn’t leave anyone out.

But the point that Paul tries to make to them is that they did leave Someone out—the most important Someone of all—the God who made the world and everything in it. The Greeks were ignorant of this God…

Being ignorant of God—what He is like and what He desires of us—is a problem that was not specific to the Greeks. It’s a recurring problem that has appeared throughout history. And when it’s up to us to determine what God is like and what He wants, sometimes we end up in some pretty dark places.

Chichén Itzá was a pre-Coumbian Mayan cultural center located on the Northern Yucatán peninsula in modern day Mexico. Today it is a popular tourist attraction and every year thousands of people go and visit the ruins.

The Yucatán is a dry area with no rivers above ground, but despite this, Chichén Itzá was able to thrive as a major Mayan city because of the existence of a certain type of geological formation called a cenote. A cenote is a sinkhole which had formed in the limestone foundation and contained groundwater. There are several cenotes throughout the Yucatán, and at Chichén Itzá, there were two cenotes which were substantial in size and would likely have contained adequate drinking water year round for the people of the city.
Cenote Sagrado, believed to be the home of the Mayan rain god,  Chaac.
However, of the two cenotes, only one was used for drinking water, because one of them was believed to be the home of the Mayan rain god, Chaac. In order to keep Chaac happy and the rain plentiful (and plentiful rain was a big deal in such a dry area), the Mayan people would offer human sacrifices. These sacrifices, often children, would be weighted down with gold and silver jewelry and then tossed down into the cenote where Chaac was thought to live. Hundreds of years later, when the area was excavated by archaeologists, many tiny skeletons, as well as the treasure that dragged them to their deaths, were found.

Senseless deaths…sacrifices made in order to appease a god they didn’t understand, whose will they had to guess at.

We hear that and perhaps it’s easy for us to dismiss that example as being far removed from our own circumstances, but it’s not an isolated incident—people have often justified terrible actions because they thought they were doing what God wanted: fighting in the Crusades…buying and selling people based on the color of their skin…blowing up abortion clinics…flying airplanes into skyscrapers.

When it’s up to us to determine what God is like and what He wants, sometimes we end up in some pretty dark places.

But reading further in Acts 17, Paul says that it doesn’t have to be this way—we don’t have to be ignorant of God. He tells the people of Athens that God is “not far from each one of us”, and that we are His offspring.

And then, speaking of Jesus, Paul goes on to say that God “has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him [Jesus] from the dead.”

Paul’s claim that God is not far from us finds fuller expression in the classic passage on the Incarnation in John 1. There, in verse 14 we read, “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.”

A lot of times when speaking about the Incarnation, we talk about that first part: the Word becoming flesh. That’s certainly an important concept, but I want to focus on the second clause: the Word made his dwelling among us. Here John is using tabernacle language to explain how God came down to be among His people in a new and special way. A more literal translation would be something like, “He pitched His tent among us.”

In The Message, Eugene Peterson says that “the Word became flesh and moved into our neighborhood”, and I love that sentiment—through Jesus, God is no longer a mysterious stranger Whom we don’t understand, because He lives right down the street from us—we can see what God is like for ourselves!

The wonderful news of the Incarnation is that the God who does not wish to be far from each of us put on flesh, and Jesus took up residence in our neighborhood. From there, He offers the gift of friendship, and as our Friend, we are never left to wonder what He is like, or what He wants from us.

Plowing Through The Semester

Ministers often get a day off during the week, and the thinking behind this is that Sunday is way too much work for a minister to be considered a part of a restful weekend. For the past few years, Monday has been my official day off, but unfortunately, this semester my work load has been such that I pretty much have to come in every Monday and work all day if I have any hope of finishing my work for the week.

The picture above shows the stack of books that I brought with me to the office today in an effort to prepare for my weekly Greek Readings quiz (technically they are quizzes, but the term quiz really doesn’t do them justice—they are tests), and to work on my Global Evangelism final which is due this Friday.

This all probably comes across as complaining, which isn’t really my intention. Certainly all of the work has provided me with an extra dose of stress, but it has also helped me to grow in my time management skills and my ministry. And perhaps most of all, I am developing perseverance: I continue to plow on through the semester (I like the word plow, because I think it accurately conveys the sense of hard work), but I am so looking forward to December 4, which is when my Christmas break officially begins.

Friday Summary Report, October 19

It’s been a slow week on the blog, mainly because I have been in Memphis all week at Harding School of Theology for a Global Evangelism class. The class has been really good, but it has been an exhausting week. Here’s a peek into my week:
  • Class meets every day from 8:15-5:00, with a two-hour break for chapel and lunch. That’s a long time to be in class each day.
  • Chapel is every day at 11:00 AM, and is a nice way to break up the day with worship and remind us all of why we are here. I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to speak today.
  • Every morning we have quizzes over some of our reading for class, so at night after class, I generally have to do some reading and studying to prepare for them. In addition to that, I’ve had Greek homework to do as well as some other research, and altogether that means I’ve been spending a lot of my time after 5:00 PM working in the library. It makes for really long days.
  • I have stayed with Kevin and Linnea Burr this week, and they have been marvelous hosts all week. It’s always tough being away from my girls for a week, but the Burrs have done a ton to make me feel at home, including cooking for me each night and buying Coke in glass bottles for me (they know what I like!). Hospitality is a Christian virtue that we often neglect, and I have been humbled by how I have been treated all week.
Meanwhile, in the rest of the world…actually, I don’t really know what’s going on in the rest of the world because I’ve been super busy all week! Here’s hoping that I’ll be back to more regular blogging next week, but with a Greek quiz, a Global Evangelism final, and a sermon to prepare for, who knows?

So Long, Chipper

It has been a few days now since my beloved Atlanta Braves were bumped from the playoffs in the NL Wildcard game against the St. Louis Cardinals. I didn’t get to watch the whole game because I had to be at a wedding rehearsal during the same time, but in hindsight, that was probably a good thing. A couple of takeaways from the game:
  • The Braves didn’t deserve to win. Committed too many errors and left way too many men on base.
  • Regardless of this, they still had a chance to win, which was negated by one of the worst calls in the history of Major League Baseball. Regardless of the fact that umpire Sam Holbrook stands by his call and other officials have closed ranks around him, it was a terrible call. Not only did it betray a fundamental lack of understanding of the word ‘ordinary’, it failed to take into account the whole line of reasoning behind the institution of the Infield Fly Rule in the first place—to protect the offensive team.
  • A one-game playoff between two wildcard teams is completely stupid, as it negates the 162 game regular season. Anything can happen in a baseball game, which is why we play series in the playoffs—to more accurately and less randomly determine the better team. Add this to MLB Commissioner Bud Selig’s loooonnngg list of baseball sins.
So yeah, I was bummed about the game. The biggest bummer of all though is that the loss represented the end of Chipper Jones’ Hall of Fame career.

I have always been a big Chipper fan. At the height of my baseball fandom (when, in addition to just following the Braves I was also obsessively collecting baseball cards and playing baseball all the time myself), Chipper burst onto the scene in 1995 as the Braves’ star of the future. Atlanta won the World Series that year, Chipper should have won the NL Rookie of the Year Award, and it looked like the future was very bright.

And for Chipper, it definitely was—he’s a first ballot Hall of Famer for sure, as well as being in the top 3 all time in the following categories:
  • Switch-hitters: I’d actually put him at number 2, behind Mickey Mantle. In my opinion, definitely ahead of Eddie Murray.
  • Third basemen: I think you could make a case that he’s the best of all time, but I’d put him behind Mike Schmidt and ahead of George Brett.
  • Braves: Third best Brave ever, behind Hank Aaron and Warren Spahn (apologies to Tom Glavine…you really shouldn’t have signed with the Mets though).
You might disagree with where I have Chipper ranked within the top 3 of these categories, which is fine. You might also disagree that Chipper belongs in the top 3 of these categories, but you would be wrong.

Chipper played his entire career with the Braves, and as you’ve likely heard all season if you are a baseball fan, “he played the game the way it’s supposed to be played.” The degree to which he was respected around the league was evident this season as team after team honored him when he would make his last visit to play in their stadiums.

Chipper’s retirement is poignant for me, because he represents the last link to the dominant Braves teams of my youth, who won 14 divisional titles in a row. That streak had already begun when Chipper broke into the big leagues, but he was there for its peak, when the Braves won the World Series in his rookie season in 1995. Probably no one would have believed that it would be his last, but as it turned out, the Braves of Chipper Jones were largely characterized by great pitching, a ton of regular season wins, and disappointment in the playoffs.

That being said, looking ahead, it’s hard to be excited about the prospect of the Braves ascending to the top of the baseball world without their best player and longtime clubhouse leader around. Over the last few years, as his skills declined (slightly) and it became harder and harder for him to stay healthy, it also became increasingly obvious how important he was to the team: when Chipper was in the lineup, it always felt like the Braves had a chance to win. Without him, any victory seemed to be a lucky one.

He’s still a good player, and could probably still be productive for a couple more seasons, but he’s made it clear over and over again this season that he’s done, and there’s a lot to be said for going out well, rather than hanging on as long as you can and potentially tarnishing your legacy.

So so long to Chipper Jones, the best Brave of my lifetime. You will be missed.

Church Signs Revisited

I have previously shared my thoughts about church signs—you know, the ones where you can change the letters and put up (ideally) clever or inspirational messages.

Generally speaking, I’m not a big fan of them because I tend to think they have more influence in a negative sense than a positive one. In other words, people driving by are more likely to be turned off by a hokey saying on a church sign than they are encouraged by a thoughtful one.

Sometimes, though, a church sign goes beyond being hokey or lame and actually promotes bad theology. I saw an example of that this week. A church sign in my neck of the woods is currently displaying the following message:
This is yet another manifestation of a common theme that you hear these days, where people are desperately trying to divorce Jesus from the church, or separate being religious (which is supposedly a bad thing) from being spiritual (which is supposed to be the ideal). There was even a YouTube video on this topic that went viral a while back (see this article which has the video embedded along with an excellent response).

Here’s the key point though: the whole Religion vs. Jesus thing is a false dichotomy because you don’t have to (and in fact, can’t) choose between them. Jesus himself was very religious (and spiritual!). Furthermore, the church was purchased with his blood (Acts 20.28), so it has great, great value to him.

End of rant.

The Fall of Man and the Personal Consequences of Sin

As I discussed in the introduction to this series, Genesis 3 relates the story of the Fall of Man, where Adam and Eve commit sin in the Garden of Eden by eating fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil after God had specifically commanded them not to.

A whole host of negative effects befall Adam and Eve (and consequently, the rest of us) as a result of their disobedience, and the point of this series is to examine some of those effects in more detail. Basically, sin messes everything up.

In the last post, we focused on the theological consequences that came about as the result of Adam and Eve’s sin: our relationship with God is destroyed and we become slaves to sin instead.

Next, we want to turn our attention to the personal consequences of sin (which, as well shall see, are closely related to the theological consequences). Returning to our text in Genesis 3, this aspect of sin’s destructiveness is hinted at in Genesis 3.7, 10-11 where Adam and Eve realize they are naked, sew together fig leaves to make loincloths and then, because of their nakedness, hide from God when He enters the garden.

What was so bad about Adam and Eve being naked? After all, it was the way God had created them, so clearly He had no problem with it! The problem came from Adam and Eve themselves: after they sin by eating the forbidden fruit, they become self-conscious and immediately feel that there is something wrong with them, and they are ashamed of themselves.* Ever since then, men and women have felt the same way: we exist in a state of inner conflict, lacking the self-confidence and self-acceptance that we should have as God’s creatures.

Basically, the process looks something like this:
  1. Humans were created for the purpose of living in relationship with God.
  2. Sins distorts and destroys that relationship.
  3. Without a relationship with God, we are inherently unfulfilled, because we are not living out the purpose for which we were created.
  4. We feel bad about ourselves and follow all sorts of false avenues looking for fulfillment.
Just consider our world today. People desperately want to feel happy or significant or fulfilled, so they are willing to try anything: fame, fortune, career accomplishment, relationships, children, sex, drugs, sports, whatever. Why do you think the self-help industry generates billions of dollars each year? It’s because deep down, we all feel like there’s something wrong with us. We struggle with self-confidence and self-image, and we are convinced that we are deeply flawed.

And, biblically speaking, people are messed up; we are deeply flawed. But flatter abs, a more secure retirement, or a better relationship with your boyfriend won’t provide the answer. Oh sure, you might feel a little better about yourself for a while, but it won’t last. We were created to live in relationship with God, and only in the context of that relationship can we find the solution to our deep flaws.

*It is important to note that, according to the biblical account, Adam and Eve are ashamed of their nakedness, not of their sin (it should have been the other way around). Sin had fundamentally changed the way they viewed themselves.

Being An Introvert May Not Be What You Think

I recently came across this outstanding article by Carl King entitled, “10 Myths About Introverts.” It briefly discusses the hypothesis that the difference between introverts and extroverts lies in different neurotransmitter tendencies in the brain (specifically in regards to dopamine), and then goes on to discuss 10 popular misconceptions about introverts.

Here’s a taste:
Myth #1–Introverts don’t like to talk.
This is not true. Introverts just don’t like to talk unless they have something to say. They hate small talk. Get an introvert talking about something they are interested in, and they won’t shut up for days.

Myth #2–Introverts are shy.
Shyness has nothing to do with being an Introvert. Introverts are not necessarily afraid of people. What they need is a reason to interact. They don’t interact for the sake of interacting. If you want to talk to an Introvert, just start talking. Don’t worry about being polite.

Myth #3–Introverts are rude.
Introverts often don’t see a reason for beating around the bush with social pleasantries. They want everyone to just be real and honest. Unfortunately, this is not acceptable in most settings, so Introverts can feel a lot of pressure to fit in, which they find exhausting.

Myth #4–Introverts don’t like people.
On the contrary, Introverts intensely value the few friends they have. They can count their close friends on one hand. If you are lucky enough for an Introvert to consider you a friend, you probably have a loyal ally for life. Once you have earned their respect as being a person of substance, you’re in.
I don’t want to re-post King’s entire article, so click here to continue reading

I wasn’t entirely a fan of the tone of the article that leaked through at times (which almost made it sound like you should regard Introverts as being better than Extroverts…they’re not), but all in all, I thought the author made some excellent points, and about 8-9 of the characteristics he talks about describe me with an eery amount of accuracy.

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Making Sofa table by handtools #2: Joining boards for the top

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« Part 1: CAD Part 2 of Making Sofa table by handtools series Part 3: Making stretcher »

I did fore planing three boards with Veritas Scrub & BUS (tooth blade)

The tooth blade for Veritas Bevel-up Smoother is very good at Knots or difficult grains.

and I did smoothing and dimensioning with japanese plane.

For joint faces, I trimmed edges with stanley #7 and jointer fence.

without spline, I just glued up boards.
and, I strengthened joint with ” Tapered sliding dovetail ” beneath the boards.
( I will show you later. )

see you again :)

-- Falling in love with wood... J. Park , South Korea

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#1 posted 03-17-2009 05:46 PM

cooliE! good work!

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#2 posted 03-17-2009 11:08 PM

It looks like you are off to a great start. I look forward to following your progress. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

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#3 posted 03-18-2009 01:48 AM

Thats a very smooth piece. did you buy the planes in korea?

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#4 posted 03-18-2009 02:35 AM

Oh, kiwi :)

I bought all by online shopping.

The vintage stanley planes are from ebay,
The Veritas things are from ,
and I could buy the Japanese planes and chisels from the online shop in KOREA.

-- Falling in love with wood... J. Park , South Korea

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#5 posted 03-18-2009 02:58 AM

off to a great start. Looking forward to more progress posts.

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SuperSled for Table Saw

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This has been an interesting project for me to research as well as to build, in that I sure had my challenges with the router. ;-) I not only read/watched everything that Eagle Lake Woodworking has on this table saw sled design and build, I also looked elsewhere for tips and techniques to make my execution/build of this project as accurate as possible. Stevin Marin has a neat YouTube Video on accurately aligning and installing runners and fences that I found useful as well. Armed with this information I was off to the shop and making dust!

Some of the modifications that I made include:

++ Used 3/4in plywood for base— I want more durability/longevity and besides I can still cut 2 1/4in even with this thick of base ;-)

++ A 56in long main fence— I wanted to be able to cut multiple pieces as long as 36in long so I made the fence on the left stick out 38in to include a stop block as well. Do note the gap in the vertical T-Track on the main fence so that the TS blade doesn’t have to cut through the T-Track.

++ I moved the “adjustable” fence slots closer together than the original plans called for as well— The plans called for the slots to be 7 1/2in apart, however, I found that only got me down to a max/min angle of ~60/30 degrees. I made the slots just 6in apart and when finished I can actually get a max/min angle 70/20 degrees, so that 22 1/2 degree angle is a doable on this sled.

++ I surface mounted the T-Track on the “adjustable” fences instead of routing them flush here— I did this in order to NOT have to depend on just 1/4in of material to hold down the T-Track. This works fine and does NOT try to pull the T-Track away from what it is mounted to.

++ I added the second “main fence” T-track as recommended on Eagle Lake WW Improvements— I did, however, move the vertical facing T-Track down to mid-board as in the Stevin Marin video. I think that will work better in that position.

++ Added a second “round-over” piece to the push/pull handle— I had this left over from making a longer piece for my handle needs and decided to use the leftovers as well. In the second image you can see a lower round-over piece on the handle that I placed there to keep my thumb from migrating any closer/lower toward the blade than it needed to be. It seems to serve as a tactile reminder of where to keep my thumb when pushing/pulling the sled.

Oh, I almost forgot the most FUN that I had… I FINALLY joined the world of air tools with my first ever Ridgid #18 Finishing/Brad Nail Gun. Having never used one before, I was amazed at what I had been missing all these years… sounds stupid but wow! I now have that third hand that I never had before to hold things in place for gluing/screwing more sturdy joints. I only used the minimum amount of brads to hold but really, really, really wanted to just keep hammering away with this tool! 8-) Kind of felt like getting that driving license at 16 and the freedom and greater possibilities that that represented.

I will eventually add more images on my own website once my web hosting service repairs/resets their domain server, so stay tuned if interested.

-- HorizontalMike -- "Woodpeckers understand..."

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#1 posted 12-21-2011 01:44 AM

Man that is a “killer” sled. I love it!!

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#2 posted 12-21-2011 01:48 AM

Awesome SLED! I need one of these so bad!

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#3 posted 12-21-2011 02:02 AM

I feel the same way after every tool that I aquire . Will this need ever go away and will my beautiful better half ever understand the relationship I have with my tools? great table saw sled.

-- Bill Byron Center MI

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#4 posted 12-21-2011 02:08 AM

Should I finally build one of these or wait for someone to make it even more perfect? I guess I should order some T-track. Thanks for the great pictures and description.

-- Robert, so much inspiration here, and now time to work!!!

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#5 posted 12-21-2011 02:15 AM

Hey Robert,
I went through four 8-foot sticks of T-Track to build this sled AND my horizontal mortising machine. I have about 6in of T-Track left in four pieces. FYI, I think the sled took about one full 8ft stick PLUS ~6ft of the second stick. I actually had to salvage two 1ft pieces from a mistake I had made on the mortising machine earlier, but it worked out in the end. ;-)

-- HorizontalMike -- "Woodpeckers understand..."

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#6 posted 12-21-2011 02:25 AM

Mike, I have a hard time believing that you new to wood working, every ioen of your projects seems to be perfectly executed.
I have been thinking about building one of them for several years but I never really found a real need for one. I have a panel sled and a crosscut sled and it seems that this all I need for now.
Thank you for all the pictures and explanations.

-- Bert

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#7 posted 12-21-2011 02:38 AM

Very cool mike a sled on steroids,great job

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#8 posted 12-21-2011 02:42 AM

I think i need one of those.. Might start researching this myself.

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#9 posted 12-21-2011 03:35 AM

I’ve got a sled and a separate miter sled already but when I redo them in the near futuer I will use this as my starting point. Very nice! Thanks for the information and the links.

-- The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that our aim is too low and we reach it.. Michelangelo

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#10 posted 12-21-2011 04:25 AM

Awesome! I’ve got to build one of these and will take a close look at your improvements when I do. How are you storing yours?

-- Optimists are usually disappointed. Pessimists are either right or pleasantly surprised. I tend to be a disappointed pessimist.

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#11 posted 12-21-2011 04:32 AM

Great job, Mike. I knew you could do it! I routed T tracks instead of buying t track to save a few $ but otherwise our sleds are very similar. You will really enjoy this for a lot of years. Now that you have a brad nailer, you need to get a finish nailer and pin nailer to complete your set. They are fun and really useful for a lot of projects. An air sander and die grinder are next if you have the compressor capacity. I love my air tools. Have you made some test cuts to make sure your fence is dead square? Enjoy.

-- " I'll try to be nicer, if you'll try to be smarter" gfadvm

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#12 posted 12-21-2011 05:11 AM

Outstanding job on a great looking sled. You have outdone yourself.

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#13 posted 12-21-2011 05:24 AM

Looks like you did a great job! Nothing like a good sled to make those cuts easier!

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#14 posted 12-21-2011 05:45 AM

Very impressive… you might have a market for these!

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#15 posted 12-21-2011 05:48 AM

Talk about SWEET !!
First class project , HZMike : )

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They are 8×11”, numerous types of wood and all finished in lacquer.

-- Dee2, OH Aromatherapy....fresh cut wood!!

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#1 posted 03-02-2012 08:25 PM

Out Standing! Tell us about the process? I have in mind an intarsa sign for my shop. Your pieces have that wow factor that i imagined.

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#2 posted 03-02-2012 08:41 PM

Intarsia is assembling the carefully cut pieces after they have been fit together. I then begin the process of shaping each piece by using a rotary or spindle sander. Judy Gale Roberts (site is and Kathy Wise (site is have hundreds of patterns available from beginner to expert. This pattern I am not sure where it is from, it was in a packet with a router that I bought at an estate sale. I will admit…..I will cheat at times on the eyes. I will stack cut so I get a perfect fit!! If you make 2 they can be interchangeable. I also do spend some time choosing wood. I do like Philippine Mahogany or Lacewood for birds. Will post my hawk soon. If I do make my own pattern, I spend more time on the pattern than any other process.

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#3 posted 03-02-2012 08:47 PM

very nice!

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#4 posted 03-02-2012 10:04 PM

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#5 posted 03-03-2012 05:21 AM

These are very cool birds, your choice of wood is great, I guess it pays to spend a little more time when choosing spieces.

-- Martin ....always count the number of fingers you have before, and after using the saw.

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#6 posted 03-03-2012 01:02 PM

very beautiful. Eagles are no. 1 in my book. all very awesome

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#7 posted 03-03-2012 01:14 PM

These are all very nice and you did a fine job on them.

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#8 posted 03-03-2012 09:13 PM

Very nicely done Dee2. They are beautiful. Bald Eagle is my most favorite bird and I’m at the planning stage of carving a life size one. That’s why I started by carving a Canada Goose which I am close to finish. I just finished carving water ripples on the base board; just need to arrange the cattails to make the scene little more realistic. I am hoping that I would have the eagle finished this year.

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Love From Before (Amor De Antes)

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Love From Before

(Hahaha, Amaro, Plan B, Woah, Real G4 Life, baby
Wuu...I used to wander around when I remembered you...Eyy Love...remembered you...Lalalalalala)
I recognise you
I've seen you before
I know who you are
Tell me if I'm right
You walk through my memories
If you were to help me
It'd be easier for me to figure out
If there was something between you and me
Or if it was just simply a friendship
Sorry, I'm not sure of your name
Or all that could've happened
To me you look like someone
Who I tried to look for a long time ago
Na, na, na, na
I used to wander around when I remembered you
na, na, na, naaaa
ouoo yei yee (2X)
You're that friend of Julieta's and Roxana's
Amaro introduced us at your sister's birthday
I was the one who was looking at you, the boy who wanted you
And you just an inexperienced girl
But as the night went on and the drink flowed more freely1
Whilst everyone was enjoying themselves, you escaped with me
Now I remember you repeating that you liked it
Scared, in case your parents came to look for you
For a kiss, we went far way from the house
I gave you my number, but I didn't get a call...
I've not seen you for a long time
But I still want you
You don't lose [anything] if you try
I'm in such a bad way, no offence (but)
It's just that my memory doesn't remember
It's a love since childhood
We can enjoy it now that we're adults
(Now, there's no mercy)
Don't complain to me anymore and we're going to do it
People are saying that soon the world is going to end (hahaha!)
I tried to look for you and I never knew
(Anything) about you, I don't know what happened, I had no luck then
Sorry if in passing I don't remember you
You're all grown up baby, a long time has passed
To become mine since that day
Baby you left me in agony
I'm still mad for you
M-ad, to give you the punishment that you asked for
It's a pleasure to see you again
When I saw you, I thought whether it was you or not
You're pretty, you're beautiful
And smelling of Chanel (Amaro)
And who would've known2 that I'd find you again
I ended up loving a woman
I want to finish what I never ended
Kissing your skin...
You're love from before
Ashes of yesterday
You're fire from the past
That burns me again (2X)
I recognise you
I've seen you before
I know who you are
Tell me if I'm right
You walk through my memories
El Plan B
Amaro (Soou)
I used to wander around when I remembered you
(Na, na, na, na) Plan B (yo!)
Ñengo Flow (Real G4 Life)
Ey! (Slim like El Haze)
La society muy fuerte Durán “The Coach”3
(Tell me Chencho)
I hang around with the people from the New Generation:
Amaro, Ñengo Flow
The society that weighs the most4Pina Records
(Love and Sex) (hahaha)
Coming Soon
  • 1. lit. increased
  • 2. lit. said
  • 3. not a clue what this means...
  • 4. not sure about this...
Postat de Vimto12 la Joi, 16/05/2013 - 15:44
Last edited by Vimto12 on Marţi, 13/08/2013 - 15:12
Clasificarea ta: Nimic Average: 5 (1 vote)

Amor De Antes

Mai multe traduceri ale cântecului „Amor De Antes”
Spaniolă → Engleză - Vimto12
Amaro: Top 3
ArenaL5    May 26th, 2013

Whoa... you did it again. This is a book.

Very few comments in a first reading:

·I've really no clue about what "Ya no me reclame" means, but it looks like "Don't you complain me anymore" (maybe the reclame is a sloppily pronounced "reclames")

·I think you don't need "[The]", in "[the]" ashes of yesterday. It'd be great if you could get rid of "[a]" in the line above, but I don't know how.
There possibly are some other words that you could scrap to make lines shorter, but I can't judge that.

Actually, that's it. I can't find anything else. The part about "loco" translated as "mad" caught my attention as a literal translation... but possibly a liberal translation would make it different, not better. ("estoy loco por ti" it's really common in Spanish, used always "I'm head over heels for you". I guess you knew that, though)

So... there. Five stars, I can't really comment on this. For the verse at the end, it could as well be in Greek hahaha
'La society muy fuerte Durán "The Coach"' is very likely an in-joke with no real meaning, and "The society that weighs the most" could either be the most important, or the biggest, or the most influential... or anything, really. Maybe it doesn't even have a correct translation or it, not without the backstory at least.

This must be the most unhelpful rant ever. xD

Vimto12    May 26th, 2013

Oh this song made me cringe so much while I was translating it, I was almost tempted to stop halfway xD I enjoyed translating Nach much more...

- I think you're right about the 'reclame' bit, it makes more sense
- I don't even know why I put the 'the' there in the first place, it's gone now
- I can't think of a way to get rid of the 'a' so it can stay
- I can't bear to proofread this so the lines can stay as they are Tongue smile
- You can say 'I'm mad for you' to mean 'I'm head over heels for you' too, anyhow translating it literally was the least problematic way of translating it imo
- your rant was scintillating xD

Vimto12    August 13th, 2013

I finall got round to proofreading this properly xD

It'd be great if you could get rid of "[a]" in the line above, but I don't know how.

it's gone now, maybe there's a subtle difference in meaning but I can live with that


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Official Music Video of Ciara's 'Gimmie Dat' Arrives in Full

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"Hey my sweet fans! I am aware that there is an unfinished version of my video that is out right now. As u guys know I always want everything to be as perfect as possible when I share it with you, so something like this is very unfortunate!" she tweeted.

"However I refuse to let this steal my joy and excitement! I am very proud of this video, and I worked hard on this for you guys!:) I know the premiere was supposed to happen tomorrow! Because of this I'm going to give it to you early!!"

"Gimmie Dat" will likely make the cut on Ciara's upcoming fourth studio album "" which is expected to come out later this year. Music video for the single features her grinding on her hips and showing off every moves from energetic to slow, suggestive ones.

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The Chikorita Challenge

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The Chikorita Challenge
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ISBN: 0439221137
Published: June 2001
Publisher: Scholastic
Author: Tracey West
Preceded By: Battle for the Zephyr Badge
Succeeded By: All Fired Up

The Chikorita Challenge by Tracey West is the twenty-first book of the adaption of the Pokémon anime. It was published by Scholastic.

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This book follows the plots of the anime episodes The Double Trouble Header , The Chikorita Rescue, and Chikorita's Big Upset.

Ash thinks it's cool that Chikorita has joined his Pokémon team. But the newest member of the Pokémon posse is jealous of Pikachu. So the ticked-off Chikorita takes off - on a journey way beyond the Poké Ball. And that could get very dangerous.

Major Events

Human debuts

Pokémon debuts

  • Rattata is referred to as a furry brown rat when Rattata are normally purple. However, in Generation II, a Shiny Rattata was brown.
  • Chikorita is referred to as a yellow leaf Pokémon when Chikorita are normally green. However, Shiny Chikorita are yellow.
  • Heracross is described as having shiny brown armor although Heracross are normally Blue.
  • In the first battle between Ash and Casey, when Casey sends out Pidgey, Ash says he remembers when he caught his first Pidgey, but Ash caught a Pidgeotto, not a Pidgey.

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Gonzales hampered by forearm soreness

VIERA, Fla. -- Marco Gonzales, the Cardinals' top pick from the 2013 First-Year Player Draft, won't pitch again in Grapefruit League play after having a recent setback with left forearm soreness.

Manager Mike Matheny revealed the issue on Sunday when asked about Gonzales' lack of game exposure since Feb. 28. Matheny said Gonzales notified the club of some discomfort in the days after that 1 2/3-inning outing and was subsequently shut down.

An MRI taken of Gonzales' elbow revealed no structural damage and he has resumed playing catch. Gonzales expects to be throwing off the mound again this week, but he'll be doing it in Minor League camp. Matheny said the Cardinals will send him out, most likely on Monday, so that Gonzales can complete his spring program where there will be more opportunities to pitch.

Gonzales, 22, allowed two runs on two hits and three walks in his only appearance for the Cardinals this spring. He finished his first professional season with four starts in Class A Advanced Palm Beach last summer and is a strong candidate to open this year in that same rotation.

Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, By Gosh, It's Langosch, and follow her on Twitter @LangoschMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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You can’t say we weren’t warned. In the months and years before the 2008 financial meltdown, economic prophets saw trouble ahead. At first they politely begged to differ with the conventional wisdom that good times would roll on and on. Eventually, they were shouting from the rooftops.

As early as 1998, Brooksley Born of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission cautioned that financial derivatives were out of control. Throughout the early 2000s, William White of the Bank for International Settlements repeatedly advised central bankers (most directly in 2003 with Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan in the audience) that lax monetary policies and poor oversight were generating dangerous asset bubbles.

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In 2003, Robert Shiller cautioned that the housing market was irrationally exuberant. Two years later, Nouriel Roubini said a devastating real estate bust was coming. That same year, Raghuram Rajan of the International Monetary Fund raised his voice about risky financial innovations. By then even Mr. Greenspan, the architect of the easy-money policies widely associated with the crash, was telling Congress he was worried, but his worry was the massive mortgage-backed securities trade fostered by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

By 2007 alarms were going off everywhere. Nassim Taleb said interconnected global finance was the “black swan” that could herald a once-in-a-lifetime meltdown. Sheila Bair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation raised red flags about subprime lending. CNBC’s Jim Cramer ranted (he likes to rant) that the Fed needed to wake up.

Then came the crash. In a Monitor cover story, Mark Trumbull revisits September ’08, interviews key players, and extracts five lessons from that harrowing – and still reverberating – event.

The pre-2008 warning was clear. How could we have missed it? “Everybody missed it,” Greenspan observed in 2010, “academia, the Federal Reserve, all regulators.” Which was not quite accurate. Everybody who could have done something missed it.

The problem with prophets is that, by definition, they don’t have standing. They are marginal characters, voices crying in the wilderness. Most of the time they predict apocalypses that never take place and days of reckoning that never dawn. We chuckle and call them Chicken Little or Dr. Doom. But when we slam into a brick wall, as happened in ’08, we wonder why we didn’t listen.

We don’t listen because most of us are convinced that the bubbles we live in – bubbles of sunshine or gloom – will last forever. But they don’t. Change is always around the corner.

This is where prophets come in. They burst our mental bubbles before hard reality does. But because we can’t be sure who is worth heeding and who is just ranting, it is probably best to adopt the prudent policy of the biblical Joseph, who prophesied about the future of the economy he was managing: Realize you are always in a bubble. And prepare for what comes next.

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Abby Sunderland "in awe" of rescue; thought rescue might take weeks

Teen sailor Abby Sunderland thought her rescue might have taken a few weeks.

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French fishing vessel Ile De La Reunion rescuing American Abby Sunderland from her vessel "Wild Eyes" in the Indian Ocean after Australia scrambled a chartered passenger jet from Perth to scour seas some 2,300 miles distant, roughly halfway to mainland Africa.

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Abby Sunderland, who was plucked from her disabled sailboat in the turbulent southern Indian Ocean, said Sunday she is in awe of the effort to rescue her and thought it might take much longer before she was saved.

Writing on her blog, Abby Sunderland said she had only hoped for a ship to pass her by within a few weeks.

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Instead, a coordinated international response was launched to find the 16-year-old. A French fishing vessel rescued her more than 2,000 miles west of Australia on Saturday, three days after she set off her emergency beacons.

"Everyone on board has been really friendly," she wrote. "They have come a long way out of their way to help me and I am so thankful that they did."

Sunderland's boat, Wild Eyes, was disabled when a wave smashed down its mast and knocked out her satellite communications.

She set out from Marina del Rey on the Los Angeles County coast on Jan. 23, trying to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo and nonstop.

Soon after starting her trip, Sunderland ran into equipment problems and had to stop for repairs. She gave up the goal of setting the record in April, but hoped to complete the journey.

Zac Sunderland, her brother, held the record briefly last year until Briton Mike Perham completed his own journey. The record changed hands last month when 16-year-old Australian Jessica Watson completed her own around-the-world voyage.

Sunderland had been keeping in contact with her parents and support team by satellite phone during the voyage. Early Thursday she reported her yacht was being tossed by 30-foot (9-meter) waves — as tall as a 3-story building. An hour after her last call ended Thursday, her emergency beacons began signaling.

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Rescuers in a chartered jet flew from Australia's west coast and spotted Sunderland's boat on Thursday. She was able to radio to the plane to say she was in good health and had plenty of food supplies.

Sunderland spoke with her parents for about 20 minutes after her rescue Saturday

"She sounded tired, a little bit small in her voice, but she was able to make jokes and she was looking forward to getting some sleep," her mother, Marianne Sunderland, told reporters outside the family home northwest of Los Angeles.

Sunderland will leave the French fishing boat in about two days to board a maritime patrol boat that will take her to Reunion Island, according to a statement from the office of the French Indian Ocean island's top official. The transfer will take place off the Kerguelen Islands, with the exact timing depending on weather and ocean conditions.

Authorities said Sunderland likely would not arrive in Reunion for at least a week.

Marianne Sunderland said her daughter was relieved to be off her boat, but it was difficult to abandon it.

"When you're on a boat like Abby has been and so closely related to that boat for your everyday existence you become very close to it," she said. "She had to leave Wild Eyes in the middle of the ocean and that's been hard for her."

Sunderland also said on her blog Sunday that she has started writing about her adventures, possibly for a book.

"I started to think about all the good times Wild Eyes and I have had together," she wrote. "All that's left of the voyage of Wild Eyes are my memories, eventually they will get fuzzy and I won't remember all the details. I don't want that to happen."

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Touted as able to track faces, the webcam on one of Hewlett-Packard's MediaSmart computers runs into trouble when a black face enters its field of vision. Instead of tracking a subject as they move around the room, it locks into its default position. Enter a white person, and the camera jumps to life, panning, zooming, and focusing on her face. It was all captured on video and uploaded to YouTube.

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The difference is clear as day, and no-doubt embarrassing to the company. Panic time at HP?

Not really. Despite the video being viewed over 300,000 times and reposted to countless sites, HP kept its cool. In a blog post addressing the video (and providing a link to it) HP's Tony Welch thanked Desi and Wanda, the video's creators, and promised that he and the team at HP were looking into why the camera was behaving the way it was. "The technology we use is built on standard algorithms that measure the difference in intensity of contrast between the eyes and the upper cheek and nose," he said. "We believe that the camera might have difficulty 'seeing' contrast in conditions where there is insufficient foreground lighting," he added, and suggested users visit a facial tracking help page.

While 'Desi's" experience is unfortunate, and face tracking feels like a gimmick now, the whole episode carries a lesson for programmers as nontraditional interfaces come into the mainstream.

New paradigm, new challenges

The Nintendo Wii, with its innovative motion remote, introduced many to a new way of controlling an onscreen experience. The iPhone and iPod Touch helped bring the "multi-touch" interface of pinches and flicks into the tech vernacular. Both take some getting used to, (just as the keyboard did when users first sat down to type "The quick, brown fox jumps over the lazy dog") but most users are able to pick them up fairly quickly, even without prior gaming or technological experience. More importantly, people could manipulate the new tools regardless of how they looked.

Now, a new range of game controllers and input devices completely does away with buttons, remotes, and control sticks. Microsoft's "Natal," tentatively slated for release in late 2010, uses just a series of cameras and sensors to capture a user's movements and translate them into onscreen actions. Natal could be a firecracker or a flop, but in light of HP's very public webcam episode, its designers should make sure that Natal works with people of all skin colors, wearing whatever they like.

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Hall of Famer Feller has pacemaker installed

CLEVELAND -- Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller, already going through leukemia treatments, is also dealing with a heart issue that has landed him in the Cleveland Clinic.

Feller, 91, had a pacemaker installed last week to regulate his heartbeat, according to a close family friend. Feller is said to be resting comfortably and is hopeful of a release from the hospital later this week.

It has been a difficult couple of months for the usually indefatigable Feller, who was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in August and has been receiving regular chemotherapy treatments. He also had a bout with vertigo. The family friend, who wished to remain anonymous, said Feller fainted while getting treatment for the vertigo and his heart stopped for 20 seconds.

Feller is reportedly in good spirits and keeping tabs on his beloved Indians on TV.

Over 18 seasons with the Indians between 1936 and 1956, Feller compiled a 266-162 record, setting the team record for victories. He led the American League in strikeouts seven times, was an eight-time All-Star, pitched three no-hitters -- including the only Opening Day no-hitter in history -- and 12 one-hitters. He missed three years of his prime while serving in the Navy during World War II.

Feller was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1962. He is the third-oldest living member of the Hall and the longest-tenured living member.

Anthony Castrovince is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, CastroTurf. Follow @castrovince on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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RECREATION | | Skate With Santa

Although many indoor rinks offer ice skating year round, the activity feels more festive and appropriate around the holidays. Enjoy the spirit of the season on Saturday, December 22, at Genesee Valley Park Sports Complex's "Skate with Santa" event. In the last few days leading to Christmas, what better way to get excited for his arrival on Christmas Eve than by meeting him beforehand for some friendly interaction on the ice? Moving around a bit will also probably diffuse some of the excited and nervous energy for some of the younger visitors, which will help everyone enjoy the holidays with more ease.

Santa will arrive at 5 p.m. and stay until 6:15 p.m. The event costs $2 for those 17 and under, $2.50 for college students, $5 for adults, and there is a family rate of $14. Skate rentals cost $3. The rink is located at 131 Elmwood Ave. For more information call 428-7889 or visit

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Timeless Tables

A chance meeting with Timothy Jenkins, the managing director of John Jenkins & Sons, a 100-year-old British crystal manufacturer, led to the realization of Yeoward's aspirations. Both men shared a passion for 18th - and 19th-century crystal and wished these pieces could be made again.

"I met with Tim Jenkins … and said, 'Wouldn't it be interesting to make a wineglass with a square foot?'" Yeoward recalls. "… He took one of my favorite wineglasses away and made one. Then I said, 'Now let's make all the different sizes, and we can have a party.'"

In the fall of 1995, the 80-piece William Yeoward Crystal collection made its debut. Today, the collection encompasses more than 600 pieces of hand-cut, handblown crystal inspired by 18th and 19th century English, Irish and American designs. Unusual details such as lemon squeezer feet, hollow stems, glasses with polished cutting combined with copper wheel engraving, and rare and beautiful shapes characterize the collection. All pieces are functional. "I don't like to do things that are just prissy," Yeoward says. Two years ago, he launched his own line of similarly inspired sterling silver flatware, and just this summer introduced a collection of vibrant porcelain tableware.

On Oct. 25, Yeoward was the featured speaker at The Friends of Art Crystal Anniversary Celebration at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The event, sponsored by Schwarzschild Jewelers, included a display of tablescapes using Yeoward's crystal silver and china, as well as other china available at the store, designed by Richmond interior design firms: Andrews Designs, Janet Brown Interiors, Tyler Fonville Designs, Martin Interiors, Riggs & Co. Interiors, Nita Enoch Interiors, Margaret McElroy Designs and Gary Inman Interiors. Yeoward also made a personal appearance at Schwarzschild Jewelers Regency Square store during his visit.

"I find that it's very important to be able to meet the people who buy the pieces that I design," he says. "I think it gives me a better understanding of why people like my work."

He says he has been "completely staggered" by the response to his crystal collection. "I wasn't expecting such enthusiasm," he says. "It made me realize that the little germ of an idea I had when I started was, in fact, the reality of the situation — people did see what I was getting at."

Though Yeoward's designs are inspired by the past, they are also thoroughly contemporary in feel. The designer says it just shows that good design is timeless. "Contemporary design should also be referenced to traditional work," he says. "I like to think all my work has that hallmark."

For instance, his new dinner service looks to the 18th and 19th centuries for inspiration, but the colors are pure 21st century. "What I love to see is color on the table at the moment," he says. "We made very hot-colored stippled plates as chargers and for dessert — sky blue, orange, magenta, apple green. We will be setting the table in quite a traditional way, but will be using the accents of modern groupings of color to give it excitement."

Yeoward likes to set the contemporary dining room table in his London apartment with his more traditional designs and use his more modern pieces on his George II table in his country house in Gloucestershire, England. "I like juxtapositions like that," he says. "I think it all has to relate. I think what you should do with good design is take people on a wonderful journey."

Yeoward says he also tries to address different types of lifestyles in his collections. In other words, fine tableware isn't just for fine dining. "I have two different lifestyles," he says. "In London I am quite formal. In the country it is very casual. I try to offer both opportunities with the collections. … I try to give everybody the opportunity to decide how they want to live, from plain and casual to decorated and ornate."

No matter what style you choose, the most important thing is to bring out your beautiful things and put them to use.

Yeoward entertains frequently, often once a week when he is living in London. "I think it's fabulous getting people around," he says. "I like to keep an interesting table of different people. I think the way people react when they come together is they fall into the atmosphere you create for them." HS

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Saturday, July 06, 2013

Night Mode Suggestion

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Summary of the proposed feature:

I suggest that you add a system Setting called "Night Mode." Night Mode would set the UI background from white to black or dark grey, and would set Dynamic Text to be white or a user-definable, easy-on-the-eyes color (perhaps "terminal green" or a pleasing off-white tone). Unlike "Invert Colors," Night Mode would not affect the color of tinted UIButtons, photos, webpages, app icons, etc., improving consistency across the interface.

There is already something like "Night Mode" in Maps app. Maps automatically sets to a dark color scheme based on the time of day. This obviously improves clarity at night, in deference to drivers who are depending on their night vision for safety reasons.

My suggestion is that we, the users and developers, should be able to have a night color scheme in all apps, not just Maps. Night Mode would be able to be set to automatically trigger based on ambient lighting, display brightness level, time of day, or to manually trigger based on a toggle. Developers should be able to make a "night" version of their app's UI that would automatically activate when system is set to night mode if their app is made to support that.

I would even go as far as to say that you should call this "Dynamic UI," to go along with Dynamic Text. Developers would be able to implement Dynamic UI elements into their apps so that when the user changes to Night Mode then all apps that support Dynamic UI would adapt automatically to this.

Summary of the current problem:

iOS 7 contains lots of white space. This is great during daylight hours, especially in direct sunlight, where it improves readability. However, lots of white space is NOT great at night or in a dark room, like a movie theater, concert, a car at night, bedroom, studio, etc. In these dark settings, lots of white pixels induce the opposite effect from what you intend. White will not lend the "calming" effect your HI guidelines suggest it ought to have.

Rather, a white screen disrupts night-vision, interferes with melatonin production in the brain, and increases eye strain. Numerous medical studies (I can provide links if you want) have shown that white screens can disrupt sleep cycles by stimulating the same optic cells that get stimulated by the blue wavelengths from the sun. One study even showed this had a negative impact on cognitive function. I find that even on minimum brightness, the white is still very annoying at night.

Inadequacy of Current Solutions:

The existing solutions to this are not adequate. Below I explain why reduction of display brightness, and invert colors, are both not adequate to resolve this problem, due to how they violate the iOS 7 HI guidelines.

Why Reducing Display Brightness is Inadequate:

If the user sets their device to the minimum brightness, in my experience even then, it's too bright if you're in a dark room. I often find that by having to lower my brightness to reduce eye strain from white areas, now my photos and other app content all appears too dark. This means that all the white in the interface actually competes with user content in dark settings, violating the HI guidelines of "clarity" and "deference."

Why Invert Colors is Inadequate:

Currently the only option to avoid the white background of iOS 7 is the "invert colors" control, but that also breaks iOS 7's "deference" HI guideline by affecting all app content, such as photos and web pages, not just the white background. It also affects the background image of the home screen and all the app icons, making the system feel unfamiliar. I would say that "invert colors" also makes the system less clear by changing how icons appear and making all the system colors backwards, breaking the "clarity" HI guideline also.

Therefore I suggest that you add the "Night Mode" feature, as described above. I think this would go a long way to quieting any criticism people may have of iOS. If it's too bright and white for them, they can go with the dark look. I think even those people who criticize the whiteness of it will find that in bright conditions, it's better that way, so having the option to set it to light or dark based on the environment and user comfort leve would be ideal. With such an option I think iOS 7 will be much better received by the public. Half the time or more, we're in the dark. Please don't blind us.

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When I first saw a FlexDraper®, my first thought was who’d want that? I remembered the old combines with canvas feed from the 60s and how sand and dirt would get between the canvas and the cylinder. When that happened it wouldn’t turn and you would have to get out and pull the belt to get it going. But MacDon has solved all that; they’ve made so many improvements that you just can’t imagine how much better the FD70s are over an auger. FlexDrapers feed so evenly you don’t get the big wads like you do with an auger. You can get extra time in the morning when it’s really tough cutting conditions and at night when things are tough. When it moistures up you can still cut through it. I can cut at least four more hours a day with it than I can with an auger. In fact the conditions round here were so tough this year that neighbours broke augers on green beans; but we had no problem. If you’re still cutting beans with an auger, you owe it to yourself to try a MacDon FlexDraper®. I have a neighbour who finally bought one after I’ve been telling him that he needed one for three or four years. He couldn’t imagine what the difference was until he got one and saw it with his own eyes. You basically have to see it to believe it.

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Starting School: Four Strategies for Helping with Separation Anxiety and Settling In

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First day at school pictures seem to fill family photo albums. These images capture the significance of the ‘going-back-to-school’ ritual, a celebration of a key milestone in a child’s life. Despite excitement, there is usually apprehension in both kids and parents but if we are to help them we need to consider this transition through their emotions. The biggest factor driving much of their reaction and experience is separation anxiety. Children are creatures of attachment and when separated from those they are connected to, the alarm system in their brain starts to make a lot of noise. They can become anxious and scared because the people they lean against, feel secure, and are at home with, are disappearing and leaving them behind. It is a compliment to your relationship when a child misses you – in fact – it was actually nature’s intention. Fortunately, there are many ways to help reduce a child’s separation anxiety and help them adjust to their new school surroundings.

  1. Become a Match-Maker

As parents we entrust our children to people who are educated, have good facilities, and interesting curriculum but what matters most is whether the teacher has our child’s heart. The whole idea behind gradual entry into school for young children has less to do with touring the facilities and more about fostering relationships with the adults in charge. Our kids care little about credentials and more about whether they can trust someone to take care of them. The research consistently demonstrates that if a child does not rest in a teacher’s care and feel at home they will struggle to learn from them.

When we lived in villages of attachment, children were cared for by people they already knew. Today we do not have the luxury of these prior relationships. We must cultivate these relationships and busy ourselves with introductions and matchmaking between teacher and child. We can do this in a number of ways, from pointing out similarities to helping them smile and connect with one another. Research from educational psychology demonstrates that a strong attachment to one’s teacher actually enhances school success, is related to higher grades, better emotional regulation and a willingness to take on challenges. Matchmaking to other children in an effort to have them settle into their new surroundings will only court peer attachment rather than the strong adult attachments they need to rely on.

2. Bridge the Gap

The second strategy is to help the child hold onto you when you are separated. This could include giving them a locket, a picture of you, a note in the lunchbox – anything that conveys to them you are still there even though apart. When saying goodbye to the child focus on the return and what you will do when you see them again. You may remind them that you will make cookies after school or read a story together or simply just give them a big hug. In saying good-bye to your child you want to make it easy for them to leave you and this means helping them realize all the ways you are still connected.

3. Deepen Your Attachment

Deepening the relationship with our children provides them with a secure base from which to spring forth into their new surroundings and adjust. The deeper the attachment with parents, the more they are able to withstand separation because they have more ways to keep a parent close, from being the same, feeling significant to them, to a sense of love and being known. The goal is not to practice at separation but rather to deepen the attachment so that the distance between you is bridged by your deeper relationship. Attachment research demonstrates how the expression of delight, enjoyment and warmth builds strong relationships. Building and protecting our attachments with children whether that be collecting them in the morning or sharing secrets before bedtime can go far in helping them feel connected and cared for despite the separations they face.

4. Watch and Wait

As parents we remain watchful from our sideline position, waiting for things to unfold and for our children to settle into school. Signs to pay attention to include elevated levels of anxiety, frustration, an overreliance on peers, a dislike for their teacher, and a numbing of emotions where they no longer talk about what distresses them. These signs warrant a closer examination of how a child is weathering the transition to school and the challenges they are facing.

Change and new beginnings are part of life. September school transitions quickly turn in to waving goodbye to a university bound young teen. Helping our children by matchmaking, bridging the separation, and deepening our relationship may seem small in the grand scheme of things but is a big deal in their world. The goal is to guide them through their transition while they feel attached to us and to their teachers. When they can take for granted the adults in their life will take care of them, they will be free to focus on what it is that they need to do most – to play, to learn, and to grow.

Dr. Deborah MacNamara is a counsellor and founder Kid’s Best Bet, Counselling and Family Resource Centre, on faculty at the Neufeld Institute, and author of Rest, Play, Grow: Making Sense of Preschoolers (or anyone who acts like one). She works with parents, educators, child-care and mental health professionals in making sense of kids from the inside out. See or for more information.


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The best of 2012: The products to have!

I've tried to find some products, are must haves. One's that stand out from the rest. So I've tried to limit to one item per section.

Here's my best of 2012.

Review: Bourjois Healthy mix foundation
Bourjois Healthy Mix foundation. An amazing medium coverage foundation that leaves a demi matte finish but doesn't dry out the skin.

I've never really mentioned this mascara before on the blog. It made a brief appearance in one of my make up looks. It's my first product from the brand UNE and I quite like the mascara. I felt it was lengthening more so than a voluminous look. Gives great definition.

Review: Rimmel Wake me up concealer
Rimmels wake me up concealer is really good for under the eyes and for some blemishes. Wakens up your look (hence the name) and lasts for up to 12 hour shifts!

The only reason why I don't like MSF as of this morning
If you read my blog regularly you might have noticed my little rants about MAC's MSF (mineralise skin finish). Of course the only curse about this product is the packaging. But great powder and you don't feel too cakey!

Eye shadow primer

Having oily eye lids is no fun at all. Thanks to primers, especially urban decays one, I can actually wear eyeshadow with no worries of it creasing and smudging away. Of course they come in different shades but i only have the original one.

Eye Shadow

Got delivery today it was rather naked

The Urban Decay Naked series is only gorgeous. The neutral palettes allow for make up looks to suit all occasions. The Naked 1 palette is a more warm toned neutrals while Naked 2 offers cooler toned shadows. Great pigmentation with countless looks. You can mix the two palettes together to even get more looks.

Brow product

I've done a post before on what I fill my brows in with. Catrice is one that I've discovered since in "Starlight Espresso". It's perfect for my brows and it's quite cheap which is always an added bonus! I go between catrice and clinique instant brow lift.  Both great products.

Eye liners

How to: Big Bright Beautiful Eyes
Benefit's eye bright is a pale pink liner that I love to use on the water line.

Bourjois blushes are amazing value. I've only two of their blushes in similar shades - different finishes. Handy little pot to add a little colour to your cheeks.

My first and only NARS cheek product so far. This I suppse is technically a blush but the colour payoff is minimal but the highlight is gorgeous. It has a very slight shimmer that makes the skin appear to be glowing.

You all know how much I love Real Techniques

It's not anything new that I love Real Techniques brushes. But the buffering brush is the brush to have for foundation application in my opinion.

I love the sigma brushes for appling foundation, my favourite is the F80, flat top brush.

Lash curlers

It's something I won't do if I'm in a rush. But a must for a night out. Want to hear something funny? I only really need to curl one eye (my left one). These come with a replaceable silicone pad. And guess who can't find theirs? I wonder if Shu Uemura has ones to buy as replacements I really doubt it.

Cleansing products

I've been loving hot cloth cleansers lately. I'm in the middle of using my Soap and Glory one.

I'm loving the muslin clothes with these cleansers. My skin feels amazing after! The only thing about these cleansers is I don't like to use these for removing eye make up....because the cloths end up ruined! But what I do like to use to remove my eye make up is Bio Derma!

I seriously love this product. (Yes, I've the 500mls container). When I was in Nantes I purchased this. And well I got one for my friend Emma in work, one for mum (she doesn't know what Bio Derma is, but she thinks "it's grand", my visiting aunt loves it!) and I also got 2 for me. Yes, I got 2 litres of the stuff, first thing in the morning and had carried it around for a few hours. I know, silly Celeste.

So these are my favourites of 2012. What are yours?

Thanks for stopping by :)
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3rd April 2010 - Back from the dead...well, the mildly ill

It’s been 2 months since my last blog - what a slacker! In my defence I was laid up with laryngitis for about a month of that so there’s not been much in the way of progress recently on the album. I also played a one-off concert a couple of weeks ago so most of my efforts were focused on that for a while. Thought for one awful moment I would have to cancel it as I was still croaking barely one octave just a few days beforehand but lots of honey & lemon and a stiff dose of whiskey on the night got me through! The gig went really well, it’s a fave venue of mine and the audience was great. I plan to arrange many more like it once the album is released so if any of you want to recommend a great venue or a part of the country you’d like me and Katherine (my fab cellist) to visit then let me know and we’ll see what we can do…
Actually, the concert provided me with the chance to try out some of the new songs and to experiment with adding some triggered backing to flesh out the songs. I’ve always felt it’s been a bit of a drawback that I’ve not been able to recreate the kind of arrangements live that I create in the studio. I know this is a bit of a debate amongst musical types: should the live sound reflect the recorded and vice versa? Does an audience want to hear an exact replica or something more ‘real’? Are backing tracks masking songs or performances that aren’t up to it live? Then you get into the arguments about real versus electronic instruments.
For me, I’ve always felt that recording a song is my opportunity to create the ultimate version, to do all the things that couldn’t possibly be done live. It does depend on the song of course, some songs work best with a simple arrangement and instrumentation but it’s nice to add texture and colour and complexity and if you can, why not? A lot of my recorded songs feature a lot of backing vocals - I can’t recreate this on stage but does that mean I shouldn’t do it in a recording? Also as an independent artist I don’t always have the access or the means to employ lots of musicians on a tour so it’s either strip it down and work with what you have or make use of the software available to recreate what isn’t there. I realise I’m about 20 years behind everyone else in this but I’m beginning to tinker with the possibilities that Logic is opening up for me. It’s very exciting.
What do you guys think? Do you want artists to sound like their recordings or do you prefer it simple and acoustic? Be really interested to hear what you think…

26th May 2010 - The Fine Art of Procrastination

5th May 2010 - Inspiration

10th February 2010 - Building a den in my house

29th January 2010 - The Tardis

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Friday, April 23, 2010

Touching Base....

Well, I have no pics today, but that doesnt mean I have been idle. I have had abusy week doing the normal mundane stuff..... ie ironing, vacuuming, etc. But took Friday off to do some sewing, by now, my family knows Friday is sewing day, so leave me be... LOL. Doesnt mean they do, but yesterday I achieved from wo to nearly go a swap project for a group I am on..... As Naomi, and Khris may pop by and check my blog, I can not show the project in question as it MAY be for one of them... LOL......
I will take photos however of the cats I am making, just need to wait for the clouds to clear so I can get some good light. The cats are not quite finished, have more painting to do yet, and need to give them faces.... faces always scare me...... but will give it ago soon..... so as they are WIPs, I will try get a photo of the progress.
Home life is giving me the irates at the moment, so it is good that I can occasionally hide away and lose myself in my crafting, I am sure you all know what this is like.
Well, thats it for now, off to the grocery store to buy some food.... boring!!!!! But as there are extra kids here tonight, being Saturday, I guess I should have some food for them. Cleaned the fridge this mornign and the old mother hubbard would be proud.... it is BARE!!!
Have a GREAT weekend everybodeeeeee

  1. Darn it, popped over for a squizz at your "mystery" project, but alas, you're holding out on us....lmao And the pics of the cats are???? lol Hugs Naomi

  2. ohhh you party could have just shown a sneak peak or Khris

  3. LOL,,,, sorry gals... you will have to wait til later in the year... hahaha.


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Peach Cobbler

Today I strolled around the house wearing white and pretending to be from the South.  I was the only one home you see, and the front door was open so the sun could stream in and the smells of cobbler baking stream out.  I felt like everything was just so homey, with our sweet iced tea still cooling next to me as I peeled peaches.  In some ways, I wish all of summer could be like today, but I know if it was I’d be wishing fervently that I’d actually accomplished something at the end.

I’ve been trying to figure out what I should do this summer.  Ideas come and go and I’m beginning to realize that from now on my summer isn’t going to be so free to make peach cobblers and sit around.  But having something steady to work for or towards will give me a purpose (and perhaps make me more appealing to colleges).

Sitting at the bottom of our fridge have been these peaches, and I originally thought them far too soft to hold up under lots of heat.  Turned out, I had tested the same one multiple times and the rest were pretty firm.  So, I made this.  The biscuit dough was supposed to be made with whole-milk yogurt, but I had none and added sour milk plus a tablespoon of cornmeal instead.  Adding xantham gum proved a less worthy idea, as the biscuits were just very slightly gummy, though it might have had to do with my milk for yogurt substitution.  I also added two grated apples because I was cooking it in a pan that made the overall fruit content look quite meager and didn’t drain off any of the peach juices even after I let them sit for twenty-five minutes in the sugar.

All in all though, it was delicious.  I made a blueberry cobbler last summer from this same cookbook and it was fantastic as well as being gluten-free then too.  Maybe later I’ll share that one with you, but for now you can try out this cobbler, which has a bright peachy flavor like the essence of summer.

Gluten-free Peach Cobbler
Adapted from The New Best Recipe

So, depending on how juicy you want this to be, I assume you could add in some peach juice or orange juice to accomplish that.  I feel like water might dull it somehow, though perhaps adding orange juice would do the same.

6-7 medium sized peaches (I used eight because I figured they were on the small side)
1/4 cup sugar
1 Tablespoon lemon juice
1 tsp. cornstarch
2 golden delicious apples, peeled, grated, and squeezed of most liquid (If you want a juicier cobbler, I think you could just leave them as they are.  Also, if you plan to use an 8 by 8 glass pan you might want to omit them.)
Pinch of salt

1/2 cup white rice flour
1/4 cup tapioca starch
1/4 cup cornstarch
1/3 cup whole-milk yogurt (I was relatively successful with sour milk plus 1 Tablespoon cornmeal though)
3 Tablespoons sugar
5 Tablespoons cold butter ( I froze mine), cut into 1/4 Tbsp. pieces
1/4 teaspoon salt

First off, preheat the oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit.

Then peel your peaches if they are firm enough, or throw them into some boiling water to loosen the skins.  Afterwards, remove the pit and the reddish area just around it, them cut each half into four pieces.  I found that removing the pit first was impossible, so I just took a sharp paring knife and cut as close as I could to the pit.  Then, toss the slices with the 1/4 cup sugar and let stand for 30 minutes.

After third minutes, drain off all the liquid you can, and reserve 1/4 cup of that.  For my peaches I found the 30 minute maceration to be unnecessary as I had exactly 1/4 cup of juice at the end.  The point is so that people with really juicy peaches son’t have a flood of juice.  Then mix that liquid with the cornstarch. lemon juice, and salt.  Add in the peaches and grated apple then turn into an a deep 9-inch pie plate.  I baked mine in something that I think is actually ten inches, and considering the real recipe called for an 8 by 8 baking dish, this might be part of the reason mine was a wee bit dry.  You could put it in an 8 by 8 pan but it might not need the apple as filler.

Bake for 10 minutes so that it is bubbling.

Meanwhile, in a food processor mix all the dry ingredients.  Then, scatter over the butter and pulse so that the pieces are smaller but not necessarily uniform.  I think I made mine a little too small.  Then, fold in yogurt.  In the book it makes a point of saying you should not do the biscuits too far ahead of time or they won’t rise sufficiently.  You should do them as the peaches bake.

Remove peaches from the oven and distribute six balls of dough at least 1/2 an inch apart from each other.  Bake for 16-18 minutes and after removed from oven let sit for 20 minutes.

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Hi I'm Madeleine and I am an avid cook and baker! Between school, homework swimming, and everything else in my life, I really enjoy cooking! I am 15 (now 16) years old, and have two brothers, both of whom have celiac disease along with my father. For this reason, I often make gluten-free things that will satisfy them as well as those who can readily consume gluten. I enjoy making the complex and the simple, and enjoy a challenge while cooking. That's just about it!