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Get Ready for the new Nokia Lumia at May 14th

Less than 3 days we will find out what will Nokia introduce in May 14 2013
See What’s next meet the bold,big,and beautiful Nokia Lumia
Damian Dinning ex Nokia Imaging Chief said next week will be amazing,it could be a sign of EOS launch or maybe another beautiful phone with better camera than Lumia 920 but not 8MP
Nokia seems working hard on this phone,the Lumia catwalk pictures already surfaced but we can say its a alpha prototype not final because the real design looks very amazing,stunning,and brilliant the durability of upcoming Nokia Lumia increased heavily,and Nokia wants to bring more innovations in Lumia like what we see earlier: PureView,PureMotion,Clearblack,Supersensitive Touch screen,Rich Recording
Nokia also wants to do major improvements in mapping capabilities
Most of our readers wants a Lumia phone that can replace Nokia 808 PureView to be the best camera phone title in 2013
That’s why Nokia wants to create and release the device sooner,
Until Now there are no video teaser about PureView capabilities like what we saw before in Nokia 808 PureView and Nokia Lumia 920 that’s why maybe Nokia will not release the Lumia EOS next week/14 May event and probably delayed again until July-August or next Nokia World alongside with the new Nokia Phablet which is expected to launch in Nokia World 2013 to replace Nokia Lumia 920 totally
Nokia also reportedly to announce the Lumia 625 a large screened phone to compete Samsung Galaxy Grand and a Dual Sim Lumia products
Nokia Lumia Catwalk reportedly coming to T Mobile and the rest of the world
Nokia Lumia catwalk/925 probably the slimmest Lumia yet and lighter than Nokia Lumia 920 it have slightly better specifications than Lumia 920
Nokia Lumia Catwalk will use GDR 2.0 Software out the box
It have Aluminium Materials,and slightly better batteries
Wireless Charging support
Improved Optical Image Stabilization
4.5 inch screen?
The dimension will looks smaller because of smaller bezels on Lumia catwalk

So what do you think? What will Nokia Announce at Nokia 14th May Event?
Share your opinions on the comments section bellow
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PVRIS spraying Homosexual Chemtrails during concert on unsuspecting fans

Propelled by Obama’s landmark decision to disrespect America’s Christian heritage by allowing gay marriage, Pvris’s outspoken lesbian front woman Lyndsey Gunnulfsen is now seducing straight teenage fans into her lifestyle. All this, despite flat out admitting to the BBC that Lyndsey “never got the impression that being gay is “OK”.

The CDC confirms that since 2015, there has been a drastic 1.3% increase in the amount of PVRIS fans confirming their homosexuality. Even more troubling there is now an estimated 63% of Warped Tour attendee’s suspected to be secretive or agnostic by their homosexuality.

While the link between homosexuality and bio-engineering via chemtrails is well established in the scientific community, the phenomenon of spraying airborne chemicals known to induce homosexual tendencies during concerts is a tactic unique to the band PVRIS, and their Jewish co-conspirator booking agent, Dave Shapiro. Shapiro used his powerful Jewish ties to create this potent new form of biological homosexual chemtrail. This new aerosol chemtrail contains a higher concentration of gay endorphin. Shapiro was last seen circling South By Southwest in his biplane, spraying these advanced biological chemtrail weapons. The promotion of homosexuality via chemtrails is part of the larger NWO global conspiracy to spread the deadly AIDS virus and depopulate the earth.

The White House is illuminated in rainbow colors after today's historic Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage in Washington June 26, 2015.    REUTERS/Gary Cameron

With the White House covered in the ROYGBIV secret code that gays identify as sin friendly, left-wing liberals boldly broadcast their intent to make straight teenagers enamored by musicians sexuality so they would be more susceptible to the gay agenda.

If you child plans to attend a PVRIS concert, beware, for Lyndsey Gunnulfsen, and the gays will be out preying on those who have inhaled the mist from their smoke machines laced with homosexual chemtrail. The smoke machines are said to be used more often in the bible belt with higher per capita rates of Christianity. PVRIS makes no secret of using homosexual chemtrails at their shows if you simply look at their lyrics, with lines like “lets get covered in flames and play some games with the smoke.” Flaming is a code word associated with flamboyant homosexuality, and playing games with the smoke is a blatant way of laughing in the faces of unsuspecting straight fans who don’t know what they are inhaling.

The alteration of brain chemistry is swift and powerful, so teenagers who are seduced will be so confused by all of their new emotions and lust, that they will give into the gay agenda almost immediately.  The buddy-system should be used, where no straight child is left alone this Warped Tour season, so that Lyndsey Gunnulfsen cannot take this opportunity to commit abominable acts of hedonism on their bodies as the amount of chemtrail in the air drastically increases with each song played, via the smoke machines on the stage. It is also rumored that their merchandise has been pre-washed in a chemical bath, spreading these chemtrails long after the concert is over, to the Christian nuclear family. It should be noted that the front woman also goes by Lynn Gvnn, so don’t be fooled by her attempts to covertly influence your children’s sexuality.

Stay safe out there.

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02.13.2015 — “Morning Star” by Ether Feels

Ether Feels (エーテルフィールズ)

If you only listen to one song today, make it “Morning Star” by Ether Feels (2014, from the Twilight Dreams EP).

Ether Feels (エーテルフィールズ) is a shoegaze trio from Osaka, Japan. I know almost nothing about them. They’ve been around since at least 2010, when they released a self-titled album. Since then, they released a mini-album Raindrop Sparkle in 2011. Two of the songs from that release were later re-worked for the 2012 EP Red Dress Girl. Red Dress Girl also contained a different version of today’s song. In fact, the 2014 EP Twilight Dream features one song from each of the previous releases. Reworked for 2014. According to the band’s website, they have some all-new material that they hope to release this spring or summer.

I found out about this band through an email about a shoegaze compilation album that was just released. Wales-based Ear to Ear Records and the Indonesian label Gerpfast Kolektif co-curated a compilation album called Revolution: The Shoegaze Revival, which features 30 up-and-coming shoegaze bands from 16 countries all over the world. To be fair, though, there are five from Indonesia, four from Italy, and three each from Japan and Hong Kong.

I downloaded the compilation yesterday, and while there are five bands who were already familiar to me, there’s lots and lots of stuff for me to explore. I haven’t explored all of it yet, but I really like this one.

“Morning Star” by Ether Feels

The earlier version of the song has a bit more washed out sound to it, and the high end stuff is also much higher. I’m glad they polished out the high end, but I wish they had left the very MBV-esque wash in there. Regardless, it’s a great song.

It’s poppy and warm and spring-like. And while all of the guitar stuff is great, it’s really all about the vocals for me. A lot of their songs have a mixture of Japanese and English lyrics. This song happens to be entirely in English, but it’s not the actual words that I care about. I love the coed vocal harmonies. The way guitarist/vocalist/principal songwriter Tomo and bassist/vocalist Yoko harmonize makes this song the highlight of the EP, and one of the brightest stars on the comp. There’s something about the tone of the guitar and those smashing vocal harmonies that remind me of the first wave of East Coast USA shoegaze in the early-to-mid 1990s. All the stuff on Interstate 95 between DC and Boston. Yeah. That stuff.

You can download the 30-song compilation by naming your own price at the Ear to Ear bandcamp page here. You can also get the Twilight Dreams EP from the Ether Feels bandcamp page here.

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North Carolina born and bred. I'm a restaurant guy who spends free time listening to music, watching hockey and playing Scrabble. I have a bachelor's degree in political science and I will most likely never put it to use. View all posts by dlee

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ALBUM REVIEW: The Naked And Famous – Simple Forms

New Zealand indie-electronic outfit The Naked And Famous may have re-located to Los Angeles but they are still holding onto their musical roots with their third studio album. “Simple Forms” holds onto their indie-pop/rock sound but expands on a bigger synth-pop experimentation that “Young Blood” and “Punching In A Dream” established on their debut. Album opener and lead single “Higher” introduces the euphoric and synth-packed sound with a chorus that explodes and no pun intended but takes you higher. It delves into a more “Chvrches” realm of harmonies and hook breakdowns. However it’s early standout “The Water Beneath You” which will have you instantly wanting to be transported to one of their new live shows as it perfectly captures what they were trying to establish on this album. “My Energy”, “Losing Our Control” and fan favourite “Rotten” are heavily influenced by their older material and make way for the glossier “Last Forever” and “The Runners” to provide a groovy centrepiece. However the second half of the album becomes a bit predictable and loses it’s innovation. It’s not uncommon for this genre to become a bit monotonous but I feel like the balance of sound was overshadowed and could have taken this new sound higher (again no pun intended). Vocally Alisa delivers her soaring vocals while Thom Powers jumps in to harmonise and give the songs a much needed texture. It’s a stronger collection of tracks compared to their sophomore attempt and will give their live show a new depth but they are going to constantly be compared to the Broods and Churches of the industry, and that begs the question; who is really fulfilling this sound more?


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Little Drops – 2

On a whim, I decided to join a writer’s workshop Anita’s Attic, run by author Anita Nair. It was a good experience and I met several absolutely amazing young authors, some of whom were less than half my age!

Late last year, a call came from Anita’s Attic for short stories. I quickly wrote a short story in a burst of inspiration, which I was quite happy with. I sent it off, and yesterday, it came up on Quillr, a new pay-and-read platform.

Here’s the link to the story Running, if you’re interested.

Little Drops

A few drops in a drought are always welcome, even if they make you hunger for pounding rain.

So, in the barren wasteland of my writing last year, there were a couple of fat drops that made me happy.

The children’s library we started is such a source of joy, even though I’m unable to do full justice to it in terms of my time, thanks to the various health crises that popped up regularly. It’s an oasis for me, a haven of peace and happiness, to be surrounded by books, fantastic partners, and the sweetest sight of all – kids deeply engrossed in books. It never fails to move me, and I feel so grateful that I’ve been given this opportunity.

Last year, for Karnataka Rajyotsava, we came up with an idea of writing a picture book that introduced some common Kannada words/sentences. I wrote the story itself in a very short time. However, I had the most fun with the illustrations. Not having Photoshop or any other appropriate software, and too lazy to sit and draw out everything, I used PowerPoint. I had such a blast doing the pictures, and it gave me such a high!

We printed one copy of the book, and read it out to the kids. It was a hit, and the best part was kids coming up and telling me – “Tumba chennagide!” (very nice in Kannada, which was one of the phrases introduced in the book). It was really such a wonderful experience!

Here’s the cover of the book Aane Mari’s Feast (Aane Mari meaning Little Elephant, though quite a few call it Anna Marie :D)

New Beginnings

So, 2016 has been reviled enough for me not to add to it. However, I must note that it was a spectacularly shitty year health-wise.

I kicked it off with a particularly nasty bout of shingles, the remnants of which still haunt me every now and then with twinges and sporadic itching.My dad’s dementia grew worse, my mom was at the end of her tether, and then the Grim Reaper harvested his soul without so much as a by your leave. My sisters had horrible mysterious afflictions that saw them in and out of hospitals. One of them is still in so much pain that she, the strong one who can bear everything, actually breaks down and cries.

The final straw was my daughter, my darling D, who came down with severe abdominal pain. She is pretty strong, my D, and bore the numerous pricks for IV and blood samples and bodily intrusions and what not, with magnificent equanimity. But then, one terrible evening, she writhed in unbelievable agony, screaming for over an hour, and we stood by helpless even as she begged us to “do something”, while the doctors buzzed around. Those horrible moments are burnt into my memory. It’s most probably abdominal migraine (yeah, everyone reacts with “Never heard of it!”), and she’s back, albeit weakly, on her feet. But the holiday season and all her (and our) plans have been pretty much ruined.

So, if there’s one wish I could make for 2017, which is, as several people have opined, a rather arbitrary division of time, it would be for good health. 2017 has so far not showed any signs of respecting my wishes, but it’s early days. It’s just getting warmed up hopefully, and as the days go by, here’s hoping that good health shines down on us.

And you, of course. Good Health and Happiness to you too!

Setup a target of 100 books to be read this year on GoodReads. I found it quite fun. Every book had something to offer, so I’m not going to award best or worst.

So. here’s the list of the 100 I completed this year:

1. Not Just An Accountant – Vinod Rai
2. The Robots of Dawn – Isaac Asimov
3. The Wide Window – Lemony Snicket
4. Life Before Man – Margaret Atwood
5. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter – Mario Vargas Llosa
6. The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy
7. The House that BJ Built – Anuja Chauhan
8. The Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion
9. Menaka’s Choice – Kavita Kane
10. Personally I blame my Fairy Godmother – Claudia Carroll
11. My days in the underworld: Rise of the Bangalore mafia – Agni Sridhar
12. Finding Audrey – Sophie Kinsella
13. The Liar – Nora Roberts
14. Looking for Alaska – John Green
15. Last Train to Istanbul – Ayse Kulin
16. Gachar Gochar – Vivek Shanbhag
17. Wonder – R J Palacio
18. The Bad Girl – Mario Vargas Llosa
19. All the Light we cannot see – Anthony Doerr
20. The Adventures of Stoob: Testing times – Samit Basu
21. The Reluctant Detective – Kiran Manral
22. Ponniyin Selvan: First Floods – Kalki
23. Personal (Jack Reacher) – Lee Child
24. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story – John Berendt
25. Holes – Louis Sachar
26. The One you cannot have – Preeti Shenoy
27. The Guardians of the Halahala – Shatrujeet Nath
28. The Mahabharata Quest: The Alexander Secret – Christopher C Doyle
29. Hysterical: Anna Freud’s Story – Rebecca Coffey
30. The Signature of All Things – Elizabeth Gilbert
31. The Forty Rules of Love – Elif Shafak
32. An Outrageous Affair – Penny Vincenzi
33. Netherland – Joseph O’Neill
34. Belong to Me – Marisa de los Santos
35. A Pale View of the Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
36. Ithaca – David Davidar
37. The Unfinished Clue – Georgette Heyer
38. Cut Like Wound – Anita Nair
39. Dear Mrs. Naidu – Mathangi Subramaniam
40. Little Bee – Chris Cleave
41. Untold Story – Monica Ali
42. Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window – Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
43. When Breath becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
44. Lajja – Taslima Nasrin
45. Love Virtually – Daniel Glattauer
46. Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier
47. The Red Sari – Javier Moro
48. Sicilian Nights – Penny Jordan
49. Yayati: A Classic Tale of Lust – Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar
50. The Karachi Deception – Shatrujeet Nath
51. H is for Hawk – Helen Macdonald
52. 13 Little Blue Envelopes – Maureen Johnson
53. Keep Quiet – Lisa Scottoline
54. Fangirl – Rainbow Rowell
55. Love Letters to the Dead – Ava Dellaira
56. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe – Benjamin Alire Saenz
57. Two Boys Kissing – David Levithan
58. The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story – A Revathi
59. A Million Little Pieces – James J Frey
60. The Other End of the Corridor – Sujata Rajpal
61. Alphabet Soup for Lovers – Anita Nair
62. The First Love Cookie Club – Lori Wilde
63. Girl meets boy – Ali Smith
64. Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay’s Dance Bars – Sonia Faleiro
65. The Bookseller of Kabul – Asne Seierstad
66. RSVP – Helen Warner
67. Ammi: Letters to a Democratic Mother – Saeed Mirza
68. Cry Wolf – Tami Hoag
69. Confessions of a Dememted Housewife: The Celebrity Year
70. Miss. Timmins’ School for Girls – Nayan Currimbhoy
71. An Autobiography – Agatha Christie
72. The Mysterious Affair at Styles – Agatha Christie
73. Tales of Twilight and the Unseen – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
74. The Heart Goes Last – Margaret Atwood
75. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
76. Closed Casket (Agatha Christie) – Sophie Hannah
77. One, Two, Buckly My Shoe – Agatha Christie
78. Death on the Nile – Agatha Christie
79. Dreams from my father – Barack Obama
80. Rain: A Survivor’s Tale: Sriram Subramaniam
81. Me Before You: Jojo Moyes
82. Five Little Pigs – Agatha Christie
83. 4:50 from Paddington – Agatha Christie
84. Gender Talk: Big Hero Size Zero – Anusha Hariharan, Sowmya Rajendran
85. A Most Peculiar Malyasian Murder (Inspector Singh Investigates) – Shamini Flint
86. Falling Off the Map – Pico Iyer
87. The 5th Horseman – James Patterson
88. Meridian – Alice Walker
89. A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Backman
90. Britt-Marie was Here – Fredrik Backman
91. One Plus One – Jojo Moyes
92. The Serpent’s Revenge: Unusual Tales from the Mahabharata – Sudha Murty
93. A Strange and Sublime Address: Amit Chaudhuri
94. Dragon Rider – Cornelia Funke
95. Red Leech (Young Sherlock Holmes) – Andrew Lane
96. Black Ice (Young Sherlock Holmes) – Andrew Lane
97. The Brain – David Eagleman
98. Mr. Mercedes – Stephen King
99. The Nightingale – Kristin Hannah
100. Code Name Verity – Elizabeth Wein

This story is for Roshni, who actually remembered this from ten years ago and asked for a link! Thanks Roshni, and hope it lives up to your memory.

Dear Prakash,

If you are reading this, I am hopeful. Hopeful because you have not torn up the letter. Hopeful that you have gotten over your anger against me. I know the turn of events was unexpected for you. I dreaded the day you would come to know the truth, because I feared precisely this sort of reaction from you. Perhaps it was wishful thinking on my part that you would come around, you would understand, and somehow you would find it in yourself to love me as I am. As once you loved me, even though it was for a brief moment, like the flash of a distant star in the sky that makes you wonder if you have really seen it.

Prakash, remember that day we went swimming in the village pond? I’m sure you remember. The cool waters were always our recourse during the hot summers. Remember the small fish that we tried to catch in the palms of our hands, and how they always got away? And the tadpoles we caught together and put in the pickle jar? I still wonder why they died, even though I know that captivity always kills: if not the body, at least the spirit. I know how it feels to be captive – how it feels to have your every move monitored, and even the freedom to laugh has a price attached. I was never under the impression that this was the perfect life, but I never could have imagined the pain it would drag along with it like a severed limb.

The perfect life was when we were children. When you and I ran in the fields, shouting and laughing, scaring the peacefully grazing cows, and making the birds flutter into the blue skies, alarmed by the accuracy of your catapult. When we shared sour mangoes under shady green canopies, hiding from our mothers when they came looking for us at sundown. When we stole coconut pieces and camphor from the temple, while the village priest snored during his siesta. When we flew kites together, I could see the excitement in your eyes, the passion in your lips. And my heart soared like the kite, quivering and trembling in response to every tug of your hand. My heart is heavy now. I am indeed like a kati patang – a kite with no mooring, a kite let loose to roam where the wind wills, a kite that gets more and more ragged with every rogue branch that snags and rips through its very soul.

Did it make sense to you then, Prakash? That brief moment of passion we shared as your eyes caressed my body and our lips spoke a language of their own? That moment I have preserved carefully, like a flower pressed between the pages of a book. The memory of that moment is what uplifted me, that’s what kept me going through all the bleakness that painted my walls with its grey misery. Every time I put my kajal, it was for you. Every time I reddened my lips, it was for you. Every sari I draped around my cursed body, it was for you. The perfume of the flowers in my hair faded into the scent of your body. Do you remember how it felt? Or have you tossed it like discarded flowers that are swept away so swiftly by the stream? I cannot write any more. I am crying.

I have resolved I must finish what I wanted to say. I must unburden myself, I have carried it too long with me.

It’s been a long time since I cried, Prakash. The tears that bled from my wounds have dried, but they have left behind a raw salt residue that burns and stings. I cried when I boarded the train from the village in the dark of the night. I was leaving behind my innocence, clutching onto the useless currency of my dreams. I was leaving behind a life that was familiar but stifling and painful, towards a vast unknown. I was leaving like a thief indeed, ostracized and shamed. But I cried above all because I had to part from you, the sweetest love of my life. You were that first love one ceaselessly seeks in all subsequent loves, an unattainable fantasy fed by hungry dreams, a shimmering mirage in an arid and aching memory.

I cried again when I saw you at the bar. Isn’t it strange that of all the bars in Mumbai, you should come to my bar? Perhaps it was the tears that shone in my eyes, perhaps it was Fate playing a cruel game with me. What did attract you to me? Was it some vestige of passion that reared its ugly head just when I had begun to give up my battle with life out of sheer fatigue? Was it some wicked instinct of self-destruction that made me come and sit by you, and initiate that age-old game of seduction?

You didn’t recognize me, and I was both glad and hurt. I thought I could start anew what we had left half-finished so many years ago, in the cool waters of the village pond. After all, I had reinvented myself. I was Mohini, the enchantress. So many men had succumbed to my charms, but most had been disgusted when they found out what I really was. Did I really think I could take up where I had left off with you? Indeed, where had I left off with you? My fantasies had so clouded the reality of my memories. That entire night I tossed and turned, wondering in feverish anticipation if you would come back.

You did. And the night after. And the night after. You seemed content just to talk to me, to look at me, to tuck my stray hair behind my ear in a caress that sent shivers down my spine. I dared not to long for more. I had rolled dice with Fate, and even a modest win was enough. We spent long hours in eloquent silence, you lost in the smoky haze of your thoughts, and I, sneaking glances in a vain attempt to capture and possess your every feature and make it mine. It was a strange happiness, almost a contentment, and I clung to it as desperately as a drowning man a straw. For the first time in my turbulent, topsy-turvy life, I felt I was floating, just letting go, just being.

It was too good to last, wasn’t it? That night, when you finally came to my room, I tried to hide my delirious joy behind a mask of boredom. I didn’t want to tempt Fate, I didn’t want to ruin what I had. But Fate is an expert at playing cat and mouse: just when you think you’ve managed to get away, she sinks her claws deep into you and relishes the blood-bath that follows.

There we are, enmeshed and eager, when your eyes fall upon the photo. A faded photo pressed into a cheap plastic frame. Your eyes widen with surprise. My mouth is suddenly dry, and I can feel my breath coming in short bursts. I try to turn you away, but you reach out and pick it up. How did you get this photo, you ask me, puzzled. I mumble something incoherent, while my thoughts fly to that morning. Our mothers smiling and asking us to stand together. The painted cardboard cutout with brightly coloured flowers as the backdrop. The photographer urging us to stand closer. You put your hand on my shoulder and I turn and look straight into your eyes. Something changes between us that instant, and I am immediately conscious of the warmth of your fingers pressing into my skin. I look away, disturbed, but not before I catch your half-smile. And that is the moment the camera clicks. The photo lies: it does not show your smile, but it catches my naked awkwardness. An awkwardness that remains when we jump into the pool later that afternoon, peeling off our clothes in a strange exhuberance. And when I run away, both exhilarated and ashamed, you look on, unfathomable.

I am jolted out of the past when the edge of the frame hits me on my lips and draws blood. Tears of a twisted anguish flow as I battle my demons. I try to calm you down, but you are as disgusted and horrified by me as countless others. Listen to me, I weep. Let me tell you what an agony my life has been. A life that is not a life; no hope of love, no hope of dreams; trapped, with no release. A life where Love is forced to walk fettered in narrow corridors that open no doors for the likes of me.

But you were so angry with what you considered my deceit. You are not the Mohini I thought I loved,but you are not the Mohan I once knew either, you shouted. What are you, you freak, you perversity of nature? My face, my body still bears the bruises of your beatings. I haven’t gone out since you left.

I began this letter on a conciliatory note. I wanted to beg your forgiveness for the hurt I caused you, for my perceived deceit. But now I just wish to thank you for opening my eyes, and for shattering the one dream I had. Unshackled from the ghosts of my past, I experience a tremendous sense of relief. I can now hope that my true love is still out there, waiting for me. A true love that loves me as I am. And for that, I thank you.

It’s October already!

So many things have happened since I last came here.

This year will be forever marked. My father died in my arms. It feels so final to write that, but that’s how final it is. He will never be back in our lives again. I try to relive the moments again and again, but they slip away, like dreams you cannot remember, like dreams that dissolve in the bright liquid sunlight of the day.

I wish it had been like in the movies. I wish we had known, that we were ready, we were gathered around, serious and somber, waiting for that final moment. We didn’t know, we weren’t ready, we were running in and out, tired and frantic, trying to get him ready for the hospital from where we had brought him home just a couple of days before.

I was right there, and I didn’t know it. If I could change one thing, I would change that. I would sit by his side, stroking his wizened hand, and put on his favorite song. I did do all that, in fact I did just that in the morning. Just not during his last moments. A rolling eye, a single tear, and I did not put two and two together – I was never good at math.

So he’s gone now, and life goes on: merrily, pitiless, single-minded. I don’t think too far ahead nowadays, I take one day at a time. I am grateful I have such wonderful people in my life. My family – the strongest one could ever ask for. My friends – always willing, always helping, always there to share both laughter and tears. The entire universe – always going ahead, never looking back.

It’s hard to believe I’ve reached a half-century on this third rock from the sun. I barely knew the uphill struggle – it’s all faint memories. I trust the downhill slide will be just as smooth. There are so many things on the horizon, yet they don’t disturb me.

One day at a time. That’s the only thing given. And I’m ok with it. Years will go rolling by, and when the time comes, gathering moss will have its own charm.

Other Worlds

I recently read 4 books almost back to back that made me feel really low and upset. All of them were really very interesting and opened up worlds to me that I had just a faint idea about.
The first was The Truth about Me: A Hijra Life Story by A. Revathi. The title says it all. The high price you pay for breaking the rules, no matter what you are.
The second was A Million Little Pieces by James Frey. Despite all the controversy surrounding this one, the writing itself packs a punch. Straight in the gut.
The third was Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay’s Dance Bars by Sonia Faleiro. It made me so, so sad inside.
The fourth was The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad (accent on the author’s name missing). Distressing, especially the plight of the women.
These books have left little dark scars in me. However, to be fair, they have also made me count my blessings.


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The World Needs More People Like You

The world needs more people like you, Colbie Caillat.  Most people recognize her from her hit, “Bubbly.” But recently she’s done something that should start a new trend. She completely reversed the makeup process for several women in her video, “Try”, along with herself! And I don’t mean she just made some half-assed attempt to make it appear as though she wasn’t photo-shopped nor wearing makeup. I mean in the end, you can see every pore, hair, and crease in her skin. Her face, and the other women’s faces were completely untouched. You can watch it right meow.

I want to say that it was inspiring… But it shouldn’t be. That’s the issue. Colbie shouldn’t all of a sudden be considered some saint for showing herself as is. Obviously models and celebrities are airbrushed to achieve perfection. I believe it was Cindy Crawford who said something like, “I don’t even look like Cindy Crawford,” making the point that those behind the computer can manipulate the images into something impossible. Whatever sells, right? But I guess one small step in the right direction is better than nothing.

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Ex-POW in Iraq war recalls nightmares, depression

WASHINGTON – Shoshana Johnson survived gunshot wounds to both legs and 22 days as a prisoner of war in Iraq. Life wasn’t so easy when she came home, either.
In a new book out this week, the 37-year-old single mother describes mental health problems related to her captivity and tells how it felt to play second fiddle in the media to fellow POW Jessica Lynch, who was captured in the same ambush.
“It was kind of hurtful,” the former Army cook said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “If I’d been a petite, cutesy thing, it would’ve been different.”
Johnson, the nation’s first female black prisoner of war, said she felt she was portrayed differently because of her race, either by media outlets that chose not to cover her experience or those who portrayed her as greedy when she challenged the disability rating she was given for her post-traumatic stress disorder.
While the story of Lynch, then 19, remains firmly in the nation’s collective memory from the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, far less attention has been paid to Johnson, then 30, and four male soldiers from the 507th Maintenance Co. from Fort Bliss, Texas, who also survived captivity.
Johnson was rescued by Marines, about two weeks after Lynch’s rescue. Months after returning home, Johnson left the military and today is enrolled in culinary school. She lives in El Paso, Texas, with her 9-year-old daughter.
Johnson’s book, “I’m Still Standing,” is being released in time for Black History Month. Johnson said she hopes that by telling her story, she can set the record straight and bring attention to mental health issues affecting veterans.
The day of the 2003 ambush, Johnson and Lynch were among 33 U.S. soldiers in a convoy that got lost in Nasiriyah en route to Baghdad. Their journey, Johnson said, was hampered by broken-down vehicles and malfunctioning equipment. Eleven were killed — including Johnson’s friend Army Pfc. Lori Piestewa.
Johnson asked to be medically discharged from the military in part because she felt other soldiers resented her over the attention her POW status attracted.
She’s also struggled with depression and nightmares. At times it was so bad, she writes, that her daughter, who was 2 at the time Johnson was captured, asked Johnson’s parents, “Why is Mommy crying all the time?”
In 2008, she checked herself into a psychiatric ward for a few days.
“Even when I came home, I didn’t think I’d ever get better. I didn’t think the issues I had would ever ease,” Johnson said in the interview. “But as time goes on and I stick with my therapy, it has gotten easier, and I know if I keep on the right track, I’ll be OK.”
It was hard at first to admit to having PTSD, she said, because she thought of it as something that happened to Vietnam veterans.
“When they started throwing out that word when I came home, I was like, no, that’s not me,” Johnson said.
Today, Johnson is training to be a pastry chef so she can make wedding and birthday cakes.
“It would just be nice to be able to celebrate those special moments with people,” she said. “After everything that’s gone on, I think those kinds of moments are very special.”
After successfully fighting to receive improved disability benefits stemming from her PTSD, she was later asked to serve on the Veterans Affairs Department’s panel on minority affairs.
She speaks proudly of the other POWs in captivity with her and keeps in touch with them. She said they schedule annual POW exams — the Defense Department is studying the effects of captivity — at the same time in Florida so they can see each other.
Contrary to speculation, Johnson said she was never angry at Lynch or jealous of her.
“Jessica is my friend,” Johnson writes. “I was her friend before the ambush and I’m still her friend now.”
One of the most brutal things Johnson endured was a captor grabbing her chest. She tells in her book of mobs of Iraqi people coming to view her as a vehicle she was in traveled from town to town, with one villager slapping her and another spitting on her. But while the men endured beatings during the captivity, she said she was treated better.
She describes acts of kindness, too, by the Iraqis. One doctor operated on her legs, which she credits with allowing her to keep them. Another doctor early in her captivity whispered to her that a woman Johnson assumed was Lynch was alive, which provided comfort.
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How Brainwave Entrainment Technology Enhances Self-Healing Techniques For Better Living

For centuries now, people have been looking for holistic means of healing the body, the mind, and the spirit. While most ancient methods are based on seemingly unproven techniques, one fact that ancient luminaries got right is the fact that in most cases, healing can come from within.
We all have the ability within us to heal ourselves, be it our mind, our body, or our spirit. This self-healing ability lies deep within the most important part of our being: our subconscious mind. We may feel that we are consciously aware of our actions, but the truth is that it is our subconscious mind that drives us and every single action we make.

It is also the subconscious mind that is responsible for our state of being. Be it emotional or physical, every aspect of our life is greatly dependent on our subconscious mind. Thanks to modern technology, we now have the means to not only monitor, but alter our subconscious mind and how it operates. This technology is known simply as Brainwave Entrainment.
What exactly is Brainwave Entrainment? Before we can understand that specific term, we must first answer the question, “What are brainwaves?” Brainwaves are patterns of electrical activity within the brain, and they can be measured using an electroencephalogram (or EEG) machine to give an indication of a person’s mental state. Each state a person is in would yield different brainwave activity; for example when asleep, a person’s brainwaves would be shown to be at their least active, measuring only up to 4 cycles per second.
Brainwave entrainment makes use of Delta and Alpha frequencies to affect someone who is asleep.  The healing process is begun when the two frequencies is then linked to both sides of the brain. This type of self-healing techniques is used by the medical science industry for a very long period and now it is even being introduced in the market. People can now access to those self-healing devices easily everywhere. The devices are specially designed to be portable, thus, making it convenient for people to carry around.
Brainwave entrainment self-healing techniques bring forth positive forces throughout the entire process. This technology can certainly aid in speeding up your recovery. Not trying to put down other types of self-healing techniques which have been spread around for decades, but those techniques are really time consuming and energy draining. In the current fast paced society, it is not feasible for people to follow the step by step guide of traditional self-healing techniques and that will be way too time-consuming. However, there is an alternative method to do so; that is by using brainwave entrainment technology which offers the same results in a shorter period.
Scientists have found out that the reason behind the accelerated healing is associated with the particular brainwave frequencies. They are still researching on ways stimulate those frequencies to enhance the healing process. By using the brainwave entrainment technology, frequencies like Alpha and Delta will be induced within the cortical hemispheres of your brain to stimulate the entire healing process.

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The Mountain Says No at Manhattan Pizza May 13, 2017   Leave a comment

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I had a great time seeing music last Saturday at Manhattan Pizza and Pub. It was a long work day and the next day was another long one but I thought I might be able to see a band play from 10-11 then scurry home and get some sleep. I almost just skipped it but one of my favorite bands was playing.

I pushed myself out the door and took the misty rainy walk downtown. I got in and settled and said hi to some cool musicians as The Mountain Says No got set up. A repeated recorded voice started up and the band lit into Ricky The Rider and rocked it hard. They kept the pace nice and solid for Machu Picchu. At some point there was a huge amount of feedback between songs and they worked to make it stop but unfortunately, had to keep the microphones low and that took out most of the vocals for most of the show. I was close so I could hear a bit. Nevertheless, the band soldiered on and the music sounded great and they seemed to focus their intensity on it and I was in a happy place. They played a cool version of Nothing In This. They slowed it down for the eerie 3,000 Incubators then revved up to full throttle for Restaurant. Eggshell rocked nicely then they eased back a bit for Game Of Thrones. They played a song they said was new that had a metal grind, a spaced out middle section and a rocking end. It was really cool. They mellowed way out for Blanket’s Fine and the quietness of the song let the vocals come through reasonably. They switched back to full rock mode for I Know Right, The Bomb then capped the night with Long Term Sermon.

I headed out the door quickly. The spirit wanted to stay for Near North but the body said no. It wasn’t the greatest of their shows, but musically it was tremendous. It would have been so easy to miss but I’m glad I put in the effort.

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The Begats

My brother called me just now because he’s totally stoked about the Bible miniseries on the History Channel. He’s like “They say they’re going to cover everything from the beginning to Peter!” Then he pauses and says, “So, I guess that sucks for Paul. Well, at least we probably won’t have to sit through Revelations, right?”

And then he says, “God, I wonder how they’re going to do all that boring shit in the Old Testament, where it’s just lists of people having kids…” then he stops. As if he’s just considering right then how one might dramatize generations of begetting. “Wait,” he says. “No, that would be the greatest episode of the series. Just generations of men fucking their wives. Give each couple like fifteen seconds of screen time and fill the whole show it it.”

“Could they do that on The History Channel?” I ask.

“Well, they should try!”

Just Some Stuff I Want to Say

This has been the roughest couple of days I’ve had blogging in a long, long time. I can’t sleep. I’m having trouble making sure I’m eating enough at the right times so that I don’t get sick. I feel like shit. Every time I see there’s another comment here, I hide from it for as long as I can before I come to look at it.

I don’t say any of this because I want your sympathy. What I want is just to give you some context for the apology I’m about to offer. In the old days, I used to love these long discussions, because I was an idiot and I thought you really could just hash this shit out in public and some good would come of it. Some minds would be changed.

But the truth is that I don’t believe that’s true and I haven’t for a while. I don’t believe big messes like the one we had here actually change minds. I think they’re just cathartic and terrible in equal measure. Often just terrible and hurtful.

In part, in order to be effective, the person moderating the comments has to have a generosity of spirit and a level of kindness and understanding that is completely outside of my ability. From where I’m sitting, it seems like you’d have to have an inhuman generosity of spirit. So, if you got in that comment thread and it sucked, yes, I knew and I am sorry. It’s just not something I can do–guide a conversation like that in ways that keep everyone on track and everyone, including myself, from feeling like they’re being attacked. I also don’t have the ability to not take shit personally. If it hurts me, it hurts me and I’m going to react.

So, that fucking sucks.

But I also want to say this–tempers were running very high, mine especially. And I know there were a lot of people just watching the shit storm from the sidelines and then forming opinions of the people involved. Or feeling like this incident solidified feeling they already had. That it “proved” something about someone, whoever the someone was to you.

One fight one time in one place is not the whole of who a person is. It doesn’t settle or prove anything about a person. We change. (Though, as I said, I doubt because of shitstorms like this). Or we hold one opinion that seems stupid or out of character but otherwise we’re fine and wonderful people. Or whatever.

God, this post is making me just want to burn this blog to the ground.

But I guess what I’m saying is that, if you want to use the internet to decide who the bad guys or good guys here in town are, don’t solely use moments like these to decide. People aren’t just their fuck-ups.


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Digital Panther

Digital Panther Website Rebrand

A company with over 14 years experience in the signage industry.

The Project

This was Digitalpanther's second project they have got have got from me, this time they wanted to go a more professional route than unique, instead of a just HTML website, they wanted to use the WordPress platform because of its easy access for them to change and update things within the website. Also, they to add more features to their websites such as live chat and a video to impress their clients. Also a lot more extensive search engine optimisation has been put in place so they will be able to rank higher within search engines.

Present Day

As the start of 2017, I have been working with Digital Panther since they were impressed with my services, so they decided to add me to their two man team. They are now offering a web development service apart of their company and I am handling all their web design and development requests. This has been a massive opportunity for me to be working with a company which has over 14 years old in the sign industry.

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Kapiti Landing

Size 125 hectares
Type Retail, Commercial and Industrial
Estimated project completion date 2024
Development Manager Robert Binney
WEBSITE kapitilanding.co.nz

Kapiti Landing is a master planned business and retail park which provides a gateway to doing business in the lower North Island from its prime location on the thriving Kapiti Coast.

The development spans 125 hectares of land consisting of 300,000m2 of developable area and 25 hectares of landscaped parks serving a primary catchment of 50,000 and a secondary catchment of 100,000 plus. It includes the Kapiti Coast Airport which has undergone a $5 million upgrade and provides regular flights to and from Auckland, Nelson and Blenheim.

Kapiti Landing offers exciting retail and commercial opportunities for businesses with the strong local economy expected to receive a significant boost from Government improvements to infrastructure, including the McKays to Peka Peka expressway, the construction of Transmission Gully providing a direct motorway link to Wellington’s central business district, and the upgrade of the rail line to Wellington.


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JANE EYRE, Cary Fukunaga (2011)

First of all, Happy New Year. I’ve never been in mood for resolutions, because I don’t accomplish half of them, thus what I can say is that I will try to be posting at least once a month. Too many things in my head, writing on movies require certain concentration I sometimes lack of. Sorry!

Still having some films I’d like to talk about, but I’m going to start this year 2012, with this movie, I went to see last night, on my own, while it’s still fresh in my mind, and all the feelings and emotions provoked, are still pounding.

If you are familiar with The Brontë’s novels, then you already know their stories are characterized by portraying tortuous and stormy love stories, in which society conventions have a very important role, so as the nature environment.

I was ready for the drama, really, I don’t consider myself a weak and super sensitive girl who always cries at the movies, but I wasn’t expecting such intensity in this film as to end up crying nonstop. Never left a cinema with tears in my eyes until last night, and believe me, they weren’t caused by disappointment at all. Jane Eyre is pure poetry.

Life had never been merciful towards Jane Eyre since she became an orphan and was supposedly under Mrs. Reed’s care. Rejected and abused by the members of the family, she’s eventually cast out and sent to Lowood School to be straightened up. Hard discipline, with beating punishment, miserable living conditions, lacking any expression of affection, will mark her life forever, but Jane, as a rebel character, will develop an inner creative world she will portrait in her paintings.

Once her stay in Lowood is over, Jane Eyre (Mia Wasikowska) will have to work for living, she’ll move to Thornfield Hall, working as a governess of a little French girl, Adele, apparently adopted by Edward Fairfax Rochester (Michael Fassbender), due to some kind of former relationship.

These days are the closest to happiness for Jane, teaching her pupil, enjoying the company of Mrs Fairfax (Judi Dench), the housekeeper, receiving kindness and affection. Until the landlord of the estate arrives to settle  temporarily at the mansion.

Edward Rochester is the first male contact to Jane, and initially is not a very pleasant one. He’s a strong character, very moody, strong, rough, who spreads some kind of vice and corruption, completely alien to the young teacher. Still, Jane is not overwhelmed by such destructive personality, and with all the respect, she manages to earn her landlord’s respect, and complicity.

One night, Jane is awaken by the feeling of a presence by her bedroom door, and weird noises. Alerted, she discovers Rochester’s room is on fire, and she will save his life by waking him up and trying to stop the fire. The landlord’s attitude, fully in debt with the governess, will radically change, he trying to earn her body, and soul, something she will initially reject, confused about her feelings and his intentions.

Thus, a tense friendship among them will go on, with Fairfax flirting with Mrs Ingram, and Jane silently feeling tortured, because she doesn’t believe herself worth enough for the gentleman’s love.

Inevitably, once Jane receives the sad news of his beloved engagement to the superficial lady, all the cards on the table, Fairfax will declare his wish of sharing his life with her, and she will finally accept. Unfortunately, the terrible secret he’s been hiding from her all this time, will bring out just about to get married, and Jane will run away from Thornfield Hall, completely devastated, to be sheltered and adopted as a new member of the family, by the young Rivers. But she will be unable to forget who she’s devoted to.

Long sight right now while writing these lines, friends. It is really a sad story, which nowadays, with law adapted to modern times, and women stepping upwards at all levels, after a really long struggle our generation is not really aware of, perhaps could be sorted out easily. Not in that time though, when women were 100 steps behind men, and they couldn’t even freely think, nor act, and even less live.

The director, Cary Fukunaga, knew from the very beginning how to depict Jane Eyre. Not following the current canons of beauty, he looked for a cold and fragile character, still strong as a consequence of the tough times she had to pass through in her childhood. Mia Wasikowska is a gorgeous actress, capable of transmit so many emotions at just a glance, she’s just stunning at her role of Eyre. Really impressive! Those moments, subject to Fairfax’ pressure, when he’s trying to seduce her in the beginning, to finally fall in love with her, are so intense, so emotionally loaded, and she stands firm, because she doesn’t want to lose her freedom, she doesn’t want to endure more pain than is normal, and although she would give him absolutely everything he’d ask, she needs that security, a vicious character as Edward couldn’t ever provide.

What can I say regarding Fassbender? Let’s leave the hot part aside, I’m trying to be objective here. Up to date, I cannot find any weak point to his performance, and definitely he’s to be one of the greatest actors of this new decade, I’m positive. Related to his role as Edward Fairfax Rochester, he’s also fascinating. The strength and manhood he spreads, his strong and vicious character willing to be tamed by the innocence and purity Jane, seeking for an act of kindness which he thinks that will free him from his terrible burden, is just awesome. Passion is the engine of his life, but rejection is something he cannot deal with quite well. Thus, if Jane is not to be by his side, Mrs Ingram will entertain and exploit his superficial side, so he won’t be alone.

St. John Rivers (Jamie Bell) is just the opposite to Rochester. On one hand he doesn’t conceive women as equals, and on the other, love issue is a weakness, and he doesn’t not tolerate feelings and passion over pragmatism, tradition nor manners. His intentions towards Jane are too honest, but how can he conquer her after the romance, and its consequent pains she’s been living with her former employer? Jane wants freedom, no matter her life can be miserable.

It’s also remarkable the importance of nature in the film, from the weather to the thick and scary woods, including the palette of tones and shadings applied. Forces of nature really had relevance in the Brontë’s universe. The darkest moments Jane passes through, are enhanced by the rough weather, especially in the beginning, when she’s getting away from Thornfield Hall, unable to stand by Edward, after his terrible secret is reveiled. She’s devastated and heart broken. The storm is full of rage, almost killing her. Lowood is dark and grey, so is her life. But when everything seems to be going well for her, the warmth also accompanies her state. Despite the age of the mansion, she feels fine with the life she’s having, enjoying teaching Adele, and the friendship of Mrs Fairfax, and the hearth provides such smooth atmosphere.

Both the woods and the mansion suffer a transformation when the master arrives. The woods, covered with thick fog and humidity, is the place where their first encounter occurs, the difficult visibility causes Rochester’s horse gets wild, him falling and twisting his ankle. And regarding the mansion, all of a sudden a strange and uneasy atmosphere is perceived by Jane. It’s as if the place was not safe any longer, and some kind of danger was about to happen anytime.

Thus, the characters, the houses, the nature, the lights and tones… everything is masterly put together in order to offer an adaptation of one of the most popular classic novels of British literature, enhancing this tortuous and painful story of love, and avoiding superficial and ostentatious resources, making of this, a direct, stunning and brilliant film.

Believe me when I reckon, it’s been too long time since I haven’t felt so many emotions thanks to a film. You might think it’s a movie for women, perhaps it is, but I really insist, it’s worth seeing.

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Secret of Success of Top Real Estate Professionals- Keep It REAL

Most of the people in real estate believe the old saying, listings control the market. According to this myth those real estate agents who gets more listing are far more in control than those who do not. Success only comes when listing become sales and sales become closings. However, merely becoming a real estate agent with most listing does not assure success. A common question which has asked by various new real estate agents is how do the top real estate professionals assure their success? If talk about all the factors that sum up a successful real estate professional then it will be a combination of skills assets, persistence, marketing tactics, attitude and power of persuasion. However, essential factors which are rarely followed is quality negotiations. This factor is rarely trained, evaluated or sufficiently discussed and this should be considered at the time listing presentation when a real estate agent explains many things to homeowner including the pricing, commissions etc., are finalized. According to Tomas Vargas Harvard, A successful investor in real estate business an agent owes his potential client many details, but one necessity is a willingness and ability to keep it Real.

Be Relevant, rational with your clients: When any client talks to you regarding his priorities, concern and question, listen to him carefully and acknowledge his concern. You aim should be on maintaining relevance to him, and explain what needs to be said. A heart and head balance are also important. Do get emotional and explain in a calm, rational manner.

Explain your Expectations; earn Trust: When specifying a listing price, you should explain your reasoning behind it. A professional and wise real estate agent always under promises and over deliver to get the trust of his client. Explain the new homeowner about his responsibilities and duties and update him about the process time to time. You can vanish the fear of Big-C (Commission), by providing superior service and value.

Analyze the Market & Assist your clients efficiently: You should be aware of market trends and factors to analyze the market as well as the optimum pricing point. The most crucial factors which will decide your image is how you will assist your clients in the whole process?

Listen; Learn & Lead: The success mantra for real estate agent is to listen more than speaking and make the time and effort to teach your clients what essential they exactly want to know and learn about the process and deal. An honest desire to lead them where they need to be will be your plus point the real estate business success.

Tomas Vargas Harvard suggested the above steps be followed in order to get successful in the real estate business by keeping it REAL.

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Well now it has been ages since I shared a package of gradients.  I looked in my folder and I have a few dozen I've never gifted out LOL.  Sooooo I thought I'd round up some and voila here we go ♥  I hope you will enjoy these, some were used in very seasonal tags but hey maybe they can be used any time of the year and I hope you enjoy them.  The only thing I ask is that you not share them but send them to my blog to download.  They are also available in PS format too!

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If you'd like them you can download them here.  If you do download load them please leave me some luv?

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  1. Thanks for sharing Tonya.... gorgeous ♥

  2. thank you so much!!! They look gorgeous <3

  3. These are awesome-thank you!!

  4. These are awesome-thank you!!

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Illegal Gun Disturbance

The streets of Toronto were quiet and normal as Sven meet up with Elena, intending to make sure that she and the half angel/half demon Nickolaus Richter were over and done for good.  While they were beginning to chat a disturbance occurred and Sven went into action when gunfire started, pulling Elena close and up to a rooftop, to safety, or so he thought.  The disturbance was caused by the city’s newest half demon, Yuuto.

Yuuto is young, 15, inexperienced, and poor mannered.  Somehow managing to obtain illegal firearms and having taken out a large crew of men (that had perhaps been supernatural) Yuuto then looked about for another target and found Sven and Elena on the rooftop.  Sven’s aura saved them from the first plethora of bullets and they began an intense fight, with Sven happy to be able to teach the boy a lesson since apparently they had an altercation a few days prior.

Elena called Seraph Lazarus to get her out of the fray, and the fight went on between the two half breeds.  Eventually the vampiress Cheri showed up with a gun, managing to get Yuuto to calm down for a bit before disappearing into an alleyway that Sven, after telling Yuuto that he was “Impulsive, undisciplined, and stupid.”  An associate of Sven’s appeared and made sure that the damage from their long supernatural battle managed to look like it came from a gas leak before the cops came.


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Little One,

why is it that every morning at about 5am you must wake me up. Sometimes it’s to pee, sometimes it’s b/c you must be hungry and want a cracker, but ALL OF THE TIME it’s b/c my boobs hurt so badly that I can’t even move.

I am a stomach sleeper and you, my dear, are wreaking havoc on my once-very-amazingly-full-8-hours-of-sleep routine.

I swear, in the night, i have to remind myself that I am head over heels in love with you even when I am forcing a Saltine down my throat or making the naked trek to the toilet for a pee.

i am so tired i don’t know how to deal.

this is me.

Work with me on this, Little One.

Let’s come up with a plan. You let me sleep 8 hours (and lay off of the breast tenderness) and I will never keep YOU awake when you are tired.

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Villa – Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy

1,300,000 €
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Land area: 4,000 m² 6 bathrooms
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Farmhouse for sale of 450 m² on two levels, with 4000 square meters of garden, in addition to swimming. Completely renovated in Tuscan style in 1991. The farmhouse is on two levels as per attached plans, the ground floor there is a large technical area/ garage, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, entrance room, laundry room, cloakroom, kitchen, living room, tavern, hall way; on the first floor instead: 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, hall, kitchen, laundry room, living room, garage. The farmhouse is located one kilometer from the center of Pistoia pedicollinare area, surrounded by greenery. Presents particular floors, such as floors, ceilings, bricks and beams of wood, also has a large paved parking style, 3 water wells, storage LPG for cooking, pellet heating, private entrance with private gate. It is about 50 km from the sea and 30 km from Florence. The property is divided into two units of land registry with respective IPE G — 146.6 kWh/ m² per year on the ground floor and IPE G — 222.3 kWh/ m² per year on the first floor. Request Euro 1,300,000.00 negotiable. Reference F 0670.

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Saturday, December 15, 2012

Synthean's 2012 Holiday Art! (Intro)

Generally I don't have a lot of holiday-themed art on the site - commissions can be difficult to schedule appropriately - but Synthean has been extremely hard at work with his own projects and has graciously provided some appropriately thematic material!

We'll start off with a little calendar pin-up.  - From the archives - If I understand correctly, PharmGen is a now-defunct former competitor to TransRepo Industries....but if any of you have heard or seen differently recently, make sure to drop me a line.

Note - all Synthean's related Gift Art material will be added to the Gift Art page upon completion of the holidays.

  1. I loved this one!! Didn't know it was a gift art to you.
    Thanks to both of you (Synthean and Thrandrall) !

  2. You're welcome! It's great to have my work displayed here!


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“To endure what is unendurable is true endurance.” -Japanese Proverb

I have always admired marathon runners. They train day after day, pushing their bodies to the max so that they can achieve the goal of bursting through the finish line at the end of a rigorous trek. They throw their hands in the air and collapse to the ground in total exhaustion and triumph of their nearly impossible feat. I always think to myself, “Now that is true strength.”

No, not strength. Endurance.

For chronic pain warriors, we too run a hard and relentless race. Though we may not be marathon runners, we fight an on going war that wages within ourselves. Even getting out of bed in the morning is a battle we must fight. Our daily life is filled with constantly having to conquer our pain so that we can try to live a “normal” life.

However, what we may not realize is that our pain is actually giving us something many “normal” people do not possess. True Endurance.

Our constant struggle with pain has given us the ability to overcome many an obstacle that blocks our path. The key is opening our eyes to this fact. We may not be able to run marathons or lift up a school bus with one hand, but we can endure through hardships and pain that most people would quake under.

Today, remember that under that pain-riddled flesh and blood is an inner superhero that is daily striving to endure.  It was Buddha that once said,

“Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.”


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New York Compost Box Project

Thema: Composting made easy for New Yorkers on the go. Beschreibung: City dwellers looking to dispose of organic material while keeping their communities green will have another way to pitch in amid the changing media landscape. Those ubiquitous newspaper boxes that have lain dormant with the rise of the web have found new life – … Weiterlesen

Moving Kiruna

Thema: An entire Swedish city is getting moved. Beschreibung: The city of Kiruna has to move. A vast body of iron ore is being extracted at Kirunavaara on the western border of the city, causing deformation and subsidence effects which will soon reach the city centre. The city of Kiruna, in the north of Sweden … Weiterlesen

Tube Tongues

Thema: A map showing which languages are most common at every tube station in London. Beschreibung: Each tube station has a circle coloured by, after English, the language most spoken by locals. The area of the circle is proportional to the percentage that speak this language – so a circle where 10% of local people … Weiterlesen

Thema: A mapping standard offering easy to read, easy to memorize and easy to use subway network maps. Beschreibung: The crowded central area of most cities is enlarged to make room for the multiplicity of lines and connecting stations. A standard set of symbol is applied to all maps: line colors, stations, connections, line and … Weiterlesen

1000 Start-ups @ La Halle Freyssinet

Thema: The Worlds largest digital business incubator. Beschreibung: As from 2016 Paris will house the world’s largest digital business incubator. Located in the renovated Halle Freyssinet building in the heart of the city, this future driver of digital entrepreneurship in France will host 1,000 innovative start-ups from all sectors of industry. The start-ups will have … Weiterlesen

The Garden Bridge

Thema: An urban vision. Beschreibung: The Garden Bridge will be a new public garden planted on a bridge that will link the South Bank to Temple station and the Strand. The structure will widen and narrow across its span to create a dynamic crossing experience for London’s pedestrians. This new footbridge will create a unique … Weiterlesen

13 Portals

Thema: The 13 Portals is an interactive street art experience combining technology, art, urban space and community. Beschreibung: Artists Pérola Bonfanti and Nicolina of The Free Art Society have created 13 site-specific, hand painted murals. Each mural will appear in an abandoned doorway every Saturday accompanied by a theatrical happening and a chance to score … Weiterlesen

Urban Air

Thema: A global art-in-public sitework. Beschreibung: Urban Air transforms existing urban billboards into living, suspended bamboo gardens. Embedded with intelligent technology, Urban Air becomes a global node — an open space in the urban skyline. An artwork, symbol, and instrument for a green future. Urban Air has been designed, engineered, and has secured the billboards … Weiterlesen

REVOLVE Detroit – Retail Evolution

Thema: Transforming neighborhoods into vibrant retail districts, revolutionizing the retail recruitment process, creating venues for new business ventures, re-imaging neighborhoods through creative expression. Beschreibung: REVOLVE Detroit is a collaborative program of the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation that partners with community leaders, building owners, entrepreneurs, and artists to activate vacant storefronts with transformational businesses and art … Weiterlesen

Thema: 3D projection mapping art on a miniature model of Tokyo at a 1:1000 scale. Beschreibung: Symphonize with the world to the ever-evolving city of Tokyo. Participants can enjoy various motifs of the city: „Futuristic City“, „Rock City“, and a traditional Japanese „Beauty of Nature“ motif by pressing the keys on a keyboard, as if … Weiterlesen


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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

The big, bad BAMcinemaFEST begins tomorrow: What a line-up!

Aaron Katz's Cold Weather, New York-premiering at BAM

Marisa Tomei and John C. Reilly and their new movie Cyrus on opening night!  Olivier Assayas in person!  The "soulful" Billy Paul!  Hits from abroad and from SXSW. A mix of movies that includes smart, art, straight, gay, short, full-length, narrative, documentary, and a bunch of special events such as the director's cut of Zodiac, a midnight screening of Maniac and who knows how many other "iac"s.  Whew.  (Part of the great fun of this fest is that, despite its dedication to the celebration of independent film, it remains totally all-over-the-place.)  Best of all  is that this year, the exclusive BAMcinemaFEST sponsor is... wait for it: The Wall Street Journal  (What?  Rupert? The only walking/talking definition of "higher power"?  Yikes!  Well, he's gotta do some good, some time.)

There is literally so much going on at this amazing festival -- which takes place at one of our favorite haunts that we wish we could get to more often: Why does Queens-to-Brooklyn seem so much more difficult a trek than Manhattan-to-Brooklyn?  One look at the complete schedule (start here, then hit all the specific links) and you'll be frothing at the mouth and making plans immediately.

We've seen a few of the BAMcinemaFEST films already, including Cyrus, the opening-night feature -- which is a simply amazing blend of chemistry between actors (above, left to right: Tomei, Hill, Reilly and Keener) and chemistry between characters; a non-stop delight and a great choice for an "independent" opening night.  The Duplass brothers have here gone from mumblecore to mainstream/
independent in one fell (and fab) swoop.  And don't worry: if you miss the film (or the said-to-be-great-fun opening night party that your ticket stub will let you into), Fox Searchlight is distributing Cyrus -- later this month.

Also on the program is Valhallah Rising, the new film from Nicolas Winding Refn who gave us the Pusher trilogy and last year's Bronson.  Unlike his earlier movies, this one goes for "art" but comes out "fart" -- overlaying glacial pacing with oodles of slo-mo (a questionable combination) along with gore and gorgeous scenery (this combo works a bit better).  The always fine Mads Mikkelsen (above) stars as a mute, one-eyed, killing-machine hero (yet another odd mix).  IFC Films will release this one in theaters and On-Demand soon.

Another premier, hailing from IFC On-Demand, is Lovers of Hate (above), a more-or-less mumblecore mix (with more shouting) that debuted at SxSW and definitely has its moments (I covered the film earlier here).

One film worth seeing that does not yet have distribution (I can't imagine why: it's a documentary about four Iraq war vets returning home to start their post-service life) is How to Fold a Flag, from Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker, who earlier gave us Gunner Palace.  Their four vets are very different, but each has a great story to tell, whose outcomes run the gamut.  The filmmakers are deeply sympathtic, as they were in their earlier doc -- without any undue agenda-pushing.  The guys (one of which is shown above, with flag and gun) -- so different and so "American" -- are definitely worth spending your time with.

These are but four of the16 New York premieres (and one U.S. premier) in this 12-day celebration of independent cinema. A film that TrustMovies is really looking forward to is Cold Weather, pictured at top, from Aaron Katz, the man who made my favorite Mumblecore so far, Quiet City.  (And we haven't even gotten into the short films!)  So click on that link, independent-movie fans, and get started.

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(Weekly Column)

Rowan County clerk Kim Davis is in the pokey – exactly where she belongs.

Citing “God’s Law” she arrogantly thought she could abrogate Caesar’s law by refusing to marry gay couples. While right wing activists are foolishly trying to portray her as a modern day Martin Luther King Jr., she will be remembered as a contemporary George Wallace, the segregationist Alabama governor.Tony-Perkins

Tellingly, Davis would not allow willing clerks in her office to marry same-sex couples, elevating her Jurassic beliefs over theirs. Although married four times, Davis dug-in and preened as marriage’s great savior. While she rots in jail, the opportunistic right wing organizations that exploited Davis will parade her mug shot next to shiny donate buttons on their websites. They will send out breathless direct mail campaigns, riling up yahoos, so the panicked will part with their paychecks.

In a money-grubbing frenzy, the Family Research Council, (Josh Duggar’s former employer) is ratcheting up the red meat rhetoric. In one direct mail piece, FRC offers an avalanche of lies and hysteria with the group making the bogus claim that the Supreme Court’s ruling is forcing churches to participate in same-sex weddings.

“Not long ago, liberals were insisting that churches would never be forced to violate their faith in the event of pro-same-sex marriage ruling. Now, in the blink of an eye, the march toward oppression is on,” Perkins wrote in his direct mailer.

Of course, not a single church in the U.S. has been forced to hold weddings for gay couples. This has never been a goal of the LGBT movement because it is undesirable and unconstitutional. But this does not stop the fomenting of fear to bilk Christians, who are made to quiver and quake at FRC’s militant and manufactured gay marriage mirage.

In their latest direct mailer, FRC disingenuously writes on the outside of the envelope: “After the disastrous same-sex marriage ruling – here comes the CRACKDOWN ON CHRISTIANS.”

In this histrionic letter, FRC’s President Tony Perkins bellows:

“I told you barely eight weeks ago that I believed a crackdown was coming and your own religious freedom would be in jeopardy. I didn’t know it would hit this fast and this hard…What we’ve witnessed since the same sex marriage ruling is a colossal push toward snuffing out your most cherished freedom, your religious freedom — your right to believe – crushing your constitutional rights as a Christian by forcing you to embrace practices that contradict biblical truth…the onslaught is underway.”

Perkins and his ilk are deliberately undermining the rule of law and speak the fraught, yet barely coded, language of insurrection. They ferociously rip at the nation’s fabric and deliberately attack the underpinnings of democracy, blithely unconcerned that the end result is anarchy and chaos. If every person got to decide which laws to follow based on individual belief, our country would collapse and have as much stability as The Purge. Perhaps, that’s what Perkins genuinely wants – so he can marshal his brigade of bigots to fill the power vacuum and install the theocracy he seemingly pines for.

More disturbing is that the Religious Right’s overheated language may lead to hate crimes. If gullible followers are deceived into believing “enemies” are “snuffing out” religious freedom, and “crushing” their constitutional rights, some may feel compelled to resort to violence.

The rabidly anti-gay protesters in front of the Rowan County courthouse last week proved that there is no shortage of zealots, many of whom own guns. It is irresponsible for Perkins to incite these unstable powder kegs, with reckless rhetoric that doesn’t match reality.

Factually, Perkins and those who echo his anachronistic views are wrong. He claims that Christians will be forced to “embrace practices that contradict biblical truth.” What he is doing, however, is conflating “embracing” with having to deal professionally with members of the public that fundamentalists find distasteful. Simply working with or serving people with differing views or backgrounds is not embracing them. It is not forcing anyone to surrender his or her view of “biblical truth.”

No one was forcing Kim Davis, for example, to marry a woman against her will. She was simply asked to do her job and provide state documents to gay couples whose marriages have been ruled constitutionally legal. But the hypocritical Davis and the self-righteous Perkins have cunningly redefined religious freedom to go far beyond an individual’s ability to practice their faith unencumbered.

They erroneously believe that religious liberty includes expressing moral disapproval while working at taxpayer-funded jobs, persecuting minorities without consequence, and refusing service to customers they look down upon. But such intolerance only curtails the rights and freedom of others, while adding no appreciative expansion of religious expression to those discriminating.

Freedom of religion allows a person to live by his or her conscience, not commit unconscionable acts against others in the guise of liberty.


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Thursday, October 27, 2016

Allegory Gallery's Magic Potion Special Challenge Reveal

Look at the beautiful beady goodness!
Today is the reveal date for Allegory Gallery's Magic Potion Challenge.  This is one of their "Special" challenges in that one does not know what the kit will include.  The only "clue" was the above graphic.  I have participated in the challenges before, but this was the first "special" one I tried.  Boy, was I ever glad I joined!  One of my favorite colors is purple and this kit was loaded with purples.

Magic Potion Bracelet
Andrew Thornton creates beautiful pendants for these challenges and this time along with the pendant we received a bonus of two star rounds which I knew I'd make earrings out of.  The pendant has stars and swirls on it and is one of my favorites.

The first item I made was a bracelet using the pendant Andrew made and the wonderful large acrylic and glass beads.  There was a black bead with sparkles in it that is absolutely lovely, but unfortunately the photo does not do it justice.  I happened to have a small purple button that matched the colors too - bonus!

Magic Potion Necklace

Next I made this necklace.  I used the black Obsidian(?) chips, the silver rectangle beads and the small deep red rounds.  I added some vintage crystal roundels and a large dark red faceted round I had for the pendant.

 I made a few pair of earrings to go with the necklace.
 Then I finished (last night!) with the earrings I originally thought to make.

I think that wax linen cord just makes earrings fun so I used that to add shimmery purples to the bottom of the star rounds.  The best part of all is that I still have plenty of beads left over for more projects!  Thank you Andrew and Allegory Gallery : )

Stop by the Allegory Gallery Design Challenges Facebook page for all the other items that were made for this special challenge.

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United Coal Company

United Coal Company is the sixth largest metallurgical coal producer in the U.S., with an annual volume of more than 4 million tons.

Over the years, UCC has pursued an aggressive growth plan, adding new equipment and upgrades to ensure safe, environmentally friendly operations at all of its locations. The company owns 17 mines in three states and employs more than 1,200 people.

In August 2009, United Coal Company moved into its new corporate headquarters at 110 Sprint Drive in Blountville, Tenn. A staff of 34 employees work out of the Blountville office, which combines all corporate activities and executives in one location, including legal counsel, risk management, accounting, purchasing, information technology, human resources and sales – departments previously located in Teays Valley, W.Va., and Bristol, Va.

Headquartered in Blountville, Tenn., the company operates six subsidiaries in three states:

Kentucky Operations

  • Sapphire Coal Company – Whitesburg, Ky.

Virginia Operations

  • Wellmore Coal Company – Big Rock, Va.

West Virginia Operations

  • Affinity Coal Company – Midway, W.Va.
  • Carter Roag Coal Company – Mill Creek, W.Va.
  • Pocahontas Coal Company – Beckley, W.Va.
  • Roaring Creek Coal Company – Elkins W. Va.

In 2010, United Coal Company launched its third subsidiary in West Virginia, Affinity Coal Company, by opening an idled coal mine and constructing a new preparation plant. Affinity is a key addition to UCC and its parent company, Metinvest – providing high-quality metallurgical coal for global markets.

Located in Midway, W.Va., Affinity’s 1,000 ton-per-hour preparation plant is supported by a reopened coal mine that was operational in the 1930s. The project brings 250-plus jobs to the area and represents a significant investment – $115 million – in the local economy.  Affinity is a vital contributor to West Virginia’s tax base, at an estimated $4.5 million per year.

This leading metallurgical coal mine is meeting the ever-changing demands of the steel industry, producing 1.4 million tons* per year at full production, using four super-section, continuous miner units. Approximately 50 percent* of the coal produced at Affinity is used for domestic steel production. Affinity coal reserves total 40 million* clean tons.

Carter Roag Coal Company has operated as a subsidiary of United Coal Company since 2004, when UCC purchased permitted reserves in Randolph and Upshur counties in West Virginia. The property had produced mid- to high-volatile metallurgical Sewell coal for several decades.

Carter Roag now has more than 100 employees and mines 600,000 tons of coal annually. The company operates one deep mine – Pleasant Hill – located near Mill Creek, W.Va. Pleasant Hill is the only operating underground mine in Randolph County. Carter Roag’s coal preparation facility, the Star Bridge plant near Helvetia, W.Va., is a 500-ton-per-hour operation.

In 2005, United Coal Company purchased the assets of Beckley, W.Va.-based White Mountain Mining Co., LLC and certain affiliates to establish Pocahontas Coal Company. Pocahontas employs more than 230 people, with operations in the communities of Killarney, Josephine and Lillybrook located in southern Raleigh County, W.Va.

The company’s annual coal production capacity is more than 1 million tons, with reserves totaling 72 million recoverable tons of low-volatile metallurgical coal.

Pocahontas has three deep mines, a surface mine and two highwall miner operations. These mining operations are supported by the recently upgraded East Gulf preparation plant and coal-loading facilities.

Sapphire Coal Company was formed in 2004 out of the former assets of Golden Oak Mining and Cook & Sons Mining in Letcher County. Sapphire now employs more than 200 people and ships more than 1 million clean tons of coal a year.

With operations located in Letcher and Knott counties, Sapphire’s primary focus is the production of high Btu steam coal from the traditional eastern Kentucky strata, including the Hazard, Amburgy, Elkhorn and Whitesburg seams.

Sapphire’s operations include two underground mines and one surface mine – UZ, Advantage and Smoot Creek Surface. Sapphire’s upgraded 1,100-ton-per-hour preparation plant is one of the largest and most efficient operations of its kind in eastern Kentucky. The plant is on the same site as the high-speed, four-hour unit train loadout served by the CSX line.

We continue to expand our coal reserves and seek opportunities to develop new mines.

In 2006, United Coal Company purchased The Rapoca Group, LLC, headquartered in Bristol, Va., and renamed the operation Wellmore Coal Company in recognition of United Coal’s origins in Buchanan County.

Wellmore has both company-owned and contract operations that include two company-operated underground mines, five company-operated surface mines, seven contract mines, three shops, two preparation plants and rail-loading facilities, a lab and administration office – for a total of 360 employees.

The company’s reserves, which total more than 55 million tons, are primarily mid/high-volatile metallurgical reserves and low-sulfur steam reserves in the Splashdam, Banner, Glamorgan, Jawbone and Hagy seams. Wellmore’s deep and surface mining operations are located throughout Buchanan, Tazewell and Dickenson counties in Southwest Virginia, with additional reserves located in Pike County, Ky., and McDowell County, W.Va.

The company’s Splashdam reserves are some of the most sought-after mid/high-volatile metallurgical coals in the Central Appalachian basin – supplying both domestic and international markets. Wellmore produces approximately 1.8 million tons of coal and is poised to re-emerge as a dominant supplier of mid/high-volatile metallurgical coal.


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