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lots of places
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Benjamin Earl has created a masterpiece for this moment.
In his Real Coin Magic dvd he explains his effect Primary Movement. For the size of my hands it actually works even better with a ring which I'm wearing anyway. It's also just an incredible trick.
Follow this up with Pocket Time Machine and you have a beautiful sequence that has a feeling of finality. That's all they should ask to see.
We should all be in a constant state of wonder
Loyal user
207 Posts
I absolutely appreciate your input, Dick. It seems to me, you know what is important and you teach it.
PM it is!
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Those who think that magic consists of doing tricks are strangers to magic. Tricks are only the crude residue from which the lifeblood of magic has been drained."
- S.H. Sharpe
Dick Oslund
Inner circle
8360 Posts
On Jan 10, 2019, Doctor Zolar wrote:
It's a free country! OPINIONS are always welcome. If I have an opinion about something, I write "IMO" (in my opinion).
You started your comment with "IF", then proceeded to express your opinion(s) as facts.
I would suggest that you read, FITZKEE!
Doctor Zolar
Regular user
El Paso TX
133 Posts
I must start EVERY post now with: "In My Opinion."
(as if it's not OBVIOUS what ANYONE says is not words coming out of their mouth and IS their OPINION, and from THEIR View Point.)
(We are not a Borg Collective.)
So, IMO,
Back to the Original Post of TRICKS I carry with me.
I wear jeans (blue or black) with the little watch pocket 99% of the time.
All of my Carry Around Tricks are in there.
Each trick or apparatus is in a SOFT Coin Flap. Soft with rounded corners.
SOFT so it will fold easily without crispy-crunchy breaking or cracking.
In each SOFT Coin Flap I carry:
1. Gypsy thread on a small card in one flap all by itself.
2. A regular Large Eisenhower Dollar and one with a [ (So that's both sides of the flaps.)
3. A TRIPLE TUC Eisenhower Dollar and a regular Eisenhower Dollar on the other side of the flap.
The TRIPLE TUC can also be used just like a TUC.
So, I've got up to 15 minutes of material right there.
The SOFT Coin Flaps fit nicely in the "watch pocket" that comes on Levi Jeans.
I'm also wearing a ring, so that's another 2 minutes worth of material, similar to all the single coin routines/ transpositions.
As well as, MY Gypsy Thread is actually a Gypsy Yarn, so is big enough to be seen for 20-30 feet and use the Restored Yarn piece and ring together or use the Gypsy YARN for an additional cut routine like a regular cut and restored rope. Cutting the YARN with scissors in the middle (as a regular cut & restored rope). So, that's 2 uses of the Gypsy YARN.
I do not do any tricks that require laying anything on a table, so can be done stand up or sit down . . . AT . . . a table.
Many restaurant or bar - pub tables ARE WET. (Drinks, food, coffee, crumbs, etc.) that get in the way and are messy.
Or there is simply NO ROOM left on any table. Too many glasses, dishes, phones, etc.
I don't want to get my props wet and sticky.
I start any trick with "My dad showed me a magic trick one day."
So, now there is an excuse for carrying what MIGHT BE a coin my dad gave me. . .
All in my "watch pocket."
Inner circle
2709 Posts
Doctor Zolar, with everything in that pocket, shouldn't it be called a 'watch this' pocket?
I appreciate the minimum for maximum.
Doctor Zolar
Regular user
El Paso TX
133 Posts
On Jan 12, 2019, Wravyn wrote:
This stuff is not in the way and I don't carry any outside things/ deck of cards, etc.
Who carries a deck of cards in public ? No one.
Manufactured stuff like Okito coin boxes and cards and silks just scream: "I've been waiting for you !"
One coin routines with a regular silver dollar are great !
I gotta work on that more.
The silver dollar is easier for ME to palm and work with.
I thought it would be too large. But, actually easier than half dollars.
Im trying to get/ look very impromptu.
The sliding scale of believably is greater when they are not expecting "a magician."
(After a while. . . it would be obvious when I end up doing 12 things with a single silver dollar !)
But, in the beginning . . . I drop them.
If I'm "hired", to do a show, well, fine. I perform magic. OK.
I say: "Sometimes people will say that I do miracles . . . (pause. . .)
and some people will say that I do magic tricks. You'll have to decide on your own !"
Inner circle
2709 Posts
ThatŌĆÖs a great saying Doctor Z... miracles...tricks...decide on your own. Wish I would have thought of that.
I too feel that in an impromptu performance, it should not look/feel as if one was ŌĆśloaded for bear.ŌĆÖ There are plenty of things already around that one can use in an impromptu setting, though I too carry a few items. In a JOL Himber Coin Wallet I have my HH set and Steve DushekŌĆÖs Copper Silver Transpo; 90% of the time I have a TT and my imagination on what IŌĆÖm going to do with it; I carry John CŌĆÖs Ultimate Positive Negative in my wallet; and a Hot Rod. I also have a card trick with no cards used which has a home in my wallet.
Loyal user
214 Posts
When I'm in the mood, I like carrying the self-tying shoelaces. It's so quick and visual
My new effect: www.penguinmagic.com/p/10638
New user
7 Posts
I carry two lengths of rope, a TT and streamer, bubbles, chinese laundry ticket and a knot. One of the lengths of rope is long enough for me to quickly into a Professor's Nightmare, though it's been a long time since I've had to. The long rope goes over my neck and down each sleeve, short rope coiled in left suitcoat pocket. TT/streamer in right suit pocket, along with knot. The bubbles go in a pen-sized container in my inside left breast pocket. I also wear a ring that can be used as well. This is enough for any impromptu situation I've encountered and these 8+ effects can be leveraged into quite a LONG presentation for a group of formerly unruly kids at the gate in an airport when the flight kept getting delayed (yeah, that happened... and the Moms were incredibly grateful for my impromptu magic show at the gate that kept the kids engaged until the flight was FINALLY called... I had my yo-yo in my pocket, too, and that helped as well). I've found that many new magicians think they need to rapid-fire a boatload of "tricks" when actually very few effects are needed to engage and entertain the audience. Just keep your best one as your "closer."
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Regular user
198 Posts
Classic tt, ks tt, modified ks tt some bills and 2 diamond cut silks.
Special user
684 Posts
I'll bring my phone and wallet almost everywhere... it contains everything I need to amaze people......
Magical Moments
Loyal user
215 Posts
I sometimes carry around a small travel bag with a few coin effects, a hot rod or two, a card packet trick, and whatever I feel like stuffing in there which will fit.
Other times, I will place a Tenyo trick or two in a jacket pocket along with Professors Nightmare and whatever else I feel like performing that day such as Sponge Balls. It is mostly a mood thing.
One thing for sure is that I always prefer to use tricks which I have been doing for a long time. That is when I am most comfortable and do my best work.
Inner circle
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I try not to carry too much nowadays, always a couple of coins (a Morgan and a dollar size Chinese coin usually), sometimes a deck of cards now, or I just wear Sankey's "Leaving Home" key around my neck for an unforgettable on-the-spot moment.
But for "just in case," I always have in the back of my mind the old "Hoy Book Test," for those times when I'm around some books or magazines. Always blows people completely away. And what's great is that it takes up absolutely no space in your pockets, so nothing to "carry." Just a wonderful old effect that's still one of the very best to have on you...just in case!
*Check out my latest: Gifts From The Old Country: A Mini-Magic Book, MBs Mini-Lecture on Coin Magic, The MB Tanspo PLUS, MB's Morgan, Copper Silver INC, Double Trouble, FlySki, Crimp Change - REDUX!, and other fine magic at gumroad.com/mb217magic
"Believe in YOU, and you will see the greatest magic that ever was." -Mb
Jed Maxwell
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136 Posts
On Apr 30, 2019, Mb217 wrote:
I agree. I am always on the look out to use it. I use Andrew Gerard's "Gerard on Hoy" take on the book test and when meeting someone new will always suggest a coffee in a near-by bookstore. A IP, gimmicked Sharpie, and a loop makes up my EDC.
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I love the idea of learning & creating impromptu magic that packs small & plays big, & doesn't require really going out of your way to make sure you carry with you extra props & take up a ton of extra pocket space, so I like magic that uses objects that I always have with me anyway.
We all have cell phones, & there is tons of great impromptu magic using just the phone, or using apps, most of which are free, especially lots of mentalism, there should be no excuse for not being able to do at least one thing with a phone, in some cases, even a borrowed phone. Lots of tricks you can learn for free right now on Youtube, especially on Rich Ferguson's channel, among many others. One other effect that came out recently that got me excited about potential phone magic is Blake Vogt's impromptu phone vanish, absolutely brilliant!
Lots of magic that can be done impromptu with bills, such as Andrew Mayne's Infusion/Ghost Bills, Dan Harlan's impromptu stuff such as Presidential Expression/Suspended Funds, & on & on. I've also come up with a couple quick impromptu things that pretty much any magician can figure out how to do, such as making a credit card rise out of the wallet, & a couple others.
Two words- RING THING!!! One of the most visually brilliant pieces of magic with endless creative applications, I cant give this concept & Garrett Thomas enough props, I'm so jealous that I didn't think of it first, & is THE reason why I ALWAYS wear a ring. That, and another masterpiece, PINNACLE, which finally leads to...
This is pretty much the only acception to the rule of carrying something that a normal spectator most likely wouldnt always carry with them, rubberbands. But, these still don't get carried in the pocket, I always carry a bunch on my wrist, much like Im sure most everyone else that does rubberbands does. Again, one of the greatest, most visually shocking & favorite pieces is the rubber spaghetti. You know a trick is good when people who see it request to see it over & over & over, & a perfect opener/attention getter to start off ANY magic set.
NO PROPS- Body magic, body stunts, strength tests, mentalism, hypnotism, pick pocketing, levitation
& then of course, finally, there is an arsenal of effects that uses NO props, & I am determined to one day put together an entire one man no prop stage show as an experiment see to how far the concept of no prop magic can be taken, as well as creating entire walk around routines for restaurant work.
I love this concept, because it makes YOU the magic, not the props you are handling. A magician essentially has "magic powers", super powers so to speak. Does Superman need "props" to demonstrate his magic powers? Heat vision? Super breath? Super strength? Flying? No way! The closer we can get to that, the more magical we can appear to be. And we can demonstrate SOME of these powers. Super strength? You bet, ala The Georgia Magnet tests. Super breath? Absolutely! A PK effect where you move something, in particular, something heavy, but pretend you're using your breath, this could be accomplished. Flight? Kind of. We have the Balducci levitation/King Rising, which both is also no props. A few sources include Stephen Ablett's Body Tricks DVD, John Fisher's Body Magic book, James Coats No Props Needed DVD & more.
Special user
744 Posts
I'll carry Extreme Burn in my wallet. Packs small and makes sense to always be in my wallet. Organic and feels impromptu.
I also wear a finger ring all the time so I can do effects like Circuit, Divorce, Reflex, Ring Thing, etc.
I also have an iPhone so I'll use apps such as ear worm or inject along with my calculator app to perform toxic.
Everything I mentioned I keep on me basically 100% of the time so I am always ready to do an impromptu set for about 10 minutes or so if the situation ever arises. Not to mention using any object around me to perform with such as borrowed coins, napkins, etc.
Visit my online store at http://www.obrienmagic.com/magic-shop
Special user
744 Posts
I'll carry Extreme Burn in my wallet. Packs small and makes sense to always be in my wallet. Organic and feels impromptu.
I also wear a finger ring all the time so I can do effects like Circuit, Divorce, Reflex, Ring Thing, etc.
I also have an iPhone so I'll use apps such as ear worm or inject along with my calculator app to perform toxic.
Everything I mentioned I keep on me basically 100% of the time so I am always ready to do an impromptu set for about 10 minutes or so if the situation ever arises. Not to mention using any object around me to perform with such as borrowed coins, napkins, etc.
Visit my online store at http://www.obrienmagic.com/magic-shop
Regular user
149 Posts
I'm putting together my first EDC kit and so far it consists of:
A deck of cards (prepped for Angle Z with Pass Through reveal).
A finger ring will be added in due course, as will a half dollar and English penny once my skills improve.
New user
55 Posts
Imbert wallet
deck of cards
piece of paper
New user
36 Posts
I always have card warp with me. That has been my go-to pocket trick for over 30 years.
I must have done it many hundreds of times by now. Always plays well.
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Today, with the new normal of low oil prices, the need to mitigate costly hydrocarbon measurement and sampling errors is more important than ever before. So, what can industry decision makers do to address issues with these important industry functions? The answer lies with innovative mobile and digital solutions.
In this post, we'll take a look at some of the unique possibilities for mobile and emerging technology in oil and gas measurement and sampling.
Across the global onshore and offshore oil and gas industry, samples are collected for natural gas, NGLS, crude oil and condensate, and then sent to a lab for analysis.
Because of the vital role analysis results play in the industry — such as supporting the creation of sales contracts and protecting an operator from potential legal risk — it's important that a sample get to the lab safely and with a documented chain of custody.
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A chain of custody form includes information about where the sample was taken, the method of sampling, and specific testing requirements for the lab. The form also contains a record of all individuals who've had physical possession of the sample along its journey.
The chain of custody is nearly as important as the sample itself. A lost chain of custody form or an improperly completed chain of custody form compromises the analysis results — which can have a serious financial impact on the operator if for any reason a claim is made against them relative to the asset composition or quality.
How a Sample Currently Gets from the Lab to the Field
After a representative sample is collected at the wellsite, the customary industry process for sending a sample to a lab constitutes a measurement technician or other stakeholder completing a hardcopy chain of custody form in the field. This form travels with the sample from the point of sample collection to its destination.
Unfortunately, the current process for handling a custody transfer form between the field and the lab is not ideal because there's a risk of forms getting lost or completed improperly.
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In today's digital environment, the ubiquitous nature of mobile devices provides an excellent opportunity for operators or third party oilfield services providers that collect samples for clients to adopt a solution that ensures a reliable, digitally documented chain of custody.
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While measurement technicians receive extremely helpful information to aid them in their jobs thanks to technology, in the near future, digital technology is certain to help connect these technicians to the tools and resources they rely upon anywhere they go.
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Some of the challenges measurement technicians currently face in the field include staying up to date with regulations and industry standard tools. For measurement technicians employed by contract service providers or new hires at upstream oil and gas companies, staying on top of the operator's exacting standard operating procedure can also present a challenge.
To help overcome some of these challenges, augmented reality (AR) technology, which superimposes a computer-generated image on a user's view of the real world, could help measurement technicians tackle some of their most important tasks in the very near future.
Here's how a scenario with AR might play out:
A measurement technician arrives at a site to calibrate a gas meter. He puts on a wearable device (AR glasses) before he gets out of his truck. The first thing he sees is his job order and the correct industry standard tools needed. Once in front of the meter, the technician selects a step-by-step procedure for completing the job; this procedure guides the technician through the job with superimposed computer-generated images. Towards the end of the procedure, the technician mistakenly puts the orifice plate in backwards — a potentially costly error — and an alert immediately appears notifying him the plate needs to be put in the proper way.
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The past fifteen years have witnessed an increasing interest in the cognitive study of the bilingual. A major reason why psychologists, psycholinguists, applied linguists, neuropsychologists, and educators have pursued this topic at an accelerating pace presumably is the acknowledgment by increasingly large numbers of language researchers that the incidence of monolingualism in individual language users may be lower than that of bilingualism. This alleged numerical imbalance between monolinguals and bilinguals may be expected to become larger due to increasing international travel through, for instance, tourism and trade, to the growing use of international communication networks, and to the fact that in some parts of the world (i.e., Europe), the borders between countries are effectively disappearing.
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Bridgeton's MSP, John Mason, has slammed Glasgow City Council for its continued lack of information, progress and communication in relation to the damaged building on London Road, which has been closed since 13th January 2012. Mr Mason has been asking the council to provide information and advice as to when the road will reopen, and has offered to help if the legislation needs changed, but the MSP has received no information or communication from Glasgow City Council since early February.
Having received no response from the Council's Chief Executive, Mr Mason has since referred the matter to the Scottish Government.
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"The slow rate of progress and lack of information from Glasgow City Council on this matter is totally unacceptable and I am extremely disappointed with their lack of action.
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La Tautou to Call It Quits?
Audrey Tautou, the irresistible jolie môme of French cinema, has told Benjamin Secher of The Telegraph (Audrey Tautou: 'I didn't want this power', August 7) that she will soon give up her acting career altogether.
Suddenly it is clear. To listen to Tautou talk about her career, in a turbulent mixture of French and English, is to hear an actress whose attitude towards her own fame and success is increasingly ambivalent. In fact, if she belongs alongside another French actress, perhaps it is Brigitte Bardot (although physically they could hardly be more incongruous). At the height of her fame and with audiences still going gaga for her, Bardot dramatically severed her ties to cinema, never to return to the screen – a coup that Tautou appears increasingly ready to emulate.I can understand her embarrassment about being in The Da Vinci Code, but she could just decide not to make any more bad movies, instead of quitting altogether.
Following The Da Vinci Code, Tautou says she took the decision "to calm everything down", turning her back on the kind of international fame that most actresses would kill for. Why? "Because it didn't suit me," she says. "It is not the way I want to live my life. I confess, my father doesn't understand. If I tell him I'm not planning to take a job for a year, he frowns, he worries. I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not." That may sound like a riddle of the kind that Eric Cantona would once have relished, but her gist is transparent enough: if you want to see Tautou on screen again, you shouldn't hang about.


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So, I'm sitting in Stormwind on the 3.0.2 PTR server, relearning Inscription for my Inscription levelling guide, and I'm idly watching trade chat go by.
The number of people who expect Northrend to be in the 3.0.2 patch is astounding. I mourn for the lost arts of reading comprehension.
(In other news, yes, this means the Inscription levelling guide will be here shortly. Glad I held off; there have been a number of changes made very recently.)


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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
This tutorial is of my own creation and any resemblance to any other tuts is purely coincidental. This tutorial is for personal use only, using it for monetary gain is against our TOU's.
Supplies Needed:
~Gimp (any version will do).
~Lucky Irish PTU scrapkit by Desirena Designs which you can find @ PSP Tubes Emporium HERE. This kit will be available 2-15-12.
~Tube of choice. I used the artwork of Shawli, you must have a license to use this art. You can also purchase this art from PTE HERE.This tube will be available 2-15-12.
~Template of choice. I used Leah's template 55 which you can get on our blog HERE.
~Font of choice. I used Mail Ray Stuff.
Let's get started!!!
1. Open a new layer ( I prefer a large canvas, so I make mine 1050x656). Make your canvas transparent (Layer > Transparency > Color to Alpha).
2. Open template in PSD format, remove and move layers of template around until they are the way you like them.
~Add paper from scrapkit to individual layers of the template (Right click on template layer in layer box > Alpha to Selection > CTRL I > Select paper layer in layer box > Delete).
These are the papers I used:
Paper 1
Paper 5
Paper 8
~I added noise to some of the template layers to make them look glittery (Filters > Noise > RGB Noise).
~I colorized some of the template layers to better match the scrapkit (Colors > Colorize > play with the setting until you get the desired color).
~Add drop shadow to template layers (Filters > Light & Shadow > Drop Shadow).
3. Open tube, add drop shadow.
4. Open and place the following elements: Rainbow Glitter 2 Pot of Gold Coin 1 Coin 2 Shamrock 1 Shamrock 2 Mushroom Mushroom 2 Clover Clovers Doodle 2 Horseshoe Flower 1 Flower 2 Flower 3 Flower 4
~Some of the elements may need to be sized down. Using your scale tool in your tool box adjust the pixel size until element is the correct size~
~Add drop shadow to all elements (except rainbow)~
5. Merge Layers (Image > Merge Visible Layers).
6. Crop Image (Image > Autocrop Image).
7. Scale image to desired size (Image > Scale Image).
8. Add copyright info and name.
9. Save as .png
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Oct. 4, 2013. On Sept. 30 Boone Police discovered that a convicted felon, Ryan Dean Walsh, 37, of Mountain City, Tenn., had pawned a firearm to a local pawn shop. Boone Police interviewed Mr. Walsh and he was subsequently placed under arrest and charged with one count of felony possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
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Sticky fingaz
I don't know
[Chorus: repeat 2X]
I don't know what I want to do with you
I don't know what I want to do without you
I don't know what I'm gonna do about you, you, you, you
Let's go, Starsky and Hutch man
Fire and Stick
Light ya blunts up, light ya blunts up
Yo, yo
[Fredro Starr]
I'm 'bout to hit the club
I don't know, on which truck I'm drivin tonight
It's like, I don't know, on which ho I'm fuckin tonight
But yo, I don't know, where should I take her
To the edge water cliffs or back to Southside Jamaica
Bitches be like, I don't know, where they get they clothes from
Industry like, I don't know, where they get they flows from
Niggaz be like, I don't know, where they get they dough from
Posin up in the clubs with guns or wrist frozen
I don't know, nothin when the cops come, I act dumb
I don't know, what weed officer? What gats, huh?
I don't know, shit I told the judge, this is love my nigga, this is negative love
Sticky my cous' said
[Sticky Fingaz]
I don't know, how the hell I got home last night
I don't know, how I blew twenty g's in one night
I don't know, but all I remember's two hos from Virginia out cold like December
Neighbors be like, I don't know, how could they afford that crib they in
I don't know, what these boys do for a livin, shoot
I don't know, but it must be drugs cause they have wild parties and they dress like thugs
Ask myself but, I don't know, why I flooded the watch, flooded the chain
I don't know, why I copped the Benz at a hundred and change
I don't know, why I'm stuck in my ways
And took back the new Hummer when I seen the new Range
They all say
[Sticky Fingaz]
Yo, where the money at? I don't know
What? You better tell me where the safe at, I don't know
Don't say that one more time, I ain't playin that, I don't know
Ugh, that's the last straw, cocked back the four, put his brains on the wall
I'm in the club and, I don't know, if these little groupies is givin it up
I don't know, should I try to spit game to her friend or just her?
I don't know, what the hell I told her
Though I took her home by the morn', ended up with both of them
[Fredro Starr]
A'yo it musta been God yo cause, I don't know
How we made it out of them projects
I don't know, should I cop the Benz Coupe or the drop Lex
I don't know, should I do it out of spite, twenty niggaz on the bikes, doin
wheelies to the lights
Hos was like, I don't know, I guess they from New York the way that they talk
I don't know, I guess she from L.A. the way that she walk
I don't know, on where you want to chill
Put your ass on the back and we could slide through the hill
Baby it's real, I don't know, on what you fools thinkin you musta forgot
I don't know, why your bitches call me fire, cause a nigga hot
I don't know, I gutted to Medina, look butter in the Beema, chicks love me in the fever
Kids is like yo
Writers: PATRICK BODMER , PETER HAYO , CHELONIS RIDGEWAY-JONES , PHILIPP JUNG , ARNO KAMMERMEIER , WALTER MERZIGER
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group , Warner Chappell Music , Inc. , Peermusic Publishing , Melodie Der Welt GmbH
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Medical Seminar (Richmond)
November14, 2009
This seminar was held parts of the Bon Air Baptist Church where Richmond Japanese School is located.
We invited a Japanese doctor from Virginia Commonwealth University, Dr. Yasutaka Oda ( The Resuscitation of the Heart and the Lungs ------ in readiness for an emergency ) who also gave a lecture in Newport News Japanese School in this September. In addition to his field, Dr. Oda specially gave a lecture about H1N1 influenza, which is a current topic, to meet the demands of people.
His lectures were very interesting to the audience of around twenty-five (25) people. Most people attending were from the Richmond Japanese School.


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Friday February 10th 2017, 11:25 pm
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Filed under: Garden
A few days up in the 60s and nights in the 50s, nice and warm, and the Tropic Snow peach tree declares it spring.
(Meyer lemon in the background looking a little waterlogged after all this rain. Today was the tail end of one storm and yet another is coming next Thursday-Sunday.)
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I have a confession to make: I mostly watch classic movies because I am so often disappointed by the lack of new movies that suit my taste. I seem to like a kind of movie that's no longer being made: witty, clever, fashionable, romantic, funny and with a good, believable happy ending. I faithfully trudge to the video store to pick up the latest releases (I'm too cheap to see them in the theater) and I'm constantly disappointed by the "Along Came Polly" and the "Failure to Launch" of this world. I find some small comfort in a movie like "Two Weeks' Notice" or "50 First Dates" which have a passable combination of humor and romance. But where is the wit? The costumes? The happy ending that doesn't seem glued on but results from the intrinsic natures of the characters themselves? I basically live for Jane Austen novels to be made and re-made as movies...and therefore I must go backward, into the archives, for my "new" movies.
That's why, when I discover a movie like "Forsaking All Others" I feel a sense of triumph equal to an archaeologist stumbling on a Mayan temple - I didn't create it - I didn't exactly "discover" it - I mean, it was there all along - but I have unearthed it again - brought it to light - and now I can share it. These are the moments I live for!
In Forsaking all others you have a classic, perfect love triangle. Mary, Jeff and Dill grew up together and for as long as they can remember, Mary has loved Dill and Jeff has loved Mary - only of course Mary doesn't know that Jeff loves her - and Dill seems to love Mary. Of course, Jeff has gone off to Spain to make his fortune so he can propose to Mary (he doesn't seem to be born to the purple like Mary and Dill seem to have been) - and he comes home, unfortunately for him, on Mary and Dill's wedding night.
Poor Jeffy - they all have nicknames - he takes the news of his beloved's impending marriage well and stands by while all kinds of OTHER hijinks mess it up. He patiently rescues Mary from one scrape after another, cheers her up, puts her back together, chides her - you begin to see how he got the nickname "Uncle Jeff" or why people are constantly referring to him as "like her big brother".
But an interesting thing happens - Jeff continually reveals himself to be competent and resourceful, while Dill just seems more and more childish. Eventually I was yelling at the screen "he's an IDIOT" - and then Kim agreed "yeah, you're right, she IS an idiot." I didn't quibble. You just can't see by the end how Mary ever missed the fact that Jeff has all the same cute punchy playfulness that she loves in Dill but without the helplessness and foolishness.
Okay, I can find no photos to represent this to you, but I MUST say a word about the costumes: there are no words to describe the costumes. I was on the phone with my friend Renea when I got home and I started playing the movie on mute while we were talking. "Oh I wish you could see this outfit," I said, "it's like she's wearing a wedding veil around her neck upside down..." and then I gave up...there just are no words for the wackiness that fashion would tolerate in the 1930s. It was like - hey, prohibition is over and the stock market crashed so we have no actual runway fashion - let's see if we can pull THIS off!
I found a photo, though it hardly does it justice:
It's wild and woolly and in some cases gorgeous - this this is this one weird dress that has all kinds of ropey loops on it that Joan Crawford wears under a sparkly Elvira-like wrap while carrying a similarly ropey evening bag - it's so strange but it's totally flattering - I couldn't take my eyes off it - I sort of missed the importance of the scene she played in it, really, until later.
Apart from the fashion, the entire script is just full of exchanges that boggle the mind, like this one:
(a word of explanation - Paula is some kind of slightly older friend who acts as a sort of mother to Mary - I wonder whether she is a step-mother and the father has passed away, but it's not clear)
Mary: All I know about Spain is that they have bull fights and eat red pepper. What else is there to know?
Jeff: Well that's about all.
[Paula rushes in]
Paula: What have you done with him? Let me look at him! That's what happens the minute you get out of my sight, eating all that native food! Did you wear your rubbers? I understand it rains for months at a time in Spain. And all those poisonous insects.
Jeff: Why darling, I lived in Madrid - it's like Paris.
Paula: Really? I understand it's quite savage. Jungles and things.
Mary: Paula's never read Ernest Hemingway.
Jeff: Evidently not.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Mary: Say where IS dinner?
Paula: You'll make it yourself tonight, the only nail I've got left on either hand is on my right thumb and I need that to start with when I get back to town.
Mary: Isn't she difficult? You know, cooks get like that when you're too familiar with them.
Jeff: Yes, well, I have something to confess.
Mary: What?
Jeff: I, um, I'm a very fine cook.
Paula: What?
Mary: Wonderful!
Jeff: All I need's a frying pan, a piece of string and some tinfoil.
Shemp: I'd like to be excused from dinner, I don't feel very well tonight.
Mary: Imagine knowing a man who can cook!
Shemp: You should see some of his hem-stitching!
It doesn't all make a whole lot of sense, but it's awesome.
Also, I am really beginning to be sold on Clark Gable, who I never liked. He's so suave, and he just exudes a kind of easiness that's totally charming - plus he does great things with his eyes whenever Joan Crawford is in the room. You really feel he's pining for her, even though all he's doing is joking and chiding her.
This really is almost a humorous, short version of Gone with the Wind, only Mary does the right thing in the end, unlike Scarlett.
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Forsaking All Others (1934)
2 comments:
- Cheryl said...
I hope the current crappy economy brings similarly weird and wonderful fashion.
- June 10, 2008 at 4:28 PM
- Ms. Q said...
Bring it on!
- June 10, 2008 at 5:01 PM
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Customizable Vegan Cinnamon Buns Coming to Las Vegas
Shark Tank-winning Cinnaholic is preparing for a Nevada grand opening.
July 14, 2016
Popular vegan bakery Cinnaholic is readying for an opening of a new location in Las Vegas, NV this month, serving gourmet, customizable, vegan cinnamon rolls and other baked goods. Owned by husband-and-wife team Florian and Shannon Radke, the brand gained national attention after being featured on ABC's Shark Tank, and currently has franchises in Berkeley, CA; Southlake, TX; and Atlanta, GA, with locations in Athens, GA; Brea, CA; Richardson, TX; and San Diego, CA coming soon. Las Vegans can choose from nearly 30 frostings (including vanilla, cream cheese, peanut butter, and root beer) and more than 20 different toppings (such as apples, bananas, cookie dough, and miniature marshmallows) to make an endless array of treats. An exact date for the grand opening will be announced soon.
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COTABATO CITY / September 18, 2018 – Selected officers and members of UNYPAD Cluster-3 Provincial Chapter together with other civil society organizations and municipal disaster risk reduction officers' volunteers successfully completed the two weeks Mine Risk Education Training conducted by Fondation Suisse de Deminage (FSD) on September 1-16, 2018 held at Paraiso Verde, Koronadal City.
As such they were certified as MRE Volunteers by the FSD.
FSD is working under the Normalization Annex of the Bangsamoro Peace Process and it is an International Non-Government Organization based in Geneva, Switzerland with its program in Mindanao focuses on UXO Survey and Mine Risk Education.
The training was facilitated by Rudy S. Lumapinet, Community Liaison Officer of FSD Mindanao Programme and also serving as member of Committee on Environment and Natural Resources in UNYPAD National chapter.
"The Mine Risk Education (MRE) will be integrated in our monthly work plan to educated the youths in our areas specially the six municipalities covered by our chapter," Akmad Musa, UNYPAD Provincial Chairman said during the graduation program.
Amin Agkat, an officer of UNYPAD, said that their areas are among the conflict affected communities where residents need to be educated on Mine Risk reduction.
"Alam natin na ang municipalities like General Salipada K. Pendatun, Paglat, Datu Paglas, Buluan, Mangudadatu at Pandag ay na apektuhan din ng mga kaguluhan noon at hanggang sa kasalukuyan," Agkat said in Filipino.
"Kailangan bigyan natin ng pansin sapagkat baka meron pang hindi pumutok na mina o bomba sa mga lugar na ito. Ayaw natin may ma-disgrasya", Agkat concluded.
"We are glad that as volunteers from the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Office of Datu Paglas town we were certified as MRE volunteers," Maylen U. Egcao said after they received their certificate of training completion.
"We will also integrate this into our working plan specially that our town was recently affected by armed-conflict. We hope we could help," she added.
Anthony Thomas Fish, Programme Manager of the FSD said that the training was comprehensive and a bit hard just to make sure that the messaging is accurate and effective to save lives. He also congratulated all the graduates.
"We congratulate you all for completing the training," Fish said before the 16 qualified MRE volunteers.
"We can now say that we are confident that we provided you with necessary knowledge in carrying MRE advocacy in our respective areas," he said.
Sophia Miranda, MRE Expert from Columbia supervised the two-week straight training to make sure the quality of the training is on track. With Miranda was Craig Dreghorn, Technical Adviser of FSD.
"As partner of peace and prosperity we will implement what we learned in this long training. This is my first time to attend a long training like this. Kaya gusto ko itong maging makabuluhan," Moctar U. Edzla, Founder and President of Maguindanao Youth for Change Association (MYC), a longtime partner organization of UNYPAD in Datu Paglas municipality in implementing community services.
Among the trainees from the UNYPAD Maguindanao Cluster-3 Provincial Chapter who participated in the training were Alihar Liongan and Norhana Bayangan of UNYPAD- Paglat Chapter, and Almaida Pagalad of UNYPAD-Buluan Women Affairs Committee, respectively.
The mission of FSD is to focus on locating and destroying landmines and unexploded ordnance to prevent accidents. FSD's overarching aim is to alleviate and diminish the social, economic and environmental impacts of landmines and unexploded ordnance, thus creating favorable conditions for the reconstruction and development of war-torn countries.


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There's a faintly penciled line of graffiti in the men's room at the DeWitt Mall in downtown Ithaca, New York, that reads: "Places for graffiti like this provide a forum for people who otherwise might not be able to express themselves!"
You've got to love a town where populist values are on display so openly-and so politely-even in the john. For that matter, you've got to love a town where a "mall" can be a converted high school, now occupied by a pair of scholarly bookstores (used and new), a shop that sells African drums, a world-famous vegetarian restaurant (Moosewood), and an array of alternative service providers ranging from bodywork to the office of a citywide arts festival. A town where the Chamber of Commerce lets its members pay part of their dues in a colorful local currency adorned not with dead presidents but with local heroes and indigenous animals. A town where the Tibetan Medical and Astrological Institute puts on an exhibition of Tibetan paintings in an Elks club.
It's the same story nearly everywhere you go in this college town of 30,000 (plus 20,000 students) at the southern end of Cayuga Lake in south-central New York. From the famous Ithaca Hours alternative currency system, a local form of money that's accepted by hundreds of merchants, to EcoVillage, a housing community dedicated to practicing the values of environmental sustainability, Ithaca stands as the very model of the word alternative, which here is understood to mean a serious, thoughtful, powerful civic force with many faces and a strong inclination toward social inventiveness. The innovations coming out of Ithaca offer a worthy challenge to what one Ithacan I spoke to called "the business-as-usual crowd."
And make no mistake, business as usual is part of the Ithaca scene too. There's a strip-U.S. Highway 13 north of town-with a very unfunky mall (Pyramid) that wouldn't be out of place in Anysuburb, USA. There's sprawl, although local activists waged a 14-year struggle that finally stopped plans to put a four-lane highway through the city and fought for three years–successfully–to keep Wal-Mart away. There's a small ghetto at the south end of Ithaca: "not a dysfunctional neighborhood, but a troubled one," as another local told me. The Commons–a highly walkable two-block pedestrian mall that forms the core of downtown–has some vacant storefronts amid its lively mix of shops. And Cornell University, the Ivy League behemoth whose vast campus sits astride steep East Hill like a feudal castle compound, is both a powerful force for change (many "alternative" townies are Cornell spouses or alumni) and-as progressives who have fought to unionize the university and make it contribute its fair share to the municipal government will tell you-a bulwark of the status quo.
So, far from being a countercultural Eden where good vibes have solved all urban ills, Ithaca is a work in progress. What's stunning about the place, though, is the sheer volume and quality of social innovation, pragmatic activism, spiritual seeking, open debate, and homemade and imported cultural fun that goes on here-in an atmosphere of robust local pride.
There's a lot to be proud of, and to protect. Right in the middle of the Commons is a public sculpture, a big brick circle, around which, at the correct compass points, are many of the names you need to know to orient yourself in the Ithaca landscape: Cornell, of course (to the northeast), and South Hill (where Ithaca College sits), Buttermilk Falls, Inlet Island, West Hill, Cayuga Lake. Ithacans love and take advantage of their lucky perch between the brainpower of Cornell and the beauty of the surrounding hills. "From my house," boasts Ithaca Hours founder Paul Glover, "I can walk four blocks in one direction and use the Cornell library–one of the biggest collections of information in the world–or go four blocks in the other direction and dive naked into a lake."
The loveliness of Ithaca's setting caught Joan Bokaer's eye when she passed through it on a cross-country walk for peace in 1990. Bokaer returned to found EcoVillage on West Hill in 1989. Today this experiment in cohousing and sustainable living, with 22 families involved, is drawing the attention of publications ranging from Earth Island Journal to Popular Science. The beauty of the region also inspired the Finger Lakes Land Trust, a group of Green activists, to buy up land to save it from developers' bulldozers.
It was the Ithaca countryside, in fact, that generated much of its alternative culture in the first place. Ithaca's politics were Republican-dominated before the mid-'60s, and the radical right made noise too; Glover remembers Ku Klux Klan rallies on West Hill during the early days of the civil rights movement. With the rise of the back-to-the-land movement in the late '60s and early '70s, some 50 communes popped up in the surrounding Tompkins County hills, with names like The Family, The Pad, Yea God!, and Lavender Hill. As these fizzled, many of their members found their way into town, where they set up hippie businesses: organic bakeries, craft shops, bookstores, the Green Star Co-Op. By 1981, the radicals had enough political clout to elect a city council member, Dan Hoffman. Radical influence and representation grew, and the town chose an openly socialist mayor, Ben Nichols, for three terms, from 1989 to 1995.
Today Hoffman is an attorney whose close-trimmed beard and natty suit and tie give him the air of a prosperous businessman from Idaho or Montana. He's still a man of the left–his current cause is the brand-new Citizen's Planning Alliance, which aims to keep a populist eye on city growth and development–but like many others in Ithaca's alternative community, he's matured. "Since the early '80s," he says, "issues of economic equity, the environment, race, and class have been regularly brought up in city government. They're always part of the debate. Ecological concerns are seriously considered when development plans are evaluated. Ithaca pioneered in creating access for the handicapped too, years before the Americans with Disabilities Act. On the other hand, alternative institutions like the Green Star Co-Op and the Alternatives Federal Credit Union have grown and shown the wider community that they have what it takes to keep a business running."
So while much of Ithaca remains a traditional clapboard Upstate town, where the "townies" eat pork chops (!) at the Royal Palms restaurant and the Birkenstockers nosh organically at Moosewood, the strength and savvy of the alternative presence has brought down many of the barriers between the cultures. Tompkins County Trust (founded in 1831), Ithaca's oldest bank, provided funding for EcoVillage–and brags about it in its publicity. The Farmer's Market, which runs from April to December every year and brings together "straight" farmers, small organic growers, and local craftspeople was described to me as a "happening," the "showcase and heartbeat of the spirit of Ithaca," and "a place where everybody goes."
The supermarket-sized Green Star Co-Op is another place where everybody, or nearly everybody, comes together under the alternative aegis. To wander its bright, well-stocked aisles with manager Laura Peters is a real education in local empowerment. Every Ithaca-produced foodstuff is carefully labeled as such, and it's quite a cornucopia: BGH-free milk from several area farms, Miami transplant Susie Gutierrez's line of seitan (wheat gluten) goodies, organic chicken raised by a former engineer and his partner, a onetime scholar of Japanese history. "We'll move other stuff off the shelves to make room for locally produced food," says Peters.
And then there's the Ithaca Hours system. To get the lowdown on it, I met Glover for lunch at Viva Taqueria. (This informal downtown Mexican café's "business-as-usual" rival, Taco Bell, recently closed its doors. Glover claims it as a victory for the Ithaca spirit; a more mainstream Ithacan I talked to cited the absence of a drive-thru window.) Glover's seemingly boundless energy has helped boost Ithaca's famed local currency into something of a national and international phenomenon since he founded the system in 1991. Ithaca Hours are now accepted along with Uncle Sam's banknotes in some 350 local businesses (and not only alternative ones). The $60,000 in Hours issued in the last five and a half years have been traded by some 2,000 people, generating an estimated $2 million in commerce since the little blue-, yellow-, orange-, and pink-tinged notes first appeared. There are now some 30 other local currency systems across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, all patterned after Ithaca's program; publications from the Observer of London to Coin World have extolled its virtues.
Despite the name, the Hours system is not a time-barter scheme (in which an individual performs a certain number of hours of work, then receives scrip entitling him or her to an equivalent amount of time from someone else). Ithaca Hours can be used just like dollars-for labor, or pizza, or swimming lessons. Some people even take part of their pay in Hours or accept change in Hours at businesses. Glover's organization circulates the money by issuing two Hours (equivalent to $20) to every individual or business willing to be listed in the group's newspaper, Hour Town, as Hours accepters. It also makes outright grants to worthy groups around town. All accepters have a vote on Hours policy (including the decision to put more Hours in circulation), which is set at monthly Barter Potlucks.
The point of Hours is, first of all, to add to the local money supply and keep local wealth circulating within the community and immediate region (they're valid within a 20-mile radius of central Ithaca) rather than being siphoned away to corporate headquarters elsewhere. But Glover will bend your ear on a whole panoply of additional benefits. "Banking is a scam in which people with authorized signatures make huge profits by not working." he says. "A lot of conservatives were fed up with the banking system even before we were. So here in Ithaca we decided to start our own game." By trading with Hours, Ithacans declare their allegiance to their town and add a touch of warmth to microeconomics. As Glover puts it, "The Hours system dramatically expands and acts as a banner for our sense of community."
In her office not far from the Route 13 strip, Linda Daybill, president of the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce, is telling me about her job interview: "They asked me if I would accept Ithaca Hours as payment for chamber membership dues if I were president. I took a deep breath and said yes. I'm pretty sure that's what got me the job."
Daybill, whom Glover describes as "cool," is clearly not your average Chamber of Commerce president. She talks about the need to find ways to support Ithaca's poor as welfare reform hits. She reminds me that Girlfriends magazine recently rated Ithaca as one of the most lesbian-friendly places in America. She calls Ithaca "a community of passionate people" who sometimes find compromise difficult but who make civic life an invigorating challenge. "Politics is serious here," she says, "but it's also part of our fun. Other towns have major-league sports; we have activism."
Daybill also talks candidly about what she considers to be one of Ithaca's major problems: underemployment. "We suffer from the 'trailing spouse' phenomenon–the spouse of a Cornell faculty member or student who is overeducated, overqualified, but willing to accept a low-paying job," she says. "It creates a downward pressure on wages and upward pressure on qualifications, so there simply aren't enough entry-level jobs for the non-college bound."
Paul Mazarella, who runs Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services, a low-interest lender that rehabs decaying housing stock and helps poor families buy homes, agrees that the gap between the poorer townsfolk and privileged if simplicity-craving alternative types is real. "People who are really poor have fewer choices than basically privileged people with intact families and good educations who may be living on $14,000 a year," he says.
Be that as it may, the underemployed alternative types have done much of the work in crafting a massive network of small nonprofit social service agencies, alternative health care providers, healers, mediators, and teachers of every stripe that actually–or potentially–benefit the whole community. Organizations like Recycle Ithaca's Bicycles and Recycle Ithaca's Computers connect low-income kids with used equipment. The Alternatives Federal Credit Union makes loans to people other banks wouldn't touch. The Homebased Microenterprise Network supports and promotes the hundreds of tiny businesses in town. The Ithaca Health Fund, now being organized, will be a local alternative to the big health insurers. Offender Aid and Restoration (OAR) pairs accused criminals and convicts with counselors.
I got a chance to hear about one way in which institutions like these support Ithaca's enlightened politics when I visited Tim Joseph and Leni Hochman in their plant- and pet-filled house, part of a nine-household cooperative in a woodsy precinct on West Hill. Hochman is a staff member of the Alternatives Federal Credit Union; Joseph is a member of the county board. A self-proclaimed radical, he's also–like Dan Hoffman and former mayor Nichols–a hardworking pragmatist who loves the nitty-gritty details of politics ("90 percent of what we do is not ideological," he says).
In the mid-'80s, Joseph worked for OAR as a counselor and a trainer of counselors. Part of the training was work in "deep listening." Four years ago, when a conservative taxpayers' group was hectoring the county board for its alleged free-spending ways, Joseph and fellow progressive board member Eric Lerner decided to listen to their opponents instead of simply struggling against them. They did more; they invited the tax protesters to sit on an advisory committee. "We came to respect each other," says Joseph. "And the protesters discovered they had to grapple with real funding problems instead of abstractions about fiscal responsibility."
If it seems like face-to-face politics works in Ithaca, well, it does. It has something to do with the powerful love of place that most Ithacans feel. It also has a lot to do with the manageable size of that place, and the fact that, as Linda Daybill says, "I see a lot of the people that my decisions affect right on the streets and in the restaurants."
Most of all, it's because Ithacans genuinely believe that individuals can make a difference. Sarah Pines, who lives in EcoVillage, is a shining example. Noticing how much perishable food was being thrown away in Ithaca, she recruited some volunteers and formed the Friendship Donations Network. Today, without a budget or funding of any kind, Pines and her friends move some 14,000 pounds of food, clothing, and household goods per week from supermarkets, hotels, restaurants, and individuals to 16 projects dealing with hunger and poverty in the city.
"If you believe in something," says Paul Glover, describing how the city works, "write a pamphlet with your phone number on it and post it in the Laundromats and bookstores. If three people call you, have lunch with them and call yourselves an organization. Post another notice. If five more people call, meet with them and issue a press release." Ithacans' willingness to follow this advice on a daily basis is the electricity that makes this not-yet-perfect town a bright light on the American landscape.


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My coauthor, Michael Cooley and I were on our way to a speaking engagement about a five-hour drive from home, where we would be making videos for group study of the Principles of Creative Followership.
Along the way, we decided to stop and eat at one of our favorite hamburger restaurants. I remember how much I liked the burgers, fries and milkshakes the first time I tasted them on a trip to Florida in the 1950's. Sixty years later the food still tastes the same. I like it!
My last experience left me asking the question: "Who is going to fix it?"
After eating, when I went to the men's restroom, I was disappointed to see that the commode would not flush. The handle was obviously disconnected inside the water tank.
I intended to tell the manager but gave up that plan because I was in a hurry, the restaurant was very busy, and I could not spot anyone who seemed to be the person in charge. I knew that every one of the male employees would go in that restroom and that someone would check to see the status of the supplies, and at some time, the restrooms would be cleaned for the day at least once.
Someone will see that it is fixed.
The next day on our way home, we stopped again at the same restaurant. Did I mention that I like the food?
The restaurant was even busier than it had been the day before.
Before leaving, I went into the men's restroom.
I could not believe what I found! That commode flusher had not been fixed!
How many people knew it needed fixing? At least every male employee of that restaurant on duty the last 24 hours must have known it needed fixing. Why didn't they do something about it? The managers that had been there during the last 24 hours should have known. Did no one tell the female managers? How about the male managers? Someone should have made sure that the manager on duty knew!
Who is going to fix it? I fixed it!
Since the flush handle was obviously disconnected from the flapper, the connection must be broken. I lifted the porcelain lid from the water tank at the back of the commode and immediately saw that the flapper connecting chain was not hooked to the handle lever. I hooked the chain back in place, flushed the commode and replaced the lid. It took me less than one minute!
Then, I went to find the manager. After asking three different employees to get the manager and waiting several minutes, the manager on duty finally arrived. I gave a brief summary of why I knew that the problem had existed for more than 24 hours, and I had finally fixed the simple problem myself (something that any 12 year old could have done).
The reply I received was, "I didn't know about it." I said, "You should have known; the situation has existed for over 24 hours!"
Do you know why the manager didn't know? I know why.
No one took any initiative to solve the simple problem for over 24 hours! No one took responsibility! There are no Mustangs working there!
Far too many workplaces discourage initiative. Following rules is emphasized.
The people I call Mustangs won't work there. Mustangs get reprimanded for taking initiative and doing things without prior approval or that are in variance to the standard rules. Only the Mules, employees that need continuous prodding, pushing and kicking will stay.
Would you want to work there? I wouldn't work there!
Mustangs can be difficult to handle; they take responsibility and make things happen; they often ignore the rules; sometimes they must be restrained, but they get things done.
A Mustang does not ask, "Who is going to fix it?" A Mustang assigns someone to do it, calls a service person, tells the boss what needs to be done or does it himself and reports later that it has been done.
With whom would you rather work?
I love to work with Mustangs!
It Is Better to Restrain Mustangs than Kick Mules
Just in case you are a boss thinking of training employees to take the initiative or to be Mustangs, forget it. You can't teach initiative; you recruit it.
If you want to keep Mustangs, remember a little restraint is okay, but we Mustangs will not stay in a fence.
Jimmy Collins
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Clinical Counseling: Letting go of bitterness and hanging on to gratitude
"Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure." ~ Tacitus
Living in the mountains has a lot of benefits. The wildlife, beautiful pines and our majestic mountain are just a few of the blessings we mountain dwellers love.
However, there are also issues that have to be addressed (especially during the spring-time months) as a precaution for what we call the 'fire season.' Many of our prayers are inundated with pleas for an early and bountiful 'monsoon flow' eliminating the danger of devastating forest fires.
Unfortunately we, as fallible human beings, are not equipped with an inner, emotional 'fireplace' that can effectively hold our angst in place. Simply put, resentment can't be contained. Resentment, when stoked like an uncontained fire, can take on a life of its own invading everything we feel, think, and do.
Many, who have unresolved past abuse or have experienced grievous injustice(s), have difficulty containing their bitter feelings. As is often the case, these bitter feelings will begin to rob that person of the ability to move forward to a safer and more secure future. One who is consumed by bitterness will experience a future dominated by irrational fears and impenetrable emotional defenses that will eventually sabotage their ability to know joy or peace.
Truth be told, bitterness is a choice. It's me choosing to take bad 'stuff' – stuff that usually belongs to that bully who humiliated me or that punitive parent who decimated my self-esteem – and claiming all this stuff as my own. Does it make sense that I would want to make all those painful events and traumatizing behaviors an integral part of my life? It is important to note that one of the damaging side effects of bitterness is an irrational pride that says we can change what in actuality is beyond our control. Pride resists the notion that there are some things that we cannot change (thus the monocle 'control freak').
This leads us right back to the truism of 'letting go.' Try to change what you can, but be content with what you are unable to do by forgetting the unchangeable and letting it go. Remember that Mother Goose poem: "For every ailment under the sun – there is a remedy, or there is none. If there be one, try to find it; If there be none, never mind it."
One of the damaging effects of bitterness is the inability to be grateful. Bitterness darkens our perspective, clouds our judgment, and soils our behavior.
As Aesop so aptly noted, "Gratitude is the sign of noble souls." In all actuality, bitterness robs us of our God-given nobility. Nobility, when infected with bitterness, will always seek to dominate and control every 'nook and cranny' of its existence. Nobility, when soaked in grace and gratitude, will embrace life as an event rather than an achievement, a gift rather than a reward.
Word of advice: allow yourself to let go of that thing that has kept you miserable for most of your life.
You know (better than anyone) how much bitterness has become an integral part of your identity. You may need to employ assistance in this worthy endeavor to move from bitterness to gratitude.Bitterness is that pride you feel telling you that you don't need anyone – you can control the uncontrollable! Gratitude is humility reminding us that even our limitations can be a gift. It is the acceptance of what I cannot change or control, healthily changing what is possible and in the end being rewarded with deeper insight and wisdom for a brighter future. (i.e. The Serenity Prayer).
James D. Martin is the program manager of the Heritage Program for Senior Adults at the Lincoln County Medical Center. Heritage is a program designed to improve the quality of life for the older adult. Confidential screenings are available by appointment. If interested please call 575-257-6283.


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This weekend – 30th-31st August – Premiere Props, based in El Segundo, California, will be putting over 1,200 items of iconic movie and music memorabilia under the hammer.
The lots include:
- a signed colour photo from a vintage celebrity magazine of Frank Sinatra, estimated at $50-100
- a hand written note by Johnny Cash, estimated at $1,800-2,200
- original sound equipment and cases labelled 'The Doors' given to the tour manager from the band's main manager in lieu of payment for repairs, estimated at $3,800-4,200
On the movie front, lots include:
- an original publicity still of Boris Karloff from 1935's Bride of Frankenstein, estimated at $50-100
- an original hand drawn design sketch of Kiefer Sutherland's vampire make-up from the production of 1987's The Lost Boys, estimated at $150-250
- a life size 'creature' from M Night Shyamalan's The Village, estimated at $2,400-2,600
- a life size replica figure of Charlton Heston, as Captain George Taylor in 1968's Planet of the Apes, estimated at $2,300-2,600
- a screen worn costume worn by Keira Knightley when Arthur rescues her from dungeon in 2004's King Arthur, estimated at $50-100
- a life size figure of Hugo Weaving's character, Agent Smith, in the Matrix films, estimated at $900-1,100
- a stunt cutlass used by Orlando Bloom in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, estimated at $2,800-3,200
Other props up for grabs include those used in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Mr and Mrs Smith, a selection of James Bond films, Titanic and Notting Hill.
Visit Premiere Props here


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How to Tackle Problem Skin
Now I'm very lucky in that I've always had pretty alright skin, it's pretty normal/ dry so I've never suffered with acne or other skin problems. Now I don't know if that is just down to being lucky in the old gene department or if I help my skin with how I look after it- who knows. Anyway, today I thought I would share a few tips and products that seem to prevent bad breakouts/ reduce them if they occasionally do happen.
So having good skin, often goes hand in hand with having a good skincare regime, you only get one face so I think you should look after it. Firstly find a routine that works for you, just because all the other bloggers or your friends are raving about a product doesn't mean you have to love it. I swear by Liz Earle Cleanse and Polish but I know a couple of people who had an allergic reaction to it. My advice would be, once you find something you love, stick to it, at least during times where your skin is playing up.
Now spots can be caused for so many reasons such as Hormones however beauty products can be equally as guilty at causing break outs- if you find these products, avoid them. For example, I know from experience not to fake tan my face (on the rare occasions I actually tan) because every time I have, I've woken up with a constellation of spots on my cheeks- most recently the morning of a wedding. There's obviously just something about tanning products my face doesn't like, so I have come to terms with the fact that I'm just gonna have to bronze up my face if I tan, end of.
If my skin is feeling clogged, e.g. If the weather is hot and I've been wearing a lot of thick suncream or something like that, I like to use a face mask, I tend to like detox/ glow masks which draw out all the rubbish from your skin and leave it looking glowy. At the moment I have 3 and they are all equally as good, Lush Mask of Magnaminty and The Body Shop Himalayan Charcoal Purifying Glow Mask (what a mouthful) are pretty similar in that they are thick, rough in texture (so can double as a scrub) and they are minty so leave your skin feeling tingly and super clean after use. The Liz Earle Deep Cleansing Mask is more of a clay mask which sets a lot smoother but really helps to draw any nasties up. I Like to use a mask if I know I have nowhere to be and just want a lazy couple of days because these really do work, I can guarantee after using these, a monster of a spot will appear a few hours later- at least it proves they work.
More recently I have discovered a product which I feel may reach Holy Grail Skincare status for me, whilst I was picking up a new Burt's Bees Cleanser last week, I realised there was a pretty decent free gift if I spent £15 so I decided to pick up the Burt's Bees Anti Blemish Solution as I don't have any other products like this. Well I'm so glad I picked it up, now I say I don't get many spots, which is true, it's just that when I do they are monsters, they can't be ignored, no amount of concealer can hide them and they are usually in really obvious places like on my chin or between my eyebrows, lovely. Well no sooner had I bought this, then a huge spot decided to lurk under the skin on my chin, a spot so big it was hurting me to talk before it had even broken through the skin. I deployed my new skin miracle and within hours the spot had subsided and was no longer painful! The best thing about this little bottle is that you can apply it up to 3 times a day to really zap a blemish so it works very quickly, amazing! So if I had one product recommendation for you this whole post it would be this!!
So we've talked about skin care, now onto makeup, firstly it is important to have no makeup days to let your skin have a breather, rather than being constantly blocked with primer and foundation. Secondly, the way you remove your makeup could be having a massive impact on your skin. A part of me dies inside when people tell me they use wipes to remove their makeup, it is so so so so so so so so bad for your skin. The best way is to use a cleanser and a flannel/ muslin cloth to wipe off any makeup and leave your skin feeling nice and soft. Which cleanser you choose is totally up to you, it could be a water, a balm, a cream or an oil but for goodness sake, step away from the damn wipes. It can take up to 5 wipes to actually remove every scrap of makeup from your face, which no-one ever uses, meaning there is still so much makeup residue left on your face after you think you're done removing it. If you do use a cleanser already, congratulations btw, make sure to regularly wash your cloths/flannels to keep your skin clear.
Another way to reduce the risk of bad skin is the clean your makeup brushes on the regular, we all hate doing it, it's a chore but it needs doing and it could be the cause of problem skin if you don't do it. If you think about it, if you do have a blemish, your makeup brushes and sponge are going to touch it, while you desperately try to conceal it, then they will sit there waiting to be used again, harbouring all that bacteria and then spread it all over your face. Another way to prevent spots from spreading could be to change your pillow cases often, especially after a breakout as all the dead skin and oils build up on them as we sleep.
If your skin is really bothering you, you could speak to somebody about it. Depending on the severity of your problems you could speak to your GP to see if there is a cream or pill you could take. Or if you are just having a problem getting to grips with what products your skin likes, pop into stores with beauty counters and ask. Brands like No7 and Origins have a great skincare knowledge and will be happy to advise you, or pop over to the skincare aisles in Boots or Superdrug, Consultants there will be all too happy to offer you help and help you choose the right skincare regime for you.
So there are a few of my top skincare tips/ nags for you all. Hopefully this was useful or even just nudged you towards finalllyyyy cleaning your brushes. Let me know in the comments if you have any tips or woder products you swear by!
Meg x
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I really wanna try the ask from TBS 😀 I've heard it's a dupe for the Glamglow mask
Beauty On A Budget
It's amazing would highly recommend!! x
Cleaning your brushes is Everything if you wear makeup! If you keep them in the bathroom then every toilet flush spreads so much bacteria over the surface of everything, including those brushes! I will add a clean pillowcase at night is also a game changer! Love love love this post girl!
I agree, I think people totally forget all the diet hey are accidentally putting back on their face!! Thankyou for reading! xx
This is Kat.
I definitely need to try out some Burt's Bee's products, seen so many amazing reviews on them!
I've loved all the ones I've tried! x
Omg yaaaas Lush & Burt's Bee's! 💜
Yaaaaaas Lush & Burt's Bees! – totally holy grail <3
Burt's Bees is literally God's gift to the world…that is the ONLY thing that helps my acne. The anti-blemish stick is the best. Awesome post!!
It really is isn't it! That's so good to hear that it helps clear up your skin! Thanks for reading x


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Ocean Blue Standing Lamp
Ocean Blue Standing Lamp
OCEAN BLUE Designer Floor Lamp
- Designer Floor Lamp
- Round wooden feet
- 5.9 ft cord, UK or EU plug
- Semi-translucent fire-rated fabric
- Bulb not included
- Handmade to order
- 5 days production
- Table or floor lamp
- UK or EU plug
- FREE PLUG ADAPTER FOR THE US. Select EU.
- Semi-translucent fabric
- Fire rated lining
- 5.9 foot long cord
- Made in London
- Designed in California by the artist
- Floor lamp: 29.13"x 7.87" (height x width) - 19.8 oz
- Table lamp: 14.96" x 5.9" (height x width) - 7 oz
- Incl. cable: 5.9 feet
- Bulb not included
Our specialist printing process fuses the ink with the Stiff Translucent fabric so your design is permanent and won't fade. A fire retardant inner lining is sewn to the interior, giving your custom lamps that added a bit of safety. Cylindrical in shape, the light is able to escape from the top and bottom, producing a lovely, soft glow. A 0.07" long cord is attached, with The UK or EU plug. The feet are made from classic beech wood and set into a tripod position.
Maintain cleanliness and keep your designs nice and vibrant by giving your unique floor lamps regular dusting. As with any electrical appliance, keep water away from the plug socket and bulb (not included) at all times. Use duster and or vacuum gently with appropriate fitting.
Go for an unusual feature piece for the living room and design decorative floor lamps. They're modern, contemporary and totally cool, and the simplistic shape will never go out of fashion.
Enhance hotel rooms with these unique floor lamps. You can also elevate event spaces that need a little more oomph and use them as a way to draw people to your stand or exhibition.