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Someone on Facebook trade me gold rulons with only slight wear and a small hole for my good condition takedown 96's. I turns out that the rulons are in awful shape contrary to what he described and he won't send me my shoes back. What can I do?

Waiting for an east bound train to pass.

The sun didn't shine but it didn't rain either. So I spent the afternoon painting a fence.

My four year old decided to help.

 

She was doing great, but then got bored. Stuck her hands in the pail. Black handprints on my house, my gate, my driveway, and my patience.

Après une rude bataille, ce petit crabe finira dans l'estomac de ce Tournepierre à collier

6 over and have to weigh in tomorrow at 4

NRC Chairman Stephen Burns (center of the table on the right) meets with Japan Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (center of the table on the left) to discuss nuclear regulatory issues.

 

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Asked to help out a friend for a business portrait and headshot. Set up snd did mot of the shoot with my traditional Nikon camera for this kind of shoot. Wanted to see how my Fuji X-E2 would do with the same lighting setup. Simply took my trigger and added it the Fuji and started shooting.Very happy with the results. Skin tones just come out awesome.

 

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Background is a white seamless roll

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Hair light - LumoPro LP180 w/LumiQuest Softbox III camera high right rear 1/32

Background - SB 800 gridded with 20 degree 1/64 into seamless

Pictured: A Royal Marine Crewman helps soldiers unpack their kit and equipment on a Tor.

 

Ten Tors is one of the biggest multi-agency, tri service civil contingency exercises in Britain. It is run by more than nine hundred military personnel - almost all of them Reservists - from all three branches of the Armed Forces, led by the Army’s 43 (Wessex) Brigade with its HQ in Tidworth, Wiltshire.

 

The 54th running of the event this year comes just months after military personnel, including Reservists from the South West , assisted local authorities, the Environment Agency and blue-light services during the floods, carrying out a range of tasks from sandbagging to engineering.

 

As a military exercise Ten Tors provides the Armed Forces with an invaluable opportunity to practice these life-saving civil contingency responsibilities, to enable the military - assisted by the emergency services, including The British Red Cross and the Dartmoor Search and Rescue Group - to be ready to help when they are called upon during a national emergency.

 

Brigadier Piers Hankinson MBE, Director of Ten Tors, is the Commander of 43 (Wessex) Brigade and was the Joint Military Commander for the South West during the flooding.

 

“The severe flooding across parts of the South West earlier this year clearly demonstrates the importance of such training and the ability to react to fast changing conditions and working in a multi-agency tri-service team. It also highlights the way that Reservists, who have wide ranging civilian experience and employment (from plumbers to accountants), train to operate with their regular counterparts under a One-Army ethos.”

 

Ten Tors:

 

As well as a vital high-level military exercise, The Ten Tors Challenge is also one of the biggest outdoors adventure events for young people in Britain today. In all, 2400 youngsters aged between 14 and 19 will take part in Ten Tors, with a further 300 youngsters with physical or educational needs taking part in the Jubilee Challenge.

 

The majority of the teams who enter Ten Tors are from schools and youth groups from Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire. As usual, scores of scout groups, sports and ramblers teams and Armed Forces cadet units have accepted the challenge and are taking part.

 

Those teenagers taking on the Ten Tors Challenge will trek unaided over 35, 45 or 55 miles of some of the toughest terrain and highest peaks in Southern England relying on their navigational skills and carrying all their food, water, bedding, tents and other essentials as they go.

 

It is a feat they must complete as a team and without any help from adults and they’ll remain entirely self-sufficient during their arduous expeditions, including camping out overnight on the moor.

 

They do it for the challenge; to test themselves against one of the last remaining wildernesses in Britain. What they get in return for their months of hard training and commitment, as well as determination and bravery during the event itself, is an experience they’ll remember forever and the chance to learn a set of skills and values which will stay with them for the rest of their lives.

 

It’s a rite of passage which has played a positive and formative role in shaping the lives of more than a quarter of a million people.

 

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Amrum About this sound pronunciation (help·info) (Öömrang North Frisian: Oomram) is one of the North Frisian Islands on the German North Sea coast, south of Sylt and west of Föhr. It is part of the Nordfriesland district in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein and has appromixately 2,300 inhabitants.

 

The island is made up of a sandy core of geestland and features an extended beach all along its west coast, facing the open North Sea. The east coast instead borders to mud flats and tidal creeks of the Wadden Sea. Sand dunes are a characteristical part of Amrum's landscape, resulting in a vegetation that is largely made up of heath and shrubs. The island's only forest was planted in 1948. Amrum is a refuge for many species of birds and a number of marine mammals like grey seal or harbour porpoise.

 

Settlements on Amrum have been traced back to the Neolithic when the area was still a part of the mainland of the Jutland peninsula. During the Middle Ages, Frisian settlers arrived at Amrum and engaged in salt making and seafaring. A part of the modern population still speaks Öömrang, a dialect of the North Frisian language, and Frisian traditions are kept alive.

 

With the island hosting many endangered species of plants and animals, its soil being largely unfavourable for agriculture and as a popular seaside resort in general, Amrum's population today almost exclusively lives from the tourism industry.

 

Amrum's area measures 20,4 km2,[2] making it the tenth-largest island of Germany (excluding Usedom which is partly Polish territory).[3] Adding the large Kniepsand beach on the Western shore to the surface area results in a total area of c. 30 km2.[4] Amrum's surface area has however been subject to constant change due to land loss and gain caused by the sea. During the 19th century, a 20th part of the area recorded in the beginning of the century had been lost, but in 1913, a net gain was again recorded at the Kniepsand.[5]

 

Amrum is one of three isles with a geestland core in Nordfriesland.[6] This sandy core is made up of glacial deposites from the Saalian glacial period.[4] To the east, it borders to the Wadden Sea mud flats of the North Sea. The east side is also where the island's ancient hamlets are situated: Norddorf, Nebel, Süddorf and Steenodde. On the geestland core one can find extended areas of heath and woodland which form a strip that runs along a north-south line on the axis. West of this woodland strip, a region of 838 hectares (2,070 acres) is covered with dunes[1] that run all along the island for about 12 km. The maximal width of this area amounts to more than a kilometre. Amrum's tallest dune near Norddorf is called a Siatler (the settling dune); it reaches 32 m of height.[1] Northward, the dune area extends into a small peninsula called Odde. In the south of Amrum, the newest settlement, Wittdün, is located. West of the dunes, the entire shore of Amrum is made up of the Kniepsand beach; it counts among northern Europe's largest sand beaches. North of Norddorf there is some marshland, another small marsh area can be found between Süddorf and Steenodde.[4] Both of them are protected from the sea by dikes. During low tide it is possible to reach the neighbouring island of Föhr by mudflat hiking.

 

Amrum's population amounts to about 2,300 and the island is divided into three municipalities: Norddorf, Nebel and Wittdün. They adhere to the Amt Föhr-Amrum.

 

The oldest traces of settlements in the area date back to the Neolithic with a number of dolmens among them. Also many tomb sites from the Bronze and Iron Ages have been preserved. In the dunes west of the decoy pond, the remainders of an Iron Age hamlet have been found. It is unknown whether the Ambrones, who together with the Cimbri and Teutones threatened Rome around 100 BC, stemmed from this island which back then was still connected to the mainland by a land bridge. In the early Middle Ages the island was colonised by the Frisians. The oldest known record of Amrum island has been found in the Danish Census Book of King Valdemar II of Denmark from 1231.[9]

 

Next to salt making, agriculture, fishery and whaling, merchant shipping was one of the main sources of income for a long time. Hark Olufs, a sailor from Süddorf who had been enslaved by Algerians in 1724, advanced to the rank of a General until he was allowed to return to his native island in 1736. During the late 19th century, tourism became a rapidly emerging business on Amrum and effectively changed the island's economical structures.

 

During the Middle Ages, Amrum as well as all of North Frisia proper belonged to the so-called Uthlande, the Outer Lands, which only successively became parts of the Danish realm or the Duchy of Schleswig. After the conflicts between the Danish kings and the counts of Schauenburg about the rule over Schleswig, Amrum and western Föhr became an enclave of Denmark and contrary to neighbouring areas, it was not any longer a part of the Duchy of Schleswig. This state endured until 1864, when Denmark lost Schleswig to Prussia after the Second Schleswig War. For a brief period after that war Amrum was ruled together by Prussia and Austria, yet in 1867 the island came under Prussian rule and was made a part of the province of Schleswig-Holstein. At first, Amrum formed a municipality within the district of Tondern. In 1920, the Schleswig Plebiscites resulted in a clear majority vote for Amrum staying with Germany, while Tondern fell back to Denmark. Until 1972, Amrum belonged to the Südtondern district which then merged into the newly created district of Nordfriesland.

 

During the 19th century, Amrum still had a considerably lower population than today. Church records from 1821 to 1833 show an average population of 587, a census in 1860 noted 642 inhabitants, and in 1871, the population had dropped to 571.[10] Among other factors, the decrease owed to the fact that large parts of Amrum's population had emigrated — mainly to the United States. Today, more people with ancestors from Amrum live in the United States than there are on Amrum proper, and the connections between Amrum and the U.S. are still being cultivated.

 

Eventually, tourism began only to flourish on the island when a seaside resort was established in Wittdün in 1890, which also led to a rapid increase in population.[11]

 

On 29 October 1998, the cargo ship Pallas ran aground off Amrum, causing a severe oil spill in the region.

 

Amrum's vegetation is determined by the sea and by the different types of landscapes on the island, most of which are low in nutrients. In parts of the dune belt and on the Kniepsand marram grass or sea wormwood grow, as well as numerous other sand-loving plants like sheep's bit which will bloom in sheltered areas between the dunes.[16] Also some stunted pines, bent by the sea wind, and Salix repens, the creeping willow can be found there. Until the 1970s, the rare sea holly could still be seen in the dunes.

 

East of there are heaths and conifer or mixed forests. In some dune slacks, peat bogs can be found which occasionally host the carnivorous plant common sundew.[16] The once abundant marsh gentian vanished during the 1990s.

 

The Amrum forest was mainly planted in 1948 on an area of heath. Until then only a few forested regions could be found around the decoy ponds. With 180 hectares, Amrum has the largest ratio of forested land of all Germany's North Sea islands. Mainly pines, firs and birches can be found here. Meanwhile, the forest has largely lost its artificial nature. So one will encounter numerous plants on all levels and many species of fungi. The "geestland", east of the forest, is mostly used for farming. Its grassland grows plants such as Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia), Sea Thrift (Armeria maritima) and Carthusian Pink (Dianthus carthusianorum) and several species of hawkweed.[16]

 

In the small marshlands, some sedges and the ragged robin may be seen.[16] Here is the most nutritious soil on Amrum. Even the soil of Amrum's gardens is so low in nutrients that only few sorts of plants, e.g. hollyhock, will grow there without fertilising.

 

On the salt marshes along the eastern shore of Amrum, many salt tolerant species can be found. Pioneer plants such as Salicornia europaea and alkali grasses, grow on and stabilize the mud flats.

 

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Donation Information:

 

If you would like to help those affected by Wednesday's storms, the American Red Cross is accepting donations in a couple of ways.

 

Make out your check to "American Red Cross - Neighbors in Need", and mail it to:

 

American Red Cross - Neighbors in Need

300 Chase Park South

Hoover Alabama 35244

 

If you prefer to make a donation on-line, please click here to visit alredcross.org

 

-To apply for federal disaster assistance online, go to www.disasterassistance.gov

 

-To apply over the phone, call 1-800-621-3362 between the hours of 7am and 10 pm.

 

-The United Way has set up a hotline to help victims find low cost temporary housing. Call 211 for more details.

   

Volunteer Information:

 

-United Way's Hands on Birmingham - www.handsonbirmingham.org

 

-Volunteers in Tuscaloosa are asked to register at St. Matthias Episcopal Church on Skyland Boulevard

 

-Volunteers in Calhoun County must register at the Ohatchee Police Department

 

-Volunteers in Concord must register at the YMCA on 4th Avenue South

 

-Webster's Chapel leaders are looking for volunteers with vehicles who can distribute supplies to tornado victims. Volunteers should go to the Webster's Chapel Fire Station

  

Drop off Locations:

-Harvest Church in Northport is accepting donations for tornado survivors

 

-Christian Service Mission at 3600 3rd Ave South is accepting personal care items, baby supplies, and other items of basic need

 

-First Baptist Church Trussville is a drop off point for donations Monday through Friday 8am to 6pm

 

-Church of the Highlands on Grants Mill Road is accepting items of basic need

 

-Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Alexandria is collecting donations of bathing supplies

 

-Clear Branch United Methodist Church in Argo is a drop off location from 8am to 4pm Monday through Friday

 

-Mark Ferrier Ministries has a drop off point at 97.7 Fox FM radio in Jasper

 

-Alabaster First United Methodist Church accepting donations for storm survivors at Restore Building behind the church

 

-Holy Faith Temple is accepting donations for tornado survivors in Childersburg

 

-Central Baptist Church of Jasper is collecting supplies for victims in Cordova.

 

-McAlpine Recreation Center at 1115 Avenue F in Ensley is now a drop off point

 

-108 Haynes Street in Talladega is collecting donations for survivors in East Alabama

 

-East Birmingham Church of God on First Avenue North is collecting supplies

 

-All Books-A-Million stores are collecing monetary donations for the Salvation Army

 

-East Birmingham Church of God in Christ on 1st Avenue is collecting supplies

 

-Aldrich Assembly of God is collecting relief supplies at Lucky's Market in Montevallo and Sammy's Fresh Market in Wilsonville.

 

-Vance town community center is collecting donations for survivors in Vance

 

-Helena Cumberland Presbyterian Church is accepting donations all week from 9am until 6pm.

 

-Donations in Calhoun County may be dropped off at Eagle Point Baptist Church in Jacksonville and Word Alive Church in Coldwater.

 

-Jasper Jaycees are accepting donated items at the fairgrounds on Airport Road. Cash donations can be made at Bank of Walker County. Call 205-221-3928 for more info.

 

-Hardin's Chapel Church in Ragland is an official EMA site

 

-Cullman county donation locations: Eagle Point Church, Isaiah 58-Word Alive Church, Piedmont Benevolence and Salvation Army

 

-UAB is holding blood drives at the North Pavillion from 10am to 5pm Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday. 7am to 2pm Tuesday and Friday

  

Places to pick up items or get help:

-People with disabilities who have lost medication or equipment can call 205-251-2223 ext 102

 

-United Way has set up a hotline to help victims find low cost temporary housing - call 211

 

-There will be a physician on site and medicine available at Scott School through Saturday from 7am to 7pm

 

-Tornado survivors in Hale and Greene counties can get help at Springfield United Methodist Church in Eutaw and at Johnson Hill United Methodist Church in Union

 

-Toiletries and clothing are available for pick up at Plum Grove Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa. If you need transportation, call 205-292-5836

 

-Food and water stations for victims are set up at the Leland Shopping Center, Forest Lake Baptist relief center and Skyland Elementary.

 

-Aldridge Community Missionary Baptist Church in Parrish has food, formula, clothes and water for any storm survivors who need help.

 

-Victims in St. Clair County can get food, water and other supplies at the Shoal Creek Community Center.

 

-Tarps available in St. Clair County at Odenville Fire Department, Pell City Fire Station One, Reiverside Fire Department

 

-The Salvation Army has set up mobile canteen operations in Forest Lake, Holt High School and on 15th Street in Alberta City.

 

-Tornado victims in Hale and Greene Counties can get help at Springfield United Methodist Church in Eutaw and at Johnson Hill United Methodist Church in Union.

 

-The Masonic Lodge in Pleasant Grove is serving meals and distributing supplies to tornado victims.

 

-Bethel Baptist Church in Pratt City is providing food and shelter to tornado survivors in that community

 

-Food, water and other supplies are available at Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church in Hueytown.

 

-The Red Cross has opened feeding stations at Oak Grove Baptist Church, Knighten's Volunteer Fire Department, Webster's Chapel Volunteer Fire Department, First Baptist Church of Williams, Mt. Olive Volunteer Fire Department in Ohatchee and the Ellis Community Fire Department.

 

-Hardin's Chapel Church in Ragland is an official EMA site

 

-Free first aid station is open in Pleasant Grove from 9am to 6pm at 615 Pleasant Grove Road Monday through Friday

 

-Free medical clinic at Scott School in Pratt City 7am to 7pm

  

Shelters:

-Bethel Baptist Church in Pratt City is providing food and shelter to tornado victims in that community.

 

-The American Red Cross has set up shelters at the Belk Center in Tuscaloosa, First Baptist Church in Hanceville, the Boutwell Auditorium in Birmingham, the Civic Center in Cullman and First United Methodist Church in Springville.

 

-American Red Cross shelter in St. Clair County is at Greensport Baptist Church in Ashville

  

Insurance office locations:

-Allstate Insurance has mobile claims centers set up at the Lowe's in Bessemer, the Winn-Dixie at River Square Plaza in Hueytown and the K-Mart on Skyland Boulevard in Tuscaloosa.

 

-State Farm has centers set up at Lowe's in Cullman, Tuscaloosa, Bessemer and Fultondale.

 

-ALFA has centers at the Save-a-Lot in Cullman and the ALFA Service Center in Gadsden.

 

-Farmers Insurance has centers at Home Depot in Tuscaloosa, the Forest Square Shopping Center in Forestdale, and the Farmers district offices in Vestavia Hills and Pell City.

  

Misc:

-A battery charging station is set up at the Walmart in Tuscaloosa. Flash lights are also being given away while supplies last.

 

-If you have loved ones who are still missing in the Birmingham area, call 205-787-1487 or 205-787-1488.

 

-Greater Birmingham Humane Society lost and found pet hotline open 8am to 5pm daily: 205-397-8534. Hotline is for Jefferson and Tuscaloosa counties

 

-Official FEMA mobile disaster recovery center in Sumter county: Geiger Town Hall 201 Broadway

 

-Victims in Pratt City are in need of trash bags and baskets to help collect their personal belongings

 

-Calhoun County needs rope, tools, gloves, masks, tarps, first aid supplies and baby supplies

 

-Some local contractors in Tuscaloosa are offering free debris removal. Call 205-248-5800.

 

-Samaritan's Purse in Tuscaloosa is providing free debris removal and free tarps. Call 205-345-7554.

 

-The McWane Center in Birmingham is offering free admission to anyone who brings supplies for tornado victims.

 

-A dusk to dawn curfew is in effect for all of Cullman County.

 

-An 8pm to 6am curfew is in effect in the city of Tuscaloosa.

Hello everybody, it's Aaron.

 

My friend Jenny from this video is still looking for her forever home:

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I would love it if you could click on that YouTube link and then click on the SHARE button so we can find her a home.

 

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Apparently Jack Jack's fur is not up to Dior's standard of cleanliness - so she gives him a little help.

LUMBINI NEPAL

Lumbinī (Nepali and Sanskrit: लुम्बिनी listen (help•info), "the lovely") is a Buddhist pilgrimage site in the Rupandehi District of Nepal. It is the place where, according to Buddhist tradition, Queen Mayadevi gave birth to Siddhartha Gautama in 563 BCE.[1][2] Gautama, who achieved Enlightenment some time around 528 BCE,[3][4] became the Buddha and founded Buddhism.[5][6][7]Lumbini is one of many magnets for pilgrimage that sprang up in places pivotal to the life of the Buddha.

Lumbini has a number of temples, including the Mayadevi Temple and several others which are still under repair. Many monuments, monasteries and a museum, the Lumbini International Research Institute, are also within the holy site. Also there is the Puskarini, or Holy Pond, where the Buddha's mother took the ritual dip prior to his birth and where he had his first bath. At other sites near Lumbini, earlier Buddhas were, according to tradition, born, then achieved ultimate Enlightenment and finally relinquished their earthly forms

In the Buddha's time, Lumbini was situated in east of Kapilavastu and southwest Devadaha of Shakya kingdom of Nepal.[8][9] It was there, that the Buddha was born.[10] A pillar discovered in 1896 (and erected thereafter at Rummindei) is believed to mark the spot of Ashoka's visit to Lumbini. The site was not known as Lumbini before the pillar was discovered.[11] According to an inscription on the pillar, it was placed there by the people then in charge of the park to commemorate Ashoka's visit and gifts.[12] The park was previously known as Rummindei, 2 mi (2 mi (3.2 km)) north of Bhagavanpura.

The Sutta Nipáta (vs. 683) states that the Buddha was born in a village of the Sákyans in the Lumbineyya Janapada. The Buddha stayed in Lumbinívana during his visit to Devadaha and there preached the Devadaha Sutta.

In 1896, Nepalese archaeologists (led by Khadga Samsher Rana and assisted by Alois Anton Führer) discovered a great stone pillar at Lumbini, according to the crucial historical records made by the ancient Chinese monk-pilgrim Xuanzang in the 7th century CE. Führer postulated that the pillar was placed at the site by Ashoka (emperor of the Maurya Empire) circa 245 BCE. Records made by another ancient Chinese monk-pilgrim Faxian in the early 5th century CE, were also used in the process of identifying this religiously acclaimed site.

Recent excavations beneath existing brick structures at the Mayadevi Temple at Lumbini have uncovered evidence for an older timber structure beneath the walls of the newer brick Buddhist shrine, which was constructed during the Ashokan era. The layout of the Ashokan shrine closely follows that of the earlier timber structure, which suggests a continuity of worship at the site. The pre-Mauryan timber structure appears to be an ancient bodhigara (tree shrine), consisting of postholes and a wooden railing surrounding a clay floor containing mineralized tree roots that appears to have been worn smooth by visitors. Radiocarbon dating of charcoal from the wooden postholes and optically stimulated luminescence dating of elements in the soil suggests human activity (possibly pre-Buddhist tree worship) began at the site around 1000 BCE, followed by the development of a Buddhist monastery-like community by approximately 550 BCE

Lumbini is 4.8 km (3 mi) in length and 1.6 km (1.0 mi) in width. The holy site of Lumbini is bordered by a large monastic zone in which only monasteries can be built, no shops, hotels or restaurants. It is separated into an eastern and western monastic zone, the eastern having the Theravadin monasteries, the western having Mahayanaand Vajrayana monasteries.

The holy site of Lumbini has ruins of ancient monasteries, a sacred Bodhi tree, an ancient bathing pond, the Ashokan pillar and the Mayadevi Temple, where the supposed place of birth of Buddha is located. From early morning to early evening, pilgrims from various countries perform chanting and meditation at the site.

A non-governmental organization named Samriddhi Foundation started in 2013 working extensively in the field of education and health specially in government schools of the area where underprivileged children study. A non-governmental organisation called "Asia Pacific Exchange and Cooperation Foundation" (APECF) backed by chairman of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)and then Prime Minister Prachanda, the Chinese government and a UN group called "United Nations Industrial Development Organization" (UNIDO) signed a deal to develop Lumbini into a "special development zone" with funds worth $3 billion.[15] The venture was a China-UN joint project. A broader 'Lumbini Development National Director Committee' under the leadership of Pushpa Kamal Dahal was formed on 17 October 2011.[16] The six-member committee included Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) leader Mangal Siddhi Manandhar, Nepali Congress leader Minendra Rijal, Forest Minister Mohammad Wakil Musalman, among other leaders. The committee was given the authority to "draft a master plan to develop Lumbini as a peaceful and tourism area and table the proposal" and the responsibility to gather international support for the same.

By Kailash Mansarovar Foundation Swami Bikash Giri www.sumeruparvat.com , www.naturalitem.com

 

Donation Information:

 

If you would like to help those affected by Wednesday's storms, the American Red Cross is accepting donations in a couple of ways.

 

Make out your check to "American Red Cross - Neighbors in Need", and mail it to:

 

American Red Cross - Neighbors in Need

300 Chase Park South

Hoover Alabama 35244

 

If you prefer to make a donation on-line, please click here to visit alredcross.org

 

-To apply for federal disaster assistance online, go to www.disasterassistance.gov

 

-To apply over the phone, call 1-800-621-3362 between the hours of 7am and 10 pm.

 

-The United Way has set up a hotline to help victims find low cost temporary housing. Call 211 for more details.

   

Volunteer Information:

 

-United Way's Hands on Birmingham - www.handsonbirmingham.org

 

-Volunteers in Tuscaloosa are asked to register at St. Matthias Episcopal Church on Skyland Boulevard

 

-Volunteers in Calhoun County must register at the Ohatchee Police Department

 

-Volunteers in Concord must register at the YMCA on 4th Avenue South

 

-Webster's Chapel leaders are looking for volunteers with vehicles who can distribute supplies to tornado victims. Volunteers should go to the Webster's Chapel Fire Station

  

Drop off Locations:

-Harvest Church in Northport is accepting donations for tornado survivors

 

-Christian Service Mission at 3600 3rd Ave South is accepting personal care items, baby supplies, and other items of basic need

 

-First Baptist Church Trussville is a drop off point for donations Monday through Friday 8am to 6pm

 

-Church of the Highlands on Grants Mill Road is accepting items of basic need

 

-Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Alexandria is collecting donations of bathing supplies

 

-Clear Branch United Methodist Church in Argo is a drop off location from 8am to 4pm Monday through Friday

 

-Mark Ferrier Ministries has a drop off point at 97.7 Fox FM radio in Jasper

 

-Alabaster First United Methodist Church accepting donations for storm survivors at Restore Building behind the church

 

-Holy Faith Temple is accepting donations for tornado survivors in Childersburg

 

-Central Baptist Church of Jasper is collecting supplies for victims in Cordova.

 

-McAlpine Recreation Center at 1115 Avenue F in Ensley is now a drop off point

 

-108 Haynes Street in Talladega is collecting donations for survivors in East Alabama

 

-East Birmingham Church of God on First Avenue North is collecting supplies

 

-All Books-A-Million stores are collecing monetary donations for the Salvation Army

 

-East Birmingham Church of God in Christ on 1st Avenue is collecting supplies

 

-Aldrich Assembly of God is collecting relief supplies at Lucky's Market in Montevallo and Sammy's Fresh Market in Wilsonville.

 

-Vance town community center is collecting donations for survivors in Vance

 

-Helena Cumberland Presbyterian Church is accepting donations all week from 9am until 6pm.

 

-Donations in Calhoun County may be dropped off at Eagle Point Baptist Church in Jacksonville and Word Alive Church in Coldwater.

 

-Jasper Jaycees are accepting donated items at the fairgrounds on Airport Road. Cash donations can be made at Bank of Walker County. Call 205-221-3928 for more info.

 

-Hardin's Chapel Church in Ragland is an official EMA site

 

-Cullman county donation locations: Eagle Point Church, Isaiah 58-Word Alive Church, Piedmont Benevolence and Salvation Army

 

-UAB is holding blood drives at the North Pavillion from 10am to 5pm Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday. 7am to 2pm Tuesday and Friday

  

Places to pick up items or get help:

-People with disabilities who have lost medication or equipment can call 205-251-2223 ext 102

 

-United Way has set up a hotline to help victims find low cost temporary housing - call 211

 

-There will be a physician on site and medicine available at Scott School through Saturday from 7am to 7pm

 

-Tornado survivors in Hale and Greene counties can get help at Springfield United Methodist Church in Eutaw and at Johnson Hill United Methodist Church in Union

 

-Toiletries and clothing are available for pick up at Plum Grove Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa. If you need transportation, call 205-292-5836

 

-Food and water stations for victims are set up at the Leland Shopping Center, Forest Lake Baptist relief center and Skyland Elementary.

 

-Aldridge Community Missionary Baptist Church in Parrish has food, formula, clothes and water for any storm survivors who need help.

 

-Victims in St. Clair County can get food, water and other supplies at the Shoal Creek Community Center.

 

-Tarps available in St. Clair County at Odenville Fire Department, Pell City Fire Station One, Reiverside Fire Department

 

-The Salvation Army has set up mobile canteen operations in Forest Lake, Holt High School and on 15th Street in Alberta City.

 

-Tornado victims in Hale and Greene Counties can get help at Springfield United Methodist Church in Eutaw and at Johnson Hill United Methodist Church in Union.

 

-The Masonic Lodge in Pleasant Grove is serving meals and distributing supplies to tornado victims.

 

-Bethel Baptist Church in Pratt City is providing food and shelter to tornado survivors in that community

 

-Food, water and other supplies are available at Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church in Hueytown.

 

-The Red Cross has opened feeding stations at Oak Grove Baptist Church, Knighten's Volunteer Fire Department, Webster's Chapel Volunteer Fire Department, First Baptist Church of Williams, Mt. Olive Volunteer Fire Department in Ohatchee and the Ellis Community Fire Department.

 

-Hardin's Chapel Church in Ragland is an official EMA site

 

-Free first aid station is open in Pleasant Grove from 9am to 6pm at 615 Pleasant Grove Road Monday through Friday

 

-Free medical clinic at Scott School in Pratt City 7am to 7pm

  

Shelters:

-Bethel Baptist Church in Pratt City is providing food and shelter to tornado victims in that community.

 

-The American Red Cross has set up shelters at the Belk Center in Tuscaloosa, First Baptist Church in Hanceville, the Boutwell Auditorium in Birmingham, the Civic Center in Cullman and First United Methodist Church in Springville.

 

-American Red Cross shelter in St. Clair County is at Greensport Baptist Church in Ashville

  

Insurance office locations:

-Allstate Insurance has mobile claims centers set up at the Lowe's in Bessemer, the Winn-Dixie at River Square Plaza in Hueytown and the K-Mart on Skyland Boulevard in Tuscaloosa.

 

-State Farm has centers set up at Lowe's in Cullman, Tuscaloosa, Bessemer and Fultondale.

 

-ALFA has centers at the Save-a-Lot in Cullman and the ALFA Service Center in Gadsden.

 

-Farmers Insurance has centers at Home Depot in Tuscaloosa, the Forest Square Shopping Center in Forestdale, and the Farmers district offices in Vestavia Hills and Pell City.

  

Misc:

-A battery charging station is set up at the Walmart in Tuscaloosa. Flash lights are also being given away while supplies last.

 

-If you have loved ones who are still missing in the Birmingham area, call 205-787-1487 or 205-787-1488.

 

-Greater Birmingham Humane Society lost and found pet hotline open 8am to 5pm daily: 205-397-8534. Hotline is for Jefferson and Tuscaloosa counties

 

-Official FEMA mobile disaster recovery center in Sumter county: Geiger Town Hall 201 Broadway

 

-Victims in Pratt City are in need of trash bags and baskets to help collect their personal belongings

 

-Calhoun County needs rope, tools, gloves, masks, tarps, first aid supplies and baby supplies

 

-Some local contractors in Tuscaloosa are offering free debris removal. Call 205-248-5800.

 

-Samaritan's Purse in Tuscaloosa is providing free debris removal and free tarps. Call 205-345-7554.

 

-The McWane Center in Birmingham is offering free admission to anyone who brings supplies for tornado victims.

 

-A dusk to dawn curfew is in effect for all of Cullman County.

 

-An 8pm to 6am curfew is in effect in the city of Tuscaloosa.

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City Harvest Mobile Market staffers use gloved hands to place bags of food on transfer tables that help people keep their six-foot distence during the CoVID-19 pandemic, in Astoria, Queens, NY, on March 28, 2020. For more information about what City Harvest, please go to cityharvest.org. City Harvest Courtesy Photo by Ben Cohen.

It's time for us all to do some good, at least for Alesia. Check out her story and you won't forget her that soon... she's lovely, she's fun, she's smart and she needs us.

 

What Aiurea does is to offer some shoes, a few photos, a couple of naive lamps a.s.o. for free to a public auction, the proceeds of which will be used to try to make Alesia smile again. If you want to help and to bid for an object you can access this link for the online Bazar. Beautiful people, go place a bid for her, for you…for a big coming home party...

 

If you are a manufacturer or you know one who wants to help, you can email Ada by the 5th of August on andreea_demirgian@yahoo.com.

 

If you just want to help with a donation, here are the bank details:

 

RON: IBAN

RO22 RZBR 0000 0600 0988 4200

EURO: IBAN

RO98 RZBR 0000 0600 1063 2642

Conturi deschise pe numele Anghel Ana Magdalena

Agentia Lujerului

SWIFT RZBRROBU

DRS 281 RAIFFEISEN BANK

  

Useful links:

 

www.injoaca.blogspot.com

www.burp-nevergrowup.blogspot.com

+++ DISCLAIMER +++

Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based on historical facts. BEWARE!

  

Some background:

The 21 cm Kanone 39 (K 39) was a Czech-designed heavy gun used by the Germans in the Second World War. It was original designed by Škoda as a dual-purpose heavy field and coast defence gun in the late 1930s for Turkey with the designation of ‘K52’. Only two had been delivered before the rest of the production run was appropriated by the Heer upon the occupation of Czechoslovakia in March 1939.

Initially, the K 39 only saw limited use as a field cannon in Operation Barbarossa, the Siege of Odessa, Siege of Leningrad and the Siege of Sevastopol. During the war, nine of these guns were sold to Sweden, too.

 

With the ongoing (and worsening) war situation and the development of heavy tank chassis towards late 1944, the K 39 received new attention and was adapted by the Wehrmacht as a long-range mortar, primarily intended as a mobile coastal defense weapon for strategically important naval sites, and as a second line artillery support. There were several reasons that made the heavy weapon still attractive: Unlike the German practice of sliding block breeches that required a metallic cartridge case to seal the gun's chamber against combustion gases, Škoda had preferred to use an interrupted screw breech with a deBange obdurator to seal the chamber. This lowered the rate of fire to 3 rounds in 2 minutes but had the great economic advantage of allowing bagged propellant charges that didn't use scarce brass or steel cartridge cases, since these metals became more and more short in supply. This also meant that the propellant charge could be adjusted to the intended range, what also helped save material.

The other unusual feature of the gun was a monobloc auto-frettaged barrel, created from a single piece of steel that was radially expanded under hydraulic pressure. This had the advantage of placing the steel of the barrel under compression, which helped it resist the stresses of firing and was simpler and faster to build since the barrel didn't require assembly as with more traditional construction techniques.

 

Every shell used by the K 39 weighed 135 kilograms (298 lb). HE shells (the 21 cm Gr 40), anti-concrete shells (21 cm Gr 39 Be) and an armor-piercing, base-fuzed shell, the 21 cm Pzgr 39 were available. The K 39 used a bagged charge with a total weight of 55 kilograms (121 lb). The base charge (“Kleine Ladung”) weighed 21.5 kilograms (47 lb) and had an igniter stitched to its base. The two increments (“Vorkart”) were lightly stitched together and enclosed in another bag tied at the top and with another igniter stitched to the base. The medium charge (“Mittlere Ladung”) consisted of the base charge and increment 2 while the full charge (“Grosse Ladung”) consisted of the base charge and both increments. The increments were loaded before the base charge. This resulted in a muzzle velocity of 800–860 m/s (2,600–2,800 ft/s) and a maximum firing range of 33 km (36,000 yd).

 

Emplacing the K 39 on its original box trail carriage took six to eight hours, mainly to dig in and anchor the firing platform, and a significant entourage was necessary to operate it. To improve the weapon’s handling and mobility, and to protect the crew especially against aircraft attacks, the K 39 was in 1943 to be mounted on a self-propelled chassis. Initially, a standardized “Schwerer Waffenträger”, which would also be able to carry other large-caliber guns (like the 17 cm Kanone 18 in Mörserlafette), was favored. However, the vehicle’s functional specification included the ability to set the heavy weapon gun down on the ground, so that it could be operated separately, and this meant an open weapon platform as well as complex and heavy mechanisms to handle the separate heavy guns. The Schwere Waffenträger’s overall high weight suggested the use of existing standard heavy tank elements and running gear and drivetrain elements from the heavy Tiger II battle tank were integrated into the design. The development of this mobile platform had high priority, but the focus on more and new battle tanks kept the resources allocated to the Schwerer Waffenträger project low so that progress was slow. As it became clear that the Schwere Waffenträger SPG would not become operational before 1945 a simpler alternative was chosen: the modification of an existing heavy tank chassis. Another factor was the Heeresleitung’s wish to protect the weapon and its crew through a fully enclosed casemate, and the ability to set the weapon down was dropped, too, to simplify the construction.

Originally, the SdKfz. 184 (Porsche’s chassis design for the Tiger I battle tank, which was not accepted in this role but instead developed into the tank hunter SPG Elefant/Ferdinand with a modified combat compartment at the rear, was chosen. But since this type’s production ended prematurely and many technical problems occurred through its complex propulsion system, the chassis of the Sd.Kfz. 186, the heavy Jagdtiger SPG, was selected instead, as it was the only readily available chassis at the time in production that was capable of carrying the K 39’s size and weight and of accepting its massive recoil forces.

 

The Jagdtiger itself was based on the heavy Tiger II battle tank, but it was lengthened by 260 mm. Due to production problems with its main armament, many Jagdtiger hulls were left uncompleted, and to bring more of these heavy vehicles to the frontlines it was adapted to the Sd.Kfz. 187, the Jagdtiger Ausf. M with a modified internal layout (casemate and engine bay positions were switched to fit an 88 mm gun with an extra-long barrel), a stronger but still experimental X16 gasoline engine, and a simplified Porsche running gear.

Since it was readily available, this re-arranged Jagdtiger base was adopted for the so-called Sd.Kfz. 190 “Küstenbatterie K 39 (auf Jagdtiger (Ausf. M)” self-propelled gun (SPG), or “KüBa 39” for short. The casemate-style combat section at the rear offered sufficient space for both the huge weapon and its crew, and also prevented the long gun barrel from hanging over too far ahead of the tank, improving its handling. Space for ammunition was still limited, though: racks on the casemate’s side walls offered space for only four rounds, while fifteen gun charges were stored separately. Gun elevation was between +50° and –3°, azimuth adjustment was achieved through turning the whole vehicle around.

The Sd.Kfz. 190’s hull featured the Jagdtiger’s standard heavy armor, since the Sd.Kfz. 190 was converted from existing lower bodies, but the new battle compartment was only heavily armored at the front. This was intended as a protection against incoming RPGs or bombs dropped from Hawker Hurricane or Typhoon fighter bombers, and as a sufficient protection against frontal ground attacks – the vehicle was supposed to retreat backwards into a safe position, then turn and move away. Roof and side walls had furthermore to be thinner to reduce the vehicle’s overall weight and lower its center of gravity, but they still offered enough protection against 20mm projectiles. Nevertheless, the Sd.Kfz. 190 weighed 64 tonnes (71 short tons), almost as much as the original Jagdtiger SPG it was based upon. Since it was not intended to operate directly at the front lines, the Sd.Kfz. 190 retained the Jagdtiger’s original (but rather weak) Maybach HL230 P30 TRM petrol engine with 700hp and the Henschel suspension with internal torsion bars, what simplified the conversions with readily available material.

 

A pair of retractable supports at the rear of the vehicle could be lowered to stabilize the vehicle when firing and distribute the gun’s massive recoil into the ground. The tall casemate’s rear featured a large double swing door which were necessary to avoid crew injuries from the massive gun’s pressure when it was firing. The doors were also necessary to re-load the gun – a small crane was mounted above the doors on the roof of the casemate, and a hoist to move the heavy rounds around in the casemate was mounted on tracks under the combat compartment’s ceiling.

 

The KüBa 39 had a standard crew of six men. The crew in the hull retained their role and positions from the Tiger II, with the driver located in the front left and the radio operator in the front right. This radio operator also had control over the secondary armament, a defensive machine gun located in a mount in the front glacis plate. In the casemate were the remaining 4 crew, which consisted of a commander (front right), the gunner (front left), and two loaders in the rear, which were frequently augmented by a third loader to handle the heavy rounds with an internal hoist under the casemate’s roof. Due to the severe maintenance and logistics needs, the KüBa 39 never operated on its own. Typically, several dedicated vehicles accompanied the self-propelled gun carrier as a “battle group”, including at least one ammunition carrier like the Hummel Munitionsträger, a crew transporter like a Sd.Kfz. 251 for more helping hands outside of the vehicle and frequently a command/radio vehicle to coordinate and direct the fire onto targets far beyond visual range.

 

The KüBa 39 was quickly developed and fielded, but it came too late for the Allied invasion in 1944 where it could have been a valuable asset to repel Allied ships that operated close to the French coast or even in second line in the Channel. The first vehicles became operational only in early 1945, and production was limited and rather slow. The ever-worsening war situation put more and more emphasis on the production of battle tanks and tank hunters, so that the heavy artillery vehicle only received low priority. However, the few vehicles that were produced (numbers are uncertain, but not more than 30 were eventually completed and fielded), found a wide range of uses – including the defense of the Elbe mouth and the Hamburg port. Some were shipped to Norway for coastal defense purposes, and a handful was allocated to the defense of German submarine bases in France.

Towards the end of hostilities, the survivors were integrated into infantry groups and used for long-range fire support at both Western and Eastern front. No vehicle survived, since most Sd.Kfz. 190 were destroyed by their crews after breakdowns or when the heavy vehicle got stuck in difficult terrain – its weight made the KüBa 39 hard to recover.

  

Specifications:

Crew: Six - seven (commander, gunner, 2 -3× loader, radio operator, driver)

Weight: 64 tonnes (71 short tons)

Length: 7.27 metres (23 ft 8 in) (hull only)

9.72 metres (31 ft 10 in) overall in marching configuration

Width: 3.88 metres (12 ft 9 in)

Height 3.81 metres (12 1/2 ft)

Ground clearance: 495 to 510 mm (1 ft 7.5 in to 1 ft 8.1 in)

Suspension: Torsion bar

Fuel capacity: 720 litres (160 imp gal; 190 US gal)

 

Armor:

25 – 150 mm (1 – 5.9 in)

 

Performance:

Speed

- Maximum, road: 38 km/h (23.6 mph)

- Sustained, road: 32 km/h (20 mph)

- Cross country: 15 to 20 km/h (9.3 to 12.4 mph)

Operational range: 120 km (75 mi) on road

80 km (50 mi) off road

Power/weight: 10,93 PS/tonne (9,86 hp/ton)

 

Engine:

V-12 Maybach HL HL230 P30 TRM gasoline engine with 700 PS

 

Transmission:

ZF AK 7-200 with 7 forward 1 reverse gears

 

Armament:

1× 21 cm K 39/41 L45 heavy siege gun with 4 rounds and 15 separate charges

1× 7.92 mm Maschinengewehr 34 or 42 with 800 rounds in the front glacis plate

  

The kit and its assembly:

The project to put the massive (real) Czech 21 cm K39 gun on a German chassis had been on my agenda for a long time, but I have never been certain about the vehicle donor for this stunt. I initially favored a Modelcollect E-50/75 since it is available as an SPG version with a reversed engine/casemate layout. But this kit has two serious issues: it would IMHO be too late to be adapted for the pre-war weapon, and – worse - the kit has the flaw that the mould designers simply ignored the driver/radio operator in the hull’s front – the glacis plate immediately migrates into the engine deck and bay, so that there’s no internal space for the driver! Even if you’d assume that the driver would sit with the rest of the crew in the casemate behind the engine, there are no hatches, sights slits or mirrors? Well, it’s a fictional tank, but IMHO it has been poorly designed.

Correcting this might be possible, but then I could also convert something else, probably easier. This alternative became a serious option when I recently built my fictional Sd.Kfz. 187, a Jagdtiger with a reversed layout. This stunt turned out to be easier than expected, with good results, and since I had a second Jagdtiger kit left over from the Sd.Kfz. 187 project I simply used it for the KüBa 39 – also having the benefit of being rooted in an earlier time frame than the E-50/75, and therefore much more plausible.

 

The Trumpeter 1:72 Jagdtiger first lost its mid-positioned casemate. Internal stiffeners were glued into the hull and the engine deck was cut out and glued into the former casemate’s place, directly behind the driver section. The casemate for the 21 cm gun (a Revell field gun model of this weapon, highly detailed) was scratched, though, and designing it was a gradual step-by-step process. To offer more internal space, the engine deck was slightly shortened, what also changed the vehicle’s profile. From the Jagdtiger’s superstructure I just retained the roof. Things started with another donor piece, though, the massive gun mantlet from a Trumpeter 1:72 KV-2 tank. It was mated with the21 cm gun and the movable KV-2 mantlet mounted with styrene sheet spacer onto a scratched casemate front plate. More styrene sheet was used to create covers around the mantlet, and inside I glued an “arm” to the gun with lead bead ballast, so that the gun could be easier posed in raised position. The finished gun element was glued onto the hull, and the Tiger II roof positioned as far back as possible, what revealed a 3mm gap to the front plate – bridged by another styrene sheet filler, which was also used to raise the roof and add a kink to the roofline that would make the casemate look less boxy.

 

With the roofline defined I decided to extend the casemate backwards – after all, the original rear engine was gone and the vehicle would certainly need a spacious back door to enter and load it. Therefore, a back wall section was cut out and a casemate extension scratched from styrene sheet. When this was in place, the vertical casemate rear wall was added, and with the profile now fully defined the casemate side walls were created from 1.5 and 0.5 mm styrene sheet. The kink under the roofline was a self-imposed challenge, but I think that this extra effort was worthwhile because the casemate looks more organic than just a simple box design like the Ferdinand/Elefant’s superstructure?

Once the casemate was closed, surface details were added, including the doble door at the rear, the small crane on the roof, and the retractable supports (which came, IIRC, from a Modelcollect 1:72 T-72 kit). The rest of the original Jagdtiger kit was simply taken over OOB.

 

Painting and markings:

As a vehicle operated in the open field, I gave the KüBa 39 a classic, contemporary “Hinterhalt” paint scheme, in the sophisticated original style that was only applied to a few vehicles on factory level until the camouflage job was soon delegated to the frontline units. Painting started with a base coat of RAL 8000 (Grünbraun) as an overall primer, then 7028 Dunkelgelb (Tamiya TS-3) was sprayed onto the upper surfaces from a rattle can for a light shading effect. At this stage the markings/decals were already applied, so that the additional camouflage could be applied round them. They were puzzled together from the scrap box.

Then clusters/fields in Olivgrün (RAL 6003; Humbrol 86) and Rotbraun (RAL 8012, Humbrol 160) were added onto the sand tone base with circular templates/stencils made from densely foamed styrene that were glued onto the tip of toothpicks – the large casemate with its even surfaces lent itself for this elaborate “factory finish” scheme variant. The stamp method worked better than expected, and the result is very convincing. I just tried to concentrate the dark areas to the upper surfaces, so that the contrast against the ground when seen from above would be smaller than from a side view, which became more fragmented. The running gear remained uniform Dunkelgelb, as a counter-shading measure and to avoid wobbling patterns on camouflaged wheels that could attract attention while the vehicle would move.

 

After protecting the decals with a thin coat of varnish the model and the still separate wheels received a dark-brown washing with highly thinned acrylic paint and an overall dry-brushing treatment with light grey and beige. Additionally, water colors were used to simulate dust and light mud, and to set some rust traces on exposed areas.

 

Artist mineral pigments were dusted into the running gear and onto the tracks after their final assembly, and some mud crusts on the tail supports were created with a bit of matt acrylic varnish and more pigments.

  

A thorough conversion project, and the result is a really massive vehicle - its bulk is hard to convey, the Jagdtiger basis is already a massive vehicle, but this is "super-size", close to an E-100! However, you have to place something next to it to fathom the size of the 21 cm mortar and the huge casemate that covers it. But the conversion looks IMHO rather natural, esp. for a scratched work, and the Hinterhalt suits the bulky vehicle well, it really helps to break the outlines up.

 

SL Fashion Industry to help japan

This is and invite to join us and is open to:

Designers, models,agencies owners and to all the people who is ready to open the heart to help.

We couldn't be indifferent in front at this horrible tragedy and we want to organize a fashion show to raise founds for helping Japonaise people.

Designers and all interested please send a note to Ellendir Khandr with name and explaining in wich way you want to help.

We need from the designer a "one of a kind" creation that will be auctioned.

 

The show will be presented on the main stage of "Bestyle District" on April 15th 2011 at 12:00PM SLT ( noon)

 

Thank you to join us!

 

Ellendir Khandr owner Of "Solo2models" and the staff of the agency

Mimmi Boa owner of "Evane Models Agency" and the staff of the agency

Agtaope Carter Lane owner o "Bestyle District Agency" and the staff of the agency

 

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Join us, Help Japan, God bless your good heart

I new period of my life started on Tuesday. i passed my second state examination. Now, i've the license to earn much money. Yeah. But it means too, i'm in an existential crisis. So I need a new hairdo. But I don't know, what to do! I need help! Blonde or brown, short, long, really short, really long, red, or just being bald? Argh.

 

View On Black

I found you on top of a shelf,

Don't ask me, I'll never know

I looked to you as my guide,

And now you're by my side

 

I want us just to escape,

Oils and lantern for a way

I was scared to play this,

But now you're by my side

 

Your trust was holdin',

Ripped gold, skin was showin'

Scary, place was blowin'

Where you think you're going, Stephano?

 

Hey, I just found you,

And this is crazy,

But here's my hand,

So help me, maybe?

 

It's hard to look right,

At you Stephano,

But here's my hand,

So help me, maybe?

 

Hey, I just found you,

And this is crazy,

But here's my hand,

So help me, maybe?

 

And all the other Bros,

Try to chase me,

But grab my hand,

So help me, maybe?

 

You took your time to help me,

I looked around this place,

You gave advice for this mod,

But still, you're by my side,

 

I hid, and chairmode and scream

Have foresight and it's real

I didn't know I'd survive it,

But you're by my side

 

Your trust was holdin',

Ripped gold, skin was showin'

Scary, place was blowin'

Where you think you're going, Stephano?

 

Hey, I just found you,

And this is crazy,

But here's my hand,

So help me, maybe?

 

It's scary to look back,

At the bro,

But here's my hand,

So help me, maybe?

 

Hey, I just found you,

And this is crazy,

But here's my hand,

So help me, maybe?

 

And all the other Bros,

Try to chase me,

But here's my hand,

So help me, maybe?

 

Before you were created

I was scared so bad

I was scared so bad

I was scared so, so bad

 

Before you were created

I was scared so bad

And Stephano should know that

I was scared so, so bad

 

It's scared to look back,

At the Bro,

But here's my hand,

So help me, maybe?

 

Hey, I just found you,

And this is crazy,

But here's my hand,

So help me, maybe?

 

And all the other Bros,

Try to chase me,

But here's my hand,

So help me, maybe?

 

Before you were created

I was scared so bad

I was scared so bad

I was scared so, so bad

 

Before you were created

I was scared so bad

And Stephano should know that

 

So follow him, maybe?

 

by ~foodlover101

help wanted, who recognizes these clothes ?

Hello guys and gals, I'm uploading this image because I need your help.. my Skyrim has gone crazy.

The cause of my Skyrim's craziness is due to "eyes", and not those added by some mod like Iridum or TEOB, but Vanilla eyes.

I can't select Vanilla eyes anymore because my game CTD.

I can select those whose textures got replaced (I think) but if I select certain eyes I get a CTD.

I tried with different characters, I tried with most of the mods disabled (excluding Racemenu and a few others like SFO or WATER) but nothing.

I don't know why it happened and when, since I didn't change the eyes color for a long time, but this troubles me.. especially because it happens even when I don't have active mods.

Could it be something related to Chargen Extension? Or Female Facial Animations? (I didn't try with a male character, now I'll do a test)

Someone that has experienced this issue?

 

Any help is welcome!

 

How do I file a claim on paypal if I don't receive the shoes I bought from someone?

Thanks for stopping by and viewing this photo. The reason for posting this photo on Flickr is to learn so if you have constructive feedback regarding what I could do better and / or what should I try, drop me a note I would love to hear your input.

View on Black the way it should be seen!

-- Let the sound of the shutter always guide you to new ventures.

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If you have any problem at all related to food and eating, I encourage you

to take a deep look at it and yourself and ponder whether the obsessions and

sneaky behavior and “I’ll stop after this time” excuses are preventing you from

leading a happy life.

For those who have wondered, or perhaps even cared, where I've been recently, here's your answer. Hope it's behind me now. Warm weather would help.

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