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I got this idea when I looked into the shower around sunset. I decided not to take any shots then, because I wanted to challenge myself to take the equivalent shot with flash(es) instead. This was taken around 10pm.
This picture is probably one of the most annoying I've ever had to take. Imagine if you will how long it takes to compose and shoot a very nice, normal photo. Then imagine that you have to add lights on stands to the scene with manual power and spread settings that'll need to be changed. Then imagine that those lights are outside of the building you're shooting in. Then imagine it's at night in the cold. Then imagine that it's a shower scene with a naked model. Then imagine that your model is the guy setting up lights. Then imagine that you, the photographer, are also the aforementioned two guys! Nightmare, I tell you.
I think you can imagine where I'm heading with this. It's was a total hassle trying to do all this alone, but for the most part it turned out well. The only thing I had a lot of trouble with was the focus, and it's still off even in this final photo. I really wish the focus plane was pushed back a bit further toward my face and not my shoulder. Needless to say, the chimping (viewing and checking) of the photos on the LCD screen between shots was itself a time consuming challenge since I'd try to dry off and keep from dripping all over the camera.
Hope you enjoy. Oh, and apologizes to my friends who were ambushed by this photo and have now seen me in the shower. Also to those who thought it was a girl in the thumbnail preview, I can't imagine the let down you must feel. ;)
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Once Sir Joseph of Baeth learnt of Lenfald's separation, he feared that Djorn and Roger were in danger on their way to Garheim. This fear was realized when he received a note stating that the traveling duo had in fact been captured at the Lenfald-Loreos border and were being held for ransom at the old Garhim embassy; roughly ten miles north along the western coast. At this same time Joseph had received an order to go fishing in Lenfald in order to spy on the province. Figuring this was a perfect time to do so, he proceeded to hire a crew, pack his wares and fishing rods, and load up the Rogue Spur for the rescue of Roger and Djorn.....
Several weeks had passed since their departure from Dalmunatha. It took time for Joseph to sail far enough south in order to steer clear of the Magic Isles and plot a very careful course through the Sea of Despair to reach the safer coasts of the Western side of Roawia. Upon arrival to the cliffs that held the old Garhim embassy, its banners changed to the colors of Lenfald, Joseph told his crew to prepare to be boarded with weapons at the ready- if they had previously kicked the Garhims out of the embassy, who knows what they would do to them as Loreesis.
Surprisingly enough however, Sir Joseph and his crew were met with open arms as they docked to the old embassy with dock hands helping to immediately unload the sea-wary contents of their journey. Djorn and Roger were waiting along the lookout just above the docks holding on to two beautiful women each with giant grins on their faces. Standing next to them was a Lenfel knight with a light grey beard and swept back hair, wearing black lapels, noting him as a higher lord. He yelled out, "What ho Sir Joseph! How thee fare on this fine day?! Did thy winds give you quick course to mighty Lenfald?!"
Not sure if this was a ruse or sincere question Joseph knew to keep his tongue witty and his sword close for this encounter. He called back to the lord,
"Greetings noble Lenfel! The winds were sure in helping us get 'ere at the best pace it could!" He began to walk up the stairs to talk to the noble more clearly, "I dont think we have had the pleasure of acquaintance, I am Sir Joseph of Baeth, merchant and knight of Loreos. I was requested to come rescue my two colleagues here, who seem to have both made themselves rather comfortable. I feel I have brought more than enough gold and treasure to negotiate with for their immediate release. Exactly who do I have the pleasure of doing business with my lord?"
At this, the "captured" duo had begun laughing while the noble wrapped an arm around the confused Joseph and gave out a hearty laugh too. Gathering himself, the high lord finally spoke to Joseph, "Nay Sir Joseph! Yer friends aren't our prisoners! Why they have been great fun in our little castle! That note was written just to scare ye to get yer booty out here sooner! Twas a big misunderstanding that has happened since the separation of Lenfald from the nations of Roawia. Thou first think we kicked out the Garhims from their embassy, tis a false accusation- all the occupants left when Garheim was in most dire trouble with the Queen's soldiers. We took up residence because we didnt want them damn filthy Dragon soldiers to find and take root in this abandoned outpost.."
He turned and gestured to Roger and Djorn, "And the capturing of these two twas a complete accident, I had not yet returned from the council meeting so when word of our separation began to incorrectly spread- the local militias deemed it best to start building a wall and patrolling the Lorseesi-Lenfel border which is where your companions were taken. Our most sincere apologies for this mistake, we do not request any form of ransom and if you'd like you can set up a booth in the courtyard and sell thy wares! Stay awhile and let thy crew rest from your long journey! Im sure many 'ere would love to buy some gems and trinkets! AH I almost forgot the pleasantries, I am Lord Jon of House Dragmar.'
Surprised at this revelation and indeed tired from his journey here, Joseph was still suspicious of this Lord Jon and those Lenfels around him. He decided it would be best to accept the invitation and let the crew rest for a few days so he could dig a bit deeper into the mystery that Lenfald had become... He accepted the high lord's apology and invitation to set up shop and rest for a couple days. He finished by giving a sly grin and asking a single question, "So Lord Jon, I have heard that Lenfald's western shores are home to some of the best fishing the realm has ever seen! I just so happen to have my fishing rods with me, would you be up for a spot of fishing tomorrow?"
The old Lenfel replied, "Well of course we have the world's best fishing! I will take you up on that offer Sir Joseph! Tomorrow at mid morning we shall fish!"
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It was summertime in Roawia and like the other nations, Lenfald's denizens were enjoying this time of peace. This gave the old embassy a very festive feel. Merchants were selling their wares, people were milling about and talking, children were laughing; jesters juggled and told jokes, the men were having fun practicing their archery and sword skills. Roger had met a cute baker so while he managed Joseph's booth, he allowed her to sell bread to hungry customers. Djorn was off of his shift so he resumed courting the fair ladies he had previously been seen with.
The Garhims had set up a rather good system of agriculture here so many were tending and harvesting the varieties of produce and food that was growing around the castle though the guard presence was quite large for such a small outpost...Joseph noticed this.
Just a few meters down from the dock that held the Rogue Spur was a wooden outlook that jutted out over the cliffs, a perfect spot for fishing. It was here that Lord Jon and Sir Joseph had cast out their lines and began to wait for something to bite.
"Ahhh... a lovely day ain't it Lord Jon?" Asked Joseph. Slipping the objective of spying to Roger and Djorn late in the night, he knew that the information the three could collect would be valuable to his Areani allies. Joseph had also given the Lord some of his strongest Loreesi ale at breakfast to loosen him up before their little fishing excursion.
"Yes, tis a great day after all Sir Joseph! Nothing quite like men of stature relishing in the simple enjoyments of the commoners."
Looking away, Joseph rolled his eyes and nodded. "Aye milord, tis always a surreal experience. Tell thee, what dost thou think of Lenfald's separation from the Roawia?"
"Not much to be honest with ya lad. Everyone be a little tenser with being afraid of how the other nations will react, but we will all get along in the end Im sure. I will tell ya what Joseph, I dont give much trust to them Loreesi or Garhim diplomats and politicians. Tis the tried and true men of Roawia, those who work its land and seas that I trust the most. Men like you lad... I will tell you this though my new friend, something you'd like to hear but cannot tell anyone..."
He leaned in close to Joseph, so close Joseph could smell the Loreesi ale on the high lord's breath.
"I heard something remarkable has happened that gives reason for the sudden movements of Lenfald's ships-- the reason why there wasn't a vessel stationed here upon your arrival. There are trusted rumors that us Lenfel's have discovered something." He pointed out to the sea, "Something out there...-"
His sentence was cut off by Joseph being startled by the sudden jerking of his fishing line. "AHA! I believe I caught me a fish!" He yelled as he pulled up a medium sized fish.
Broke from his drunken trance, Lord Jon exclaimed, "Oi! That is a fine lookin fish me boy! Let us cook it up and get more of that fancy ale of yours!"
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First off, sorry for the rather long story! But it is needed for the continuation of Sir Joseph of Baeth's story which will probably be shorter in upcoming installments.
(Also, apologies for the kind of crappy pics- my actual camera isnt working and my light box didnt fit this size MOC so a lot of photoshop was used in the first pic so sorry about that.)
Secondly, Wow! This was a big entry to both the Loreos Local Challenge LCXXII and the second Journeyman task of the Merchants guild!
This was originally apart of a display last year for a local Lego event here in the Northern Colorado area but I never got around to posting it as life got in the way and I wasn't sure how to incorporate this into my character's story at the time. The base had been sitting around while the original castle was taken down to build something for my next Merchants Guild task.
It was really my first attempt at building an actual castle for once and since it was intended for a display- I wanted an open area for easy viewing while keeping the castle modular so that is why it doesnt really have a keep or anything. But after my quick redux I think it turned out quite well!
If you've made it this far thanks so much for viewing! It's good to be actively building again and there is still quite a bit in store! :)
ROMA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA. THE IMPERIAL FORA, MAYOR IGNAZIO MARINO BEGS SAUDI ARABIA FOR MILLIONS OF EURO'S FOR UPKEEP OF THE FORA, YET, ITALY & ROME WASTE BILLIONS OF EUROS. CORRIERE DELLA SERA (15 JANUARY 2015).
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ITALIA - L’INCHIESTA LE SPESE DEI MUNICIPI, Il Comune che investe in matite e quello che sperpera per le liti
Un sito web mette a confronto i bilanci delle amministrazioni: il paese più piccolo d’Italia, Pedesina (Sondrio) conta 12 consiglieri su 33 abitanti. Micigliano spende 356 euro pro capite in parcelle di avvocati. CORRIERE DELLA SERA (15|01|2015).
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Municipalities’ Spending Madness - Website compares local authority accounts. Pedesina, Italy’s smallest town, has 33 residents and 12 councillors. Every Micigliano resident forks out €356 for lawyers’ fees. CORRIERE DELLA SERA (15 JANUARY 2015).
ROME - The only item missing from the accounts of Italy’s municipalities is “miscellaneous”. Everything else is there with descriptions so vague they leave you wondering what’s going on. For example, “repayment of cash advances”. What does that mean? Who can say? But it costs €4.5 billion. That’s as much as IMU property tax on first homes. Today, a new website has put all this online so that at last, taxpayers can compare how much is spent on the same things, from stationery to office plants, by Italy’s 8,000-plus municipalities. Hallelujah! Of course, this impressive piece of work needs to be edited and its many vague descriptions need to be clarified. But soldipubblici.mgpf.it is an endless treasure trove of essential information, ridiculous numbers and eyebrow-raising facts. Browse the site for a while and you ask yourself questions like “who is feuding at Micigliano in the province of Rieti?”, where they spent €356 per resident on “litigation and legal costs”. Pisa, in contrast, spent just €0.01 and thousands of other authorities spent nothing at all. Ask “what animals did they buy at Barengo, in the province of Novara?” where the per-capita figure is over €26 against €0.02 at Nocera Inferiore. And what about the “global service” [in English in the original - Trans.] for which Spoleto paid almost €217 per resident while Pavia did without completely?
Tax code shambles
In reality, many of the figures should be handled with care. Clearly, the municipality of Longarone did not spend €1.5 million of public money per resident. The problem is that the Bank of Italy’s original SIOPE (public institution operations information system) databank has not been updated with recent developments. In the meantime, Longarone has merged with Castellazzo and has 5,433 residents, not six. Worse, the new municipality has kept its old name but now has two ISTAT statistics codes and two tax codes. Similar mix-ups affect six more municipalities: Montoro, Fabbriche di Vergemoli, Scarperia, San Piero, Tremezzina and Val Brembilla. It’s a shame, of course, but offset by the enormous quantity of figures that enable residents of Portofino, Bergolo, Marsala or Luserna to make comparisons for the first time. Italians can now work out whether their municipality is better or worse run than its neighbours. And hold the administrators to account. Once the municipalities have cleared up one or two minor reporting inaccuracies, transparency should permit greater public control over accounts. This will have the knock-on effect of reining in spending and also corruption, which thrives on chaotic bookkeeping.
The team and the holes in the system
Hats off to Riccardo Luna, a journalist specialising in innovative start-up companies who has been publicly thanked for his efforts by Matteo Renzi. And long live Giovanni Meduni’s team at Milan Polytechnic, who used the SIOPE figures to launch the soldipubblici.gov.it website, scrupulously highlighting the initial incongruities. And raise your glasses to Matteo Flora of Milan-based online reputation management and legal protection service The Fool, who took the next step of setting up the soldipubblici.mgpf.it portal and giving everyone a chance to view rankings and per-capita figures for the various expense categories. Clearly, the system is less than perfect on item nomenclature. What’s the difference between “external professional contracts” and “professional contracts”? Even worse, as we said above, some of the items have such non-specific descriptions that they leave ample room for interpretation, including “other expenses for services”, “other taxes”, “other infrastructures” and the like. Indisputably, a change in the rules is needed to lay down once and for all the nomenclature to be used by ministries, regions, provinces (while they still exist) and local authorities. This will enable us to know whether that “other service contracts” item refers to a fireworks display, political schmoozing over dinner or a contract for the town drains.
Missing billions
Let’s go back to the €4.5 billion of “repayment of cash advances”, half the amount municipalities spent on staff wages in 2014 (€9 billion). How was the money used? No one knows, except municipal cashiers for this is money they are entrusted with for payments made in cash without a receipt. Some form of receipt could well arrive the following month, when it might turn out that the money was used for travel or training. Or you might be able to work it out from the accounts. But the SIOPE classification says nothing more, which is madness. Transparency means no grey areas. There are other overlaps and complications that look specially designed to hinder understanding. What about the “current transfers to public service enterprises” (€253 million) and “current transfers to special companies” (€220 million), “current transfers to other public-sector institutions” (€1.3 billion!), “current transfers to others”, “capital transfers to others” or “current transfers to public enterprises”? What are we talking about? Tell me, please.
Duplicate categories
What is the difference between money spent on “cultural, historical, archaeological and artistic assets” and cash for “works of art”? And how do you tell spending on “civil buildings for residential, commercial and institutional use” (€1.3 billion!) from “leases” (€389 million), “other real property” (€1.552 billion!), “ordinary maintenance and repair of real property” (€ 752 million!) or the €571.6 million of “other expenses for ordinary maintenance and repair”? What’s the difference between “representation assets” and “representation services”? Nor is there any guarantee that all the municipalities register the same expenses under the same names. The clerk who actually fills in the figures has a duty to insert a code but it is the clerk who selects which one. The clerk! The treasurer who makes the payment is under an obligation to check that there is a code but not that it is correct. Things will stay that way until 15 March, when electronic invoicing becomes mandatory for public administrations and - God willing - the issue will no longer exist.
Minor expenses
Yet despite the tangle, it is possible to find out about how local authorities spend money, thanks above all to a number the computer buffs have put next to each figure: the per-capita value. That little number tells us that some of Italy’s minuscule municipalities make little sense. The smallest of all, Pedesina, pays out €9,358 for the mayor’s and councillors’ allowances, almost the same as “charges for staff on open-ended contracts” (€9,679), which could be one part-time office worker. That comes to €283 per capita. Understandable, with just 33 residents, one mayor and 11 councillors. Moncenisio has 11 councillors, 34 residents and spends even more: €15,449. That’s €454 each and makes the municipality in the province of Turin the Italian town that sets aside most money per head to maintain its administrators. The same goes for consultancy work, if that’s what “professional contracts” means. Moncenisio spent €955 per capita last year for a total of €32,495 million. In absolute terms it’s not very much and certainly nothing in comparison to the €75.1 million (€28 per capita) that Rome handed over. But it does speak volumes about the need to merge the mini-municipalities - in full respect of local traditions and the right of representation - in order to bring spending under control.
Per-capita comparisons
Per-capita comparisons can be ruthless. In Rome, local administrators cost €7.8 million, or €2 per resident, a figure that rises to €3 in Milan, €5 in Naples, €6 in Palermo, €11 in Cosenza, €12 in Siracusa and Caserta, €13 in Bolzano, €14 in Messina, €15 in Chieti, €22 in Vibo Valentia and €24 in Aosta. Obviously, the smaller the municipality, the more the same service is going to cost. But nationwide regulation of attendance fees in proportion to the number of residents looks unavoidable. That €498 million allocated in 2014 for councillors’ allowances and attendance fees could be distributed more equitably. Shall we look at one of the largest items? Waste disposal costs Italians almost €8.5 billion a year. In 2014, Naples paid €305 per resident for the service while Venetians shelled out €318. In a city where the tourists outnumber residents by three to one on a daily basis, separate waste collection is a huge challenge but how did they manage to spend €684 per head at Porto Cesareo, €760 on Capri or €802 at Caorle? However, high per-capita spending is not necessarily indicative of a lack of efficiency. Take local public transport, where Milan is the top spender on €621 per resident against Rome’s €265, the €230 of Naples, Brescia’s €263 and just €85 in Palermo. The quality of transport services in Rome, Palermo or Naples is not even remotely comparable to Milan’s. Takings from tickets in Rome are barely half of those in Milan and the capital’s ATAC transport authority would have folded by now if it were a private company.
Spending on schools
And so on to education services. Milan spends €33 per resident, which is nothing compared to the €118 of Italy’s richest municipality, Basiglio, or €108 in Ferrari’s home town of Maranello. But compared with Potenza’s €21, €33 is a lot of money. Or in comparison with Florence’s €17, Livorno’s €11, Catania and Latina’s €8, Cagliari’s €7 or Catanzaro’s €6. Honestly, are we sure that Milan’s school services are worth three times as much as Livorno’s? This is where the comparisons come in. How could Milan have spent €23 per capita in 2014 for “ancillary services and cleaning” when Rome got by with just €7? Some might say you can see the difference but what about Potenza, which splashed out €103? Or Salerno on €120? And did Muggia get value for its €138 when its neighbour, Trieste, spent a third of that sum (€44)? Is the gulf that great or is there something that doesn’t quite add up?
Miscellaneous
Regarding those miscellaneous items, what sort of “other consumables” are worth €518 million? Ragusa spent more than anywhere else, with the Alto Adige village of Tires topping the per-capita rankings, but what did they by? Marker pens? Photocopiers? Skis, perhaps? And why did Rome spend €77.1 million on “means of transport” in the past year against Milan’s €4.2 million? Unexpected unbudgeted expenses? One thing is certain. Once the online database is updated with the corrections and clarifications from the municipalities, nothing will ever be the same. Even today, residents of Pomezia have a right to be told why their town spent €1.4 million on “paper, stationery and printed matter”, which is more than Milan (€988,000), Catania (€971,000) or Rome (€769,000). Over in Roio del Sangro, they’ll want to know why their municipality spends €53 a head on “publications, newspapers and periodicals” against Trento’s €2. And why did Cittareale spend €186 a head on “foodstuffs”? These are hard times indeed for spendthrift administrators, provided people are not content with this first taste of transparency and set about getting accounts drafted sensibly. And provided on-line municipal accounts are followed by regional and ministerial balance sheets set out with equally clarity. For now, though, regions and ministries seem to be a bit deaf.
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-- Municipalities’ Spending Madness - Website compares local authority accounts. Pedesina, Italy’s smallest town, has 33 residents and 12 councillors. Every Micigliano resident forks out €356 for lawyers’ fees. CORRIERE DELLA SERA (15 JANUARY 2015).
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ROME - President Ilham Aliyev visited the Mercati di Traiano museum in Rome where he met with Mayor Ignazio Marino and answered questions from Italian journalists. AZERBAIJAN STATE TELEGRAPH AGENCY (14.07.2014).
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-- ROMA ARCHEOLOGIA e I FORI IMPERIALI: Il Foro di Augusto, Mecenati per i Fori imperiali. Sindaco Marino, ‘Sauditi interessati al restauro, in particolare un principe sultano’, ANSA.IT. (08|04|2014).
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Momma farm cat was caught this evening !!!! She was roaming the parking lot where I had lost her and an employee of the 7-11 store called and told me she looked like the cat in my flyer. I asked the gal to try and catch her....and sure enough, when I arrived, they had her trapped in an upside down milk crate.
She looks very frail and dehydrated but is in good hands now. Tomorrow she goes in for spaying. Hooray!!!!!!
BTW: It looks like she's either pregnant or had just given birth...I don't know for sure. Will have to see what my vet says tomorrow.
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FINALLY the moment we've all been waiting for!!!
Remember this: [link] [link] [link] ? Well I finished her at 11:43 Am this morning.
This is a finally finished 9 month long project, I missed so many deadlines with through all of the problem that I have had with it. This is a super expensive custom built movie truck, the goblin truck form Steven King's 1986 "Maximum Overdrive" movie. In total this custom kit utilizes parts from 6 different truck and trailer kits. Our base kit is actually a Kenworth W900, that I heavily modified. Now I know a few of you truck gurus out there are going to give me hell about the goblin truck in the not being a Kenworth, well guess what, it is a Kenworth, so stick that in in your juice box and suck it. Anyway, I missed numerous deadlines by piddling around, but I guess that's what I get. This kit was originally suppose to be finished and uploaded by July 10th 2011, for the movie's 25th anniversary release date in theaters, but missed that, then I was suppose to have it done by August 7th, 2011 for the county fair, but then I missed that one, I was suppose to have it up by Sunday then Monday and I missed those deadlines as well; so here I present to you a month and a half overdue project. I hope you enjoy I went through hell and back to bring it to you.
Features of this model are:
*rolling wheels
*opening/closing doors
*detailed components
*opening hood
*detailed goblin mask
*working fifth wheel plate
*semi trailer
*privacy curtains for the sleeper cab
*dash fan
Here is all of what I did to this kit in a condensed version, I took Kenworth w900 kit and took the original sleeper cab of and replaced it with a smaller sleeper leftover from my previous Peterbilt project: [link] [link] and patched the triangular shaped hole in the roof with plastic card and body filler. Then shortened the frame about an inch and a half by sectioning out the frame into 3 different pieces then reassembling them back together again; (in reality if this truck were full size, that 1.5 of an inch in scale would take off about a 6-8 feet off of the overall length off of the full sized vehicle). I relocated the gas tanks so that they were under the cab and mounted the smoke stacks on the sleeper, I had to custom fabricate exhaust tips and the pipes from the stacks going to the engine out of scrap plastic tree. For some odd reason the fifth wheel plate that originally came with the truck wasn't good enough, so I ended up cutting the entire base to the plate off of the frame rails and then sanded the frame down, next I then took that spare that was leftover from the Peterbilt project and modified it and put it in place where the other one was at; it all worked out in the end. I ended up discarding many of the other non-necessary parts and used some interior components like the seats and other parts from a Dodge L700 Kit and left over parts form the Peterbilt project. T he bed is leftover from the Peterbilt, the privacy curtains for the sleeper cab are made from pieces of plastic bag and plastic tree, the fan on the dash is made from a piece of painted scrap plastic tree and the fan cage is made from clear scrap plastic tree panted to have fan blades with a cage around it. I cut the doors out, sanded down the edges, attached fine cabinet hinges to the doors and attached then tho the inside of the cab, I then fabricated door jams from plastic card for the doors so that they didn't swing in too far and so that there wasn't any unsightly gab between the roof pillars and the door. The dry van box trailer is from another Dodge L700 kit modified from a few parts off of another flat bed trailer kit and custom fabricated parts. The goblin mask is made from about 3 layers of 3/4 inch scrap styrene foam sheeting glued together with Elmer's carpenter glue, acrylic paint, body filler, primer and modeler's acrylic paint. The color of green to the goblin mask is made up of 4 custom mixed colors to give it it's look (unfortunately, I couldn't quite find the right shade of green). Put a lot of the stock components together and painted them all 1 color and then detail any specific components. The trailer was a bit of a trick, I had to sand off the ribs off of the sides of the trailer and temporarily hold the walls, roof together to the deck of the trailer with rubber bands until the plastic cement cured. I then painted the whole trailer, I paint the individual wood planking to the decks as well. I attached it to the hood and then paint on the red, the turn signals and many of the running lights to the trailer and hood came off of a Ford Louisville L7000 Snow Plow kit. I had to custom fabricate a new bumper from plastic card because the other one was too small and left a giant gap between the the mask and the front fenders. I had to custom make decals for the trailer and then glued them to the sides and back and I then clear coated them. After all of the major crap like body modifications, part fabrication, major parts assembly/ painting was over with I then painted painted anything else leftover and attached any other detailed parts, and well the rest is history.
In total the estimated cost of building this kit was about $268, if I were to build this kit again, it would cost me about $300 to $400.
There you go to my dearest fans who were waiting ever so patiently.
I will be later posting a Youtube link slide show video on who this was made for those who are interested, so stay tuned.
© 2011 By: Deorse (Steven Waller) For entertainment and educational use only.
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Love is the answer
to so many questions
it has the power
to make a heart soar
or break it in an instant
it comes in many forms
and levels of intensity
we wish for it
we work at it
we worry about it
at times we curse it
we love with all we are
even when it may be difficult
to love ourselves
we love a friend
nurture a child
adore a spouse
worship our God
not all love is true
often not returned
but as they say
it is better to have loved
for we are far
better a person
to be one who
has loved
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allowed to BE loved.
Let’s get Ireland working
5 Point Recovery Plan
What Fine Gael promise to do if you vote them in:
Ireland is in the middle of the biggest crisis in the history of the State. There are no easy answers or quick fixes. But we are optimistic that the road to recovery is there with the right leadership and the will to reinvent, re-imagine and reform our Nation. It is going to take hard work to get the country back on an even footing and to get Ireland working again. Fine Gael believes we can get Ireland working together. It is vital that the next government is given the backing to do the job.
Fine Gael has the plan to get our country back on track. We have both the leadership and the people to implement the plan successfully. We are asking for the support of Irish voters to allow us to do the job properly.
Protecting and creating jobs
Job losses are destroying families and crippling the economy. A new Government must protect existing jobs and create new jobs as we close the budget gap and give people back their dignity. To realistically plan for job creation in the future, Fine Gael will invest in new energy, water and telecoms infrastructure and generate thousands of new jobs.
Over the next four years, Fine Gael’s Growth and Jobs Strategy will add on average 20,000 jobs each year.
We intend to cut employers’ PRSI and change the welfare system to encourage job creation. We will abolish the airport departure tax. And we will invest an extra €7bn over the next 4 years to build essential new infrastructure in broadband, green energy and water networks.
Focus on the deficit.
Fine Gael will fix Ireland’s budget deficit by prioritising cutting waste over raising tax. This way jobs are protected while discretionary public spending is reduced. Cutting waste will form the biggest portion of the fix and income tax will not be increased.
Unlike the other parties, Fine Gael will take on the big vested interests that have contributed to the current crisis – the bankers, the bondholders, the developers and the unions. And we will aggressively cut the waste in our public service to keep all taxes as low as possible.
A new Health System
Our Health system costs close to €20bn every year. It's money spent on a system that doesn’t work for the people who need it most.
Fine Gael’s FairCare Health Strategy will eliminate long waiting lists, end the unfair public-private two-tier system and replace it with a universal health insurance system based on the renowned Dutch model. FairCare offers equal access to all. There will be a greater emphasis on diagnosis and treatment in the community with increased chronic illness care and more rehabilitation and convalescence facilities ensuring shorter hospital stays. Funding of hospitals will be radically overhauled where money follows the patient – so no patient means no payment for the hospital!
Fine Gael has published detailed plans on our FairCare Policy and will announce further details on this plan during the campaign.
Smaller, Better Government.
Services you need are prioritised over back-room waste
Our public sector is too large, too inefficient and too expensive. Fine Gael will improve the quality of public services by prioritising frontline services - that’s teachers, health professionals, Gardaí, Local Authority services etc, and will streamline systems, eliminate red tape and waste and managers will be accountable.
The outdated and inefficient annual budget system will be replaced with an open and transparent system to manage the nation’s finances.
Fine Gael’s Public Sector Strategy will reduce the cost of the Public Sector by 10% over the next four years. This will save €5bn by eliminating waste and abolishing 145 quangos. We estimate 30,000 administrative and bureaucratic positions can be eliminated by natural wastage, voluntary redundancy and relocation to create a better, more efficient and more customer focused public service.
Politicians taking the lead
Fine Gael believe that politicians should lead the way in Ireland’s recovery.
Fine Gael's Strategy for New Politics will reduce the number of politicians by 35% and have a referendum to abolish the Seanad. We would impose a ceiling on salaries for politicians and right across the public sector. We would also replace state cars for current and former officials with a car pool system. All these initiatives will save taxpayers millions every year.
As well as saving money, Fine Gael’s political reforms will make the whole political system better, more transparent and make politicians and other decision-makers more accountable to the public. A reformed Dáil that can truly challenge Government decisions, better local government and a Citizens’ Assembly will be established to address major issues like Electoral Reform and Constitutional change.
Night driving. The road stretches forward and the sky reflects the glow of road signs and streetlamps. I have that CD, the one with sounds from the eighties. The Damned sing In Dulce Decorum, Glen Frey tells of Smuggler's Blues and Mike and the Mechanics transport me Par Avion to the Florida Keys. My glasses become wayfarers, my polo shirt and jeans a loose fitting pastel suit, socks are (of course) not permitted and my trainers are now espadrilles. Today's unshaven complexion is tonight's designer stubble. I imagine the camera panning to a wheel as it spins on the tarmac, the engine growls and then a wide angle over the bonnet watching the lights dancing on the paintwork. These are the nights I love to drive alone. I sometimes take a wrong turn just to get a few more miles on the clock. Miami Vice definitely has a lot to answer for.
Sunday's True Blood premiere answered at least one burning question: Is Lafayette alive? Answer: Yes! Nobody is more surprised by this turn of events than Nelsan Ellis, the actor who plays Lafayette.
As a fan of the Sookie Stackhouse novel series, on which Alan Ball based the vampire drama for HBO, Ellis knew that Lafayette, Merlotte's wisecracking cook — and part-time pornographer/drug dealer — is totally dunzo after Book 1. When he arrived on set for the finale episode's table read, he prepared himself for the end. "I thought, this was fun, time to look for the next gig," he says.
But then... what's this? That painted toenail in the car didn't belong to Lafayette after all! "'You know we're not going to kill you, right?'" Ellis remembers Ball telling him. "And I was like, 'Noooo...'" Ball told the actor that he decided to keep Lafayette in the cast after shooting a scene between Ellis and Rutina Wesley, who plays Lafayette's cousin, Tara, in the pilot episode. Ellis and Wesley have combustive chemistry for sure, which Ellis attributes to their long friendship. (They attended Juilliard together in the early '00s.)
So now that Lafayette has been spared, what's next for the flamboyant entrepreneur?
When we last saw him, he was chained up in a dungeon watching a fellow prisoner get disemboweled by a very cranky Eric, his vampire captor. Ellis reveals that, this season, Lafayette's fate will be inextricably tied with that of the vampires, but that their relationship won't always be quite as adversarial. "[Lafayette] stays with the vampires basically throughout the season," he says. "I guess how deep down the rabbit hole he goes with Eric is the biggest teaser I can give."
"Eric makes people beholden to him," says Ellis. "He did it to Sookie, and now he does force Lafayette to work for him to repay him for something he's done for him." Oh jeez, Lafayette isn't going to become a vampire, is he? Not any time soon, says Ellis. "I have a sneaking suspicion that, in the future, the vampires are going to learn to respect him and not mess with him," he says. "He's going to find a way to elevate his position with them. Lafayette is a survivor, so he's not going to stay in this scared state too long." Excellent!
No idea why it became this
Forgot how i took this film while i was there
Surprised! and It is Lomo spirit..isn't it?
I remembered it's 4 or 5 pm, 2 trees.. far and close each. i was walking around in the alley to kill time
NASA astronaut candidate Loral O’Hara answers a question during a live episode of the Administrator's monthly chat show, Watch This Space, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 in the Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA's newest astronaut candidate class has started their two years of training, after which the new astronaut candidates could be assigned to missions performing research on the International Space Station, launching from American soil on spacecraft built by commercial companies, and launching on deep space missions on NASA’s new Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
He is wearing the shoulder patch for the 1st Allied Airborne Army.
She is wearing the patch for the American Red Cross Motor Service.
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Well I Just Don't Know What to Do
And I Hate This Confusion
I Got All These Questions and Nowhere to Lose Them.
I Asked For Answers, Got Only Advice
Advice Is So Cheap: Now Everyone's Got a Hype
To Get the Truth I Guess You Must Pay the Price
Don't Go Fallin' Over the Edge
Don't Let Your Wanderin Mind
Drive You Out of Your Head
Stay On That Fine Line
Hold On to That Thread
'cause Pain Is All You'll Find By Fallin' Over the Edge
Dive On In, That's What They Said
If You're Lucky -- Live Thru It
You'll Find Your Answers Within
But If You Crash and Burn
The Worst Is You're Dead
And Dying Can't Be Worse Than Life Is Over the Edge
So Don't Go Fallin' Over the Edge
Don't Let Your Wanderin Mind
Drive You Out of Your Head
Stay On That Fine Line
Hold On to That Thread
'cause Pain Is All You'll Find By Fallin' Over the Edge
Just Pain Plain Waitin' For You Over the Edge
Well I Still Don't Know What to Do
I Know It's All An Illusion
In Fact -- Knowing That Only Adds More Confusion
I Search For the Truth, But Mostly Troubles I Find
The Truth Can Be Costly, Troubles Don't Cost a Dime
You Can Have All You Want Because They're There All the Time
Don't Go Fallin' Over the Edge
Don't Let Your Wanderin Mind
Drive You Out of Your Head
Stay On That Fine Line
Hold On to That Thread
'cause Pain Is All You'll Find By Fallin' Over the Edge
Just Pain Pain Waitin' For You Over the Edge
~ Little Feat - "Over the Edge"
This was the answer .
I did not have a need to pay more the 300 Dollars for the cables and SD card readers and one USB memory .
The answer was very simple .
This battery charger cable could easily move the iPone and iPad datas to my Mac Pro 2008 eight core , Mac OS 10.11.6 .
Mostly , the answer is in oneself .
I checked many many times , how to move the iPhone iPad data into Mac .
And I obeyed the every each answer . But , I could not get the result that I had been waiting for .
Happy New Year , everybody .
My Mother can do the pee by herself . But in sometimes , my Mother could not recognize of it .
So , I must ask of it to my Mother in every each 3 hours .
Today is * Nana Kusa * .
Nana seven
Kusa grass
We eat * Nana Kusa Gayu * today , from now , with my Mother .
Jan. 7th 2021 Thu. 08:18 am
from Yokohama City Japan
This a-line dress is a lovely answer to ladies who want to be distinctive from others, and its designed halter neckline will have you feeling like a princess. Sleeveless dresses have now and always will be the trend. Sophisticated and elegant, they sent out a message of sexiness and sensuality that every women dream of. This a-line style dress flares out at the bottom line and a shape and it is really flattering if you want to balance out figure. Halter dress features a strap closing behind the back rather than going over the shoulder. Dress with this neckline can be varied as the straps.
Washington DC, April 14, 2018. Around two hundred activists associated with Answer Coalition, Code Pink, Veterans For Peace, Socialist Alternative and other peace groups gathered in front of the White House to protest the latest wave of intensified bombing in Syria by the U.S.A., Great Britain and France. In a brief address to the nation last night President Donald J. Trump suggested that the bombing of Syria could be an open ended affair of uncertain duration. The neocolonialist coalition bombing last night near Damascus and other cities was supposedly a retaliation for the evil Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's most recent use of chemical weapons. An International inspection team arrived in Damascus just yesterday and have not yet determined the source of the chemical attack. This morning, President Trump foolishly declared "mission accomplished". Heard that one before?
Postscript. Reporters Robert Fisk from The Independent of Great Britain and Pearson Sharp of One America News
were unable to confirm that the alleged chemical attack had indeed occurred when they visited the site and the surrounding neighborhood in Douma, Syria.
I recall the last morning the sun would rise on the race of man, after which, it was clear, nothing could be the same again. When called to answer for their crimes, the only response that they could find was that it seemed like a good idea at the time. Now the sun in the sky has turned to dust, the rivers are running red with blood, and the cries of the helpless are never, never enough.
And those of us who were still alive were rightly afraid to go outside, when VuBu said, "This isn't shoegaze - this is suicide." Then they came with torches and pitchforks, carrying clubs, guns and sharp swords, when the loudest voice I ever heard said, "It's over."
What was the question again?
Crossbones Graveyard, London.
See where this picture was taken. [?]
Originally posted to the Guess Where London group on 14-08-07.
The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything
The Ultimate AnswerThe Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything is a concept taken from Douglas Adams' science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In the story, the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is sought from the supercomputer Deep Thought. The answer given by Deep Thought leads the protagonists on a quest to discover the question which provides this answer.
Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow.
Story lines
According to the Hitchhiker's Guide, researchers taking the form of mice, which are actually 3-dimensional profiles of a pan-dimensional, hyper-intelligent race of beings, construct Deep Thought, the second greatest computer of all time and space, to calculate the answer to the Ultimate Question. After seven and a half million years of pondering the question, Deep Thought provides the answer: "forty-two".
"Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?"
"I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."
Deep Thought informs the researchers that it will design a second and greater computer, incorporating living beings as part of its computational matrix, to tell them what the question is. That computer was called Earth and was so big that it was often mistaken for a planet. The question was lost five minutes before it was due to be produced, due to the Vogons' demolition of the Earth, supposedly to build a hyperspace bypass. (Later in the series, it is revealed that the Vogons had been hired to destroy the Earth by a consortium of philosophers and psychiatrists who feared for the loss of their jobs when the meaning of life became common knowledge.) Lacking a real question, the mice proposed to use "How many roads must a man walk down?" (the first line of Bob Dylan's famous civil rights song Blowin' In The Wind) as the question for talk shows, after considering and rejecting the question, "What's yellow and dangerous?"—actually a riddle whose answer, not given by Adams, is "Shark-infested custard". However, this may also refer to the Vogon Constructor Fleet that demolished Earth, in that they were yellow and most certainly dangerous.
In one of the books, Marvin mentions that he can read the Question in Arthur's brainwaves. This does nothing to cheer him up.
At the end of the first radio series, the television series, and the book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (the second book of the five-book 'trilogy'), Arthur Dent (as the last human to have left the Earth before its destruction, and therefore the portion of the computer matrix most likely to hold the question) attempts to discover the Question by extracting it from his unconscious mind, through pulling Scrabble letters at random out of a sack. The result is the sentence "WHAT DO YOU GET IF YOU MULTIPLY SIX BY NINE".
"Six by nine. Forty-two."
"That's it. That's all there is."
Since 6 × 9 = 54, this being the question would imply that the universe is bizarre and irrational; on the other hand, there is no proof that this was the actual question. After all, Arthur Dent composed only a minuscule fragment of the vast and complex computer matrix that was the Earth, and besides, it was stated that the computer's run had not finished when it was destroyed. In addition, Arthur and Ford realized that the original ape-like inhabitants of Earth were displaced by the Golgafrinchams, which could account for the irrational nature of the question in Arthur's mind (as he himself is a descendant of the Golgafrinchans). On discovering the question in the original radio series, Arthur Dent remarks: "I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe."
Another thought as to the false equation in the Hitchhiker's Guide was that the program (Earth) would have run correctly if not for the crash landing of the Golgafrinchams. This race introduced error into the program and thus turned what would have been the equation 7 times 6 = 42 into 9 times 6 = 42.
It is also possible, given Adams' often bleak view of technology, that the 6 × 9 = 42 answer is meant to indicate that the Earth project was a flawed design to begin with, one that was always going to produce the wrong answer even if the program had been run successfully.
It was later pointed out that 6 × 9 = 42 if the calculations are performed in base 13, not base 10. Douglas Adams was not aware of this at the time, and has since been quoted as saying that "nobody writes jokes in base 13." and also "I may be a pretty sad person, but I don't make jokes in base 13."
Alternately, some have suggested that the question may be, "Pick a number, any number." Although this is not exactly a question, Marvin the Paranoid Android asks Zem the mattress in Life, the Universe, and Everything to pick any number.
"I gave a speech once," he said suddenly and apparently unconnectedly. "You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number."
"Er, five," said the mattress.
"Wrong," said Marvin. "You see?"
Since he often complains that his brain is "the size of a planet," it is somewhat feasible that he could have discovered what Earth was supposed to find out. Also, Eddie the shipboard computer in one part of the books mentions, "Pick a number, guys!" when Arthur wonders aloud what the Question is, but is ignored by the human inhabitants of the Heart of Gold.
At the end of Life, the Universe and Everything, the third book in the series, Arthur encounters a man named Prak, who through a significant overdose of a remarkably effective truth serum has gained the knowledge of all truth. Prak confirms that 42 is indeed the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything, but reveals that it is impossible for both the ultimate answer and the ultimate question to be known about the same universe. He states that if such a thing should come to pass, the universe would disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable. He then speculates that this may have already happened.
Later, in So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish, the fourth book in the series, Arthur wonders if the ultimate answer might be the sudden startling revelation which Fenchurch had shortly before the demolition of the Earth. This theory turns out to be false; Fenchurch instead discovered God's Final Message to His Creation, the location of which was revealed to Arthur by Prak at the end of the previous book.
It should be noted that 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe opens with the lines: "There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." The book then repeats part of the "prologue" of the first book: "...a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realised what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything." At that point the story takes off. It is not unreasonable to assume that the universe before then had been 'normal' and that Arthur's life and everything that happened after that point was a direct result of the answer and question both being known (which would, of course, make the answer and question useless as the universe itself had changed).
Douglas Adams' view
On November 2, 1993 Douglas Adams gave an answer (http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.fan.douglas-adams/msg/d1064f7b27808692?dmode=source&hl=en) on alt.fan.douglas-adams:
The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do'. I typed it out. End of story.
Miscellany
The true reason 42 was used in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (as revealed in "The Salmon of Doubt") is that Douglas Adams thought it was the funniest two-digit number.
According to the production notes of the DVD for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1981 TV series, the scenes with Deep Thought were shot during week 42 of the BBC's calendar.
Google has a calculator function in its search engine, which knows the supposed answer to life the universe and everything (http://www.google.com/search?q=answer+to+life+the+universe+and+everything+=).
MSN Search also calculates this query correctly in a similar fashion (http://beta.search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=the%20answer%20to%20life%20the%20universe%20and%20everything).
Computer programmers' joke
There is a joke amongst computer programmers that Deep Thought may have had some order of operations issues. The following code in the C programming language defines the macros SIX as "1 + 5" and NINE as "8 + 1", and then performs the computation "SIX * NINE". It returns the answer "42", because "SIX * NINE" is expanded by the computer to "1 + 5 * 8 + 1", and the multiplication takes precedence over the additions. (This occurs because the macro expansion is textual, not logical.)
#include
#define SIX 1 + 5
#define NINE 8 + 1
int main(void)
{
printf( "What do you get if you multiply %d by %d: %d\n", SIX, NINE, SIX * NINE );
return 0;
}
Falsely assuming that the answer is indeed correct, that means that the meaning of life, the universe and everything would be 42.
Answer: Yes ma'am! Question: Is this the trolley to Sherman's Wharf? Cheers to Pete Emerson for spotting this. F-line trolley at 17th & Market, San Francisco.
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To our new Vent members - hopefully now we can do the Live Nativity Scene again with the Horse Friend watching Tracy Lindsay and Whitney Conroy in Going all the way
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Caty Hartung and Tomek Lehnert answering questions about the practical functioning of Diamond Way Buddhist centers
How many years must a mountain exist?
Before it is washed to the sea?
How many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
How many times can a man turn his head?
and pretend that he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind.
And i can smell it with my golden nose!!!!
ODOT Portland Metro Region Manager Jason Tell answers questions from reporters during a tour of the site of a major rockfall on Interstate 84 west of Hood River. (2/14/2014)
.....36!
On a day at 15 degrees and blowing northerly 30 knots the answer is 36! Cynthia Samsung and I headed for some lunch!
Annie move over - I am coming south! Well once I have had some lunch! Just a wee bit of fun!
Recruits of Charlie Company, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, answer a question during the initial written test Aug. 15, 2016, on Parris Island, S.C. The test randomizes 100 questions on subjects varying from core values to Marine Corps history. Charlie Company is scheduled to graduate Oct. 7, 2016. Parris Island has been the site of Marine Corps recruit training since Nov. 1, 1915. Today, approximately 19,000 recruits come to Parris Island annually for the chance to become United States Marines by enduring 12 weeks of rigorous, transformative training. Parris Island is home to entry-level enlisted training for approximately 49 percent of male recruits and 100 percent of female recruits in the Marine Corps. (Photo by Lance Cpl. Carlin Warren)