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I used to wear earrings, three in my left ear, and two in my right ear. I wore small ball closure rings for many years,until I got a proper job and had to grow up. I loved the way they jangled together when I walked or shook my head, I loved playing with them, and I loved the slight tug on my lobes when they moved.
These girls have taken things to the next level, wearing properly large gauge and / or heavy earrings. They must tug heavily on those stretch lobes with every move of her head, and they make such a statement.
It isn't everyone's cup of tea, but I love the look, it reminds me so much of my youth. I really admire girls who spend so much time and effort to modify their ears to be able to wear such large and heavy jewellery. Any girl demonstrating that sort of dedication and patience is worth following to the end of the world.
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lawn fawn - simply celebrate winter
lawn fawn - shutter card holiday sayings
lawn fawn - bokeh in the snow paper pad
lawn fawn - stitched rectangle dies
colored pencils
nuvo drops
glossy accents
Using the templates for my Orchard Pillow in spring 2012 Stitch magazine. I made these as angel potholders for the VMQG-FVMQG swap. The cream quilting thread is Aurifil cotton 12 wt.
Mackinac Island, Michigan, is a beautiful island. Located in the Straits of Mackinac, it's about 8-9 miles in circumference.
There's the actual town of Mackinac Island, where the ships dock. Since 1898 (I think), there have been no motorized vehicles allowed on the island (for consumer use, at least) as they scared the horses.
Your modes of transportation are one of three:
1. Horse (and carriage) as a taxi, personal rental, or part of a tour (for about $30/adult). Or, just rent a horse for $50/hour/horse.
2. Bicycles. For rental all over the place in town.
3. Your two feet.
The town of Mackinac Island. Its Main Street -- the first thing you see after passing under the portico from any of the ferries -- is actually Huron Street. One parallel street behind, you have Market Street. There are a number of other streets in the town, too, all easily walkable (obviously). Since this is basically a tourist resort, you'll find about 80% of the establishments in town fall into one of the following categories: fudge shops (12 different companies have fudge shops here), bed & breakfasts, bike rentals, or restaurants (pizzeria, bar/saloon/burger joint). The only eyesore on the island is a Starbucks. It disgusts me to no end. If you intend to spend the night on the island, be prepared to have your wallet lightened substantially, especially in season (Memorial Day to Labor Day).
For overnight accommodations, the most famous place on the island is the Grand Hotel, which has the longest covered porch of any building in the world (660 ft./200 meters). It'll set you back over $400/night. There's no air conditioning. It was built in 1887 and is perfectly imperfect. They finished it in three months. Even to wander the grounds, you have to pay $10 per their signage. On a sunny summer day, it's beautiful, especially with all of the flags flying along the porch. If you aren't inclined to pay through the nose here, the B&Bs, during summer, would probably set you back around $300/night, but don't quote me on that. (The more frugal folks -- like me -- stay in Mackinaw City, slightly expensive, but reasonable, and take day trips to the island.
Speaking of "in season," Mackinac Island has less than 500 year-round residents. Yet, I think they clear 2 million tourists a year. The majority of them come from May-September.
To support that massive influx, there are 600 horses on the island in summer, but only about 200 stay on for winter.
More than the horses, they can't survive without a temporary summer workforce. On the island (and also in Mackinaw City and possibly St. Ignace), you'll find the majority of summer workers are eastern European. They stay until the end of September. This year, I bumped into Turkish, Polish, Montenegran, Serbian, Kosovan, and I'm not sure which other nationalities. Expect to meet some incredibly friendly and happy Europeans.
What's the history of this area? Recent (1600-now), is about all most people focus on. It was originally Native American land, then the French arrived, followed by Brits, and finally Americans.
As a result, there are forts around. Michilimackinac (in Mackinaw City) was the first fort, from the Brits, then Americans. Then the Brits relocated to the island (more strategic) and built Fort Mackinac. While at Fort Mackinac, they also decided to build a more rudimentary fort on the highest ground on the island: Fort George (which the Americans renamed Fort Holmes).
The forts were eventually in the Americans' hands and Fort Mackinac was garrisoned until 1895. So here's your fun trivia: Yellowstone National Park was the first national park created in the U.S. (and world) in 1872. The second national park in the U.S.? Mackinac Island, actually.
The island was a national park (as the parks were actually administered by the military prior to the creation of the Department of the Interior & National Park Service) and it was maintained as a national park until 1895 when the federal government trimmed back a bit and stopped having an active presence on the island. (At this point, the island went to the state and the entire island is now basically Mackinac State Park.)
As it's a state park, you'll find the majority of the island is actually natural -- lots of woods and beautiful walks and trails. Should you have a little wanderlust to get away from the town, you'll find the following:
1. A small airport in the middle of the island.
2. Two 9 hole golf courses (Jewel & Wawashkamo), though you could be creative and call it one where the front and back nine are a bit away from each other.
3. Cemeteries: Protestant, Catholic, and Military. (The military cemetery is one of only 5 in the nation that are permitted to fly flags at half mast year-round due to the unknown soldiers buried here.)
4. Hiking trails that lead to Fort Holmes, Skull Cave, Arch Rock, and other areas on the interior. (Skull Cave is very underwhelming in its current condition, though its history is interesting.)
Among the buildings in town that don't fall into one of the generic categories mentinoed above, you'll find at least 4 churches, the old fur trading store, a police station, a U.S. post office, a school, an old county courthouse (not current as Michilimackinac County no longer exists), an art museum, and a yacht club.
Fort Mackinac, by the way, is actually in town and the price of admission is $13.50 as of this writing. They have soldiers in period uniforms do weapons demonstrations (rifle, cannon), and have all of the buildings maintained to the time of its use (1875-95 or so). Some of the views of the town, Marquette Park, and cove with its two lighthouses are nice. Is it worth $13.50? I don't think so, but hey...if you're only here once, you ought to have a look, especially if the weather's nice and sunny.
During the summer, you'll find that June is the best time to come for flowers -- so many lilacs that the air smells more like flowers than horses. There are also the two boat regattas (Port Huron to Mackinac & Chicago to Mackinac) that end here in the straits. I believe those are in May or June.
All in all, there's a good reason that Mackinac Island is usually voted one of the ten best summer getaways in the country. It's unforgettable and, more than that, it's relaxing. Even with the excessive crowds. I know I haven't covered everything, but it's certainly enough to give you a good idea.
This is not a photo I took, it is a small portion of someone else's photo which I have cropped and processed to illustrate a feature on the Porsche 911 GT1, for model builders. I believe this is "fair use" of copyrighted material, but it isn't mine and I have no ownership of it.
The driver's compartment is to the right, the throttle cable comes off the accelerator pedal, passes through the firewall and threads into the engine. Its clamped to a bracket attached to the furthest forward cylinder on the starboard (right) side.
The cable is more or less straight, the pedal pushes forward and that pulls the cable, all the way back to the end here which pulls on the arm attacked to the throttle bar. The pull rotates the throttle bar clockwise (from the starboard side of the car, looking in). Across the top of the engine, the throttle bar has a pair of arms between cylinder 3 and 2, left to right, and between cylinder 6 and 5. The idle position of the arms is 1:00 or 1:30, pointing forward. Turning the arm counter clockwise twists the arms downward, pulling down a linkage at each end that pulls to a similar arm on the intake manifold butterfly axles. Push the pedal, the butterfly valves open.
Engine management or sensor cable connections are clipped to little aluminum shelves bolted to the throttle butterflies. One cable end probably goes into the car's wiring harness, one is part of the engine. Note the fuel injector spritzer cables in front of each intake, with yellow id stickers.
Dried sea snake
Name: Laticauda semifasciata
Found: Kokusai Street
Okinawa- Japan
Uses : natural medicine- Stamina!
Prepared in soup !
Usei o Cornwall com o Lapa da L'apogée e o Francesinha da Ellen Gold na filha única, mas não sei se ficou mto bom. Além dele, também tenho o York, que é laranja com branco, mas não sei com o que combiná-lo.
Ou será que o melhor jeito é usar as "peninhas" sozinhas, sem nenhum outro esmalte por baixo?
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I used to see him when I lived downtown almost ten years ago. He hasn't changed a bit – always that dark jacket, always the white beard, some sort of cross between Santa and Hemingway. I started noticing something interesting about him. He always hangs outside Starbucks coffee shops. I realized he was addicted. To coffee. To Starbucks' coffee. To me he seemed homeless. He'd walk the streets, always looking ravishingly disheveled in his dark sport jacket always a tad bent at the shoulders. I'd point him out to friends: "I know him. He's addicted to coffee!" I started playing the "when will I see "Hemingway" again?" game. Uptown. Downtown. Always at a Starbucks. Then someone said his name (nickname?) is Pop. Popeye? Poppa? Haven't figured that out. Then a homeless woman pointed to him and said "he gave me clean socks!" then someone else said he owns a "bunch of property downtown."
I still play the "Hey look! It's Hemingway next to a starbucks again!" game. One day when I was standing in line I overheard a Barista say that he goes from Starbucks to Starbucks and asks for a "sample" of coffee. They give it to him, she said. Then they nicely "shoo" him away. Until the next day. And the next cup of coffee. And the next nap. At a Starbucks table. Rest well Hemingway. Rest well...
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Moms in Mind (Singapore) Nursing Tank Top.
Material is cotton with spandex so it's stretchy and hugs the body.
To nurse just lift to access nursing slits. Size is L - not very sure cos the size label is missing. Note : thread has come loose on the hem at the back of the blouse - this can be easily sewn back and doesnt affect the nursing top's function at all.
Measurements : armpit-armpit is 40cm. length from shoulder to hem is 55cm. Check out all my other nursing wear for sale! Big clearout!
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view nick is starting to learn violin - _MG_4106 on a black background.
view nick is starting to learn violin - _MG_4106 on a black background.
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Using image as type, the word 'Bonsai' is abstracted into strong, geometric shapes, encapsulating the fragile poem at its centre. The poem itself focuses on a Bonsai tree as the hidden gem. It closely inspects the beauty in the detail and understands the devotion of time and affection given to a small object that easily goes unnoticed.
June 24, 2022- New York City, NY- Governor Kathy Hochul today signed legislation (S.5602B/A.10438) to reauthorize and expand the use of New York City school zone speed cameras to 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Governor signed the bill today alongside New York City Mayor Eric Adams, State Senator Andrew Gounardes, Assemblymember Deborah Glick, and safe streets advocates. (Darren McGee- Office of Governor Kathy Hochul)
Over-the-Rhine area of Cincinnati, Ohio. I just love the way this place displays their tires/rims.
You'd probably have to be from Cincinnati, or maybe you'd have to be me, but I found it somewhat funny that the address of this place is twenty twenty. If you say "twenty twenty" to many Cincinnatians, they would probably think you were referring to the Juvenile Detention Center which has that address on another street. Some of us were better acquainted with the place than others, but we all knew what and where it was.
I used the bolt pattern template to hold the bolts in place while I jockey'd the head into position, then tore it out with some needle nose pliers just before the head was fully home.
used grey mortar instead of matching the buff color mortar. This is right next to the front door which will be seen by anyone visiting.
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السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته وأسعد الله أيامكم بكل خير
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نسعد بآرائكم..
دمتم على الخير
ماجد العمودي
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this image is exactly the same shot and position as the one preceding it just using the smallest zoneplate instead of the smallest pinhole on my camera.
I did my best to clean up these slides which are new scans using a better Canon 9000F Mark II flatbed scanner than the previous Wolverine slide scanner. Taken at twilight. The slides had deteriorated with time.
They show things gone now including Ringling Brothers circus trains and trains on the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston Line, by this time operated by the Soo Line as well as in one shot the Montgomery Ward headquarters building. Montgomery Ward went out of business in the early 2000s.
Ringling Brothers was doing a show at the United Center. In later years the circus trains would park on the former Milwaukee Road Galewood Yard tracks.
This guard is using an ADE 651.
The ADE 651, produced by a UK company, is advertised as a hand-held "remote portable substance detector" that is claimed to be able to detect from a distance the presence and location of various explosives, drugs, and other substances. The device has been sold to a number of countries in the Middle and Far East, including Iraq, for as much as $60,000 per unit. The Iraqi government is said to have spent £52m ($85m) on the devices.
However, investigations by the BBC and other organisations have reported that the device is little more than a "glorified dowsing rod" with no ability to perform its claimed functions. The export of the device to Iraq has been banned by the British Government, and the managing director of the company has been arrested on suspicion of fraud. The use of the device by Iraqi security forces has become a major international controversy.
This little device is a lesson about life in Iraq. The device is a complete fake and doesn't work and yet it is still in common use.
Why?
The immediate reaction to this question tends to be superficial - people talk about corruption in high places, the lack of education of many Iraqis, the refusal to challenge authority and the "loss of face" in admitting they bought a hoax.
But if you dig a little deeper you find it isn't as simple as that.
Most Iraqis may not be very educated, but they aren't stupid. They know it doesn't work.
The devices can, however, be made to give a "reading" with a subtle flick of the wrist. This means that if the guard is the least bit unsure about someone coming up to a checkpoint, he can make the device "indicate" and he has an excuse to challenge the driver and ask him questions.
Iraqis are very good at reading people. They can easily tell if someone is nervous or hiding something after they've spoken to them for a few moments. The device gives them the excuse to interrogate people when otherwise they might be reluctant to challenge someone for whatever reason.
So - they really don't work.
But they are useful.
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Using Heather Bailey's Nicey Jane fabric, robert Kaufman gingham and vintage mustard rick rack. Lined in white cotton batiste. Made size 4 with no alterations-emily is almost 5 but petite.
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used pattern 2193 Simplicity and Japanese double gauze. Lined upper part in batiste.
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Used to see quite a few of these around, borrowed this off the net as I will probably never see one now.
During my visit noticed a large tortoise or turtle at the edge of the pond ... I am not sure if he should be there [any thoughts?]
Early this morning I purchased a Voigtlander 40mm F1.2 lens and because it is a manual focus lens it is relatively inexpensive but difficult to use.
I went to my local supplier with the intention of getting the Zeiss Batis 40mm but they were out of stock so I decided to consider the Sony 16-35mm GM but as the price was Euro 2600 I decided to consider the Sony 16-35mm F4 which cost Euro 1300. I was about to purchase the F4 but as an afterthought I decided to have a look at the Voigtlander 40mm F1.2 and as I was impressed I decided to buy especially as it cost less then Euro 1000.
Based on using it for about three hours I can say that at F1.2 I found it almost impossible to get sharp focus and I also noticed a degree of chromatic aberration [colour fringing] which was easy to remove Lightroom. At F22 I noticed an amazing amount of dust on my sensor and there were two especially large bits of lint or fluff.
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Pat used to teach math and computers. Janice is more friend than caregiver, always keeping Pat on her toes.
This is the softer and warmer of two versions. Foma 400, Arista Premium liquid developer, Rolleiflex MX-EVS, with 75mm 3.5 Xenar.
This is a blow-up of the right side of Fra Angelico's (italian) Last Judgement tempera, 1432-35 (15th century). This detial shows poeple who were damned to hell. I found this tempera on the web gallery of art website. The actual painting is located in Museo di San Marco, Florence. Just as hell would be imagined, in anyones head, it is depicted as a dark, scary, place full of demons. Set aside that this painting has demons in it you will find that this last judgement painting is much different than that of european ones: the people are not slender and graceful but large and dark ,almost demon like themselves. Also, the detail on their surroundings is very little and more emphasized on the people and showing their fear and pain in hell. All colors used are dark, with exception of the people that are naked. However, another thing that makes this italian tempera different than european last jugdement paintings is that the poeple are being drug down into hell, by demons, where as in euro. they are not. The large demon with horns in the front eating people appears to be the devil. All other six sections show very terrifying scenes to scare people into being a non-sinner and a believer in god because no one wants to go to hell. The point of this section (a detial of a large tempera) of the painting is to scare people into being a fallower of God.
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Body: PARTEX Auto Body(Pilipinas Hino Incorporated) "Raised eyebrow LED headlamps Javelin taillamp edition".
Specs: P-RU638BB-chassis EF750-engine.
Bus Owner: San Beda College Alabang.
Route: School Trips/Excursions/Field Trips.
Bus: Private School Bus.
Taken: San Beda College Alabang, Muntinlupa City
Police are currently using underhanded tactics to arrest or fine Graffiti artists looking to paint their artwork legally, without the hassle of authority intervention. Southbank is well known for its skate spot underneath the Queen Elizabeth Hall right by the BFI / Royal National Theatre and for years its walls have been covered in artwork created by some of the UK's most recognisable graffiti/ street artists..as well as visitors from abroad, much to the delight of those who use the space (skaters/bmx'ers). There was even a commission painted by South African artist Robin Rhode in October 2008...which raises the question "Why should only selective people be allowed to paint in this open public space?" and "Why should artists be criminalized when seeking to practice their Art form within the boundary of the law?".
The walls, described by passers by as "part of the charm of Southbank" have been left adorned with Graffiti, seemingly to entice unsuspecting artists to paint them, almost like a 'honey trap' in order for the met. police to earn a couple of hundred pounds a week off arrests made/ fines handed out. all without even any signage warning of the dubious legality or expensive consequences resulting from being caught painting there. It seems clear that yet again a Graffiti wall in the UK has be turned 'illegal' overnight without prior notice or warning..
Reports also show that when asked where is legal to paint arresting officers simply shrugged and said "i don't know..". Disgusting.
I will be using this camera in week 93 of my 52 film cameras in 52 weeks project:
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This fully working toy camera takes 16mm film on a paper backing. I do have some original film, which expired in 1964, but it was barely able to make an image, so I re-rolled some 16mm FP4 film onto the original backing paper.
The first year of the project is documented in this book:
Usei:
- 01 camada da base Casco de Cavalo, da Marú
- 02 camadas do Juyce Coral, da Boticário
- 01 camada do top coat da Ideal
Esse esmalte da Botícário é maravilhoso! Tudo nele é perfeito: a cor, a pigmentação, o pincel, o brilho... Mas fiz a noite leia: de madrugada e não vi a necessidade de passar um top coat. Resultado: algumas marcas de lençol nas unhas.
Aí que deu-se a porcaria... Não parece, mas ele tava tão bem esmaltadinho... Ficou essa negação perto das cutículas depois que eu passei o top coat da Ideal, pra corrigir os amassados de lençol. Parece que ele derrete o esmalte, que acaba escorrendo pela cutícula. E aí, não teve palitinho com acetona e delicadeza que desse jeito... É a segunda vez que uso esse roxinho e é a segunda vez que isso acontece. É uma pena, pq o brilho dele é espelhado, um dos melhores que eu já vi! Mas o acabamento fica uma bosta! Fiquei doida da vida! :S Alguém já teve essa desagradável experiência com o top coar da Ideal???
Ahhhhhh, eu queria mandar um beijo pra todo o pessoal do Alcina, a escola onde aconteceu o trágico incidente em que o menino Davi, de 10 anos, atirou contra a professora e se suicidou em seguida, aqui na minha cidade, São Caetano do Sul. Eu estudei lá a minha vida inteira, conheço quase todos os funcionários e professores, e fiquei extremamente triste por tudo isso. Qdo a gente passa grande parte de nossa vida num lugar, lá acaba se tornando uma extensão de nossa casa, né? E sinto isso pelo Alcina. E por isso fiquei tão triste. Meus sentimentos pra todos de lá, e pra família desse menino, que no fundo, não é mais que uma vítima desse mundo louco em que vivemos...
Using JSP's design I have had a lot of fun creating various Hulkbusters
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