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August 01, 2012
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Girl: I think I'm going to be a lumberjack tomorrow.
Friend: But then how will we tell you apart from the hipsters? I mean really, what's the difference between a lumberjack and a hipster?
Girl: One of them has a job.
--Citi Field
Conversation from ''Overheard in New York''
Friend: But then how will we tell you apart from the hipsters? I mean really, what's the difference between a lumberjack and a hipster?
Girl: One of them has a job.
--Citi Field
Conversation from ''Overheard in New York''
August 01, 2012
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August 01, 2012
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1. Thou Shalt Take Advantage Of Optical Illusions
Taking a picture from the top of the body is really popular for beach snaps as the perspective makes your legs look longer and thinner and your chest look larger because it’s closer to the camera.
Also cut off part of your body (to the right) which shaves inches off immediately.
Cropping the picture halfway down your body. Seeing
less of people automatically makes the viewer think they are slimmer.
2. Thou Shalt Always Look Glamorous
Take shots when you're glammed up and ready to go out at the beginning of the night means you will be looking polished.
3. Remember Thy Pose
An old trick that photographers and models have used for years and it’s an easy way to drop a dress size. Stand slightly to the side, breathe in and put your hand on your hip.
Standing sideways always makes you look slimmer than standing straight on in front of the camera and the space created between your waist and your arm gives you shape.
4. Thou Shalt Choose A Simple Background
A simple background means you stand out more, even if you are standing in front of a plain brick wall.
A block white dress is also an attention-grabber because there’s no pattern detail to distract the viewer.
5. Honour Thy Tan
If you can’t tone it, tan it! Sun-kissed skin almost always looks better in pictures, and because the quality of smartphone pictures can’t be guaranteed, the deeper the colour the better the end result.
6. Thou Shalt Use Apps
Different filters and effects on photo apps can make the most boring snap look cool because colour shifting gives an instant editorial feel.
Using Instagram and Hipstamatic give twitpics a bit of retro style, Snapseed is also recommended for easy to achieve bespoke effects.
7. Remember Thy Lighting
Smartphones are quite limited when it comes to focus in tricky lighting situations so daylight is the best to guarantee a good shot.
Also, Late afternoon sun gives a lovely golden light which makes everything look better.
8. Thou Shalt Try A Crop
A tight shot gives more impact, especially when there is a lot going on in the background.
This is also good for showing off statement hair and make-up
9. Honour Thy Angle
For a flattering half-length shot you should always try and take the picture from above the subject, it gets rid of double chins and under-eye bags and the perspective makes you look longer and slimmer.
If it’s a full- length shot getting your friend to bob down while taking it will make your legs look longer.
2. Thou Shalt Always Look Glamorous
Take shots when you're glammed up and ready to go out at the beginning of the night means you will be looking polished.
3. Remember Thy Pose
An old trick that photographers and models have used for years and it’s an easy way to drop a dress size. Stand slightly to the side, breathe in and put your hand on your hip.
Standing sideways always makes you look slimmer than standing straight on in front of the camera and the space created between your waist and your arm gives you shape.
4. Thou Shalt Choose A Simple Background
A simple background means you stand out more, even if you are standing in front of a plain brick wall.
A block white dress is also an attention-grabber because there’s no pattern detail to distract the viewer.
5. Honour Thy Tan
If you can’t tone it, tan it! Sun-kissed skin almost always looks better in pictures, and because the quality of smartphone pictures can’t be guaranteed, the deeper the colour the better the end result.
6. Thou Shalt Use Apps
Different filters and effects on photo apps can make the most boring snap look cool because colour shifting gives an instant editorial feel.
Using Instagram and Hipstamatic give twitpics a bit of retro style, Snapseed is also recommended for easy to achieve bespoke effects.
7. Remember Thy Lighting
Smartphones are quite limited when it comes to focus in tricky lighting situations so daylight is the best to guarantee a good shot.
Also, Late afternoon sun gives a lovely golden light which makes everything look better.
8. Thou Shalt Try A Crop
A tight shot gives more impact, especially when there is a lot going on in the background.
This is also good for showing off statement hair and make-up
9. Honour Thy Angle
For a flattering half-length shot you should always try and take the picture from above the subject, it gets rid of double chins and under-eye bags and the perspective makes you look longer and slimmer.
If it’s a full- length shot getting your friend to bob down while taking it will make your legs look longer.
10. Remember There Is Always Black And WhiteIf all else fails and you really need to post that picture turning a photograph black and white can often save it.
Monochromes pictures are flattering on everyone so they’re great if you’re posing with someone a bit older or uglier, or if anyone is pulling a silly face
Monochromes pictures are flattering on everyone so they’re great if you’re posing with someone a bit older or uglier, or if anyone is pulling a silly face
7/30/2012
July 30, 2012
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Here are some tips to get those toes ready for your open toe shoes.
2. Buff Away - This extra step that I usually don't do when I paint my nails at home but it really does help. Use a block buffer to remove discoloration, then a glossing buffer until your nails are smooth and look like glass.
3. Scrub those feet - I LOVE my pumice stone. It does tickle but just think of it as a mini foot massage.
4. Exfoliate - Make a at home foot scrub with sea salt & body wash. Soak your feet and massage in until skin is gleaming.
5. Oil & Paint - Paint those toes up a favorite color and Spray your feet with Emu Oil nightly to retain a fresh look.
From the UK Daily Mail
7/29/2012
July 29, 2012
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This is a repost from the UK Daily Mail, Link Below
The consultant smiled at Mum. ‘I just want to ask you a few simple questions, Rose,’ he said. ‘Are you ready?’ Mum beamed back at him.
‘Tell me, what year is it now?’ asked the consultant. My mother frowned. ‘Let me think’, she said. ‘Is the war still on?’ ‘Do you mean the Second World War?’ he asked. Mum nodded. ‘No, that ended in 1945,’ said the consultant. ‘What year is it now?’ ‘Then it must be after that,’ she replied. ‘It’s 2002,’ he said.
‘Yes, that’s right,’ said mum, who would have agreed if he’d told her it was 1812, and that Napoleon was running the country. I squeezed her hand gently.
‘Who is the Prime Minister?’ continued the consultant. Mum was on firmer ground here. ‘Margaret Thatcher, the milk snatcher!’ she announced triumphantly. ‘No, it’s Tony Blair now,’ he replied. ‘Oh,’ said Mum. ‘I don’t like him.’ The consultant had stopped smiling. ‘I think we need to do some tests,’ he said.
Alzheimer’s disease is the only medical condition that I know of which affects the family of the patient more than it appears to affect the patient themselves. If you break your leg, it’s your problem. You sit at home in plaster; you suffer and you deal with it. Your family have to fetch and carry for you a bit, but that’s it.
The consultant smiled at Mum. ‘I just want to ask you a few simple questions, Rose,’ he said. ‘Are you ready?’ Mum beamed back at him.
‘Tell me, what year is it now?’ asked the consultant. My mother frowned. ‘Let me think’, she said. ‘Is the war still on?’ ‘Do you mean the Second World War?’ he asked. Mum nodded. ‘No, that ended in 1945,’ said the consultant. ‘What year is it now?’ ‘Then it must be after that,’ she replied. ‘It’s 2002,’ he said.
‘Yes, that’s right,’ said mum, who would have agreed if he’d told her it was 1812, and that Napoleon was running the country. I squeezed her hand gently.
‘Who is the Prime Minister?’ continued the consultant. Mum was on firmer ground here. ‘Margaret Thatcher, the milk snatcher!’ she announced triumphantly. ‘No, it’s Tony Blair now,’ he replied. ‘Oh,’ said Mum. ‘I don’t like him.’ The consultant had stopped smiling. ‘I think we need to do some tests,’ he said.
Alzheimer’s disease is the only medical condition that I know of which affects the family of the patient more than it appears to affect the patient themselves. If you break your leg, it’s your problem. You sit at home in plaster; you suffer and you deal with it. Your family have to fetch and carry for you a bit, but that’s it.
Alzheimer’s disease is the only
medical condition that I know of which affects the family of the patient
more than it appears to affect the patient themselves. If you break
your leg, it’s your problem. You sit at home in plaster; you suffer and
you deal with it. Your family have to fetch and carry for you a bit, but
that’s it.
With Alzheimer’s, it’s the other way round. You behave as though nothing has changed, while everyone around you has to deal with the dramatically different person you’ve become.
‘It’s like rolling up a rug,’ the consultant had told me. ‘The end of the carpet nearest to you represents the present, and the other end represents your mother’s childhood. As we begin to roll up the rug, starting from the front, the memories inside the roll are erased and lost for ever, and her reality slips backwards in time. The more we roll, the further back in time Rose has to travel to find a point in her life that she remembers.’
I’d nodded slowly, trying to understand. So that was it, he seemed to be saying. Looking back on it now, I am convinced that my mother’s dementia began the day my father died.
My parents had been married for more than 50 years, during which time they had never been apart.
Mum had nursed my dad devotedly through his final illness and when death eventually came, she had gone into a deep shock. It had been a difficult period for me too, with my own marriage coming to an end at the same time.
Which was why I found myself, a year after Dad had gone, sitting in Mum’s kitchen and asking whether I could move back in with her. ‘Oh, that would be lovely!’ she cried. ‘We could have tea together every day!’
I hadn’t realised quite how much the dementia was starting to ebb and flow in her mind — already much worse than when we’d seen the consultant just a few months before. But once I’d moved back in, filling my childhood bedroom with the remnants of my marriage, her decline became all too apparent.
Taken from UK Daily Mail
With Alzheimer’s, it’s the other way round. You behave as though nothing has changed, while everyone around you has to deal with the dramatically different person you’ve become.
‘It’s like rolling up a rug,’ the consultant had told me. ‘The end of the carpet nearest to you represents the present, and the other end represents your mother’s childhood. As we begin to roll up the rug, starting from the front, the memories inside the roll are erased and lost for ever, and her reality slips backwards in time. The more we roll, the further back in time Rose has to travel to find a point in her life that she remembers.’
I’d nodded slowly, trying to understand. So that was it, he seemed to be saying. Looking back on it now, I am convinced that my mother’s dementia began the day my father died.
My parents had been married for more than 50 years, during which time they had never been apart.
Mum had nursed my dad devotedly through his final illness and when death eventually came, she had gone into a deep shock. It had been a difficult period for me too, with my own marriage coming to an end at the same time.
Which was why I found myself, a year after Dad had gone, sitting in Mum’s kitchen and asking whether I could move back in with her. ‘Oh, that would be lovely!’ she cried. ‘We could have tea together every day!’
I hadn’t realised quite how much the dementia was starting to ebb and flow in her mind — already much worse than when we’d seen the consultant just a few months before. But once I’d moved back in, filling my childhood bedroom with the remnants of my marriage, her decline became all too apparent.
Taken from UK Daily Mail
July 29, 2012
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7/18/2012
July 18, 2012
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Crazy that they plan on being able to do this in about 10 years, start saving your pennies.
7/14/2012
July 14, 2012
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Thank goodness, Cabanas it one of my fav restaurants!
July 14, 2012
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U.S. consumers can expect to see them starting September 10th, with locations nationwide.
July 14, 2012
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In West Virgina a dry potted plant started a porch fire. Who knew? Apparently the plant over heated and burst into flames. Although these fires aren't too uncommon (Crazy!) you can avoid them by simply keeping your plants watered.
7/12/2012
July 12, 2012
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So this lady, who didn't want to be pictured
kept her dead boyfriend for 18 months in her home so she had someone to watch racing with.
Gross!
Gross!
7/11/2012
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July 07, 2012
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Webster Hall, East Village, around 8.15pm
A Crazy ex-band member stormed into a dressing room and slashed two members of his former band, the Cro-Mags, with a hunting knife before a gig.
A Crazy ex-band member stormed into a dressing room and slashed two members of his former band, the Cro-Mags, with a hunting knife before a gig.
7/05/2012
July 05, 2012
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To get fuller lashes
THE TRICK:
‘Apply your mascara before any other eye make-up,’ advise Jean and
Jane. ‘To really fill out thinning lashes, lift your eyelid right up as
you brush your mascara on. First, holding the brush horizontally, comb
through your eyelashes. Then use the tip of the brush to work the
product from the base of your lashes and extend right to the ends. WHAT TO USE: Benefit’s They’re Real Mascara is the world’s best-selling premium mascara, with one tube sold every six seconds. The appeal is in the brush, which has a tiny ball at the end and can be used vertically and horizontally. When this mascara on, it looks like false lashes — only better.
To hide crow's feet
THE TRICK: After
applying foundation, draw a big dot with a brightening pencil at the
outer corner of your eye. Use your fingers to gently blend it up towards
the end of your brow, as this eliminates the downward drag of crow’s
feet. To make your eyes look even younger, draw three small dots in the inner corner of the eye and dab with your finger to blend.
WHAT TO USE: A pencil is better than a liquid concealer. Jean and Jane recommend Benefit Eye Bright Pencil which is a flattering pink tone. Or try Pixi Eye Bright Liner which has a twist-up point and a nude shade to brighten the whites of your eyes.
Taken from UK Daily Mail
July 05, 2012
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The FBI warns that if you have the Alureon/DNS Changer bot virus on your computer you won't be able to access the internet starting Monday.
Check your PC's, us Mac users don't need to worry like always.
Check your PC's, us Mac users don't need to worry like always.
7/04/2012
July 04, 2012
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A 50 million project to refurb McCarren Pool and reopen it after 30 years, blocks away from where we used to live, broke out into chaos.
Teenagers started attacking police after getting in trouble for doing back flips into the pool. According to a witness "All Hell Broke Loose". Not a surprise since there isn't a fee to use the pool and only a few blocks away it turns pretty ghetto.
Here is a shot of the pool in it's heyday...
July 04, 2012
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Here is what we see when we throw the ball into the grass.....
Here is what the dog sees.....Maybe she has an excuse
Here is what the dog sees.....Maybe she has an excuse
6/22/2012
June 22, 2012
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It looks like......17 - This might have to be Hapa's next sport, if we ever live near water again.
6/21/2012
June 21, 2012
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