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Today I decided to paint a portrait again.And of course, it was fun!Portrait painted with Rebelle Pro 7Process below:

On Wednesday morning, Nov. 27, the crescent moon covers the bright star Spica, then dramatically returns it to view.

You like defensive basketball? You like fighting for every possession? You like offensive attacks that look like FB Dive plays? Well this was the game for you. North Texas had a one point lead at the half with just 32% shooting. They finished the game with 38% and won by three. The 26 points off turnovers were the key. Oregon State had 22 turnovers to NT’s 9. The harassing, hustling, …

🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences Although the world is currently the richest it’s ever been, people and societies seem to be focussed on the wrong things: for example, extracting even more money out of each other and being pessimistic about our future, while forgetting the important things which unfortunately don’t directly create more wealth. Many experiments with handing out a universal basic income have shown it to lead to …

When I was a newly qualified actuary, part of the induction process into life as a professional was to watch a video in which an accountant was in the dock accused of professional negligence squirming as he was cross-examined by a barrister. I’ve been reminded of this over the last couple of years, as a colleague and I have spent the best part of 2 weeks sitting in court rooms …

It's been a while since our last update; generally because there was a bit too much going on and then too much to report. Doh. We're going to take a leaf out of fellow indie manufacturer Electric Flapjack's book and split the catch-up posts across project, rather than temporal, lines. The client projects we had on have continued, so there's been a regular drum-beat of air quality sensor and Bluetooth …

‘Bound by tradition. Controlled by no one.’ The film boasts some stunning landscape shots Starring Basima Hajjar, Ashraf Barhoum, Fatima Al Taei, Yagoub Alfarhan and Haifa Al-Agha. Written and directed by Shahad Ameen. Produced by R. Paul Miller, Stephen Strachan and Rula Nasser. Basima Hajjar plays Hayat The people of a small coastal settlement sacrifice some of their daughters to unseen sea creatures (we only get a brief glimpse of …

November 25, 2024 Tip of the Week How to Do a Relentless Three-Point Attack. Teams, Coaching, and Foot I’m rushing to get this blog out since I’m coaching at the MDTTC Teams Camp over the next three days, getting our players ready for the North American Teams, Fri-Sun, Nov. 29 – Dec. 1. There are currently 910 players and 226 teams – here’s the listing. There are 14 MDTTC junior …

Beyond US military and economic support for Israel as its imperial outpost in the region, an estimated 160,000 Americans live in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and are some of the most active participants in the ongoing campaign of terror against the indigenous Palestinian population. Israeli settler terrorism as a movement also draws inspiration from two Americans infamous as the godfathers of the campaign of …

Vincent Price shows us how to cook trout in a dishwasher. Also cucumbers, pears, zucchini, and some kind of sauce: Not a joke, as our right-now-current and soon-to-be-ex-president would say. Apparently, you can cook trout in a dishwasher. Who’da thought? Something about the machine’s steaming capacity, I gather. Just…don’t use the rinse cycle. Seriously. When it comes to cooking, I’m a Thank-God-for-the-defrost-button-on-the-microwave type. Cooking was a skill I could never …

The pyramid of the 1975 Seward time capsule in Nebraska, billed as the world’s largest, photographed in 2021 and scheduled to be opened in 2025 (Library of Congress) Time capsules are fascinating to me. They can be incredibly boring, as people often stuff them with rather mundane items like coins, American flags, and bibles. But every once in a while they can be thrilling, with unique items just waiting to …

Well, here we are again. I’ve returned to the cool damp climes of Britain, and apologise for the long break in entries, time slips away quickly when on holiday. Now where were we . . . Ah yes, Woodstock. After Woodstock, I travelled east to Massachusetts to visit new acquaintances. We drove around central Massachusetts searching for elusive autumn colour one day. The colour wasn’t spectacular this year, but even …

Hi CA, In the last year two people have gone no contact with me (she/her). One is a former colleague (she/her) who has burned many bridges in our professional community. She’s been basically blackballed in our specialty area and had to take a position doing similar but much less exciting work after she was fired from her last job. Around the same time she stopped talking to me because she …

Writing in Practicing New Worlds, Andrea Ritchie documents a pattern of crisis response that, far from interrupting the crisis, merely serves to continue it. I will quote at length here: Yet, as conditions worsen and urgency increases, as millions are increasingly mired in economic and climate crises while billionaires bank on our suffering, as the Right rises around the globe and comes for our throats with a clear intention to …