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Check out the Lincoln Brewster video. We saw Lincoln at our church in Vancouver, Washington yesterday. He was terrific. We were fortunate to get front row seats. It was first come first seating, and the concert was free! Your community and church is just one avenue of places you can go and do things with your kids, or just yourself, and it does not cost anything.

Miniture figures showing the history of the Fort

Friday, July 17, 2009 Posted In Edit This 0 Comments »

Miniature figures, sometimes called miniatures or minis, are small figures often used in wargames like Mage Knight, Heroclix, Hordes, Warmachine, Warhammer and Spinespur.sideshow collectibles Some role-playing games can be played with them, as miniatures can help players to visualize factors that affect combat, such as which way each character is facing, who's fighting whom, line of sight issues, and so on. Some of these miniatures are intricately crafted and might be considered collector's items in and of themselves.
The hobby of painting, collecting, and gaming with miniatures is descended from the toy soldier hobby. The miniatures need to be painted and the toy soldiers are already painted and this has always been the tradition. Differentiation has become more difficult with the advent of pre-painted figures made of plastic like those found in Clix games.
Materials: Miniatures are usually cast using white metal, an allow of lead and tin, with tiny bits of antimony that helps the alloy show fine detail. Because of the high lead content, minis were sometimes called lead figures.
In 1993, the New York legislature nearly passed a bill outlawing lead in miniatures, citing public health concerns. Prices increased when the manufacturers of these toys began to anticipate more state laws regarding the presence of lead in their miniatures.
After nearly a year of debate, including protests by miniature manufacturers and enthusiasts, Governor Mario Cuomo signed a bill which exempted miniatures from the state's Public Health Law. Still, most American manufacturers continued to use non-lead alloys.
Manufacturers produce miniatures in a variety of materials such as polyethylene, plastic or hard polystyrene, however there are some that will use polyurethane based resin.
Some war games use box miniatures, a simple cuboid made from folded card stock. Each side features artwork on the outside.
Painting: In order to be able to tell characters or units used in role-playing and war games apart on a particular gaming surface such as a battle mat, an unadorned table top, or even on terrain, many gamers paint their miniature figures.
Most wargamers are not fanatics when it comes to the quality of the paint work on their miniatures, however, this is a very popular hobby for many people. The results of skilled mini-painting are quite amazing, but the process can be difficult, precise, and time-consuming.
In Internet painting competitions like Games Workshop's Golden Demon Contest, sometimes one can see the featured painted minis of fantasy, role playing miniatures war gaming conventions.
Professional painting services exist for hobbyist and corporate customers.

ian demonstrates sign language for "dinosaur" - _MG_7495

Friday, July 17, 2009 Edit This 0 Comments »

Study to Improve Your Communication Skills

Now the role played by successful communication skills is just tremendous. Communication skills help us in our day to day life and is a very essential part of our character . The significance of good communication skills can be judged from the reality that good communication assist us to make a decision on who all are our friends or not. fine communication aids us in building friends and also would present us from being misunderstand misconstrue and misjudged . Communication skills need to be looked at as skill just like reading or writing, something that you need to have in order to withstand in today’s society. Of course, although everybody is willing to talk about the Importance of speaking , few people are ready to really go over what fine communication aids. In order to have good communication skills we are required to be good spin doctors who would be able to correct things and mend circumstances by their complete capability of possessing good communication abilities.
One of the best answer here to enhance communication is to Improve your writing and reading skills ! If your grammar is not quite good, get a fundamental concise grammar book and refer it whenever you are in doubt . Building your vocabulary brings instant benefits . Whether you’re filling out a health history form at your doctor’s office , wring an article, speech or your resume , good writing skills add up to good communication. Even the most practiced writer is repetitively looking to advance their writing skills by finding new ways and means. consider a writing class. There are a lot of informal classes offered online, many of which are basic, fun and free. Learn the meanings of two or three new words. Look up words in the thesaurus to find words with same sense, but with nuances that most correctly illustrate what you want to say. The other best way to improve your writing skills is to get yourself into a daily writing exercise like maybe writing a magazine or something. This will offer you daily writing experience and will certainly help you in encouraging your writing skills.
The ways of communication need not be the same with all individuals . Those who are hearing spoiled have to utilize sign language to communicate to people and have sign language as their style of communication. But not everyone is skillful with sign language. We all would though like to stay connected with others and to be able to talk to anyone, no matter the language barrier. People think the task of learning sign language to be something which is very tough. If you are not looking to Learn and write sign language in totally then you can still learn colors and unlike phrases just by browsing online. Though many people learn sign languagewhen they are young out of need because they struggle with a hearing impairment or someone close to them does, you can study at any level of life and though various methods of learning.

Reaching Out by Faith to the Cross

Friday, July 10, 2009 Posted In , Edit This 0 Comments »

Romans 1
16I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 17For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last,[c] just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith."[d]

South of heaven

Wednesday, July 08, 2009 Posted In Edit This 0 Comments »

South of heaven, originally uploaded by SalaBoli.

Psalm 73
25 Whom have I in heaven but you?
And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
26 My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever.

flight of the eagle

Monday, July 06, 2009 Posted In Edit This 0 Comments »

flight of the eagle, originally uploaded by alicepopkorn - busy.

Isaiah 40
28 Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
29 He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
30 Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
31 but those who hope in the LORD
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.

Flickr

Monday, July 06, 2009 Edit This 0 Comments »
This is a test post from flickr, a fancy photo sharing thing.

America's Largest Antique and Collectible Show- Portland,Oregon

Friday, July 03, 2009 Posted In , Edit This 0 Comments »
NEXT WEEKEND AT THE
PORTLAND EXPO CENTER
1,400 BOOTHS FULL!
Both inside and out


Evaluations & Identifications
Bring your family treasures for identification and verbal market evaluation. $5 per object with all proceeds to go to the Portland Police Food Bank, The Sunshine Division.

Hours: Sat., July 11 9am to 6pm, Sun.,
July 12 10am to 5pm.
Adult Admission $7.
Parking at the Expo Center $7.
Parking at Portland Meadows (shuttle provided) $5. Or ride the MAX Yellow Line right to the parking lot. Admission is good for both days of the show.

Special Feature
AMAZING DISPLAY OF
GLASSES, TUMBLERS &
WINE STEMS

20 Year collection to be shown at Portland July Antique Show


2060 North Marine DrivePortland, OR 97217USA