Amish buggys from Amish Stories1 Blogspot

Amish Stories blogspot has recipes, food stands, handcrafted art like painted horseshoes, and other Amish cultural stuff. Its posted by a non Amish guy (if youve no idea what Amish are, they are anti technology descedants of the Swiss and German immigrants of the 1690s to the Pennsylvania and Ohio area, they have a German accent, build everything by hand using no electrical tools, and they also wont join the military)

But the horse carriages and buggies are unique in America for all I know, as the Amish wont own, drive, or ride in cars. Maybe they have a historic date that they arent allowed to pass in material technology, because they are very aware of the rest of the worlds technology, but they religiously adhere to the farming culture of their ancestors. Their carpentry is said to be superb.

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Receiving With The Proper Foot

Hi, my name is Dylan Leeman; welcome back to my blog on Soccer IQ. Today I am going to explain the 5th of 5 clinical skills that are important to learn. The other clinical skills are: the toe poke, passing to the proper foot, lifting the tight angle pass, and the ball in behind. If you didnt get a chance to read my last blog on passing to the proper pass, you should go check it out. Today I will be talking about "Receiving With The Proper Foot".

"When deciding which foot to receive the the ball with you must ask yourself these questions:
Which foot will help me escape pressure?
Which foot will help me advance the ball?
Which foot will set up my next pass?
And by all means, donst take that first touch into pressed" (Blank 13). Also when receiving the ball you need to expect pressure and be ready to body them off. (Blank 13) Sometimes you wont be able to take two touches, but there is no rule that says you have to control every ball you are played. (Blank 13) Playing with one touch will also make the game flow quicker and give you chance to catch your opponent off guard.

Why do you think more players dont take the time to receive the ball with the proper foot?

The Longest Street In Krakow Ulica Dluga

Dearest friends,

I hope each and every one of you is ok after the yum yummy Christmas dinner with the family :) I hope you are well rested and eager to get to the New Year - which, by the way, is knocking at our door more and more persistently. Today I will not worry you with any heavy post reviews, listings and God knows what! :) Today I plan to make it easy and light by showing you one of my favourite streets in Krakow. It is also one of the most famous ones - to the natives here - and its name is ulica Dluga. Dluga = (in Polish language) long. And that is exactly what it is! The longest street in Krakow, Poland. Everyone knows it as all the ladies get there sooner than later. Why? Well... it has the biggest conglomeration of wedding dress shops! ;)

In order for everyone to understand how importand and special this ulica/street is for the locals, I need to tell you not much has been changed there and the buildings are the same as they have been hundreds of years ago (+/- the renovation work done). The locals even went overboard and created a Facebook page that at this point has around 250 likes. People post there old pictures of how the street used to look but there is not much differencs, except the clothes of the people inside the pictures...

Ulica Dluga goes from Aleja Juliusza Slowackiego to Bastowa, in a quite straight line of around 850 meters - more or less :) so you can stroll away for 15 minutes in a leasury walk and admire the buildings. Each and every one of them is specific and different from one another. The details and colors are lovely and I recommend you to go and have a look ;)

A Window Display on the 1st floor of an old building :)

If you are hungry you can always drop by and have something sweet :)

These are only a few shots I took quickly recently with my phone, but trust me there is so much more to see with your own eyes. Be it of you wish to find a wedding dress or you just wish to have a stroll in a place you did not check yet in Krakow, you should try this street out ;) And you can reward yourself along  the way by jumping into one of the bakeries and having something sweet, just for you ;) and you need to let me know who much you liked it!

Yours truly,

A LadyBug That Finds Ulica Dluga Very Familiar

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faking it lips

Do you ever see those pictures of those models with big perfect lips? You know, the ones that look like theyre photo shopped? Ive always been interested to learn how to do those perfect big lips or what they call it, "the sexy,juicy pout".  It looks so effortless yet perfect.

At first glance, it looks like just a lip color and some gloss. But in reality, there are many products that you have to use to make that "juicy pout". You have to use lip balm, a lip venom ( something that has a mint-ish flavor that you put on your lips like lip balm or lip gloss to make your lips have a tingling sensation which means your lips are puffing up/getting bigger), lip liner, lip stick/ lip stain, lip gloss, and just in case you make a mistake, concealer. 

Here are the steps to create the "juicy pout" 

After applying lip balm and wiping it off after thirty seconds with a warm washcloth, which exfoliates and conditions the lips at the same time to remove all the dead skin and create a smooth canvas and slathering lip venom all over your lips, waiting for ten minutes then wiping it off, get a lip liner that is the same color or one to two shades darker or lighter to your lip liner and line the outside of your lips. If you want your lips to look a little bigger than usual, line ever so slightly outside your lips. 

 Next fill in the rest of your lips with a lipstick color that is the same or one to two shades darker or lighter than your lip liner. It doesnt have to look perfect, you just have to fill in your lip. You can easily remove and fix the little mistakes with concealer or just a q-tip.

Finally add your gloss. Layer! As Bartolucci says "the secret to beautiful lips is layering sheer over sheer" 

If you want to go that extra mile, you can always dot a shimmery pink, gold, or sliver gloss onto the center of the lower lip. If you dont have a pink, gold, or silver gloss you can always use clear like what I did here in the picture above and just took a small amount of silver eye shadow and dabbed if on the center of my lips. 

I think I would call this a success! Even though it took me like 30 minutes because I had a hard time making it "perfect" this was only my first attempt. Im sure, if I did this everyday, I would be able to do this in my sleep! Just remember, you dont have to use a bold red like me. I just wanted to look like a "model" from the book. Really, you can use a nude so you can do the "juicy lip" everyday. Also, if can pretty much be worn at any event! Just make sure you pick an appropriate color. 

So my question for you guys is, if you do your make up, do you ever to stuff to your lips or are you like me and honestly dont care and just slather on some lip balm and go?

Citation:

Schweiger, Melissa Sephora: the ultimate guide to makeup, skin, and hair form the beauty authority/by Melissa Schweiger.- 1st ed. New York, NY: Sephora USA, 2008

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Confidence Anxiety and Stress

     In the book On Top Of Your Game, by Carrie Cheadle who is a Mental Skills Coach and a Certified Consultant through the Association for Applied Sport Psychology, she takes you on a journey through specific topics that have a significant impact on whether you feel anxiety and doubt or feel resilient and confident when it comes to your sport. Carrie notes that if you really want to improve your mental game and strengthen your mental fitness, you need to decide it is a priority and then dedicate the time to work on it.

     "During my last game there were college coaches watching from the stands and I knew that I had to perform well. I want to play in college so badly that every time the college coaches come to watch I put so much pressure on myself that I play horribly. I know its my head that gets in my way. Its like Im not even the same player when they come to watch." (Cheadle 2) The author gives examples of how she meets with players who have come to "get over" their anxiety. She says many of these athletes have begun to lose hope. She also says that,"If competition were a walk in the park, your triumphs wouldnt mean anything." (3) Many athletes struggle with confidence and anxiety and dont understand how to get over it. It is really different for everybody. Stress is an integral art of the human condition, every person in the world struggles with it, but they all have ways of getting through it.

     During my eighth grade season for basketball, I was probably the worst player on the team. It was my first year playing and I had no idea what I was doing. I had worked hard leading up to the season, but my mentality towards basketball was so weak that I would break down during games and I never knew what to do. I now realize that to be more confident, you have to work harder. "You should never be confident in something you dont work hard enough in."(Cheadle 12) If you studied 10 minutes for an exam, you shouldnt be confident in taking the test, or if youve only practiced dribbling with your right hand, you shouldnt be confident in your left. I also have been working on telling myself to stop saying saying "what if". "What if I turn the ball over again?" or "What if I miss all of my shots?" Telling myself all of these things usually results in them happening and until now I havent really realized that I should just focus on all of the good things I have done in the game. This will probably help me eliminate my thoughts of all the bad things I have done and stop the "What ifs". I really wish I had read something like this book earlier because it wouldve helped me realize what I was struggling with at the time and what I needed help with back then and (not as much) today. I am still learning a lot from this book and hope to become a more confident player.

     Many players can be beaten by anxiety or nervousness before they even start playing. It is very normal to feel pressure before competition. It is apart of sports. Anxiety isnt bad. It is an emotion that you feel that is designed to get you to act or to prepare for what is coming next. You should never want to erase your anxiety, the goal is to give you tools to manage it. If you never learn how to control your anxiety, you cant ever perform to your potential. I know that whenever I used to get pulled out of the game, I would always think of all the terrible things I did and eventually thinking about them so much would make me repeat them over and over again. She mentions that if you think about all of the good things instead of the bad, that you will boost your confidence and most likely make good decisions throughout the game.

     Pretend you are on a basketball team who has lost five games straight and you guys are about to play an undefeated team. Athlete 1 is checking out the competition during your warm ups and already feels like you guys have lost before the game starts. Athlete 2 focuses on getting mentally and physically prepared and imagines how good it would feel to make this the game that turns around you teams losing streak. Which would you rather have as a teammate? Are you more like Athlete 1 or Athlete 2 and what characteristics do you think someone like them would have as teammates?



Citation: Cheadle, Carrie. On Top Of Your Game. Petaluma: Feed The Athlete, 2013. Print.