Clay Artist Ronnee Strickland

  I was quite sad today to hear of the psssing of Walter Mondale, was a man of expansive intelligence and never-swerving integrity.  They were both prominently personified, daily, in his long career in public service as a state attorney general, ambassador, U.S. senator and Vice President.  Jimmy Carter and Fritz Mondale should serve as an example of what integrity in politics  should look like.    I remember in college having fevered discussing about this duo.  Rest In Peace!  I’m certain Joan will welcome you into your rightful place in heaven.   https://www.nytimes.com/2021/ 04/19/us/politics/walter- mondale-dead.html? referringSource=articleShare

My favorite books of Covid

  ********* Post 1.  Ronnee Strickland’s TV favs of Covid, Part 1: I (Ronnee Strickland) am an avid reader but during Covid have watched lots of TV.  I will write a series of posts and let you know what I think about shows I have actually watched:   We watched all of these — if I star it, it is superb;  two star, don’t miss; **Broadchurch  **Peaky Blinders - Netflix **Line of Duty **The Tudors Victoria **The Queen’s Gambit How do you make chess the thrilling centerpiece of a coming-of-age tale? You shake it into a cocktail of stylish visuals, a rocking '60s soundtrack and the magnetic Anya Taylor-Joy as Beth Harmon, one of the youngest (and few female) chess players in the world. The fictional story in  The Queen's Gambit , named after a chess opening, follows her rise from an orphanage to toppling the best players in the world -- as long as her drug addiction and bags of wine bottles don't get in the way. **The Crown See my next post for more!  I watched a lot!  Ronnee Str

Rummikub   is a  tile-based game  for 2 to 4 players, combining elements of the card game  rummy  and  mahjong . There are 106 tiles in the game, including 104 numbered tiles (valued 1 to 13 in four different colors, two copies of each) and two jokers. Players have 14 or 16 tiles initially and take turns putting down tiles from their racks into sets (groups or runs) of at least three, drawing a tile if they cannot play. In the Sabra version (the most common and popular), the first player to use all their tiles scores a positive score based on the total of the other players' hands, while the losers get negative scores. An important feature of the game is that players can work with the tiles that have already been played. Rummikub was invented by   Ephraim Hertzano , a   Romanian -born   Jew , who   immigrated   to   Palestine   in the 1940s. He hand-made the first sets with his family in the backyard of his home. Hertzano sold these sets   door-to-door   and on a   consignment   bas

  Polymer clay  is a type of hardenable  modeling clay  based on the  polymer polyvinyl chloride  (PVC). It typically contains no  clay   minerals , but like mineral clay a liquid is added to dry particles until it achieves gel-like working properties, and similarly, the part is put into an oven to harden, hence its colloquial designation as clay.  Polymer clay is generally used for making arts and craft items, and is also used in commercial applications to make decorative parts. Art made from polymer clay can now be found in major museums. Ronnee Strickland discovered this marvelous substance a long time ago and never tires learning  about it. Polymer clays contain a basis of PVC resin and a liquid  plasticizer , making it a  plastisol . Polymer clay plastisol is also categorized as a  plastigel  because of its  rheological  properties. [5]  It is a high yield  thixotropic  material: when a sufficient force is applied, the material yields, flowing like a viscous liquid until that forc

I often wondered if I could use any trademark and use it with my information.  It is an entirely separate part of the legal system and it’s  best to hire an IP attorney to help you with this.  Under trademark law,  you are generally permitted to use a trademark as a means for comparison but for few other reasons. For example, you could create a newspaper advertisement that incorporates your mark and your competitors' marks in order to describe a difference between the companies.  (Comoarisons)  Imagine that you make a product which you truly believe is tastier and less expensive than any other company's product. You could include on your advertisement the logo of that company,  along with the price of its comparable product from another company making a similar product.   There are very important caveats apply here, however. First, you may not alter your competitors' trademarks in a way that is derogatory or misleading. Not even for humor.  (For example, you cannot dress up