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LocalGovCamp took place at the weekend. It's a place where conversations happen, ideas are formed and connections are made. Massive thanks to the organisers, especially Sarah Lay, and also to the sponsors and the attendees for making LocalGovCamp happen. You're all amazing and I love you big time. I was lucky enough to go to … Continue reading
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Nurture1314 Highlights
Last year I blogged under the Nurture1213 tag, which offered a chance to reflect on my Highlights of the year just gone by and my Hopes for the forthcoming year. It's been interesting rereading the hopes post. Have I achieved all I wanted, and how do I feel about that? I am of course taking … Continue reading
Ebook Publishing in Local Gov
So, exciting news at Shropshire Family Information Service HQ, we've published our first ebook. Let me hear you say whoop whoop. No? Just me then. Parents can now download our information on Amazon. We're amazed by this. We feel like rockstars. We may, or may not* keep clicking on Amazon just to look at the … Continue reading
No money? No food? No Problem, Go online
We took a call from a concerned relative recently about a 17 year old care leaver who was a dad to a 4 month old baby. He was living with the baby and the baby's 18 year old mum, in a one bedroom flat in a small village. He had no money, no heating, no food, … Continue reading
Information can support families and safeguard children
Back in June of 2012 I blogged about an idea I'd had 18 months before. It was an idea I wasn't really getting anywhere with because my circle of influence didn't include the right decision makers to move that idea forward. It's over here if you wanted to read the frustration. But, there's good news, so … Continue reading
#nurture1213 Hopes
My last post was on the highlights of 2012, as part of the #nurture1213 tag, now it's time to look at my hopes for 2013. 1) Loved ones More time with my family and friends is high on my hopes for the new year. We all want this right? I want to be with the … Continue reading
#nurture1213 Highlights
It was a couple of weeks ago when I first saw the nurture1213 hashtag, a chance to list 12 highlights from 2012 and 13 hopes for 2013. I liked the sound of this, an opportunity to reflect, and time to plan, and it involved lists, not one but two, and I'm a big fan of … Continue reading
Back to the Shop Floor
I had a summer work plan; review of processes, polices, procedures; campaign planning and preparing for our busiest month in September but staff shortages put those plans on hold. The priority for the service has always been dealing with enquiries and so my priorities for the summer had to change. With limited staffing I needed … Continue reading
Frontline LocalGov – A Blog for Families
At the beginning of May 2012 I ran a social media campaign called #WeAre12. As part of that campaign I launched a blog for the service I manage, which is a local authority Family Information Service. Last week the blog passed the 2000 view mark. We ate cake to celebrate. Under the Childcare Act of … Continue reading
I saw an interview with John Lennon (hero) and Yoko Ono once about how they met and eventually fell in love. John attended one of Yoko's art exhibitions, where there was one piece in the collection which consisted of a set of step ladders and hanging from the ceiling above was a magnifying glass. Intrigued, … Continue reading


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Prelinger's Archives is a collection of thousands of hours of films that have been digitized and made available to you online. These are a varied collection of "ephemeral" films: those sponsored by corporations and organizations, educational films, and amateur and home movies, mostly from the early to mid-twentieth century. You probably won't find much information about your ancestors in these films but they will show you the environment in which your more recent ancestors lived. And, yes, for many of us these will show the environments that WE lived in when we were young.
Founded in 1983, Prelinger's collection has amassed to over 60,000 films, 65% of which are said to be orphan works, meaning they lack copyright owners and active custodians. The films can be watched online or, if you prefer, downloaded and saved to your computer's hard drive(s) or flash drives. All the films are available free online, thanks to hosting by the Internet Archive.
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has said:
"This comprehensive collection provides a unique window into the world of 20th-century American ideas and lifestyles. The picture it gives is quite distinct from that found in Hollywood feature films and newsreels. These are the films that children watched in the classroom, that workers viewed in their union halls, that advertisers presented in corporate boardrooms, and that homemakers saw at women's club meetings."
Some of us remember this cigarette commercial from many years ago:
Click on the the images to watch the videos.
Prelinger's Archive may be found by starting at: https://archive.org/details/prelinger&tab=collection.

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This section of our complete Zelda: Link's Awakening Remake Guide is dedicated to the Prologue. During this prologue, you will have to get your Shield and Sword back, as they are necessary to start your adventure.
Start by talking with Tarin to get your Shield back (picture1), then leave the house and go west, then south to reach the Toronbo Shores (picture2). Head to the right until you see Sea Urchins, then use your shield to push the first ones down (picture3).
Do the same with the others by pushing them to the right, then down to get your hand on your Sword (picture4). You can now eliminate the monsters that are in your path, which will allow you to easily return to the Mabe Village (pictures5and6).


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Ceramic Bowl Large Fruit Bowl
This stunning ceramic bowl can be a perfect gift for a foodie, a gift for newlyweds, or simply treat for yourself to spruce up your home.
The bowl was formed from a slab of stoneware clay.
♥ Feedback: This platter is stunning! Thank you! ♥
I first painted the bowl with dark brown –almost black – glaze, and brushed spirals with wax on top, to create raised decorative brush strokes. Later painted with the vivid turquoise glaze so that the dark raised spirals would peek through.
ShellyClayspot ceramics are made with love and attention to details.
≜ Hand formed stoneware
≜ Fired in the kiln at 1200 degrees Celsius
≜ Non-toxic glaze in dark brown and turquoise
≜ Diameter: 12.99" // 33 cm
≜ Height: 2.16" // 5.5 cm
Care Instructions: Hand wash with mild detergent is recommended.
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To ensure your piece arrives safe and soundly, your piece will be wrapped with high-quality bubble wrap, and fixed in a cardboard box.
* Custom handmade pottery may vary from sample images This slight variation makes each piece truly unique and one-of-a-kind.
* Glaze colors may also appear differently on various computers or screen devices, or in changed lighting. All images are taken in a natural indirect sunlight.
Materials: gray stoneware, food-safe glazes.
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Hello TPM Members and welcome to the weekend,
Two mass shootings within a few hours of each other last weekend underscored just how insane it is that we live this way, prompting a week of wondering if anything will change this time, when it hasn't so many times before. Here's some of what happened in Prime.
- A reader from El Paso writes in that it's particularly "infuriating" that the shooter drove across Texas to target a largely immigrant community: "this white nationalism and gun culture and all the rest is brewed outside of El Paso and someone drives 9 hours to import it in."
- Trump wants the DOJ to "develop tools that can detect mass shooters before they strike." Josh Kovensky explains why that's nearly impossible to do.
- What to make of the fact that the Dayton shooter appeared to be on the political left.
- Get ready for a new wave of litigation in the fight to restrict the vote.
- What a Steve Bannon presentation in 2014 has to do with the El Paso shooting.
- Here's why we're following the McGahn lawsuit closely.
- The Trump administration is moving two government agencies to Kansas City, apparently in order to make a bunch of government employees quit.
- A lot of Republican are retiring from Congress. We're keeping a running list.
- Josh Marshall writes that "we should expect and prepare for fifteen months of escalation as [Trump] tries to light his core supporters on fire and polarize the population."
- The NRA is weakened and elections are around the corner. Could a new political reality mean changes on gun control?
- In the past, personal brushes with gun violence have changed Republicans' minds.
- A man in his 20s with weapons, body armor, more than a hundred rounds of ammunition and army fatigues was arrested wandering around a Missouri Walmart yesterday. It's not clear he broke any law.
- A decades-old video shows how views on guns have changed.


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If you're planning on visiting North Korea, and indeed Pyongyang, then there's a decent chance you will end up staying at the Yanggakdo Hotel. Although historically the most popular hotel for tourists, fewer and fewer groups actually stay here.
It is often said that North Korea prefer you to stay here because it's located on an island (much like Alcatraz), but this simply isn't true.
So let's give an honest review of what it is really like to stay the Yanggakdo International hotel!
The Yanggakdo International Hotel is the largest operating hotel in Pyongyang, and North Korea, pending the competition of the legendary Ryugyong Hotel.
There are 47 floors to the hotel, with the top floor having a revolving restaurant, which is a kinda a big thing in North Korea. North Korea likes a revolving restaurant and the one at the Yanggakdo offers great views on a clear day.
Yanggakdo Hotel Price
Generally speaking most visitors to North Korea attend as part of a group tour, which includes your hotel. There is no premium to stay at the Yanggakdo International Hotel, but you would be unlikely to stay here on a budget tour. If, for whatever reason, you manage to come to Pyongyang on a business trip then the rate price to stay here is around $120 per night for a standard room.
Hotel Casino
On the first floor of the Yanggakdo Hotel is the famous casino – one of two in North Korea. All the staff in the casino are Chinese, and it is no Vegas! You also can't drink in the casino.
Yanggakdo Hotel Booking
One popular thing with tourists right now is the assumption that flights and hotels can be just booked. In real terms they cannot, unless you have some kind of official visa to enter North Korea. That being said, they do have a phone number, and you could thus technically at least call ahead and book a room here.
Hotel Massage
There are two different kinds of massage available at the hotel: the Chinese one next to the casino (although this seems to regularly be closed) and the Korean one near the swimming pool. Extra services are not implied nor offered.
Which is better: the Koryo Hotel, or the Yanggakdo?
Hard to say, but more official groups stay at the Koryo, and it is more "posh", but the Yanggakdo is overall more fun.
Why don't all your groups stay at the Yanggakdo?
Young Pioneer Tours offer the most diverse range of priced tours than anyone other tour operator to North Korea, and thus we need some flexibility with price, so at times we will stay at cheaper hotels such as the Sosan or Youth Hotel.
The post Staying at the Yanggakdo Hotel appeared first on Young Pioneer Tours.


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HOW TO LOSE WEIGHT: The former New York Times columnist Russell Baker once observed that "Americans like fat books and thin women." The proof is on the best-seller pages, where five of the six newcomers to this week's hardcover fiction list weigh in at 400 pages or more, and where improbable diet books continue to dominate the hardcover advice, how-to and miscellaneous list. (At No. 10, "The Dukan Diet" — it's been called Atkins with a French accent — starts out by eliminating all fruits and vegetables from the menu: a prudent response to the global epidemic of morbidly obese vegetarians.)
The latest diet guru to join this crowd is somebody calling himself Venice A. Fulton, who hits the list at No. 4 with "Six Weeks to OMG: Get Skinnier Than All Your Friends." Fulton is actually the British actor and personal trainer Paul Khanna — he played a Death Eater in the seventh "Harry Potter" movie — and his weight-loss plan is, essentially, this: skip breakfast, take cold baths and drink black coffee, which he says "teaches your body fat cells to open up their contents and pour fat into the bloodstream, which you can then use as a fuel." Um, sure. Or, as The Guardian put it in a recent summary of the book: "If you want to get the skinny on, you know what to do! Eat nothing. OMG."
SWEET PEA: The how-to best-seller lists aren't limited to diet tips; they also make room for Christian relationship advice ("The Love Dare" is at No. 10 on the paperback list this week) and Christian living guides ("Crazy Love" is at No. 9 on the paperback list) and Christian affirmations ("One Thousand Gifts" is at No. 8 on the hardcover list) and Christian near-death experiences ("To Heaven and Back" tops the paperback list). Then there's Sugar. Cheryl Strayed — whose memoir, "Wild," remains at the top of the hardcover nonfiction list — enters the paperback how-to list at No. 5 this week with "Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life From Dear Sugar," a collection of her columns for the online magazine The Rumpus. Strayed is an atheist, but as it happens she has wise and compassionate things to say both to Christians and to dieters in the book. The religious discussion is too complicated to summarize here — it involves a woman whose faith was tested when her baby developed a brain tumor — but the dieting discussion is easy. When a letter writer wondered what Strayed would tell her 20-something self if she could talk to her now, she responded: "Stop worrying about whether you're fat. You're not fat. Or rather, you're sometimes a little bit fat," but who cares? "There is nothing more boring and fruitless than a woman lamenting the fact that her stomach is round. Feed yourself. Literally. The sort of people worthy of your love will love you more for this, sweet pea."
THEORIES OF HAPPINESS: As a professional reader, I find it charming and not a little delusional that Gretchen Rubin's "Happiness Project" — at No. 6 on the paperback how-to list after 71 weeks — cites serious literature as one inspiration. "Some of the most interesting insights on happiness came from my favorite novelists," Rubin writes: "Leo Tolstoy, Virginia Woolf and Marilynne Robinson — in fact, some novels, such as Michael Frayn's 'A Landing on the Sun,' Ann Patchett's 'Bel Canto' and Ian McEwan's 'Saturday,' seemed to be the careful working out of theories of happiness." An appendix of suggested reading adds more titles to the syllabus, including Nick Hornby's "How to Be Good," Laurie Colwin's "Happy All the Time" and that paragon of Russian cheer, Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina."


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Last year we saw the rise of locavores — those dedicated to eating locally. Now it's all about the scrimpavores, a term coined by Iconoculture. This cultural trend research company suggests the shift to thrift may help make us healthier. People are beginning to trade processed for more of a process in the kitchen. And that means for the first time, non-foodies are starting to act more like foodies in an effort to save money. People are being forced to learn to cook from scratch rather than buying something ready-made to eat at home. In-home meals tend to be healthier and they cost about a third of a meal purchased away from home.
Scrimpavores now have to think more strategically by using items they have on hand, stretching leftovers and working backwards by stocking up when items are on sale and then figuring out a meal. That means a whole new generation of folks are trying to make their way around a kitchen at a time when cooking has become a spectator sport. Throughout the country, the recession has brought back the home cooked meal. Now 71% of all meals are eaten at home, according to the NPD Group.
People who grew accustomed to dining out every night are now taking cooking lessons, devouring food magazines, searching recipe web sites and snatching up cookbooks. Some of the fastest growing items in the supermarket are canning and freezer supplies. Money saved by eating in has given some people the means and justification to invest in kitchen tools, cookware and small appliances like slow cookers.
There's a tremendous opportunity to give novice home cooks the skills and the confidence to create family meals that are easy, frugal and nutritious.


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Everyone knows NASCAR has a carbon-footprint problem. The sport is responsible for emitting more than 4 million pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year, and clearly overdue for some eco-friendly changes. Luckily, if this bold new initiative is any indication, the league is finally taking its environmental impact seriously: NASCAR will be cutting down on emissions by replacing all the race cars with a single bus that drivers share.
NASCAR: 1. Climate change: 0. Yes!
Effective immediately, NASCAR is dropping the number of vehicles allowed on its track during a race from 43 stock cars to just one 43-seater bus in an effort to promote environmental sustainability. This marks a dramatic change for drivers, who previously raced in their own individual vehicles and typically only managed to get two to five miles per gallon at race speed. Now, at the start of each race, every driver will board the same bus together, buckle up, and race to the finish as one group using a hybrid electric engine capable of traveling more than 200 miles on a single charge, which league officials say will decrease NASCAR's yearly fuel consumption to record lows. Showing that NASCAR's commitment to conservation is real, the bus will also travel at a steady 55 mph for the entire race, which is the most fuel-efficient speed.
Without a doubt, this move to a single bus instead of several dozen competing cars is the greenest NASCAR has ever been in its 70-year history. Gone are the days of excess exhaust from stock cars idling while stuck behind a 25-car pileup and from each individual driver revving their own engine at the starting line. Further, with all the drivers sharing just one pit crew, the number of petroleum-based rubber tires used by each driver will be cut by more than 98 percent!
Truly, the benefits of reducing the number of cars on the track to a single bus seem endless.
"At the end of the day, we asked ourselves, why continue using 43 vehicles for a job you only need one bus to get done?" explained NASCAR President Brent Dewar in a press release announcing its shift to an eco-friendly bus. "The clock is ticking for our planet, and we've all got to do our part in preserving it, so minimizing the number of vehicles on our tracks was our only logical way forward. Aside from the obvious financial and ecological benefits, another thing I love about NASCAR switching over to this ecological bus is how quiet it is compared to 43 stock cars going 200 mph. I think NASCAR fans will love how much noise pollution this will eliminate, too."
It's official: NASCAR has turned itself into an environmental leader overnight.
Wow. You'd be hard-pressed to overstate just how revolutionary this is for a sport so notorious for its environmental impact. Hopefully other motorsports, such as Formula One and motocross, take note and consider switching to a single-bus system as well, because the time to take action against climate change is now. Kudos to NASCAR for leading the way to a greener future!


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Faith at Home
God rested. Don't we need the same?
When I finally sat down to write, my fingers paused, caught. Nothing came to mind.
Turns out I had zero leisure in my life.
How to honor fathers with love
Beer. Golf. TV. Mowing. Burping. Fishing.
According to greeting cards in the store aisles, this is all that modern fathers care about.
How to widen our hearts on Mother's Day
As my husband and I are writing a book on miscarriage for Catholic couples, I've posed the question on social media: Has your parish's blessing on Mother's Day included prayers for women who long to have a child or women who have lost a child?
Sweet spots and sacrifices
I try not to stop singing, even when my voice isn't strong enough. We all have a sweet spot, but we don't get to stay there. We're singing the whole song together.
Same for our callings.
Three truths that parenting taught me about Lent
Our greatest spiritual teachers can be our nearest and dearest. The familiar ones with whom we share sinks and sheets and silverware.
How to hold doubt and grow faith
One Sunday after Mass when I was 13 years old, I told my dad that I wasn't sure if I believed that Jesus was really in the Eucharist.
The sacrifice at your hands
"Pray, brothers and sisters, that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God, the almighty Father."
Why wait? How Advent changes us
Wait, they said. Good news will come.
The ones who won't be home for the holidays
This season sparkles with joy. We open our homes to family and friends, greeting each other at wreath-decked doors under twinkling lights.
Be thou my vision, but what do I see?
We cuddle together in the dark after the last book has been read. His 5-year-old limbs squirm as I whisper that it's time for sleep.
The sacred act of dishwashing
I hate dishwashing
Finding out: Is it even possible?
I catch her eye across the pew and smile. Her stomach is starting to swell, slightly. After Mass she rushes over, excited and chatty. "How are you?" I ask.


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Mint Matcha Vodka Cooler
We've created this delicious matcha cocktail in collaboration with Teapigs especially for National Tea Day on the 21st April! Get the recipe below:
To make:
2 teaspoons Teapigs Matcha Powder
50ml Chase Vodka
crushed ice
1 lime, sliced
handfuls of mint
25ml honey or cane sugar
Soda water (to top)
Muddle the mint, lime and cane sugar together in a cocktail shaker and slowly add the vodka and matcha powder. Stir until fully dissolved and pour into a highball glass filled with ice, top up with soda water and stir again


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The recipe we inherited from Bestemar left much to the imagination - including referring to ingredients in the instructions that are not listed in the ingredient list! Apparently everyone knew how to cook then and such attention to detail was unnecessary. This is my much-fleshed-out recipe. Perhaps with this my cousins can make a tin or two for next Lille-Yule! Just kidding, I know Kleiner is a Degn-McPeck responsibility.
Bestemar's Danish Kleiner
Takes 3 to 4 hours – or three nights
Makes about 4 dozen "Susan-sized" cookies, 3 dozen "Alma-sized)
Susan = My Mother
Alma = My Grandmother (mother's mother)
Bestemar = My Great-grandmother (mother's father's mother)
2 mixing bowls
Measuring cups and spoons
Hand mixer
Stout wooden spoon
Flat work surface
Rolling pin
Butter knife
Wax paper or parchment paper
Dinner fork or frying scoop
Pan deep enough for frying (at least 2 inches deep)
Brown wrapping paper or brown paper bags cut to lie flat
Small paper bag
Aluminum foil
Cookie tins
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla or cardamom
½ cup butter, melted
4 tablespoon cream
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
4-5 cups flour (depends on how finer the flour is – the finer the flour, the more you need)
1½ pounds shortening or oil (I like to use grapeseed oil because it has a buttery flavor. Sue and Alma always used Crisco vegetable, i.e. soy, oil)
2 cups sugar for decorating
1 tsp vanilla or other flavoring, like cardamom (optional)
Making the dough
(1) Beat eggs, sugar and vanilla together until smooth with hand blender.
(2) Mix in cream and melted butter.
(3) In a separate bowl, sift together baking powder, salt and 3 cups of the flour.
(4) Slowly incorporate the flour mixture into the dough, adding about ¼ to ½ a cup of flour at a time. You will only be able to use a hand mixer for first cup or so of flour, then move to a sturdy spoon. (I have broken wooden spoons mixing the dough before – beware!)
The last cup of flour usually needs to be worked in by hand a tiny bit at a time. You want the dough to be pulling off the sides of the bowl, but not as firm as pie dough. (I've never tried a free standing mixer for this, let me know if you try it and it works).
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(5) Let dough chill in refrigerator or cool room before shaping. It should be firm and easy to roll out (this takes about half an hour). Susan generally made it a little softer - about like bread dough, then kneaded in more dough when she rolled out the cookies.
Shaping the cookies
(1) Roll out a softball-sized hunk of dough to about ¼ inch thick. You can try a bigger hunk as you get used to the process. Thinner dough is harder to work with and can fall apart when frying. Thicker dough takes longer to cook and can be a bit cakey. Sue tended to roll the cookies thicker than Alma.
(2) Using an upside down butter knife, draw parallel lines through the dough, about 1 inch (Susan size) to 1½ (Alma size) inches apart. You can make them even bigger if you like. According to Susan, Bestemar made them the size of donuts.
(2) Draw crossing, almost-perpendicular lines, across the first lines, in order to create diamond shapes. Cut a 1/2 to 1 inch slit in the center of each diamond shape (depending on how big you make the cookies). Remove edge pieces.
(3) Peel off one diamond shape from the edge by sliding butter knife under the dough. Use thumbs to widen the slit, then fold top corner into slit.
(4) Roll edges toward center, and pull the top corner up at the same time.
(5) Pinch corner, if desired. Susan always pinched the corner and rolled the sides in tightly. , Alma usually didn't pinch the corner and left a hole in the middle. Susan's are easier to fry, Alma's are crispier.
(6) Place cookie on a tray lined with wax or parchment paper. Repeat for all diamonds. Continue rolling out, cutting and shaping until you run out of dough. We always eat the leftovers raw (it's not Christmas without Kleiner dough). But you don't have to be gross like us.
Cooking and finishing
(1) Pour about a cup of granulated sugar in a small paper bag. I like to add a few drops of vanilla or a few pinches of cardamom, then roll up top of bag tightly and turn over several times to mix, or mix into the sugar by hand. Susan and Alma usually used plain sugar. You want the sugar to be ready to go before you start frying cookies.
(2) Line some trays or your flat work surface with at least two layers of brown paper. The brown paper needs to be reasonably close to the fryer.
It's best to have a fryer and a sugar-er. It takes a lot longer to fry and sugar by yourself, and you risk burning cookies. It's always a good idea to have a least one person keep an eye on the hot oil.
(3) Fry cookies in at least an inch and a half of hot oil (about 350 degrees) until golden brown. If you don't use enough oil you risk "sunburning" them on the bottoms.
You need to flip them at least once (with a dinner fork or frying scoop), about a minute or so after they float up to the top. It doesn't hurt to check every minute or so until you get the hang of it.
I usually put about six in the oil at a time, then add six more when I flip the first six, or do 12 at once. The oil will get bubbly – sometimes so much so that it's hard to see the cookies. Just skim the bubbles off and put them on the brown paper.
(4) Once cookies reach the desired color, place on brown paper to cool. Susan usually made them lighter, Alma darker.
(5) Sugar cookies by placing slightly warm cookies in sack of sugar. Gently toss to evenly coat. You can do this by folding up the top tightly and turning the bag over a few times, or just put your hands in and pour sugar over the cookies.
(6) Place sugared cookies in aluminum-foil-lined tins. Let cool before you put the lid on if you like them crispy. You could also cool them on a cooling rack before putting them in tins. Sue often sealed them up slightly warm, that's why her Kleiner was usually so soft.
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Islamic Prophecies: Establishment of Israel
And after him We said to the Children of Israel, 'Dwell Ye in the promised land; and when the time of the promise of the Latter Days come, We shall bring you together out of various people." (17:105)
Creation of Israel and gathering of Sephardic, Ashkenazi and the Jews of many other different races in Israel proves the authenticity of this prophecy and hence Quran.
Creation of Israel and gathering of Sephardic, Ashkenazi and the Jews of many other different races in Israel proves the authenticity of this prophecy and hence Quran.
Again, the verse in context:
And certainly We gave Musa nine clear signs; so ask the children of Israel. When he came to them, Firon said to him: Most surely I deem you, O Musa, to be a man deprived of reason. He said: Truly you know that none but the Lord of the heavens and the earth has sent down these as clear proof and most surely I believe you, O Firon, to be given over to perdition. So he desired to destroy them out of the earth, but We drowned him and those with him all together; And We said to the Israelites after him: Dwell in the land: and when the promise of the next life shall come to pass, we will bring you both together in judgment. And with truth have We revealed it, and with truth did it come; and We have not sent you but as the giver of good news and as a warner.
Qur'an 17:101-104
Additionally, it would appear strange that the Quran would affirm the existence of a nation that Muslim-majority nations frequently deny the existence of.
This has nothing to do with the establishment of Israel; its merely a retelling of Musa (Moses), Firon (Pharaoh) and the Israelites story (Islamic version), as previously related in the Bible.
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Muslim websites:
- Al Islam's "Fulfilled prophecies of the holy Quran"
- MiraclesOfTheQuran.com
- "Hidden prophecies of the Quran"
- Quran miracles


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There's just something about allotments, once you have the bug it never really leaves you. The charm and character of the sheds dotted around, the soothing sound of trains whizzing along the track. The general chit-chat weather grumbles, and being around people who, like me, have a deep need for being at one with the seasons and growing food from a slice of land.
Hello I'm Karen, thank you for the interest in my blog! I started my allotment journey in 2011 but was forced to give up my plot of many years for health reasons, after some surgery (I won't bore you with the details) I bounced back and was raring to go again and now I work 2 allotment plots on the same site I was on before, Plot 5 and 11b. The aim of this blog is to document the growing year on my allotments, share the ups and downs of allotment life and some growing tips too.
I'm totally hooked on growing food and a bit obsessed with growing pumpkins and winter squash! My other interests (apart from my lovely family) include photography, arts and crafts, country walks with my dog, baking, chicken keeping, foraging and reading.
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We love hearing from our readers! Over the years, we've gotten some great questions, comments, and requests. We've been creating some special posts around the queries we see most often here, on social media, and via email. Our first FAQ mini-series topic looks at one of the most popular topics here on the blog, and that's making fleece tug toys. The four-part tug toy special includes choosing and using fleece for DIY tug toys, common weaving pattern problems, starting and finishing knots for tug ends, and today's final instalment on tug toy strips and finished toy size.
When we share a toy idea, the post and accompanying photos may include indicative measurements for the toy made and photographed for the post, but we don't specify the exact sizes for materials or the finished toy. Instead, our toys include a note that you should scale the toy larger/smaller to suit your dog and, in the case of tug toys, the size of fleece you have available.
Size can be deceptively tricky. How long and wide a finished toy will be for a length/width of strips can vary quite a bit depending on the style of the weave, the weight of fleece you use, and how tight you make each knot. Not to worry - you will very quickly get the hang of visualising and estimating size once you've tried a weave or two!
To create a longer tug toy with fleece, you need to start with longer strips, but also account for how quickly that length will be consumed as the layers of the toy are woven. The thicker/fatter the finished toy, the shorter it will be for a given length of fleece. Starting/finishing knots also require a portion of the length. Unless you are buying a substantial quantity of fleece, you find yourself length limited by your materials. Check out our detailed post on choosing fleece for tips on using the on-bolt width of the material to create a starter stash of fleece. Of course, you can always buy longer lengths too, if you wish.
To create a thicker/fatter tug toy with fleece, you can choose a pattern/style that includes additional strips (e.g. a double twisted spiral will naturally be thicker than a single spiral), moderate tightness, use heavy weight fleece, widen the strips for additional bulk in each layer, and/or double-up the strips for additional bulk in each layer. Let's take a closer look at bulking with wider or doubled strips.
With a soft pliable material like fleece, it is possible to use very wide strips without the bunching issues that you'd struggle with during weaving and/or see in the finished pattern with some other materials. Once knotted, wrinkles and folds in fuzzy fleece sort of disappear into the coloured fluff. Handy! That said, depending on the pattern and your preferences, using doubled-up strips may be preferable to single double-wide strips. The smaller strips can be helpful for creating a neater pattern, concealed knots, end knotting, and/or offer greater flexibility in converting the finished toy into fancy shapes (e.g. cinching like in our candy cane, hidden transitions like in our birthday candle, joining ends like in our wreath, etc.)
The collage above shows a side-by-side comparison test for a circle/spiral twist tug toy woven using doubled-up strips vs. single double-wide strips. Because these are the things we do for you, our lovely readers! Plus Humphrey and his furfriends are always pleased to have a few new toys for their toyboxes. :)
- Cutting four double-wide strips is easier than cutting eight strips to use in pairs. Cutting fleece for tugs isn't onerous since they don't need to be perfect cuts, but prep for doubling up does require double the effort.
- For both, the starting and end knots looked overly bulky in my usually preferred all-strand overhand knot so I opted to use a modified one strand end knot (there is a comparison photo of both knots in the preceding end knot FAQ post). The end knots tied with the narrow strand are slightly more compact on detailed inspection, but not a significant factor between the two strip options.
- For both, weaving was straightforward. It is slightly more effort at the start to arrange the doubled-up strips. Once weaving is started and in full swing, the additional coordination is negligible, but single strips are easier.
- The finished tugs are almost identical. They are the same size and there is no significant pattern difference. The only notable variations are is at the ends, where the doubled-up strands have a fluffier eight-piece "tassel" of strand ends. Also, if looking very closely, the transition layer isn't quite as small and tight from end knot to tug for the double-wide strands, but not so much so that one would ever really notice if this wasn't for a comparison.
The verdict? Unless you are creating a special design, the decision to double-up vs. widen the strips is mostly about personal preference. The weaving effort and visual results are similar. Doubling up requires a little extra prepwork and coordination, but it can be helpful for a tidier pattern and/or when making special shapes. Bonus points are awarded from Humphrey for the extra tassel ends. I'm happy to widen up to a point, but I usually just double up; however, I'm also very comfortable with cutting and weaving control.
Inspecting a doubled tug vs. a single strand spiral, as shown in the photo below (woven from shorter strands to create a skinny twin for the photo), you can see the difference that the doubled or double-wide strands can make to a toy. The tug is twice as fat, but on closer inspection you can also see that each visible "bump" of the weave on the exterior is slightly bigger. This creates a pattern that is enlarged in width but also in length, with fewer rotations of the spiral in the same length. Not an issue for most designs, but worthwhile understanding all the same.
Safety first, furfriends! Remember, no matter what a toy is made of or how it's made, toys are meant for supervised interactive play. Know your dog before giving him/her any new toy. Some dogs try to eat toys/parts (whether bought or handmade) and that's dangerous. Toys are for playing, and playtime is always safer (and more fun!) with you involved. You can read more on our dog toy safety page, including tips and some helpful links for safer playtime. Have fun and play safe!
Looking for more? Explore the DIY Fleece Tug Toy FAQs, Tips, and Troubleshooting Mini-Series:
- Choosing (and Using) Fleece for DIY Dog Toys
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- End Knots for Starting/Finishing Fleece Tug Toys
- Tug Toy Strips and Finished Toy Size
Ready to try making tug toys? We have lots of ideas and inspiration in our archives! If you are a beginner weaver, the easiest place to start is probably with a square/box knot tug toy and then move up to a circle/spiral twist tug toy (I'd recommend learning the corner-to-corner circle twist method for spirals so it's easier to advance to other methods later, if you wish). If you're already into weaving, boondoggle, or macrame then many of these weaves can be adapted for toys, like our fat cobra knot dog tug toy. For added safety, I prefer using weaves that involve some form of knotting over braiding or free looping when making tugs for my pets. You can explore all of our toys using the DIY Dog Toy page or hop straight in via the linked post labels in the footer below.


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AveryHR is currently hiring for the following roles for one of their clients in Colborne, ON. The organization has grown to become one of the most popular attractions in Ontario, featuring a bakery, restaurants, shops, and plenty of outdoor fun. We are looking for an associate for light janitorial role for full time hours Duties…
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An adult-only pantomime is to be performed in Pelsall by a new Walsall-based LGBT group.
BENT productions, an amateur based LGBT (lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transsexual) theatre group, has written their own pantomime titled A-Lad'in Tights.
The pantomime is the story of A-Lad'in and how he comes out to his mother, falls in love with the Prince and after gay marriage is legalised by the emperor he finally gets to marry his prince.
The adult pantomime is being staged at Pelsall Community Centre, Station Road, on January 31 and February 1, 2014. Tickets are available now at £7. For details, email firstname.lastname@example.com
Proceeds are going towards helping BENT's future initiatives and to Beginnings, a local project that helps young LGBT people who find themselves homeless due to discrimination from within their own family.
Future projects will include anti-bullying performances for primary schools, LGBT acceptance and awareness productions for high schools and youth groups, plus more productions for the wider community that promote LGBT issues and social acceptance.


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An Options Play Fit for a Shaky Economic Recovery
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LIKE MIGHTY CAESAR RAISING HIS THUMB to decide if a gladiator lives or dies, Friday's U.S. unemployment report has the power to determine if the Standard & Poor's 500 index consolidates it recent gains or tumbles back below 1000.
"All eyes, and all collective trading acumen seems to be focused upon this one report, which we again find rather both amusing and disconcerting given the enormous revisions to which this report is prone," wrote Dennis Gartman, publisher of the influential Gartman Letter, in a note to clients.
Still, everything in the economy flows from employment, which is why the U.S. Labor Department's monthly jobs report exerts such oversized influence on stock prices. If more people have jobs, they spend more money, and that helps the U.S. economy grow.
In the options market, where investors come to wager on the probabilities of various outcomes in the stock market, trading stances are falling into what can best be described as a distinct "trust, but verify" pattern.
Even though many smart traders think the stock market is due for a pullback, if for no other reason that it is extremely overbought, no one is willing to make a big stand. Yet, no one wants to miss out, either.
So one way to go with the flow, and live to play another day, is using options to limit risk, and gain leverage to good news. Spreads -- or buying a call and selling one with a higher strike price -- are rampant in equity and index options.
In one widely noted trade, an investor took profits Tuesday on 20,000 August 1000 calls on the S&P 500 index call, and established a new position in anticipation of a continued advance. With the S&P 500 at 996, the investor stands to profit with 20,000 August 1020 calls that he bought Tuesday.
The trade looks smart as the ADP National Employment Report released Wednesday morning knocked the index below 1000. The ADP report is based on payroll data that Automatic Data Processing (ticker: ADP) tallies for about 400,000 companies. Traders view the ADP report as an indication of government employment data.
ADP data revealed that nonfarm private employment declined 371,000 in July. The Street's consensus was a decline of 350,000.
Some investors might be tempted to discount the discrepancy between the Street's expectations and ADP's actual results.
The fact that investors in stocks and options reacted so quickly to the miss shows the nervousness that exists about the stock market's massive rally since March. After all, corporate profits have recovered nicely. But there is, in some quarters of the market, a debate that corporate profits will have a "V" shaped recovery, though the economic recovery will be shaped like a "W."
This is why smart traders are turning to the options market to limit risk, and maintain leveraged exposure to rallies.
Put another way: think of the spread strategy as both a thumbs up, and a thumbs down position.


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I don't like to hate on government agencies, especially the underfed and underfunded. This, however, is annoying to me…
The United State Government Publishing1 Office lets you buy books and pamphlets the various parts of the United States (but not the States themselves) have reduced to written form. I have bought several copies of the official text of the Constitution from them for ready reference.
Some publications just go to show that there is a certain amount of stodge that always goes with government, such as the bizzare choice of smiley face on this document about bridge inspections. It make it look a little untrustworthy to me, like "It's OK, really (wink)".
Anyway, I wanted badly to read this entertainingly titled Ebook on investment frauds from a sometime Commissioner of the CFTC with a mullet that is supposedly available free. Well:
- There are two entries for this media on the GPO's website, for some reason.
- The PDF link in the one is bad.
- I can't find the "Add to Cart" link mentioned, even if logged in to my account.
Anyway, after fussing around (I didn't call them up, because when I reported a spelling mistake in their ecommerce user management, it took over a month to get a reply. And it still isn't fixed. As before, underfunded) I found a link to the PDF and EPUB files on their… FTP server.
Anyway, go here: https://permanent.access.gpo.gov/gpo68567/
- Ex-Government Printing Office. I understand the name change, but the older one was headed by the supremely titled "Public Printer of the United States". The new one is run by a "Director". Boring!! ↩


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Wonderful 19th century Italian Centre Table / Gueridon
A fine quality 19th century Italian Gueridon that has been dry-scrapped to reveal the original paint , of elegant proportions and design, with a later distressed Carrara marble top that will work well in most settings.
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Diameter: 89cm / 35''
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My wife left me for a guy she knew and dated in her 20s. We have been married for 19 years and now divorced for 3 years. I can not get her out of my head, I dream of her every night and think of her daily.
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Goodbye, ranger; hello, cop
In the past, as Stiles said, rangers used to range. To get to know a piece of land was the greatest reward of rangering and led to a kind of dedication to place that I believe is the reason park rangers were not ordinarily perceived as cops. Rangers cared enough about their place to pick up cigarette butts, even on their time off.
The new draft management policies, among several other grievous errors, are poised to remove rangering from the park ranger and leave him as nothing more than a traffic cop, fee collector, and paramedic. Before the new draft, the NPS explicitly required its law enforcement officers to participate in a variety of duties to fulfill the direction of Congress that "park law enforcement should be viewed as one function of a broad program of visitor and resource protection." The new draft policy no longer suggests (let alone requires) that law enforcement rangers ever get out of their patrol cars except to arrest people.
These men and women will no longer feel they've been "paid in sunsets" or that rangering is the highest calling of the park ranger or that their park is a special place deserving the dedication of their hearts and souls. Goodbye, park ranger; hello, cop.
This is but one of many pernicious changes in the new draft that will fundamentally change the character of the National Park Service. The new draft policies are open to public comment until mid-February at http://parkplanning.nps.gov under "Washington Office."
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Brooklyn has always been a fixture of hip-hop lyrics — from 1984's "Do Or Die Bed Stuy" by Divine Sounds to 2009's "Coney Island" by Marco Polo and Torae. With the "'90s Hip Hop and R&B Sing-Along" taking place at Park Slope's Union Hall on March 28, we have picked out some of our favorite borough-centric tracks from the decade.
Jay-Z lives in a multi-million-dollar apartment in Manhattan these days, but this 1997 track paid tribute to his childhood in Bedford-Stuyvesant's Marcy Houses. The lyrics cover drugs, violence, and prostitution, anchored by the hook, "Cough up a lung, where I'm from, Marcy son, ain't nothing nice. Mentally been many places but I'm Brooklyn's own."
The late Ol' Dirty Bastard was a founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan, growing up in Brooklyn with his cousins and fellow hip-hop crew members RZA and GZA. This song appeared on ODB's first solo album in 1995. The track is mostly a tirade against an unnamed nemesis, but the chorus at the end of the song shows some love for his home borough — "Shame on you when you step through to, the Ol' Dirty Bastard, Brooklyn Zoo!"
This native son performed in the group Black Star with Talib Kweli in the '90s, but released this gem of a track on his first solo album in 1999. The song is a long love-letter to the borough that bred him, and include references to its Dutch roots, Fulton Mall, and many neighborhoods.
One of the kings of '90s hip-hop, Notorious BIG naturally hails from Kings County. His 1994 album "Ready to Die" helped launch a coastal rap war, and includes many autobiographical songs about BIG's upbringing. "Unbelievable" starts out with this — "Live from Bedford-Stuyvesant, the livest one. Representing BK to the fullest."
Okay, this song technically misses the '90s mark — it came out in 1989. But we had to include a song from the Beasties following the 1980s borough anthem "No Sleep till Brooklyn." "Hello Brooklyn" starts off with a reference to the Leonard Bernstein song "New York, New York" — "New York New York it's a hell of a town. The Bronx is up and I'm Brooklyn down." It ends with a nod to Johnny Cash — "I ride around town cause my ride is fly. I shot a man in Brooklyn just to watch him die."
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When it comes to forecasting the future in professional golf, psychology could be destiny. By virtue of a condensed summer schedule, three of the season's four majors—the U.S. Open, the British Open and the PGA Championship—will be played in the span of just seven weeks in June and July, to accommodate golf's return to the Olympics in August. The more I think about what's to come this season, the more I wonder: How will the best players respond to this new, trying reality?
It may seem like something that would be impossible to predict, but we can actually make an educated guess about performance based on an assessment of a player's personality. Most players fall into one of four distinct categories: Amiable, Expressive, Driver or Analytic.
Amiables are laid-back, easygoing guys with free-flowing swings: Fred Couples, Ben Crenshaw and Adam Scott. Expressives are talkative and often pioneer a unique "homemade" swing, like Lee Trevino, Rickie Fowler and Bubba Watson. Drivers, like Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods, tend to be intensely focused. And Analytics prefer to think their way through a round, the way that Bernhard Langer and Jordan Spieth do.
So why are these categories meaningful when it comes to this year's major schedule? Simple: Drivers and Analytics tend to play and prepare one way, while Expressives and Amiables generally play and prepare another way. For the Driver and Analytic pro, swing confidence results in playing confidence. For Amiable and Expressive players, it's the opposite. As long as Amiables and Expressives are playing well and hitting the shots they want, they feel their swings are working properly. That's why Nicklaus and Woods like to practice the week before a major, while Phil Mickelson and Bubba Watson prefer to tee it up in competition.
Tour pros who tend to gain confidence from practicing, as opposed to playing the week before a major, might have an advantage in this year's final three majors. Why? Because they can rest and prepare in their preferred manner during the grueling seven-week stretch. Since no top name will opt to play seven weeks in a row, guys who prefer to play their way into "major shape" will be forced to take a break in the midst of this hectic stretch in June and July—and that means they won't be able to build confidence by playing the week before every major, as they normally would.
Consciously or subconsciously, players' personalities are reflected in their swings, their practice and in how they prepare to play important events. Some of the Tour's best pros may need to adjust more than their schedules if they want to win big in 2016.


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Is there anybody out there? I am fearing everyone has given up on me by now.
Sorry guys… I was going through one of those 'phases' again. My thesis seems to be consuming all of my energy and inspiration. How time flies… Seems like it was only yesterday that I wrote that links post… Anyway, I am going to restrain from whining and move on to the public service announcement.
Public Service Announcement:
I am now working on something, so get ready for some serious awesomeness coming soon, possibly in the same category of awesomeness as my recycling post (well, I'll let you be the judge of that). Stay tuned for a how-to series, this time wardrobe related.
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Oh, good. There you are.
And, I could use some help on greening my wardrobe.
Yay! I hope it's about refashioning! I'm in the middle of turning a pull over sweater into a cardigan and embroidering a crab, sea horse and nudibranch on it! I hope it doesn't turn out like an old lady holiday sweater.
I'm out here! I got the feeling everyone in blogland had disappeared in the last three days. Hi. New here. Haven't had much of a chance to look around yet but – are you still?
I see you're now writing for Celsias but haven't had a chance to look there either and it's close to bedtime here.
Looks like we might share some of the same interests…
Peace, love and recycled hugs.
Good luck with your thesis! Looking forward to your new series – I love your blog 🙂
We're still here. 🙂 We won't give up on you.
"Wear clothes, comfortable ones, and not too many." (With apologies to Michael Pollen…)
Looking forward to your return.
Still checking your blog every day!
Just wondering: did you try that little water saver yet? Or have you pulled apart all the piping in your home 🙂
I enjoy reading your blog! (I am working on my Master's degree, so I know what you are going through! – I will be able to 'live' again in 9 months!!!)
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- "Honor....What a useless concept."
- ― Rear Admiral Lynch (Legend of the Galactic Heroes)
The ability to destroy concepts. Sub-power of Concept Manipulation. Variation of Destruction. Opposite to Concept Creation.
Also Called
- Alpha Ragnarok
- Abstraction Annihilation
The user can destroy any/all forms of concepts.
- Absolute Immortality by destroying the concept of death.
- Anti Storage by destroying the concept of imprisonment.
- Meta Immunity Bypassing by destroying the concept of all immunities.
- Omnicide by destroying the concept of life.
- Abolishment
- Absolute Destruction
- Concept Manipulation
- Destruction
- Nether Manipulation
- Nonexistence
- Omega Reality
- The user may create paradoxes due to lack of concepts.
- Weak against Concept Creation.
- Users of Conceptual Anchoring will be unaffected by the destruction of concepts.
Known Users
- Chaos Control users (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Nothingness Logos (Aquarion Logos)
- Vector-ga (Aquarion Logos)
- The Presence (DC Comics); No concept of form or shape
- Coyote (Gunnerkrigg Court)
- Bellcross (Heroic Age)
- Gorr the God Butcher (Marvel Comics)
- Ajimu Najimi (Medaka Box); via Meaning Network (Sword Skill)
- NEXT Purple/Neptune (Megadimension Neptunia VII)
- SCP-3125 (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-3812 (SCP Foundation)
Known Places
- The Far Realm (AD&D/Planescape); No concepts of any kind
- Pure Chaos (Exalted)
- Cancerverse (Marvel); No concept of Death
- All-In-One (Touhou); No concept of Boundaries


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At Cafe Twitch, winter reigns supreme and deep snows cover the ground. The birds need regular feeding, and so extra food is on the menu. New items placed out in the garden include red grapes, hanging from the tree. This attracts a Mistle Thrush.
Mistle Thrush (Turdus viscivorus)
He's soon on the ground eating the grapes.
Blackbirds are difficult to photograph against the snow, but here's one eyeing up the ripe banana left on the lawn.
He did eat it later, as he did some grapes.
Blackbird (Turdus merula)
High in the trees was a Chaffinch, pink breast puffed out.
Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
Greenfinch were voracious eaters of the sunflower seeds in the feeder.
Greenfinch (Carduelis chloris)
Starlings were also busy taking the food on the snows.
Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
Doves and pigeons were also visitors.
Collared Dove (Streptopelia decaocto)
Woodpigeon (Columba palumbus)
The Woodpigeons are a rarer visitor to Cafe Twitch. Come back soon!


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Protection from Whooping Cough Booster Vaccine Fades over time, Study Says
A whooping cough booster vaccine recommended for middle school aged children loses effectiveness over time, a new study is reporting.
Whooping cough is a highly contagious respiratory infection that has symptoms that include a cough that sounds like a "whoop," runny nose, sneezing and nasal congestion. The infection can be very dangerous for infants.
For this study, the researchers from Kaiser Permanente examined how well the Tdap booster protected adolescents from whooping cough, also known as pertussis. The Tdap booster also protects the body against tetanus and diphtheria. The team analyzed diagnosed cases in nearly 280,000 children from 2009 to 2015. Almost all of the children had gotten the Tdap booster when they were 11 to 12.
The researchers found that within the first year after immunization, the booster vaccine's protection rate was around 69 percent in 11 to 12-year-old children. In the second year, the protection rate dropped to 57 percent. Four years later, however, only about nine percent of this group of children was still sufficiently protected from whooping cough.
"It provides moderate protection during the first year but years two and three after vaccination, there is not that much protection left," lead study investigator, Dr. Nicola P. Klein, co-director of the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center in Northern California, said reported by CNN.
The findings help explain why the number of whooping cough cases within the U.S. has been increasing. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that in 2012, there were 48,277 confirmed cases and 20 deaths, which is the highest since 1955.
The CDC currently recommends children to receive five does of the whooping cough vaccine, DTaP between the ages of two months and four to six-years-old. By age 11 to 12, children are recommended to get the booster. Another booster vaccine is also recommended for adults between the ages of 19 and 64, and in pregnant women.
"I think we need to open the discussion on how to best utilize the vaccine," Klein said.
The study's findings were published in the journal, Pediatrics.
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As happened three years ago with the ISE CB Almeria basketball, now we also collaborate in the sponsorship of one of the two boys' teams of the Roquetas Handball Club, strengthening our bond with sport and with a region in which hundreds of young people deposit their illusions, weekend after weekend, in competitions that require maximum concentration, efficiency and teamwork. Current provincial juvenile champion and sixth regionally, the club is in a great moment of the season and ISE intends to promote this rising base project to help it take off.
With 30 years of history, Roquetas Handball Club has a team in nine different categories, competing in the Women's Honor Division with two squads. Currently, it is reinforcing the lower category training such as the Infantile Male, which debuts in a new category and is garnering a large number of positive reviews that place it as one of the most promising teams of the coming years.
Following our line of values, we continue to bet on youth and the desire of children who are willing to give everything to see their team at the top. The commitment that we acquired with them during the season corroborates our intention to foment the sport at all ages and give energy to regional clubs like the Roquetas Handball Club.


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Wiggers Custom Furniture Ltd. turns 45-years-old today.
The company was founded on January 13, 1967 by my parents Ann and Johan Wiggers. Just like today that day also happened to be a Friday the 13th.
Although some consider Friday the 13th to be unlucky, I guess it doesn't work that way for everyone.
When I was very small I spent a great deal of time playing on my father's workbench, while he was still working out of the basement of his home.
The first actual workshop wasn't built until 1968. (Notice the Ford Econoline van parked on the side. Years later that was the first vehicle I learned to drive, complete with standard transmission and three-on-the-tree.)
This is the shop today. It is now approx. 12,000 sq. ft. in size, but still has a number of original tools and machines being used each day.
Although he's now retired my father keeps himself active which, in turn, keeps him young.
This coming year will also mark my 31st year as a full time furniture maker, and I am amazed at how quickly the time has flown. (I know that it's a cliche to say that, but it's true).
My son Kevin is now working with me as well.
Although he's only 21-years-old he's already far more skilled and experienced than I was at the same age. What parent wouldn't be happy to admit that?
It's great having my father around to teach Kevin things like wood turning and marquetry. Kevin is patient and shows great respect listening to his grandfather.
As an interesting historical footnote it was also 45 years ago today that Time Magazine published the following cover:
Times have certainly changed, because in recent years China has transformed from being an agrarian Communist society into what is now a manufacturing juggernaut – becoming so wealthy in the process that it is now the holder of millions of jobs and trillions of dollars formerly earned in the West.
This certainly wasn't the playing field that confronted my father and grandfather during their respective eras. Then again, they had Great Depressions and World Wars to deal with. Regardless, I remain hopeful that we as a small business can continue to find ways to navigate forward during these uncertain times.
In the meantime Happy Birthday, Wiggers Custom Furniture Ltd. !


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Five males suffered burn injuries following an explosion on Hick Lane in Batley on Wednesday.
Officers were called at 6:47pm (6 February) to Hick Lane and emergency services including ambulance and fire service were quickly deployed to the scene.
The men aged between 35 and 39, suffered burn injuries and were quickly taken to hospital for urgent medical treatment. They all remain in hospital at this time.
The bomb squad were also called to the scene "as a precautionary measure" Police said.
A Royal Logistic Corps bomb disposal van was at the scene on Thursday morning, along with police, fire service and gas vehicles, but has since left.
A police cordon remains in place in Batley town centre whilst enquiries continue to establish the cause of the explosion.
West Yorkshire Police initially believed it to be a gas explosion, but is now treating it as "unexplained".
"At this stage, we are not treating it as a terrorist incident," a spokesman told BBC
Drivers are asked to avoid the area and find alternative routes.
Detective Superintendent Pat Twiggs said: "Police and partner agencies have worked throughout the night to ensure the scene is safe and there is no safety risk to members of the public.
"All injured parties are still in hospital receiving treatment for their injuries.
"We will be continuing with our enquiries throughout today and would like to thank the local residents and public for their patience whilst we establish the full circumstances of the incident. At this stage, we are not treating it as a terrorist incident."
Anyone with any information is asked to call the police via 101 quoting log number 1589 of 6 February.


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Jumping the curve means jumping together
On October 25th, I was privileged to help convene and host a diverse group of leading changemakers in our new office, designed by Olson Kundig. It was one of the first opportunities we had to open our space to a group of outside people.
The gathering, Curvejump Seattle, intended to ignite imaginations and offer an opportunity to dive into big questions and expansive ideas with leaders transforming business and culture in the Pacific Northwest. From Nike, Sub Pop and PATH to Microsoft, MG2, and Creative Live.
It was a day of exploration and discovery. While many moments stand out, I can distill the gathering into a few key takeaways.
1. Physically present, together, always.
I'm biased. Our new office is amazing and designed for people and collaboration. However, regardless of the space, I'll take people in person, every time.
3. Collaboration is amazing.
Duffy, from Electric Coffin, took our group of 40 through a collaborative art project. Imagine painting for five minutes and unknowingly being asked to pass your work to the left.
4. Food is life.
Two beautiful meals supported the day. The first was from our friends at Salumi and the second from Sea Creatures. It never ceases to amaze me what happens when people come together around food.
5. Constraints free us.
Constraints breed resourcefulness and resourcefulness is so human that it's hard to imagine that the machine will ever meet the man here.
2. Gentle is strong.
Not the exact words of Megan Jasper of Sub Pop, but close. What a world it is when you lead with respect, kindness and a human touch.
As with any day-long commitment, I was aware of how much time was invested by all of the people involved and attending. From leaders of many and leaders of one, every single person spent their day with us. In my mind, the sharing of time is the highest form of generosity that exists.
Conversations ensued that I know would not have happened without a group of people physically together, with a mindset of abundance and a shared interest in jumping a curve.
People were immersed, engaged, and turned on. The energy in the room was palpable, and the attention given was remarkable. Rarely did the glow of a phone screen emanate up.
As a business leader, in a well-established company, with a history behind us and opportunity in front of us, my mission is to help design and guide our company into the next decade. A decade unlike any before where Creativity propels the economy and society forward.
To do so, we must be different; we must disrupt, we must create value. Not just for our clients but for our community, our employees, our peers, and our city.
Curvejump as a platform delivered.
As Chase Jarvis said, "…there is no they. They are not coming."
Once you realize there is no "they," the next move to make is to move from me to we.
I know we can use Creativity to imagine and create what's possible.
Always with the future in mind.


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Paulo Coelho "Veronica decides to die" book report
Based on events in Paulo Coelho's own life, "Veronika Decides to Die" questions the meaning of madness and celebrates individuals who do not fit into patterns society considers to be normal. It is the end of the 20tf century and the story takes place in Slovenia's capital – Ljubljana. The heroine - a young girl called Veronika seems to have everything she could wish for- a lovely family, charming beauty, and a good occupation, but she still finds life empty. However she wonders every day: "What is youth? I feel that my life doesn't have passion, adventure, or challenge." Something is lacking in her life. She is upset, because nothing happens in her life.…
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Super Smash Bros.' website recently added a screenshot suggesting that Nintendo's premiere couple want to make things official.
Super Smash Bros. was always based on a silly premise, specifically that Nintendo's franchises share a single universe where characters fight each other in arena-based melee combat. It was an amusing thought experiment that generated Brawl's lengthy story campaign, but at the end of the day, everyone went back to their respective universes and the status quo returned to normal. Perhaps Nintendo is reconsidering that approach with Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS, as teased with an image on the game's official website. Assuming that this isn't just director Masahiro Sakurai playing around with Smash Bros.' screen grabs (and you're no fun if you think that), then what we're clearly seeing is Mario and Peach legitimizing a 28-year relationship filled with secret romance and Koopa kidnappings.
Okay, I'm sure there's some other reason for the ring to be there. Nintendo doesn't usually stray far from its canonical formulas, at least not with the bread-and-butter Mario franchise. The ring could easily be an in-game power-up, if not a practical joke, thrown on the main page without a second thought. Sakurai also teased "Who is the ring for?" on Miiverse, suggesting that one way or another, all is not as it seems.
That being said, the more I think about this, the more I hope it's a legitimate screenshot from Smash Bros.' story campaign. Picture it: After years of delaying the inevitable, Mario and Princess Peach finally announce their engagement and send wedding invitations across Nintendo's shared universe. When Bowser, Ganon, and Nintendo's major villains aren't invited, they launch an all-out invasion on the big day to destroy their assembled adversaries in one swoop. Meanwhile Luigi, Mario's long-suffering brother and best man, takes the opportunity to confess his own feelings for Peach, prompting a sibling brawl almost 30 years in the making.
Or, you know, it's just a randomly selected daily screenshot. Why make it something more than that?
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Introduction: V8 Block Coffee Table
While "Dumpster Diving" I found a V8 block, now surely that can be used for something!!!!
So home with me it came (to be hidden from the wife)
For info it's a Rover 3.5 V8 alloy block and I am going to turn it into a table
So this is metal, it's furniture, and it is probably going to be given away as a xmas present.
Step 1: Clean It Up a Bit
Obviously I wasn't going to get away with anything using it in its oil and grime encrusted condition, but luckily we had the sand blasters in at work stripping paint from our water tanks, so a couple of beers later all the grime had magically disappeared!!
Step 2: Pistons
Searching around in the shed junk pile I found 4 pistons (they are not the right ones for the engine but that doesn't matter.
I took off the rings and blasted them in the blast cabinet (also at work)
Step 3: Modding the Pistons
I intend attaching the pistons to the cylinder head screw holes and for them to sit flat I needed to file part of the skirt away (shown on the piston on the right)
Step 4: Attaching the Pistons
Because of the con-rod bolt design and cylinder head bolt spacing, I could only screw in one bolt from each con-rod/piston in an already drilled hole, in the second hole I had to drill and tap a hole for an M8 allen bolt.
The bolts were coated in araldite before screwing in (them suckas ain't comin' out!!)
Step 5: Filling Up the Rest of the Holes
I thought it looked more pleasing with the rest of the cylinder head screw holes filled so I used a bunch of allen grub screws also araldited in place
Step 6: Sealing
Once all assembled I used spray clear epoxy to prevent corrosion
Step 7: Mounting the Glass
I found some small self adhesive silicon "dots" which I stuck on the piston tops.
Initially I am going to try 2 but we will see if it needs more
Step 8: The Glass
I found an old glass table on TradeMe and for the princely sum of $2 it was mine and gave me this lovely piece of smoked glass which turned out to be more or less the perfect size.
The photos are a little dark and don't do it justice, but it actually looks pretty good
So all told this project cost me $3 in bolts, $2 in glass, the block was free, the silicon dots were $10!!!! but I have only used 8 out of a pack of 64, the grub screws were free as they were test failed ones destined for the scrap bin.
Now I just have to persuade the wife to let me keep it!!
(just kidding - she's an angel and I am probably going to give it to a friend who is a total petrolhead!)
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Cool idea sir.
Awesome work! One day I will make an engine table, just need the time lol.
Thanks, this was all completed in one day (although I had the block for a while) -it was a quiet day at work


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NFOservers has surprised me, in a really good way.
Let me start from the beginning.
I was renting a Dedicated server From a UK Host, 16gbram quad core i7 ( £80 Per month ) . I was running 2 Cod4 Server 12 slots each and 1 minecraft 20 slots. the server/internet could just about handle 20 players all together. Minecraft was laggy as hell.So i got out of there
Heard about NFOServers from a friend so i decided to get a 1 Core VDS server ( £19 Per Month ) to host my 512 slot Teamspeak. Im from the UK so i was expecting about 120 ping, but nope its holding steady at 90, i also have another 13 European members online most of the time, and they got a really low ping. Really Impressed.
Today i decided i wanted to play on a minecraft server, so i decided to put it on my VDS 1 core that is also hosting TeamSpeak. We had 10 people on Teamspeak and 5 on MineCraft all from Europe, and there was NO LAG at all. we expected a little due to the distance between us and the server but everything is perfect.
CPU doesnt go above 50% on a 1 core
Ram doesnt go above 65% on 1gb ram
Best host by far and i have been with about 11 Hosts ( 11 hosts over 2 and a half years )
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Some of the happenings, as I see it, on a dead end road, high up on a ridge, in southwestern Wisconsin.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Birds in the Wilderness
Here we sit, like birds in the wilderness, birds in the wilderness, birds in the wilderness. Here we sit, like birds in the wilderness. Waiting for our dessert.
This is the first few lines of a ditty that we used to sing at the table while my mom was bringing dessert. My dad was behind it all. He liked to sing. So, the three of us would sing it for my mom. That included my brother, Ken.
It just came to mind this morning when I saw the four kittens sitting in the door of the guest house. I believe that they were wondering where their mother was because they spent the night without her. They are getting used to the outside since Tuesday, and last night, their mom did not return when I went to shut them in the house. I am happy to report that she is there now and can resume their education about the big backyard. Also the grey kittie is right in front of the propane tank. He is kind of hidden. They ran off when I got closer the first time, so the picture is kind of far back.
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Once again, the link for program information is HERE. Click on the orange tabs for all of the details.
And in case you missed it, the full weekend schedule for 2008 (Adobe .pdf document) is HERE.
In addition to the incredible workshops offered by many well-known presenters including Phyllis D. Light, Patricia Howell, Amanda McQuade Crawford and Kathleen Maier (and many others!), three intensives will be offered. Pre-registration is recommended for intensives and there is an additional $45 charge for each:
Gaiacology: Gyne-Ecology, Herbs & Women, with Amanda McQuade Crawford on Friday, Oct. 4, 2:30 PM - 6:00 PM EST.
Healing with the Five Elements, with Patricia Howell, Sunday, Oct. 5, 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST.
Awakening to Our Power and Tapping Our Profound Roots of Womanhood, with ALisa Starkweather, Sunday, Oct. 5, 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM EST, post-conference.
Mel and I are camping, which is included in the registration cost, but there is likely still time to reserve a cabin or bed in the bunkhouse if you need one. There is also still time to make the pre-registration deadline on September 5! If you need it, Ride Sharing information is available.


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Beethoven and The Barbecued Ox
Your appetite for food reflects your appetite for life. Old Spanish saying.
My dad, Jerry, is hosting his annual barbecue tomorrow night, and he's got his grandsons busy scurrying about getting ready for it. Every summer Jerry enjoys having a large summer barbecue for family and friends, and he'll often roast a pig and serve vast quantities of homemade sausage. Jerry is the master meat chef and chief organizer, inviting well over 100 people, and delegating everything from site and food preparation to musical talent, tents and tables.
A few years ago he called me to tell me that Crystal Gayle was singing at it. (She was, but she turned out to be a local singer who spelled her name differently. He's always up to mischief like that). My dad has a generous heart and a larger than life personality, and is always doing things on a grand scale.
Apparently he comes from a long line of big scale barbecuers, dating back at least to the 1700's when his family would roast an ox on special occasions. There were about 300 families of lower nobility at that time in the Hungarian empire called the Golden Horned Bulls, and Jerry's grandmother's family, the Andels, as well as several other related families – the Mesko, Palotay, Medzihradszky and Zmeskal families to name a few – were in this class.
Around 1792 Nikolaus Zmeskall became best friends with a budding, young musical talent named Ludwig Van Beethoven, and together they would travel by horse and buggy from Vienna across what was then Hungary (and is now Slovakia) to Lestiny, where they would spend several days hanging out together with our large extended family and friends. (More to come in later stories on their lifelong relationship). Beethoven's appetite rivaled his musical talent, and he loved to hang out with Nikolaus and drink and eat.
This recipe was made by the golden horned bull families on very special occasions, and required the assistance of several dozen people from the village to prepare. An entire orchestra would be arranged to entertain the guests and Beethoven and Nikolaus would play together. I don't know if my dad can top that.
The Stuffed and Roasted Ox Recipe
- 1 ox, skinned (two thousand pounds); leave the head and hooves in place
- 1 sheep
- 1 newborn calf
- 1 capon (a castrated cockerel (rooster) –preferably the one whose crowing wakes you at 5am)
- 1 pigeon or quail, depending on which you have on hand
- Salt (lots)
- Bacon
- Lard (buckets)
Special Equipment:
- Spit the width of a telephone pole, and the length of about 20-24 feet
- Several five foot long iron spikes
- Cross poles
- Large iron pokers
- Wheel mechanism similar to a grindstone, to turn the spit
- Pit filled with wood, longer than the ox
- Hammer and nails at least a foot long
- Several brooms tied with saucepans at the end
- Several large, wet rags
- Table large enough to hold the ox (usually made specifically for this purpose)
- Gold paint and paint brush
- Several hundred black handled knives
- Generously salt and cover the quail or pigeon with bacon drippings and stuff with large pieces of bacon
- Don't forget to salt the quail inside as well
- Slice open the capon's underside, and remove the innards; place the quail inside
- Salt and lard the plucked capon
- Slice open the gut of the newborn calf, remove it's innards, and place the capon inside
- Rub the salt and lard all over the calf
- Slice open the belly of the lamb, and place the salted and larded calf inside
- Rub the lamb all over with the salt and lard
- Slice the throat of the ox large enough to fit the spit through
- Slice open the stomach of the ox, just large enough to nestle the lamb in, and remove the lungs, tripe and stomach, but leave the kidneys in tact
- Place the stuffed lamb inside the belly of the ox
- Sew up the ox's underside
- Wrap the hooves and horns with wet rags
Now comes the labor intensive part, requiring the assistance of at least 3 dozen people, including a blacksmith who can forge the iron pokers and spikes.
- Drive the spit through the throat of the ox and out the other end
- This is the one of the most difficult steps, and requires expertise: carefully drive the 5 ft spikes down through the backbone of the ox, through the spit and out the belly of the ox
- Even more difficult: now hammer the hooves of the ox to it's shoulderblades, so that it looks like it is in a reclining position: this is how it will eventually sit, roasted, on the table.
- With the strength of 20 men, 10 on each side of the spit, life the secured ox onto the crosspoles
- Place the logs below the hanging ox and light the fire
- Have several women boil salt and lard, and place it in the buckets tied to the brooms
- Engage several men in turning the wheel (which is several feet from the fire, thank goodness) so that the ox turns over and over above the flames
- Roast for four hours, poking the fire to keep it stoked and occasionally the ox to ensure if it cooking evenly
- Baste the beast constantly with the buckets of salted lard
- Replace the rags on the hooves and horns when they dry out with fresh wet ones, and make sure they don't catch fire: roasting hoof smells awful
- The ox is done with the quail is as soft as butter, which should be after about 4 hours of roasting. The outside of the ox will be iridescent with gorgeous hues of rose red and deep brown.
- Douse the fire with water, then push 5 wagon shafts under the ox
- Have at least 10 strong men lift the ox down off the crosspoles and onto the wagons
- Cart the ox to the table, and lift onto the table, ever so gently
- Remove the wet rags and have your estate painter paint the hooves and horns gold (in honor of the golden horned bulls, natch).
- Tie a piece of fabric with your family seal onto the horns, draped over the snout of the ox.
Finally, have several village women ready with their baskets of collected black handled knives, and have them drive the hundreds upon hundreds of knives into the beast. The magnificent ox is ready to eat, looking like an enormous prehistoric porcupine.
I should also mention that this meal was eaten with…. sausage.
This is an actual stuffed, roasted ox recipe made by the Golden Bull families that I found in an old Hungarian cookbook, in the section of Hungarian food history. Apparently the recipe was found in the manuscript of an unnamed chef in 1694. Other similar recipes have been found as well.
I have also collected copies of over 150 letters from Beethoven to Niklaus, and visited our family's church in Liptov that has historical records of their close relationship and visits there. I am also reading a book called Eroica that was written in the 1930's that details their lives together (fiction, but based on the letters). As for the Andel family, they attended the same church for the past several hundred years, married into the Medzihradszky family, and have the crest of the golden horned bull and other things in their possession.
Lily permalinkAugust 2, 2010 2:08 pm
Loved the BBQ recipe, but don't think I'll try it! The more I read your tales about our family the more I realize the role of genetics plays in our lives and contributes so significantly to who we are.
Reading todays tale reminded me of Ethan and his "MEAT NIGHTS". If you haven't heard of this tradition he has initiated, you must do so!
Looking forward to tomorrow nights BBQ Gala and more stories.