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Ofcom starts 8 week consultation on Openreach performance
Ofcom regulation is often an easy target for criticism and given the time it is taking for a new migration system to appear and the other long wait which is the broadband market definitions for telephone exchanges many people judge the slow response as showing favour to BT or its Openreach division.
The latest consultation from Ofcom is part of the Fixed Access Market review and is looking at the performance of Openreach and the future path for WLR, SMPF and MPF LLU charges. The issue of Openreach performance came to a head back in 2012 when new orders and fault repairs for some parts of the UK were almost as bad as the pre-nationalisation GPO days. This consultation which will be open for 8 weeks will seek views from the industry on proposed performance levels for Openreach to meet or face penalties.
For the average reader the target of 54% of provision appointment being within 12 days of the initial order in the first year does not seem an excessive expectation, this will rise in the second year to 67% and in the final year to 79%. The idea of the rising targets is that it gives Openreach time to deploy enough engineering resources to cope with the higher targets.
The consultation also looks at the basket of prices for WLR, MPF and SMPF line rental charges, and the proposals give a range of pricing, but the likely result is that full LLU may go up in price fractionally, while WLR+SMPF will be slightly cheaper. Of course WLR has decreased at the wholesale level in recent years, but no reductions have made it to the massed market apart from a handful of smaller providers who are charging near to or below the wholesale cost in an attempt to gain market share.
Openreach we are fairly sure will contend that to meet the new targets it should be allowed a larger revenue base to employ more engineering staff at the sharp end, i.e. those working outside in the freezing rain every winter. Looking at this from the outside it has not escaped our notice that the higher performance levels are only going to come into effect once the commercial roll-out has finished and the county level BDUK projects will have covered the bulk of their work in 2015. Which may mean that Openreach does not need a lot more staff, but those it does employ will be more available for the standard job of maintaining the copper and hybrid fibre network.
Hopefully the consultation will reach a swift positive conclusion because as Internet access becomes just as important to the consumer and business as mains power there is a need for people to have a better idea of how long is reasonable for a fault to be fixed. Also the chinese whisper system that can exist between the consumer, their retailer, wholesalers and finally Openreach does need to be addressed, so that the consumer can get a better idea of how a fault is progressing and as we suspect in some cases the delays are at the retail level where their own system can make it difficult to get a fault correctly reported.
An open fault message system would be ideal for protecting the consumer from porkies being told at whichever level. All would see communications between levels (not within levels), levels being consumer, whoever is in-between and finally OR.
@themanstan: completely agree! Two months to fix a blown master socket, no phone or internet for that period, including over Christmas, missed appoitments, fault misdiagnosed, call closed without ref to the customer, buck being passed between provider and Openreach...the only person being kept out of the loop and didn't know what was going on was me, the paying customer!
20 years of regulation and each party is emmploying consultants, AM, CSMG, Frontier Economics and Ernst & Young to resolve cost allocations for maintenance and repair.
It shows how important it is to record every penny being invested in NGA, so we can get the cost recovery on a proper footing going forward.
apparently my migration from infinity to plusnet needs 3 weeks to complete (for a few button presses). My initial FTTC install date was almost 2 months, who are openreach kidding?
Course, if the NGA stuff starts to slow up, a lot of the guys currently employed in it's roll out are not the hairy arsed pole climbing jointers the company needs on the business end.
They should investigate why OpenReach and BT Internet are not providing the fastest ADSL connection possible on a rural line. Noise margin is currently 12.4 dB, it should be no more than 9 dB, but we are constantly told that is the best our line can do. We know that is not the case - for 12 months we had margin around 8-9 dB and sync speed of 3.7 Mbps, now we only get 2.7 Mbps! They advertise that they will give you the fastest your line can deliver - but then falsely restrict it with lower profile settings than it should be.
OfCom and ASA need to look into such bad practices.
For a communications company, Openreach aren't very good at communicating.
Slack - openreach is set up to deal with ISP/ CP amd only act on behalf of service providers -- that is the regulatory model that operates in the UK
chrysalis that will be a mogration from 1 cp to another and will be dealt with in an equiivalent and appropriate mannner- and there will be standard leadtimes and the requirements for a engineering vist -- depending whetre you are thel leadtimes may be affected by MBORC which affects areas for storms / Bad weather whcih has impanct on both the provision and Repair workstack and is advised by openreach to the service provider -
you might think its a flick of swith but its a cease and reprovivde which requires openreach resource has to be dealt with an a appropriate manner
BT OpenReach are utterly incompetent
OR provided install date selection, I chose, they booked different date
On install morning they call me to confirm I'd be in. I waited all day but OR did not turn up
OR told my ISP I'd cancelled the install (no I didn't!). They also told my ISP they'd tried to call me (no they didn't!)
OR booked new install date
Waited all day for 2nd time, OR didn't turn up
OR booked new install date
Waited all day for 3rd time, OR didn't turn up
OR booked new install date
Waited all day for 4th time, OR didn't turn up
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[1] http://www.ccfc.ca.gov/parents/learning-center.aspx
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[3] http://www.nhs.uk/Tools/Pages/birthtofive.aspx
[4] http://www.cdph.ca.gov/healthinfo/healthyliving/childfamily/Documents/MO-ECCS-ScienceEarlyChildhoodDev.pdf


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I have a confession. I'm not the kind of mom that gets on the floor and plays board games with my kids every day. I do get on the floor with them, but not as often as I should. I tend to have a million things to do and my focus is not always where it should be.
However, since I came back from Vietnam a few weeks ago, I have been more focused on spending time with them. After two weeks on my own without the family, I was able to think about necessary change. I knew that I wanted to be more engaged as a parent when I got back, so I implemented Family Game Night on the weekends. I admit we've only done it once or twice, but I'm working on doing it more.
So, when I was offered a copy of Wii Sing POP!, I jumped. I love to sing in the car with my kids. And recently I've gotten very embarrassingly and addictively into an app called Song POP that's plugging into my passion for music. What could be more fun than singing pop songs with my kids?
When night falls, when homework is done, and we are all done with our chores, we settle in the den, microphones in hand.
And then it's all rock and roll! I'm on the floor, playing with my kids, just as I'd hoped to more of after my trip to a place far, far away.
Well, I didn't realize how much we were enjoying it until my son tossed a microphone into the air and caused the disk to get stuck in the machine the other day.
We Sing POP! is the first game in the We Sing karaoke series to feature 30 sensational pop hits from the World's leading pop stars. It offers decades of original hits to choose from including modern day pop icons and chart legends like Adele, Jessie J, Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga and more (basically a dozen bands I've never heard but they're SO good). There are eight multiplayer party modes to choose from, making it a great addition to family game night or a sleepover with friends. Some other features include, singing lessons to help train your voice, performance replay that allows you to add cool effects to your voice and player statistics with a detailed breakdown of how you performed.
I'm thrilled to be giving away a copy of Wii Sing POP! It comes with two microphones and you must have the Wii game to play and has a retail value of $39.99.
To win, tell me who you'll give the game to in the comments below.
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Custom-built in 1989, no expense was spared in creating this nearly 5,000 square-foot masterpiece. Custom marble and travertine tile can be found throughout, as well as custom steel railings that give the home its avant garde feel. Guests are greeted in the grand foyer, which stuns with its sculptured floating steel stairway with rainforest green serpentine steps and self-lowering bohemian crystal chandelier. The open, window-filled home flows seamlessly from the foyer to the elegant dining area and well-appointed chef's kitchen, featuring custom maple cabinets and leaded stained glass doors.
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There have been a lot of stories lately about identity fraud, particularly connected with the internet. It seems that consumers nowadays are so influenced by customer reviews and comments on retail and service websites that there is a growing trend for fake reviews posted by people using fake identities.
In fact a recent BBC investigation revealed a global market for fake review writers who use stolen identities to post reviews and comments and then get paid for doing so.
For example, Ashley Booth Griffin from New York supposedly posted a positive review for a loan website, writing in glowing terms about how fantastic their service was. It transpired that she was killed in a car crash seven years ago and the photo used in the review came from her memorial website.
The BBC also spoke to students in Bangladesh who supplemented their student fees by writing fake reviews and Tweets. Apparently the practice is widespread and commonplace on the world wide web. Unbelievable, don't you think? Well so did I, until I discovered that I was an unwitting victim of exactly the same thing.
So how did this come about? A few weeks ago I received a private message on Facebook. It was from a total stranger called Jane Bell (not her real name) who had read a very hostile and damaging review written about her new business on its Facebook page. In fact the comments had been so malicious and unjustified that she immediately became suspicious. So she looked up the person who had posted the comment and discovered it to be a woman called "Jocelyn Makepiece" and when she clicked on her name, Jocelyn Makepiece's profile appeared. The photograph, this so-called "Jocelyn" was using however, was a picture of me.
Now it just so happened that Jane Bell recognised the photograph from my columns in Belfast Telegraph (the perp had stupidly chosen one of my regularly published byline pictures) and remembered my name, so she got in touch with me via Facebook to warn me about the fraud and the abuse of my image.
Naturally I was both curious and outraged at the same time, so I looked up the profile myself. Apparently in my alter ego as Jocelyn, I was a nurse living in Cumbria. There was details of my education (a BA in Human Biology at Newcastle, no less!) and a few areas of interest were included on the profile too, such as teaching Taekwondo, knitting and a particular penchant for films starring Bruce Willis. Other than those (very random) points, the profile itself was sketchy. There were only six "friends" listed who were all public figures and therefore easy to access and no more photos other than that one of me beaming out jovially from the page, unwittingly co-conspiring in internet fraud.
My second response was to investigate the details, so I placed a call to "her" place of work and her university and (lo and behold) no-one of that name had ever existed at either. Finally I send "Jocelyn" a message. I will paraphrase what I actually wrote, as this is a family newspaper. "Who the flipping heck are you and why the hecky-pecky are you using my picture to write malicious messages on the internet? I have contacted Facebook admin and instructed them to block your profile immediately before contacting the police."
Within a minute the page was removed without a trace.
The next day I got a follow-up message from Ms Bell. It transpired that the fake profile and subsequent malicious reviews had been set up by a disgruntled business competitor, male, who was now being investigated for fraud. He'd obviously just lifted my picture off Google images and then created a fake account using the bare minimum of information. But any sage and experienced Facebook user knows how to spot a dodgy account and that couldn't have been more suspicious if it had put the made-up name in inverted commas.
As for Bruce Willis, are you kidding me?
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Tiny Gramma told me one night a few months ago while I was sobbing into the phone "I don't know why I was a rabbit and you ended up a panda."
If you've ever watched Planet Earth (which if you haven't you have no business being on any sort of technology whatsoever) you'll know that pandas are like the worlds most unluckiest pro-creators despite being devastatingly cute. (Much like me in both respects.) Why can't cicadas or sloths have crappy odds at procreating? Because I've seen sloths and I've seen cicadas and trust me the world needs no more of either.
In the passion and fury of my post yesterday where I segued into the whole infertility thing without meaning to I didn't really acknowledge that I live in two different infertile worlds.
One is online. Where people understand. People get it. People talk about it. And the people who end up pregnant understand how much it means to me when they take the time to tell me before it hits the twitter fan. For those of you who have done that for me? A thousand fuzzy kisses (uh, yeah. I need to pluck a little more.)
The other world is what surrounds me on a daily basis. I am a member of a church that pretty much puts Catholics to shame when it comes to multiplying and replenishing the Earth, especially when we have the option of using birth control. (And no, we're not told to make dozens of babies. Families are just really really important to us, so a lot of LDS people choose to have a lot of babies before they turn thirty. Personal choice. Not religious decree.)
I have watched…wait for it…over 60 pregnancies in the last three years since moving to Indiana. These are just people that live by me.
In the past week I have had three pregnancies made known to me from people that are in my congregation. That is not counting the previous two that already existed or the other two that just completed their nine month run. I have watched at least a dozen women be pregnant twice since living here and just this week I have now seen someone pregnant three different times within three years. After some of your confessions yesterday I don't feel so creepy that I've kept count.
Outside the stereotypes of my religion I am abnormal. I was married just after my 18th birthday (and am enjoying it immensely thank you very much,) had a child at 22 and sometimes desperately want another before I turn 30.
Inside the stereotypes of my religion I am abnormal. I have been married for eight years and yet I only have one child.
My mom didn't even have me until she was 32.
I find myself wondering so often "Why am I so worried about this? Is it because I can't? Is it because the people around me are procreating at breakneck speed? I'm only 27 followed closely by OHMYGOSHIAMALMOSTTHIRTY."
I'm very conflicted about being stuck between the "normalities" of these two very different worlds. I'd like to just be comfortable in my own little world. But there's not enough medication for me to do that just yet.
Two of my closest friends are having babies before July is over. I have received news of other pregnancies of Internet/IRL friends as well, all of them giving me hope that one day it will happen for me. And for their miracles I can't thank Heavenly Father enough for answering the prayers I've poured out in their behalf.
Sometimes my happiness for others is diminished by the irresponsibility, disrespect or overwhelmingness of it all.
(Which BTW? Dr. SallyForth? My old OB had the option of different appointment availability for infertility patients so I never had to enter his office face to belly with a room full of unwed pregnant teenagers. You *may* want to look into that.)
God doesn't need/want me pregnant right now. For whatever reason. Today I'm okay with this. Tomorrow could be different.
But no matter what? If you have a little floater down there in your uterus? I want to know about it. And I want to know how I can help.
I just hope you can understand that some days are better than others.
I'm learning how to deal with this.
And sometimes it's just very very confusing.
Please don't take the panda personally.


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Bring Love Home With a New Pet This February
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Cleveland Animal Care & Control Joins Best Friends Animal Society National February Pet Adoption Promotion
CLEVELAND — Right now, the perfect pet is ready to add a little love to your life. This Valentine's Day, brighten your world by adopting one of Cleveland Animal Care & Control's deserving rescued pets through the CITY DOGS program.
"This is a good opportunity to adopt a rescue pet," said Mayor Frank G. Jackson. "Go to the Cleveland Animal Care & Control kennel and take home a rescue pet today."
The Cleveland Animal Care & Control (CACC) is joining national animal welfare organization Best Friends Animal Society, along with various animal rescue groups and shelters across the country, in the "Give Love" annual animal adoption campaign starting February 1 and running through February 14, 2017.
"Give Love to homeless pets this February by providing your new pet with a family to call their own. The Cleveland Animal Care & Control is dedicated to bringing great families together with the pets we rescue," said Ed Jamison, Chief Animal Control Officer.
"On any given day, we have 50 to 70 CITY DOGS that are eager to prove how awesome rescued pets are."
"Starting February 1st through Valentine's Day, you can add some love to your life, for a special adoption fee of $14, by bringing home a furry friend your whole family will love," said Jamison.
The CACC is an active partner in Best Friends No More Homeless Pets® Network, which offers help and support to animal rescue groups that save lives in their communities.
"We have many wonderful CITY DOGS in the kennel and in foster care waiting for loving and forever homes. When you choose to adopt, you not only save that animal's life, you create the space to help us save more homeless pets in our community," said Jamison. "We are proud to partner with Best Friends on this "Give Love" February adoption promotion. We really believe together we can save them all."
For full details about the "Give Love" pet adoption special, please contact CACC at 216-664-3476 or firstname.lastname@example.com and view adoptable CITY DOGS by visiting www.petango.com/cacc.
Please Note: The purchase of a Cuyahoga County license is required at the time of adoption and is available at the kennel when you select your rescue pet. The cost of a license is $21.00.
About CITY DOGS Cleveland
The CITY DOGS is a program of Cleveland Animal Care and Control. The CITY DOGS mission is to increase adoptions from the City Kennel by changing the image of the pit bull-type dogs who make up the majority of the kennel population, by preparing all adoptable dogs in the kennel for lives in loving homes and by creating as many opportunities as possible for the public to meet and get to know our dogs for the terrific pets they are meant to be. The CITY DOGS ready for adoption can be viewed at www.petango.com/cacc. Meetings can be arranged by emailing email@example.com. Adoption includes spay/neuter surgery, vaccines, a microchip, license, and a month of free pet health insurance.
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About Best Friends Animal Society®
Best Friends Animal Society is the only national animal welfare organization dedicated exclusively to ending the killing of dogs and cats in America's shelters. A leader in the no-kill movement, Best Friends runs the nation's largest no-kill sanctuary for companion animals, adoption centers and spays and neuter facilities in Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. In addition, they offer lifesaving programs in partnership with more than 1,600 rescue groups and shelters across the country. Since its founding in 1984, Best Friends has helped reduce the number of animals killed in American shelters from 17 million per year to an estimated 4 million. By continuing to build effective initiatives that reduce the number of animals entering shelters and increase the number who find homes, Best Friends and its nationwide network of members and partners are working to Save Them All®.
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I just would like to share with you the compilation of accidents involving forklifts. These accidents may sound funny or some other might say it pure stupidity. Whatever you judgment, there's only one thing you need to understand here – that is to get a lessons from these accidents.
The first accident involves a driver who doesn't pay attention behind while reversing the forklift, he hit a water reservoir. The second scene involves a forklift transporting a lengthy load, the driver force to fit it the narrow aisle, he hit the rack, toppling the files of merchandise to the ground. The third scene involves an order picker driver, taking load from height, he did not ensure that the load is balance, sending the load to the ground.


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Ethanol Blog
Poet's Broin Inducted into SD Hall of Fame
In 1987, Jeff Broin bought a 1-million-gallon ethanol plant in Scotland, South Dakota. Thirty years later the Dell Rapids, South Dakota, native is best known as building Poet, the largest ethanol company in the United States producing 1.8 billion gallons of ethanol and 10 billion pounds of dried distillers grains annually at 27 plants.
What's more, his company partnered with DSM to launch cellulosic ethanol production at a plant in Emmetsburg, Iowa, in recent years.
As a result, Poet's Chief Executive Officer was inducted into the South Dakota Hall of Fame on Saturday, recognized as a "pioneer of biofuels" as one of 10 people inducted at a ceremony in Chamberlain, South Dakota.
Earlier this year Broin received the George Washington Carver award for innovation in industrial biotechnology at the BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology.
The 2017 inductees include former Democratic Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin and former Gov. Harvey Wollman.
Broin said in a news release that his company plans to grow biofuels production while also developing new co-products to replace fossil-based products, at a time when farmers face economic pressures.
"Farmers today face challenges we haven't seen for 30 years," he said in a statement.
"We're already looking at another farm crisis. History must be our guide, and history shows that biofuels have been the only significant growth market for ag products in decades. If we are going to turn around the decline in farm income, land value and crop prices, it will have to be done by increasing biofuels as a percentage of the U.S. and world fuel supply. South Dakota can lead the way."
Poet broke ground on an 80-million-gallon corn ethanol expansion at its plant in Marion, Ohio, this year.
"This recognition is a true honor, and I'm proud to share this day with so many amazing South Dakota leaders," Broin said.
"Biofuels are an important industry for South Dakota, not only for the direct impact, but also for the many indirect effects that flow through our economy. Of everything we've accomplished at Poet, I am most proud of how we have helped grow prosperity for farmers and rural communities. This honor is for the thousands of people at Poet and in the broader biofuels industry who have helped change the world."
According to a news release from Poet, the company's ethanol plants generate more than $2 billion in business revenues, $384 million in household earnings, $38.4 million in state and local tax revenues and support more than 4,500 jobs.
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It is not often that a city like Varanasi, not even the state capital, hosts a state visit by the prime minister of a foreign country. Since their Lok Sabha MP, Narendra Modi, signed a Varanasi-Tokyo pact in August 2014, the city has been thinking a lot about Japan.
"Aabey aa raha hai na!" rickshaw-pullers tell you, pointing out the sprucing up the city is getting. "Atithi devo bhava!"
Amidst cynicism that the new street lights will stop working in days after Modi and Abe have left the city, there is excitement that the Japanese prime minister will see aarti at the Dashashwamedh Ghat today. While some are complaining about how the city will virtually be shut down for security, others are busy championing Indo-Japan friendship.
A local Indo-Japan Friendship Club, which says it is associated with the Namami Gangay mission to clean up the Ganga, organized a 'yagya' to pray for Indo-Japan friendship – and to pray that Modi-Abe's vision for Varanasi comes true. They even called some Japanese people to participate.
Also Read: Why Varanasi's Children Want To Meet PM Modi
Ashok Chaurasia, head of the Indo-Japan Friendship Club, hopes that Abe's visit will bring more Japanese tourists to the city. "The Japanese don't see Kashi as a tourist spot but a place of pilgrimage. They are attracted to the ghats and temples, and also to the city's association with Buddhism," he says, referring to Sarnath 15 kms away, where Gautam Buddha delivered his first sermon upon enlightenment.
Across the river from Assi Ghat, they got fine arts students from the Banaras Hindu University to make a sand sculpture for Indo-Japan friendship, the two countries locked in a handshake under the auspices of the Gautam Buddha. Back at the ghat, anNGO got women to make a Indo-Japan rangoli, with the red ball of the Japanese flag at the centre. Children playing around the ghat ruined it the next day. Dalimss Sunbeam, a private school known for its aggressive marketing, dressed up its students in Japanese clothes and took them on a boat ride on the Ganga, waving flags of India and Japan.
"There is great awareness of Indo-Japan relations in Varanasi now," said mayor Ram Gopal Maholey.
Officials of JICA, the Japanese International Cooperation Agency have been working with local authorities on sewage management and cleaning up the Ganga. JICA, which Banarasis addres as 'Jaika', recentky organized a seminar to discuss Varanasi's civic problems.
The Banaras Hindu University has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Japan Foundation to promote the Japanese language in the city. Local newspapers have been finding Japanese connections to the city: 23 Banarasis found Japanese spouses in the last 12 years.
That isn't a new phenomenon. One 66 year old Japanese woman, Kumiko, has been living here since 1976, when she married her Bihari husband, now 85. They now run a guesthouse on the Pandey ghat, called Kumiko Pension Home. Is Kumiko planning to meet Shinzo Abe? "If I get a chance," she giggles like a girl, speaking in Hindi, "I have put in a request."
Japanese officials have been touring the city for days, wearing suits and pollution masks, overseeing projects and preparations for the Abe visit. At the Dashashwamedh ghat, the stage set for Modi-Abe looks befitting for kings. The ghat has been decked up as if for a royal ceremony, chattris and saffron flags adorning the steps.
Also Read: Japan Wants To Finance India's First Bullet Train
Modi and Abe will spend little over four hours in the city. At the airport itself, they will be welcomed by a shehnai recital and the blowing of trumpets by Buddhist monks.
Not everyone is as excited by the fresh coat of paint on the pavements. People are dismissive of the Kyoto-Varanasi pact, which is meant to use Kyoto's expertise in waste and traffic management, developing the Buddhist tourist circuit and other development work. People point to the cosmetic nature of the clean-up for Modi-Abe's visit. On the ghats and the streets, the repeated word is, come back after a few days, when the VIP visit is over, and see how dirty it will be once again.
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How to Troubleshoot an Amana Refrigerator
With proper care and maintenance, an Amana refrigerator can last for many years, but when that refrigerator breaks down, you want to get it up and running as quickly as possible.
Fortunately there are some common sense troubleshooting steps owners of Amana refrigerators can take to check the condition of their appliances and resolve common problems. While some major problems do require the assistance of an appliance repair technician, others can easily be fixed without such help.
Troubleshooting an Amana Refrigerator
Check to make sure power is flowing to the appliance. If your Amana refrigerator does not seem to be running, first check to make sure there is power flowing to it. Carefully pull the unit away from the wall far enough to see the power cord and make sure it has not become unplugged. Also check the power cord for frayed wires or other signs of damage. If the cord is damaged, it will need to be replaced before you attempt to use the refrigerator again.
Unplug the refrigerator and plug another appliance into the outlet. If the other appliance works, you know the problem lies with the refrigerator. If the other appliance does not operate, check for a tripped breaker, blown fuse or other electrical problem.
Make sure the cold controls are turned on. If the appliance is getting power but the refrigerator is still not running, make sure the cold controls are on. Consult your owner's manual for the location of the controls.
Check to make sure the refrigerator is sitting level. This step is often overlooked because owners assume if the refrigerator was level when it was installed it will still be level. Moving the unit around may be enough to knock it off level and cause it to operate poorly or not operate at all. Place a level on the top of the refrigerator near the front, but not on the door. Check the level at the front and the side of the unit. If the refrigerator is not level, carefully adjust the leveling feet at the bottom of the unit until it is sitting level again.
Things You Will Need
- Flashlight
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- Tool kit, including an assortment of screwdrivers and pliers
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This workshop is designed to equip participants with the necessary skills and knowledge to effectively understand and apply GST concepts into your area of work. Lack and inadequacy of knowledge on GST Taxation has cost many businesses unnecessary penalties when they run afoul of taxation laws, do not be one of them. With notes specially designed for easy learning, to broaden and reinforce understanding of proper GST treatment, you will possess the knowledge and know-how to compute and file your GST returns accurately at the end of this workshop.
Programme Outline
- Overview & Basic Concepts of GST
- Types of Supply
- Output Tax vs Input Tax
- Tax Invoices, Simplified Invoices & Receipts
- Foreign Currency Invoice
- Credit Notes & Debit Notes
- Claiming of Input Tax
- Bad Debt Relief
- Fringe Benefits
- 5 Disallowed Input Tax Claims
- Accounting for Putout Tax
- Imports
- Major Exporter Scheme
- Exports
- International Services
- Absorption of GST
- Price Displays
- Reimbursement vs Disbursements
- Open Market Value
- Disposal of Business Asset
- Purchase of a Brand New Vehicle
- Sale of 2nd Hand Vehicle
- Discount vs Rebate
- Sponsorship
- Free Samples
- Deposits
- Penalties & Interest
- Reimbursement of Handphone Bills
- Entertainment & Office Expenses
- Incidental Expenses
- Record Keeping
- Completing the GST F5 Return
- GST F5 Exercise
- When do you need a GST F7?
- Change of Business Details
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Relevant to new businesses and staff, accounts and finance personnel. Existing businesses and staff should also attend this as a refresher workshop or to clarify their doubts. Members are encouraged to attend this workshop to acquire a good understanding of the various provisions of the subject matter.
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Simple Gifts - O Holy Night
Praiseworthy Stitches has a new Quaker-inspired sampler - scattered with lacy motifs. Measuring 212 x 204 stitches, it finishes 13 inches square on 32ct.
Stitched with hand-dyeds of Cucumber (6), Indian Summer (2) and Whiskey (2), it's just a pretty thing! Remember that you can finish all those edge motifs by mirroring the images... so if you want, you can have matching pin cushions or ornaments for this!
Blue Moon Manor and Gingerbread Cottage
Winter at Sugar Hill
Praiseworthy Stitches is releasing their annual Christmas or Winter City Scene - this year, it is a Winter Wonderland of snow, maple trees, and bubbling pots of maple syrup! Pam and Susan love doing these scenes... they are enchanting!
Winter at Sugar Hill finishes approx 19 x 12 on 32ct Picture This Plus Mirage hand-dyed linen. Stitched with hand-dyed flosses and garnished with bits of metallic, glass beads and some clay buttons... like all of its companions, this is full of 'busy-ness and winter fun!' Striking colors, cute design details, this joins quite a set of charming Christmas scenes! All the rest are on our Praiseworthy Stitches page... see which ones are your favorites!
Halloween Hop
This is a chart with a wide design - just like Santa Claus Lane. You can stitch the 15 x 5 picture, or make it into a round, weighted stand-up drum. Pam and Susan aren't showing us the other side of this little guy, but it's probably really cute!
Stitched on Picture This Plus's 32ct 'Ancient' linen with hand-dyed flosses, it features Mill Hill bead embellishments, silver metallic and 8 different Just Another Button Co buttons! They are offering finishing kits for THIS SHOW ONLY -- for the pattern debut. I'll bring some of those home, too.
Percy Penguin Kit
This is a wisp of a thing! This is a tiny 1 x 2 needle slide that features the world's TINIEST rare earth magnet inside - it's 1 mm in size! The top of the tin is covered with your stitched little penguin!
It comes with the linen cut (so you have the correct size) and the chart. As you can see, you won't need much floss from your stash to complete this! Just as cute as can be!
Santa Claus Lane
Praiseworthy Stitches has done a half-sized Christmas Scene, and finished it into a drum-shape just for fun! Measuring less than half the size of their huge Christmas Scenes, this finishes 14-1/2 x 4-1/2 on 32ct. You can frame it, or roll it into the round shape and make a 4 x 6 giant pin cushion! Stitched with hand-dyed or DMC flosses, it is super-cute! Santa is flying through they sky behind his team of reindeer... so those little ones down below better get home to bed soon!!!! He's on his way!
Presented as the chart, the JABCO button embellishments are offered separately -- HOWEVER -- it is confusing. The button pack contains the snowmen, moon and star for the framed piece as well as the Santa face button you see on top of the drum. THEN, when they sent us the model, they had a set of JABCO Pin Mini's stuck in the top of the drum -- and they are a miniature matching Santa face, peppermint and holly leaf. You'll need the *pins* only if you finish this into the drum shape. For a limited time, we have a few finishing kits that contain their red finishing fabric, cord, finishing buttons and stiffener.
Mr Bones' Starlight Ballroom
Here's another Haunted House Pic! *Shake Rattle & Roll* are the words up in the night sky on this busy piece... we think there is a party going on inside! All the little kids trick--or-treating... all the ghosts, jacks, spiders and creepy bats everywhere, this finishes approx 18 x 20 on 32ct Picture This Plus Linen.
There is an embellishment pack of monster faces for the house windows, bats, spiders and gravestones, and a pair of jack-o-lanterns. All of Pam and Susan's houses are cute... this year's is no exception!
Jingle all The Way!
Praiseworthy Stitches annual Christmas Village scene is here! Totally charming just like it's companions Churchyard Christmas, December Snow and Carolers on the Square, this finishes about the same size -- 13 x 18-1/2 on 32ct Picture This Plus Alchemy hand-dyed linen. The houses are really pretty, there are people and snow and ice and trees everywhere, and of course Santa on his sleigh to fill the evening sky.
ALWAYS eye-catchiing and delightful to look at, you will love stitching these because there are so many small motifs you can keep finishing all along. Using 34 Different colors of hand-dyed or DMC flosses, there are 3 metallic filaments (5760, 003HL, 009HL) and three different beads (42011, 42043, 42102) called for as well. What a favorite memory to come to Grandma's house every year to gaze at this delightful stitched Christmas scene!!!
Mummy's Moonlight Cafe
Praiseworthy Stitches' 2017 Haunted House is here! Finishing approx 11 x 14 on 32ct Haunted linen by Picture This Plus, it's smaller than the rest of their larger houses, which are all around 16 x 20. This year's Mummy Cafe is serving up a mouth-watering menu of brown toad casserole with worm gravy, fried bat wings, pickled newt eyes, finger sticks, braid and spider salad and best of all -- ghost cake! Cute little Trick or Treaters everywhere and all kinds of bats, cats and webs... it has all the same busy charm as the rest of Pam and Susan's houses!
Presented as the chart, there is a packet of Just Another Button Company Buttons to embellish as well... and you need that awesome 32ct Haunted fabric as well. Coded for Weeks and Gentle Art hand-dyed flosses, there are multiple double skeins called for. (Fabric note... you can get a 18 x 18 cut for $22.50 or an 18 x 27 cut for $27.50.)
December Snow
The 2017 Annual Christmas Scene by Praiseworthy Stitches, this is the 5th, and companions Churchyard Christmas, Going to Grandmas, Carols on the Square, and Santa's Moonlight Flight. There is a snowball fight going on in the center of town, it erupted over a snowman building contest... and Santa is flying overhead, seeing who's being naughty or nice!!!!
YOU are the nice one...stitching this darling piece on 32ct Nocturne Linen from Picture This Plus. Finishing approx 19 x 12, it's full of details and lots of color. The houses are especially pretty this year. Kind of big... but super fun to work up and pull out every year to delight all!
Sale at The Bubbling Cauldron
This year, Pam and Susan have a half-sized Halloween Spooky House scene. The Bubbling Cauldron (The Silver Needle of Halloween Supplies) is having a Midnight Madness Sale on October 31st!!! Imagine that! All the customers have come in costume! Tonight's specials include flying brooms, snake eggs, love potions and cauldrons to make them, along with croaking toads (maybe to cook in that cauldron?)
Stitched on 32ct Haunted by Picture This Plus, this has ALL THE CHARM of their larger annual houses... but it's half the size... so faster to work up. Stitched with hand-dyed flosses, there is a button pack of embellishments available as well. GREAT colors... we have the model in the shop .. THIS IS CUTE.. and worth your time! Such a lively and fun Halloween decoration!
Bump N. D'Knight Farm
Praiseworthy Stitches has unveiled their annual Haunted House Piece for 2016! Here's a sneak peek! Such a wild collection of these gigantic houses... you need big, empty walls... or lots of holiday excitement (little kids are great at this) to enjoy the full impact of these! Bump N D'Knight Farm companions Witch's B & B, Darkwing, Croaking Toad and Ravenswood Manors as well as Seedy Pumpkin Cottage. 32ct Haunted hand-dyed linen by Picture This Plus is this year's fabric choice, and along with bits of bead and metallic (silver spider webs) embellishments, there is a set of clay JABCO buttons as well.
In looking at this... I think you could split the elements up a little if you haven't the space to display the whole piece -- or the discipline to stitch it all. Look at the main house with carriage and tree in front! Anyway, there is definitely something fishy happening in the bard on this busy Trick or Treat night! Approx 15-1/2 x 20 on 32ct... coded for DMC or hand-dyed flosses... you'll use a ton of thread! Ships around August 19.
A Churchyard Christmas
Praiseworthy Stitches has released their annual Christmas Scene, and this year, it is the chaos that surrounds the annual Children's Churchyard Nativity. All is not well! Halos are crooked, crowns are bent, and some of the camels have escaped!
Kindergarten and 1st Grade Teachers Pam and Susan have lots of personal experience with these school events, and decided it was time to share them!!! Their endearing picture measures approx 19 x 12, is stitched on 32ct Picture This Plus Mirage Linen and calls for no less than 39 different hand-dyed or DMC shades!!!!! (you'll need 10 skeins of Snowflake!!!)
Yet another charming scene... it joins Going to Grandma's, Carols on the Square and Santa's Midnight Flight. Presented as a chart, we have the gorgeous deep gray hand-dyed 32ct Mirage linen cut ready -- it gives all this that deepening-wintery-dusky sky feel. Pretty houses and the church, darling little costumes on the children, there are touches of metallic (5760, 009HL and 003HL) and beads (42039, 42013, 40557) here and there to add bits of sparkle. Always something new and cute when you look at this!
Seedy Pumpkin Cottage
Praiseworthy Stitches has released their 8th annual haunted house scene and this year's is SO AWESOME! Seedy Pumpkin Cottage is full of wispy ghosts, shiny spider webs, black cats and carved pumpkins... and all of it is underneath the glowing Jack-O-Lantern Moon. Stitched on Picture This Plus's 32ct Echo Linen (an awesome grey/teal midnight-sky color), there is so much going on in here that it has enchanted us in the shop!
The model arrived today -- patterns should be here soon -- clay button embellishments and fabric follows later this week. Finishing approx 21 x 15... it is HUGE and quite the eye-catcher! Coded for DMC or Weeks and Gentle Art hand-dyeds you'll need multiple skeins of 12 of the 41 colors called for, along with silver metallic for the spider webs, petite Mill Hill glass beads and a FULL clay button pack of spiders, ghosts, bats and even a little owl.
The white fence around the porch is really neat because it is done with long stitches of white thread but they have added three teeny orange beads to each railing post -- it glistens! Yes... this might take all year to stitch... but WOW, what a fun and creative seasonal decoration that everyone can enjoy year after year!!! Seedy Pumpkin Cottage is the place to be on The Big Night!!!!!
Dancing in the Moonlight
Praiseworthy Stitches has a new Halloween Scene... a little smaller than their annual haunted houses... this will make a grand companion to frame and display with all your others! *There's an unusual party in the pale moonlight. Pumpkins are glowing, crows are singing and even the cat is yowling along. Everyone is rocking to the beat. See how the ghosts are swirling? But look, the skeletons have pulled out their top hats and canes They have started a sensational all-bone review! Don't miss your chance to join in the celebration!*
Stitched on Picture This Plus 32ct Haunted Linen (a gorgeous teal hand-dyed) with Weeks, Gentle Art and DMC flosses, it features Mill Hill beads and lots of handmade clay buttons by Just Another Button Company. 156 x 201 stitches, it'll finish approx 9-3/4 x 12-1/2 on the 32ct. Full of Susan and Pam's silliness, you could even personalize your grave stones! Offered as the chart, with fabrics and embellishments offered separately.
Going to Grandma's
Susan and Pam have released another charming winter scene -- this year's features Grandma's House decked out to the MAX for the Holiday! *Christmas is here and everyone is arriving at Grandma's house! The snow is falling, the kids are making a snowman and the rest of the family is finally here. Can't you hear the squeels and delight as everyone greets each other? See Grandma on the walkway waving to them? Look, even Santa and Rudolph have arrived! It is a time for love, delight and laughter.*
Stitched on 32ct Nocturne by Picture This Plus (a luscious greyed-blue fabric), this finishes approx 11 x 9 -- MUCH more compact than some of the other annual scenes! Worked with Sampler Threads and Weeks hand-dyeds, (several multiple skeins of the same colors), along with a few blending filaments and Mill Hill beads, it is full of charming details just like all the rest of Praiseworthy's houses! Offered as the chart with fabric and threads separately. Get the chart, and check your stash for needed thread.
Darkwing Manor
Praiseworthy Stitches' Annual Haunted House is Here!!! Every year, these get more and more involved with cute design details and tiny hidden surprises everywhere. Darkwing Manor is stuffed full of creepy monsters, ghosts and goblins, and spiders, cats and bats. Everyone is waiting to scare the darling little Trick-or-Treaters -- all dressed in their favorite outfits to scare -- out there in the front yard!
Stitched on Picture This Plus Dawn (a lovely deep teal blue/gray) with TONS of DMC (34 different colors) or Gentle Art Sampler Threads -- there are 22 colors in here that require multiple skeins of the same colors, there is also lots of silver metallic for all the spider webs. The Just Another Button Company button embellishment pack offers 3 grave stones, three jack-o-lanterns, a tiny Frankenstein face, 4 clay spiders and 11 bats!!!! Pam and Susan have added citron green petite seed beads to lots of the eyes of the more seedy characters in this as well.
Just a really fun, bustling scene... there is a lot of stitching in here... but since there are so many different parts, you see your picture developing FAST before your eyes! Very entertaining to work on! Pam and Susan have done an EXCELLENT job charting this. The backstitches, spider webs, button and bead placements -- all that -- is printed in color on the chart, and the chart itself is CLEAR with good symbols and printed 10 squares to the inch. Darkwing Manor will command attention on your wall... it finishes 21-1/2 x 15! Offered as the chart with fabric and clay offered separately.
Carols on the Square
Praiseworthy Stitches has released this year's Christmas Scene -- a companion Santa's Midnight Flight. (We're starting to get a fun collection of these patterns -- just like their series of Halloween Haunted Houses! VERY detailed and full of whimsical design elements.) Back to Christmas! *Merry Christmas to all, and to all a Good Night!* Stitched on Picture This Plus 32ct Nocturne hand-dyed linen, a 18 x 27 cut, the linen is a gorgeous greyed-denim blue -- a fantastic darkened winter sky on a cloudy, snowy evening.
The charming houses in the village are lit for the Holidays, and everyone seems to be out tonight caroling. Santa is up there in his sleigh... yes, he is standing... because this is his sleigh -- not a rowboat! The big tree in the foreground is full of stitched texture, it features Smyrnas if you like. Houses feature Satin Stitched planks, while windows are decorated with mini-garlands of petite glass seed beads. You're going to need a few reels of metallic blending filament, those three seed bead colors and LOTS of Weeks and Gentle Art over-dyed flosses -- 53 skeins in all!!!!!! The colors in this are Grand!!! There are even a pair of JABCO buttons up in the top corners -- Rudolph and the sleigh! Very enchanting this year... just break down and get it... it'll be fun to page through and start when it's 100 degrees this summer!!!
Widow Black's B & B
Praiseworthy Stitches annual huge haunted house has arrived!!! Widow Black has opened her very own Bed and Breakfast to *Guests.* Tasty Delights are served every afternoon in her private parlour... she thinks it is simply delightful that many of her guests have been tied up for the entire afternoon... and that many linger way past check-out time! Widow Black does remind guests that they may have to share their rooms with her long-time boarders... who love to watch for fresh arrivals!
Stitched on 32ct Murky from Picture This Plus with 31 different hand-dyed or DMC flosses, you will need multiple skeins of 12 of the colors in here. There are Mill Hill beads scattered about, and a JABCO button pack with three gravestones, three bats, 4 spiders, two jack-o-lanterns and a little owl! There is so much going on in this piece -- it is CHARMING -- and makes the best companion to Croaking Toad Manor, Ravenmoon Hall, Buzzard's Roost Inn and Black Cat Manor.
I don't know about you... but I think Pam and Susan are out-doing themselves every year! Offered as the chart, we have the fabric cut separately, as well as the clay button packs! (Fabrics for the previous 4 Haunted Houses are now here as well, if you are needing them!)
Croaking Toad Manor
Praiseworthy Stitches has another annual haunted house, and this year's is just as busy and (charming?) SCARY as the rest!!! Presented as a chart with clay button set additional, this finishes quite large -- just like all it's companions. A whopping 15 x 20 on 32ct, we have Mirage Belfast for you.
The design is full of great details -- just so much to look at and enjoy. There is a toad in the pond with a witch hat... He's the culprit who's stirring up the landscape! Charted for DMCs or lots of Gentle Art and Weeks overdyeds. It also features a smidge of silver metallic and a few Mill Hill beads.
Santas Midnight Flight
Praiseworthy Stitches other cool piece this season... this piece is *really pretty!* There are red and gold metallic blending filaments stitched into the border, and on the reindeer... so as it contrasts against the evening sky (choose a night-sky color) The snowflakes in the sky are Smyrna Crosses, Santa has a beard of Wisper thread, and there are beads embellishing here and there and everywhere!
Charted for DMC or hand-dyeds, just a neat, balanced, organized design!!! The sleepy village -- people are stitched over one in the yards -- and can you see some of the reindeer and sleigh prints in the snow on the rooftops? I love the elegance of the border! Offered as a chart, finishing 18 x 12 on 32ct.
Beach Dreams
This is a fun loooooonnnnggg design that can be stitched and framed as a flat picture or finished into a round drum pin cushion! Another pattern with lots of design choices, this is worked on Weeks Dye Works Confederate Gray linen which comes in several different counts. It finishes approx 4-1/2 x 13-1/2 on 32ct. Stitched with hand-dyed Sampler Threads or DMC, there is a JABCO handmade clay button pack available that includes sand dollars, a star fish and lighthouse.
FOR A LIMITED TIME we have a set of conch shell (real shells) topped counting pins for the cushion top, and a finishing kit of twine, Skirtex, puffy lining... all the stuff (except stuffing) you need to construct the drum. (So quoting pricing options here is a nighmare!) It's a real cute design, the colors and subject are just delighful!
Little Bluebird Necklace Kit
Well, this is a bitty thing! Packed into a 2 x 2 x 2 box, you get a one-inch silver-toned pendant with birds on one side and a bit of a recess on the other to hold your stitching. A LITTLE bit of fabric and floss... do the stitching, and mount onto the pendant.
You could skip the necklace part and just make this an ornament to adorn the inside of a sewing case... it'd be real cute. Less than an hour of stitching here!
Autumn Quaker
Here's a pretty Quaker motif sampler -- a small tribute to the beauty and colors of the fall season. Stitched on Week's 30ct Gold linen the reds, purples and rusts work together to make a memorable piece. I love that bouquet down by the date!
Finishes 11 x 7... and calls for Mulberry, Sweet Potato, Indian Summer, Picnic Basket, Piney Woods and Pumpkin Pie. YUM! Presented as the chart.
Petite Snow Buddies Etui
This tiny sewing set is packaged inside either a penquin or snowman miniature standing tin. (Tins are DARLING and stand 4 inches tall.) Inside are pieces and parts to stitch and construct a beaded scissor fob, mattress pin cushion, and scissor sheath.
Ribbons, beads, findings, fabrics, linens and linings... you get it all in that petite little tin. Another of Praiseworthy's charming kits all crammed into the bittiest little container that is charming in itself!
Trick or Treat
Costumes & giggles, candy & sweets, ghosts & ghoulies, It's Trick or Treat! Choose any mangy colored linen to stitch this charming evening scene that finishes approx 16 x 8 on 14/28ct. Worked with Weeks hand-dyed flosses, the spider web is silver metallic thread and there are quite a few button embellishments scattered everywhere on here.
Some of Pam and Susan's haunted houses are quite large... this is a smaller version with some of the same personality! You get the cute ghost... look at all the black cats! The house is an elegant Victorian as well. Charts are huge, with color instruction accents, very easy to read.
Hooray for the Red, White & Blue
A sweet little patriotic piece, this finishes only 5 x 6 on 32ct. Presented as the chart, you get the star embellishment in with the chart.
*Fireworks and cookouts parades and sparklers -- it's always inspiring and fun* Pam and Susan send Happy 4th Of July Thoughts!!! I think this would be cute if you left off the bottom row of people and dogs... you're already delivering a pretty good message here!
Rooks' Feast
This is a tribute to Autumn, and the garden harvest... as favored by the Rook!!! Kind of a Quaker feel to this... the Pumpkin square says *Pompion* which is the colonial word for pumpkin!
The squash, corn and pumpkins are all Mr Rook's absolute favorites... and they fit into this 7 x 6 piece stitched on Weeks 30ct Cocoa Linen.
Memorial Park
Praiseworthy Stitches has a new Summertime design -- an old fashioned ball game in the park! Stitched on 32ct light green linen with DMC and Weeks flosses, this finishes approx 12-1/2 x 6 on 28ct.
It's Spring and the whole town has turned out to cheer for their teams at the first baseball game of the season. The wooden stands are packed and there are children in wagons and on the fences -- even the dog is in the outfield ready to catch one of the balls on the fly! Can't you just smell the peanuts, popcorn and the hot dogs? Yummmm! It's time to play ball!
The Just Another Button Company buttons that garnish are *everywhere* in here... striped stars, the baseball, and all those little triangle flags -- those are buttons!
Rudy & Friend and Say Boo Scissor Fobs
The gals at Praiseworthy Stitches make the CUTEST scissor fob kits! The others always seem to sell out and not stay on the website for very long... here are the two new ones for this year. Presented in 2-inch square cubes, those little boxes are CRAMMED full of all your ingredients. And... they are ONLY $12 each!!! The only thing you will need is DENTAL FLOSS! It lasts forever and doesn't fray, the say! The other little trick they don't tell you about is clear nail polish inside the crimp bead at the top -- that NEVER lets your threads go! Your fobs will turn out about 5 inches long, and take about 2 to 3 hours from start to finish. (less, if you're fast)
Simple Gifts - Grace
Part of Susan and Pam's series of Quaker-inspired designs, this finishes approx 13 inches square on 32ct linen. It is stitched with 6 skeins of Merlin, 2 Peoria Purple and 2 Lilac. (Of course, you can change that main purple color to something else, if you want!)
Motifs collected from old samplers... Susan and Pam say "it's like those young girls whispering down the years saying remember we were here." 20% of the profits from this chart go to the Abby Grace Foundation for Sanflippo Syndrome research.
Simple Gifts - Christmas
A pretty Quaker-inspired piece, this year, the sampler uses three colors, and finishes the same size as all the rest in this series -- approx 13 x 13 on 32ct. It needs 6 skeins of Moss, and 2 each of Indian Summer and Whiskey.
No special stitches -- just a lovely medley of motifs -- randomly scattered -- PERFECTLY! Offered as a chart.
Simple Gifts - Peace
A companion to Courage, this is dedicated to those serving in the military. Susan and Pam are donating 20% of the profits from this chart to the Wounded Warrior Project.
Offered as a chart, it measures 212 x 204 in stitch count and features motifs from antique Quaker Samplers. Worked in only 2 colors -- 9 skeins of Black Raspberry Jam and just one of Schneckley!
Simple Gifts -- Courage
A Quaker-inspired piece dedicated to Pam and Susan's friends who have battled various cancers, this sampler features COURAGE as the main verse... and is scattered with initials throughout the piece.
Stitched on anything you wish... in any colors you wish... this finishes approx 13 x 13 on 32ct. 20% of the chart's profits are being donated to The American Cancer Society.
Winter at Beacon House
Praiseworthy Stitches has a new 'Down the Lane' design -- this one is a seashore scene in the Winter -- NOT the Summer! For a change, we have evergreens, and snow covered hills, a snowman in the yard, but still the blue waves and an incoming ship. We never see winter seaside scenes, so this one is different and really fun. A celebration to the first snow of the season.
Stitch it on a nice mangy gray linen to give it that dark winter sky. They've shaded the house a lot -- looks neat -- and there are lots of Eyelets and Smyrnas all over the place in here for texture. Offered as a chart, this finishes approx 8-1/2 x 19 on 32ct.
Midnight Fright
Cute jacks all lined up -- hats and cats and bats!!!
Finishing approx 12 x 12 on 28ct, hand-dyed flosses, cute JABCO buttons... this has it all!
Sandcastle Bay
What a fun beach scene -- this looks like the pirates have come to the island and discovered the relaxed local culture. Picnics, games, umbrellas, and blowing whales.. everything fun comes in this chart.
Finishing approx 6 x 14 on 32ct, this design is antique in feel -- except for those funky beach umbrellas!!! Finishes approx 7 x 16 on 28ct. Could go smaller.....................
Emilia's Sewing Case
'Lay all the steps of pride aside, Let truth and wisdom be your guide.' This is an awesome sewing case that is bursting with dynamic Bargello/Florentine Stitching! Stitched in soft overdyeds of greens and rose-pinks (the colors are soft and pretty!) on Week's 35ct hand-dyed Linen, the outside Bargello is stunning.... and features small areas with flowers. The verse panel is the back.
Next, on the inside of the case, you have wool pockets (Rose Quartz from Weeks) and a linen pocket that can hold such treasures as scissors, thread rings and winders, and needle minders! The whole thing measures approx 10 x 18... and features that wonderful Bargello on the front and lots of Rhodes, Blanket, Eyelets, Smryna, Lazy Daisy and Rice stitches on the inside.
Lots of glass and crystal beads and the clam-shell finding... there was no question... we had to have beads to match every case!!! The booklet has 23 pages of charts and diagrams, along with finishing instructions. Print our pics here... for some extra guidelines! Just a really pretty piece, in lovely, soft pinks and greens!
Sweet Baby Sampler
'Our dear sweet child, welcome to our hearts.' This is a lovely, classic birth sampler charted for Crescent Colours Belle Soie Silk. Luscious, soft shades of lavender, rose and soft greens, this finishes approx 6-1/2 x 10 on 32ct. (Sweet Lavender, Elegant Eggplant, Carnation, Cabbage Patch, Fern Frond, Creme de Menthe, Mudpie (doesn't match the rest of the colors -- does it!?) and Babbling Brook.
Special stitches are included... Rhodes, Herringbone, Rice, Smryna and Diamond Variation... nothing is too difficult, and it all adds texture and bit of class! Just sweet and simple! Offered as a chart.
The Visit
This piece celebrates friendship! The classic verse, 'The road to a friend's house is never long' is featured, along with the ladies, themselves, in the front yard! Stitched on 32ct, this measures approx 18 x 25-1/2, and is stitched using Weeks and Sampler Threads overdyeds.
I love the shading in the house, and all the identical leaves on those trees... and the little fish in the pond, and the wrought iron fence and the benches... there are a lot of neat details in this. The chart talks about spending time with your friends -- the hours go faster, and hearts are made lighter! You could even change out the alphabet letters in the border, and stitch specific initials instead!
Harvest House
'Frost on the pumpkins and birds in the air... come rejoice... Harvest Time is here.' A bustling scene, complete with scarecrow that should be FIRED! The wagon is full of pumpkins, ready for pie!
This finishes approx 6 x 14 on 28ct, (lots of fabric choices will work...) and is stitched in DMC or Crescent Colours overdyeds. Part of the border is cross stitched over 4 threads instead of 2, but everything else is regular cross. Cute, this is offered as a chart.
Quaker Wallet Kit
*Needles and Pins* graces the front of this approx 3 x 9 stitching wallet... can you see that it folds into thirds? It'll make a petite 3 x 3 case! These girls are QUEENS at cramming tons of pieces and parts into their tiny little kit packages! This one is no exception!
Actually, it's all very neatly folded and organized in here! You get a 12 x 18 cut of linen for the main wallet, the pretty taupe and denim (the 931 DMC colors) printed calico finishing fabrics, ribbons, flosses, beads and that clam clasp, thread rings... everything you need to construct this sewing case. 'It is quite a collection of delight!'
Frankie & Friends
This is a real cute set of stitched Halloween Smalls -- everything comes as a compact kit packaged in a 4 x 4 x 4 decorated Halloween box! Frankenstein, a mummy or Jack-o-lantern decorate the little boxes, and inside you'll find a multitude of bitty things! There is a 2 x 2 x 2 black plastic cauldron -- your ORT bucket.
Next, all the fabrics you'll need to stitch the 1-inch cube that is Frank's head -- doubling as a thimble box -- the white to make the tombstone needlecase -- even the yellow Trick or Treat case.
Beads, charms, ribbons, even the google eyes that get glued into the bottom of the cauldron -- The Praiseworthy Gals thought of everything in here! When you're all finished, everything fits back into the little box to be stored away till next year!
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Wherever I travel, trying out the local foods is always one of the first and favorite things I do. There is nothing like experiencing a country through the food eaten by the people who live in various regions. This true all over the world, but especially in India.
Like the street food found around the world, eating from the stalls and tables outside on the walkways is not always the healthiest option, but it is always the most delicious one. Every state and city have their specialty that is delicious and affordable.
In Lakhanpur, I tried Bhalle – a fried pulses snack served with shredded radish and green chutney. Once you enter the area, you can smell the tangy, spicy aroma. Pulses are a dry legume that grows in a pod that contains up to 12 seeds, such as beans, lentils, and peas.
Almost anywhere in India, you will find this Punjabi breakfast staple that is not only served as a street food but in most Punjabi households, as well.
The ingredients are green peas cooked in Punjabi spices and curry, and then served with fried bread. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. To get the authentic taste, walk through the colorful streets of Amritsar and purchase a plate of the magnificent ChholeBhature. This was the best street food I ate in India.
First served on the streets of Patna, LittiChokha is the Bihari iteration of Dal Batti of Rajasthan. This delightful dish is acceptable for any meal and is a combination of a spicy curry or chikha from brinjal or mashed potato accompanied by Litti or gram (chickpea) bread. Spoon in some ghee for an exotic, delectable treat.
The so-called King of Street Food is, without a doubt, Momos. This dish is native to Nepal and Tibet but has migrated into the hearts and mouths of all Indians. It is extremely tasty and this roadside snack food can be found now in food centers and food courts in the fanciest of shopping malls.
It is made of spicy red sauce, steaming hot dumplings stuffed with vegetables or chicken. These dumplings are a meal you must not miss while traveling in India.
The Bengali version of Golgappe or PaaniPuri is Puchka, and there is no better way to cool off on a hot day than to pop one of these tangy, minty little "bombs" into your mouth. Of course, the best Puchkas come from roadside stands, which is a good thing because you will crave some of these small poppers as often as you can find them.
Eating street food is "iffy" in most countries. But resisting any of these fabulous foods would be a big mistake.


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Enjoy curvy, smooth penetration with this bullet-shaped metal dildo. Made from cool steel, it's perfect for experimenting with sensory play to add a new dimension to your stimulation. Heat it, cool it, lube it and enjoy it.
Housed in its own padded travel case, this luxury metal dildo is beautifully presented and discreetly housed.
With a top-heavy structure, you can experience the same cool and smooth experience a glass dildo provides with added pressure on the vaginal muscles. By encouraging your body to squeeze around the dildo, the increased pleasure and intensity results in an incredible orgasm.
Made from polished steel, this luxury dildo is completely body-friendly, eco-friendly, vegan-friendly and nickel free.
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Reviewed: 07 September 2014 by Just Jenson, a Straight Going Steady Male
Never really had a thing for metal dildos until recently, which is when I came across this little number.
I was looking for something smooth and fairly slim for anal play - mainly to use as a starter for anal play to warm things up before moving onto the bigger toys. Initially I was drawn to glass as I have a few glass toys, and then stumbled across this as an alternative.
I loved the simple design of it, and since it was going at half price I went for it.
Delivery as always was spot-on.
The toy itself comes in its own case, which was a very good touch - to me it shows the brand is a serious player when they put effort in packaging too. The box itself is a mini version of a boarding school 'tuck box' - if that makes ant sense?! Metal cornered box with black sides and a flip down clip to keep it closed.
Flip up the clip and open the lid (hinged at the back) and you are presented with the shiny silver dildo encased in foam which has been cut out for the toy to fit into the cut out. Again impressed with the effort gone into the packaging before even using the toy.
I took the toy out of the foam and was very surprised (pleasantly) by its weight. Easily the heaviest dildo I have, heavier than any glass toys which are much bigger.
Dimensionally it is small - but that isn't a problem as it is perfect for a starter. The added weight just means it feel great to handle.
It has not moving parts and flashing lights and bit and pieces etc, it is simply an elegantly shaped piece of smooth shiny metal but for some reason that I can't work out I absolutely love this!
Being made of metal too, it is great for temperature play - though it always keeps pretty cold naturally and warms up quickly with body heat.
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Reviewed: 12 July 2013 by missscarlettx
'Mr Smooth' is a discreet, solid metal dildo which comes complete with a foam padded metal case.
I had never used a metal dildo before but was very eager to try it, it might not look as big as the other metal dildo's but it is on the slightly heavy side (which is no bad thing). It's sleek design means it can penetrate you with very little effort, easy to hold end, easy to clean and maintain. You can also heat and cool it for added pleasure with no damage to the toy (although it is a naturally cold material).
I had great fun using this toy (alone and with my partner). Easy to use and got a lot of pleasure from it (especially when cold). Great for using with clitoral vibrators
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- Sleek design, easy clean.
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- Could be slightly longer.
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- Great 'first metal toy', fantastic price and easy to store box also discreet.
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In another piece of exciting news from CES 2016, Zeiss has announced that it has entered into a partnership with Fellowes Brands to create a premium line of lens accessories for smartphone photography.
There are three lenses in the range; a wide-angle, a telephoto, and a macro. The lenses are all ExoLens-branded and will feature ZEISS optics and will be made with black anodized aluminum with white labeling. The lenses feature T* anti-reflective ZEISS coating that helps to minimise reflections and improve light transmission.
A special mount made specifically for the device called the ExoLens bracket will be needed to mount the lenses. The bracket is machined aluminum and has a socket for the lens, a tripod mount and a cold shoes for accessories. It holds the lens from one side and the device from the other.
The lenses launch and ship in the second quarter of the year and will be compatible with the iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6S, and 6S Plus.
Click here to see samples images taken with the Zeiss+Exolens Lenses.


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Emma Stone's Long Hairstyles: Red Straight Hair
The long hair is tapered over a fun layered base which adds much lightness and energy to the hairstyle.
The smooth gentle choppy layers are full of flow and motion which make the look more natural. The tousled layers can make the whole look more charming and seductive. The graceful hairstyle is quite effortless to re-create with the right tools and products.
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Dr Gillian Harris has carried out research into infant and child feeding behaviour and appetite regulation at the University of Birmingham, School of Psychology for the past 30 years. She was also a Consultant Paediatric Clinical Psychologist for 27 years, and lead a feeding clinic at The Children's Hospital, Birmingham, where she worked with infants and children who were food averse.
Her specific research and clinical interest is the development of food acceptance and rejection in early infancy and early childhood, and the effect of early experience on later food preferences. She has written around 100 published papers, articles and book chapters on these areas, and been awarded multiple research grants to support her research.
Dr Elizabeth Shea is a Clinical Psychologist who has worked with children and young people who refuse and avoid foods for two decades. Previously a Primary School Teacher and a Counsellor with Childline UK, she started her Psychology career with the National Autistic Society where she developed a career-long interest in eating difficulties in autism. She is a recognised writer, trainer and speaker on this subject across the UK and Europe.
Her clinical and research interest is Avoidant and Restrictive eating in both autistic and neuro-typical populations. In particular, she has developed specialist interventions which have now featured on two national TV documentaries. She is a Practice Associate of Scottish Autism and has made a series of films on eating issues for their 'Right Click' e-training programmes. She has written many practical articles and filmed interviews/presentations on eating issues for parents and professionals for a variety of autism organisations and has co-authored a book on avoidant eating in children published in 2018. She regularly trains parents and professionals across national and European autism networks about how to manage eating issues.
She currently works both in the NHS and in the independent sector and also specialises in the assessment of autism particularly in females.
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