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For filling up Senior Manager Posts, India Trade Promotion Organization has recently asserted an employment notification entitled as ITPO Recruitment. All the job searchers are excited to know that latest government job notification regarding ITPO Recruitment 2017 has released. Those candidates who want to make their career in government sector can grab this big opportunity by submitting their application form till the last date that is 30-04-2017.
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Senior Manager (Security)
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- Knowledge of Foreign Languages Other than English.
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All the job appliers for latest government sector jobs must not be more than 40 years in age. Relaxation in upper age will be provided to reserved category candidates as per the norms of organization.
Offered Salary:
Engaged candidates will receive an impressive amount of Rs.32900/- to Rs. 58000/- Per Month from the concerned department of this well-known India Trade Promotion Organization.
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Appointed aspirants for ITPO Job will get scrutinized on the basis of their performance in Written Examination/Interview conducted by the expert committee of reputed organization.
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Eligible Indians may apply for the concerned recruitment by submitting the application form in prescribed format that can be downloaded from official website of India Trade Promotion Organization.
- The Official website is indiatradefair.com.
- After that you have to choose "career" option at the menu bar and further choose "current openings" tab from drop down list.
- Then you are required to select suitable link and read the opened notification carefully.
- Once you read the complete details then download the format of application and retain a hard copy of the application and fill it with all the necessary details as asked in proper manner.
- Now send your application form along with self–attested photocopies of all the documents such as Matriculation / Secondary Certificate as proof of date of birth, all mark-sheets / degree certificate in support of qualifications, experience certificate, Caste certificate and Disability certificate.
- Prepare an envelope it should be super scribed with, Post Applied for …………… and should be sent by post / courier to the address as stated below to reach on or before last date.
- Finally sent to below stated address before the last date should be reached.
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New Delhi – 110001
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I think I owe my loyal readers an apology. I have been shamefully absent the last month or so. Sorry 'bout that. I've been growin' a person, aka: sleeping 12 hours a day and completely repulsed by the very thought of entering the kitchen. It's not been exactly conducive to carrying out the projects I like to share with you.
I'm finally getting my appetite and energy back, so hopefully ill be able to make it up to ya soon. In the mean time, if you're wondering what fruit/veggie the peanut resembles this week, you can check it out on the right. Any idea why they compare them to food instead of...i dunno...common household objects or something else a little less edible?

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Our map shows where cars are most affordable in the U.S.
Detroit residents are having the hardest time coming up with money for a new car.
With the median income in Motor City little more than $25,000, new car buyers can only afford a $6,000 car, according to new research from Bankrate, a financial planning website. They looked at the costs in the 50 biggest U.S. cities.
"The lower a city appears on the list, the more difficult it would be for the typical car buyer to come up with the money," Bankrate says. "Kelley Blue Book said the average price for a new car or light truck at the time of our analysis was $33,865."
In some ways, this isn't surprising. The poorer you are, the more you will end up paying for a car because of bad credit. Bad credit or no credit means higher interest rates and spending more on a vehicle in the long run, making it harder to avoid debt and keeping your credit poor.
But the truth is, we all spend too much on cars. Even in the city with the highest median income on the list — San Jose, CA at $87,210 — people can't quite afford the average-priced car, "only" a $33,000 one.
What about you? Check out our breakdown of Bankrate's research in the map below. The redder the circle, the less car people can afford…
What the map really drives home is that most people can't afford new cars, and should be buying used. (Definitely not leasing.) But it also shows that income isn't the only factor to go by — housing costs are other big budget items come into play. For instance, the median income in Austin is just over $58,000, but the "affordable" price for a new car is $21,000. Meanwhile in Portland, the median income is $4,000 lower, but people there can afford $400 more worth of car.
Bankrate says around 20 percent of your income should go to your car payments and related expenses, but that number can also change based on your debt-to-income ratio, your credit history, and other expenses. Housing costs should be around 30 percent.
If you are going to buy new, you can certainly beat a $34,000 price tag. Kelley Blue Book says one of the least-expensive new cars you could buy is the 2016 Nissan Versa for close to $12,000. Other inexpensive new cars include the Chevy Spark ($12,682), the Hyundai Accent ($14,456) and the Honda Fit ($15,913). But do your homework — some cars cost more to maintain even if they're cheaper up front. (KBB's "affordable" recommendations are based on the estimated cost of owning the car for five years.)
According to Bankrate, these cities struggle the most with affording new cars…
- Detroit ($6,174 affordable price)
- Rochester, NY ($7,391)
- Cleveland ($7,558.23)
- Hartford, CT ($7,960)
- Buffalo, NY ($8,319)
- Miami ($8,646)
- New Orleans ($9,812)
- Birmingham, AL ($9,823)
- Cincinnati ($11,017)
- Providence, RI ($11,297)
No city in the lowest 10 listed here has a median income higher than $38,000.
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The number of people sorting their rubbish correctly is very low, with well over half of the homes from which rubbish bags were collected not bothering to sort it at all. And many residents are still putting food scraps in their rubbish.
"At the surface it seems most homes are sorting but then when we actually collected and looked at the rubbish, it wasn't so. We even found a dead cat in one bag," said WATSAN director Jaime Short.
"The reason that sorting is so important is because the landfill is full and the current site is probably the last one that the government can procure for waste treatment and disposal.
"With the installation of a baler, general waste is compacted into cubes and placed on top of the landfill.
"It is the responsibility of everyone in the community to sort their rubbish properly so we can prolong the space left at the landfill. We can rework the rubbish that is in and on top of the landfill to create more space.
"At the rate we are sorting, there is a lot of recyclables going to landfill, at one stage we found that up to 67 per cent of waste could have been diverted from the landfill to recycling and composting," adds Short.
The importance of keeping food scraps out of the general waste stream is to reduce the production of methane at the landfill, reduce leachate (liquid from decomposing waste) run off and to improve the working conditions for collection staff and Waste Facility staff.
"Collecting and dealing with rubbish that contains rotting food and maggots is not pleasant at all, and all it takes is to rinse food packaging and give food scraps to pets, pigs, yard chickens, compost or bury at home" she explained.
Secretary of ICI Ngametua Pokino said that we need to protect the health of our Waste Facility staff and our collection contractor staff from the health risks of putrefying rubbish.
"It is simple practice to keep food scraps out of the general rubbish" said Pokino.
"Of course there are cases where the only option is to put food scraps in the bin but in most cases, homes have sufficient options to dispose of food that don't include the bin."
ICI staff Hewett Paerau and Timothy Tangirere were the lead staff on the audit organizing the additional personnel sought by the Ministry and managing the process each day.
"The two young staff worked on the audit last year so they were put in charge for this year's audit and really stepped up and kept everything running smoothly. Full credit to them for this work" says Short.
ICI would like to thank CITC for the companies support for this audit.
"If it wasn't for CITC we'd have to use our operational budget from the Waste Facility funds to cover all of the expenses however CITC who have a representative on the National Solid Waste Management Committee stepped in to assist and we are very grateful.
"This is a great example of private and public sector working together for the common good" says Pokino.
"CITC do much in the field of waste management and supporting the four R's – Refuse, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle concept.
"Initiatives include shipping back cardboard and plastic packaging to recyclers, they have a bulb crusher for bulbs that contain mercury and phosphorous of which is sent to InterWaste in New Zealand, and through their charge on plastic bags have funded sorting stations to schools and public spaces" adds Short.
ICI would like to request all members of the community to sort household rubbish into glass, plastics with triangles, aluminium and clean tin food cans and lastly general waste for landfill, and keep the food out as much as possible.
"Such small changes in behaviour makes our work at the Waste Facility much more pleasant and much easier which in turn benefits our economy" Pokino said.
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Marine & Offshore Reference Case: Kleven
To enhance the efficiency of the production chain from purchasing to production and delivery, Kleven has initiated a cooperation with Technia concerning PLM systems.
Innovation in the maritime sector has long traditions in the Nordics. More than 1300 years ago, the Vikings developed amazing ships of all sizes for different purposes. The most famous and feared was the longship, intended for warfare and exploration designed for speed and agility. It was used by the Norsemen to discover America 500 years before Christopher Columbus. But, the Vikings also developed "cargo"-ships like the knarr – and special service ships like "Oseberg" that were used to bury high status people and kings. Ever since, the maritime sector has been the most important industry in Norway and foundation for international shipping, fishing industry and the oil and gas industry in the last 4 decades.
The traditional shipbuilding industry has mostly migrated from Nordics and Europe to low labor cost countries – due to lack of innovation! Processes and tools remains, costs increase. The Oil & Gas Industry with some large EPC´s and thousands of suppliers has clearly been a very innovative sector since 4 decades but is now facing somewhat the same challenges. Processes and tools remains, costs increases and new contracts are placed in low labor cost countries. STATOIL initiated their Fast-Track program in order to do more for less and even faster. How? Standardize, re-use and innovations like subsea solutions.
Both shipbuilding and offshore engineering companies have invested heavily in computer aided tools and IT to efficiently perform operations, planning and manufacturing. Every discipline has special tools to create drawings, 3D-models, simulations, process charts, project plans, documents etc. Numerous databases are established to store all information and data generated, from start to end.
Still, the industry is facing major challenges delivering projects and solutions on time and on budget. Based on the extremely profitable oil business, the project cost overrun has somewhat been covered in the total ROI. With reduced oil prices a number of projects are unprofitable, business is slowing down – and companies are downsizing. So, what should we do? Innovate! New solutions, new products. Innovate the way we work; i.e. change the way we work. Learn from other industries that have been fighting with tough competition and low margins for decades, like the automotive industry, mass production and like the aerospace industry, developing complex and large products - even customized one-off airplanes. These industries have been focusing on standardization, reuse of information and parts, automation and they have strategically used IT tools to facilitate innovation. They have been able to utilize the fact that all information today is digital. The solution is named Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and is in fact a collaboration platform enabling all involved partners to work jointly on the same information, wherever they are in the world. Moreover, the next generation PLM solutions have completely integrated engineering applications covering disciplines like 3D design, simulation, process design, electrical schematics and 3D cabling, manufacturing planning and preparation, project management, and change management in one harmonized collaboration platform.
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There are Rightmove house price surveys, RICS property indexes, Halifax reports and Nationwide round ups all trying to give some indication of what house prices will do in 2014.
Collier Stevens are Chartered Surveyors at the sharp end. We carry out building surveys and RICS Homebuyer Reports for purchasers in and around London and the South East and have a handle on what the market is doing now. We're not economists, valuers or agents, more informed spectators…
The London market is unique, with wild values being placed on, sought, and achieved for some often quite ordinary property – at the end of last year we did a survey on a 2 up 2 down cottage in a nice, but not top dollar part of town advertised for £500,000.00. Although the property was pleasant, it had some minor problems on survey and we instinctively felt it was overpriced. The mortgage valuer agreed and valued the property at £425,000.00. The distraught purchaser asked our view, so we did a little digging and discovered that a previous similar sale not 6 months previously was at £375,000.00. A willing agent and over eager vendor is an easy excuse for such an increase in value but we did have a client willing to buy at that price. A 30% rise in 6 months is neither sustainable nor wholly credible.
Over in another part of Lewisham we have a client with a one bed conversion flat that went from £220,000.00 to £285,000.00 between May and October last year – in this case egged on by an agent, again an easy target but they did achieve the high figure. My client then found that the type of property they wanted to buy had increased by a similar percentage and priced them out of the market. Their natural response was to find a similar property in a cheaper part of town – along with everyone else – in this case Sydenham SE26 where we have seen a rise in survey instructions as others discover where there is better value. Demand rises and so do prices, which is presumably why Rightmove are currently reporting the easing of asking prices in traditionally pricey areas and the strengthening of prices in traditionally cheaper locations.
The story is a little different in Kent where the market is more uneven as far as we can see, but in prime areas prices have risen and many of the properties we look at are getting back to values last seen in 2008. We predict there will be a London effect as people move out of town to areas offering more square feet for your pound. Would you prefer a 1 bed basement conversion flat in East Dulwich for £300,000 or a 4 bed detached in Ashford for the same money? Or an equivalent one bedroom flat, in Hythe [by the sea!] for £160,000.00? That leaves a lot of unused mortgage money for the commute!
The agents who we trust and work with tell us that the mortgage market is easing and that more product is available, improving the number and quality of prospective purchasers. Demand is high but supply is low.
If we could accurately predict the market we wouldn't be working! But we can provide our surveyors gut feel for 2014 – We expect London prices to stabilise in hot spots and to increase in the areas buyers will be hot in the future (Blackheath to Charlton and Brockley to Sydenham for instance).
We predict a rise in prices for the most desirable locations in Kent as London buyers either seek value or take advantage of higher prices to down size and buy second homes in the country or by the beach. We also expect other locations in the south east to continue to provide good value.
Sources and links –
RICS Housing Market Survey January 2014
Land Registry House Price Index
One bedroom flats in East Dulwich
Four bedroom houses in Ashford


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Do you like Charity Shops?
My Outlaws (as I affectionately refer to my lovely gorgeous In-Laws!) have been staying with us and they do like a mooch around a charity shop and as their designated driver I like to be obliging.
Well, luckily for them the towns near us are choc-full of charity shops, so off we headed, each day for a little explore.
I went with them not really expecting to find anything I really wanted, but was poking around in some baskets hidden away in one, when I came across loads, and I really do me LOADS of skeins of embroidery thread and little reels of coloured cottons.
The skeins were marked up as being 50p each and I had over 20 so I was expecting them to charge me at least £10 which was still a bargain as they were all brand new.... but they ummed and ahhed over someone buying so many and tried to charge me £3!!! For all that!?! I was gobsmacked and said £5 at least (I know, the normal practice when haggling is to try and get the seller to come down in price, not go up!) so we settled there in the end - I came out feeling like I'd got a great bargain (which of course I had, as anyone know regularly buys large amounts of thread will know) and they felt they'd been over paid, which I guess probably doesn't happen very often... so we were all happy.
Oh and my Outlaws bought (over the 2 weeks):
- 1 handbag
- 4 ladies tops
- 1 walking stick
- 1 glass dish
- 2 girls' dresses
- 1 ladies' coat
and 3 childrens' books!
Think we all did quite well!


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This Sunday marks the 1 year anniversary of a dear friend's baby Nathan going to meet Jesus.Tonight our small group bible study will celebrate his little life with cupcakes and books given in his memory. We will pray over this sweet friend and ask God to provide sweet peace and everlasting joy.
When we celebrated Aaden's first birthday a friend suggested we give books dedicated to him. I keep these books in a special place and when we pull them out to read, we have a special opportunity to remind our boys about their brother in heaven, about Jesus, about eternity.
Below you can see a little peak at one of the AadenSage collection. I pray this little gift is a blessing to my friend.
"And God wants me to make sure you know about heaven. It's a wonderful place.
There are no tears there.
No monsters.
No mean people.
You never have to say 'good-bye,'
or 'good night,'
or 'I'm hungry.'
You never get cold or sick or afraid.
In heaven you are so close to God that He will hug you, just like I hug you.
It's going to be wonderful. I will be there, too. I promise.
We will be there together, forever.
Remember that...
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This was my first goblet ever turned. I had a piece of maple given to me that just looked like a piece of firewood, split from a big log. I figured it was maple so it would be hard and turn and finish well, and be strong. I was thrilled when I began to turn it and saw all the spalting inside! I was very pleased with the final result. I was a little disappointed in the finish, I think it was two coats of Arm-R-Seal. Nice matte finish, I was hoping or a little more gloss.
I tried a recipe I got from someone else on another project since, of a coat of oil, (orange oil in this case) followed by two coats of shellac, followed by 2 coats of gloss poly. I like the result much better on that project.
Thanks for looking, any feedback or advice is always appreciated.
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#1 posted 01-28-2013 06:11 PM
Nice work. Beautiful piece of wood too.
-- Darell, Norman, Ok.
#2 posted 01-28-2013 07:40 PM
Nice ! Looks like the maple wasn't too punky. That's the bane of spalted maple . . .
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#3 posted 01-28-2013 08:55 PM
its a very beautiful goblet, you did a great job, and as far as any advice, send it to me…thats the best i can do:)...grizz
#4 posted 01-28-2013 09:14 PM
Beautiful work & wood as well!
-- Roger
#5 posted 01-29-2013 12:29 AM
great looking goblet!
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It is with great sadness and yet huge pride that I write this about a man that I would describe as "Mr Brixham Rugby Club".
Danny was our club President, fixture and match secretary and was up until this year our club Secretary. Right up to the last Danny was active in his care, involvement and working hard for the club, when I saw him for the last time on Monday evening he was keen to ensure he passed on his details about another one of the tasks he undertook, those blessed "International" tickets. This is typical of Danny wanting to make sure that all the "I's "are doted and all the "T's are crossed. It was his care for the club and all its members that showed through.
Danny first became involved in the club in the 1950's as a player and then very involved in the administration and running of the club. He has completed many roles and has been central in the leadership and future direction of Brixham Rugby Club. In 1999 the Executive Committee invited Danny to become our President and each year since he was elected to continue in this prestigious role. As President he represented the club with the famous "Brixham Passion" and the dignity that Danny would always show. He was always there when I or the club needed help and would always take the lead in those tasks that not everyone wanted to do. He would put Brixham first and at the heart of his actions and I know that he could have gone much higher in the game of rugby within Devon and at Twickenham for the RFU, but chose to concentrate at the grass roots of the game . This did not stop him from being involved in many ways at County and South West level and it was the competitions where he used his great expertise as a south west league administrator and on the County competitions committee. In 2009 Danny was also honoured by the wider Torbay sports community, when he was awarded the senior volunteer of the year for South Devon.
One of Danny's passions was to get more young people involved in playing the game and especially playing for Brixham. He would be the one who would encourage, entice and guided the young colts to sign up and play in the senior sides. I will always remember Danny at the youth presentations or the rugby week prize giving, firstly knowing most of the youngsters by identifying their fathers or even grandfathers and then ensuring he had a pile of documents for the under 16's to sign up and play for the colts. Over the years hundreds of young men have played rugby (ideally for Brixham) because of Danny's encouragement, all of them having his guidance and on many occasions' strong words of advice. Danny's eye to the future would always be on his mind and how we could improve the club both on and off the field, but never letting us forget of the way it used to be done and if it worked or not. Whilst Danny was a traditionalist in many ways he was also one of the most progressive thinkers I knew. As our President he would represent Brixham Rugby Club wherever he or we visited and when you go in to a new club people would always have heard of Danny and respected him and all the work he did for the game of rugby.
As with many people in Brixham, and those in our community, it is rare that you just have one member of the family involved , and it is very much so with Danny and his family. We know that Sean and James played for our club, and now many other family members are actively involved in various ways in helping and supporting the club.
Brixham Rugby Club owes Danny a huge debt of gratitude for his leadership, direction, guidance, hard work and knowledge of the game and especially in the history of the club. If you needed to know anything about anyone in the club then it was Danny you would talk to first.
It was our pleasure a couple of years ago to name our top lounge that had recently been improved the "Danny Irvine Lounge" and this will live on for ever and remain a fitting tribute.
At this time it is very right to acknowledge and remember Danny, but it is also fitting that we share our love, thoughts and prayers with all the family, and to Anne, Sean, Kay, James, Carol, John, Fergus, Holly, Chantelle and Emilie we send our sincere condolences and say to each one of them thank-you for sharing your husband, dad and grampy with us all and we say that we love you all.
I am very aware that I am relatively new to the club (only 15 years) and many reading this will be able to go back many more years than I with some of your own very special memories. I would encourage you to add your comments to the web-site or go and sign the book of remembrance that will be available at the club from Friday the 14th of December, so that we can share this with the family.
The service of thanksgiving for Danny will take place on Friday the 21st of December 2pm at St Mary's Church, followed by a family burial and then together we will gather at the club to share our memories and celebrate his life. I would love to see as many members, past players, present players and friends from all over the rugby world to show Danny and the family how much "Mr Brixham Rugby Club" really means to us.
Danny it has been my personal privilege serving this great club with you. It is because of you that many of us are involved in rugby and at Brixham Rugby Club, we will never be able to fill the shoes you have left, but we promise you with all our strength, heart and will that we will continue to drive this great club forward.
Good night Danny, rest in peace and may almighty God surround you in His loving care.
Chris Forster
Brixham Rugby Club.


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a) You will need - allen keys, tape measure and plumb-bob (or computer mouse as alternative).
b) Measure on old bike which has comfortable set-up:
1- Saddle to middle of BB.
2 - Distance between vertical drop from nose of saddle to centre of BB.
3 - Nose of saddle to middle of bars. Done by letting string of plumb-bob hang under weight vertically down (as shown in second picture) and measuring horizontal distance between string and centre of BB.
4 - Top of stem to middle of front wheel.
d) Change angle/position of controls to suit your hand size and preferences.
Now for the finishing touches:
|Can't ride without a bottle cage - thanks Mt Zoom for this lovely Ti number
|Kit for frame protection includes bar tape to wrap chain stays, IPA to wipe the frame clean before sticking biketape in vulnerable places.
|Vulnerable places include cranks, bottom of frame, and areas where cables rest on the frame.
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Free Life Commentary,
an independent journal of comment published on the Internet
Issue Number 24
25th November 1998
Why the Hereditary Peers
Should Stay in the House of Lords
by Sean Gabb
As promised and as expected, the Queen today has announced plans to remove the hereditary Peers from the House of Lords. Though her annual speech to Parliament is normally heard in silence, this part of it was received with combined groans and cheers. What may be the last constitutional crisis in English history has begun.
As some of my readers may not be aware of English ways, I will explain. England possesses a mixed constitution, with elements of monarchy, aristocracy and democracy. Sovereign power is divided between the Crown, the House of Lords and the House of Commons. The first of these is entirely hereditary. The second is largely so, being composed of Peers who sit by right of inheritance and Peers who are nominated for life. The last is an entirely elected body. Together, these make up the Crown in Parliament, and—as in a Jury – power can be exercised only with the consent of each coordinate body.
Over the centuries, customary and legal rules have evolved to raise the elected House of Commons to the first place in the Constitution. Since the 1690s, the powers of the Crown have fallen gradually into the hands of Ministers responsible to the Commons. By custom, the Lords lost any right to interfere with money bills in the 1670s. Since 1911, they have had only a limited veto over most kinds of Bill sent up from the Commons. But, despite many changes in both form and spirit, the English Constitution remains in essence mediaeval.
This is now about to change. The Labour Government has decided to expel the hereditary Peers from the House of Lords; and their place will, until some further reform in the indefinite future, be taken by nominees appointed or approved by Mr Blair.
As I write these words, the television is broadcasting one long gush about "democracy" and "modernisation". The Labour and Liberal Democrat politicians are almost dancing with excitement. I heard one of them earlier call this the "last push" towards the radical dream of the past four hundred years, of an England where birth counts for nothing. He seems to have forgotten about the Monarchy—or perhaps there are plans for that as well. The Conservative leaders are pulling long faces—but only, they claim, because reform is coming in two stages rather than one. As this is all the Party leadership is saying, opposition is written off as a defence of the Tory majority in the Lords. The consensus of opinion seems to be that the power of the hereditary Peers is indefensible and that it ought—at least, eventually—to be abolished.
I disagree. If I were drafting a constitution for a people that had just emerged from foreign subjection, or had just settled a new territory, I doubt if I would suggest a second chamber as oddly put together as the House of Lords. But that is what we have in England, and I see no valid case for change. It is old. It is established. It works. It is the best second chamber that ever existed. For the most part, reform of the Lords is something proposed by the despotic and assented to by the ignorant.
Age as a Defence
The Lords, quite as much as the Crown, embody continuity in England. They are descended from the Witenagemot, which was the council of great nobles and churchmen who advised the Anglo-Saxon Kings, and whose consent was required before any important act. This in turn was descended from the advisory councils described by Tacitus in his second century work on Germanic society. The Lords have existed in something like their present form since the thirteenth century. The oldest Peerage now represented there is the Barony of De Ros, dating from 1264. The most senior is the Dukedom of Norfolk, created in 1483. There are titles in the Lords that carry the mind back to times long before the modern age—to the time before America was discovered, before printing and gunpowder, when English was a collection of barbarous dialects, and when Europe was still in the shadow of the seemingly greater civilisations of the East.
The Lords have been associated with every great event in English history. The coordination and the tensions between them and the Crown and Commons have shaped the England that we still know. A Frenchman who studies the reign of Henry IV must look as if across a closed border. There is a whole dead terminology to be learned before there can be understanding—titles, courts, offices, units of money, territorial boundaries: all now are different. For an Englishman, the reign of Charles II is almost current politics. Yes, they wore different clothes in the seventeenth century. Yes, they often believed different things. But we need no prior explanations to understand how Charles was kept short of money by the House of Commons, or how he relied on the Lords to throw out the second Exclusion Bill. To lay hands so violently on the ancient Constitution is to attack the national identity of the English. It is to snap one more of the precious threads of continuity that bind us to our past.
The Functional Value of the Lords
And the Lords are not some passive relic of the past. They remain part of the working Constitution. They solve a problem that has troubled constitution makers elsewhere for centuries. Experience suggests that single chamber legislatures are inefficient. They pass too many laws that are bad not merely in substance, but also in form. The answer has usually been to provide for a second, revising chamber. This, however, raises a further problem. If a second chamber is elected on the same franchise as the first, both will be dominated by the same party or coalition of parties; and what is approved in one place is unlikely to be questioned in another. If, on the other hand, there are different franchises, the second chamber may fall into the hands of the opposition parties, who will block everything sent up from the first. Since both chambers will be democratically elected in some way, both can claim to be representing the will of the people.
The House of Lords avoids this problem. Since they are unelected, their moral and legal authority is weak in any conflict with the Commons. But their historical legitimacy gives them enough strength to demand at least changes to very bad laws sent up from the Commons. This legitimacy is strengthened by the presence of the senior Judges and the Anglican Bishops. And in spite of their Conservative majority, the Lords have acted as an impartial check on misgovernment. The Thatcher and Major Governments suffered continual reverses in the Lords. I remember in 1994 looking at the Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill before and after its passage through the Lords. It went in as what can only be described as an enabling act for a police state. It came out as something that was just very bad. Clause after clause had been either deleted or softened by the Lords.
The Argument from Democracy
Of course, the Government is not proposing to abolish the House of Lords outright. The life Peers will remain; and it can be argued that the practical benefits of the Lords will continue without the hereditary Peers. The Judges and other life Peers have been just as active in revising bad legislation. Bearing in mind that many hereditary Peers never attend the Lords—and many who do attend never oppose anything—why should the life Peers suddenly fall silent?
The answer is that the hereditary Peers are the House of Lords. It is from the presence there of the great landed families that the Lords as a whole draw their tone and legitimacy. They provide a set of cultural values to which the life Peers soon assimilate. A man may have started his career as a coal miner. Raised to the Peerage, he sits with and is the equal of a fourteenth Earl. He forgets that in the Commons he voted as his leaders directed. He now sits and listens to the arguments, casting his vote for the better one. Take out the hereditary Peers, and the glamour disappears. The ennobled miner becomes just an old man with a funny title—the equal of other old men given their titles by the Prime Minister.
It is because they are not elected that the hereditary Peers are so valuable. The elected politicians talk endlessly about democracy. But, except in the purely formal sense, this is not a democratic country. About the only way to get elected to the House of Commons is to stand as a candidate for one of the big parties. In all the parties, the candidate lists are carefully vetted to ensure that all but an irreducible minority are acceptable to the party bosses and the security services. The ideal is obedient mediocrity; and that is what we get. Occasionally, mediocrity is tempered by gross personal corruption. Nor is it coincidence that so many of the elected ones have embarrassing sexual habits: blackmail is the quietest form of control. On the whole, people of intelligence and integrity do not nowadays stand for election in England.
The Lords have avoided this degrading fate because they are not "democratically" accountable. A Earl or a Baron can stand up and speak his mind and vote as conscience dictates. There is no pressure that can be placed on him—no orders sent out to a constituency association, no newspaper campaigns to discredit him before the electors. He owes his position to accident of birth and nothing else. This may sometimes throw up legislators who are mentally subnormal or even insane, but it will also throw up men of incorruptible honour.
And that is why the hereditary Peers are being expelled from the Lords. It is their independence, not their birth, that makes them so objectionable. Arguments about democracy are an excuse, not a motive. Tony Blair is strutting about like some reincarnation of John Lilburne. The Lords must be reformed, he says, so that the will of the people may prevail. This is rich coming from a man who has personally excluded Labour Party candidates because they do not agree with him, who is looking for some device to stop Ken Livingstone from standing to be Mayor of London, and who seems very happy to share power with an absolutely unelected and unaccountable European Commission in Brussels.
One further point worth making is that the Government of this country is perhaps the least English since Norman times. The Prime Minister, the Lord Chancellor, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Foreign Secretary, the Defence Secretary—all are Scottish. Virtually every second accent around the Cabinet table is Scottish. Until recently, this would not have mattered. Indeed, one Prime Minister in the 1920s was a Canadian born of Scottish parents, and the fact was barely noticed. But Scottish opinion has turned solidly against the Union. It has abandoned the liberal values of England and of the Scottish Enlightenment. The climate of opinion there is comparable to that in Eastern Europe before 1989. A complete history has been fabricated to show how Scotland is an oppressed colony of England. English people in Scotland suffer routine discrimination. They are denied jobs or promotion. They are abused. Some have been violently assaulted because of their accents.
Most of our Scottish rulers, I am sure, are looking for real advancement to Edinburgh, and what they do in Westminster is only to impress the electors of an independent Scotland. They understand little and care still less about the English Constitution. And, I am sure, most share their nation's hatred of England and all things specifically English. All other reasons set aside, if they can strip us of our national identity under some pretence of "modernising" us, that is what they will do.
The End of Political Legitimacy in England
The hereditary Peers have promised to go down fighting. They will use every constitutional power available to them in defence of their rights. But they will almost certainly lose. They will be swept aside and their places taken by the same class of hirelings as now pack and disgrace the Commons.
Or perhaps not. So far, the destruction of our country has been achieved slowly and cautiously. There have been no immediately killing blows directed at the nation. The European Communities Act was a massive betrayal, but it meant little in practice for many years after. All other change has been incremental—lamentable in itself, but affecting only a small area of our life at a time. The removal of the hereditary Peers is in a different class of destructions. It is an unmistakable and fundamental change in the Constitution; and it will be followed by a mass of laws that will make us into a nation of slaves living in a province of a centralised European state.
As such, there is good reason for calling this change a revolution and for rejecting the Government that carries it as having exceeded its lawful authority. At last, the British State will have delegitimised itself in the eyes of patriotic Englishmen; and it will then be simply a question of prudence in deciding how far to carry the resistance.
We live in exciting times.
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Rihanna's Topless Reptilian Makeup – BTS "Where Have You Been"
I posted about Rihanna's new Where Have You Been video HERE and discussed some of her reptilian transformation found in the video. There are now some new images from the 'behind the scenes' costume prep (shout out to 302BlueFog on Icke's forums). Here you can see that they were drawing scales and such for the part where she transforms into a reptilian figure.


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HMV's history stretches back 90 years to when Sir Edward Elgar (right) opened its first shop on Oxford Street in the earliest known in-store appearance from a music celebrity. Today the company employs around 6,500 staff in the UK.
The Gramophone Company became identitified by the 'His Master's Voice' trademark, used on its flagship store. Owned by EMI, the term was later formally transferred from the record label to the retail chain.
In 2002, HMV floated on the London Stock Exchange, leaving EMI with a minority stake in the company.
The shares rose as high as 274p in 2005, but a poor period of trading led to private equity firm Permira attempting to take over the company in 2006.
The bid failed, though HMV's decline continued. Today the shares are worth 2.5p, valuing the business at just £10.8m.
Much has been made of HMV failure to adapt to the digital age and compete with internet sites and supermarket giants.
Back in 2004, when iTunes wasn't yet a household name, Alan Giles, chief executive, explained why the company wasn't quite ready to jump on the digital bandwagon.
Mr Giles, who had led the company since 1999 - just before the dot com bubble burst - insisted that being cautious was the right approach.
"There were a lot of people three or four years ago who wanted to persuade us to bet the company on making that investment. If we had bet the company then we would have lost it," he said at the time.
HMV did not launch its HMVdigital store until the summer of 2010. By then, many analysts said it was too late.
Simon Fox, who took over as chief executive in 2006, tried various strategies to ensure the retailer was not too reliant on sales of CDs and DVDs.
It spent £60m building up its HMV Live business, buying a number of well known venues such as the Hammersmith Apollo and Manchester's Ritz, and even ventured into clothing. Shops branched out from selling just the odd Rolling Stones T-shirt into a fully fledged fashion department.
HMV's live division performed well, though the company was pushed into selling the Hammersmith Apollo this year in order to keep its lenders happy.
In June 1953, HMV Oxford Street was on the route of Queen Elizabeth II's Royal Coronation procession. The shopfront read 'Thy choicest gifts in store on her be pleased to pour - Long may she reign!'
In January, HMV was thrown a lifeline by its banks and suppliers, which gave the company nine months breathing space in return for a 2.5pc stake in HMV.
But on Thursday, HMV warned that current trading conditions meant the business was facing "material uncertainties" and warned of a "probable covenant breach at the end of January 2013".
Trevor Moore, who joined HMV as chief executive in September from Jessops, said it had been a "difficult first half" for the retailer.
In a gloomy update, he added: "Additionally, as we trade through this period we will continue to develop further initiatives with our suppliers and I will provide updates at the appropriate time."


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The junior team started their season brightly on Easter Monday afternoon with a 1-11 v 2-07 win over Geevagh.
A tight affair, both sides exchanged scores throughout the match but Castleconnor went in ahead by 2 points at the break. Geevagh came back in the second half but the lads held out for a 1-11 to 2-7 win.
Team: Brian Feeney, Stephen Durkan, Anthony Kilcullen, Cian Barrins, Ronan Keane, Rory Healy, John O'Regan, John Cullen, Ciaran Kilcullen, Brian Howley, Matthew Cullen, Vinnie Howley.
Subs: Frank Barret, Mark Carr, Ronan Barrett, Shane Feeney.
Our match was postponed last weekend against Owenmore Gaels due to a bereavement in their club.
Re-fixture: Tuesday @ 7.30pm in Ballisodare. (Note venue change)
Next Fixture: Monday @ 2.00pmpm at home to Enniscrone/Kilglass
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Nutella Cookies
What a day it has been!! I have barely slept in several nights, thanks to the kids becoming poorly one after another. Not to mention that has not left me with my usual energy levels, however, when special days come around, one just has to find the energy from somewhere. So what was special about today, it was my kid's first day at school! I wanted to make something that he would like to have as an after school snack and thought a chocolate cookie is unlikely to go wrong. I wanted it to be reasonably unhealthy as well and not pure indulgence so I added millet flour and wholewheat flour. I tried dusting the cookies with icing sugar before baking them hoping it will have a nice white appearance when baked but it did not turn out as expected as it melted in the oven. However, it did give an interesting texture and taste and was not all too wrong afterall. You may want to try it or skip that bit.
4 tablespoon nutella
80 gram i.e. 1/3 cup butter, softened
½ cup sugar
½ cup wholewheat flour
½ cup ragi flour (if you do not have any, you could use any other millet flour or more wholewheat flour)
½ cup all purpose flour
¼ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon soda bicarbonate
1 tablespoon milk, if needed
2 tablespoon icing sugar
Preheat the oven to 180 degC. Line the baking tray with greaseproof sheet
Cream together the butter, nutella and sugar
Sift the flours with the soda bicarb and baking powder. I also added a tablespoon of coco powder to make it more chocolatey. Mix to form a soft dough, add a bit of milk if needed. When you pinch a ball and roll, it should just about hold comfortably
Pinch small lime sized balls and flatten with your hand by pressing down. Dust the cookie in icing sugar and line on the tray with atleast an inch between each other
Bake for about 8-9 minutes. Be careful as i is hard to determine if the cookies have browned as the chocolate is already brown. I usually go with the smell. By eight minutes, it is aromatic, utmost a minute more would usually be enough.
Leave on the tray outside for about ten minutes as they will be very soft. Then cool completely in a cooling rack


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You can transform old, worn but quality wood, metal and wicker furniture and furnishings. This 5-step system is easy to understand and simple to put into practice. The manual has many helpful short cuts and money saving suggestions.
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A gift for you to get you started . . . The Five Step Decorative Painting System Description.


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This year's challenge was to design an ad, given only a size template to work from. We were very excited to see how many entries we received, and all of them of good quality. Thanks for participating!
Our overall winner is 10-year-old Makayla Farrell, of Damariscotta, ME. She sent us a fantastic drawing that captures the excitement of buying a new vehicle at Southern Maine Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram. Thanks and congratulations, Makayla!
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Chronometry in highest quality – pre-owned, affordable Rolex Daytona
The Rolex Daytona was designed in 1961 for motorsports. The totalizers that are integrated into the dial and the prominent tachymeter bezel make the Rolex Daytona a special eye-catcher. The tachymeter bezel is used for measuring speed, which is why it is well-respected chronometer in motorsports. The chronograph function provides precise time measurement – to an eighth of a second.


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he Democratic Alliance (DA) has entered into coalition agreements with minority parties – Congress of The People (COPE), the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP), Freedom Front Plus (FF-Plus), United Democratic Movement (UDM) and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP).
Party leaders were addressing a media conference in Sandton, north of Johannesburg, on Wednesday.
The DA won most votes in the Tshwane and Nelson Mandela Bay metros as well as a number of smaller municipalities without securing an outright majority.
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has rejected a coalition with the DA in the Tshwane and Johannesburg metros, but agreed to vote with the party to form minority administrations.
DA leader Mmusi Maimane says, "I am glad to announce on Wednesday that we have entered into an arrangement to form governments with COPE, the ACDP, the FF-Plus, the UDM; and we have also come into a form of an agreement with the IFP. These agreements commit us to a number of things as expressed when we took up the opportunity, we wanted to put a framework agreement upfront."
Maimane says voters have indicated they want good governance across the country and have offered opposition parties a chance to govern key municipalities nationwide.
The DA won the most votes in Tshwane and a number of other municipalities without securing an outright majority.
The DA and African National Congress (ANC) then embarked on coalition talks with a number of parties including the EFF which had been touted as a possible kingmaker in Tshwane and Joburg.
Maimane says the 2016 local government elections are historic for the nation.
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Today was all about mergers and acquisitions as Walt Disney Co. (DIS) traded higher up 2.03 % to $100.64 amid talks of buying most of 21st Century Fox Inc. (FOXA) which traded higher as well up 9.93 % to $27.45.The deal would be up around $20 to $30 billion.
US President Donald Trump has selected Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Powell is noted as a dovish monetary policy that is thought to bring continuity to the Federal Reserve. He has been supportive of Chair Janet Yellen's gradual progression of monetary policy. The sustainable future with the US economy seems to be just a matter of continuing on the path we have been on. The Federal Open Market Committee found that the labor market has continued to strengthen and that the economic activity has been rising at a solid rate despite the hurricane disruptions. Household spending has been on an upswing despite the weather related problems. The Fed remains fairly accommodative thus supporting the labor market. The tax reforms and cuts would be the frosting on the cake of course. The tax reforms may be progressing but it becomes questionable who may benefit the most from the measures. The US Corporations may not have the same plans for the added benefits. The House did pass a budget bill to open the door to the tax reforms and cuts. The market may rocket back up upon the sentiment shifting toward the final tax reforms and cuts going to fruition. Inflation still remains a muted 1.3 % a far cry from the Feds 2 % target rate. The last employment report came in at -33,000 due to the hurricanes that tormented parts of the US. The December Fed meeting is scheduled December 12th - 13th. It is anticipated that a rate hike may be on the table for the December meeting. The hurricanes have caused destruction and in the near term will affect the economic activity. Higher energy costs due to the storms may boost inflation in the short term. Their stance was accommodative, but they intend to begin to wind down the quantitative easing in October by reducing its $4.2 trillion of holdings in US Treasury Bonds and mortgage backed securities. Expecting a tightening in the labor sector may over time boost wages as well thus contributing further to consumer spending. Inflation seems to still be baffling to the Fed, but may be addressed by an alteration of monetary policy. US Fed Chair Yellen's term ends on February 3rd 2018.
The Nonfarm Payrolls for October were 261,000 new jobs created under expectations while the previous reading was a meager -33,000 new jobs created. The Unemployment Rate was 4.1 % while the previous reading was 4.2 %. The Private Payrolls were 252,000 while the previous reading was -40,000. Manufacturing Payrolls was 24,000 while the previous reading was -1,000. The Participation Rate was 62.7 % while the previous reading was 63.1 %. The Average Hourly Earnings were 0.0 % while the previous reading was 0.5 %. The Average Workweek was 34.4 hours unchanged. The expansion of the US economy is both expected and welcome along with US President Trumps tax cuts and reforms. Of course, there is still the implementation of these cuts. There is a sentiment that the tax cuts may be of little worth to some. The GDP Price Index came in at 1.0 % while the previous reading was 1.0 %. The Real Consumer Spending was 3.3 % while the previous reading was 3.3 %. The strength of the market may be propelled by sentiment and the sentiment sets the stage for a higher trade. Once achieved, then a retracement may ensue. Any further sparring with North Korea can impact the market negatively along with any further doubt about the reforms and tax cuts projected by US President Donald Trump. The tax cuts and reforms seem to be stifled by the US budget deficit. The government runs on our tax dollars and the lack of those extra taxes cuts into what we pay down the deficit with. The US government needs to find additional revenue and that may be tricky. Economic growth may increase revenue, but that must come from expansion which has not come to fruition as of yet. The E-Mini S&P 500 seems unstoppable, yet this is the time to worry. This is the season where it may typically retrace. The fall is a time historically where the market has made some significant sell-offs, so this is the time to trade with caution. We remember black Monday in October of 1987.
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OPEC Members are running about 92 % compliance with the cuts. OPEC seems to be keeping its vow to allow the production cuts to continue into next year. Energy analyst at Goldman Sachs projects that the estimated US Crude Oil demand may decline by about 900,000 bpd due to the impact of the hurricanes. Saudi Energy Minister agrees with UAE that it may be considered to extend the oil supply reduction past the March 2018 time frame.
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I can't believe it's already New Years and it will be 2009 in less than 24 hours. New Years Eve is my favorite holiday...I love dressing up and just celebrating for the evening. It seems like my NYE plans get less and less exciting each year as I get older though. A few years ago, my BFF K and I literally threw a party at her house for over 100 people. It was insanity!! What are we doing this year??...having a quiet dinner in and watching the ball drop. I will probably be in bed by 12:30am. Oh well, I'm still excited to have a nice low key night and ring in the New Year with my close friends and wonderful fiance! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Also, exciting news on the wedding front...we mailed out our Save the Dates today!!! AHHHH! It's really real now...no going back! So people should get them next week! We did it slightly early because the wedding is on a holiday weekend and I wanted to make sure people knew the date in plenty of time to make plans. Jake only complained a very little bit about helping me with the "arts and craft" project (as he called it) of lining all our envelopes and stuffing them. We actually managed to line 185 envelopes (EDIT - yeah, we only lined 85. Totally a mistype! We would be rockstars if we could line 185 envelopes in an hour...hahaha) in just about 1 hour! I was impressed with his work ethic...haha! I captured the moment on film...Doesn't he just look so happy and excited?? And the finished product, complete with our beautifully lined envelopes (we used the same navy polka dot paper as I used for the bridesmaids cards)
Ignore the ugly white marks for all the names and stuff. Love!!!
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
6 comments:
- The Bona Fide Preppy Bride said...
Those look awesome! I love the envelope liners!
- December 31, 2008 at 6:22 AM
- Prissy Southern Prep said...
Those look great! I completely agree about NYE, my plans get more and more "low key" every year. Have fun!
- December 31, 2008 at 7:10 AM
- Preppy 101 said...
I love your Save the Dates!! Happy NYE and 2K9!!!
- December 31, 2008 at 7:34 AM
- Lilly P. Wannabe said...
Your save the dates are precious!! Happy New Year!
- December 31, 2008 at 2:16 PM
- Barefoot in the Park said...
LOVE THEM! So cute!!
- January 1, 2009 at 5:21 PM
- Pink, Green, and Southern said...
They look like they are kate spade! Those are adorable.
- January 2, 2009 at 5:21 PM
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I am preparing for my trip from L.A. to New Mexico, which begins Saturday.
I have taken lots of road trips and always feel ridiculously excited, and a little bit scared, and somehow also a little bit solemn. All travel to me is part of a larger pilgrimage and has deep metaphysical significance and entails the undertaking of various kinds of danger and the certainty of at least one kind of death (and we hope, resurrection) because when you return, even if the trip was only for a week, you are not the same person you are when you left.
You have been changed, somehow, even if you can't see or feel the change.
I bought my trusty '96 Celica in 2001.
Together we have been to the coast of New Hampshire and back; through Yellowstone, Cody, Wyoming, and to the South Dakota Badlands and back; to the Gulf Coast of Texas, the Natchez Trace to Nashville, and on to Spencer, West Virginia, and back; and twice so far to Taos, New Mexico, so this will be the third time I've made that particular pilgrimage.
That's not counting the countless trips to the Central Coast of California, the wine country, the Anza Borrego desert outside San Diego, and Sonoran Desert.
I've had several automobile mishaps over the years, most notably, perhaps, the time en route to a retreat at a Cistercian convent in Sonoita, Arizona, that my radiator blew at some God-forsaken rest stop on the 10, I had to pay $175 bucks to be towed to the metropolis of Quartzsite (pop. 3397) and, while the one mechanic in town sent for a new part and fixed the damn thing, I spent two nights, in about 150-degree heat, at the local Super 8. (Here's the NPR story I did about that little event).
The odds of such a thing happening to the same person twice are astronomical, right?


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|Tyler being awesome with his library bag :)
Today's Sew Thinky Thursday question is:
Who do you like to sew for the most?
Well going with my gut tells me that I like to sew for Tyler the most. Ty is GREAT! He is my cousin Sarah's 5 year old boy and he is super sweet and appreciative. I have sewn him a fabric bucket, snakes, many pairs of pajama pants, a library tote bag and even a vest! He is always very happy to receive whatever I make him with a smile and I wouldn't have it any other way! While I love to sew for TONS of people that I love in my life Ty takes the cake on this one and I am currently sewing him some more PJ pants. :)
|Random pic of me and my awesome Monster Pillowcase!
Aaand...since I didn't post last week let me talk about last Thinky Thursday. The question was:
Bad sewing habits. Do you have them? Share with us, what are your worst habits when it comes to sewing?
Umm ya I can safely say that I have many bad habits. We will only list a few...leaving my rotary cutter open (only when I am alone!), leaving my iron on at all times (it is seriously plugged in all day, but it shuts off by itself), and well not cleaning my machine as often as I should. There a few like I promised.
Now I have lots of fun stuff to be doing so I will be back another day!


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Just before I left for work I saw a London postmarked envelope that didn't appear to be a bill, so I opened it.
Only my first rejection! I'm so chuffed!
OK, I'm gutted that they didn't say yes but you gotta take positives from it.
- The submission found its way to the correct person.
- I got an answer in less than a week! (That could be construed as a bad thing, but I ain't even going there).
- The submission was deemed worthy enough to actually respond to.
- Even though I guess 70% of the letter was part of a form letter, he did actually say 'the premise was interesting' and that 'you write very well'. I'll take those comments at face value and deposit them in the old ego bank.
- I spotted an error in the letter, it's missing the word 'with' in the second sentence (if you're reading this). Spelling Nazis ftw!
I'm not going to put the letter up or say who it is as I haven't asked permission, but it was a very nice rejection letter. I'm sure this guy's ex-girlfriends have been dumped very kindly, maybe over dinner whilst he tenderly held their hand and let a tear form in the candlelight.
Of course, after the 57th rejection letter I probably won't be feeling so forgiving but my first time has been a pleasant one.
Onwards and upwards. I'm going to have 5 submissions on the go at any one time, so that's one crossed off the list, time to get another one sent out tomorrow.
With all this talk of Railroaded and writing, I haven't actually put any of my writing on the blog (blog posts don't count). All talk and no writing makes Ben a…non-writing boy.
So here's the first chapter of my novel, Railroaded. It's a little over 4,000 words.
The hand of a lady, aged by time and paled by death, stood up on its own severed wrist, hermetically sealed within the vacuum of a bell jar. Cradled in the grip of an assistant, the outstretched hand rose above the watching audience as though attracting someone's attention with a wave.
"£18,000!" A bidder's voice sternly announced from one of the phones situated to one side of the auction hall.
The lifeless hand was succeeding; it was holding everyone's attention.
I've only gone and posted the bloody thing to some right old proper people!
Over the weekend I put together 5 packages and popped them in the post this afternoon so they are winging their way to 5 agents in London as I type…be safe my pretties, don't be scared of the dark and when the nasty person starts laughing at you and chucks you in the bin, take solace in the fact you'll be recycled and live again, hopefully finding your way into a successful writers printer this time.
(I don't why I'm blogging to my letters, lol, what an idiot! They can't get the internet in a post office sack).
One part of writing Railroaded I really enjoyed was trying to come up with new technologies, or at least butchering emerging new technologies.
It's set in a UK with higher sea levels so global warming has really affected the country and they combat that by becoming carbon neutral, this means the whole transport infrastructure needs addressing.
Here's a little taster of what I wrote…
Amy's car, as all automobiles and trains, are 'levitated' via electro-magnetism to greatly reduce drag; the base of the car 'floats' upon a bed of opposing magnetic forces from the road, both powered by an electro-magnet plastic, PMP (Photovoltaic Magnetic Polymer), road that generates its own power from the Sun. Once levitated the car is powered laterally by compressed air jets located around the car.
There's been much made about James Murdoch's speech for the MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV festival which has led to a #welovethenhs style campaign on Twitter – #welovethebbc – and Robert Peston losing his rag so I can't add much about James Murdoch blatantly trying to give Sky an easier ride into mindnumbing, advertising driven TV hell.
He consistently calls the BBC 'state-sponsored' which may partly be true in that they do receive government funds but only a small percentage of total revenue, the licence fee funds the majority of the BBC (about 75%). That means; you, me and all the other licence fee payers fund it, not the government. Saying it's state-sponsored makes you think it's a distance relative of North Korean TV. It's not directly linked to the government, The BBC Trust is the middle man between The BBC and the UK government and UK licence fee payers.
He also said a much greater deregulated media industry without The BBC is giving consumers what they want. A few years back James Murdoch said;
'Railroaded', my soon to be published and global bestseller, has so far taken 4 drafts to get to an acceptable level to send out to agents.
I'm not saying they ain't going to LOL all the way to another 4 course lunch at The Ivy, I'm just saying they'd be laughing even harder had it been the 3rd or the 2nd draft. The 1st was beyond ROFLMAO.
So what happened in the 4 drafts of Railroaded?
The 1st draft officially started around October 2007. I did a Max Barry writing course at Chuck Palahniuk's website and one of the first exercises was to write the first 200 words or so to 4 different stories. I picked Railroaded as one of these starters.
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This morning I made the final finishing touches to the 4th draft of Railroaded, saved it, backed it up in a million different places and breathed a sigh of relief.
Thank fuck that's over with.
I think there comes a point where the law of diminishing returns comes into play. Yeah, sure I could go through it and do another draft, I could list things I'm not 100% sure about but what's the point? I'm not going to change it significantly to make it worthwhile. I'm happy to let someone else rip it apart and say where it's gone wrong and where it totally makes no sense.
I'm happy with it. I'm happy for an agent to read it. I've gone as far as I can go with it solo.
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I've nearly finished the 4th draft of my novel 'Railroaded', in it a character has a touch of the runs or 'diarrhea'. Now my middle school spelling tests have deserted me and I spelt it so badly that the Word spell check had no idea what word I was trying to spell so couldn't offer me the correct version.
I went online to search out the correct spelling and found it here at Dictionary.com.
–noun Pathology. an intestinal disorder characterized by abnormal frequency and fluidity of fecal evacuations.
I just love the explanation, especially the last bit; fecal evacuations.
Usually dictionary definitions offer such plain, logical descriptions without evoking any emotion or human connection to the word in hand.
This definition not only gives you the meaning but brings you back to a time when you gripped the porcelain throne, straining for one last evacuation hoping it was the last as your ringer couldn't take anymore.
I'm sure Samuel Johnson would be satisfied with this great definition for an English word. I know I am.
In a word; domain squatting twats.
That's 3 words but you get my meaning. When looking for a domain name I obviously checked out www.benellis.com first which is already very capably occupied by Ben Ellis, film director. Top marks to that esteemed member of the Ben Ellis community.
My next visit was www.benellis.co.uk which has been registered and is an empty wasteland on the internet, not only that but an embarassing gap in the Ben Ellis canon. I sent a letter to the registrants address but received nothing back. Philistines.
With the two main options unavailable I had to revise some of my domain purchasing pet hates, most notably; I hate hyphens and I refuse to buy anything other than .com's or co.uk's.
This could be hosted on www.benellis.mobi or www.benellis.me.uk but I have more class than to stoop down to that level of desperation.
I would have relented on the hyphens for www.ben-ellis.com or www.ben-ellis.co.uk but they're being violated by domain squatting twats. May those poor souls be rehabiliated and let back into the Ben Ellis community soon.
I don't speak leet but using numbers as letters is an idea to get some more domain name options, especially if you're not an established entity and have the freedom to wiggle about and use some artistic licence. I also liked the idea of using numbers to help make an interesting logo for the site.
I thought about using '1' for the 'i' but the two 'e's as '3's is enough.
I actually really like www.b3n3llis.com now. Even if benellis.co.uk became available, I'd refuse it and let some other pillar of the Ben Ellis world grab it and establish it as the tower of BenEllisdom it is so surely destined to become.
So, that's about the the long and the short of it. Not terribly interesting or groundbreaking, merely relevant.
Let's get this thing over with shall we?
The creation of this blog is to serve as a dumping ground for any writing that I do and anything that stems from it. At the moment that just consists of this blog, which if you think about it too hard sends you into an infinite downward spiral.
I'm writing this even before I've done the blog design, layout or worked out what kind of stuff I'll put up here. I guess that'll evolve over time. I have done some writing though. There's a handful of short stories and a novel.
The novel is the main reason for this blog.
The reason came from listening to this writing podcast I stumbled across a few months earlier – The Writing Show – in particular this episode – What Do Publishers Want from Query Letters and Proposals? Jennifer Silva Redmond is an editor and in the interview (about 20 minutes in) she says that a writer needs to not only sell their story but also themselves. Any positive points you can toss into the mix is a bonus and a way to stand apart from all the other wannabes. One such tip is to not be a know-it-all arsehole. Another one is to write a blog.


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How Tyrannosaurs Grew from Tiny "Jackals" to Ferocious Giants
Tyrannosaurus—the name brings to mind the towering T. rex with its giant teeth and tiny arms, hunting humans in Jurassic Park or standing reconstructed in the natural history museum. This king predator dominates our imaginations, and because of that it is the most heavily studied dinosaur there is. In the last decade, and even in the last year, new studies have shown us that T. rex's lineage stretches back to Tyrannosaurus ancestors that stood no taller than us for nearly 100 million years. In the journal Science this week, paleontologists lay out all the recent discoveries that reveal the story of the world's favorite ancient monster.
Stephen Brusatte of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, one of the study leaders, says:
"Up until about ten years ago we only knew about T. rex and a handful of its closest relatives — all colossal, apex predators from the end Cretaceous in North America," Brusatte explained. "Now we know of about 20 tyrannosaur species that span a time period of 100 million years, most of which are very small." [MSNBC]
Indeed, just in the last year scientists have discovered six new species. The team writes in the study that one of those newly discovered species was "100 million years older and 1/100 the size of T. rex."
University of Maryland tyrannosaur expert Thomas Holtz, Jr., added: "I like to call [early tyrannosaurs] the jackals of the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous. "They were tough little guys, but they were little guys, sort of hanging out in the wings and taking out young dinosaurs and small dinosaurs but leaving the big prey to things like Allosaurus," said Holtz, who was not involved in the new review. [National Geographic]
T. rex showed up late and burned out fast. Tyrannosaurs, for the first about 80 to 85 million years of their existence, grew no larger than a modern-day human. About 80 million years ago these dinosaurs hit a growth spurt, perhaps because giant competitors died off, and the great dinky-armed predator emerged. Because the worldwide dinosaur extinction event happened 65 million years ago, T. rex had a short run compared to its Tyrannosaur ancestors.
According to Mark Norell, another member of the study team, the flood of new Tyrannosaurus knowledge isn't limited to finding new species.
Biologists who study the biomechanics of elephants or chemists who study proteins in bone have turned their attention to T. rex fossils. They've refined its posture. They've determined the length of its adolescence — 10 to 15 years — and its rate of growth — as much as 5 pounds a day. They also may have found remains of T. rex tissue, though that's still in question. "What I find really interesting is what you can do with sort of an eclectic and diverse group of scientists all focused on one animal," says Norell. [NPR]
If you've got Friday dino fever, Norell also co-wrote the DISCOVER feature "The Bone Collector," on T. rex fossil hunter—and philanderer, and spy—Barnum Brown.
Related Content:
DISCOVER: The Bone Collector
DISCOVER: Destination Science: Hunting Dinosaurs with Jack Horner
DISCOVER: Dino Hunter, on paleontologist Phil Currie
80beats: T. Rex May Have Been a Hot-Blooded, Sweaty Beast
80beats: Miniature T. Rex Was a Man-Sized Monster
Image: Brusatte et. al / Science


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Rockfox Soft Luggage
It has been just under a year since we first set about making the ultimate soft luggage systems. Showcased at the South-African Bike festival at Kyalami Racetrack last year the response was overwhelming. When we got back we immediately started to look at the designs and the materials of the bags, making sure that our attention to detail and quality would be carried over to our luggage systems. This turned into months of researching and phone calls to get the best quality materials we could find to manufacture our bags.
Made from 550gsm double sided PVC material (Same material used on inflatable boats). then when that was all set and done came a challenge like nothing we have had here in the workshop before. Finding a machine that can do the high-frequency welding we need on the bags to make them air tight as well as water tight. This led us from manufacturer to manufacturer until we finally found a machine that could mostly do what we needed it to do. than came the longest struggle we have faced. Turning a machine that was designed to do one specific job into a tool that could be used to manufacture various bags and iterations of the bags. after months of experimenting and trail and error we are glad to say that we have finally bested the machine and bent it to our needs.
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