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Rail Strike Misery
Often I do need to rely on public transport to get to places unfortunately it never seems to run smoothly.
This weekend I decided to have a weekend off which for me is very rare, I always seem to work over the weekends. It was the wife's idea to go away to such a place and she also suggested using public transport after a bit of persuasion I agreed to go. Firstly we had to catch a bus from town waiting at the bus station for a bus to come which tool 30 mins! Despite adverts claiming buses were every 7 mins. Having hopped onto a bus and travelled a nice scenic route for more than an hour we had reached were we wanted to be. We decided to come home after 6:00pm and were both appalled to find there was not a bus home after 5:40pm. Train home it was. After a 20min walk to the train station a huge sign had been placed outside warning of industrial strike action on Monday 13th March, that's today! Most if not all services would be cancelled. That's a bad blow for regular transport users.
I had bought a newspaper from the shop on the station and I stumbled across a news story that stated that more than one home every minute will need to be refurbished in the UK between now and 2050, they will need to insulate 25 million home as a way of cutting carbon emissions, homes needing to be renovated at a rate of 1.4 homes a minute. That's a lot! Led me to think 'is it possible?'


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(I'm going through a bunch of random pictures from the past few weeks. Sorry for the bunch of random posts!)
A few weeks back in Wee Worship at our church, the preschool class learned about The Road To Emmaus.
Max didn't want to draw people, so the teacher's teenage son helped him.
(Tanner wrote the name on this one; this isn't Max's writing.)
Alex wanted to do it himself.
I love his drawings of people, and I didn't want to forget this one!
I love how Jesus is 'floating' over the sand, the people are 'nose-less', and everyone has gigantic eyes. Oh, and the people seem to be almost insect-ish with a head, thorax, and abdomen. Jesus' hair is really quite something, too! Alex, I am not criticizing…I am *LOVING* your new-found drawing abilities! I hope you'll look back at these adorable drawings someday and smile just like your Mama is smiling as she types this!
Oh, and notice the "E" in Alex's name…even though he can write it correctly, he thinks this makes it 'fancier'. I love you, my boy…and I love that you have a mind of your own, even if it does make life a little more challenging at times!


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The bullish breakaway is indeed bullish, unlike some other candlesticks with the bullish moniker. Unfortunately, it acts as a reversal just 59% of the time, which I consider "near random."
The candle pattern is also rare. The overall performance is 45 out of 103 candlesticks where 1 is the best performing, so do not expect a long trend after this candle breaks out.
All ranks are out of 103 candlestick patterns with the top performer ranking 1. "Best" means the highest rated of the four combinations of bull/bear market, up/down breakouts.
The above numbers are based on hundreds of perfect trades. See the glossary for definitions.
The bullish breakaway candle is a rare pattern, rare enough that I did not provide performance statistics in my Encyclopedia of candlestick charts book.
As with many multi-line candle patterns, the identification guidelines are stringent, eliminating many that might otherwise qualify. Of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder
(or beer holder), so it is ultimately up to you to decide what qualifies as a bullish breakaway.
The bullish breakaway candlestick acts as a bullish reversal both in theory and in the 41 I found. The overall performance rank is 45, which is mid list. The best average move
10 days after the breakout is a drop of 5.79% in a bear market. I consider moves of 6% or more as good, so I think this pattern performs well, too. However, additional samples might change
that assessment. The best 10-day performance rank is 12, which is very good considering 1 is best out of 103 candle patterns.
The chart shows a bullish breakaway candlestick on the daily scale. I would like to say that it is a good example, but with a candle pattern as rare as this one, you take any
that come along.
Circled in red is a tall black candle that begins the bullish breakaway. Price gaps lower the next day after another black candle appears. Note
the gap between the two bodies. Days three and four are candles with lower closes, wrapped up with a white candle that closes within the gap between the bodies of the first two candles.
This candle pattern appears in a downward price trend and it acts as a bullish reversal when price closes above the top of the 5-candle pattern. A downward breakout would be a close
below the lowest low in the pattern. Exciting isn't it?
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Rejecting Republican calls for a permanent ban on Internet connection taxes, the House Judiciary Committee Oct. 10 voted to extend the current temporary moratorium—set to expire Nov. 1—for another four years.
The nine-year-old Internet Tax Fairness Act of 1998 bars state and local governments from taxing broadband connections and imposing other levies and fees that treat Internet commerce differently than brick-and-mortar businesses.
Congress renewed the moratorium in 2001 for two years and again in 2004 for three years. In 2004, the House approved a permanent ban on connection taxes, but opposition from state and local governments killed the initiative in the Senate. Ultimately, Congress agreed on the current three-year extension.
"Overall, this is a good, strong and necessary bill that will provide much needed clarity to the communications and Internet industries, while addressing the needs of the states and local governments, all while helping to keep Internet access affordable," said Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
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But Republicans on the panel pushed Conyers to make the ban permanent, noting that many House Democrats now supporting a temporary extension voted to permanently ban connection taxes in 2004.
"I believe the will of the House is clear—a strong, bipartisan majority of members want a permanent ban on these burdensome taxes," Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said in a statement. "Unfortunately, the actions of the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee do not reflect the Congress commitment to ensuring the Internet is free from excessive taxation and regulation."
In a series of procedural maneuvers, Judiciary Committee Democrats defeated an amendment calling for a permanent ban. Goodlatte managed to swing a winning vote for an eight-year extension that was later rejected through a parliamentary move by Conyers.
"The procedural tactics of the Committee Democrats are simply unacceptable," Goodlatte said. "I continue to urge the House leadership to bring to the floor a permanent ban, so that the Internet will continue to thrive and so that access to the Internet does not become limited to wealthy Americans in urban areas."
The Senate is also debating whether the ban should be permanent or temporary, with Democrats pushing for another temporary extension.
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- Take images under all-natural light. Do not use your integrated flash. Ever!
- Walk around to find the most effective light source. Do not really feel constrained to taking pictures in your kitchen area.
- Attempt taking pictures from several angles. Some plates of food look nicer from above, or from the side, or at a 45-degree angle.
- Attempt moving the plate and taking images at different angles so you could pick your favorite later.
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I made use of Nikon's 35mm f1.8 on my old cropped style video camera as well as loved it. It generates sharper photos and is very easy enough to make use of for above pictures of food on my table. Currently that I'm utilizing a costly complete format cam, I use Nikon's 50mm f1.8 G lens.
Why did I relocate to a much longer focal size when I upgraded? Because a 35mm lens on a chopped layout cam successfully acts as a 50mm lens on a full format cam. Confusing, appropriate? Unless you have actually spent hundreds of dollars on a camera, your camera is possibly a chopped format, but you might wish to examine to make sure.


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- National Mango Custard: 2 tbsp
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- Cream: 200 gm
Take 2 tbsp National Mango Custard. Add 1 cup of milk. Wisk well and keep it aside.
Add 6 tbsp sugar and 1/2 kg milk in a pan. Add the previously prepared custard mix.
Make a thick paste.
Make mango cubes.
Add 4 tbsp hot water and 2 tbsp gelatin.
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So this is an original piece of mine and the video is from the recording session this past saturday. So naturally the audio quality isn't great because it's just from my video camera, but later on I'll post the actual recordings.
Hope you like it!
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I never minded tidying away with them after a particularly far reaching game of Sylvanian Families. I enjoyed handling the little figures and the gorgeous miniature accessories.
We had a tree house, a mansion, a picnic bus and, my favourite of all, a bakery. The observant reader will note my use of the word we in the previous sentence. I really was as fond of those Sylvanians as my children were.
Sadly, the breakdown of my first marriage and having to move from our family home, necessitated a ruthless sort out. I needed to travel light into my uncertain future and the girls were growing up and happy with computer games. The Barbies, the action figure and the Sylvanians were all victims of our streamlining. Had I known that within a few short years I would be a mother again to a baby girl, I never would have parted with so much. (I still would have gladly said goodbye to the matted haired Barbies but I deeply regret losing the Gary Barlow doll that lurked amongst them!)
Reminiscences aside, this year, Sylvanian Families are celebrating their 25th Anniversary. I was thrilled to be sent the Wedding Celebration set and Motor Car and Sidecar to review so that I can introduce my latest daughter to Sylvania and begin a brand new collection.
The packaging and the essential qualities of toys themselves don't seem to changed much over the years. They are every bit as lovely as I remember. I really like the emphasis on 'family' which is something that always features in my daughter's play.
The characters themselves are very appealing with their shiny black eyes, movable limbs, tactile skin and highly detailed outfits but for me, it is the exquisite miniature accessories that accompany them that make Sylvanians so special.
Although my children would have absolutely no idea about the seventies British sitcom George and Mildred, the humour in the naming of the Sylvanian characters in the Motorcycle and Sidecar set is not lost on me.
Geroge and Mildred Mulberry have everything they need for riding around the country lanes and both motorcycle and sidecar have storage spaces to store their maps, licences and information books.
In the light of the Royal Wedding fever that gripped the country, the Wedding Celebration Set featuring Katherine and William Balmoral was one of the most successful Sylvanian products of the year, and deservedly so. The dog-collared Reverend is ready to preside over the nuptials of the beautiful bride and her groom, attended by two adorable bridesmaids and a page boy. A bridal bouquet of pink roses adds the perfect finishing touch.
The bride and groom could easily be used as a fun wedding cake topper and the set itself would make a lovely bridesmaid present.
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Animal Protectors is a no-kill shelter; we do not euthanize current residents in order to make room for new animals. Cages open up when our animals are adopted or enter into foster care, never through mass euthanizing.
Our no-kill mission means that we cannot take every animal that a community member wishes to surrender. Our intake policy is ordered as follows:
Our policy is to help animals in need of medical attention first. It is never easy for us to turn an animal away; however, when the shelter is full, we have no choice. We will provide information for other shelters in the area and will also ask that you place a brief description and photograph of the animal you wish to re-home in our "To Place" book; this book is designed to connect people wanting certain pets with people trying to place pets.
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So from what I understand so far is that:
1. Acnologia and the lot went South of Magnolia directly
Here is the continental Map
Now this is just what it looks like leveled out, when in reality we know that the continent is angled on the planet differently to where Magnolia is much more angled down.
And south angled from Magnolia is Enca and Sin
Further more
The island destroyed in the large scale destruction panel with a crater here
Since north of the one they were on to the horizon had ZERO land from it.
But the beams we're going to it and behind it.
The two islands (One with crater and one right north of it) checks with the two islands next to Enca
And Acnologia when he left went left of those islands from both the fact Erza west to the left of Anna who'd been facing them and towards land way off in the Horizon which checks with either Desierto or Minstrel
Which Acnologia went straight from where to Magnolia and came south of it.
Even the land shapes check with the areas Acnologia attacked being right at Enca and Sin (Two islands, the smaller one south of the larger one, a straight just beyond it curving to the right with the lands sloping down towards said islands)
Not only that the attack went hundreds if not thousands KM and Lyon and the folk In Hargeon didn't notice.
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Boxer Separation Anxiety
Boxers make great family pets as they are loyal, fun and loving. Because of these traits your Boxer may find it hard to be away from you and your family. They may bark, howl or wine when you leave them at home. This is called Boxer separation anxiety. However with the below simple tips you can learn to train your pet out of their Boxer separation anxiety.
Stopping Boxer separation anxiety before it begins
It is important to give your Boxer love and affection, but it is just as important to have rules and structure. If you smother your Boxer with attention then they will get anxious when you leave home without them, thus causing Boxer separation anxiety. Therefore start by having set guidelines as soon as your Boxer becomes part of your family. These could be set meal times and only allowing your Boxer in certain parts of your home. By having a balance between affection and structure your Boxer is less likely to develop Boxer separation anxiety.
Departing your home
A major part of stopping Boxer separation anxiety is by not making a huge deal when you go out without your Boxer. Do not give lots of pats and affection to your Boxer. Just walk out the door. If you keep repeating this your Boxer will gather that this is normal behaviour and they won't get upset or anxious when you leave.
Returning to your home
As with departing your home, do not make a big deal when you return. When you walk in the door do not give any attention to your Boxer for a couple of minutes. This may be difficult to do but it needs to be done as it will show your dominant position. If you act in control, your Boxer will feel safe and secure. This will help lessen the chance of Boxer separation anxiety.
A Bored Boxer
If your Boxer is bored then this can lead to Boxer separation anxiety. Ensure you have lots for your Boxer to do when you leave them at home. Have lots of toys for them to play with. This will keep them entertained and will help prevent Boxer separation anxiety.
Have a certain area where you leave your Boxer when you go out. They will think of this as their safe place and again this will help stop the possibility of Boxer separation anxiety occurring.
If you can't seem to stop your Boxer separation anxiety there are other methods you could try:
- Take your Boxer to puppy day care during the day until they become less anxious and are able to be left at home on their own.
- You could get a friend for your Boxer – another dog perhaps? Having a friend around could keep your Boxer busy and they won't be so upset when you leave the house.
- If you can't control your Boxers separation anxiety then you may need to get a professional in. They will be able to give you expert tips on how to overcome Boxer separation anxiety.
Remember to start with these tips early. The earlier you establish the above, the less chance your Boxer will establish separation anxiety. So start preventing Boxer separation anxiety today!


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Lil Wayne's Entourage Accused Of Assaulting Photographer
A Miami photographer is accusing Lil Wayne's entourage of assault. The photog claims Wayne's crew spat on him, pushed him, and beat his bicycle.
Last week, Lil Wayne was skating in a no skate zone (YOLO!) in Miami when the photog snapped a few pics of Wayne. When the crew started to leave because of the rain, the photog followed them to their cars, and snapped some more pictures.
Then according to the report obtained by TMZ, Wayne didn't like the attention, and ordered his goblins to take the man's camera away. The photog claims 8 men surrounded him, and tried to get him to delete the pictures. When the man resisted, he claims that they spat on him, and pushed him to the ground. Another guy then beat his bike with a skateboard. The guy eventually got away and ran to the police station where he filed the report. Wayne has yet to speak about the incident.
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5 Responses to "Lil Wayne's Entourage Accused Of Assaulting Photographer"
Kd510 on April 10th, 2012 1:20 am
He don't like the attention yet he skate in a no skate zone okay.
Tha Don on April 10th, 2012 3:13 am
Whenever Wayne starts smoking weed again and when he stops cross-dressing I'll listen to his music again. This is a good sign that he hasn't changed.
charleigh.cassidy on April 10th, 2012 9:25 am
@Tha Don he stopped smoking??
That's news to me. I'm not saying that out of disbelief though…
This story is a kinda funny and ridiculous at the same time.
Despite how childish the "sick 'em" behavior is, getting worked by some goblins is an occupational hazard for sure.
Chi Simpson!!! Reply:
April 10th, 2012 at 8:34 pm
@charleigh.cassidy, yeaaa weezy cant smoke weed anymore buddy
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April 13th, 2012 at 9:18 am
@Chi Simpson!!!, how'd all that come to be, friend?
Or should I just google it?
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Modern Chinese women don't want kids anymore, even after the government cleared the way for couples to have a second child.
Now, working women are reluctant to expand their family–or have any children at all.
That's according to a new survey by Zhaopin.com, one of the nation's biggest online recruitment websites, which found about 40 per cent of working women without children don't want to have any and roughly two thirds of those with a child don't want a second.
In big cities such as Beijing or Shanghai, hefty living costs, long work hours and surging expenses linked to raising children have deterred more females from becoming moms.
The phenomenon isn't unique to China, given the pressures that working women face around the globe. But it's particularly acute for the world's second-biggest economy given its rapidly ageing population.
More than three decades of a one-child policy has left the nation with too few young people to support an expanding elderly population, which is eroding competitiveness and weighing on the social welfare system.
After announcing a two-child rule in October 2015, officials estimated an increase of four million additional births a year through 2020–but last year births increased by just 1.31 million from a year earlier to 17.86 million.
That prompted the government to consider measures such as "birth rewards and subsidies" to help encourage more people to have another child.
Yet China remains far from providing incentive packages as seen in Singapore or Germany and a porous safety network offers little help to families who can't afford children's education or health care.
Child-bearing may also lead to real financial or career losses. The survey found 33 per cent of women had their pay cut after giving birth and 36 per cent were demoted.
Among the top reasons cited for not having kids by the Zhaopin.com survey are "not enough time and energy" and "too expensive to raise children."
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In the news lately has been a host of articles related to what's aptly referred to as the Google zoo. With Panda 4.1 rolling out towards the end of September and Penguin 3.0 rolling out slowly over the past few weeks, search engine blogs are dominated by articles discussing aglorithm updates, and even things like whether or not Google's head of search spam will even return to his post next year.
What WE want to talk about are techniques. In fact, let's get to talking about proven techniques that actually work. We're referring to strategies that can be employed by anyone, no matter how big or small the budget. We're talking about REAL online PR. We're talking about link earning. And we are talking about traffic. We are not talking about automated outreach, or poorly written articles, posted on irrelevant sites, with nothing but keyword-rich links pointed to the same site throughout.
We're Talking About Guest Blogging
But, you say, "Guest blogging is dead! I heard it from the horse's mouth earlier this year!"
Nope. Wrong. Guest blogging is not dead. Has guest blogging changed? Sure, of course it has. But it's far from dead. So let's talk about just how much guest blogging has changed, while at the same time remembering Bon Jovi's famous line, "The more things change, the more they stay the same."
Guest blogging is less of an SEO strategy, and more of a content marketing strategy
Maybe we can consider guest blogging a good microcosm for the SEO industry as a whole. What used to maybe be quick and easy now is time consuming and difficult. It takes a lot of time and effort to see results in a successful strategy.
With the growth of content marketing over the last few years, businesses have looked to grow and find new customers and opportunities by creating relevant content in the forms of videos, articles, how-to demonstrations, and more. Including guest blogging as a content marketing strategy allows businesses to find new opportunities to "advertise" on sites where potential customers or opportunities may be lurking, and chances are not all these opportunities are aware of your site.
Web user A reads an article you wrote on a popular blog they visit. Wow, they think, this information is incredibly useful and informative! When checking out who the content was written or sponsored by, they are directed to your site.
Guest blogging is underutilized as a content marketing strategy. Now having said that, it's important to remember…
Guest blogging remains one of the best ways to earn links
If you do still want to look at guest blogging exclusively through an SEO lens, then you don't have to look any farther than the links you're building through a guest blogging campaign. While creating good, relevant content that will drive traffic to your site should be the primary reason for guest blogging, links remain an added benefit.
The links that you earn from conducting a guest blogging campaign are true, organic, perfectly natural links that will do wonders not only in the immediate future but also for years down the road. Years and years after your finished with a guest blogging campaign you'll continue seeing the search engine benefits.
If you conduct real outreach, with real authentic writing done, by real experts, a guest blogging campaign will work better for you in 2015 than it has in the past. Take that to the bank.
It can be done on a big level, and scaled
Guest blogging done correctly can even be authentically scaled. What a few years ago could've only been done somewhat in-authentically by a computer can now be done by a human using a variety of tools and software.
One can look at the phrase it takes a village to raise a child in this situation. It takes a team to conduct a guest blogging campaign. One person might conduct the outreach on behalf of the CEO, and then another person might ghostwrite the article on the CEO's behalf. Or maybe the CEO even wants to be in on the action.
Regardless, if done correctly, it's easy to scale a guest blogging campaign, and still conduct it efficiently and successfully (albeit organically). Guest blogging in 2015 and beyond will clearly be more about successful collaboration, and less a one-man job.
No, it's not dead
Guest blogging isn't dead. It's not going anywhere. Guest blogging is more successful than it's ever been. And if you haven't run a campaign for yourself, it's time to start.
Jonathan Marx
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- Stuck On Your Marketing Efforts? How to Choose an Outside Agency for Help - February 6, 2015
- Guest Blogging: No, It's Not Dead. Yes, It Has Changed. - November 7, 2014


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[For the Scriptic prompt exchange this week, SAM gave me this prompt: "The impending storm looked like one never seen before. The sky was green and the animals were restless. It was a bad day to be a zookeeper." I gave Laura this prompt: "An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place when he thinks he's at somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming. As long as you can stay in that realm, you'll sort of be all right." -Bob Dylan]
The days had begun to have an awful sameness. You slept out of exhaustion, awakening more tired than ever. You checked the phones, which were still down, then clicked on the radio, which surprisingly hummed to life. So there was electricity, which meant there may be coffee. Or something approaching coffee- Magda had to reuse grounds so many times now it was only a distant impersonation of the coffee you used to have. The radio announcer was talking of victories, pushing the enemy back, driving perfidious Albion back into the sea. If that's so, you thought, why do we get bombed by the British during the day and the Americans at night? You thought that, but of course, you didn't say it.
You put your feet on the floor, feeling it for vibrations. A vibrating floor used to mean that the streetcars were up and running, but now it only meant the bombs were coming closer. You shook your head, trying to clear it of any cobwebs. Thank God Herman and Francis were with Aunt Sophia in the country, far from the madness of Berlin. But was there anywhere that was safe any more?
You stood up, your darling Magda at the stove, trying to assemble something that resembled breakfast. You saw the tears and stains of her housedress, and you wanted nothing more than to rush down to Fassbender's or Schraum's and buy her a new one, one with lace trim and fine, fine silk. But the shelves were empty of all but the most essential goods, and sometimes not even those. There were no fine garments to be had. It was folly to even ask.
Your wife turned to look at you. The light had gone out of her eyes long ago, but it was her face you saw when you closed your eyes in frustration. Despite all the hardship, all the shortages, she stayed, devoted to you beyond all reason, delighted to see you and willing to share whatever she had with you. You started to tear up whenever you thought of how touched you were when she accepted your proposal, how awestruck and frightened you were through both of her pregnancies. She was the center of your world, and while you couldn't really picture what would make a man fight, when you thought about your Magda shot by a British plane, or struck by an American bomb, it filled you with a bottomless, impotent rage.
"Breakfast, dear one," Magda said, and she had indeed made coffee and oatmeal and toast she blackened over the stove burner. There was margarine, for once, a commodity that had been in short supply, and you wondered what sort of trade Magda had to make to get her hands on that. She set a tray down on the table and pulled your chair out, the kind of gesture that brought the sadness back all over again.
You thought about the birds at the zoo, the ones you knew were starving to the point that they started to pick at each other's flesh. This grain might help one or two of them live another day, you thought, but your own hunger overcame you, consuming the terrible, lukewarm dish with relish. Your own need sated, you looked at your dear wife, looking out the kitchen window at the perpetually gray sky, her ribs now clearly visible along the sides of her body, her tiny breasts even more shrunken.
"Did you eat, my love?," you said.
"Oh, yes, sweetheart," she said eagerly. You knew she was lying, but you let it pass.
It didn't used to be like this. When they came to power, when all this started, suddenly the shelves were full again, and things were normal. All they wanted, they kept saying, was to let the Germans be German- bring Austrian Germans and Czech Germans and French Germans together in one united Germany. All they wanted was the room for all the Germans to live together. They said they didn't want war. We didn't know war was coming, we just wanted the suffering and misery to stop, and that's what they told us they would do, and briefly, that's what they did.
It all turned, of course. They had a million excuses- they told you that there was treachery, that Germans were turning on the Fatherland, betraying their brothers. They told you that there was a minor setback that would be immediately reversed, and that if we only held on a little bit longer, all would be saved. They told you England would surrender, except it didn't, and then they told you they would invade it, except they didn't. They told you the Americans would never come, until they came, and then they said they would be sent home with dispatch. Then the bombers came, first occasionally, then regularly, then every day and night like clockwork. It got so bad that mockery began to peek out. When a loud explosion was heard nearby, Mr. Weber downstairs could be heard shouting, "Another minor setback, eh?"
You had to get back to the zoo. With all the men now serving, you were left with a crew of women and children and wounded soldiers, and they could barely be trusted to feed the snakes. Regular shipments of feed had stopped months ago, and at this point "running the zoo" amounted to figuring out how to divide up the shrinking stores to keep everyone alive for one more day in the vain hope that the long promised trucks would rumble in through the gate. "Pretty soon," Hans Gruder, a one legged veteran of the Russian front commented yesterday, "we're going to be feeding the small ones to the big ones." You laughed, but you knew Hans had a point.
You kissed your wife goodbye, then made your way to the street, walking down towards the bus stop. The buses used to be as regular as clocks, showing up, shiny and new looking, every ten minutes, but at this point, one in the morning and one in the evening was all you could count on. You saw the bus rounding the corner, uttered a short prayer under your breath, and hurried to meet it. You looked ahead at the others who were lined up, all of them as dirty and tired looking as you were.
You heard and felt the shock of a bomb explosion, very close by, shaking the cobblestones under your feet, and saw a column of smoke beginning to tunnel its way into an already dirty sky. The sun looked green through the haze. You lined up behind the others climbing on to the bus, still watching the smoke rising into the air. You said another prayer of thanks that it was not your house, not your Magda trapped in rubble and fire and screaming in pain. You heard a distant sound of a siren, wondering if they would get to this side of the city in time.
As you filed on the bus, you saw Dieter, who worked in the machine shop attached to a small concern that made gyroscopes. You used to drink with Dieter, when you both had free time, when times were good and beer was plentiful. You hardly ever saw him any more.
"A bad time to be a zookeeper," Dieter says, sliding over to allow you to sit. He smelled like liver and onions.
"It's a bad time to be anyone," you said.


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Tomato Fennel Salad-from Food Network
1 1/2 lbs heirloom tomatoes
1 small fennel bulb
2 Tblsp good olive oil
2 Tblsp fresh lemon juice
1 Tblsp cider vinegar
1 tsp kosher salt
1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper
- Core the tomatoes and cut into chunks (or in half if cherry tomatoes).
- Remove the top from the fennel and slice the bulb very thin.
- Mix everything, garnish with 2 Tblsp of the fronds if desired.


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Visited the Elektor homepage on my Androig Galaxy S6 Edge.
After the visit - every time I now use my phone a script launches Chrome and the Elektor home page pops up - this is very annoying!
How do I delete this POS (Piece Of Software)?
To be quite frankly I am NOT amused by Elektor installing a script on my device.
This is to me a VIRUS !!
Hopefully I can get rid of this without reetting my device to factory settings?


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We'd like to thank everyone who made it out to the forums. Turn out was great and it was great to put some faces to some names of people we have been talking to. And as always the show and the airplanes were great!!
Home of Wasabi Air Racing
Elliot Seguin and Jenn Whaley's Formula One class air race team based out of Mojave, California. Pylon racing at the National Championship Air Races in Reno Nevada. Eight airplanes racing head to head around telephone poles in the desert. Mojave is the best place on the planet to build and modify a race plane, and Wasabi is lucky to have the best support in the business.


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From Wikipedia
Blitz: The League is an American football game by Midway as an unlicensed extension of their NFL Blitz series. Released after the NFL signed an exclusive licensing deal with Electronic Arts, it was released in October 2005 for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. Lawrence Taylor, who provides voice acting for the game, serves as its official spokesman. In 2006, a second version of the game was released on the Xbox 360 in October. In December 2006, a portable version was released on the PlayStation Portable (under the title Blitz: Overtime). These versions included the voicework and likeness of former pro linebacker Bill Romanowski.


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Any college student attending a modern day 4 year school or university is well mindful with the require to fund ones schooling via taking out university student loans. Indeed, through the study course of the 4 year education, one can get out many these loans - and upon graduation, every single one of them has to become paid out back. One can wind up with up to a dozen or much more loans, all with diverse terms.
Interest prices might be diverse, as well as the duration of time you must repay the quantity borrowed. The grace period you might be provided immediately after graduating might be various also. Obtaining all all those various payments to create can grow to be challenging and stressful. For this reason, several graduates choose to go the route of consolidating student loans as soon as they have obtained their first position right after graduating.
|Consolidating College Student Loans
Consolidating student loans has plenty of benefits. For one, you do not have to sit down and publish out a dozen different checks each and every month, all with a different due date. It can grow to be simple to neglect to make a payment within the several mortgage situation, with the attendant danger of hurting your credit worthiness in case you forget to create a payment.
Acquiring one payment to create rather than quite a few will go a lengthy approaches to reducing your tension ranges, which is going to be large enough using the duties that go with getting your initial actual occupation. In addition, you could wind up decreasing your overall payment fee whenever you consolidate all of your university student loans into one single payment. Due to the fact your credit score will likely be much better than it had been after you initial applied for the loans, your over-all charge of curiosity might be a great offer lower, leaving you having a lessen per month payment than you would have by writing checks to various different loan corporations.
Merely paying off all your old pupil loans by consolidating pupil loans will even support your credit score. All of these previous loans will exhibit as paid in full, this means you won't need to ever be concerned again about one of them obtaining a poor mark for the reason that you missed a payment. Obtaining all individuals loans compensated for will significantly increase your creditworthiness within the eyes with the rating companies.
You will find, on the other hand, a few things to consider when consolidating student loans. You'll would like to have a look at the complete payment you'll be accountable for making after you've got signed the consolidation arrangement. Commonly talking, it is going to be much less than that which you were having to pay just before, but be sure and retail outlet around, as you are able to get a wide selection of interest costs from unique pupil mortgage consolidation businesses.
Eventually, the rate of interest will probably be probably the most significant aspect, but you may also desire to compare mortgage origination charges, also as hardship provisions and grace intervals inside the situation that you simply previously become unemployed.
You will also wish to contemplate whether or not you will get a fixed charge of curiosity or even a variable charge. Having a fixed pace of curiosity, you will discover it less difficult to budget, as your payment will probably be the exact same each month. The trade off here is which you will probably possess a greater price of curiosity than you would if you went with a variable fee loan.
With a variable price mortgage, you might commence off having a lower price of interest, but when curiosity prices do go up, you will need to produce a bigger payment than you would have for those who had been making use of a fixed charge product rather. Given that your month to month payment could vary from month to month, you will need to have to allow for that in your regular monthly spending budget.
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RealSearch.Com needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 63 designs submitted by 16 freelance designers.
Real Search.Com
Kingdom Data Business; if you understand the Kingdom, you know why we are in business ! 180,000 members use our Business search data portals to find facts, uncover truth, and verify Identity. 17 years in business;
Clients include AT&T, DHL, Citicorp Global Risk, Travelers Insurance and many more. We are growing fast. January was a record month....
People and Business that use the web to uncover facts and run searches such as Criminal Records, Background Reports, finding friends alumni or relatives, verifying Identity, Find any email address, cell phone, reverse that mystery phone number, screen for Sex Offenders, Check a Date ... similar to http://www.intellius.com or http://www.integrascan.com
Punchy comptemporary
Blue and Yellow - fits with our sites
Business like and builds credibility but leaves intrigue......
try to meld a look that fits with http://www.feinsearch.com
and http://www.libertydata.net (i dont like this one btw...)
Our new site will be http://www.RealSearch.Com
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Q. I love what I'm seeing and hearing on WNIN! I want to help support the station. How can I make a financial contribution?
A. WNIN's secure online donation form makes it easy to make a one-time or monthly repeating donation.
Q. Where is the WNIN station located?
A. WNIN's headquarters is accessed via Bond Street in Downtown Evansville. Look for the big, gray house behind Pearl Cleaners. Click here for more specific directions.
Q. How quickly are local programs made available for watching online after they are aired on WNIN TV?
A. Local program episodes are made available as soon as is possible. It may be between a few days and a couple weeks, depending on how popular the episode is and how much time is available.
Q. What are the origins of WNIN?
A. WNIN began as a series of educational programs produced by the Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation in the 1950's. To find out how it transitioned from this to its current state, click here.
Q. How far do WNIN's TV and radio signals reach?
A. Despite the fact that WNIN is headquartered in Evansville, Indiana, its coverage area covers parts of Southern Indiana, Eastern Illinois, and Northern Kentucky. Click here for a map of our coverage area.
Q. Where does WNIN's funding come from?
A. WNIN receives some federal grants to aid in providing educational media to the Tri-State. However, the majority of the money that keeps WNIN running comes from the support of listeners like you. To view WNIN's public financial reports, click here.
Q. What does WNIN stand for?
A. Legend (and Wikipedia) has it that the last three letters are derived from "Channel NINe," the channel on which our TV station is broadcast. Add the mandatory 'W' at the beginning, and you get "WNIN," the station's call numbers.


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(Mar. 12/14) Ontario introduced its promised menu labelling legislation on Feb. 24. If passed, this legislation will require chain restaurants with more than 20 operations in the province to post calories on menus and menu boards.
When does it take effect?
Operators do not have to post calories on menus yet. Government will debate this legislation in the spring. If passed, it will take effect in early 2015.
What is Restaurants Canada doing?
Restaurants Canada has opposed this legislation since its inception, advocating instead for a national roll-out of the Informed Dining program. Informed Dining provides consumers with the full picture of nutritional information prior to ordering. A recentpublic opinion poll shows it meets consumer needs much better than calorie posting does. Click here for more information.
Should the Ontario legislation proceed, we've been assured that:
- sodium posting is not included in the legislation;
- menu labelling rules apply to retail foodservice for a level playing field; and
- no municipal bylaw can supersede the provincial law.
Our win on municipal bylaws is especially significant, as it prevents areas like Toronto from fulfilling threats to impose strict menu labelling laws on city restaurateurs. We will continue to push government to further amend this legislation to meet the needs of our members and consumers.


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Measures to Facilitate the Process of Mutual Understanding in Relations
with the USSR," by Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jiří Hájek,
April 17,1968 (Excerpts)
Source: ÚSD, AÚV KSČ, F. 07/15.
Foreign Minister Jiří Hájek made this proposal to the Czechoslovak leadership two weeks before a
delegation traveled to Moscow for bilateral talks. It reflects his awareness of the growing tensions in
Soviet-Czechoslovak relations, and records his suggestions on easing the pressure from Moscow.
Hájek's proposal assumes that the main reason for the deterioration of Soviet-Czechoslovak ties is that
"with few exceptions, the Soviet comrades do not understand the situation in our country." If Czechoslovak
officials could do a better job of "convincing the leaders of the CPSU and the Soviet state of the
overwhelmingly positive nature of the developments in our country," they would eventually succeed in
winning Moscow over, according to this position. For this reason, Hájek recommends that Dubček accept
the Soviet invitation to come to Moscow for bilateral consultations in order to address "the particular
lack of clarity" in the Kremlin concerning the reform movement.
to Facilitate the Process of Mutual Understanding
in Relations with the USSR
Relations between the ČSSR and the USSR have existed on a purely formal basis over recent years. This situation was undoubtedly caused by the position adopted by the CPCz CC regarding the dismissal of Cde. Khrushchev.6
Transformations in the Czechoslovak economy and certain traits in Czechoslovak culture have aroused doubts among several leading officials in the USSR, more often than not because of insufficient and inaccurate information.
Consequently, recent developments (from the plenum in October) have been followed with unusual attention.
In general one might say that, on the one hand, there are many people in the USSR who are keenly interested in the recent developments in Czechoslovakia, but on the other hand, the public at large is not properly informed. The result is a wide spectrum of views and responses, ranging from fears and fundamentally negative views to restraint and even great optimism….
The results of the January session of the CPCz CC, and the measures adopted there, have made a strong impression in the USSR. It is understandable that in such an agitated atmosphere a number of inaccurate or distorted views emerged. For example, concerns were expressed that Czechoslovakia had set out on the road of revisionism and was following the example of Yugoslavia or Romania. There were even suggestions that our policies were being driven by the difficult economic situation in our country or that our decisions were meant solely to alleviate nationality problems in the ČSSR. In these circumstances, it was a good thing that the Soviet
6 This is a reference to Antonín Novotný's opposition to Khrushchev's ouster, a position that hardly endeared him to
Khrushchev's successors.


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There seems to be one fundamental question that every startup needs to answer. And to a degree if you can answer this well, you've got a very good chance of being heard over the rest of the noise and maybe being the startup that is remembered.
I'm Chuck Goldstone. I live in the world of story. I've had a communication background since essentially the dawn of time. I got very interested in the startup world and had an opportunity to meet a number of really impressive people who had some really great ideas.
What Do You Do?
There is one question that is probably the most common question that people get asked, and that is simply, "What do you do?" I meet people all the time. I've met hundreds of startup CEOs over the last year or so, and people give an answer that is typically what they think an answer should sound like. We need to be able to effectively answer that question so that it prompts the answer, "That's interesting. Now tell me more," rather than "I have no idea what you're talking about," which they say silently and then they look over and say, "Oh, there's a table with pizza."
Why Should I Care?
Really listen to what the question is. The question is not, "How do you do it, and what color wire do you have, and can you tell me a lot of jargon about the space that you're in?" It is answering a bunch of very fundamental questions, which are, "Why do you deserve to be in the cosmos?" "What's the reason your company exists?" "What's the problem you're solving?" "What is an opportunity that's out there that no one's tapped before that you can tap because no one has, or maybe some an opportunity that someone has tapped before but you can do it maybe a little bit better?" And then the follow up question is, "Why should I care?"
What Can We Do Together?
So you need to make it not about you and what you do. But you need to make that problem or opportunity resonate with a person who is potentially going to be your stakeholder, the person you want to listen. Now that you have their interest, now that you have related it to why it is important to them, the ultimate question is, "What can we do now together?" Because when you think about it, your role in communicating who you are is generally not just to provide information. It is normally to springboard some kind of action, whether that person is a funder, potentially someone in your market, or anyone who can do you any good on your quest to make your company successful.


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Wednesday, 31 October 2007
Violent acts against retail staff have increased by 50 per cent in the past year, according to a new survey published yesterday (October 30th).The British Retail Consortium's (BRC) 2007 Retail Crime Survey also revealed that the number of threats of violence doubled, while the number of incidents per employee rose by a third.Following the results the BRC has called for action from both the government and police to combat the problem, which may affect university leavers looking to pursue graduate retail careers.BRC director general, Kevin Hawkins, said: "Last year shop staff were subjected to around half a million incidents of abuse or violence in their work places and retailers clocked up even greater losses to theft. It's clear the current approach is not working."The government and law enforcers must stop believing retail crime as victimless and committed by harmless petty criminals," he added. While this year's figures saw an increase in violence against retail staff, the results of the same survey in 2006 revealed a 50 per cent fall in the number of violent incidents experienced by retail staff.


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MANHASSET, NY – The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) and the American Brain Foundation will present the 2015 Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick's, Alzheimer's and Related Diseases to Peter Davies, PhD, investigator at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. He will receive the prize on April 21 in Washington, DC at the American Academy of Neurology's 67th Annual Meeting, which is the world's largest gathering of neurologists with more than 12,000 attendees and more than 2,500 scientific presentations on the latest research advances in brain disease.
The Potamkin Prize honors researchers for their work in helping to advance the understanding of Pick's disease, Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. The AAN and the American Brain Foundation are awarding the 2015 Potamkin Prize to Dr. Davies and Reisa A. Sperling, MD, of the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA. The $100,000 prize – Dr. Davies and Dr. Reisa will each receive $50,000 – is an internationally recognized tribute for advancing dementia research. Dr. Davies' research examines the process of Alzheimer's disease.
"The problems with memory and other intellectual function that occur in Alzheimer's disease are accompanied by the development of two abnormal structures in the brain called plaques and tangles," said Dr. Davies. "In contrast to other work in the field, my guiding hypothesis has been that both these abnormalities derive from a disease process in the nerve cells and are consequences of disease, not the cause. Therefore, my research has largely focused on the disease process, and attempting to define points at which intervention is possible. A more detailed understanding of the process is essential to the development of drugs to slow, stop, or even prevent it."
Dr. Davies is the director of the Litwin-Zucker Research Center for the Study of Alzheimer's Disease at the Feinstein Institute and professor of Pathology and Neuroscience at the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine. For more than 35 years, Dr. Davies' research has been focused on biochemistry of Alzheimer's disease. He has published more than 250 research papers and has been particularly interested in the development of new treatments and diagnostic tests for Alzheimer's disease. He has received numerous awards for his research, including the City of New York Liberty Medal, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Congress on Alzheimer's Disease (ICAD) and the first Metropolitan Life Foundation Prize. Dr Davies has also received two MERIT awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIMH, 1989-1999, and NIA 2003-2013).
"I am very grateful to the Potamkin family for the encouragement this award offers," said Dr. Davies. "Funding for research in Alzheimer's disease and related disorders is vitally important. The Potamkin family has continued to support this work in hopes of helping the millions affected by these diseases."
About The American Academy of Neurology
The American Academy of Neurology, an association of more than 28,000 neurologists and neuroscience professionals, is dedicated to promoting the highest quality patient-centered neurologic care. A neurologist is a doctor with specialized training in diagnosing, treating and managing disorders of the brain and nervous system such as Alzheimer's disease, stroke, migraine, multiple sclerosis, brain injury, Parkinson's disease and epilepsy. For more information about the American Academy of Neurology, visit www.aan.com.
About The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Headquartered in Manhasset, NY, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research is home to international scientific leaders in many areas including Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, psychiatric disorders, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, sepsis, human genetics, pulmonary hypertension, leukemia, neuroimmunology, and medicinal chemistry. The Feinstein Institute, part of the North Shore-LIJ Health System, ranks in the top 6th percentile of all National Institutes of Health grants awarded to research centers. For more information, visit FeinsteinInstitute.org.
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Write a computer program to play chess. It doesn't have to play particularly well, just display an ability comparable to the average human being who has some aptitude for the game.
What is the point of that? Computers have been playing passable games of chess for almost as long as there have been computers. In 1996 IBM's Deep Blue defeated the human grandmaster Gary Kasparov, surely moving chess-playing into the "solved" column of computer science. In hindsight, making chess a benchmark of artificial intelligence seems like a mistake. To play well one must be able to quickly enumerate a large but nevertheless finite and well-defined search space, something that computers are better at than human beings. Suggest something harder.
But wait, I was serious about that "average human being" part. For example, a human being can play on all sorts of sets. The board can be a piece of black-and-white cardboard with a fold down the middle, an unrolled green-and-tan square of felt, or rigid expensive carpentry with mother-of-pearl squares. There can be wood pieces, plastic pieces. Novelty sets with chessmen in the shape of Civil War soldiers or J.R.R. Tolkien characters. Stylized two-dimensional shapes from a newspaper column, or those same shapes projected on the screen of a different chess-playing computer program. Make your program handle that.
That's probably doable. Distilling the common essence of these various situations (thirty-two identifiable things, grouped into various equivalence classes, arranged on an 8×8 grid) is about state of the art for computer vision. It is straightforward to formulate a machine learning approach to a chessboard/not-chessboard classification. To identify individual pieces and their relevant spatial relationships to each other is harder, but let's say it too is doable. "Merely" an engineering task. You may elect to put an image processing layer of sufficient accuracy in front of your traditional chess-playing program, in whose source code I could no doubt find strings like "bishop", "board_position", and "legal_to_castle".
But the average person isn't born knowing anything about bishops or board positions or castling. We don't have the capacity for identifying knights (paradigmatically horses, but in failing that the most contextually horse-like things in a set of fourteen other things) hard-wired into our brains. So it is cheating to hard-code a concept of knight into your program, or even to have amassed pictures of knights as part of the training process for a computer vision system. (And what does "contextually" mean anyway?) No, you must write a program that when presented with a series of chess-like situations is somehow able to discern their significance.
(You are allowed to write a program learn to play chess by having the game explained to it. That is how most people learn. In this case, though, your program would have to understand human language.)
What is a chess-like situation? How do you steer your program's attention towards those things in particular? Why does a person play chess? For enjoyment, intellectual challenge? To be sociable, or to satisfy a competitive urge? The earn masters' points, to win, to prove yourself, to hustle money in Washington Square Park? How do you incline a machine to arrange these disparate concepts around a hub of black-and-white and thirty-two pieces? (And it must be thirty-two. If someone presents your program with a setup missing a queen, or with the pieces lying in a jumble in the middle of the board, it must be able to identify this as "not-chess" and fail to play in an appropriate manner.) I haven't even asked you to build a robot to pick up chessmen and physically move them, even though that is what people do too, and also aren't born knowing how to do it. How do you pick chess out from the general flow of life?


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Organizers of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics must finalize their budget as soon as possible, the International Olympic Committee said on Sunday as focus shifted to the South American city on the last day of the London Games.
Rio, which will become the first city on the continent to host the summer Olympics, has yet to announce a budget for the Games in four years time and there has been growing concern organizers were not proceeding as fast as the IOC would like.
"We are asking for the budget to be finalized as soon as possible," IOC chief Jacques Rogge told reporters before the London closing ceremony. "We are working together in the establishment of the budget."
The IOC's chief inspector for progress in Rio, Nawal El Moutawakel, had said in a report before the London Games that "very vigorous coordination" was needed, urging organizers to speed up preparations.
Rio Olympics organizers have so far declined to speculate on the overall Games-related budget, which in London has topped 9 billion pounds ($14.1 billion). The Brazilian city was awarded the Games three years ago but has yet to finalize its plan.
Rio mayor Eduardo Paes said on August 3: "We cannot give an overall cost because some projects are still being defined."
He added: "We can only disclose the cost of the Olympics when everything is ready. Everything depends on the projects."
Brazil's economy has stalled as weak manufacturing activity, financial contagion from the euro zone and souring investor sentiment take the shine off what had been one of the world's most dynamic emerging markets when Rio was awarded the Olympics in 2009.


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Everyone likes to display all the lovely Christmas cards they get during the season, but what do you do once Christmas is over? Put them in a box somewhere? Throw them out?
Why not make them into a wreath to be displayed the next year?
I love Christmas cards, so I decided to upcycle them into a fun wreath. All you really need is the cards, a flat wreath form, and a glue stick. I found this 12″ wreath at Michael's for $2 – you could also cut cardboard into a circle, but I decided to go the simpler route.
You'll also need to find some round objects of varying sizes to trace circles around. I used a reindeer coaster, snowflake glass, and a large glue stick for the little circles.
It's best to pick a theme of colors. My cards definitely weren't all uniform or anything, but I went with a blue/white theme with accents of red and green, so it wouldn't all clash.
Then just start tracing and cutting.
Arrange your circles in the pattern you want them, then glue them on a section at a time.
Finally, add a ribbon for hanging.
I have been playing with the idea of upcycling other cards, too, like birthdays. You could make other forms of art, not just wreaths. I'll let you know if I make any more upcycled card crafts. 🙂


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For Antisocial Networking's "Coming out of Comic Book Closet" contest:
It may surprise some of you (sarcasm), but I was geeked from birth. Straight from the get go "the Simpsons" were almost the entirety of my life, and my hero was either Herman Munster, Maxwell Smart, or Batman (it switched around a lot). I believe I can blame a good chunk of my geekiness on my father never censored what media I was exposed to. I mean, my father took me to see "Escape from L.A." when it came out…I was seven.
Like most people I was not aware who I was right away (I'm actually still unsure), but I ran into a pretty large signpost in the fifth grade:
It was a day or two before Christmas and the teacher (who was noticeably hung over) declared the we were going have a trivia contest, and we had to split up in to groups. Me being the socially awkward child I was I wasn't to happy to do the whole "group thing" so the teacher paired me with the "weird kid" (who interestingly enough burnt down two buildings six years later). The contest started and it was almost all popular culture.
An hour and 50 to 70 questions later my team had won by an overwhelming margin (I can't remember, but I was at least 200 points past everyone). That moment of victory and the crushing alienation of my peers because of my victory cemented the fact that I was indeed a geek.
I all went down hill from there for the young geek Caveman. A month later I started collecting comic books, and two months after that I started the Hobbit (which oddly cemented my love of reading).


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I Still have a Christmas Wreath on my door and it's MARCH! I wanted to make a wreath that would be good for spring, summer, and fall so I wouldn't have to keep changing it! I also wanted it to be personal! I knew I wanted all of my kids first letters somewhere in it.
Then I thought of a fun idea to use the fabric from clothing they grew out of!
Here is a picture of the clothing I picked out to use to make the flowers. The flower with their letter in it was made out of an article of clothing they actually wore! The most special flower is little Rowens. The onesie I used to make the light blue petals, all 3 of my boys wore!
All you do is cut circles out of the fabric. You need 5 circles per flower.
My circles were about 4 1/2 inches.
The larger you make the circle, the larger your flower will be.
Iron your circles and then fold them in half two times and iron them again.
All you do is stitch the cut edge and then pull the stitch tight to make a petal.
With the same piece of thread keep stitching your folded circles together.
After you have stitched five folded circles, connect the first and last together to make your flower.
Here are the four flowers I made all stitched together.
You can really use anything in the middle of your flowers. Some examples could be buttons or jewels. I happened to find these cute chalkboard clips in the dollar section at Target. I just pulled the little wooden flower off of the clip.
Then I hot glued them to the center of my fabric flowers.
As you can see below, I also made a flower out of cream ribbon to add to the wreath to put a W for our last name in it.
Once all of my flowers were done I printed each letter on paper just the right size to fit in the center of each flower. I sealed them on using Mod Podge.
This last step can really be done however you want it depending on your style.
I love stick wreaths and I also bought some cream flower embellishments to add.
Here is my finished wreath and I couldn't be more pleased!
It makes my door look so much more inviting and just in time for Spring!


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this is the think space for the artist formely known as ken lashley but goes by the name ledkilla while on this Blog. I will show my junk....but most of all I will show my Candy yams.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
the new stuff..Transgaming and life..
Hey all...so life is rolling along.l just got a call from lucasfilm to do some very cool stuff on a new upcoming project with the home of the jedi. l also have the first mouse pad done with my artwork at Transgaming...and l have my stack of Xmen books..l have a few commissions to do hahaha.
that is a skateboard l'm donating to a friend in Florida for a great cause.
also...if you ride a horse..you must have strong core muscles....and there is only one way to do that....oh, my your bad.
Posted by ken lashley at 1:06 PM
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- Mr.McCall said...
Hey Ken
John mccall here
Nice stuff man.
You always make me want to draw.
drop me a line.
- November 3, 2010 at 2:05 PM
Hello Mr Lashley.
This is an old intern of yours... Jonathan barker. Long time huh?
I sent you a long message on your blog site...
If you do not get it email me at email@example.com and i'll send it to whatever address you like.
Your art and style, as always, is an inspiration.
- November 5, 2010 at 5:32 AM
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Unmanned Aircraft Take on Increased Importance
By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, July 23, 2009 – The U.S. military's expanded overseas use of unmanned aircraft highlights the increased importance of such aerial platforms to current and future military operations, senior Air Force officers said here today.
The Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight Plan announced today will serve as a template for how the Air Force will look in 2047 – the 100th anniversary of the U.S. Air Force -- Gen. William M. Fraser III, the Air Force's vice chief of staff, told reporters at a Pentagon news conference.
"The future of our systems is really now," Fraser said. "The Air Force today looks dramatically different than it did 35 years ago when I first came aboard on active duty."
The flight plan, he explained, lays out the Air Force's "vision for maximizing our efforts in unmanned aerial systems" today and in the future.
"We'll continue to push the UAS envelope," Fraser said, adding that unmanned systems are unmanned in name only.
"While there may be no airmen onboard the actual vehicle, there indeed are airmen involved in every step of the process," Fraser said, including the pilots who operate the vehicles' remote controls and sensors and maintenance personnel.
Unmanned aircraft systems "represent an important addition to our comprehensive set of Air Force capabilities that actually define air power," Fraser said.
Lt. Gen. David A. Deptula, the Air Force's deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, told reporters that unmanned aircraft systems have proven effective during aerial strike missions against insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan, while also performing surveillance and intelligence-gathering missions.
Persistent flight capability, Deptula said, is one of the advantages of employing unmanned aerial vehicles in military missions.
"What UASs bring to the table," Deptula explained, "is the ability to stay in position or maneuver over large areas for a long period of time – that's where a person in an aircraft becomes a limitation."
UAS mission success rates have resulted in high demand for the unmanned aerial platforms, Deptula said, noting that high- and medium-altitude UAS overseas combat missions have increased more than 600 percent during the past six years.
"What the Air Force wants to do," Deptula said, "is to get the most out of these systems to increase our joint warfighting capability, while promoting service interdependency and the wisest use of our taxpayer dollars."
Yet, Deptula said, the flight plan isn't just about how UASs are employed today, but also about how unmanned aerial technology could be applied in different mission realms in order to confront future challenges. For example, he said, UAS technology could one day be used in a modular platform that could perform a variety of tasks, such as cargo transport and aircraft refueling missions.
Deptula equated today's level of UAS development with the progress made in manned aircraft in the 1920s.
There's "lots of potential" for expanding UAS technology across the military in the coming years, Deptula said, but he also pointed out that replacing conventional fighter planes and pilots with unmanned aerial vehicles is a long way off.
The flight plan doesn't provide specific solutions, but it does address "concepts and possibilities that will fill in and morph over time," said Col. Eric Mathewson, the director of the Air Force's UAS Task Force.
The plan, Mathewson said, "allows us to reach out and talk to academia and industry, the other services, [Defense Department]-wide, our coalition and allied partners, and work together in a more efficient and synergistic way."
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Monday, 23 April 2012
Dolman Cool Cat
It's a busy time of the year for sew-alongs*! Right on the back of the Spring Top Sewalong is Elsie Marley's Kid's Clothes Week. Theoretically I should be able to participate in this one more, as I sew kids clothes for a living and all.
So first up is this dolman top, a pattern that I drafted last summer, used precisely once, and then bunged in my to-do pattern pile. My, my, the girl has certainly grown in a year. Using the same size (which I remembered as being too big), this top has come up a bit small.
It's that belly / bum double whammy. As always.
Until a couple of hours ago, I thought of a dolman style tee as being a pattern for the girls but now that I've seen it on I think it'd be cute on boys too. What do you think, mums-of-boys and people-with-opinions?
*I'm actually fomenting plans for my very own sew-along and the pattern I have in mind is for girls. If there's enough dissent by disgruntled boy-sewers, I'll rethink though. Speak now or forever hold your peace!
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Such a cute top (and model)ReplyDelete
We need to get our girls together because Maia reminds me so much of Rheya. They even have the same hair! Colour, length, straighness and that whispy bit at the front (that everyone keeps calling a fringe and it's not a damn fringe, it's just baby hair that never seems to grow)
I vote for boys!! :o)ReplyDelete
I like that style of top but I would have to see it on a boy to pass judgement on its boyness. I'm not sure...ReplyDelete
And you have edumacated me today, I had to look up 'fomenting'.
Would love to see this on a boy to see if it works... But a sew-along including boys wear would defo get my vote! :)ReplyDelete
Please count me amongst the boy-voters...there's SO MUCH for girls sewing-wise (though the situation is at last improving) that the world could always use more boy sewalongs et al.ReplyDelete
I have a boy and when he was that age, he gave me fits over it being for a girl when I tried it. It's cute and all, but definitely more to the feminine side. YMMV of course.ReplyDelete
i think you could use it for a boy - stripes would be lovely! but whjat does Jamie think?ReplyDelete
And i vote for a girl's sewalong!
disgruntled boy sewer chiming in - would love to sew along with you!ReplyDelete
A a boy mama it looks fine. Would need to square off the sleeves a little, or make them shorter. =)ReplyDelete
i am a person with an opinion. i think a boy sew-along would be awesome. no matter what you select, i can stick a ruffle on it or make it hot pink and ta-da! girl!ReplyDelete


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Let There Be Dark! Opening Ceremony
Saturday 21 December 2016
...And I am telling you this in the Dark
In the Dark I am telling you this
Yet my words are unlit
In the Dark I am passing you unlit words
That you cannot see
My words are searching the darkness
Seeking you whom I cannot see
And yet, and yet, and yet
It is in the darkness that we meet
And together we wash
The overwintering seed.
A very special start to our Festival of the Dark, and great thanks to Olympia Ballroom for hosting the night so beautifully. The evening began with dinner, in the dark, whilst Edward Chilvers treated us to a recital of his polyrhythmic compositions. The frisson of the dark stirred conversations not dissimilar to those heard at weddings, but people gradually allowed themselves to sink into the unique nature of the experience, and to make the most of this opportunity. A spoken word exploration of darkness followed, written by Jennifer Leach and performed by herself and Racquel Jory-Phelps. Edward shared his Bwiti harp music from Gabon, and the evening ended with a sound bath from Padimi Healing Sounds. Gongs, wooden flutes, voice, drums, singing bowls and more, wove a meditative tapestry of sound that fell upon us as the blessing it was.
Best feedback: 'Such an unfolding of community in darkness - what a beautiful start to a festival' (James Hughes)
'We were disappointed it was not dark enough' (many people)


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Roasted Pumpkin and Feta Quinoa Salad20:36
If you're into health and fitness, quinoa is popping up here and there! Quinoa is a grain that has many health benefits. It is believed to reduce diabetes, lowering cholesterol and allows you to feel fuller for longer as it is full of fibres. Additionally quinoa contains many vitamins and is iron rich. All in all, quinoa has several health benefits and it doesn't taste too bad either!
I've been having this salad at least once for the last couple of weeks! You can take or put anything you want with this salad depending on what you like!
Cooking the Quinoa:
Based on what I've learnt from researching, 1 cup of quinoa is equal to 2 cups of water. I pour the amount of quinoa I need, strain it while the water is running to wash it slightly before I cook it. Pour the quinoa into a pot, with the correct amount of water and heat it on medium to low for approximately 10-15 minutes. After that, I let it sit there until its relatively cold.
The Salad toppings:
Like I said, put whatever you please with your quinoa. These are my favourite toppings:
-Roasted Pumpkin (cut into pieces roasted with rosemary in the over 10 mins on each side at 220° C)
-Chopped Cucumber
-Smoked Salmon pieces (I like to put salmon as it gives it a bit more flavour but other forms of meat could be added)
Squeeze a bit of lemon and season with salt and pepper and it's good to eat! Or refrigerate it and have it for lunch the next day!
Hope you like this recipe!
Lots of Love,