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Two days ago I already published my review on the designated speech by British PM David Cameron.
However, today the actual speech was held and it contained aspects that have not been dealt with in my first article. My article, as you might know, was based on the highlights of the speech as collected last Friday by press bureau Reuters. These parts have probably been leaked as a teaser for the real thing.
Today the full speech was published in the Guardian. I will pick out the highlights that have not been discussed yet in my first article and enhance them with my comments. The parts that have been discussed in the first article will be skipped. As hereunder will not be the complete speech, I gladly refer to my first article (2nd link) and the article in the Guardian.
[…] today the main, overriding purpose of the European Union is different [from the purpose in the beginning – EL]: not to win peace, but to secure prosperity.
The challenges come not from within this continent but outside it. From the surging economies in the east and south. Of course a growing world economy benefits us all, but we should be in no doubt that a new global race of nations is under way today.
So I want to speak to you today with urgency and frankness about the European Union and how it must change – both to deliver prosperity and to retain the support of its peoples.I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too.
I don't like the arrogance in this part of the speech: what is good for the United Kingdom is good for Europe. And what Cameron wants is good for the UK. That dog don't hunt.
Cameron – of all persons – should understand that different countries and people have different needs. Those are not Cameron's needs.
The [European] union is changing to help fix the currency – and that has profound implications for all of us, whether we are in the single currency or not.
Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the right governance and structures to secure a successful currency for the long term. And those of us outside the eurozone also need certain safeguards to ensure, for example, that our access to the single market is not in any way compromised.
The UK made a choice to not enter the Euro. It had of course the right to do so. But please, Cameron should not complain when the rules within the Euro-zone are changed and not in his favor. If you go to the prom, but don't dress up to it, you should not complain that the prom queen won't dance with you. So simple is that.
The UK will probably keep its safeguards as long as it stays in the EU, as the EU doesn't have a history of closing out countries. However, the country will not be pampered extra for keeping its own currency. It had drawbacks to enter the euro-zone and it had/has drawbacks to stay outside it. Accept those and don't whine about it,
Second, while there are some countries within the EU which are doing pretty well. Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the competitiveness challenge – and much of our weakness in meeting it is self-inflicted.
Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon. Just as excessive regulation is not some external plague that's been visited on our businesses.
He is right here, but he (hence: Britain) has not been an outsider in creating these rules and regulations in the past. The EU are 27 frogs in a wheel-barrow and Cameron wants it to remain that way. Those rules and regulations were created to keep all 27 countries happy; not one central government in Brussels. If some rules go too far, then Cameron must try to convince the other member states in a democratic and political fashion. If he can't do so and he doesn't want to live by those rules, get out of the EU.
So let me set out my vision for a new European Union, fit for the 21st century.
It is built on five principles.
The first: competitiveness. At the core of the European Union must be, as it is now, the single market. Britain is at the heart of that single market, and must remain so.
But when the single market remains incomplete in services, energy and digital – the very sectors that are the engines of a modern economy – it is only half the success it could be.
Putting the single market in the core of the EU, is underestimating what the rest of the EU stands for. This is a very simplistic view from an islander, who doesn't understand how important the other European goals are for the other countries in Europe.
The subjects "services, energy and digital" are important for Britain, but are they equally important for the rest of Europe? Germany, Austria, France and Italy for instance are very INDUSTRIAL, but also Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) oriented nations and earn their money with that.
Spain and Greece are moving away from agriculture towards industrialization and green energy. The East-European state suffer from a totally obsolete industry and widespread poverty and behindness. They currently see their people as their most important export product.
Britain's priorities are not their priorities (yet).
And does Cameron want centralized steering to achieve the goals towards these sectors Energy, Services and Digital? He, who was against centralized steering?
I want us to be at the forefront of transformative trade deals with the US, Japan and India as part of the drive towards global free trade. I would ask: when the competitiveness of the single market is so important, why is there an environment council, a transport council, an education council but not a single market council?
The last sentence is a good question. What Cameron fails to understand is that "global free trade" gives many workers and lower-class citizens in Britain (and abroad) the willies. Global free trade will cost them their job or a large share of their salary, when knowledge workers from low-wage countries work for a bargain price. Or when Chinese or Vietnamese factories produce household appliances for a price far below the costprice in Europe.
I'm not per se against global free trade, but here Cameron is confusing the interests of his Tory grassroots with the interests of Europe.
The second principle should be flexibility.
We need a structure that can accommodate the diversity of its members – north, south, east, west, large, small, old and new. Some of whom are contemplating much closer economic and political integration. And many others, including Britain, who would never embrace that goal.
I accept, of course, that for the single market to function we need a common set of rules and a way of enforcing them. But we also need to be able to respond quickly to the latest developments and trends.
Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness – or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.
The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc.
Also here Cameron is confusing the interests of him and his grassroots with the interests of Great Britain and the EU as a whole. This is quite arrogant again. The "EU as a network" sounds quite nice for the "financial dudes in the London city", but for the jobless ex-miner in Yorkshire or the low-paid factory worker, this sounds probably much less attractive.
We must not be weighed down by an insistence on a one size fits all approach which implies that all countries want the same level of integration. The fact is that they don't and we shouldn't assert that they do.
Instead, let's start from this proposition: we are a family of democratic nations, all members of one European Union, whose essential foundation is the single market rather than the single currency.
The European treaty commits the member states to "lay the foundations of an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe".
This has been consistently interpreted as applying not to the peoples but rather to the states and institutions compounded by a European court of justice that has consistently supported greater centralisation.
We understand and respect the right of others to maintain their commitment to this goal. But for Britain – and perhaps for others – it is not the objective.
We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal of co-operation. This vision of flexibility and co-operation is not the same as those who want to build an ever closer political union – but it is just as valid.
Cameron has a point with the first paragraph. Still, his focus on the single market ignores the political meaning behind the single currency and the history before this currency came. Yes, the Euro is not perfect at all, but a lot of people in Europe feel very comfortable having it. They would hate to go back to the situation of the Europe with the 27 currencies.
The flexible union is like the political version of the drive-in restaurant. You can order what you want and leave the rest behind. That is not the foundation that the EU is built upon and it is a mirage that you can change the EU to something like this. Forget it, Mr. Cameron.
My third principle is that power must be able to flow back to member states, not just away from them. This was promised by European leaders at Laeken a decade ago.It was put in the treaty. But the promise has never really been fulfilled. We need to implement this principle properly.
In Britain we have already launched our balance of competences review – to give us an informed and objective analysis of where the EU helps and where it hampers.
I can understand Cameron in the first paragraph. Europe decides on a mighty lot of subjects and not all decisions ("the maximum curve in a cucumber") are very useful. However, what Europe did is giving people (human) rights and (when necessary) protection against their own government. One more thing. If we would investigate in The Netherlands which government body makes most rules: the Dutch government or the EU, I know who would 'win' this contest. And it is not the EU… I cannot imagine that the situation in Great Britain differs much from The Netherlands.
I wonder if the British 'Commons is not also a regulation machine, like the Dutch government.
The EU is not the drive-in restaurant where you can take out what 'helps' and leave behind what 'hampers'. This is naive and stupid.
Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything. For example, it is neither right nor necessary to claim that the integrity of the single market, or full membership of the European Union requires the working hours of British hospital doctors to be set in Brussels irrespective of the views of British parliamentarians and practitioners.
In the same way we need to examine whether the balance is right in so many areas where the European Union has legislated including on the environment, social affairs and crime.
Cameron must not forget that it were/are the EUROPEAN GOVERNMENT LEADERS who had/have the final word in almost any decision on regulations and legislations! Not a nameless apparatchik in the Supreme Soviet. Brussels is not Moscow in the seventies. Cameron, Merkel, Sarkozy, Mark Rutte and Silvio Berlusconi were all part of Brussels!
He must also not forget that many European rules and legislations are about protection of people. From their government, but also from themselves and from people they are confronted with (bosses, colleagues and managers, but also other citizens, people in the traffic around them, civil servants and central government representatives).
To reside with the "hospital doctor" from Cameron's example: how sharp is a doctor after a 60 hour working week? Would you like to be the person on his operating table, when this doctor is exhausted?! The 48 hour working week as regulated by the EU has a clear purpose. However, if the UK does not like it, they can always try to renegotiate those regulations.
Ultimately, they could choose to leave the EU, as it is not a prison camp where you are involuntarily kept hostage. The British made a well-considered choice to enter the EU and they could now make a well-considered choice to leave it.
My fourth principle is democratic accountability: we need to have a bigger and more significant role for national parliaments.
There is not, in my view, a single European demos.
It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.
It is to the Bundestag that Angela Merkel has to answer. It is through the Greek parliament that Antonis Samaras has to pass his government's austerity measures.
It is to the British parliament that I must account on the EU budget negotiations, or on the safeguarding of our place in the single market.
I also would like the EU to be much more democratic. Still, this is a part where I'm utterly in conflict with Cameron. Currently, the national parliament of Germany ("Der Bundestag") and the constitutional court in Karlsruhe could decide over the future of the EU, through Germany's veto. How democratic is that?!
For the UK the national parliament is an important source. The UK is large enough to use its full democratic force within the EU. However, if you live in… say Lithuania: how much influence you think that your national parliament has in the EU?! Close to… nothing?!
The sad truth is that Europe's future direction is decided upon by a few countries with a disproportionate large amount of influence: France, Germany, Italy and… the UK. If Cameron would not have messed up in December, 2011, he still would have had much influence. The relatively poor, "small" countries, like Greece, the Baltic states and the former Eastern Block countries (except for Poland) have the least influence, while they are at the same time the most dependent on the EU for their future.
I'm an advocate of the "one man, one vote" principle and I would like to have much more democratic influence on the European government bodies.The European Parliament is unfortunately a toothless tiger with too litle power. The European Commission consists of too many (weak) politicians that are often appointed as a favor for their glorious past, not for their brilliant future. Or they are chosen, because they offend nobody with their personality.
These circumstances made the EU and the European Commission such a disliked and distrusted institute. The representatives of these institutes are untouchable and invisible, because "we" made them untouchable and invisible. We includes you, Mr. Cameron!
My fifth principle is fairness: whatever new arrangements are enacted for the eurozone, they must work fairly for those inside it and out.
Our participation in the single market, and our ability to help set its rules is the principal reason for our membership of the EU.
This is again an egocentrical and very narrow-minded look at Europe and the Euro-zone by Cameron. EU is not the single market alone. So don't treat it like it is.
And don't cry about new arrangements for the Euro-zone. The UK decided that it (probably) never wants to be part of it. That was their own deliberate decision.
However, the large majority of the EU decided that it wanted to be in the Euro-zone. They now set the rules for the Euro-zone. The Euro-zone has more than enough courtesy to respect the rights of the countries without the Euro.
This has happened in the past and it will remain happening in the future. However, you can't fly business class if you don't want to pay extra for the ticket. Therefore you can't decide on the future of the Euro-zone when you didn't want to be part of it in the past. That is simple…
Today, public disillusionment with the EU is at an all-time high. There are several reasons for this.
People feel that the EU is heading in a direction that they never signed up to. They resent the interference in our national life by what they see as unnecessary rules and regulation. Put simply, many ask "why can't we just have what we voted to join – a common market?"
They are angered by some legal judgements made in Europe that impact on life in Britain. Some of this antipathy about Europe in general really relates of course to the European court of human rights, rather than the EU.
Is this the opinion of whole Great Britain? Or the opinion of Cameron and his Tory friends? Let's ask Nick Clegg of the LibDems. The bashing of the European court of human rights might be logical, but in my humble opinion it is not fair.
At the same time Cameron is right about the disillusionment with the EU. This is a logical result of the trying and pessimistic times that we are in currently. People are more focused inside. It is also a result of the lack of democracy of the current EU.
National politicians are also to blame: good and favorable European regulations were their achievement, while "bad" and unfavorable EU regulations could be blamed on the Supreme Soviet in "Brusselgrad".
There is, indeed, much more that needs to be done on this front. But people also feel that the EU is now heading for a level of political integration that is far outside Britain's comfort zone.They see treaty after treaty changing the balance between member states and the EU. And note they were never given a say.
The result is that democratic consent for the EU in Britain is now wafer-thin.
Some people say that to point this out is irresponsible, creates uncertainty for business and puts a question mark over Britain's place in the European Union.But the question mark is already there and ignoring it won't make it go away.
Again, Cameron is right here. This can also be blamed on the current political structure of the EU, that causes the enormous influence of a few, large countries on the political process.
That is why I am in favour of a referendum. I believe in confronting this issue – shaping it, leading the debate. Not simply hoping a difficult situation will go away.
The European Union that emerges from the eurozone crisis is going to be a very different body. It will be transformed perhaps beyond recognition by the measures needed to save the eurozone.
We need to allow some time for that to happen – and help to shape the future of the European Union, so that when the choice comes it will be a real one.
A real choice between leaving or being part of a new settlement in which Britain shapes and respects the rules of the single market but is protected by fair safeguards, and free of the spurious regulation which damages Europe's competitiveness.
A new settlement subject to the democratic legitimacy and accountability of national parliaments where member states combine in flexible co-operation, respecting national differences not always trying to eliminate them and in which we have proved that some powers can in fact be returned to member states.
In itself, I am not very much opposed to this referendum. However, be a man and don't organize it in the distant future, while you use it to influence and even blackmail the EU partners.
And look too at what we have achieved already. Ending Britain's obligation to bail out eurozone members. Keeping Britain out of the fiscal compact. Launching a process to return some existing justice and home affairs powers. Securing protections on banking union. And reforming fisheries policy.
Hurrah! We profited from the single market. We have also profited from our exports to the PIIGS-countries. Our banks in the City were able to push these countries full with ridiculous loans for real estate and excess imports they should better not have purchased. We have made many billions of money on their misery. But we don't pay one penny to help solving the shit that we created ourselves. We leave it for other countries instead. On top of that, we were able to keep our London City a fiscal place for freebooters and fortune-hunters. We are heroes!
[…]I agree […] with what President Barroso and others have said. At some stage in the next few years the EU will need to agree on treaty change to make the changes needed for the long-term future of the euro and to entrench the diverse, competitive, democratically accountable Europe that we seek.
I believe the best way to do this will be in a new treaty so I add my voice to those who are already calling for this.My strong preference is to enact these changes for the entire EU, not just for Britain.
I really wonder if the rest of the EU is waiting for Britain's voice these days. I guess The Netherlands is, but I wonder if this is true for Spain, Hungary or Rumania.
[…] we will give the British people a referendum with a very simple in or out choice. To stay in the EU on these new terms, or come out altogether.
It will be an in-out referendum.
Legislation will be drafted before the next election. And if a Conservative government is elected we will introduce the enabling legislation immediately and pass it by the end of that year. And we will complete this negotiation and hold this referendum within the first half of the next parliament.
It is time for the British people to have their say. It is time to settle this European question in British politics.
If the UK doesn't want this referendum: vote Labour or LibDems. It's up to you.
Of course Britain could make her own way in the world, outside the EU, if we chose to do so. So could any other member state.
But the question we will have to ask ourselves is this: is that the very best future for our country?
If we leave the EU, we cannot of course leave Europe. It will remain for many years our biggest market, and forever our geographical neighbourhood. We are tied by a complex web of legal commitments.
Perhaps Cameron could try a large outboard engine of 21 trillion HP. Mount it at Dover and put the pedal to the metal.
This was a bad joke.
The real question is: what does Cameron want?! And does he really think that he can change the EU in such a way between now and 2017, that people who want to be out of the EU now, do change their mind in 2017?! Is he really that naive?!
Cameron has a habit of changing my opinion 180 degrees in a matter of days.
I was impressed by the speech that was leaked through Reuters. I didn't agree on anything, but I thought it was a very balanced and eloquent speech.
Today, I saw a different Cameron: a bit of a spoilt child that was whining and blackmailing his parents about the cookie he didn't get and how unhappy it would make him.
I am truly disappointed about this speech and I am convinced that he shot himself in the foot with it. The EU will never be the drive-in restaurant where "you can order what you like".
The EU is also so much more than just the single market alone. Cameron is to blame for not seeing this point. He talked about the Elysée treaty in his speech, but he didn't truly understand one syllable of it. He also doesn't understand what the ex-Eastern Block countries went through in the not too distant past and why these wanted so much to be a member of the EU: definitely not for the single market alone.
Therefore Cameron should have better followed my advice and forget the darn speech after all. Both the EU and the Tories (not even to mention Nigel Farage's UKIP) will dislike it: the EU because it goes too far and the Tories and UKIP, because it doesn't go far enough.
I warned him for that in my first article on his speech:
These preceding circumstances make David Cameron's speech very precarious, especially as a possible British referendum on the EU membership is like a giant elephant in the room: very much there, but supposedly not seen by anybody present.
If Cameron's speech is too much anti-EU, then he passes a point-of-no-return that hardly leaves him any other option then heading for the door of the EU. In this case, not only the EU, but also the US will be angry with the UK, thus further isolating the island.
However, when his speech is not sufficiently aggressive and critical towards the EU, he will not only lose the confidence of a large part of the British population, but also within his own Tory party and grassroots he might become a 'persona non grata'.
If I was David Cameron, I would start to suffer from a political pneumonia that keeps me in bed until the 23rd of January, hoping that everybody forgets about this doomed speech.
It's sad that he didn't follow-up a good advice!


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John King won the NextEra Energy Resources 250 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Daytona International Speedway on Friday night.
The victory for King came in his eight start in the series.
The victory came after a third green/white/checkered restart.
Timothy Peters finished second and Travis Kvapil was third.
The race featured several scary wrecks. The second-to-last last happened with seven laps to go and set up the first green/white/checkered restart.
When the race restarted after that wreck was cleaned up, Jason While had the lead while Johnny Sauter was next to him on the front row. Behind them were John King, Ron Hornaday Jr. and Todd Bodine.
Sauter took the lead on the restart with a push from Hornaday. But as the field headed to the white flag, another big wreck occurred back in the pack.
That set up the second G/W/C. Sauter had the lead with King behind him.
Just before the white flag, Sauter was bashed from behind by King causing a huge wreck. Sauter smashed the wall just before the start/finish line and his chance at victory ended.
The wreck brought out a red flag.
On the third G/W/C restart, King had the lead and held it.
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Hello Zesters! You may have been following along on our instagram about our journey to NY last week- it was epic! From missing our flight to having an amazing Hometalk forum to a LEGIT amount of snow and tons of yummy food- we had an adventure indeed! We were SO excited about this trip because not only were we able to meet Hometalk in person and get super inspired for 2017, but we also were able to do some research in NY for our pop up series as well as get some tourist hot spots in. One of those spots was Chelsea Market. Have you been here? Let us show you around….
But first the snow- wowzers! So beautiful!! Us little Cali girls were mesmerized.
We loved the brick walls, archaic concrete structures (like this bench) and exposed pipes everywhere. It was like being transported into an underground food and shopping court. This is our new bestie Barb from The Everyday Home – just taking a moment 🙂
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This year I'm building a new character for a LARP event and for once I'm doing it the right way. The right way is to think about the character in advance – giving me plenty of time to think about how to play and how to dress. Of course this luxury isn't always possible. Like a good many LARPers I've attended games at the last minute or faced the problem of – new character needed – you have an hour to come up with something.
So the luxury of time is a nice one.
The event I'm thinking about for this new persona is Mythlore New Lands. The game setting is middle-eastern fantasy. Not a genre I've played in before and so this means a whole new costume.
My starting point was the game organisers, who kept prompting me to come up with a character. They were incredibly helpful – and with assistance I created a background and skill set for the character. I won't say what these are – I want other players to discover this character via role-play and not on the pages of LARPBook.
Now that I have the character I need a costume.
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Today I received this news.
Dear Perry,
on October 22nd Paul Moor's urn burial took place at the cemetery in Berlin Steglitz, Bergstrasse 38. As Paul had wished, no sign marks his burial place.
Helmut and Christina Moeller and myself attended the burial.
He is buried in field 50 F. The cemetery administration keeps a record of the burials.
Cordial regards
Since Paul's death, his friends in Berlin helped drive out his apartment, catalog his papers and helped negotiate a permanent disposition of the papers and personal artifacts that he still left. Those things nowadays reside at the
Akademie der Künste. You might search "Paul Moor" in the Music archive section to see a listing of the sort of stuff that happen to be cataloged there and designed for inspection if you go to the academy. In the future those individual
information will be accessible online, once new computer software is installed and totally functional. Someone with an interest in cross-cultural influences might one day decide to research who the Texas-born Berliner was and what,
if any, influence that persona experienced culturally. Provided the disposition of Paul's personal memorabilia there in Berlin at the Akademie der Künste that analysis is now conceivable and I trust convenient.
Research want that will probably assess the person at a higher level. But there is certainly another Paul that some people knew even more privately. I initially met Paul in an online writers group, as I've documented before, in the first 1990s prior to the advent of the internet so that our assembly was via the BBS hub networks and their nightly transfer and distributions of packets of new posts to various community forums. His clever and witty make use of phrases appealed to my very own desire for words and phrase humor.
Earlier this July 4th, I delivered a request to a circle around 30 persons that I knew were friends or acquaintances with Paul on a personal level, inviting them to contribute their story of a vignette or incident that they would contribute to a crowd-sourced, collective word picture of the person many of us knew privately. Anybody who knew him, likewise knew that he was a mortal along with his show of flaws, annoyances, idiosyncrasies, and quirks that are, of course, just like the wrinkles on a person's deal with, a means of picturing the real guy who drove "assertively" anywhere to the opera but likewise acquired up and walked out if he wasn't impressed.
The response to my demand stories has been gratifying and promising aswell. Some have already shared some vignettes or recollections. Some possess promised to give it some believed and then to create them up. THEREFORE I anticipate reading those stories because they continue to can be found in.
I have been in touch with Paula Fox (Greenberg) who at 90 has known Paul since she was 16, most likely longer than anyone else alive, and Paula has shared some of her thoughts of their own time together. Talking to her, near 90, about her recollections of when she and Paul achieved as teens evokes the photograph from the movie Titanic of older people example of the Kate Winslet identity recalling her whirlwind experience with the Leonardo DiCaprio figure when they were both in the primary of their youth.
Finally, I wish to announce that To be able to facilitate sharing that sort of story, I've created a group on the subject of Facebook called Remembering Paul Moor. It really is open to anyone who might desire to become a member of and contribute or even to anyone who just wants to see what's there. Each is welcome.
You will find the group at www.facebook.com/groups/PaulMoorStories/ and I am hoping you can do so.
For starters Happy Birthday "Uncle" Paul!
Today could have been your 88th. It seems like a good period to create you once again. I stopped doing this when you passed away on October 11, 2010. I'm not also sure why really. As you know so well, writing is for a few of us as much about receiving what's inside out since it is about set up designed reader, such as yourself, will ever possibly hear or know very well what was said. That's particularly true in my own experienced when writing to dead people.
Because it's been such a long time since I've written you, I want to catch you and everybody else up on what has been happening because you shed this mortal coil and still left us to be on without you.
Archiv Paul Moor 6 BoxesI've gotten to know and revel in Wolfgang and Ingrid Petri because found in the wake of your passing, Wolfgang took a significant role found in clearing out your apartment, and along the way uncovered these six boxes of your issues, found in the same well-ordered status in which you had left them.
You know of course that I say that with my tongue planted firmly in my own cheek, because both of us know you used to be enraged together with your "Polish pearl" if she disturbed possibly one sheet of the piles of paper you kept lying on any and every horizontal surface on your own desk or the ground around your computer in your office. Hence sorting through your points became a considerable undertaking, however your Berlin network of friends dug into the job diligently and with German productivity and dedication to precision. Once the records, memorabilia, scraps of paper, pictures of men and women and dogs you achieved along the way, all have been identified, sorted and in many cases scanned, the dilemma of where to provide these treasures a everlasting home arose. We investigated what your options were.
During that search, Archive Paul Moor Dr. W. GrünzweigNancy Chapple place us in touch with Dr. Werner Gruenzweig at the Akademie der Künste. We talked about our goals for your items and reached contract to really have the Akademie take possession of these and make them open to whomever might desire to analysis them. Dr. Gruenzweig sometimes appears at the left taking possession of these boxes after their arrival at the repository on February 17, 2012, where they will be placed alongside those of other distinguished persons such as yourself.
Archive Paul Moor Storage space of the AcademySo there, Paul, now I've told you about our decisions. I am hoping you are in least half as delighted as I am with this disposition of your estate and your choice we, your heirs, possess made. It is another tribute to the life you led, the contributions you built, and to the crowd of good friends whose lives you touched and whom you left still wanting more. The level can be empty of your occurrence and many folks still miss you, possibly this long once you left us.
So I easily write to your recollection and tell you just like you were still here that if you are gone, you aren't forgotten, nor are you apt to be for a long period to come.
Today We celebrate your birthday, my dear good old friend.


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I cannot believe it is already the beginning of a new season! Summer came and went and my tan has already begun to fade (…well, peel). So before I totally bid my farewells to the warmer months, I decided to make some summer inspired, bright colourful cupcakes in collaboration with Nespresso's newest Decaffeinato blends. As someone who has always embraced a fully caffeinated coffee, I originally questioned my need for the newest decaf pods, but after eating more cupcakes than I'd like to admit (…seriously, like don't even ask), I was thanking my lucky stars these babies were caffeine free, as I would've been up all night (…thus giving me more time to, well, eat the entirety of them…). Plus, this [unfortunately] also meant I was able to share the raspberry-icing cupcakes with my little cousins… Who, to be fair, LOVED THEM. Best. Babysitter. Ever.
ANYWAYS, big THANK YOU to Nespresso for giving me the opportunity to create something delicious for the third time around! Let me know if you try this recipe by tagging myself and #NespressoCreations via Instagram! Or alternatively you can comment below.
HAPPY BAKING Beautiful People!
PS: The recipe to my Nespresso Coffee Cupcakes is below the photographs!
INGREDIENTS: (Makes 12)
- A shot of Nespresso Volluto Decaffeinato
- 100 g unsalted butter, softened
- 165g caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 200g self-raising flour
- 1/2 cup milk
- 125g unsalted butter, softened
- 300g icing sugar mixture
- 1tbsp Gourmand Raspberry Syrup
- Drop of red food colouring
- 1tbsp Salade de Fleurs (dried flower leaves)
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
- Preheat the oven to 180C (160C fan-forced). Line a 12-hole medium muffin pan (1/3 cup capacity) with paper cases.
- Place the Nespresso shot in a half cup measuring cup then fill it up with the milk.
- Using electric mixer or beaters, beat the butter and castor sugar until it changes to a lighter creamy colour.
- Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each egg.
- Gently fold through the flour then add the milk and Nespresso mix
- Fill each paper casing until ¾ full
- Bake for about 20 minutes, or until golden brown. Remove from the oven and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely before decorating.
- With an electric mixer or beater beat the butter until light and creamy.
- Add the icing sugar a little at a time, beating constantly.
- Add the Raspberry syrup and continue beating.
- Add one drop of red food colouring
- Using a 1 cm fluted nozzle, pipe the icing onto the cooled cupcakes. Decorate with the Salade de Fleurs
[NOTE: To make Cocoa floured Icing substitute the Raspberry syrup with 1tsp of Natural Cocoa Powder and add 1tbsp of Tia Maria Liqueur. For more cocoa hints you can even change the Nespresso shot to Arpeggio Decaffeinato]


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The second season of "Game of Thrones" came to a stunning end Sunday with "Valar Morghulis," a fitting last title to a season that tortured me with difficult words to spell. But I can't stay mad at you, "Thrones!"
The finale bookmarked each of our characters's stories in a completely satisfying way as we prepare to leave them for the next several months. So without further adieu, let's see where things now stand with the good people of Westeros (and beyond).
— After the Battle of Blackwater, Sansa, regrettably, turned down the Hound's offer to go to Winterfell and instead stayed with Joffrey in King's Landing, where the Stark lady was made to watch the tiny, terrible King reward Lord Tywin for saving everyone from a terrible death with an assist from (still not slow) Loras Tyrell.
And what did the former lover of Renly Baratheon want in exchange for his bravery? Why, for Joffrey to marry his sister Margaery, of course!
Joffrey attempted to be (I can't believe I'm about to type this) honorable and said that his vow to Sansa was unbreakable. But after being persuaded by once-again-bearded Maester Pycell and the presumably now sober Cersei, Joffrey was like, "OK, fine! I'll marry the cutie who's cool with incest instead of the traitor's daughter!"
After letting out a relieved giggle, Sansa was confronted by Lord Baelish, the new Lord of Harrenhal, with what he sees as the truth: that Joffrey will keep her around as a mistress and be even worse to her. (As if that were possible.) But instead, Little Finger proposed to care for the daughter of his unrequited love in a completely non-creepy way that didn't make my skin crawl.
— Tyrion was completely wounded, inside and out. After Ser Mandon Moore attempted to kill him during Blackwater, at Cersei's request, Tyrion was left with a scar across his face (making him even more like Omar from "The Wire") and without his title. But he still has Shae, who lovingly mocked him when she said, "I'm a poor little rich man and nobody loves me so I make jokes all the time and pay them to laugh." Somebody loves him now. And she's sticking around — for free.
— Well, somehow Theon Greyjoy lived to see another day. After being surrounded by Robb's men and taunted with a horn that wouldn't quit, Maester Luwin suggested to the new Lord of Winterfell that he escape and join the Night's Watch.
"You're not the man you're pretending to be. Not yet," Luwin told Theon. With crazy in his eyes, Theon replied, "I've gone too far to pretend to be anything else."
Yes, Theon resigned himself to death and gave a rousing speech to the Iron Island men, who seemed inspired. He was then whacked over the head and rendered unconscious.
Maester Luwin also was, tragically, stabbed, which broke me as badly as Ned's death.(Thanks, neighbors, for not calling 911 when I screamed very loudly.) Before he asked Osha to finish him off, Luwin told Bran and Rickon to go find Jon in the North. So off they went, as Winterfell burned in the background.
I realize this is an obvious question, but how in the name of the gods, old and new, did the Iron Islanders take Winterfell? Was Yara lurking somewhere, waiting to attack Robb's men? Did Robb's men turn on him? Did someone have an extra case of wildfire or a spare dragon?
— Brienne remained honorable and fierce. That is all.
— Robb married Lady Talisa against his mother's wishes, so now things are presumably gonna get rough with Walder Frey, the man who was supposed to be his father-in-law. His bed is made.
— Stannis Baratheon was upset — upset that he lost the Battle of Blackwater, upset that he put his faith in the fire god, upset that he murdered his brother.
"We murdered your brother," Melisandre reminded Stannis after he attempted to choke the life out of her. For better or for worse, this is the pony Stannis has picked. It's going to be a fiery ride.
— Arya was on the road with Gendry and the fat kid when she ran into Jaqen. While she turned down his offer to go to Bravos, the homeland of her dance instructor Syrio, Arya did accept a coin from Jaqen that will make him appear with the words Valar Morghulis. Oh, AND JAQEN CHANGED HIS FACE COMPLETELY. Who is this man of many faces and why is he so good to Arya? I can't wait to find out.
— Jon Snow was forced by his mentor Qhorin to ... kill his mentor Qhorin. Yes, the good man of the Night's Watch sacrificed himself to make Jon Snow seem like a good prospect to Mance Rayder. And it's a good thing, too, because the King Beyond The Wall has quite an army.
— "I'M SO SCARED. PLEASE DON'T DO THIS," is what I thought when Daenerys walked into the House of the Undying. But what did I have to worry about? After being taunted by a heartbreaking vision of Khal Drogo and her son, Dany totally schooled the bald warlock and used her dragon power to burn him to a creepy crisp.
She then exacted her revenge on Xaro and Doreah, the presumed dead, actually traitorous handmaiden, by locking them in the King of Qarth's empty vault. That is about the coldest way to kill people. Good work, Khalesi.
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Reflective practice and its role in mental health nurses' practice development: a year-long study
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Graham, IW 2000, 'Reflective practice and its role in mental health nurses' practice development: a year-long study', Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 109-117.
The publisher's version of this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2850.2000.00269.x
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The study reported in this paper lasted over a year, and identifies a conceptual framework of nursing practice based upon a relationship-building process. It also identifies six characteristics of nursing roles inherent within the practice of mental health nurses on a Nursing Development Unit. The paper presents a structure and process of reflection for nursing practice as illustrated by the work of a group of nurses working in a NDU. The purpose of the study was to help them better understand their work with patients. The findings from the study are used to explore how the nurses described and implemented individualized, patient-focused care. This care was based upon the ability of the nurse to communicate well and to build a relationship with a patient, bound within a context of change.


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Pittsburgh Clusters into Defined Industry Neighborhoods
As Pittsburgh continues to attract large investments, new companies are locating where they see the most success for their specific industry. Companies are branching into clusters, creating a web of more clearly defined industry neighborhoods.
For example, technology companies are locating in the Fringe, Oakland and East End areas where they are in close proximity to the CBD and universities, such as Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh. Similarly, energy companies tend to locate in the West and Southpointe areas, while law firms, financial companies and business services are most commonly found in the CBD.
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- Pittsburgh officials are interested in converting a former 164-acre Veterans Affairs site into a law enforcement facility. Located in close proximity to the highway and the city's CDB, officials believe that the repurposed infrastructure will provide the highest value and better service to residents.


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In this article I am going to be telling you what I have learnt about the use of social bookmarking on blogs. If you ever read anything about getting traffic to blogs you will be told thousands of times that you need to get your blog in as many social networks as possible. So when I started blogging I put as many social bookmark buttons at the end of my posts as possible, I used to have about 30 odd buttons at the end of my posts which looked horrible. Some of these social networks I never heard of, my logic was if someone is on these networks I want to make it as easy as possible to add my post on their network. But is this the right thing to do?
Social bookmark buttons on blog are very important for the growth of the blog, a blog is there to tell the visitors some useful information. If 1 visitor finds the information useful then other people will find it useful, why not make it easy for them to share this with people they know. Blogs get updated regularly should provide content which the user can use in real time, meaning they need this information now...so will others.
Social bookmarking has some important benefits for any blog or any website. For new blogs it can get your blog indexed quicker by the search engines. In the old days you used to have to go to each search engine and submit a sitemap or a page so they know about you. Not anymore just submit your site to Digg or StumbleUpon and it will be crawled and indexed that day it works that quickly. It builds an audience of visitors which find your content useful in your niche. Getting traffic to your website is easy just submit your website to as many directories and article directories sites as possible. But they will not be targeted traffic which is what social bookmarking helps with. For example on Twitter if I have 1000 followers and submit a link about web development maybe 10% will be interested in it and click on it. But if I have 1000 followers who I know are all web developers and submit a link about web development the click through rate should be a lot higher maybe 80% will click on it. This is what social bookmarking can do, provide your site with target traffic to your website. Targeted traffic will lead to returning visitors, RSS subscribers and more followers on social networking sites. This is what we want constant source of traffic, there is no point one day having 1000 visitors to your site only for the next day to have 10. Targeted traffic will lead to a steady stream of traffic which will increase over time.
So how easy is it to get started with social bookmarking on your site? If you have a wordpress blog like many of us it's very easy. There are thousands of plugins which can provide you with hundreds of social bookmark buttons. 5 of the most popular wordpress plugins are:
This are all useful as they provide you with a nice looking easy to use social bookmarks for any social network in just a few seconds. From the plugin admin screen you can place them at the top or bottom of your posts. Perfect! So why wouldn't you want to use this? I used to use sexy bookmarks on this site, it was perfect for what I wanted it for, giving an easy way to share my content. Until I went to another blog seen they are using sexy bookmarks as well. I tried tweeting the blog post and normally it should bring up the Twitter intent box to post to Twitter, but it connected to shareoholic and I had to sign in with my twitter account and then I could post to twitter. Not as quick and easy as I thought. So thought I'll go to some of the big blogs to see how they deal with social bookmarking, almost all of them used the actual website development buttons. For Twitter they all went to Twitter Buttons and created a button. Trying these buttons was easy to share on Twitter, it brings up the intent box and 1 click it's on Twitter...much better. Made me rethink do I need a plugin to do my social bookmarking? Why not just go to the main sites my visitors use and get the proper development buttons from these sites?.
All the plugins are good and they can give you mostly all the social networks but does your visitors actually need all this choice? How many social networks do you use? Me personally use 4 and in the stages of removing one of them out of my life. I use Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and StumbleUpon, don't use StumbleUpon maybe as much as I should. But the main ones Facebook for personal use, Twitter for good content about web development and Google+ for both personal and web content. When I post links to share it will just be in these places Twitter, Google+ or Stumbleupon. Are my visitors like me? So I watched which buttons were being clicked on and which sites my content was being shared on. Turned out my visitors were clicking on Twitter, Google+, Stumbleupon and sometimes Delicious. If it's just being shared on these sites, why have the other buttons?
I started to make changes to my blog to make it quicker and easy to share my content I decided to go with Twitter button, Google +1 button and StumbleUpon Button. I went to these websites and got my own button which is just a bit of Javascript I can put onto the page. I liked the styling of the sexy bookmarks and liked the tagline Share the Wealth so thought instead of just putting these buttons at the bottom of the post I'll style them and make is obvious for people to share after reading if they liked it. As you can see below is the changes I have made to this blog. I made a new box for just the social bookmarks and put just these buttons in this box which makes it obvious where they are and am asking my visitors that if you liked the content please share it. I have also put in my link to my RSS feed as if you have liked the content made your like my future posts.
I didn't expect that what I changed will make any difference to my social bookmarking, I just wanted to make it quicker and easier for my visitors. But the results were quite surprising...I have seen a massive increase of my content being shared on Twitter and getting more and more Google +1 each day. There is no 100% way to tell why this is the case, I hope this increase has been because of the change I made to the social bookmarks. But from these results I see now this is a much better way of dealing with social bookmarks than using a plugin and will continue to take this approach in the future.
First lesson from this change I have learnt that you must know who your visitors are in order to provide for them. I found out most of my visitors are on Twitter, Google+ and Stumbleupon so if these are the places they are going to be sharing I want to make it as easy as possible for them to share on these places. Second lesson you don't need to display hundreds of social bookmark buttons, just a few will do if someone really wants to share it on Mr Wong or something else they can still easily go there and do it. Third lesson is make is easy and quick, to tweet my content now takes 2 clicks, to Google +1 it takes 1 click, to stumble it takes 2 clicks. Fourth lesson ask your visitors...give them a call to action after your post. If you like this post please share with your friends. Once I've read something that was useful to me I always think that will be useful to my followers and I share it.
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As you prepare to file 2012 taxes jointly or separately as a newlywed couple, there are a few things to keep in mind.
When it comes to marriage, there are many matters that could result in power struggles once or several times over the length of the relationship, but there are two very common reoccurring themes that come up in marital disputes. This post addresses a few of the questions that can be the starting point for these necessary pre-wedding conversations.
Most newlyweds know that investing can be riskier than just stowing money away into a money market account or CD. As a couple, you may have very different ideas on how to invest your earnings. Instead of every man and woman for him or herself, you should talk to your partner and find out what he/she would like to do as well as inform them of your own ideas.
Money is always a stressful subject no matter who you are or who you're with. Some newlywed couples aren't quite sure what to do in certain situations. There are plenty of questions to ask, but there are three big mistakes that every couple should look out for. Avoiding these money pitfalls will put you on firmer financial ground for your marriage.


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Kesar Badam Milk | How to make Kesar Badam Milk
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Kesar Badam Milkby Farrukh Shadab
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A drink in which milk is flavoured with almonds and saffron. Kesar badam milk is very healthy beverage that provides energy and rejuvenates your body. It can be enjoyed in both avatars….Hot or Cold. In Summers..it tastes best when chilled and In winter/rains it tastes best when hot/warm. Whether hot or cold, it always tops the list as it is most liked drink by almost everyone. As milk, almonds and saffron are the main ingredients, this drink possesses immense health benefits.
Kesar Badam Milk
Ingredients to make Kesar Badam Milk
- 750 ml full fat milk
- 1/4 cup almonds blanched peeled and ground to paste
- A pinch of saffron
- sugar as per taste
- 1/2 tsp cardamom powder
- Few drops of rose essence
- 1/4 cup of hot water
- Slivered almonds and pistachios for garnish
- Slivered almonds and pistachios for garnish
How to make Kesar Badam Milk
My Tip:You can enjoy this drink warm as well if you do not prefer chilled milk You can also use low fat milk if you prefer Add sugar according to your taste I always prefer to grind almond to a bit coarse paste as I love the crunch of almond in mouth while sipping the milk. You can grind it to fine or coarse paste accordingly, choice is all yours.
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1. How has Carrie's past affected her decisions and ability to choose a life path? Which characteristics does Carrie share with Rose, and how are they different from each other?
2. Shaffer is known for creating well-developed, convincing female characters. Which of these women did you most identify
with? Sympathize with? Disagree with?
3. Carrie's best friend, Zoe, states that Carrie has "mommy issues." Why do you think mother-daughter relationships are often so complicated? How do you feel about the way Rose raised her daughter?
4. Why does Rose hold back so much family history from her daughter? How does Carrie's eventual discovery of what happened affect how she perceives her mother?
5. Rose is a complicated, dualistic character with a love-hate relationship with wealth and fame; she is constantly telling Carrie to be wary of one's ego. What, in your opinion, made Rose shun her lifestyle after Bobbie's death? Do you think her choices made her happy?
6. What do you make of Rose's multiple copies of the same dress? What was her reasoning behind this?
7. How does Mifalda change over the course of the novel? How do you think she came to her decision regarding Lu and her new baby, and could you imagine doing the same thing in her position?
8. How do you feel about Lu's picking career over family? What other sacrifices do the women in Serendipity make in their lives? What betrayals do they make?
9. What attracts Rose so deeply to Bobbie Manning? How would you characterize their relationship, and in which ways does it change over time? Why does she go to such great lengths for him? On a similar note, what attracts Carrie to Howie?
10. How does Shaffer use ice skating as a symbol, for both Mifalda and Rose?
11. Carrie asks herself "Why do I always feel like I'm settling for an empty basket when I want one that's full? Why can't I let myself be happy?" What do you think the answers to these questions are, and how do you envision her future at the end of the book?
12. "Mama, Lu, and Rose," Carrie's uncle Paulie states, "standing in a line. Three young girls, handing down all the good and bad from one generation to the next. They couldn't get away from each other." What did each woman pass down to her daughter? What role does family legacy play in this novel, and is it portrayed positively or negatively?
13. One of this novel's themes is that women can't do it all—career, family, love—successfully. Today, many women seem to be revisiting this idea. Do women have to choose their priorities? What about men?
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Right in time for the peak of the Ibiza season we delight you with the third edition of this Ibiza classic:
"In Touch with Ibiza". It spreads on 2 discs pure hands-up and party feeling.
Both discs were mixed by Kid Chris, who is a true ibiza expert and has travelled the globe with his energetic sound. Besides his busy dj schedule Kid Chris is also known to be a great remixer and producer. He remixed acts like Armand van Helden, Barbara Tucker, Geo Da Silva, Lenny Fontana and "Rosenstolz†("Gib mir Sonne†recieved gold status in Germany, Austria & Switzerland), just to name a few.
On CD1 Kid Chris features current, energetic club hits by big names like Armand van Helden, Candi Station (Shapeshifters Remix), Dirty South & Mark Night, Prok & Fitch (Axwell Remix) and Bob Sinclair. The summer hit "La Mezcla" by Michael Cleis is on this silver disc, as well the Tagteam classic "Whoomp! (There it is). Of course you can find one of his own remixes on the cd: Hanna Hansen & David Puentez feat. Errol Reid - Lovers (Kid Chris Ibiza Terazza Mix)
CD2 keeps the high energetic hands-up-in-the-air level. Also here the message is: Just killers, no fillers!
Kid Chris mixes tracks by Deadmau5, Seamus Haji, DJ Chus, Afrojack, Chris Lake and many others.
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With this compilation you will have an extremely hot summer, which you can luckily extent (at least audio-wise) as long as you want!
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BERLIN — A former president of Germany, Christian Wulff, was acquitted on Thursday of corruption charges from his time as a regional governor. The ruling handed him the exoneration he had sought since stepping down from the presidency in 2012.
Mr. Wulff, 54, had once been considered a hopeful for the post of chancellor, and Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Union picked him as a presidential candidate in 2010.
He served only about 20 months as the head of state, a largely ceremonial position, before leaving the job amid news reports that he had accepted gifts and favors from friends during his seven years as governor of the state of Lower Saxony. It was the first time in modern Germany that a former president had been put on trial.
The state court in Hanover ruled on Thursday that there was not enough evidence to find Mr. Wulff guilty of illegally accepting favors while in office.
"Now I can concentrate on the future," Mr. Wulff told reporters after the ruling was handed down. He said that his immediate plans involved spending time with his daughter and young son, who would "have a more relaxed father than they have known in the past two years."
Prosecutors in Hanover had charged Mr. Wulff with allowing a friend who was a film producer to pay about $980 in expenses at Oktoberfest in Munich in 2008, in exchange for lobbying the head of a leading industrial company to back a project for which the friend was seeking financing.
Judge Frank Rosenow said the court viewed the relationship between the former president and the film producer as a friendship that included picking up the tabs for each other at different times, and not as a case of official corruption, the German news agency DPA reported. "There is simply no powerful evidence against the defendants," DPA quoted the judge as saying.
Prosecutors have not said whether they intend to appeal.
The former president had insisted on his innocence and had rejected an offer from prosecutors to accept a fine, choosing instead to fight the charge in order to clear his name. Although the ruling exonerates him legally, he will still have to work to regain the trust of the German people.
While Mr. Wulff gave no clear indication about his plans for the future, the German news media has reported that he will continue working as a lawyer. As a former president, he is guaranteed an office and an annual government stipend.


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QB Ward out for No. 6 Houston against Lamar
HOUSTON (AP) — Quarterback Greg Ward Jr. won't play for No. 6 Houston against Lamar on Saturday because of a shoulder injury.
Ward injured his right shoulder in Houston's win over then-No. 3 Oklahoma last weekend but was able to finish the game.
An MRI showed no structural damage to his shoulder, but he missed practice this week before being ruled out on Saturday. The move is likely more of a precaution since the Cougars have a quick turnaround before opening American Athletic Conference play on Thursday at Cincinnati.
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text: With Destiny's beta soaking up all of the attention, EA has decided to remind people that Battlefield 4 is still out there and heavily-discounted everything involving the game on Origin. EA has discounted the basic Battlefield 4 game 50% taking it to $25, while the digital deluxe version also gets a 50% discount dropping it to only $30. A premium membership is down to $35 from $50, while a bundle of the membership and the base game is down to $60. The best overall value here is definitely the digital deluxe edition for $30, as you get a map pack and some extra content for only $5 more than the cost of the base game.


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Creative Ways to Give a Giftcardposted by Andrea | 12/17/2011
There's only 8 days until Christmas… and if you are still frantically searching for the perfect gift, it might just be time to "resort" to a gift card.
However, even though a gift card might not seem like the most personal or thoughtful gift, I can almost guarantee the recipient will love it… and with just a few minutes and a little creativity, you can package your gift cards in a thoughtful way.
Here are a few creative ways to give a gift card:
Gas Card:
I don't know anyone who would turn down a gas money — and you can make it a little more creative by filling a 5 gallon bucket with car air fresheners, car wash coupons, car cleaning supplies, a snow scraper, and/or car mats. They can use the bucket to wash their car and all the other supplies make the gift a little more "substantial".
Movie Rental or Movie Theater Gift Card:
Fill a cute galvanized bucket or popcorn bowl with movie theater candy, pop corn, pop, wine, beer, a Netflix membership, a favorite DVD, and/or tickets to a local movie theater.
Restaurant Gift Card:
Dave and I almost never spend money going out to eat so we LOVE getting restaurant gift cards… and we're happy with just the gift card. However, if you want to dress it up a bit, consider adding a home-made coupon for babysitting {if they have children} or a plate of homemade goodies for "dessert" after their night out.
Craft/Hobby/ Gift Cards:
I know a ton of people who have very specific hobbies and would probably love a gift card to their favorite craft supply store, art store, camera shop, car shop, antique shop, etc. Most of these smaller shops offer gift certificates that you could then pair with a small item from the shop for an ultra-personalized gift.
Beauty Product Gift Cards:
I get at least one Bath & Body Works gift card every year — which is great because I'm not likely to spend money on those type of items unless it's with a gift card {and coupon!}. These gift cards are really easy to get creative with — simply package it with a bottle of lotion, perfume, a candle, bath salts, or even fuzzy socks and an eye mask!
E-Gift Cards:
I've done more online shopping this year than ever before — and I just love how quick and simple it is to find everything I want via my computer. No waiting in lines, no driving to the store, no loading up Nora and dealing with a fussy baby.
I've ordered pictures, photo books, gift cards, clothes, electronics and more via the Internet this year — and I noticed that many of the places I purchased gifts from offered the option to send e-gift cards/certificates to friends.
Now, even though I can't think of a super creative way to give e-gift cards {they usually come via email} I still think would be excellent gifts for any tech-savvy person on your list.
Visa, Master Card, or American Express Gift Card:
If you really run stuck and can't think of any creative ways to give a gift card or can't think of what gift card to give; my best advice is to go with a Visa, Master Card, or American Express gift card. They are basically like cash — and I don't know anyone who would turn down cash 🙂
Dave and I are giving lots of gift cards this year — and I don't feel bad at all. I'm happy to know that the recipients will really like their gifts and I know they won't have to worry about standing in long lines to do a return!
What are your favorite ways to give gift cards?
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William Langdon07/15/2012
I found the PERFECT way to give a gift card! It's a website called http://www.StyleMyGiftCard.com — they have really creative arrangements that make it okay to give a gift card as a present.
auri gibbons07/07/2012
my husbands side of the family likes to find random boxes from items purchased like a cherrios box, amazon box, fruit snacks etc fill the box with shredded paper and hide the gift card in it. then you have to search the box for your gift. its fun and it often hilarious to see someone unwrap a box of cheerios with no idea whats inside.
This year we gave Visa gift cards to the 4 nieces and nephews- I tucked them inside a little homemade stocking since I didn't want to add weight to the box they were going in.
We bought a Home Depot card for our son… and will include it with the small set of sockets we purchased at the same time. He can pick out the rest of his gift and make his new tool box exactly how he wants it. He had his tools stolen a few months ago and has been relying on a few he had in the garage or borrowing.
Melissa B.12/17/2011
I gave gift cards this year packaged in a Real Simple business card holder (found at Target). There is room to put more gift cards and keep them all in one place with cluttering up a wallet.
Thrifty Mom in Boise12/17/2011
I love to get gift cards too! Bath & Body Works is also one of my favorites.
Sometimes it is fun to just wrap up the card in a box like a reglar gift. Or if you have the time you could wrap it a couple of times – a box, inside a box, inside a box.
Love your ideas.