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101 Spy Gadgets for the Evil Genius
2nd Edition Paperback ISBN: 0071772685
Packed with the latest technologies and countermeasures for spy devices 101 Spy Gadgets for the Evil Genius, Second Edition shows you how to reclaim your privacy by targeting the very machines that invade your space. Learn how to disable many spy devices by hacking easily available appliances into cool tools of your own, and even turn the tables on the snoopers by using gadgetry to collect information on them. Featuring easy-to-find, inexpensive parts, the book shows you how to build your very own spy gadgets and countermeasures arsenal that would make MacGyver proud. 101 Spy Gadgets for the Evil Genius, Second Edition - Features projects that use easy-to-find, inexpensive parts and contain step-by-step, fully illustrated instructions - Offers alternative design ideas for each project and leaves room for modification and improvisation to allow you to mix or alter the designs depending on the parts available - Filled with revised projects that have been taken to the next level with more modern parts - Enhances hands-on technical skills and introduces easy-to-create countermeasures - Aims to put the power back into the hands of the "little guy" by teaching how to turn the tables on snoopers
The 1936-1937 Great Lakes Exposition
Paperback ISBN: 1467124133
The Great Lakes Exposition was held in Cleveland during the summers of 1936 and 1937, drawing seven million visitors over its two-year run. The exposition was intended to observe the city's centennial anniversary and to celebrate the Great Lakes Region. It was also hoped that it would help lift the city's economy out of the Great Depression. The exposition boasted a staggering array of ever-changing national-level attractions and feature events. In a single day, exposition visitors could experience the latest technological innovations; see a world-class aquatics show; watch a Shakespearean play; ride in a blimp; and hear the music, taste the food, view the architecture, and experience the culture of 40 of the world's countries.
50 Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy
Hardcover ISBN: 0735216134
Describes the history of economic change through the fifty inventions that had the most impact and explores the hidden connections they share, from paper money and the horse collar, to bar codes and spreadsheets.
50 Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy
Paperback ISBN: 0735216142
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 by BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND AMAZON A lively history seen through the fifty inventions that shaped it most profoundly, by the bestselling author of The Undercover Economist and Messy. Who thought up paper money? What was the secret element that made the Gutenberg printing press possible? And what is the connection between The Da Vinci Code and the collapse of Lehman Brothers? Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy paints an epic picture of change in an intimate way by telling the stories of the tools, people, and ideas that had far-reaching consequences for all of us. From the plough to artificial intelligence, from Gillette's disposable razor to IKEA's Billy bookcase, bestselling author and Financial Times columnist Tim Harford recounts each invention's own curious, surprising, and memorable story. Invention by invention, Harford reflects on how we got here and where we might go next. He lays bare often unexpected connections: how the bar code undermined family corner stores, and why the gramophone widened inequality. In the process, he introduces characters who developed some of these inventions, profited from them, and were ruined by them, as he traces the principles that helped explain their transformative effects. The result is a wise and witty book of history, economics, and biography.
The Adlard Coles Book of Mediterranean Cruising
4th Edition Paperback ISBN: 1472951239
From the islands of the Aegean to the Straits of Gibraltar, the allure of the Med is unsurpased. No other cruising ground marries cast troves of shoreside history with unique and easily accessible cuisine, or islands. Although the Mediterranean provides wonderfully diverse cruising opportunities, it can also deliver surprises to the unwary. Rod Heikell, the acknowledged expert on Mediterranean sailing, provides sound advice in this fourth edition, with updates on: anchoring, berthing bow or stern-to, what weather to expect (and how to avoid the worst of it), facilities and the coasts of keeping a boat around the Med, plus information on navigation, popular routes, formalities, and what to expect ashore. Each country around the Mediterranean is covered, and there's even a handy section on shoe-string cruising for those on a tight budget. This is the perfect guide for anyone cruising in the Mediterranean, conveying the magic of this unique sea as well as giving practical, first-hand advice on sailing in these enticing waters.
Aeronautical Chart User's Guide
Paperback ISBN: 1510725520
The updated 11th edition of the Aeronautical Chart User's Guide by the FAA is a great reference for novice pilots and professionals alike. Printed in full color with detailed examples, this book provides all the information students and pilots need to know about all the symbols and information provided on US aeronautical charts and chart navigation publications. Readers will find information on VFR charts, aeronautical chart symbols, helicopter route charts, flyway planning charts, IFR enroute charts, explanation of IFR enroute terms and symbols, Terminal Procedure Publications (TPPs), explanation of TPP terms and symbols, airspace classifications, and an airspace class table.
Airplane Flying Handbook
Paperback ISBN: 1510712836
The Federal Aviation Administration's Airplane Flying Handbook provides pilots, student pilots, aviation instructors, and aviation specialists with information on every topic needed to qualify for and excel in the field of aviation. Topics covered include: Ground operations Cockpit management The four fundamentals of flying Integrated flight control Slow flights Stalls Spins Takeoff Ground reference maneuvers Night operations And much more Updated to include the most current information, the Airplane Flying Handbook is a great study guide for current pilots and for potential pilots who are interested in applying for their first license. It is also the perfect gift for any aircraft or aeronautical buff.
America the Ingenious
How a Nation of Dreamers, Immigrants, and Tinkerers Changed the World
Hardcover ISBN: 1579656943
What are the origins of the electric guitar? How did the whaling ship work? Why was the invention of the electric motor so crucial for the New York City subway? The incredible stories behind these strokes of genius and more, told by author Kevin Baker, fill the pages of America the Ingenious. Here are 76 of the most intriguing, important, and ingenious inventions realized in America, from the Panama Canal, the Hoover Dam, the Golden Gate Bridge, and Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater to the oil rig, the electric sewing machine, and the telephone. Who came up with these ideas? How long did they take to realize? What were the complications? How, exactly, do these things work? And how have they affected who we are today? This book will satisfy the curiosity of history and miscellany buffs alike. Readers will walk away with a new appreciation for these world-changing inventions, as well as a newfound understanding of what makes America the perfect breeding ground for ingenuity.
Ancient Inventions
Paperback ISBN: 0345401026
A compendium of odd facts and entertaining curiosities featuring more than three hundred illustrations reveals the ancient origins of many of humankind's most important inventions, from the chewing gum of the Aztecs to Stone Age brain surgery. Reprint.
The Anti-gravity Files
A Compilation of Patents and Reports
Paperback ISBN: 1939149754


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Blog Archives
I Heart Balboa – September 3, 2016
If you like your Balboa events peppered with cats with laser beam eyes, dinosaurs, world-class instruction, and lots of foodie restaurants, join us for a fun, nerdy weekend of Balboa dancing and instruction at I Heart Balboa in Richmond, Virginia. The event runs September 2-4, 2016 and we'll be performing at the Saturday night dance on September 3, 2016 – we are excited to be back to perform for their second year!
Dogtown Dance Theater
109 West 15th St
Richmond, VA
Time: 8:30 p.m. to midnight
Admission: For more information, visit the I Heart Balboa website.
The Process in Richmond, VA -July 22, 2016
We are returning to The Process in Richmond, Virginia this year, to perform at the Friday night main dance on July 22, 2016! This Lindy Hop workshop weekend is unique in that it focuses on "the process of learning, teaching, and performing," but definitely offers more than just workshops – there's a ton of live music, including MJJB, Michael Gamble and the Rhythm Serenaders, the Low Down Sires, the Resonant Rogues, and 504 Supreme. Come swing out with us for a weekend of focused learning and amazing dancing!
July 9, 2016 at Bearden Music Series, Charlotte, NC
We are honored to be asked by Mecklenburg County Parks and Recreation to be a part of the Bearden Music Series again this year, after having a fantastic turnout at last year's outdoor concert. We'll be performing a free concert on July 9, 2016 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Bearden Park, a lovely outdoor space admidst the tall buildings of uptown Charlotte.
Bring a lawn chair or blanket and some summer eats (or pick up dinner from one of the food trucks) and relax under the sunset and stars during the concert, or take advantage of the dance floor and a free swing dance lesson by Gottaswing Charlotte on the first band break.
Bearden Park
300 S. Church St.
Charlotte, NC
6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Admission is FREE.
See you soon, Charlotte!
Mint Julep Jazz Band at Lincoln Center in New York!
We are beyond excited to announce that the Mint Julep Jazz Band will be performing at Lincoln Center in New York as a part of their Midsummer Night Swing concert series! Join us on June 24, 2016 under the stars for a night of swing music in the Big Apple!
The concert series, which runs from June 21 through July 9, 2016, features live music of the dancing variety, with a big dance floor set up in front of the Lincoln Center bandshell at Damrosch Park – artists joining us in this series include Catherine Russell, Septeto Santiaguero, the Allen Toussaint Band, and many other wonderful artists from New York and beyond!
From the Midsummer Night Swing website: "This North Carolina–based "little" big band's goal is simple: to keep you on the dance floor. Specializing in the great swing tunes of the '30s, the eight-piece band has been tearing through the Lindy hop competition circuit, leaving masses of new fans in its wake. Sweet and refreshing with an intoxicating kick, the band makes its highly anticipated New York debut at Midsummer Night Swing."
For more information on the event, tickets, artists, and the dances featured in lessons before each show, visit http://midsummernightswing.org.
Concert at Edward C. Smith Civic Center in Lexington, NC – April 30, 2016
The Edward C. Smith Civic Center, a wonderful theater in Lexington, NC built in 1948, is hosting the Mint Julep Jazz Band for a rare theater concert on April 30, 2016. We'll have a special program for this evening and we hope you will join us for a night of swing music, past and present! For more information, visit the theater website at http://www.smithciviccenter.org/ and get your tickets in advance by calling the theater box office at 336.249.7875. $20 for adults and $15 for students, and the theater is also offering a group rate for groups of 6 or more.
There will be a dance floor in the theater for those who might like to dance during the performance and there will also be a bunch of plush theater seats, if that's your bag. And how about that stage? Fit for an MGM musical – see you soon!
The Grand Taste Experience, April 21, 2016
We are back for a second year at the Grand Taste Experience at the Durham Armory, hosted by Taste The Event 2016, which is also hosting a series of wonderful events kicking off with the this event on April 21, 2016 and continuing through the weekend! We'd love for you to join us, but this event is sold out! Make plans to attend next year, this event is touted as the "culinary experience of the year" and allows you to "spend the evening with hundreds of guests savoring dishes created by 30 of the best chefs in North Carolina. Also on hand are local beverage makers, producing outstanding craft beer, soda, coffees and spirits. And we've rounded up our chefs' favorite distributors to bring you wine from around the world to educate your palate." It is essentially the most delicious, fanciest, foodiest all you can eat buffet you'll encounter in the Triangle!
Durham Magazine – Getting to Know the Mint Julep Jazz Band
Durhamites, be sure to pick up a copy of the April, 2016 issue of Durham Magazine for a feature on the Mint Julep Jazz Band! Durham Magazine writer Sophia Lucente interviewed Laura Windley, Lucian Cobb, and Keenan McKenzie to put together this snapshot of the band's history and life in Durham. You can read the article (as well as the entire issue) online here or read just the article in an online-friendly format here.
New Videos!
Through the magic of iPhone technology, a special gadget, and a mic stand, we've acquired 7 new videos from our performance at the Triangle Swing Dance Society dance at the Carrboro Century Center on March 19, 2016 – we hope you enjoy the new videos!

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Today I'm over at Popculturedivas waxing poetic for National Poetry Month.
Because my contemporary novel Fever Dreams also contains a bit of poetry, I'll hold a giveaway open until May 7 - release day. So come on over to the 'Divas and leave a comment for a chance to win a PDF of Fever Dreams.
And there's still time to enter this week's giveaway of Design for Life - just leave a comment at this post and become a blog follower if you aren't already. On Saturday, I'll post the winner's name here.


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(note: This procedure is only applicable to AP Digilink version 2.03 and newer)
A typical requirement for enabling/disabling occupancy sensors wired to an AP Digilink are as follows:
- Occupancy Sensors are disabled during office hours.
- Lights are turned on by the schedule, and should stay on during office hours.
- After hours, the occupancy sensors are enabled and the ligths will only turn off if the space if it's unoccupied.
- Lights turn on/off after hours depending on the occupancy sensor status.
(note: please refer to the AP Switch Programming Manual for more information)
- No timers are needed on the relays because the occupancy sensor will turn the lights off when the space is unoccupied.
- Program all the ligths being controlled into a "Momentary On" Group.
- Program the schedule controlling the Momentary On Group to turn the ligths on during office hours. (i.e. ON 8:00am, OFF 5:00pm).
- Chose a spare relay to be used as the enable/disable relay and program it into a new "Maintain" Group.
- Program a new schedule as the enable/disable schedule to disable the occupancy sensor during office hours. (i.e. ON 8:00am, OFF 5:00pm)
- Note that, if enabling/disabling multiple inputs at different times is desired, multiple enable/disable relays and schedules will be needed.
- Navigate to the Digilink's AP (Advanced Programming) Menu.
- Depending on what applies, program as shown on the table below:
Desired Enable/Disable AP Programming Enable/Disable All Inputs 7 ON = "Disable 1-14"
8 ON = "Normal"
Btn Beep: Off
Button 1 Adderss: N
9-14 Disables 1-6: N
Debounce: By Button
Only Enable/Disable inputs 1-6 7 ON = "Disable 1-6"
8 ON = "Normal"
Btn Beep: Off
Button 1 Adderss: N
9-14 Disables 1-6: N
Debounce: By Button
Only Enable/Disable inputs 9-14 7 ON = "Normal"
8 ON = "Disable 9-14"
Btn Beep: Off
Button 1 Adderss: N
9-14 Disables 1-6: N
Debounce: By Button
Enable/Disable inputs 1-6 individually
at different times
7 ON = "Normal"
8 ON = "Normal"
Btn Beep: Off
Button 1 Adderss: N
9-14 Disables 1-6: Y
Debounce: By Button
- By Tabbing and Entering to "MORE" on the AP menu, change the "LED logic for other buttons" to "OR"
- Depending on which button (BTN7, BTN8, or individual BTNS 9-14) is being used to enable/disable, program the enable/disable relay onto that button and set it to ON Mode.
- Ensure that there are no inputs wired to input 7-14 if they are being used to enable/disable other inputs, or being used for other special AP Programming functions.
Sequence of Operation:
- At 8:00am, the schedule will activate the Momentary On Group and turn the ligths on.
- At 8:00am, the second schedule will disable the occupancy sensors and therefore not affect the lights regardless of it's occupied/unoccupied state.
- The schedule will not turn the lights off at 5:00pm because the group being used is a Momentary On Group.
- However, when the system enables the occupancy sensors, the system will send an off command (lights will turn off) if the input is open (unoccupied), and the system will send an on command (lights remain on) if the input is closed (occupied).


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We're happy to introduce MGL, the Mobile Gaming League!
Welcome to MGL – the Mobile Gaming League where we're going to host tournaments & events dedicated for the mobile esports scene. We believe that mobile gaming deserves great competitions and we want to provide you those in cooperation with publishers & partners.
First and foremost, we're going to continue to host VGL (Vaingloryleague) tournaments in the near future. The new tournament planning is in full swing & we're looking forward to announce this one as soon as details are finalised.
Furthermore, MGL aims to extend its portfolio by adding new titles in the near future. At MGL, we are not only hosting tournaments but we're aiming to produce and stream them live and provide a great experience for participants and spectators alike. Together with attractive prizes for participants and also giveaways for the community, we're planning to continue to grow the mobile esport scene by providing the best possible experience.
Are you an aspiring caster or host? We're always looking for new talent to host or cast our upcoming productions. Please reach out to us at contact(at)mobilegamingleague.eu with your information & references & get added to our email list for upcoming opportunities!
If you would like to stay in touch with our community, find players for your team etc. please join our partnered Discord server.
Thanks a lot & welcome to MGL!
Best regards,
The MGL Team


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We held our 2016 AGM (our second) on May 30, 2016 at Collins Hall.
Maureen Witney, Chair of Caring Circle, and Colleen O'Neil, Program Director of Caring Circle, gave presentations about what we have accomplished in the past year and where Caring Circle is going in the future. Julia McCaig provided information on the use of our website and how it is central to our services.
The Program Director's Report gave the highlights of the services that we have provided and the lives we have touched.
View Program Director's report here.
The Chair's Report followed and is summarized here:
Before I begin my report on where Caring Circle is headed, I would like to comment on the statistics that Colleen presented. These are only the tip of a very deep iceberg. For every one call or request that the statistics record (over 1,000 people called or dropped in), Colleen makes at least 10 calls and further inquiries. She not only answers the immediate need, she anticipates other needs and possibilities that will make life easier and puts in motion a full complement of support. So the statistics provide only the surface of what Caring Circle does, not the depth of the total support given.
In April 2016, the Board had a Strategic Planning session under the stimulating and creative facilitation of Andrea Verway. This Strategic Planning day was incredibly productive and clearly laid out the priorities for the Caring Circle in the next year as outlined in the resulting Caring Circle Action Plan 2016-17.
The most significant part of the process was fine tuning the Caring Circle's Mission and Vision to succinctly capture the heart of what we stand for. We distilled the original lengthy mission and vision to their essence:
Vision: A Bowen Island community where all people feel safe, connected and healthy.
Mission: We connect individuals on Bowen Island to health services, social programs, and each other – for free.
Perhaps, the most significant part of this is that we provide our services for free. And in these times when on-going funding is not secure, we commit to our community that we will continue to do so.
We set out 5 Goals to focus on and keep us on track when we are looking at new requests and programs.
The first goal is to provide health information, education and assistance in navigating the health care system. This work is largely done through the CC Resource Centre and the CC website and directly responds to our Island's needs. We continue to gather resources and navigation and share our growing wealth of knowledge and experience.
The second goal is to provide strong advocacy for better health and social services. Our particular focus here is to address the difficulties we have witnessed in the transition of Bowen Island residents to and from hospital. We continue discussions with Vancouver Coast Health to make them aware of the significant gaps, particularly in the hospital releasing people at all hours who have no way to get back to the Island and no support in place once they get there.
The third goal is to identify and deliver health and social programs. We are committed to developing collaborative partnerships wherever we can within the community to deliver innovative and inclusive programming such as the SKY luncheons. We will be launching what we are calling the BeFriending Program to facilitate Bowen Island residents supporting one another by having trained volunteers visit with those in our community who want more social contact and connection. Our programming responds to what the community is asking for.
Our fourth goal is certainly the most challenging – being financially stable. Though we have applied to every grant for which we are eligible, the Caring Circle has not been able to secure ongoing core funding for its programs and services. This is the same refrain of most not-for-profits. Our Program Director spends far too much time in efforts to raise money and write grant applications. This is certainly not the best use of her valuable time. But we commit to doing everything possible to keep our doors open. If more funding does not materialize, we will reach out to our Bowen community for support and ideas.
Goal 5 ensures that the Board will govern Caring Circle effectively, ethically and with heart. With that in mind, we will be seeking new Board members this year to enhance the present complement and bring unique skills and energy. We invite you to consider joining our efforts or recommending others who would like to improve the well being within our community.
Stories from the Board
Each member shared a story (anonymously) to illustrate the variety of different ways that Caring Circle impacts islanders.
Diane: described how companions/caregivers assist and support islanders and the role that Caring Circle plays in facilitating this service
Tamara: shared story of a family whom Caring Circle assisted with hiring a companion to help them care for their elderly mother while they took a much needed family vacation with their young children.
Stephen: shared his experience of how Caring Circle has impacted the lives of those patients he provides intervention to as a liaison between VCH and individual islanders.
Dean: shared a story about a fellow who was unable to access health programs and services because he had not filed a tax return. Caring Circle was able to connect Dean with this fellow and assisted him with completing and filing his tax return. This fellow was then able to access much needed services.
Julia: shared a story of an islander who's parent was in need of mental health and psychiatry services. Caring Circle was able to educate islander on available resources.


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Lift and Separate September 17, 2007Posted by lunarawe in Big Girl Knits, Knit Alongs, knitting, plus size, Rhinebeck, sweater.
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Sounds terribly suggestive, doesn't it? Let me reassure you… it is.
First and foremost the requisite pitiful attempt to justify where I have been during my weeks of silence. I do think I had a pretty good excuse this time… the dreaded horror of moving. Not only did I move, but I landed in Orlando, FL where it seems like fiber crafters have to justify their very craftiness. That said, they seem to be a dedicated bunch. I am very much looking forward to knitting, spinning, and weaving guild meetings.
I have begun my first knitting-with-a-deadline project in a long time. Why the insanity? Because I want something fun to wear at Rhinebeck. Silly I know. I am not the kind of person that wears handknits to Knit Nights or the LYS. But something about New York State in fall and a wool as far as the eye can see makes me want something cozy.
So this weekend I cast on Lift and Separate from Big Girl Knits. Which meant I got to join the Official Fluffy Sweater-Along on Ravelry which is a great joy. Fluffy knitters unite! Ahem. Too bad they don't yet have a group (that I have found anyway) for procrastinating, easily distracted knitters. We shall see if there is any chance in hell of my finishing this over the next few weeks. Ha! A long shot, but fun nevertheless.
After all, if you are going to knit a suggestively low cut, wrap sweater it might as well be red! This is in Elann's Pure Alpaca in the garnet colorway.
Slow Bee MS3 July 20, 2007Posted by lunarawe in beads, Knit Alongs, knitting, knitting lace, lace knitting, MS3, Mystery Stole 3, sloth.
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Believe it or not, I am one of the happy participants in Mystery Stole 3 – a wonderful knitalong which gives you a new piece of an undisclosed lace stole pattern each week. This is an original pattern, one of many fabulous patterns by Melanie who is now leading this madness for the third time.
I say believe it or not because while the much awaited fourth clue was released this morning, I have just churned my slow way to finishing clue number one. What can I say? It is summer, I have been working, and one thing I have learned not to rush is lace.
Ignore that red thread up there. It is just a life line – the first of many. One of the things I am really enjoying (to my surprise) is the use of beads in this stole. I don't normally think of myself as a beads and lace kind of woman, but this has been a pile of fun. Maybe it is that I am finally getting to use my size 12 crochet hook that I snagged about a year ago at Lacis in Berkeley.
I chose size 8 beads in a "green iris" colorway – a blend of greens, golds, bronzes, purples, and pinkish beads to complement the JaggerSpun Zephyr Wool-Silk Yarn in Sable. The effect is subtle, but much more noticeable on the stole than in the pic. Still you get the idea.
So I am "slow bee" according to the MS3 group – and I am proud. Just in case some of you are thinking derogatory thoughts… here is proof that sloths (maligned, in my opinion) are truly adorable. I ran into this one a couple of days ago at the Cincinnati Zoo.
Babies on the Road July 14, 2007Posted by lunarawe in baby surprise jacket, baby sweater, Elizabeth Zimmerman, fo, Knit Alongs, knitting, Knitting - FOs, Project Spectrum 2.0.
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I travel a lot. My work draws me back and forth across the United States, usually coming back to rest somewhere in the middle.
I knit a lot of socks.
As you know, socks are the most polite type of knitting to bring on airplanes, and that reality has wedded me almost permanently to the world of 16 inch, size two circular needles. Two by preference.
But then recently I decided to carry somewhat else with me on the road. And one evening, by the blue light of a laptop left on way too far past work hours, I began this:
Everyone seems to have tried Elizabeth Zimmerman's baby surprise jacket at some point in their knitting career. I had to try it myself. Her almost cryptic directions called to me. I admit it. I was investing in the knitting origami of the future.
Fold A to A and B to B and sew up these two little seams and voila!
It just did not seem possible. Such a bizarre shape… talk about flying on faith. I finished this jacket at a large annual convention in Portland, City of Roses – see below. That may be why I did not manage to capture a final amoeboid shape pic before the origami ensued. Enter the baby surprise jacket.
This has already been sent to Baby N's parents… awaiting his arrival in less than two months now! I used Mountain Colors Barefoot for the main body and Knit Picks sock yarn doubled for the button band. And I used one extra button. Ahem. Pretty much because I had six.
I was not thinking about the Project Spectrum colors as I started this, but by happy coincidence it definitely counts. Ha. And here I thought I was totally
slacking off behind.
They Really Are Blue! February 28, 2007Posted by lunarawe in Knit Alongs, knitting, Project Spectrum 2.0.
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I decided to post a pic of my Broad Street convertible gloves/mittens in progress just to prove that I am, actually, knitting something blue.
You will note the bagginess of the glove… these are not for me but for a friend whose hands are much larger than mine. Having never worked on gloves of any sort, I am enjoying watching the construction of these unfold. That said, I seem to be spending an unhealthy amount of time thinking about someone else's finger crotches. Which is troublesome.
Of course the mitten part of this left hand-warmer has not yet come into being. I am still working out how to adapt this to add for a "thumb flap" since my friend wants all of his "gripping surfaces" available to him.
Really, this project has been pure comedy. Stay tuned.
From Cincinnati, to Savannah, to D.C. February 19, 2007Posted by lunarawe in Knit Alongs, knitting, knitting socks, Project Spectrum 2.0, socks.
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This poor sock has travelled long and far. I pretty much refused to work on it while not on a plane, other than its toe and the very top of its ribbing.
It began its formation in Cincinnati during a friend's guitar lesson, and after that grew mainly above ground. It took a brief detour to the warmth of Savannah, and then finally made its way to our capital. Finally this evening (after returning from Washington, DC) I took pity on it, finished the last half inch of ribbing and wove the ends in.
The pattern on the leg is a simple twin rib (known to many as rib of doom!).
Poor thing was starting to collect frequent flyer miles!
Travelling February 8, 2007Posted by lunarawe in Knit Alongs, knitting, knitting socks, Project Spectrum 2.0, socks.
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I have been away from the blog for a while. Mainly because I have been travelling. I discovered today just how bad the photo capabilities are on my phone… apologies all around.
I simply wanted to prove that I too am making sure to knit socks in public (though I always have) after the Rockin' Sock Club saga of last month. This is today's undertaking, on an airplane from Cincinnati to Chicago, using Socks that Rock in the Puck's Mischief colorway. You can tell it's an airplane by the seat back tray tables. I know that I am too late for the contest, but it seemed like a good idea to document just the same.
I figured that there is enough blue in this yarn to qualify it for Project Spectrum 2.0. And if not, well, things will have to wait until I arrive home again. At least this continues to serve as polite knitting, though the other day a fellow passenger stopped on the return trip from the bathroom to inform me that it was unfair that I could take my knitting needles on the plane.
Needles, needles, needles October 31, 2006Posted by lunarawe in jaywalkers, Knit Alongs, knitting, lace knitting, Socktoberfest, yarn.
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These past few days have been showered in knitting needles. First… a moment of silence for the recently frogged Birch Leaf lace socks. They were super cute! They were growing… but the neon-glare of an intensely turquoise spiral up and through the lace was taking away from the beauty of the pattern. That Lorna's Laces Baltic Sea colorway will have to be used for something else that highlights its beauty. Has anyone else made gorgeous socks from this colorway?
So… one pair of empty Addis. So sad.
Next I decided it was critical to begin work on the gorgeous Socktoberfest colorway from Scout's Swag before the end of Socktoberfest. After much careful thought (and almost succumbing to a mosaic plan) I decided that it might be time to give in to the tidal wave of Jaywalkers taking over the net. In truth the pattern does bring out the beauty of the yarn. So here is that first beginning on a set of Inox needles… I am enjoying the sharper points:
One final set of needles? You bet… seven in fact! This first attempt at doily making (don't ask me what I was thinking) was supposed to be done on three needles, but as it is a hexagon, seven seemed easier for actually checking the pattern. I have never blocked pearl cotton before… should be fun!
A blessed Samhain to all! May your ancestors treat you with kindness this evening.
FO: Socktoberfest Goal Met! October 27, 2006Posted by lunarawe in Knit Alongs, knitting, Knitting - FOs, sock wars, Socktoberfest.
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I am just so pleased I cannot stand myself. All of my socks from yesteryear have been completed and I even added in another pair of socks of doom for myself. Woo hoo! This from the Empress of a Million WIPs.
The amazing thing is that I am not yet sick of socks! You would think with all the reading, knitting, dying (a la Sock Wars), and frogging that I would have had enough. But no… I am thinking of Jaywalkers with Scout's Socktoberfest yarn.
Maybe that is a good thing. I travel so much for work that I had better not get sick of knitting socks. Of course, moving from California to a wintery place means that I should invest more time in those two sweaters currently on the needles. It is COLD here. Sheesh.
Anyway… this is me admiring my warm toesies. May you all have toasty hand-knit socks to protect you from the Wintersmith.
FO: Catching up! October 24, 2006Posted by lunarawe in Knit Alongs, knitting, Knitting - FOs, Socktoberfest.
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This is definitely my first Socktoberfest miracle… completing this basic stockinette pair of socks that I started two years ago! You see, this became the Yarn of Infamy. Imagine it… you are three quarters of the way through your sock using self-striping sock yarn. Then you come across… a knot. This has happened to me with other yarns (it always pisses me off), but this case was particularly obnoxious. Why you ask? Because the knot was made with complete disregard for the striped patterning of the sock.
So I had to frog enough to weave in, cut out tons of yarn until we were back to the right place in the patterning and then finish the sock. So I am of the belief that it is not entirely my fault that working on the second sock took so long. This was no regular second sock syndrome.
That said I am amazed and delighted to report that I have caught up with my sock knitting! The oldest socks I have in progress went on the needles about two weeks ago. Huzzah. So… the polite socks of doom are just missing one cuff, they should be done soon. And the Birch Leaf socks are progressing slowly. Surely I have been sooooooo good that I can finally cast on with Scout's Socktoberfest yarn, or maybe that luscious new Lorna's Laces in their flame colorway.
Decisions, decisions….
A Socktoberfest Book Review October 18, 2006Posted by lunarawe in Knit Alongs, knitting, Socktoberfest.
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I have been doing tons of reading this Socktoberfest. I have now gone through every book on sock knitting in my local library, and I thought it might be worth sharing some of that information with the rest of you. No one really needs every sock book in print on their shelves, so I am hoping that these reviews might save you from taking too much money away from The Yarn Stash. If you have other books that you want to review, please leave a link in the comments so the rest of us can benefit. There are indeed other sock books out there. Unfortunately I returned several before thinking of doing this, so there are some great texts that have gone unfairly unnoticed. Please help me to correct that.
Vogue Knitting Socks
Color, color, color! This little book (just bigger than an outstretched hand) is full of color work and interesting little details. With only three lace patterns and a scattering of textures, these patterns mainly focus on using color in creative and traditional ways.
The Vogue sock book has what I would call a medium-low level of basic sock knitting instructional detail. It includes some advice on sock construction, yarn types and substitutions, very general descriptions of color work methods, and a few diagrams of casting on methods and the
Kitchener stitch. Also the familiar U-shaped pompom template for those making golf socks. There is some also some advice on gauge, blocking methods, and useful crochet stitches. But nothing is covered in great detail.
To be honest, this book is pretty low on my list of possible purchases, but it would travel quite well if you are looking for a pocketbook sized sock book.
Socks Soar on Two Circular Needles
This book by Cat Bordhi is a well known classic that many have used on the journey away from dpns (I know, I know, many of you love them). If you have longed to work your socks on two circulars, this is the book for you. The Magic Loop method is not covered in this book.
This is not a very full volume. It contains mainly an overview of the technique (with very useful photos), some tips and tricks of the trade, and also some sock patterns formulated specifically for use with two circular needles. I found the section on translation a traditional pattern the most useful. The patterns in this book did not wow me, but the technique itself is one that I prefer, so if you have not yet ventured into this method of sock knitting, give Cat's book a whirl.
Knitting Vintage Socks
This is just one of Nancy Bush's well known knitting books. She is our resident historian, celebrating the methods and traditions that are still inspiring us unto this day. What I appreciated most about this book was its focus on the history of sock knitting. There is a great deal of information on the many and varied ways that socks are put together. Dutch, German, Welsh, or French? All of these heels types have diagrams, instructions, and advice. There is equal diversity among the demonstrated toes. This book definitely helped me to better understand why we do the things we do when we knit socks. Well… not everything, but you understand.
There are also many beautiful patterns in here with a classic feel. There is a great deal of texture and lace, with less color work than some other books I have seen. In these patterns you will find the foundation of many that are published in places like Knitty or MagKnits.
Knee-high lovers will find some great stocking patterns in this collection. If you are looking for timeless, traditional looks and a better understanding of the essence of sock knitting, this is the book for you.
Sensational Knitted Socks
This book has been much touted in the socktoberfest flickr group as a favorite in our community. I have to agree with everyone else. If you can only purchase one sock book, this is the one I would recommend.
What I love about Charlene Schurch's work is that it contains more practical information than any other I have read. Everything from shoe sizes to knitting techniques to troubleshooting can be found within these pages with clear, helpful diagrams.
What makes this book so versatile is that every single pattern is given with instructions for 4dpns, 5dpns, and 2 circulars. There is something to learn from each sock project, and the range is wonderful. You will find lace, color work, and texture in these pages. And every project has a variety of possible patterned stitches within it.
This is a treasure trove! As the back of the book says, "This is the only book on sock knitting you'll EVER need! Choose virtually any yarn, gauge, stitch pattern, and size you like – with nearly 1000 variations, the possibility for knitting fashionable to funky socks will last a lifetime."
Socks Socks Socks
This book is a close close close second to Sensational Knitted Socks. What I love most about this text is the surprising collection of patterns; most of them bringing a new spin on a timeless article of clothing.
Here you will find 70 winning patterns from the Knitter's Magazine Contest, edited by Elaine Rowley. There are things I had never dreamed of in here – from knitting socks with licorice laces, to embedded poetry, to piggy toes, and back again. I love the dragons whose tails wrap all the way around the sock leg. This book is a must have for lovers of knee-highs and those who like a little adventure in their knitting.
Who knew that socks could be constructed of colorful blocks, or that pattern's for kids could be so wonderful (I am going to have to covert some of these for larger feet).
You will find very little sock knitting technique taught in this book, so if you are looking for help with basic sock construction I would look elsewhere. But if you are ready for new patterns to inspire your knitting… look no further.


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It was the best cup of tea. Nongishu Kingi made it the Masai way, in a big saucepan over the wood fire in her hut. When the water boiled, she dropped in the tea mix, added milk and stirred, and stirred. After five minutes she poured it carefully into old enamel mugs, each with a pinch from her tiny hoard of sugar. We stood outside the hut watching the cold dawn washing the slopes of the volcano, our hands warming on the mugs, breathing in the spiced steam. There's cardamom, ginger and cinnamon in East African 'masala chai', and a smoky taste from the fire. It was so good you could live on it: some people do.
In a thorn paddock in the centre of the circle of huts, protected from leopards, the goats complained. The men frowned over their condition, pinching the bones that jutted in the loose skin of their backs. Nongishu gave her three older children their breakfast. Each got a mug with the cold leftovers of last night's dinner - chewy scraps of ugali porridge, made from maize flour and a little salt. No milk. I realised too late that we, the guests, got the last of that in our tea - and there was none to be had from the goats this morning. They were all too thin and dry in this pre-rainy season to give milk, and the cattle had gone off with the young men in a search for pasture. There was no breakfast for Nongishu or her husband Lemburis: just the tea they shared with us.
Saitoti and Nawassa, 13 and 10, finished their meal in less than a minute, grabbed school bags from inside the family's hut and set off down the track towards the village. The dawn comes up fast here, and now the sun was glinting off the soda lake. The shoulders of the great volcano, Oldonyo Lengai, 'God's mountain', took on an unearthly yellow. It was early November and there had been no rain for nine months; the landscape was all black and gold, lava rubble and dead grass. Only around the crack in the rock that channelled the stream leading to Lake Natron was there any green at all.
Nongishu put on some more of her beadwork jewellery until, with four sets of earrings weighing down her stretched lobes, she looked like the jewellery carousel in a craftwork shop. This was her full regalia: beaded bracelets, anklets, necklaces and chokers in the white, blue and yellow of the Kisongo clan. Some were studded with discs of tin or silver. These were her inheritance: wedding gifts, pieces from her grandmother. All were for sale to the tourists.
On the path to the village we struggled to keep up with Nongishu. She walked with the easy, long stride that is as much a Masai trademark as their spears and their red and purple robes. When we arrived at the safari camp by the river, we found a dozen other women from the Masai hamlet had already set up under the trees by the gate, their handicrafts and heirlooms spread out on poles and blankets. Some wore the tiered bead-tiaras made for their wedding day. Nongishu groaned: the familiar truck of a budget safari company was parked inside the thorn fence that protected the camp site from animals. 'They never buy anything from us,' she said.
Nongishu had to sell something, or the family wouldn't eat that night. It was pretty much the same for the other women - there were no animals healthy enough to sell, so to put food in their children's bellies they had to sell jewellery or beg or borrow money. And though the Masai share freely among themselves, no one in the village had much money to lend at the moment. As adults, the Masai, famously, live principally on milk, blood and meat - but when the animals are too weak to provide either, they have to eat what most of sub-Saharan Africa eats: porridge made from cereals. The Masai are pastoralists, cattle herders, and they don't normally grow such things - to get maize flour for ugali they need cash.
So as the day warmed up and the light became white, the women waited patiently for the tourists to wake. They were all relatives and most bore the surname Kingi, derived from the English colonialists. Lemburis's grandfather was chief of the area of the Serengeti they used to inhabit. They left it in 1959 at the insistence of the British, to make room for wild animals and tourists. I watched the tall, elegant women lay out their jewellery and, as they talked and laughed together, I thought about history's strange turns. Once these people were royalty, perhaps the most independent and proud of Africa's pastoral peoples. Now they were hawkers and beggars, dependent on the whims of the tourists who come here, in part, to see them and their lives.
All across Africa people are hungry this winter. That's not news, but what is startling is how many more are in this state than a couple of years ago. Not just people caught up in the interminable wars of Congo and Sudan, or in Zimbabwe, or the latest of endless cyclical famines in Ethiopia and Somalia, but ordinary people in the cities and the countryside of relatively stable, healthy countries like this one, Tanzania. People like the Kingi clan. There are a number of pressing reasons - all of them caused by forces outside, from the developed world.
The principal problem is the global price of food staples - driven up over the past couple of years by the international oil price and the demand for biofuels. In Britain that has meant price rises of on average 15 per cent in many staple foods. But throughout Africa and other poorer countries we've seen rises much steeper - staples like rice, maize and wheat are up 136 per cent in Tanzania. And while on the global markets, and in European supermarkets, those prices have during the autumn slowly begun to decline, there has been very little shift in East Africa. In Tanzania and in Kenya in early November I found the price of maize and ugali flour was just as high as it was at its peak, a year ago.
In this cut-off area of Masailand, in Loliondo district in the far north of Tanzania, prices were higher than anywhere. A good five hours' drive from any proper road, a 25kg container of maize grains, enough to feed a family of five for a week, cost up to 10,000 Tanzanian shillings - £5. That may not sound much - but it was nearly double what it was in January. And when you can't sell your animals, or your beads, the price is meaningless. You can't afford anything.
I've travelled this year to places in Asia, the Middle East and Africa where millions of ordinary people have fallen back into poverty - taking their children out of school because they can't afford fees, starving themselves to make sure the vulnerable in their family get nourishment - not because of a lack of food, but because it has become too expensive for them to afford. Their stories make our complaints about higher supermarket bills and the need to tighten our belts look a bit petty. But the saddest thing about these encounters has been that, generally, people in these out-of-the-way places had no idea why suddenly they could no longer earn enough to feed their families: no understanding of the workings of the global commodities markets or the rich world's need to turn good food into diesel.
Not so with the Masai. They are a well-informed, well-travelled people - their young unmarried men, the morani, roam great distances. Nowadays many migrate to the cities of East Africa, where, feared and mistrusted, they get employment in their warriors' robes and spears as security guards. Everyone we spoke to around the district knew that fuel prices had forced up the price of maize: a litre of diesel being a good 25 per cent more expensive than it was in 2007. According to Oxfam, which works throughout the region on pastoralists' food supply and land rights, the traders of maize take advantage of the remoteness of the area to increase prices for all commodities.
There were other more local factors - three major disasters in three years. The cattle herd is a Masai family's bank account - and a bad run of diseases killed off much stock in the district. Two protracted dry seasons hadn't helped either. As we talked in the baked wilderness of Loliondo, with no grass to be seen, everyone knew that rain had fallen and grass had grown only 50 miles away from us, in the western Serengeti and in the Masai Mara game reserves. In the past, the Masai would have driven their animals to these places to graze. That's what nomadic pastoralists do.
But nowadays, according to Oxfam, government generally puts tourism and wildlife before pastoralists' needs. This not only undermines the herding family's ability to feed themselves, but also the very fabric of their lives and culture. A 60-year-old widow, Ndawasai Natisile, struggling to keep her family fed and the cattle alive in the drought, told me she could not imagine a life without cattle. She only had five left. 'The only thing I could do then is give my daughter to a young man and ask him to care for us.' One young mother in the Kingi village, Nayotoang Kingi, told us: 'If we have no cattle, the family will break up. I will have to go back to my parents.' Her husband Kamaika heard this and drew his red robe tight around him: 'If we have no cattle, we die.'
The biggest problems, though, lie with the volcano, Oldonyo Lengai. The holy mountain of the Masai seems to dominate everything in this wild place. When it exploded at the beginning of the year the displacement of the people fleeing it also disrupted the food supply. While the Tanzanian government sent food aid, it would not allow outside NGOs to respond to the disaster: the government delays declarations of emergency because it does not like the tourists to see humanitarian-aid lorries thundering around. The mountain's moods have always played a part in Masai life - but now it has a new, more dangerous power: it attracts tourists.
And there lies the root of the troubles of the Loliondo Masai. Encouraged by the foreign aid donors, Tanzania has pushed its tourism sector hard. It has a strategy of doubling its visitor numbers in just five years, to one million per annum by 2010. Most tourists want to see wild animals, and more than half of them head north to this part of the country. Here are the most famous safari sites in the world: the Ngorongoro crater, a natural haven for 25,000 wild animals, and the great grass sea of the Serengeti. Ngorongoro alone is expected to see over 400,000 visitors this year, earning the country $30 million. It's clear that the money has not benefited the locals: in Engarasero half the children don't go to school, and 75 per cent of all female deaths occur in childbirth. The nearest hospital is two days' walk away.
But both Ngorongoro and Serengeti are already hard pressed: wild animals, mass tourism and poor pastoralists don't exist easily together. The government's strategy? Get 200,000 more tourism beds into the country, build more hotels on the Ngorongoro crater edge and extend the game parks and conservation areas. The pastoralists, long seen by central government throughout East Africa as a troublesome, uncivilised people, will have to adapt or move.
There is a sad irony here. The Masai are the African people most associated with animals in the wild, fabled for their symbiotic relationship with the great beasts and the vast migrating herds. They are a major part of the tourist experience: but you cannot help but conclude that tourism has never been good news for them. Throughout the 60-year history of game parks in East Africa, it is the indigenous humans who have had to make room.
Now the Tanzanian government has ordered 2,000 Masai families to leave the Ngorongoro crater area, saying they have no legal right to be there. Some evictions have already begun. The people have been offered land far away, up on the Kenyan border. Other communities in the conservation area have been told to stop farming - only pastoralism is allowed in the area. That has played a significant part in raising food prices. Sarupe Leoilekan, the government-appointed 'executive officer' of the village, told us that when maize was being grown nearby the price had been a third of what it was now. 'If it wasn't for the bead sellers people would be dying here.'
Other land on the fringes of the parks that is traditionally Masai grazing is being taken piecemeal and handed to safari companies and hunting enterprises. On a recent visit, the President of Tanzania himself announced that he wants to take the lands around Oldonyo Lengai and make them part of the existing conservation area - a move backed by the World Wildlife Fund and the big conservation NGOs. The announcement has horrified all the Masai, who believe that the 1958 agreement with the British granted them the right to live in Ngorongoro in perpetuity, in return for giving up the Serengeti. As Emburis Kingi told us, cuddling his two-year-old son:
'My grandfather was evicted from the Serengeti and he went to Ngorongoro in 1959. My father was evicted from Ngorongoro in 1974 and we came here. I will not move from here. I would rather die.'
The tourists were still asleep in their tents. They had spent the night climbing the volcano, coming home at dawn. We all waited impatiently for them to reappear, chatting with the camp manager, an elderly Masai from Kenya. He told us how much better things are for his people there - they have rights to the land. Here the district council doesn't even give the village its official share of the gate receipts it collects from visitors in a little booth on the main road. And the bridge there has been down for a year. A new road had been planned to the district - but then cancelled for fear of disrupting the animals.
Eventually a tent door opened. A young Frenchman, Anthony Pohu, came out yawning. A policeman from a town near Paris, he was on a two-week package round Northern Tanzania - the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, Mount Kilimanjaro and this place, to climb the mountain. It cost him €3,000.
So would he buy any jewellery from the mothers waiting outside the gate? 'I had a look. It's cheap. But it's not great quality compared with what I saw in Arusha town. That was more artisanal.' They need your money, I say gently. They haven't got anything to eat tonight. 'Yes? Well, maybe they'd better learn to bargain better.' He laughed. Another French couple said they didn't like the way the Masai women all stand in a line pleading with them to buy. 'It's not pleasant - it's demeaning for them and us. And we don't like to intervene in their culture - we don't want to leave our footprint in this place.'
By one o'clock, 32 Masai women were gathered at the camp gate, and they'd seen only two tourists. After long haggling those had bought a couple of dollars' worth of trinkets. But not from Nongishu. Emburis, her husband, was waiting patiently under a tree to see if she could earn any money. He told me that last time they were very short of cash and needed medicine to treat Nongishu's malaria they sold one of their three cows, for 50,000 shillings (about £25). But the animals' condition now was so poor they would fetch virtually nothing. He had lost all his cattle in the big drought of 2005-2006, and had only managed to acquire more because Oxfam gave the family some she-goats, on the condition that their first offspring were passed on to other families.
In the end, we bought beads from Nongishu. We spent 10,000 shillings - enough to buy that 25kg bag of maize, some greens and beans and cooking oil. Enough for a week. Her happiness as she walked with Emburis to the busy market made it feel like the best £5 I'd ever spent. In the dusty hut in the market area we found the trader from Arusha was selling sacks of wizened corn ears, full of dust and rubbish. I asked him why the price of maize was so high. 'I have to bring it all the way from Arusha, and the price of fuel,' he said, 'it's still high.' But, I said, we were just in Arusha a few days ago and we know the price of fuel has dropped. It was 2,200 shillings a litre a few months ago; now it's 1,900. He stared at me and the crowd listened in silence.
Nongishu spent another 1,000 shillings at the village mill, where a dusty old diesel engine grinds the maize into a rough flour. The husks were carefully swept up for feeding to the skinny goats. While she worked we walked up to the village's most impressive building - a concrete warehouse erected last year with the help of Oxfam. This is the grain bank - run by a committee of village elders, with a float of money to buy in grain when it's cheap and sell it when it's expensive. This should be a tool for the villagers to counter the rapaciousness of the traders and try and stabilise prices.
But Esupat Ritei, an elderly lady wearing the high Kisongo beaded tiara, who acts as the committee's treasurer, explained that the prices rose so high and so fast that their intervention in the market made little difference. Now the store, which could hold 2,000 tons, was almost empty - the committee had decided the few remaining sacks were being kept in reserve for when people were hungry. Which would soon be the case, if the rain didn't come. But the grain bank appeared to have had some effect: Nongishu bought her week's supply of maize for 7,000 shillings: two days earlier, we'd been at the weekly market in a more remote village, and there the price had been 10,000 shillings. So next year at harvest time the committee had a good reserve of funds to buy in again when the price was low.
Outside the grain bank we met Elizabeth Lemakanga with her daughter Ngola. She was a community animal-health worker, trained by Oxfam, and she came to the grain store three times a week to buy maize. Before the scheme started she had to make a 120km journey with a donkey two times a month to buy grain for her family. Elizabeth said the grain store had stabilised the price of food, and even reduced it.
We were invited to supper at the Kingi manyatta [semi-permanent village], and at sunset we went back to the circle of huts. I'd asked about blood, and the chances of it being available to drink. But there was none - the animals were in no condition to have a vein opened in the usual manner. (Up to five litres can be drained from a cow without harming it - the blood is then whisked to get clots out and mixed with milk, at three parts to one.) I wasn't so very disappointed: most people who've drunk the blood milkshake say it is just like having a bad nosebleed. Other travellers have been denied the treat: Ernest Hemingway wrote of a trip to Masailand in 1933, where he found a manyatta full of friendly people who didn't much want to drink blood with him - but were very keen to share his stores. '[The Masai] ate bread, cold mincemeat, and plum pudding with great relish and much laughter and joking,' he recounts in Green Hills of Africa.
The blood is taken from the live animal, because the Masai don't kill any of their animals unless they are irretrievably ill, or there is some pressing social or ritual reason. 'We don't eat chicken because we regard them as innocents who've been taken from the forest and domesticated by greedy men,' Samuel Nangiria, a young Masai activist told me. 'We don't eat antelope, or leopard, or any game animal, because we believe they have equal rights to live. If we must kill a cow we will lie down with it to calm it as it dies. We pray to it to forgive us, and we explain to it the reasons why we are doing this. We might say - "You are part of my life but I'm killing you because my dad is sick".'
Samuel worked for a small lobbying organisation, NgoNet, that tries to uphold Masai rights in the region. Next year, 2009, it will be 50 years since the Masai were evicted from the Serengeti - 50 years, as one old warrior put it, 'since the Masai spear was broken'. 'We're not saying no wildlife, no tourism on this land,' Samuel said. 'We're just asking for a responsible business. One that doesn't steal people's land. Or deny them the chance to earn a living. Or starve them.'
I went into Nongishu's hut to talk to her as she cooked. Over an open fire, she stewed kidney beans and fried onion. Saitoti, her son, stoked the fire with twigs - the man's role. In the dark smoky room, the cow-dung walls pressing in, we could be anywhere in history: only the little halogen torch Saitoti held to help me write notes had anything of the 21st century. Eventually the beans were ready: Nongishu served them up with a mound of white ugali, stiff and heavy as a stone. As we ate hungrily, in the twilight outside the hut the dark shape of the volcano in the sky seemed to have grown larger. Then a great dust storm swept a curtain over it. At intervals lightning stabbed the thickening darkness.
That night rain beat upon the tin roofs of the shacks we slept in. In the morning we woke up to find the skies clean and blue and the village damp: the dust had gone and everything seemed new. At the manyatta, the goats seemed to have smelt the water; the children were running in circles round the huts. The Kingi people's mood had changed. 'It is good, it has rained,' said Lemburis. It was the first time I'd seen him smile. In a week the new grass would appear. Nayotoyang, the 18-year-old wife of Kamaika, gave us a wave as we left, her fat baby grinning on her hip. 'Today,' she said in English, 'our hearts are laughing.'
• Alex Renton and Caroline Irby travelled to Tanzania with Oxfam. For more information on Oxfam's work on food and pastoralism visit oxfam.org.uk/foodcrisis. A £10 donation to Oxfam can feed a hungry family for a month
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About TLC Preschool
Established in 2001, at TLC Preschool we provide early childhood education in a caring and positive environment that is warm, nurturing and FUN! We believe that a Christian setting is an ideal place for the growth and development of young children, as it focuses on the heart and soul of a child in order to teach them values that are as important in their lifetime as knowing letters and counting.
Our Director
Brenda Harju, Director/Head Teacher, received her Bachelor's Degree from Colorado State University in Social Work and minored in Early Childhood Education. She has been an Early Childhood Director for more than 15 years and has been at TLC Preschool since 2005.
TLC Preschool Goals
- To provide a Christian atmosphere
- To provide love, understanding and respect to each child
- To provide a safe, caring and stimulating environment in which young children can grow and learn
- To provide exploratory experiences for each child, encompassing physical, emotional, cognitive and spiritual needs
- To develop a positive self-image in each child
Information for the current Preschool Year
- M/W/F classes from 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. for 4- and 5-year-old Pre-K students
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TLC Preschool is open to all children, 3 through 5 years of age, who are physically and emotionally prepared, regardless of their race, nationality or creed. Children must be the age of their class designation by September 15th of the same school year.
A non-refundable registration fee of $60.00 guarantees class placement if space allows. If you are enrolling more than one child, the second registration fee is $30.
To register by mail please download the forms below and mail with your check for the registration fee. You can also register online. Applications are accepted on a fist-come, first-served basis. TLC Preschool begins after Labor Day and closely follows the Poudre R-1 district schedule.
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Spreads were mixed in the US today (amid low volumes) with IG tighter, HVOL improving, ExHVOL weaker (as HVOL arb helped), XO stronger, and HY rallying. Indices typically underperformed single-names (for the fourth day in a row as index arb remains active) with skews mostly narrower as IG underperformed but narrowed the skew, HVOL underperformed but narrowed the skew, ExHVOL intrinsics beat and narrowed the skew, XO underperformed but compressed the skew, and HY's skew widened as it underperformed.
The names having the largest impact on IG are Hartford Financial Services Group (-68.28bps) pushing IG 0.51bps tighter, and Yum! Brands Inc (+2.5bps) adding 0.02bps to IG. HVOL is more sensitive with Hartford Financial Services Group pushing it 2.34bps tighter, and Motorola Inc. contributing -0.18bps to HVOL's change today. The less volatile ExHVOL's move today is driven by both Avnet Inc. (-25bps) pushing the index 0.25bps tighter, and Yum! Brands Inc (+2.5bps) adding 0.03bps to ExHVOL.
The price of investment grade credit rose 0.09% to around 96.79% of par, while the price of high yield credits rose 0.13% to around 75.63% of par. ABX market prices are higher (improving) by 0.05% of par or in absolute terms, 0.26%. Broadly speaking, CMBX market prices are higher (improving) by 0.05% of par or in absolute terms, 0.14%. Volatility (VIX) is down 0.38pts to 35.79%, with 10Y TSY selling off (yield rising) 6.8bps to 2.84% and the 2s10s curve steepened by 2bps, as the cost of protection on US Treasuries fell 0.3bps to 43.5bps. 2Y swap spreads widened 2bps to 57.5bps, as the TED Spread widened by 1.4bps to 0.99% and Libor-OIS improved 0.6bps to 91.5bps.
The Dollar strengthened with DXY rising 0.17% to 85.227, Oil rising $0.76 to $50.01 (outperforming the dollar as the value of Oil (rebased to the value of gold) rose by 3.32% today (a 1.71% rise in the relative (dollar adjusted) value of a barrel of oil), and Gold dropping $15.3 to $875.75 as the S&P rallies (859.6 1.31%) outperforming IG credits (174bps 0.09%) while IG, which opened wider at 176.25bps, underperforms HY credits. IG11 and XOver11 are -4.5bps and -25.12bps respectively while ITRX11 is -5.09bps to 148bps.
The majority of credit curves steepened as the vol term structure flattened with VIX/VIXV rising implying a more bullish/less volatile short-term outlook (normally indicative of short-term spread compression expectations).
Dispersion fell -9.7bps in IG. Broad market dispersion is a little greater than historically expected given current spread levels, indicating more general discrimination among credits than on average over the past year, and dispersion increasing more than expected today indicating a less systemic and more idiosyncratic spread widening/tightening at the tails.
60% of IG credits are shifting by more than 3bps and 67% of the CDX universe are also shifting significantly (more than the 5 day average of 64%). The number of names wider than the index increased by 1 to 49 as the day's range rose to 7.5bps (one-week average 9.4bps), between low bid at 170.5 and high offer at 178 and higher beta credits (-5.51%) outperformed lower beta credits (-3.7%).
In IG, wideners were outpaced by tighteners by around 8-to-1, with only 7 credits wider. By sector, CONS saw 11% names wider, ENRGs 6% names wider, FINLs 10% names wider, INDUs 0% names wider, and TMTs 0% names wider. Focusing on non-financials, Europe (ITRX Main exFINLS) underperformed US (IG12 exFINLs) with the former trading at 148.88bps and the latter at 151.55bps.
Cross Market, we are seeing the HY-XOver spread decompressing to 455.03bps from 435.34bps, and remains above the short-term average of 441.37bps, with the HY/XOver ratio rising to 1.55x, above its 5-day mean of 1.51x. The IG-Main spread decompressed to 26bps from 22.91bps, and remains above the short-term average of 23.67bps, with the IG/Main ratio rising to 1.18x, above its 5-day mean of 1.15x.
In the US, non-financials underperformed financials as IG ExFINLs are tighter by 8.2bps to 151.5bps, with 91 of the 104 names tighter. while among US Financials, the CDR Counterparty Risk Index fell 11.82bps to 206.88bps, with Finance names (worst) tighter by 17.6bps to 943.38bps, Banks (best) tighter by 18.08bps to 269.25bps, and Brokers tighter by 15.13bps to 247.08bps. Monolines are trading wider on average by 104.14bps (3.77%) to 2703.54bps.
In IG, FINLs underperformed non-FINLs (4.1% tighter to 5.13% tighter respectively), with the former (IG FINLs) tighter by 19.5bps to 454.8bps, with 17 of the 21 names tighter. The IG CDS market (as per CDX) is -2.3bps rich (we'd expect LQD to outperform TLH) to the LQD-TLH-implied valuation of investment grade credit (176.32bps), with the bond ETFs outperforming the IG CDS market by around 4.98bps. In Europe, ITRX Main ex-FINLs (underperforming FINLs) rallied 4.35bps to 148.88bps (with ITRX FINLs -trending tighter- better by 8.04 to 144.5bps) and is currently trading tight to its week's range at 0%, between 162 to 148.88bps, and is trending tighter. Main LoVOL (sideways trading) is currently trading tight to its week's range at -0.06%, between 109.66 to 104.74bps. ExHVOL underperformed LoVOL as the differential decompressed to -3.68bps from -4.94bps, but remains above the short-term average of -7.38bps. The Main exFINLS to IG ExHVOL differential compressed to 47.83bps from 53.34bps, but remains below the short-term average of 55.87bps.
commentary compliments of http://www.creditresearch.com/
Index/Intrinsics Changes
CDR LQD 50 NAIG091 -11.47bps to 231.88 (3 wider – 46 tighter <> 39 steeper – 11 flatter).
CDX12 IG -1.75bps to 174.25 ($0.08 to $96.78) (FV -9.73bps to 198.78) (7 wider – 109 tighter <> 75 steeper – 49 flatter) – Trend Tighter.
CDX12 HVOL -12bps to 405 (FV -29.56bps to 521.42) (0 wider – 30 tighter <> 27 steeper – 3 flatter) – Trend Tighter.
CDX12 ExHVOL +1.49bps to 101.38 (FV -4.24bps to 110.28) (7 wider – 88 tighter <> 37 steeper – 58 flatter).
CDX11 XO -13bps to 435.9 (FV -19.79bps to 493.66) (2 wider – 31 tighter <> 28 steeper – 6 flatter) – Trend Tighter.
CDX12 HY (30% recovery) Px $+0.13 to $75.63 / -5.4bps to 1283 (FV -47.8bps to 1161.45) (15 wider – 80 tighter <> 78 steeper – 20 flatter) – Trend Tighter.
LCDX10 (55% recovery) Px $+0.44 to $76.64 / -30.42bps to 1330.42 – Trend Tighter.
MCDX11 -17.5bps to 190bps. – No Trend.
CDR Counterparty Risk Index fell 11.82bps (-5.4%) to 206.88bps (1 wider – 14 tighter).
CDR Government Risk Index fell 1.34bps (-1.94%) to 67.8bps.
DXY strengthened 0.17% to 85.23.
Oil rose $0.76 to $50.01.
Gold fell $15.3 to $875.75.
VIX fell 0.38pts to 35.79%.
10Y US Treasury yields rose 7bps to 2.84%.
S&P500 Futures gained 1.31% to 859.6.
Originally published at the Zero Hedge blog and reproduced here with the author's permission.


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A man in Coralville, Iowa used his handgun to stop a car thief who was found in his vehicle in his driveway on Wednesday, according to kcrg.com.
Police are saying that they don't recommend the actions of the homeowner, even though they are perfectly legal.
"I don't think there's anything legally he did that was wrong," said Coralville Police Chief Barry Bedford. "It turned out very well, but the potential was there that it could have been disastrous."
According to a Coralville police criminal complaint, the homeowner of a residence on 19th Avenue caught 22-year-old James L. Travis, Jr. inside the homeowner's vehicle at 7:44 p.m. Wednesday. Police said the Travis was dressed in black and wearing a black stocking cap.
The suspect was held in the homeowner's car at gunpoint until police arrived.
Iowa law does allow for citizens to make a citizen's arrest, and while there was nothing illegal about what the homeowner did, the Coralville police were quick to inform that it can be dangerous.
Bedford said when police arrive on the scene and see one person holding a gun on another, they might not be able to tell right away who is the potential threat.
"When police respond, they'll focus on the perceived threat," he said. "The person with the gun, they don't know if he's the good guy or the bad guy and if they do anything that can be interpreted as a threat to the officer, the officer is going to respond."
Police said that the burglar has two previous burglary convictions from October 2013. He was arrested and faces one count of third-degree burglary – second or subsequent offense.
Once again a gun owner was able to stop a crime because we still have the 2nd amendment, much to the dismay of the anti-gunners. These stories just keep coming.


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Skift Take
If this story was being written in the boardroom of Delta, American Air, or United, the headline would most certainly read "Unfair Government Subsidies Give Emirates the Edge Again." Thankfully, they don't write headlines.
The Middle East's biggest airline, Emirates, says its profit jumped 40 percent during the last fiscal year, driven by rapid expansion and helped by a drop in fuel prices.
The Dubai government-owned carrier said Thursday it earned 4.56 billion dirhams ($1.24 billion) compared with the 3.25 billion dirhams ($885.6 million) it earned a year earlier.
Sales for the year rose 7 percent to 88.82 billion dirhams ($24.2 billion).
Emirates is expanding rapidly with a primarily wide-body fleet that funnels long-haul travelers through its fast-expanding hub in Dubai.
Tags: earnings, emirates air
Photo Credit: An Emirates airline passenger jet taxis on the tarmac at Dubai International airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Kamran Jebreili / Associated Press


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EDMONTON – Police have released the identity of a man killed in northeast Edmonton last Thursday night.
Police said Derek Alexander Garnham, 32, died of a gunshot wound. His death has been deemed a homicide.
Police were called by EMS to the area of 119 Avenue and 34 Street at around 7 p.m. Jan. 14. At least five marked EPS vehicles were on scene by 8:45 p.m.
Garnham was found dead inside an area residence.
An autopsy was conducted on Friday, which determined his death was a homicide.
Police continue to investigate the death and ask anyone with information to contact the EPS at 780-123-4567 or #377 from a mobile phone. Anonymous information can be submitted to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or online.
This is Edmonton's third homicide of 2016.
*Editor's note: This story was originally published on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2015. It was updated on Monday with the victim's identity.


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Larry Pratt: Guest speaker at group trying to recall state lawmaker believes Aurora gunman didn't act alone
UPDATE: A theater victim weighs in.
The guest speaker at a fundraising dinner for a group trying to recall a Democratic state lawmaker over his gun votes theorized last year that the Aurora theater gunman didn't act alone and the attack was somehow related to the United Nations' small-arms treaty negotiations.
Larry Pratt, director of Gun Owners of America, is scheduled to speak at a fundraising event for The San Juan Freedom Defense Committee, which is trying to recall Rep. Mike McLachlan, D-Durango.
So, what about Pratt raising questions about whether suspected theater gunman James Holmes acted alone?
"I've known Larry for 25 years," said David Saleh, spokesman for the defense committee. "He's anything but a conspirationist."
Lasamoa Cross was at the Aurora theater with her boyfriend, A.J. Boik, who was killed.
"At the time, pundits like Larry Pratt rushed in to do media tours claiming that the shooting was some kind of United Nations conspiracy," she said, in an e-mail. "Now a bunch of fringe gun groups are bringing him into Colorado for a fundraiser. This is not only an insult to me, but shows how completely out of touch these guys are."
Pratt, 70, once served in the Virginia legislature. He worked briefly for Pat Buchanan's 1996 presidential campaign, where he was branded an "extremist".
Pratt is scheduled to speak Wednesday night at CJ's Diner in Durango, according to the San Juan Freedom Defense Committee. The sit-down dinner costs $50 and is limited to 75 people. Pratt then will speak at Durango Rec Center from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Admission is free.
Those wanting to recall McLachlan must collect at least 10,586 valid signatures, which represents 25 percent of the votes cast in that House district in the 2012 election. Saleh said Second Amendment activists want to collect at least 15,000 names to be safe.
"We're not saying it's going to be easy," he said. "I'm not trying to downplay that."
But, he said, when McLachlan campaigned he said he was a supporter of the Second Amendment, but his votes for four gun bills don't reflect that.
"This is their right to petition to recall me." McLachlan told the Durango Herald when the recall was announced. "I look forward to a full discussion of the issues."
Recall efforts also are underway — but by different groups — against three other Democrats: Senate President John Morse of Colorado Springs, Sen. Angela Giron of Pueblo and Sen. Evie Hudak of Westminster. Their support of a package of Democratic gun bills led to the recall efforts.


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Cutting out the heart for "Liberty"
The Cuore Verde, Umbria, the green heart of Italy. The big horseshoe of the Tiber Valley The internet really is the ultimate free-association engine – with each thought finding illustration as your mind drifts along from topic to topic. I started out looking into the


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Idris Elba WILL play The Gunslinger in Stephen King's The Dark Tower
IDRIS ELBA has a licence to thrill as he takes on the iconic Gunslinger alongside Matthew McConaughey in the big screen version of Stephen King's The Dark Tower expected to hit cinemas in January 2017.
Fans are thrilled that Elba will play The Gunslinger
Idris Elba has fans shaken and stirred at the long awaited announcement.
Stephen King finally confirmed earlier today that the British star will play the heroic post-apocalyptic knight Roland Deschain, aka the gunslinger, in The Dark Tower.
The Gunslinger seeks to protect a mysterious broken world, opposed by his nemesis, the man in black.
"It's official: The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed. #DarkTowerMovie" tweeted the famous horror author, quoting the first line from the very first book in the series.
He also tagged in the film's two lead stars, Matthew McConaughey, who will play the man in black, and our very own Mr Elba.
It's official: The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed. #DarkTowerMovie @McConaughey @IdrisElba— Stephen King (@StephenKing) March 1, 2016
Fans have praised the colour-blind casting of Elba
Fans immediately shared their excitement on social media.
"IDRIS ELBA IS THE GUNSLINGER OMFG IM DEAD," wrote one on Twitter.
"Alright, alright, alright," added another clever clogs with a clever reference to MacConaughey's iconic catchphrase from The Wolf of Wall Street.
The author, himself, couldn't contain his joy that his beloved project was finally making it into cinemas after over 40 years.
Matthew McConaughey will play the mysterious 'man in black'
"The thing is, it's been a looong trip from the books to the film," King told EW.
"When you think about it, I started these stories as a senior in college, sitting in a little sh**ty cabin beside the river in Maine, and finally this thing is actually in pre-production now. He
"I'm delighted, and I'm a little bit surprised."
The 71-year-old will share writing-duties with the film's director, Nikolaj Arcel.
Other fans highlighted the film's colour-blind casting choice of Elba as the gunslinger, who is traditionally seen as white. In the books there is considerable racial tension between the gunslinger and another character, a black amputee called Susannah.
"A black Roland Deschain? I say, 'Why the hell not?'" tweeted one.
This is especially pertinent after the race row that erupted over the ongoing rumours that Elba is a hot favourite to replace Daniel Craig as James Bond.
Comments made by current Bond author Anthony Horowitz were interpreted as potentially racist.
It also coincides with the huge controversy surrounding the Oscars So White campaign to combat the perceived sidelining of minority actors at the Oscars and in the film industry as a whole.
After being snubbed by this year's Oscars for his explosive turn in Beast of No Nation, Elba joked about the topic recently at the Screen Actors' Guild Awards.
"Welcome to diverse TV," he joked after taking home two awards on the night for Netflix's Beats of No Nation, as well as for his work in the TV series Luther.
Filming is expected to begin on The Dark Tower in South Africa in a few months, with Sony Pictures planning a January 2017 release.


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We all know that drinking water regularly is good for the body. But new research has revealed that drinking water when we feel thirsty boosts our brain's performance in mental tests.
Researchers from the University of East London and the University of Westminster in the UK analyzed the potential effects of water on cognitive performance and mood among 34 participants with an average age of 29 years.
The study, published in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, involved participants taking part in a "water" and a "no water" experiment one week apart.
The "water" experiment required the people to complete a number of mental tests after eating a cereal bar and drinking some water. The "no water" test meant the participants consumed just the cereal bar alone. The amount of water drunk by the participants in the "water" test depended on their level of thirst.
Lead study author, Dr. Caroline Edmonds of the University of East London School of Psychology, told Medical News Today, "Our study found that reaction times were faster after people drank water, particularly if they were thirsty before drinking."
In both experiments, the participants were asked to fast overnight, consuming no food or drink after 9pm before the day of testing. The participants were assessed via three measurements - a thirst scale, a mood scale and with a computer-administered variety of tasks called the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB).
The researchers analyzed particular areas of the participants' brain, including reaction time, verbal recognition memory, visual memory and learning.The participants who drank around three cups of water (775 milliliters) just before completing the tests had a 14% increased reaction time compared with those who did not drink any water.
The study authors say that as well as showing that water consumption can increase cognitive performance, this is moderated by the participants' subjective feelings of thirst. The authors say:
"The present study revealed water consumption to have contrasting effects on different cognitive processes. Water consumption was found both to impair 'set shifting' performance, and to facilitate speed of responding, but in a manner that was dependent upon subjective thirst.
More specifically, water consumption appeared to have a corrective effect on the response times for thirsty individuals, bringing their speed of responding up to the level of non-thirsty individuals"
In terms of mood, the results revealed that when participants were dehydrated, they were more tense, sad and confused.
But the study also showed that drinking water can have negative effects on cognitive performance. Dr. Edmonds told MNT the study "also showed that people performed worse on a complex rule-learning task after drinking."In a test called the Intra-Extra Dimensional Set Shift (IED) test, the participants were monitored for "attention flexibility" and tested on their error rates in discriminating a series of visual images. Depending on how the researchers ran the test, participants who drank water before doing it performed worse than those who drank no water.
The study authors add that further research is needed to examine how the brain effects of water are mediated by thirst mechanisms, as well as determining why water consumption can also have negative effects on cognitive performance.
Dr. Edmonds told MNT: "This study shows that water can be helpful for cognitive performance, and sometimes it can be helpful to be thirsty - we need to do more studies to find out why."
"We don't really know the answer to that question at the moment.
This study is part of a program of research that is investigating how much water we should consume to affect cognitive performance.
[There is also] a whole host of other research questions, such as what cognitive tasks are affected, and how far in advance of performance on these tasks is optimal for improving performance."


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Walter Van Beirendonck was a member of the Antwerp Six, a well-known group of fashion designers who graduated from Antwerp's Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1980. During the 80's Walter and others managed to present a distinct and radical vision for fashion resulting in gaining fame al
Walter, now in cooperation with IKEA shows his new collection titled as 'GLODANDE'. GLODANDE is a range of ready-to- cut fabrics, paper stationery, shopping bags, rugs, porcelain and pillows that use different materials and techniques.
When IKEA approached Walter to initiate a design collabora- tion, it was because of the way he works with materials and graphic patterns, as well as the stories that his fashion collecions always tell, said the experts of IKEA.


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Phishing is a fraudulent scheme that is designed to steal your money by getting you to divulge personal information on websites that pretend to be legitimate portals. These websites are designed to lure you into revealing personal information, such as credit card numbers, bank information, or passwords. Cybercriminals typically pretend to be reputable companies, friends, or acquaintances in a fake email message, which contains a link to a phishing website.
Some examples of messaging in these emails are:
- Emails that promise a reward. "Click on this link to get your tax refund!"
- A document that appears to come from a friend, bank, or other reputable organizations. The message is something like "Your document is hosted by an online storage provider and you need to enter your email address and password to open it."
- An invoice from an online retailer or supplier for purchase or order that you did not make. The attachment appears to be a protected or locked document, and you need to enter your email address and password to open it.
Learn to spot a phishing email
Phishing is a popular form of cybercrime because of how effective it is. Cybercriminals have been successful using emails to get people to respond with their personal information. The best defense is awareness and knowing what to look for.
Here are some ways to recognize a phishing email:
- Spelling and bad grammar. Cybercriminals are not known for their grammar and spelling. Professional companies or organizations usually have an editorial staff to ensure customers get high-quality, professional content. If an email messages is fraught with errors, it might be a scam.
- Suspicious links. If you suspect that an email message is a scam, do not open any links that you see. Instead, rest your mouse but don't click- on the link to see if the address matches the link that was typed in the message. In the following example, resting the mouse on the link reveals the real web address in the box with the yellow background. Note that the string of IP address numbers looks nothing like the company's web address.
- Threats. These types of emails cause a sense of panic to get you to respond quickly. For example, it may include a statement like "You must respond by end of day." Or saying that you might face financial penalties if you don't respond.
- Spoofing. Spoofing emails appear to be connected to legitimate websites or companies, but actually take you to phony scam sites or display legitimate-looking pop-up windows.
- Altered web addresses. A form of spoofing where web addresses that closely resemble the names of well-known companies, but are slightly altered; for example, www.micorsoft.com or www.mircosoft.com.
- Incorrect salutation of your name.
- Mismatches. The link text and the URL are different from one another; or the sender's name, signature, and URL are different.
- BCC. The mail is sent to multiple recipients or to you in BCC.
Cybercriminals can also get you to visit fake websites with other methods, such as text messages or phone calls. Sophisticated cybercriminals set up call centers to automatically dial or text numbers for potential targets. These messages will often include prompts to get you to enter a PIN number or some other type of personal information.
Report phishing scams
There are a few ways to report a phishing scam.
If you're on a suspicious website:
- Microsoft Edge. While you're on a suspicious site, select the More (…) icon > Send feedback > Report Unsafe site. Follow the instructions on the web page that displays to report the website.
- Internet Explorer. While you're on a suspicious site, select the gear icon, point to Safety, and then select Report Unsafe Website. Follow the instructions on the web page that displays to report the website.
- Outlook.com. If you receive a suspicious email message that asks for personal information, select the check box next to the message in your Outlook inbox. Select the arrow next to Junk, and then point to Phishing scam.
- Microsoft Office Outlook 2016 and Microsoft Office 365. While in the suspicious message, select Report message in the Protection tab on the ribbon, and then select Phishing.
If you receive an unsolicited phone call, take down the caller's information and report it to your local authorities.


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