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Below is the itinerary for 4D3N Bandung Tour Guide:
Day 1:
- Pick up from Bandung airport or Bandung railway station. Meet and greet with our tour guide and driver.
- Satay Building for photo stop
Your Bandung trip starts at the icon of Bandung, the Satay Building, which is also the landmark of Bandung which belongs to one of the historical buildings in West Java province. This place is currently used as the governor's office.
- Lunch at forest-look-alike café
Being considered as the most unique and popular café among the local and foreign visitors, it is a must-visit place for tourists in Bandung. Here you can try local (traditional) cuisines from West Java province at affordable price.
- Rainbow waterfall
This 87-meter waterfall is located very close to forest café and considered as the highest waterfall in Bandung. If you happen to reach this place at around 3 to 4 pm, you will be greeted by monkeys at the area. This waterfall is open from 8 am to 5 pm and closed for public when it rains.
- Bamboo Village
Located only within 5-minute drive from the waterfall, this resort is getting more and more popular among the tourists. For those who love taking pictures, this is the perfect place where you can start taking nice pictures while enjoying the beautiful scenery and fresh air. You can also try local cuisine here available at the local food court.
- Check into the hotel
Day 2:
- Pick up from the hotel
- Tangkuban Perahu volcano.
After breakfast at the hotel, we will go straight to the northern part of the city to see the most famous volcano in Bandung. Here you can enjoy the breathtaking scenery while taking pictures or buy local souvenirs.
- Sari Ater hot spring resort
This hot spring is the ideal place where you can relax or have some massage or simply soak your feet in the hot sulfuric water.
- Tea plantation for photo stop
This is another favorite place for photographers where you can enjoy nice, natural scenery.
- Lunch at a local restaurant
- Floating market
After lunch we will visit floating market which is one of the most well-known tourist destinations in Bandung. Here you can try local (traditional) culinary at affordable price or take some lovely pictures or play with the rabbits or feed the fish and the geese. For those who are into shopping, you can also visit the factory outlets within the area which sell clothing, souvenirs, snacks, etc.
- Fashion World and Mode House Factory Outlet
Your Bandung tour wouldn't be complete without visiting the most famous factory outlets in town.
- Dinner is served at a local restaurant
- Transfer to the hotel
Day 3:
- After breakfast we will pick you up at the hotel and ready to go to The White Crater
- The White Crater (Kawah Putih)
On day 3 we will bring you to the southern part of Bandung where we can find another volcano popular with its stunning view. Here you can also find many people selling fresh strawberries and mulberries.
- Deer Reservation (optional)
- Lunch is served at a local restaurant
- Bandung shopping street
On day 3 you will visit a very popular shopping street in Bandung where most big factory outlets are located. Here you can find many factory outlets within the area located very close one to another, only within walking distance.
- Dinner is served at a local restaurant
Day 4:
- Breakfast at the hotel
- Free and easy until we pick you up at the hotel
- Bandung's largest cake shop
Your Bandung tour wouldn't be complete if you don't visit the most famous cake shop in Bandung where you can find a wide variety of cakes, such as the famous layer cake, brownies, and many more.
- Transfer to Bandung airport (around 3 hours before departure time).
- The above tour itinerary is flexible and the itinerary for day 1 and day 4 depends largely on your flight timetable.
- Lunch and dinner are included for group consisting of 4 persons minimum.
- Please do not hesitate to contact us should you wish to include a different place into the existing itinerary.
4D3N Bandung Trip
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River Bank Lodge is located in River Run Village, the heart of Keystone Resort. The pedestrian village has many shops and restaurants and is a 50-yard walk to the River Run Gondola. Kids activities, festivals, and other attractions are centered here.
This family-friendly condominium features a wall of windows with ski area and marshland views.
Watch the Kidtopia fireworks during peak winter season every Saturday from the large windows in the living area as you warm your toes by the gas fireplace. The living area also features a TV, DVD player, and comfortable end chair and sofa.
A new room darkening window treatment has been installed in the bedroom for extra comfort. There is one bathroom with a large jetted tub/shower combination and a separate closet and vanity.
The kitchenette is equipped with gas burners, convection microwave oven, refrigerator, and dishwasher. A dining table is located off the living room area overlooking the ski mountain views.
The living room is furnished with a queen sofa sleeper, flatscreen TV, and gas fireplace. This condo is great for viewing wildlife from the windows. Be on the lookout for fish, moose, beaver, ducks, birds, and more!
River Bank Lodge 2918 is a great location for the family. The Dercum Square Ice Rink and Kidtopia Headquarters are adjacent to the condo. The free Keystone Shuttle service is steps away and will take you to attractions throughout the resort.


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In 1949, Amy Tan's mother boarded one of the last ships heading from Shanghai to San Francisco before "China became Red China and the bamboo curtain descended." There, her mother reunited with her husband and the couple relocated to Oakland, where a couple of years later she was born.
As a child, she knew little more about China than an "American pastiche of stereotypes," and that some of her family had been lucky enough to make it out, while others had not. For years she organized her thinking around those divisions, until revelations about her family and the country her parents fled broke them down.
Below are excerpts from correspondence with Ms. Tan, 61, whose latest novel is "The Valley of Amazement," about how her relationship with China changed over time.
Q. What were your earliest thoughts about China?
A. Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, I thought of China as a prison that everyone wanted to escape. My parents considered themselves lucky that they were able to leave before 1949. Other family members were not quite as lucky and wound up in Formosa — that's what we called Taiwan in those days. They sent us letters that described hard work and lack of proper food, hygiene and clothing. In their photos, they looked shockingly weathered and shiny with sweat. We received no letters from China and prayed for those silent ones whose whereabouts were unknown. If America was heaven, Formosa would be limbo, and China would be hell.
Were you ever in contact with those family members before visiting?
When I was 16, after my father died, my mother told me that she had been married to another man in Shanghai before she met my father. I could hardly comprehend this stunning news, when she added she also had three daughters in China. She did not explain why they were in China, whereas she was in California. Years later she would only say that her previous husband had been a bad man. If I pressed her she would have said that I did not understand because I was an American. That was her typical lament when I did not seem to appreciate the tragedies of her life, like the suicide of her mother, which left her alone — abandoned, really — at the age of 9.
She showed me their photos. The middle daughter, Jindo, was beautiful. She resembled my mother. She also fit the stereotype of peasants I had imagined in childhood. She wore a conical hat and farmer's clothing, and she was standing next to a rice field. That could have been my life.
Afterward, China was no longer an invisible jail. I now imagined myself living there, wearing a conical hat and writing letters late at night to my mother, in beautiful Chinese calligraphy like that of my newfound sisters. "I dream every day you will return," Jindo had written her. "When you do, my happiness will be restored."
Did she return?
Yes, in 1979, after a 30-year separation, my mother went to visit her three daughters. Jindo lived in a village of rice farmers. She had married a surgeon, and they and several comrades served my mother a modest feast in a shack whose walls were lined with newspaper to keep out the cold.
When was your first visit?
In 1987, my mother, husband and I went together. We stepped out of the plane into an airport painted toothpaste green. I had assumed I would blend in with the masses. Instead, I was surrounded by locals who gawked at me and made open comments about my outlandish purple clothing.
These days, I go about once a year. The most gleamingly modern airports I've been to are in China. The coolest and most technologically challenging hotel I've ever stayed in is in China. The most tricked-out hair salon I've been to is in China. The worst pollution I've endured is in China. I keep going back for more of the most. Not everyone wants to escape anymore. In fact, it is more often the case that Chinese students go to the U.S. to study and return to start companies and make millions.
Has your attitude on China changed?
I look at China not as a land of burdens and debt but the land of origin that gave our family its improbable history. I once traveled with Jindo on a long ferry ride to a mansion, the one on the island near Shanghai, where my mother grew up, where Jindo also grew up. I listened to her stories about working in the rice fields, where she wore the conical hat and danced and yelled as she pulled leeches off her calves. She eventually told me what happened to her after our mother left, about the abuse she suffered at the hands of her father's concubine. As Jindo re-enacted the past, she flung her arms and beat her chest, and it must have appeared that we were having a violent argument.
"It was not right," she said repeatedly, and she meant what her stepmother did to her, and also what her father did to our mother, and what my mother did in choosing to be with a lover rather than with her three daughters, and then in marrying that lover and having three children by him, one of them a daughter, who was sitting next to her, listening to her cry.


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On the VDLP, I visited several medieval Jewish quarters, including Hervas and Cordoba. Since returning home, I've been reading "The Last Jew" by Noah Gordon. This concerns the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492. The hero travels all around Spain in disguise. This book is highly recommended if you are a fan of historical fiction.


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Newsarama has a very good interview with Geoff Johns in which he discusses the upcoming developments in the Green Lantern storyline.
[Newsarama] The past has come back to bite Hal Jordan many times in his years as a Green Lantern, but perhaps not quite as hard as in the end of last week's issue #16, when the benefactor of the bounty hunters who've been chasing Jordan revealed himself. The mysterious man looking for earth's Green Lantern? None other than Amon Sur, the son of Abin Sur – i.e., the previous Green Lantern who, after crashing on earth gave his ring to Jordan.
…Amon's return is only the tip of the pain in the butt iceberg that's just beginning to show itself in DC's Green Lantern series – Sinestro, the red guy with the yellow ring with the mad-on for Green Lanterns, and Hal in particular, is forming up his own team, and the Star Sapphire is back on earth – and hunting. Read the whole story.
The Sinestro Corp idea leaves me with mixed emotions. This sort of thing could be absolutely revitalizing to the Green Lantrern mythos. It has the makings of really, really superb storytelling. I mean a Sinestro Corp could be amazing.
Quoth Mr. Johns: …Green Lantern #18-#20 will have six page back-ups by me and Dave Gibbons called "Tales of the Sinestro Corps,â€? which will be in the style of the old "Tales of the Green Lantern Corpsâ€? which will start to introduce new members being selected, and what they do.
…The relationship between the Sinestro ring and their bearers are a little different – more like a host and parasite than the Green Lantern ring bearers and their rings. The Sinestro Corps members aren't controlled by their rings, but they are a little more parasitic. The rings feed on fear, and feeds off the fear that the individual it has chosen can create…They have all the positive qualities of a Green Lantern ring, except they instill great fear instead of conquering great fear. So they're essentially terrorists in a way.
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September 2, 2011
In just four days out, Weezy's latest sells more than 300,000 copies in the digital store.
Just a few weeks after Jay-Z and Kanye West broke the first week sales record for iTunes with Watch the Throne, Lil Wayne accomplished the same feat with his latest album Tha Carter IV in just four days.
According to HHNM, Weezy has sold more than 300,000 copies of his latest offering since it hit the web on early Monday at midnight. In its first week, TC4 is now expected to move between 925,000 and 975,000 copies, whereas earlier estimates put the album between 850,000 and 900,000 units.
In its first week out, Watch the Throne broke Coldplay's previous iTunes record for first week sales, moving roughly 290,000 copies.


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What was seemingly an average night stuck in traffic took a turn for the surreal when a hatchback randomly flew onto Leninsky Prospekt. Fortunately the initial landing zone was clear, but several other cars did end up badly bashed.
As the year draws to a close, even in these complex times we should try to be thankful for the many blessings of modern life. Among them: in-car video cameras, YouTube, and reliably batshit-insane Russian drivers.
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Anyhow I was very excited to make this Loaded Envelope as I have made others before. Although I must say that I took such a liking to this one a little more because I used that beautiful blinged out flower in the center as my focal point! Not only that but I'm glad that she likes purple cuz this one was a beautiful color of purple. It wasn't too bright and I found the perfect papers to go with it!
I first began by using a tutorial that I've used before as my base. A fellow crafter and youtuber did this tutorial and I think its super easy! Click here to view this tutorial! I then decided to use some Prima papers, I used some from Fairy Belle and from Princess collection. I thought they went very well with the flower in the center that came from my guest dt pkg from Esme, the owner of Crafty Me Shop on Facebook. I used also some bling leaves from Prima. I added white pearl sprays with the fabric flower. I tried making a paper Rosette and while it was super easy, I didn't like that it stayed a little lopsided lol, I used cookie sticks instead of paper straws because I felt they were way more sturdy than paper straws. I just wrapped some thin , dainty laces around them using Fabritac adhesive. You can find these @ Michaels or any other craft shop, click here to view what they look like. They come in a variety of sizes and quanities. I hope you will give these a try sometime!!
I then added a pocket of mesh/lace trim from my stash on the back and front. I adhered pearl trim around the entire back of the envelope. I adhered the same pearl trim on the front in certain areas as well. On the sides I used some beautiful pink trim from Crafty Me shop and in the center of that I added some tiny rosette with pearl trim from my stash.
I used some Lindy's Magicals to color the two chipboard pieces that I had from FabScraps, I gessoed them first then brushed on the magicals, Love that color! It matched the flower perfect!! Then I just made a small altered paper clip with my Martha Stewart butterfly punch, I layered it, added mod podge for sturdiness and stickles, rinestone in the center too. Then added tags from the Prima paper collections with some butterfly paper clips. On the back I added a white fan with a beautiful cameo in the center for added decor. Plus it would hold up my paper rosette better. Lastly I added the beautiful fabric flower that I had recieved on my guest dt kit from Flair By Me, I just added hot glue to ahere it to the cookie stick, then just added some pearl garland . I also made a tag to go inside the envelope along with the wand. I was gonna include some goodies inside like she did with mine but they didn't fit very well so decided to pack them separate. I do hope that she likes it!!


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Scientists have balanced reactive molecules for the first time outside the body! It has taken 16 years of research and 20 million dollars to achieve this major scientific breakthrough.
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text: Ching-He Huang with Golden Unicorn's dim sum chef; Table setting and Menu Earlier this week, I went to Golden Unicorn Restaurant to meet Ching-He Huang, the newest face on The Cooking Channel, to have dim sum (點心) and her talk about her recently debuted show, Easy Chinese: San Francisco. Golden Unicorn is arguably one of the original dim sum restaurants that still around for several decades without losing its quality. My parents have been there over the decades and still find their food pretty good – and that's a compliment knowing that they've been to many dim sum restaurants in..


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The best thing that a President can do to help the economy is give the press something else to talk about besides the economy. Economics boils down to applied psychology: when people think the economy is bad, they cut back on spending and investing. The media picks up on this and continues to talk about how bad the economy is. And consumers continue to avoid spending, and investors continue to avoid investing, and the media talks about that, continuing on in a viscous cycle.
To break the cycle, the media needs something else to talk about. The reason why the economy was so great during the 90's is because Bill Clinton accidentally gave the media all sorts of things to talk about. Bush had a recession that went away after 9/11. But a new recession started when people got bored with the War on Terror.
I call this the Zaphod Effect. Zaphod Beeblebrox was the President of the Galaxy in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. His sole responsibility was to distract the public.
Many economists will insist that the Zaphod Effect isn't real. This is because the only time anyone pays attention to them is when the economy is bad. And for the Zaphod Effect to work, we have to ignore them.


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I don't know about you, but I'm in need of some smile therapy right now. Newly single, I am reminded of the moment in the SATC movie when jilted Carrie asks 'Will I ever laugh again?' and Miranda advises her that she will - 'When something is really, really funny.' As I'm not prepared to sit around waiting for my friends to soil themselves, I have to make my own amusement, and here are some of my quick-fix remedies to give you an instant lift:
Glee. Every line, every song - the whole concept is absolute gold. Become a Gleek and every week will get off to a better start.
Reading snippets from spoof US News site The Onion at your desk. Silly, perfectly crafted and an instant laughter drug. Also loving my horoscope on there this week: 'You'll find happiness at the end of the rainbow this week, though to be fair, it's the kind often found hanging outside of gay clubs.'
Really creamy, cinammon-laced hot chocolate. Not laughter exactly, but a smile and a warming glow from top to toe can't hurt.
Reading badly written erotic literature with your bestest girl friends (you know who you are.)
Chick flicks with a twist - I recommend mockumentary Drop Dead Gorgeous, high school Heathfest 10 Things I Hate About You and Tina Fey-scripted Mean Girls.
Extra-curricular fun: No, not playing away, but joining a club or team. Rehearsing with the choir I am part of is one of the most laughter-filled evenings of my week. Slightly music-geeky joking and the fact that we don't take ourselves too seriously means it's less work, more play.
Dave on TV - Russell Howard's little-boy delight in the world makes Mock The Week the prozac of panel shows, and the sharp minds and witty one-liners on Have I Got News for You and QI also do the trick.
Revisiting an old favourite. I am re-reading Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason on the train, and had forgotten how funny it is. Brilliant for realizing you're not the cringiest of females quite yet.
Overhearing the bizarre dialogue or phone conversation of a fellow train passenger. I'm not sure why this works for me, but the weirder the better.
Catching yourself in a moment of extra-strength crazy - think imaginary scenarios, almost-sent texts, facebook stalking or being overly riled by the tone of a Starbucks barista. It's oddly reassuring to laugh at yourself.
Do comment with smile-inducing tips and tricks if you can - the tiny things in life can really make or break your day, and mine are looking a little bleak at the moment...
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There have been many times in history when the Arora people have been violently persecuted. Their people were slaughtered during both the Arab and the Moghul invasions of the Subcontinent. Arora Hindus and Sikhs had to flee with nothing but the clothes they were wearing during the bloody Partition of India in 1947. These are a resilient people, and they managed to become an influential community in India. They have a rigorous work ethic, and they insist on making sure that their children get a higher education. A recent Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh, is from the Arora community.
The Arora may have established a culture of good works, relying upon their accomplishments to win God's favor.
Pray for God's blessing, strengthening and healing of families and communities within the Arora people through the abundant life Jesus offers to all who call on His name.
Even though there may be no followers of Jesus among the Arora today, pray for those that will soon come from this community. Pray they will hunger to learn about Jesus and his ways, and that teachers and resource materials will be provided. Pray they will be faithful to study to show themselves approved.
Pray for the Arora community to be given the gift of conviction of sin, that they will know their need for a Savior. Pray their hearts will be prepared.
"All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations will worship before You." Psalm 22:27


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Back Woods Visitor
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Morning Visitors
This girl and her friends have been making appearances in our woods behind the house for several days now. They have just awoken to falling snow which has put a dusting over their bodies. That fur must be very insulating that their body heat doesn't melt the snow.
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Photos: Inverdoorn Game Reserve
This portion of our trip was 'sponsored' by Susan and Terry Akers. Thanks for everything, guys!
After having an amazing time in, around, and outside of Cape Town, mom, Terry, Danielle and I headed 3 hours outside the city to Inverdoorn Game Reserve and Safari Lodge. We spent one night and had two game drives while we were there, one in the afternoon on day 1, and one at sunrise on day 2. The lodge was pretty nice, the food was good, and we had a great time. Instead of boring you with the play-by-play, I'll just let the pictures do the talking. Click on any of them to see a full-size image. Enjoy!
After an amazing 9 days with Adam's mom, SueAnne, and her husband Terry we were back on our own. While we loved the time we spent with them exploring Cape Town we were so excited for our next adventure – Road tripping through Namibia on our way to Victoria Falls and Jo'Burg!


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Benjamin Miller is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, focusing on Composition/Rhetoric and digital research and pedagogy. He earned his PhD at The Graduate Center, CUNY, where his dissertation was a "distant reading" study of roughly 3,000 dissertations written between 2001 and 2010 in composition and rhetoric, exploring research- and discourse-communities through keywords. Prior to coming to Pitt, Ben was an Instructional Technology Fellow at Macaulay Honors College, CUNY, finding ways to improve teaching and learning through digital (and other) tools. Ben has taught writing at Hunter College, CUNY, and at Columbia University, where he earned an MFA in poetry. His first book of poems, Without Compass, was published by Four Way Books in 2014.
For more on who Benjamin Miller is and is not, see this page.
"Majoring in meta" is how Ben's wife has described his life and career. majoringinmeta.net is a place for Ben to post his occasional essays and musings. When he's not posting here, you can look for him on Twitter at @benmiller314.


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"That did it. Ileni launched herself forward, with more determination than grace, and kissed him. After a startled moment, he responded, his hands coming up hesitantly to her face, then fumbling to her shoulders. After another moment - or several - Ileni leaned back and stared at him in disbelief. Sorin flushed to the roots of his hair and dropped his hands, a bit unsteadily, the first movement she had ever seen him make that was less than completely graceful. "I told you. You're the first girl I ever - um-" Ileni started to laugh. "You're one of the assassins, famed for their allure and irresistibility to women. And you've never kissed a girl?" "Who would I have kissed?" "I guess I assumed that would be part of your training. You know, how to seduce women to make it easier to kill their husbands. Or something like that." "Maybe it's an advanced class," Sorin said. The terseness in his voice didn't bother Ileni, but there was embarrassment there, too, so she made an effort to look less amused. Sorin leaned toward her, his cheeks still tinged red, and said, "Either way, I've had no prior training. You'll have to start from scratch" Upon consideration, that didn't seem like a bad idea at all."
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Aww I love it! Adding to the TBR now. great post!ReplyDelete
It's kind of sweet that he's never kissed a girl before. Looks like Ileni is going to have fun teaching him.ReplyDelete
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Hehe!! It is a good moment!! Nice pick!ReplyDelete
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What a cute swoon! I haven't heard of this book but I definitely liked that little taste :-)ReplyDelete
Kiss training? Sign me up to read that! HeheReplyDelete
Nice! It was a good moment! lol Nice swoon!ReplyDelete
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Oh I liked that! I'm glad you enjoyed this one- I have it for review myself! :)ReplyDelete
Ooooo, this is a different kind of swoon and I like it! That cover is so stunning! Thanks so much for sharing this great moment *squish*ReplyDelete
Aww...that's really sweet and I liked it. Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
I think I shared this one a few weeks ago! Hmm, maybe it wasn't the exact same passage. I really enjoyed this book :) Great swoon choice!ReplyDelete
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I can't remember... it is possible, there aren't many swoons in this one lolDelete
Naww that's just so sweet! I love how he's all embarrassed to admit to it. I like the sound of this kiss training haha!ReplyDelete
That is sweet!! Awww!! I wanna read this one, for sure!! :DReplyDelete
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Hey there StencilGirl! Amy from Plucking Daisies here to share an Altered Dresser tutorial using the latest and greatest stencils from StencilGirl Products. I was over the moon excited to be invited to guest design for StencilGirl and couldn't be happier with the first installment of what will be an ongoing dresser altering project.
Whenever I alter furniture I like to take it one drawer at a time. You never know when creative inspiration will strike! My Alice in Wonderland Dresser took about 6 months of
procrastinating er... pondering. This time I already have StencilGirl stencils lined up and ready to conquer the remaining drawers. I'm a little iffy about the sides so my suggestion box is open to creative ideas :)
I picked this baby up on the side of the road last year and it has sat in my basement studio looking dull for far too long. I can't resist free storage, but when one creates in a dark basement it's important to brighten things up when you can.
Here's what my roadside dresser looks like AFTER the StencilGirl treatment. Bye-Bye boring 80's dresser. Hello gorgeous!
It didn't take long to pretty up this piece of furniture with a little help from new StencilGirl stencils from Andrea Matus deMeng, Carolyn Dube and Jessica Sporn!
I love to alter furniture but HATE to prime. I want to get right to the good stuff painting, inking, and creating. With new Chalky Finish Paint from DecoArt there's no need for priming, sanding or use of power tools of any kind (I don't DO power tools). You can even use it on cheapo lacquered furnishings of the 70's and 80's(like my little dresser here).
How to Alter a Dresser with StencilGirl Stencils
A little bit of Chalky Finish paint goes a loooong way, not to mention it goes on like butta' and works great with stencils! I still have more than half the jar and only the two sides left to paint. Not too shabby eh?
STEP 1: Give your drawers a base coat of Chalky Finish paint in color of choice (I used Everlasting).
*TIP* Apply at least 3 coats if you don't want the original color of your dresser to show through. This paint dries quick so you'll only need about 10-15 min between coats.
STEP 2: Stencil Abigail and Eve in black paint. I used chalkboard paint just in case I ever want to draw on their heads...it's always good to have options :)
Isn't Eve gorgeous? My friends think she looks like the girl from the Robert Palmer "Addicted to Love" video. It's true, I'm "addicted" to her.
STEP 3: Add a graphic edge to your drawers with the Borders 9J Stencil and black paint
STEP 4: Fill in the white space between the faces with marbled paints (I used Distress Paint) carefully applied with a makeup sponge through the Scribble Scratch Handwriting Stencil. You can find more information on this technique HERE.
STEP 5: Add select words from Carolyn Dube's Uplifting Words stencil with Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste applied with a palette knife.
STEP 6: Seal your work with Creme Wax. (2 coats will do the trick)
STEP 7: To add a touch of sparkle I die cut Stars from Tim Holtz mirrored sheets and adhered them with my new favorite adhesive Liquid Fusion.
STEP 8: The top of the dresser was painted with Chalky Finish paint "Treasure". I'm in love with this color! Again, no need to prime...just paint it right on!
That's one coat up top...not too shabby! I could have left it as is but I wanted a nice solid look.
STEP 9: Once top coat is dry use Everlasting with the Uplifting Words Stencil.
STEP 10: Add a literal "Splash" of color by splatter painting the stenciled dresser top with Distress Paint.
Now the only thing that's left to do is decide which StencilGirl stencils to use on the remaining drawers. I'm thinking some Andrea Matus deMeng Birds and Blooms how about you?
I hope you enjoyed this Altered Dresser Tutorial. I would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions on what StencilGirl Stencils to use on the remaining drawers in the comments below. Stop by and visit me at Plucking Daisies for more updates on the StencilGirl Dresser.
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Have a creative day!
Amy Bowerman is a Mixed-Media Artist who has been creating since she could hold a crayon. She shares her adventures in art on her blog Plucking Daisies by showing others how to create through in depth project tutorials.


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Ascent offers the aerospace industry simplicity and accountability from a single supplier, along with the size and financial security to ensure long-term support. We don't just deliver the entire process or production line with a single point of responsibility. We are a group of businesses – each an industry leader within their own discipline – now acting as one, truly-integrated supply base.
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Despite the recent mortgage turnaround, times are tough. We get it! That's why we have created the option of aged internet leads. You still have access to the millions of eligible HARP customers, without having to spend a fortune.
Aged HARP internet leads have unfairly gotten a bad rap. This is because most lead generation companies are NOT offering:
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- Aged Leads – From a "Controlled" Traffic Source
Most lead companies' aged leads are a complete joke! Their aged leads are leads that have already been pounded into the ground. They give a lead out to multiple clients right from the beginning. By day 2, that lead has been contacted 15+ times. They then toss the lead aside and call them aged. This is a waste of your time and money.
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The government recently made changes to allow more people to qualify for HARP. This means that there are millions of homeowners looking to refinance. When the mortgage market crashed in 2009, many people were hesitant to refinance. With these new changes, people are back on board!
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High CPU Droplets Now Available in SGP1
Today, we're excited to share that High CPU Droplet plans are now available in Singapore (SGP1). These Droplet plans are designed for CPU-intensive workloads including CI/CD servers, data analytics applications, and any application that requires more powerful underlying computing power.
With this expansion, Droplets are now available through the Control Panel and the API in NYC1, NYC3, AMS3, SFO2, SGP1, LON1, FRA1, TOR1, and BLR1.
Use Cases
Here are some use cases that can benefit from CPU-optimized compute servers:
- App servers. App servers with significant loads and powered by NodeJS require more CPUs than what's available with standard Droplets. High CPU Droplets can improve application performance without paying for storage infrastructure you don't need.
- CI/CD servers. Improve the performance of your Jenkins pipeline to rapidly deliver new functionality to production. With High CPU Droplets, Jenkins can speed up continuous integration and deployment times enabling you to quickly deploy features to production.
- Data analytics applications. More CPUs can improve the performance of data analytics, specifically for applications that require heavy computation. In these cases, choosing one High CPU Droplet with multiple, dedicated vCPUs provides both better performance and more favorable pricing than multiple, standard Droplets.
- Build servers. If you build applications using remote build servers (using the DO API to deploy build servers as needed), it can be more cost effective to use High CPU Droplets on demand to initiate and complete builds more quickly.
We are offering five new Droplet plans. They start from $40/mo for two dedicated vCPUs, up to $640/mo for 32 dedicated vCPUs.
We've partnered with Intel to back these Droplets with Intel's most powerful processors, delivering a maximum, reliable level of performance. Going forward, we'll regularly evaluate and use the best CPUs available to ensure they always deliver the best performance for your applications.
The current CPUs powering High CPU Droplets are the Intel Broadwell 2697Av4 with a clock speed of 2.6Ghz, and the Intel Skylake 8168 with a clock speed of 2.7Ghz. Customers in our early access period have seen up to four times the performance of Standard Droplet CPUs, and on average see about 2.5 times the performance.
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There are schools offering risk management degrees in Washington State!
Schools Offering Risk Management Programs in Washington State
Nearby States
Each year, approximately 0.0% of Washington State graduates receive degrees in risk management. In other words, every year an estimated 9 risk managers graduate from Washington State's 2 risk management schools.
Top Schools
The top-ranked school in Washington State with a risk management program is Central Washington University, which is located in Ellensburg. In 2010, it was ranked 68th nationwide. In 2010, Central Washington University graduated 9 students from its risk management program. Students at Central Washington University paid $7,110 per year in tuition fees.
Bellevue College, which was ranked 85th nationwide in 2010, is the second-ranked school in Washington State that has a risk management program. It is located in Bellevue. Bellevue College charged in-state students $3,060 in tuition fees per year.
If you are hoping to attend one of Washington State's risk management schools, you can expect to pay an average tuition of $5,085 per year, though tuition can range from $7,110 per year to $3,060 per year. In 2010, the risk management schools that charged the highest tuition rates in Washington State were:
- Central Washington University - located in Ellensburg, students are charged $7,110 per year
- Bellevue College - located in Bellevue, students are charged $3,060 per year
The following Washington State risk management schools had the lowest tuition rates:
- Bellevue College - located in Bellevue, students are charged $3,060 per year
- Central Washington University - located in Ellensburg, students are charged $7,110 per year
A risk management degree from a Washington State school... what next?
A large number of Washington State risk management graduates become risk managers. Washington State had 3,410 risk managers in 2010. The following counties have the largest number of Washington State risk managers:
- King County - 1,990 risk managers
- Spokane County - 230 risk managers
- Kitsap County - 160 risk managers
Projected Growth
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that by 2018, an estimated 4,370 risk managers will be working in Washington State state. This would require the number of risk managers to grow by 5%.
A risk manager in Washington State makes an average of $63,510 per year. But, salaries for risk managers can vary. In 2010, risk managers made as little as less than $30,000 per year or as much as more than $113,030 per year in Washington State. On average a risk manager earns the most in the following Washington State counties:
- Spokane County - $70,580 per year
- Kitsap County - $69,700 per year
- Clallam County - $68,120 per year
The Washington State counties with the lowest average salary for risk managers are:
- Whatcom County - $45,400 per year
- Yakima County - $47,540 per year
- Benton County - $49,150 per year
More Information
For more data regarding a career in risk management in Washington State and to compare salaries with various related fields such as business administration or emergency management, take a look at the graphs and charts below.
Here are the different levels of study available for you to explore.
- Bachelor's Degree in Risk Management in Washington State
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Take a look at what The Lass has in store over the coming weeks. From new bands to those making a scene we have your music needs covered.
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If you want to totally rethink what you are doing in business you need to get your customers to rethink what they're doing.
And if you really do get them to rethink what they're doing – that's a huge win for you.
Apple did it. Like for the last 10 years.
Advanced Auto Small Engine Repair in my little town did it on Friday.
It's a tough world out there. Most of us in sales and service know that even when customers love us – they are, by the time they call about that new service you've been pitching or your flyer or your email, – they've done the research and while you're still in the game- it's a price war between you and your competitors or them sticking with the status quo- just doing what they've always done.
Disrupt the thinking upstream. Teach. Preach. Challenge.
Be that person or that company.
Apple did it –blah blah blah we know that. And their disruptive tech did make us rethink what we are doing but it extends elsewhere too. Do you think they did some research and asked you and me if when you go in the store, that we wanted some 6 foot 3 bearded technical guru to greet you in the first 8 feet, get your name and ask what you are here for? Heck no.
They just did it. And that's the way it is. We have been taught. But we had been taught before by Apple. They reshaped our thinking. We believe. We trust.
I had a first world problem Thursday night. My snowblower after a total of 3 feet exploded. Well I thought it exploded: the chute shot into the air about 10 feet. I don't have a clue. Next day, my wife got a recommendation from a friend about Advanced Auto and they drove up, loaded the snowblower on the truck and then plowed my driveway. Plowed the driveway. They didn't ask, they didn't check, they just did it.
3 hours later they returned with a fixed blower, an education about the machine, a conversation about what I should watch for, an invitation to learn more and not a word about plowing the driveway except humble acknowledgment of my thanks.
While Advantage Auto didn't wholly disrupt my thinking – they did reshape my thoughts about service expectations and education in a small way. It's a great start for them. I grabbed 6 of their business cards and a promise to myself about saying a few things on social media.
The perfect world for changing your business or your approach is realizing and then innovating on changing the way your customers not just think and work with you, but changing the way they do their own business for the better.
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Walker Central have thrown the title race wide open after inflicting the first defeat of the season on leaders Chester-le-Street.
Beaten just once themselves in nine starts, it was a must win for Walker, who found match winners in Paul Mills and Kevin Chivers.
The win takes Walker on to 22 points from nine games, while Redheugh have 27 from 10 and Chester 32 from 13 starts.
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Diminished seventh chord
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|diminished fifth (tritone)
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A diminished seventh chord is a four note chord that comprises a diminished triad plus the interval of a diminished seventh (alternatively regarded enharmonically as a major sixth) above the root. Thus it is (1, ♭3, ♭5, double flat7), or enharmonically (1, ♭3, ♭5, 6), of any minor scale; for example, C diminished-seventh would be (C, E♭, G♭, Bdouble flat), or enharmonically (C, E♭, G♭, A). It occurs as a leading-tone seventh chord in harmonic minor and can be represented by the integer notation {0, 3, 6, 9}.
Because of this it can also be viewed as four notes all stacked in intervals of a minor third. The diminished seventh contains two diminished fifths, which often resolve inwards.[3]
In most sheet music books, Cdim or C° denotes a diminished seventh chord with root C; but it may also happen, mostly in modern jazz books and some music theory literature, that Cdim or C° or Cm(♭5) denotes a diminished triad, while Cdim7 or C°7 or Cm6(♭5) denotes a diminished seventh chord.
The most common form of the diminished seventh chord is that rooted on the leading tone; for example, in the key of C, the chord (B, D, F, A♭). So its other constituents are the second, fourth, and flatted sixth (flat submediant) scale degrees. These notes occur naturally in the harmonic minor scale. But this chord also appears in major keys, especially after the time of Bach, where it is "borrowed" from the parallel minor. Fétis tuned the chord 10:12:14:17.[4]
Seventh chords may also be rooted on other scale degrees, either as secondary function chords temporarily borrowed from other keys, or as appoggiatura chords: a chord rooted on the raised second scale degree (D♯-F♯-A-C in the key of C) acts as an appoggiatura to the tonic (C major) chord, and one rooted on the raised sixth scale degree (A♯-C♯-E-G in C major) acts as an appoggiatura to the dominant (G major) chord. Because these chords have no leading tone in relation to the chords to which they resolve, they can not properly have "dominant" function. They are therefore referred to commonly as "non-dominant" diminished seventh chords or "common tone" diminished seventh chords. (See "common tone diminished seventh chord" below)
In jazz, the diminished seventh chord is often based on the lowered third scale degree (the flat mediant) and acts as a passing chord between the mediant triad (or first-inversion tonic triad) and the supertonic triad: in C major, this would be the chord progression E minor - E♭ diminished - D minor. The chord, "plays no role in...jazz."[5] The passing chord is used widely in Brazilian music like Choro, Samba, and Bossa Nova
The diminished seventh chord normally possesses a "dominant" function, and this is most straightforwardly shown when the root of a dominant seventh chord is omitted. The remaining third, fifth and seventh of that chord form a diminished triad (whose new root is the third of the former chord), to which a diminished seventh can be added. Thus in C (major or minor), a dominant seventh chord consisting of G, B, D, F can be replaced by a diminished seventh chord B, D, F, A♭. (In jazz harmony, a combination of the original chord with its substitute (with G in the bass and A♭ simultaneously in an upper voice) yields the very common "7♭9" chord, which intensifies the dominant function of either a diminished seventh or dominant seventh chord.) Other transformations of this kind facilitate a variety of substitutions and modulations: any of the four notes in a diminished seventh chord are raised by a semi-tone, that raised note is then the flat-seventh of a half-diminished seventh chord. Similarly, if any of the four notes in the diminished seventh chord are lowered by a semi-tone, that lowered note is then the root of a dominant seventh chord.
The diminished seventh chord comprises frequencies that are equally spaced when considered on a logarithmic axis, and thus divides the octave into four logarithmically equal portions, each being a minor third.
The diminished scale may be conceived of as two interlocking diminished seventh chords, which may be rearranged into the alpha chord.
Sharpened subdominant with diminished seventh
The sharpened subdominant with added diminished seventh chord is another common use of the chord. It can be simply represented with the Roman notation ♯ivo7, but in classical music is more correctly represented as viio7/V, being a very common way for a composer to approach the dominant of any key. In the key of C, this is F♯dim7, which may be used for a strikingly fearful effect, as its root is a tritone (augmented fourth) from the tonic. It is also a common chord in jazz and ragtime music. A common traditional jazz or Dixieland progression in E♭ may go:
- A♭ - A dim - B♭7,
which is
- IV - ♯ivo7 - V7
Another common usage of ♯ivo7 is often found in Gospel music and jazz progressions such as in the song "I Got Rhythm".
In C:
| C C/E | F F♯dim7 | C/G A7 | Dm7 G7 |
Supertonic diminished seventh chord
One variant of the supertonic seventh chord is the supertonic diminished seventh[6] with the raised supertonic, which equals the lowered third through enharmonic equivalence (in C: D♯=E♭). It may be used as a dominant substitute.[7]
Common-tone diminished seventh chord
A diminished seventh chord may alternatively resolve to a major or major-minor seventh chord whose root is one of the notes of the diminished seventh chord, the most common being the raised supertonic seventh, which resolves to the tonic in major keys and the raised submediant, which resolves to dominant triad or seventh in major keys, with the altered tones resolving upward by half step.[8]
The diminished chord may also resolve through lowering two of the bottom three voices producing a supertonic seventh chord that may lead to a conventional dominant cadence.[9]
Diminished seventh root
Music theorists have struggled over the centuries to explain the meaning and function of diminished seventh chords. Currently, two approaches are generally used. The less complex method treats the leading tone as the root of the chord, and the other chord members as the third, fifth, and seventh of the chord, the same way other seventh chords are analyzed.
The other method is to analyze the chord as an "incomplete dominant ninth", that is a ninth chord with its root on the dominant, whose root is missing or implied. A vii°7 chord in the minor key (for example, in C minor, B♮, D, F, A♭) occurs naturally in the harmonic minor scale and is equivalent to the dominant 7(♭9) chord (G, B, D, F, A♭) without its root. This was already proposed by Arnold Schoenberg,[10] and Walter Piston has long been the champion of this analysis.[11] Jazz guitarist Sal Salvador, and other jazz theorists, also advocated this view, rewriting chord charts to reflect this and supplying the "missing" root as part of their bass lines.[12]
The dominant ninth theory has been questioned by Heinrich Schenker. He explained that although there is a kinship between all univalent chords rising out of the fifth degree, the dominant ninth chord is not a real chord formation.[13]
Rameau explained the diminished seventh chord as a dominant seventh chord whose supposed fundamental bass is borrowed from the sixth degree in minor, raised a semitone producing a stack of minor thirds.[14] Thus in C the dominant seventh is G7 (G-B-D-F) and the sixth degree borrowed from minor produces A♭-B-D-F.[14] He observed in his Treatise on Harmony that three minor thirds and an augmented second make up a chord where the augmented second is such that "the ear is not offended" by it. He may have been talking of the augmented second in quarter-comma meantone, a tuning he favored, which is close to the just septimal minor third of 7/6.
The fundamental tone or root of any diminished seventh chord, being composed of three stacked minor thirds, is ambiguous. For example, Cdim7 in root position: C + E♭ + G♭ + Bdouble flat (each has one and half interval), is just as easily viewed as an E♭dim7 in its third inversion:
- Ddouble flat (enharmonic equivalent of C) + E♭ + G♭ + Bdouble flat.
It can also be viewed as a G♭dim7 in its second inversion:
- Ddouble flat + Fdouble flat (enharmonic equivalent of E♭) + G♭ + Bdouble flat.
Delineating this chord in its last possibility, that of Bdouble flatdim7 in its first inversion, is very clumsy and not very useful as it requires the use a triple-flatted note, something that is hardly ever used in a musical score:
- Ddouble flat + Fdouble flat + Atriple flat (enharmonic equivalent of G♭) + Bdouble flat.
However, by enharmonically respelling the Bdouble flat to A, this can also be viewed as a first inversion Adim7 chord:
- C + E♭ + G♭ + A (enharmonic equivalent of Bdouble flat).
Other possibilities present themselves by respelling the various roots; for instance:
- C + E♭ + F♯ (enharmonic equivalent of G♭) + A (enharmonic equivalent of Bdouble flat) (second inversion F♯dim7).
- C + D♯ (enharmonic equivalent of E♭) + F♯ (enharmonic equivalent of G♭) + A (enharmonic equivalent of Bdouble flat) (third inversion D♯dim7).
- B♯ (enharmonic equivalent of C) + D♯ (enharmonic equivalent of E♭) + F♯ (enharmonic equivalent of G♭) + A (enharmonic equivalent of Bdouble flat) (root position B♯dim7).
All of the chord's inversions have the same sound harmonically. Because of the chord's symmetrical nature (superimposing more minor thirds on top of the dim 7 produces no new notes), there are only three different diminished seventh chords possible.
The diminished seventh chord can appear in first, second, or (least common) third inversion. Each inversion is enharmonic with another diminished seventh chord, and 19th-century composers in particular often make use of this enharmonic to use these chords for modulations. Percy Goetschius calls it the "enharmonic chord."[15]
Using Piston's incomplete-ninth analysis, a single diminished seventh chord, without enharmonic change, is capable of the following analyses: V, V of ii, V of III (in min.), V of iii (in maj.), V of iv, V of V, V of VI (in min.), V of vi (in maj.), V of VII (in min.). Since the chord may be enharmonically written in four different ways without changing the sound, we may multiply the above by four, making a total of forty-eight possible interpretations.[17] More conservatively, each assumed root may be used as a dominant, tonic, or supertonic, giving twelve possibilities.[16]
Diminished seventh chord table
|Minor Third
|Diminished Fifth
|Diminished Seventh
|Bdouble flat (A)
|Edouble flat (D)
See also
- ^ Richard Lawn, Jeffrey L. Hellmer (1996). Jazz: Theory and Practice, p.124. ISBN 0-88284-722-8.
- ^ Shirlaw, Matthew (1900). The Theory of Harmony, p.86. ISBN 978-1-4510-1534-8. "g♯-b-d-f."
- ^ Benward & Saker (2003). Music: In Theory and Practice, Vol. I, p.219. Seventh Edition. ISBN 978-0-07-294262-0.
- ^ Fétis, François-Joseph and Arlin, Mary I. (1994). Esquisse de l'histoire de l'harmonie, p.139n9. ISBN 978-0-945193-51-7.
- ^ Tenzer, Michael and Roeder, John (2011). Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music, p.157n10. ISBN 978-0-19-538458-1.
- ^ Kitson, C. H. (2006). Elementary Harmony, p.43. ISBN 1-4067-9372-8.
- ^ Coker, Jerry (1997). Elements of the Jazz Language for the Developing Improvisor, p.82. ISBN 1-57623-875-X.
- ^ Benward & Saker (2003). Music: In Theory and Practice, Vol. I, p.220-21. Seventh Edition. ISBN 978-0-07-294262-0.
- ^ Carrie Adelaide Alchin (1917). Applied Harmony, p.99.
- ^ Schönberg, Arnold: "Harmonielehre", chapter IX, Wien, Universal Edition, 1911
- ^ Piston, Walter: "Harmony", pg. 191, Third Edition, W. W. Norton & Company, 1962
- ^ Sal Salvador: "Chordal Enrichment & Chord Substitution: Jazz Guitar", Mel Bay, ISBN 0871665271
- ^ Schenker, Heinrich; ed. and annot. Oswald Jonas (1954). Harmony. trans. Elisabeth Mann-Borgese. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 192. OCLC 280916.
- ^ a b Christensen, Thomas Street (2004). Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment, p.100. ISBN 978-0-521-61709-3.
- ^ Goetschius, Percy: "The Material Used in Musical Composition - A System of Harmony", pg. 159, G. Shirmer, Inc., 1913
- ^ a b Adela Harriet Sophia Bagot Wodehouse (1890). A Dictionary of Music and Musicians: (A.D. 1450-1889), p.448. Macmillan and Co., Ltd.
- ^ Piston, Walter: "Harmony", pg. 201, Third Edition, W. W. Norton & Company, 1962


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The war in Europe was over when Allied leaders gathered in Potsdam, a Berlin suburb, during July of 1945. Meeting to talk about Germany's future, the decision-makers—Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman—had differing points of view on a number of issues.
Discussing how to govern the defeated nation, and divide power in that ravaged country, the "Big Three" leaders were also thinking about the rest of Europe. Just two months before, in a May 14th speech in London, Churchill rhetorically asked what Europe had become.
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It is a rubble-heap, a charnel house, a breeding ground of pestilence and hate. (Quoted in Truman, by David McCullough, page 667.)
The ending of WWII differed little from the ending of WWI. As G. J. Meyer observes in A World Undone:
...the great War [another name for WWI] was a process by which all the great powers, victors and vanquished alike, transformed themselves from bastions of prosperity into sinkholes of poverty and debt. Financially as in so many other ways, the war was a road to ruin. (See A World Undone, 2007 paperback edition published by Delta, at page 486.)
How could three men, and their staff personnel, really determine what was best for countries in which they neither lived nor ruled? What did they consider as they made decisions impacting all of Europe?
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