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Kamagra, an efficient anti-impotence drug, is the first generic version of branded viagra. In very less time glory of its effectiveness become popular worldwide. Very soon it received an approval of the FDA for the treatment of erectile dysfunction that added more to its potentiality. Active component of kamagra is sildenafil citrate, same that its branded version has.
Erectile dysfunction has become very common problem in men nowadays. Kamagra treats it very efficiently and raises the sexual potentiality in men by imparting tough and lasting erection. ED occurs due to improper blood supply to the penis. Kamagra supply the same. It does so by inhibiting production of enzyme PDE-5 (it restricts blood supply) in the body and instead of it secretes cGMP (it enhances blood supply) in the body. It also softens penis muscles and call for blood supply. This way it provides erection. Erection last for about 6 hours. Keep in mind, kamagra just provides erection not sexual desire. Thus, take it only when feel urge for sex.
When it comes to taking dose of kamagra, it is highly advocated to take doctor's advice. Only he can tell you right dosage appropriate for you. In general kamagra comes in three doses 25mg, 50mg, and 100mg. The initial recommended dose is 50mg. For a day one dose is enough despite of whatever amount you take. If no effect is shown after taking it do not further increase dose of your own. Talk to your physician regarding it. Kamagra is a pill and comes in tablet form.
It should be taken with water as water melts it faster in the body. This drug should be taken as a whole. Do not crush, chew, or break it. Do not be in illusion that kamagra starts showing effect immediately. No. It should be taken one hour before the sexual act for desired results. It takes some time to react. This drug can be taken with and without food both, but food should be light. Avoid heavy fat meals before taking kamagra, as it slows down effect of this medicine.
ED is not a disease, thus there is no need to take kamagra daily. Also, it just imparts erection does not cure ED. Take it only when feel urge for sex. Hence, there is no chance of missing its dose. Simply taking it daily will make you habitual to it, which is not a good practice. Strictly avoid taking its over dose. It can cause problems like headache, pain, heart problems, etc. If taken in excess go to your doctor immediately.
Side effects are very common part of every medicine. Like precautions, every medicine comes with a set of side effects also. It is for knowledge and if occurs for seeking immediate medical attention. Kamagra also shows side effects, mild and severe both. Their occurrence also depends on how much your body has adapted this drug. Let's discuss kamagra side effects.
Less serious side effects of kamagra are: reddening of face, mild dizziness, headache, nasal congestion, diarrhea, blur vision, itching, rashes, etc. You do not need to go to doctor if these occur, as they are very common and generally occur especially if taking kamagra for the first time. Continue taking drug and they will disappear themselves. If they persist for long time then you see your doctor. On the other hand, serious side effects of kamagra are: chest pain, irregular heartbeat, swelling of legs, shortness of breath, severe dizziness, sustained erection for more than 4 hours, discomfort, numbness, heart attack, stroke, changes in blood pressure, and so on. If any of these occur go to your doctor immediately. If delayed can become life threatening.
Apart from the ones mentioned above, there are other side effects also that kamagra show. For more info on its fallouts it is best to see your doctor.
Precautions are to ensure safe and secure treatment. Medicines taken by following precautions show results exactly as per taken with the intention. Kamagra also has precautions labeled with it. Firstly it asks you to take it under doctor's guidance. Taking it without prescription can be dangerous. Men taking this drug are asked not to drive or operate any machinery immediately after taking it as it cause dizziness and fainting. Up to 6 hours don't do anything. Those who are allergic to Sildenafil citrate are not allowed to take this drug. If suffering from health problems like heart problems (heart attack, stroke), blood pressure, liver problem, kidney problem, bleeding, ulcer, and etc., first seek your physician advice before taking it. Intake of alcohol with kamagra can lower down blood pressure level, thus strictly avoid it. Men consuming nitrates or any other medicine should first notify doctor about them and on his approval only should take kamagra. Grapefruit or grapefruit juice interacts with Sildenafil citrate, thus do not take it if taking kamagra. While taking kamagra if feel numbness, dizziness, chest pain, etc. during sexual activity then immediately go to your doctor. If erection stays for more than 4 hours seek medical attention. Do not feel shy.
Apart from these, there are other precautions also. For information about them, go to your doctor.
Best tip for storing kamagra is to open it only when needed. As it is men medicine, thus keep it away from the reach of children and women. Kamagra needs great care and should be stored properly. Any extreme in temperature spoils it, thus keep it at room temperature of about 77 degrees F (25 degrees C). It best stores it. Keep kamagra in a tightly closed container and place that container in a neat and clean environ, in short away from dirt and dust. Also make sure it is not easily accessible. Do not keep it in kitchen and bathroom. Do not freeze kamagra tablets. Do not share it with anyone.
Heat, moisture, and light are big enemies of kamagra. Keep it away from them. High temperatures or heat melt kamagra, that's why, should be avoided. Moisture or wetness breaks it down, and light affects potentiality of kamagra. That's why all these three should be avoided.
Kamagra tablets that are expired should be immediately dumped. Do not keep them with you. Dispose them properly. Don't flush them. It is not the right practice of dumping. If don't know then ask your doctor. Storage of medicines is very serious issue and should be handled with much care.


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We have been very lucky the past few weeks in the Owls' as we have had a trip out and had visitors to come and work with us. First we went to pizza express and became pizza chefs. We learnt all about the ingredients used like olives, basil, tomatoes and oregano. We learnt about where the ingredients come from, how they are grown and even got to taste them. Some of us had never tried these ingredients before!
Danesh the manager showed us how to knead the dough and we all made our own pizzas. I hope you enjoyed eating them at home.
Also this week we have had 2 poets in school to work with the children. They learnt and performed a poem 'Thoughts from the ocean' to the rest of their year group. They learnt about the meaning of a lot of new vocabulary and also how project and change the tone of their voice.
There will be a random spelling test for all Y2 children today, this will consist of a selection of 15 words that they have previously had within their band. 5 new words will be given today and spelling test will resume as normal next Friday.
Thanks in advance,
Miss Hitchcock
Year Group Leader
The Owls have had a very busy few weeks lately with moving back to our 'home' and all of the extra activities we have had to complete. Can I say how very proud I am of all the children, they have worked extremely hard in difficult circumstances and continue to make great progress. Also thank you for all your support over the past few weeks.
This week in maths we have learnt about estimation, reading scales, time and equivalent fractions. In English we have been trying hard to improve our sentence structure by including a range of punctuation, conjunctions and adjectives.
We have also had a visit from the juice bike. Sharon from the Havering collective came to teach the children about sugar levels in our food (did you know there are 16 cubes of sugar in 1 bottle of tomato sauce and 14 cubes of sugar in 1 bottle of full fat Coke!), eating a healthy balanced diet and leading a healthy lifestyle. We made our own fruit smoothy by blending it with pedal power. The children and staff had a great time!
Have a great half term holiday.
Thank you for your perseverance with the homework. Time is something that children always find a challenge, it is a life skill and is something that needs to be revised regularly to ensure that they retain the skill. Although the children are unable to wear watches for school, please encourage them to tell the time regularly through games, Ipad apps and wearing their watch at home. According to the National Curriculum, by the end of Y2 the children should be able to tell the time to the nearest 5 minutes.
Thanks in advance for your continued support
Year 2 Staff
This week the Owls have been reciting and performing Easter themed poems. We worked as part of a team and first had to agree on what we think makes a good team player. This is what we came up with:
We practised and rehearsed our poem and then performed it to the rest of the class. We then had to decide what we liked about the performances and how we could improve them in the future. Here we are performing.
The children have loved completing our sport relief challenge 'going the extra mile'. As part of our commitment to the daily mile and to raise awareness of sport relief, we have been trying to complete 3 miles daily. The children can't wait to complete the run every day and are improving their stamina, as it was a struggle for some at the start of the year.
Here we are in the sunshine today and we completed 23 laps of the playground!
We have also enjoyed listening to and singing the sport relief song! Here is the link below if you want to join in a sing along.
We have now had a week in our new classroom and the children have been very sensible and resilient in adjusting to our new space. It's a tight squeeze be we are trying hard to get used to our new base. The children have been practising for the upcoming SATs this week and we have worked hard with our maths and reading to support us going forward.
Today was our world book day and we have been learning about the author Anthony Browne. We've read some of his books including The Tunnel and Silly Billy. The children have really enjoyed looking for the hidden pictures in his illustrations. We have also written book reviews so it's business as usual!
Thank you for your continued support, enjoy your weekend.
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You are invited to our class assembly on Tuesday 20.03.18 at 2.45 in the infant school hall. Your child will be bringing home a poem and some words to learn. As we have missed lots of school time we have not had long to practise and are asking for your support in helping the children prepare for these. We did not want to cancel as we are looking forward to the opportunity to share our wonderful work with you!
Thanks in advance for your support with this,
Mr Cunningham
As part of our on going celebration of Chinese New Year the children have taken part in a wide range of cross curricular activities this week. We have performed some traditional Chinese dragon dancing with Darren and learnt some very good new moves. I have to say the girls were excellent at this and showed the boys a thing or two!
We have also had a visit from the twin chefs Mark and Darren (not the dancing one) who have worked with all the children to prepare and cook some chow mein. The children loved this and it is a great way to include lots of maths if you cook with your child at home. We definitely have some budding chefs in the Owls!
Later in the week Year 2 will be rotating around the classrooms to complete more Chinese themed activities so watch this space!
Please don't forget to dress up this Friday for Chinese New Year, if you do not have anything floral or oriental then please wear red and black.
Thank you for your continued support at home.
We have been thinking about safety online. We explored some of the https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/5_7/ website. We then discussed how we could make the internet a safer place and we recorded our ideas. Your child will be bringing theirs home to show you so please discuss this together. There are lots of resources to explore on the website, if you have access.
This week the owls have been making clay houses that replicate the houses from the time of The Great Fire of London. We had great fun rolling, shaping, moulding and cutting the clay and all got in a mess.
Here we are making our clay houses and some of the finished products. Next step paint and display!
We have arrived and are already exploring the exhibition!
We are on our way to the Museum - we are very excited and looking forward to learning all about the Great Fire of London!
Firstly, thank you to the parents that came to visit us in school this week. We hope you enjoyed it as much as the children did and possibly even learnt a few things too. It's always interesting to see how your child's day works and join in with the things they are learning about.
We have had a big push on the use of punctuation since Christmas and this morning the children have had to punctuate theses sentences, remembering that some sentences are not always punctuated with a full stop. We've talked about commands, exclamations, statements and question sentences.
Also this week we have worked really hard on lots of different maths strategies this week and the children have had the opportunity today to be able to look back through their work and consolidate the use of these strategies including column addition with carrying, column subtraction with borrowing and the ever popular snowman method! If you ask your child about these hopefully they will be able to model or explain them to you.
This week we have been working really hard on the circle method in maths. We have mastered the method when solving written calculations, however we have found it a bit tricky to apply this to word problems. We really need to read the question carefully and check our calculation is accurate. This will be your child's homework for this week. Please support them to understand what the question is asking and write the correct calculation. Thank you for your continued support. To remind you here is the method we teach at school and an example of some fantastic work from Calin. Well done
We would all like to wish you a very Happy New Year and once again thank you so much for your generosity and support over the very busy festive period. We look forward to a very successful spring term.
As part of our on going commitment to your child's health and well being, the whole school have introduced the daily mile. It's exactly that, a mile (roughly) ran every day at any point during the school day, normally when the children need waking up or need some fresh air. The children can jog, run, walk even skip and it's a fun and engaging activity for the children as well as building their stamina and improving their health. Here we are braving the cold!
As part of our science curriculum we are learning about healthy body, healthy me. The children will learn all about how to lead a healthy lifestyle, discussing a range of topics from diet and exercise to hygiene. Please continue to talk to your child about ways to stay healthy and well and also how to be hygienic. We have linked this work to our DT topics around following instructions and made fruit rockets. Here is a link to one of the websites we use to support the children's learning.
Here we are making our fruit rockets and some of the finished articles!
To help us to learn about Guy Fawkes and find out about the Gunpowder plot we have used the Ipads and computer to carry out some of our own research. We watched some video clips about the event and found out lots of facts about the plot. We then made sparklers where we had to follow precise instructions as part of our DT work.
This week we have been learning about imperative (bossy) verbs. We have learnt about how they are used in a sentence and have used them to give a command or instruction. We can now spot them in different sentence types.
We have worked with a partner to read and follow a set of instructions to make a moving rocket card. We had to think carefully about following each step to make sure we completed all the instructions. Most children managed to make their rocket fly. Here we are following the instructions.
This week the children had a visit from Dancing Darren and learnt some Bollywood style moves. They had the best time learning a new routine and really got into the spirit of Diwali. They have continued to learn about the Hindu festival of light in class finding out about customs, clothing, food, Mehndi patterns and music. Here we are showing off our dance.
Well done to our handwriting champion for this week. He has tried really hard to form all of his letters correctly and make sure his letters are consistent in size. He has kept his small letters small and his tall letters tall! Well done, keep it up!
We have spent a lot of time this week learning the magic line method in maths. We started initially counting forwards in ones and have now moved on to jumping groups of 10s. Please continue to count with your child, forwards and backwards, in ones and tens starting from different numbers. for example 12,22,32,42 or 98,88,78,68. We have improved greatly this week with our maths, here we are working out some different calculations.
Today we made fruit trees. As part of the new curriculum children have to learn basic cooking skills such as chopping, slicing and peeling as well as how to lead a healthy lifestyle. If you cook at home please encourage your child to have a go at helping and discuss different types of foods, how they grow, where they come from to increase your child's knowledge about food and healthy living. It was amazing how many children didn't know which foods grow in the ground.
We had lots of fun making our fruit tress, here are some examples.
Today the children have followed up their work about trees and nature by completing a group science activity. They are improving their skills of working collaboratively and had to negotiate which leaves belonged to deciduous trees and which leaves belonged to an evergreen tree. Our winning group was the yellow group who found the 3 evergreen trees and knew that the rest were deciduous. Well done everyone.
This week the children have drawn inspiration from artist Andy Goldsworthy and have worked outside to create some natural pieces of art. We looked at and discussed some of his work and what it made us think about, feel like and the different things we could see. The children then had to collect their own resources and work collaboratively to design and make their chosen piece. It was interesting to see which children wanted to lead and which children took a back seat but in the end they all worked together well.
Here are some of our finished pieces, both that we made collectively and some individual pieces that were made at the end.
This week we have channelled our inner performer! With it being National Poetry Week we have listened to and read some poems from a variety of authors and discussed which ones are our favourites and why. We have tried to put actions to a range of types of poem with great success. We rehearsed and then performed our poems to the rest of the class. Some of the children chose to work in a group and others decided to work with a partner. Here we are performing our poems.
In maths this week we have been working hard on place value and recognising how many tens and ones in a number. We have also tried really hard to add and subtract 10/20 from any given number thinking carefully about just changing the tens in a number.
Also we have used this knowledge to work with money and use 10's and 1's in money to make different amounts too. Here we are working hard in our maths groups and also an example of some of the children's work. Well done Calista, Taqiyudeen and Beau.
A new start.
Welcome to the Owls class page. Here you will be able to see all the weird and wonderful things your child is doing at school. We will update this page regularly with photos, children's work, any reminders and general updates about how the Owls are doing.
A quick note to say that the children have settled really well and we are working, slowly, on learning the new routines and how different the pace of learning is in Year 2. I think some of the children have had quite a shock, but don't worry I'm sure they will be up to speed shortly.
Here we are getting ready for home after our first day.


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Can We Talk?
From time to time, in my more pessimistic moments, I've thought that our church maintains a conspiracy of silence on money and giving. "Conspiracy" is probably too strong a word, so let's call it an unconscious collusion not to talk about those things.
Bishop Michael Pryse has spoken about what he calls a middle-class taboo against discussing money. People who have little money aren't reluctant to tell others how much they earn, or how they struggle to pay the bills. And people who have a lot of money are happy to flaunt their wealth through conspicuous consumption or (seemingly) casual conversations about their large homes or their vacation trips. But those of us in the middle are pretty tight-lipped when it comes to revealing any information about our personal financial circumstances. We don't want to be thought of as having too much money or too little, so we maintain a discreet, uptight embargo on the subject.
When you were growing up, were you privy to the specifics of household income and spending? Have you let your own kids in on these sorts of details? Me neither.
In my experience this taboo extends to the subject of charitable giving, including giving to the church. I've encountered people who aren't even sure how much they put on the offering plate, often because their spouse makes that decision and they never discuss it between them.
The process of creating a culture of generous giving may need to begin with breaking the silence. We all should know how much we're giving now and the reasons behind it. Wouldn't it be great if we understood the attitudes and habits formed in childhood that now direct our behaviour as adults? What would happen if we could identify the ways our faith interacts with cultural norms to shape our practices?
Imagine what it would be like to explore these questions with others, in a context that is safe and supportive.
A couple of years ago, under the personal leadership of Bishop Susan Johnson, the ELCIC created and distributed a resource called "Conversation on Gratitude and Generosity". It is an outline for a 30-minute dialogue on our personal theology, attitudes and practices that has been used at meetings of National Church Council, Synod Councils and congregational councils across the church.
If you haven't already done so, why not download the file and consider using it with a group in your congregation? If we can't talk about this stuff, how will we ever be able to change?


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"Civilization is hideously fragile," argued C. P. Snow. "There's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish."
Snow's statement takes on ominous overtones in light of the raging riots in and around Paris. Over the past nearly two weeks, demonstrations, rioting, car burnings, and various other acts of violence have spread throughout the suburban enclaves where the city's ethnic minorities--mostly immigrants from North Africa--are congregated. The violence is not limited to France. Similar violence has erupted in Brussels and other European cities. Clearly, something has gone horribly wrong.
Even as many in the Western media attempt to downplay the extent and nature of this violence, the smoke is spreading, and the debris is mounting. The world has watched as France has been thrown into a state of emergency, with riots, street fighting, and arson enveloping entire neighborhoods. The weak, slow, and confused response of the French government has only exacerbated the problem. Even as the government declared a state of emergency, French authorities still deny the extent of the disorder.
For years now, observers have warned that Europe has put itself in a position of tremendous vulnerability. Even as European birth rates have fallen below population replacement levels, immigrants, largely from Muslim lands, have been eagerly received and put to work. In one sense, many Western European nations built the economic expansions they experienced during the 1960s and 1970s on a base of immigrant labor.
Now, France and its neighboring countries are reaping what they have sown. The economic growth of the 1960s and 1970s has been replaced with economic stagnation and rampant unemployment. The young men now rioting in the streets of Paris represent the second generation of immigrants, and they face a bleak future with little hope of gaining jobs or a chance to obtain the European vision of happiness and prosperity.
Furthermore, they don't want to embrace that European worldview in the first place. To a far greater extent than their parents, these second-generation inhabitants of minority enclaves want to reassert their Islamic identity and force their agenda upon the nation.
France is now home to an estimated six million Muslims, most of African descent. This Muslim population, the largest in Europe, represents almost one tenth of the total population of France. "The government hasn't really realized we're facing a major political crisis," said Patrick Lozes, president of the Circle for the Promotion of Diversity in France told The Washington Post. "The French social model is exploding."
Indeed, as The Wall Street Journal noted, "France is the main testing ground of the continent's ability to bring this rapidly growing minority into the fold." It's not going well.
The Europeans have prided themselves on rejecting America's concept of the "melting pot." Instead of assimilating immigrants into the larger national culture, France (along with most other Western European nations) has encouraged immigrants to maintain their own identity, language, and culture and has created a "salad bowl" model that now contributes to this civil strife.
Without doubt, the protests are linked to economic realities. Young men who have little opportunity for jobs and economic power can easily opt-out of the entire cultural project--especially when they were never invited to join in the first place. Unemployment among French citizens in their twenties now stands at twenty percent, and the unemployment rate for members of the country's minority population of the same age is forty percent. This alone is a recipe for disaster.
Nevertheless, the economic explanation is woefully insufficient. The rioters, often identified in the press as "youths," are agents of violent rage and social anarchy. As observer Mark Steyn comments, the riot is now taking on the shape of "a rather shrewd and disciplined campaign."
The urban terrorists who are rioting in France have taken their cues from terrorists in the Middle East, where car burnings and similar demonstrations of violence have become a means of routine political protest.
Paul Belien, writing from Belgium, suggests that France is no longer able to defend itself against the forces of barbarism. "Unlike their fathers, who came to France from Muslim countries, accepting that, whilst remaining Muslims themselves, they had come to live in a non-Muslim country, the rioters see France as their country," he explains. "They were born here. This land is their land. And since they are Muslims, this land, or at least a part of it, is Muslim as well."
Furthermore, Belien argues that the rioters are not driven by anger, but by hatred. These young agents of disorder do not merely hate their limited economic prospects, but the very civilization that has harbored them. "It is hatred," Belien insists. "Hatred caused not by injustice suffered, but stemming from a sense of superiority. The 'youths' do not blame the French, they despise them."
Steyn suggests that the widespread outbreak of violence in Paris and beyond represents "the start of a long Eurabian civil war." Steyn, along with other concerned observers, understands that Europe is heading for a Muslim future. After all, the Muslims are having babies at a rate that far exceeds native Europeans. Furthermore, they are driven by a clear political agenda, deep Islamic conviction, and a clear and coherent concept of what they want the culture to be--an Islamic state.
The French, on the other hand, while possessed of an enormous sense of cultural superiority, no longer possess a clear or coherent concept of what it means to be French. They stress tolerance, but have embraced forces of radical intolerance.
As Thomas Sowell explains, "In the name of tolerance, these countries have imported intolerance, of which growing antisemitism in Europe is just one example. In the name of respecting all cultures, Western nations have welcomed people who respect neither the cultures nor the rights of the population among whom they have settled."
Steyn's concept of "Eurabia" also points to the links between the violence in France and the simmering hatreds of the Middle East. For the last several decades, France has attempted to appease its Muslim citizens by supporting Arab governments, criticizing Israel, and offering financial assistance to radical groups such as Hamas. Presumably, the frustrated Muslim youth of France were to be thankful for the French government's support of Muslim extremism in the Middle East. What possessed the French to think that the extremism would remain outside its own borders?
The unrest in France should serve to underline the deep cultural commitments that are fundamental to civilization. No society can withstand the threat of rampant anarchy from within. Civilization is always an achievement--a work and project embraced and supported by the vast majority of citizens, who enter into a social compact for the common good.
France has struggled with these ideals ever since the French Revolution. Unlike the American Revolution, which was established upon an inherited Christian worldview and the conservative streams of the Enlightenment, the French Revolution was radical, violent, anarchic, and highly secular.
Indeed, secularism has been an official French project for most of the last two centuries. Even as the French revolutionaries replaced the cross on the altar of the Cathedral of Notre Dame with a likeness of the goddess Reason, the French have prided themselves on the highly secular nature of their cultural experiment.
From one angle, this experiment appears to be a radical success. After all, only a small minority of French citizens consider themselves active Christians. Christianity plays almost no public role in the nation and its public culture. On the other hand, it is now apparent that this secularism, so eagerly embraced as a national project, has left a huge vacuum in the soul of French civilization. Even as nature abhors a vacuum, a secular vacuum will not long survive. The Muslim youths now rampaging through the streets of Paris want to fill that vacuum with Muslim rage.
Writer Theodore Dalrymple speaks of "barbarians at the gates of Paris." Those who honor civilization and understand, like C. P. Snow, that civilization is "hideously fragile," must look to France with concern and soberness. Will European civilization soon be a thing of the past?
R. Albert Mohler, Jr. is president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. For more articles and resources by Dr. Mohler, and for information on The Albert Mohler Program, a daily national radio program broadcast on the Salem Radio Network, go to www.albertmohler.com. For information on The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, go to www.sbts.edu. Send feedback to [email protected].
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
That Lean and Hungry Look
"Thin people don't like gooey or soft things becuase they themselves are neither gooey nor soft" Why is it that we cannot choose the way we are, but yet we criticize and sterotype others for being different. I think that this piece makes us think about ourselves and why people are the way they are. It seems like in modern day most people bash people on their outside appearance and never really look inside. People are so caught up in fitting in and looking a certain way. The way the author turns the page and trys to make thin people feel bad is important because I have very rarely heard a good reverse argument for this debate. We all need to be conscious of what we say and be aware of the way we see people.
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A fee to pay? Allegiant Air and Spirit Airlines already charge a "convenience" fee to use your credit card.
A water fee? It's hard to find a discount carrier that doesn't make you pay for soft drinks, including bottled water.
A fee to pee? Yeah, Ryanair's working on pay toilets, if reports are to be believed.
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Cambridge Made Summer Fair 2016
Here comes Summer!
The Etsy Cambridge team of artists and makers, now working under the banner of 'Cambridge Made', will be returning to their favourite venue, St Andrews Street Baptist church, on Saturday June 11th, 10am-5pm, for a sunny, fresh and cheerful Summer Fair. The church was the location for their buzzing three-day Christmas event last year, its central position and on-site cafe making it an ideal stop on any Cambridge shopping or sightseeing trip.
Almost 30 locally-based makers, artists and craftspeople will be setting up shop on June 11th, offering a beautiful range of things to help get your summer going with a swing. Whether you're looking to update your wardrobe with new designer-made clothes and accessories, kit out your kids with the cutest of original summer outfits, or stock up on handmade cards, papers and gifts you really won't find on the High Street, you'll spot something lovely at the Summer Fair. Give your home a seasonal make-over with artisan ceramics, textiles and artwork, check out eco-friendly, 100-percent handmade paper, crochet and fabric toys for kids and babies, and treat yourself to some handmade organic skincare products for your summer holidays.
Are you planning to visit the Town & Country Show on Parker's Piece? Pop in and see Cambridge Made too; the Summer Fair is just across the road!
You'll find:
- Cool and rustic homewares
- Enchanting seaside ceramics
- Witty Jane Austen-inspired and colourful printed textiles
- Chunky natural kitchen and home woodwork
- Charming miniature succulent planters and kits
- Unusual silver, copper, beaded and mixed-media jewellery
- Hand-painted designer clothing
- Colour-and-construct paper puppets, activity kits and craft projects
- Stunning papercut cards, wall art and lamps
- Affordable designer clothes for kids
- Original gifts of all kinds
- Plus much more! And it's all made in Cambridge and surrounding areas, by the makers who will be there with their work.
Livingstones cafe, adjacent to the church, offers all your favourite beverages, hot and cold, plus light meals and fabulous home-made cakes — perfect for a relaxing sit-down or to park your other half with a coffee while you meet the makers, have a chat and browse their lovely stuff! In the meantime, Cambridge Made will be spotlighting their Summer Fair makers regularly on their Facebook page and Blog. Follow them on Twitter to keep up to date with the latest news: @cambridge_made
Cambridge Made is the new name for Etsy Cambridge events, which showcase the work of local Etsy online shop owners and other outstanding art and craft talent from Cambridge and surrounding areas. You can find out more about the name change here!
The information above was kindly provided by the Cambridge Made leadership team. We have previously attended Etsy Cambridge events and are really pleased to present Cambridge Made to you – for further insights into what you can expect to see at this year's Summer Fair do check out our review of last year's Etsy Cambridge Pop-up Events. Have you been following our tag #CambsCreativeTreasures on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook? We would love to see more people getting involved – share your pictures of the Summer Fair and any purchases you make on the day with @Cambridge_Made and @thetrove_cambs with the tag #CambsCreativeTreasures on Twitter! Show you're attending over on their event page.


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From the archives: Interview with Helen Chamberlin
This interview, from 2012, still contains many gems from one of Australia's most esteemed editors and publishers (and winner of the 2014 Dromkeen Medal) – Helen Chamberlin.
Shaun Tan describes her as "wonderful", Mark Wilson as "brilliant". Helen Chamberlin's influence on Australian picture books today, however, is probably best summed up by this quote from the LaTrobe University website:
"Helen epitomises the best of editorship, a quiet voice standing in the shadows behind the public faces, shaping and guiding, challenging and demanding."
During her 19 years as children's book publisher for the independent, family-owned Australian publishing company Lothian Books (now owned by Hachette Publishing Australia), Helen built a prize-winning picture book list. Some of the award-winning and shortlisted titles she has worked on include: Shaun Tan's The Arrival; Neil Curtis and Joan Grant's Cat and Fish; Narelle Oliver's Sand Swimmers; and David Miller's Refugees.
Seven years ago, I emailed Helen a draft of my book The People Upstairs after she kindly agreed to look it over. In March 2009, four weeks after having my second child, I paid her a visit at home to discuss the book. I remember sitting in her slate-floored kitchen and sipping Lady Grey as she calmly went through page after page, explaining her notes and making suggestions.
"So there's hope for it then?" I quavered, a bit overwhelmed.
Helen looked up: "Oh, I think it's good. But you have just had a baby haven't you? When are you going to work on it now?"
"Oh I'll manage", I replied blithely, still in the 'alternative-reality' state of early motherhood. "I can do it when he's sleeping".
The People Upstairs progresses gradually. Helen, however, responded to an interview request in trademark prompt fashion:
Interview with Helen Chamberlin : 2012
Your early background is in child education. How did your years as a secondary school teacher inform your work?
As I was an English teacher of Years 7-12 I kept in touch with that broad age group's concerns and interests, and their reading tastes. Probably most importantly, I was impressed by the idealism of the senior students which caused a lifelong interest in and concern for young people – plus a continuing puzzlement about what happens to that idealism and why!
You worked in educational publishing for several years before starting at Lothian Publishing. When you reached the position of Children's Book Publisher there, did you feel you'd arrived in your ideal job?
The reasons I was given that job were quite pragmatic – it was because of the contacts I had established with children's authors and illustrators in the course of working in educational publishing, and I happened to turn up at Lothian at a time when they were wanting to expand their then tiny children's list. I gradually realised how much I loved working on picture books in particular, but across the children's list, because it drew on all my work experience, was allied with my ongoing interest in children and young adults, and meant that I was working with like-minded people in the authors and illustrators.
When you first read a manuscript, do you feel you know immediately when it will make a good picture book? What qualities would it have?
I can by now tell pretty immediately, but it is hard (for me) to articulate, I guess because it feels quite intuitive. That's not very helpful, I'm sorry! The text would have to convince me instantly, which comes down to an honest, convincing and moving voice for me. Then it would have to be original in content or 'angle' – I see so many texts which are competently written and appropriate in tone, but which deal in a conventional way with subjects that have been done a thousand times before. Of course there are universal and perennial topics, but they need to have a fresh, original angle, viewpoint, twist and/or voice.
For many picture books the text is minimal and the meaning may not be clear without illustration. Where a writer has created a book like this, do they provide a storyboard to show how the illustrations will complete the story?
Many picture book writers provide verbal indications of what the picture will show where it is not clear from the text, or in any case. Unless these are needed to make sure the illustrator 'gets' it, I prefer not to show author's illustration suggestions to the illustrators, who need to have their own vision of how a text will work for them to enjoy doing the job.
I'm looking at Cat and Fish, by Joan Grant and Neil Curtis. The text and illustrations work so perfectly with one another. Did this text come to you together with the illustrations? If so, what happens from there?
Yes, in that case the pictures preceded the text, unusually, and I saw both together and loved the whole instantly. Neil Curtis told me that he actually dreamed the images and drew them all as a series. When he showed them to Joan Grant, it was her idea that they would make a great picture book, and so she proceeded to put them in a certain order to create a narrative and supplied the text. Once the book was accepted (after a battle with the salespeople about the unsaleability of black and white picture books), Neil, Joan and I worked on some resequencing of the images and story, which necessitated a couple of new images from Neil, and on finessing the text, then it went to the outstanding designer, Ranya Langenfelds (now Rita Reiter) who brought it all together with her brilliant judgement, eye and typography.
Memorial, by Gary Crew and Shaun Tan, was an Honour Book in the CBCA awards in 2000, how long had you been working with Shaun beforehand? Both Crew and Tan had worked together before. Does this make the process of completing the book easier?
I had been working with Shaun for a couple of years by the time we did Memorial. Gary was the editor of our After Dark series of macabre stories and one of the authors in the series suggested that Shaun could illustrate his story – he was familiar with Shaun's work in Eidolon, the science fiction magazine. So Gary and I had chosen Shaun to do several books in the After Dark series, and then Gary wrote The Viewer specially for Shaun to illustrate. It won the Crichton Award. Gary then wrote Memorial, again for Shaun specifically, and they worked very closely and directly together on both books. It is definitely an advantage in terms of the unity of the work to have so close a cooperation and relationship between author and illustrator.
With The Rabbits, did John Marsden choose Shaun Tan to work on his text? What would your role be in this type of collaboration (in particular, I'm thinking how exciting it must have been to see Shaun Tan's creations as they emerged from his studio)?
I chose Shaun for The Rabbits, in consultation with John, of course, not just for the aesthetic quality of his work but because the text required the hugely intelligent interpretive skill and judgement which Shaun had already demonstrated with the earlier work.
It was always tremendously exciting to see Shaun's first concepts because of the unexpectedness of his approach and the beauty of the images. In the case of The Rabbits, we first saw his stylised rabbit character sketches, which had been a big challenge with that text – how to portray the colonisers in a symbolic way – and it was so obvious he had nailed it in one, apart from the beauty of the images. Of Shaun's books, perhaps the most powerful first impression was the first storyboard of The Arrival, which was so complete and moving, though just little black and white pencil sketches.
As the design of picture books becomes more adventurous, the role of the book designer is becoming more prominent. Are most designers working in-house at the publishers, or do the publishing houses use freelance designers? And do you have a favourite designer?
At Lothian and Hachette we always used freelance designers, and that is generally more common than in-house ones for picture books at least. It's really important, I think, to be able to choose the right designer for a picture book, as they are so critical to the unity of the book. You need a wide choice. I have several favourite designers, one of whom I have mentioned above (Ranya Langenfelds – now Rita Reiter), but I would rather not name any more names for fear of offending others!
What, for you, makes a perfect picture book?
Hard question! I guess it has to be beautiful and unified, in a nutshell – an aesthetic whole in which text and images seamlessly inform one another, but that sounds a bit wanky, I'm afraid!
What books inspired you and your children growing up?
I tend to remember the novels rather than picture books which inspired me as a child way back then, though I remember individual images as having fascinated me – those from the Little Grey Rabbit series, for example, and black and white vignette chapter-opening 'storybook' illustrations (not unlike the Windy Hollow logo, actually).
For my son and stepchildren favourite picture books were Where the Wild Things Are, Aranea, Ten Monster Islands, Two Bored Pigs and other titles by Helen Oxenbury and John Birmingham, and anything by Bob Graham; in novels, all Paul Jennings, John Marsden's Tomorrow series, Foxspell and Space Demons by Gillian Rubenstein, Strange Objects by Gary Crew, The Blooding by Nadia Wheatley.
Are there any recent picture books, such as this week's CBCA winners, that you are particularly excited by?
Of this year's winners I love Freya Blackwood's work, so Maudie and the Bear caught my eye; also Tohby Riddle's My Uncle's Donkey and Jeannie Baker's Mirror; and I am intrigued, as a frustrated graphic novel publisher, by Nicki Greenberg's Hamlet.
Are there advantages – apart from a larger paycheck – to being a writer/illustrator? If so what are they? Is it a risky approach to take?
I love it when the illustrator and author are one person, even better when they are also a designer – it makes for such great unity of vision. In what sense risky? As long as you are as good an illustrator as you are a writer, it is an advantage. I guess if you had doubts about one side or the other it would be worth considering illustrating a more established writer's work, when you are starting out, or having a more established illustrator illustrate your text, in terms of being more likely to be published and sell.
But if you are equally passsionate about your writing and artwork, I think it's worth persevering with the full package.
I hear "you may as well publish it yourself" a lot these days. What would you advise someone planning on self-publishing?
It is so hard to get a foot in the door, to get an agent or a publisher to look at your work, these days and particularly with the market how it is at the moment, that I would say go for it. At the very least you will end up with a published book to show to commercial publishers when you are trying to place the next work. I would strongly advise professional editing and designing though, despite the cost.
I have friends who are collaborating privately on picture books, where one designs and illustrates and the other writes. Do you think, in this situation, it would be best for them to consult with a publisher or editor before getting carried away?
Yes, it would definitely be wise, and the collaborators should also be prepared for a publisher liking the text but not those illustrations or vice versa, as often happens when the two are presented together.
E-books: most of what I see online is not very exciting, but that would perhaps change if well-known authors started to publish online. Do you think E-books pose a threat to traditional publishing?
Ebook publishing is still publishing – an author at the recent Melbourne Writers Festival said 'it's just reading the page under glass'. Of course it does pose a threat to print publishing but publishers need to get their act together (some are, of course) and embrace both forms. To me it's just a new format – it's still words, text, an author's voice and vision. However, though I don't worry about novels, I do worry a bit about the aesthetics of picture books transferred to the small screens of Ereaders.
What advice would you give to someone who mentions to you: "I've written a children's book – well it's sort of an idea for my kids"?
I would want to look at the work before advising, but in general I feel obliged to tell would-be children's authors about the market and how difficult it is, especially at the moment, and to ask them to do some homework in looking in good children's bookshops, libraries and schools, to see what is working (not to mention what has been done before).
Thank you Helen!
Back to our meeting in March 2009 – after providing much-needed encouragement and advice, Helen also gave me some valuable extra feedback:
As I prepared to leave, I began: "I have a few other ideas you know…". "Oh, yes?" she enquired, ever polite. "Um, there's this one…". I passed her the draft text for an original picture book idea of mine, an idea based on a friend's story about his family's peach tree. Then I nipped down the corridor to the loo. On my return, she was just finishing the copy.
"So, is there anything in that one?" I asked nervously.
"Oh, not really." she said "This subject matter has been covered many times before, and also there's not enough happening. If you were to use the peach tree episode as a backdrop, perhaps to an interesting event in a child's life, it might work. But there's not much to go on at the moment."
Having experienced Helen's guidance first hand, I'm deeply grateful to her for – in that short meeting – saving me a lot of wasted effort. I realised then that the first idea we have, perhaps the one that inspires us to create words and pictures, the "this would be a great children's book" idea, is merely a seed. As we grow and learn, many of those "inspired" creations will wither in the early pages of discarded sketchbooks. And this is no bad thing.
Helen Chamberlin now works as a publishing consultant and freelance editor on children's books and adult fiction and publishes a picture book list with Windy Hollow Books, a small, independent Melbourne-based publishing house. Manuscripts can be sent to her there; details are on the submissions page.
To read more, there's a great article on JR Poulter's Crichton Award winning picture book Mending Lucille, where she worked closely with Helen, and it's always a pleasure to read the background to Shaun Tan's mesmerising work on his site.


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How likely are they to set?
Brown Leghorns are least likely to set.
You say that the birds "look out for themselves very well". What does that mean... are they extremely wary and can spot the most sly predators? Can they evade a fox? How about predator birds, like owls, can they evade them. All of these are problems that we face, and I love a bird that was really evasive.
They are very active and alert to their surroundings. They may not be able to escape from every preditor, but are more likely to compared to a less active breed. We also refer to them as "flighty" because they are not calm and spook easily.
when you order straight runs are there females included in the group
A straight run is a mix of males and females not seen by a sexer. It would depend on how many you ordered. The more you order of a breed the better chances of getting both males and females. If needing a specific number of males and females they should be ordered that way if are a breed that is sexed.
Do you ship to Alaska
Yes, we can ship poultry to Alaska.
under "description" the disposition is listed as "poor". Is that due to their flighty nature? Aggressive to other birds?
Leghorns are flighty, a poor disposition type. They are generally not aggressive toward other breeds, especially when raised with the others as baby chicks.
Where does your breeder stock come from for the rose comb brown leghorns? Thanks!
We have our own breeding stock for the brown leghorns.
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Nice HenI ordered 5 of these. 3 ended up being roosters (and hardly worth the hassle of butchering them), the 2 hens I do have are nice birds. they pretty much keep to themselves, are a little shy, and free range fine.
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Justice Kennedy Retires (SCOTUS)
The most powerful man in America has finally retired. There was no one in the country's past 30 years who had a bigger impact on the law of the United States than Justice Kennedy. No President, no Majority Leader, no State Governor had power coming even close to that of Justice Kennedy, aka the Swing Vote. The number of cases Justice Kennedy single-handedly decided is breathtaking. He is the man who allowed gay people to marry (Obergefell v. Hodges 2015) and buy firearms (District of Columbia v Heller 2008) at the same time. It seems that President Trump is now likely to appoint another young judge in the vein of Justice Gorsuch, his first pick. Whoever President Trump chooses to replace Justice Kennedy will be subjected to the most vicious confirmation process this country has ever seen. Probably even more vicious than the confirmation hearings of Robert Bork or Clarence Thomas. The President is set to announce his pick on Monday, 9 July.


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Day 5, Fatima, the weather wasn't cooperating much when we arrived - just a dull, dingy, grey sky. Not the Portuguese sky we learned to love in Lisbon. However, that Portuguese sky was not going to let us down. Those clouds just opened up, spot lighting the magnificient bell tower , and statue of the Blessed Virgin, of Fatima Cathedral. Makes one wonder???
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Since the last time I blogged, a few things have happened. Here are the highlights.
Julia got her driver's license and now she's a real grown up. I can check her off of my list. She's twenty, she has a job, she's rooted in her faith and now she can drive. She's a lovely young woman and I'm very proud of the grown up that she has become…but why do I still feel like she's five years old when I see her driving away? I keep thinking about how when she was a baby and when she was a small child, I was so paranoid about her riding in cars with anyone but me. (I know, I know, but I was nineteen and in a broken place- just so sure I didn't deserve such a gift as this wonderful little child. I was fearful for a long time about something happening to her. That's a blog for another time.) Now I must wave good bye as she cheerfully drives away. It's good and right when they grow up. We celebrate it, but there's a part of us that grieves. And there's a part of ME that's always going to worry.
We went to the pumpkin patch for some fall fun except that it was really, really hot. But it was also really, really fun. I used to do stuff like this with my older kids when they were little. Lila kept saying, "Did we just decide to come here?" as though baffled that it wasn't a field trip or some official event. Clairey just kept saying, "Punkin patch HOT!"
Aubrey went to her very first high school dance. She looked beautiful and I was remembering the tiny little blonde haired girl who cried every day of preschool…not wanting to be away from me. That little person has turned into an independent, clever, wickedly funny young woman.
And then I said goodbye to my thirties and hello to my forties! Yep, it's happened. I'm a real grown up now too. I had a wonderful birthday with family and friends. My sister and Zia made this beautiful board (Aubrey said it was a science fair project about me.) with pictures from ALL of my forty years and words that my family and friends used to describe me. Humbling. Honoring. It made me cry. I could only read two or three at a time. I am loved so well.
More celebrating the next day at my mom and dad's and we just counted ourselves very, very blessed.
And I think what I've figured out over the past couple or few weeks is this:
There are two constants in life. One is God. The other is that things are always changing.
I got thinking about how different forty looks for me than thirty. How different thirty looked than twenty! I'm in a place I didn't know existed, living a life I never could've imagined at thirty. I want to go back and tell thirty year old me to hang in there, that it does get better and that God stays the same the whole way through.
Tomorrow, I'm going to be writing a post with an important announcement in it. Our life here is about to change and we hope that change moves the world. We're stepping up our world changing efforts and I don't want you to miss out on it. Check back tomorrow, because I have some bold questions for you!


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2/15/14 News Flash: New iOS 7 version of Radio, Scanner Radio, Euro Radio and soon Weather Radio have been released and are available in the iTunes App Store. These version requireiOS 7.
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Dudley MP Ian Austin has organised a jobs fayre so that local people can find out about jobs at the new Aldi store on Priory Road.
Find out more about the jobs on offer at Aldi by clicking here.
Local residents have been invited to discuss job opportunities and any questions about the new store with Aldi bosses at 11am on Saturday 25th June at Priory Primary School, Limes Road, Dudley DY1 4AQ.
The new store will open later this year employing 35 new members of staff and six deputy managers.
Last year Austin consulted with local residents over Aldi's plans, finding that eight in ten were in support with 87 percent saying it would help tackle unemployment in the area.
The MP has now organised the jobs fayre and written to local residents encouraging them to come so that as many jobs as possible are filled by local people.
Ian Austin said:
"One of the reasons local people supported Aldi's plan for a new supermarket was because it would create over forty new jobs in an area of high unemployment.
"I want local people to get those jobs so I have organised this jobs fayre and written to everyone living locally encouraging them to apply.
"I would like to thank Aldi, local councillors Ken Finch, Margaret Aston and Alan Finch who have backed these plans to benefit local residents."


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Category Archives: BRITNEY AND THE BEAST
How long will K-Fed and Britney last? Let's wait it out……
Britney Spears Gives Less At The VMA's Last Night
Wow, MTV knows how to give the public a craptacular explosion of mediocre bull-hits. That was one of the worst shows I have ever seen. Looks like the show's producers were too busy doing lines of coke off strippers.
Big Drunk Scary Cat Fight
Somebody grab some tranquilizers! Quick! This mutha is gonna blow the house down!
Christy Meth Does Math
And one more reason….here it is.
Kevin Federline's Stride
Little did he know, about 2 days later he'd be owned.
Britney Is A Good Mom
It's not easy.
That's America For You
Straight from the horse's mouth, figuratively speaking of course.
Britney Pysche!
Her future is dwindling.
The Furious Faces Of Flav
Forget Mickey Rooney, they need to get Flav up on the 60 minutes culture commentary.
She's Not That Innocent
I didn't say it, she says it herself!


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CrypticCraft is a PvP Minecraft server featuring Survival and a KitPvP minigame.
Our aim was to create a straightforward Survival server; no pay-to-win ranks, no broken commands, no constant resets. Just like grandma used to make.
Our player base is not very large, so you and your friends can build up without a constant threat of other people sneaking up on you.
Why we're better/best/bester
- Plugins with a purpose
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- Money In
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- Our ranks are the most reasonably priced you will ever find. Who else has a $1 rank? It's almost pointless to sell
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- We don't see the point in banning people for saying the name of another server (watch this… "Mineplex". Crazy right?)
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Of course, the famous of Britain and America busying themselves #prayingforjapan has a knock-on effect. You could tell it was a slow week for celebrity news from the fact that OK! magazine felt impelled to run a feature on King John dying of dysentery in Norfolk in 1216: rather winningly, it linked this to King Alexander of Greece's death in 1920 (bitten by a poisonous monkey while walking his dog) and the massacre of the Nepalese royal family in 2001 as evidence of a mysterious "Royal Curse".
Happily, the transatlantic celebrity drought enables Lost in Showbiz to look further afield for its kicks. Its eye alights on Israel, home to Orit Fox, or, as certain people keep referring to her, "Israel's answer to Jordan", which makes her sound like a stage in an ever-deepening Middle East crisis.
In fact, like Katie Price, Fox is a woman of indeterminate occupation, best known as the owner of Israel's largest breasts: "I decided to enlarge them in the army. My obsession is my breasts." She shot to something approaching international fame this week when it was widely reported that she managed to inadvertently kill a boa constrictor she was posing with for a photoshoot. The snake bit her chest and contracted silicone poisoning.
LiS couldn't help viewing this as the laying down of a surgically enhanced gauntlet: it made the ongoing activities of Price look a little wan by comparison. Come on, Katie! Up your game! While you're sitting there posting pictures of that Argentinian bloke and telling us what you are having for lunch on Twitter, your Israeli counterpart has actually killed a boa constrictor with her bosoms! Perhaps you could consider smothering a tortoise to death with yours. Put a Red Nose on and say you're doing it for Comic Relief!
Alas, just as LiS was considering a move into celebrity management, it learned that the story about the death of the boa constrictor was a hoax: the media had picked it up without noticing that it emanated from a website called Oh No They Didn't. Words cannot begin to express its disappointment: suffice to say it will watch Comic Relief haunted by the image of what might have been.