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The first of Elmore Leonard's famous 10 Rules of Writing is to "Never open a book with weather." But I like the weather. And I like darkness, storms, and especially stormy darkness.
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton's famous opening, "It was a dark and stormy night," is a joke to most of us, a gothic cliché. And it's not even a new joke and wasn't new when he penned the line in earnest. Two hundred years ago – well before Bulwer-Lytton wrote the words – Coleridge riffed in Christabel, asking, "Is the night chilly and dark?" and answering, deadpan, "The night is chilly, but not dark." In later years, George Sand, Madeleine L'Engle, Ray Bradbury, and many others used Bulwer-Lytton's line in one form or another, usually mockingly. In the 1960s, Charles Schulz still was laughing when he allowed Snoopy, sitting on top of his dog house, to type the line as the opening of his great novel.
The line is a cliché that never gets old, and so is the joke – still funny after all these years. Why? Because storms and darkness scare us – often in a pleasant way – and have scared us since the time when storms flooded our caves and our pussycats sank saber teeth into our legs at night. It's primal, the way many fears are. If you jump out of a closet and yell, "Boo," I'll jump, though I've heard the word thousands of times, and if you set a scene in a dark storm – call the scene what you will: Key Largo, Frankenstein, whatever – I'm hooked. Yes, I'm guilty: I like dark and stormy nights.
The main problem with Bulwer-Lytton's line is neither the darkness nor the storm. The problem is the first two words: "It was." These words are dead weight, and you should never start a book with dead weight, unless you are, say, Charles Dickens and "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
Otherwise, start the book with action: The storm stormed and the darkness darkened. Or something like that.
Even Elmore Leonard, when pressed, has allowed that dark and stormy nights are okay if handled right. "Never open a book with the weather," he says. "Never" – except when you do: "If it's only to create atmosphere, and not a character's reaction to the weather," he adds to his proscription, "you don't want to go on too long." In other words, you can say that "It was a dark and stormy night" if that information tells readers about a character (or about other key features of a story). So, don't write the following: It was a dark and stormy night. The killer, with switchblade in hand, went hunting for blondes. The darkness and the storm tell readers nothing about the killer or, for that matter, the blondes. Instead, you need to make the weather and the atmospherics matter. So, write, It was a dark and stormy night. The meteorologist, with switchblade in hand, went hunting for blondes, who also were meteorologists.
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The Cave pre-orders offer Team Fortress 2 items
The Cave pre-orders on Steam include a set of items to be worn around in Team Fortress 2.
Double Fine's The Cave is right around the corner, even with the still-nebulous "January" release listed. But it's close enough to be available for pre-order on Steam, and Valve has partnered to promote it the best way it knows how: Team Fortress 2 goodies.
The game is available for $14.99, and a pre-purchase on Steam nets you some items to play dress up like the game's Hillbilly character. It shows off these items on the Engineer, because let's face it, it's not exactly a stretch for him.
Pre-orders are up on other digital distributors too, minus the TF2 items but some have other perks. Green Man Gaming, for example, has it for $12.00 using the code GMG20-PJFEW-Y16HK, and The Cave activates on Steam anyway.
The game is also coming to PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii U, but like the PC version, exact dates haven't been given. This will mark Ron Gilbert's first game since joining up with Double Fine, and our own Jeff Mattas was appropriately impressed when he saw the game last year. Check out our preview for more details.
Steve Watts posted a new article, The Cave pre-orders offer Team Fortress 2 items.
The Cave pre-orders on Steam include a set of items to be worn around in Team Fortress 2.

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"Reading is one of the most important skills we learn - it affects virtually every aspect of a person's life," said Dr. Guinevere Eden, associate professor of pediatrics, director of Georgetown University's Center for the Study of Learning, and lead author of the study. "Despite the fact that the majority of individuals with dyslexia are adults, little is known about the biological basis of how they can improve their reading skills. We need to understand the neural mechanisms behind these research-based reading instructions so that we can achieve a deeper understanding of precisely how these interventions work. Our findings suggest that the brain mechanisms used by adult dyslexics might be different from those observed when young children undergo remediation, a strong indication that there will never be a 'one size fits all' approach to helping dyslexics become proficient readers."
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), nineteen dyslexic adults underwent brain imaging twice. Half of the group completed an eight-week, phonological intervention program between the two scans, with the rest of the dyslexics serving as a comparison group.
During the consecutive testing sessions researchers evaluated the participants' reading and phonological skills (i.e., the ability to sound out words by correctly associating sounds with written symbols). Phonological skills are critical for learning to read and often found to be impaired in individuals with developmental dyslexia. Eden notes that this type of rigorous clinical trial design is not practiced as often in reading research as it is in traditional medical research.
Participants in this study showed strong improvement in their phonological and reading accuracy skills following the intervention. One participant had never read a book before in her life; following the study she read before work every day, setting her alarm clock early to do so.
In addition, their brain scans revealed activity changes in specific regions. In addition to activity customarily seen in the left hemisphere of typical readers, the dyslexic participants' brains surprisingly showed activity in the right hemisphere as well, acting as a way to compensate for deficiencies they may have in regions that are activated in typical readers. The brain scans also showed that recovery mechanisms, usually seen in pediatric dyslexia cases, are also working in adults brains. This suggests that unlike children learning to read, adult brains change in different ways with compensation and recovery working in concert.
"People in this study showed us that it may never be too late for adults who want to improve their reading skills," said Dr. Lynn Flowers from Wake Forest University, the senior author who has followed this group of dyslexics since the 1980s. "At the tail end of Dyslexia Awareness Month, the important take away message from our study is that there is significant hope for adults who have been unable to read for years. Ideally we can identify dyslexia at the outset and intervene early to help children academically and emotionally. But, we now know that there are effective ways to address adult dyslexia as well."
"Work like this can provide important information to develop new research-based teaching programs that can ultimately help other adults to become proficient readers," said G. Reid Lyon, PhD, Chief, Child Development & Behavior Branch, National Institute of Child Health & Human Services National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, M.D. "This is an exciting area of research in which scientists converge with educators to achieve the common goal of helping individuals with dyslexia achieve the reading skills they need to succeed in life."
This research was funded by the National Institutes of Health. In addition to researchers mentioned in this release, this research was conducted by the following colleagues: Karen Jones, Katherine Cappell, Lynn Gareau, Dr. Thomas Zeffiro, Nichole Dietz and Dr. John Agnew, from Georgetown, and Dr. Frank Wood, from Wake Forest University.
Georgetown University Medical Center is an internationally recognized academic medical center with a three-part mission of research, teaching and patient care (through our partnership with MedStar Health). Our mission is carried out with a strong emphasis on public service and a dedication to the Catholic, Jesuit principle of cura personalis--or "care of the whole person." The Medical Center includes the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing and Health Studies, both nationally ranked, and the world renowned Lombardi Cancer Center.
The Georgetown Center for the Study of Learning, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health, seeks to better understand the neural mechanisms that enable the acquisition of reading skills, and to identify new approaches to assess and treat reading disabilities.


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I'm hoping that I'm doing this correctly. But I HAD to reblog this post from "Warning Curves Ahead" blog. She "gets" it!!!!!! You may remember my post of a few weeks ago of my version of advanced style. But this nails it.
She included ALL sorts of styles and all kinds of women and I love it. I love it so very much. And it speaks to all women over 30,40,50,60, and beyond.
So ladies and gents, take a look at this wonderful post (if you haven't already seen it) and enjoy and wear whatever you want ( I would have added my favorite curse word that starts with "F" and ends with "K" but I promised Bonaparte that I would curb my language. Seriously. This is some great shit!!!!!
This morning, as I was perusing my Facebook timeline, I happened upon an article that a lovely friend shared. It was entitled "24 Things Women Should Stop Wearing After Age 30", and it triggered Maximum Eye-Rolling from everyone who took the time out to read it.
Written by Kallie Provencher for RantChic.com, this "article" (I use the term loosely) highlighted things such as "leopard print", "graphic tees", and "short dresses" (because "By this age, women should know it's always better to leave something to the imagination"). Kallie, it seems, has a number of opinions on what women over 30 should and shouldn't be doing, having also penned "30 Things Women Over 30 Shouldn't Own" and "20 Pictures Women Over 30 Need To Stop Posting Online". (What is this magical post-30 land where women are suddenly not allowed to do or own so many things?!)
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There is a FREE software-->Opera. They allow anybody to be tester. Almost every weekend they send new release of the software.-->http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/
They have bug report wizard: https://bugs.opera.com/wizard.
If I send a bug report about a page, in the next weekly release they resolve it.
But I payed for Pocomail, and I have character coding problem for 1 year (not 1 week! than in Opera), I was promised to resolve it in the new version.
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advantage that it only searches the largest social media properties in the world
to clean the results to just that of social media.
We recommend if you would rather search the entire internet you simply use google.com directly as we can provide no advantage.
The sites that we include in our index are as follows and a short description of each.
YouTube.com, hardly needs an introduction unless you have been living in a nuclear bunker for the last 20 years. YouTube is the world's largest user generated video content and sharing library. Fun fact, more than 500 hours of content is uploaded to YouTube each and every minute so one person can never possibly see it all in their lifetime. If you want to just search YouTube, again we can only recommend that you use the native site for that purpose. If you are quickly trying to compare search results of YouTube vs another site you can use the query 'site:youtube.com search-term(s)' this will narrow your results to just YouTube.com for that one specific search.
Ask.fm, is a spin on traditional social sites in that it encourages users to ask and answer questions to each other, which can be done either publicly or anonymously for the more intriguing and sensitive topics. The last reported user count was over two-hundred fifteen million. The site is very popular in South America and is a great way to make new friends worldwide.
Academia.edu is largely focused on the University and Academic arena. The site encourages sharing of papers, research and field advancements. Along with a user profile an individual can showcase their work, contribute to the work of others or coordinate on projects. The last reported user numbers were north of 58 million and contributions come in from around the world.
Myspace.com used to be the largest social media network for several years while Facebook was in infant stages and exclusively for college students. Myspace started from night club influencers and then quickly attracted celebrities of all levels which caused regular users to show up. The site was overrun by various bots, spam and general sense of garbage but still lives today as a pop culture distribution system and some users retain their profiles. Myspace is still very active and has a lot of photographic and value added insights from celebrities and influencers of lower status.
Quora.com is another question and answer website but rather than the questions and answers being specific about the user asking or answering them, they can be about any topic people feel they know something about. Making it more like a catalogued chat room with very intellectual responses. Short and non-descript answers are typically voted down while lengthy and elaborate answers are voted up, this causes most questions to have really good answers as the feature and many more as additional answers. Google really loves indexing Quora content and it becoming a go to resource for finding answers to questions already asked and making up your own questions to get answers on.
Pinterest.com leverages a khan-ban board style interface to organize one's thoughts, desires and collections of pictures or videos. Then you can share that content with other users and gain followers. Pinterest is very popular with female users (as they tend to think more visually). Pinterest has become a powerful tool for correlating images to # (hastags) as well.
Xing.com is a business networking site for disocovering corporate jobs, news and events and for networking with other business people you likely already know. It is a more niche and more limited version of Linkedin.
Hi5.com is the social network for meeting new people primarily around dating vs friends. It was another large network in the myspace days, now it seems to be small like the average low volume dating site.
Rabb.it is for co-watching streams with friends and chatting about it while you are watching. Rabbit is trying to make watching more social and more interactive.
Lofter.com brings together photographers, film players, painters and anime enthusiasts, and continues to generate more circles of interest, from design, art, technology, fashion, travel, reading, and film reviews. Content continues to be produced.
Snapchat.com is one of the primary peer to peer chatting applications, it's trademark feature was dissappearing messages that another user could only view one time. Now thanks to Stories and other features some content is searchable and is a great way to find new friends.
Nextdoor.com is focused on local communities and the residents that occupy them, rather than having "Friends" all over the world you are only connected by your neighbors and neighborhoods which makes all posts and content extremely relevent to locals only. Fortunately they have launched communities all over the U.S. so almost anyone can be part of Nextdoor and find out what is happening in their own neighborhood.
Other notable soical sites included in search: Twoo.com, Socialblade.com, Tagged.com, Ameblo.jp, Zhihu.com, Weibo.com, Ok.ru, Vk.com
Medium.com is a largely intellectual social media company, users create long articles and receiving followers and claps from the publishing of the articles. Think of it as a twitter with extremely long tweets.
Linkedin.com the worlds largest business networking site for b2b scouting, transactions and news releases. Linkedin has become the largest job finding site as well and provides tremendous value to those in the digital realm not so much to traditional fields with a strong brick and mortar prescence.
Reddit.com is like a chatroom where every line is ranked. Users can contribute any type of content they would like into categorized reddits and the other users upvote or downvote those contributions. This makes for decent content production (entertainment or info value) and low quality is pushed to the bottom where only really deep dives would produce any views.
Instagram.com the most popular photo sharing application, where you get to stalk and see whoever or whatever you want (as long as its safe for work). Facebook owns it so they do moderate but it has the most users by far, multiple billions.
Twitter.com has become a political battleground mostly leveraged for complainers and news people. Other, regular people follow them to see what they have to scream about on a daily basis and then retweet it when they think its funny or worth noting. If it were not for cnn and fox Twitter would already be down to Myspace status.
Facebook.com we all know Facebook because whether or not we want to use it our friends and family are already on it and make it the only way to get invited to parties. Odds are, if you are not on facebook you are missing the parties you are invited to and have very few, if any, friends or family.


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The thing about craft
Almost 3 years ago I wrote an article on my idea of craft (or traditional crafts) and now that I'm starting a craft shop, I think it is good to revisit it.…28 October 2017
About Us
Supermama is a little Singapore gallery store founded by Mei Ling and Edwin.
Here, we collect and create meaningful objects, and hope to engage every consumer as an individual, curating a space to allow each to slow down.
We work closely with some of the best designers and crafts facilities to produce authentic souvenirs and design pieces.
With direct partnerships with multi-generational Japanese crafts facilities (in metal smithing, porcelain making, woodcrafting, glass blowing etc.), we regularly present some of the finest design collection in Singapore and Tokyo.
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Transmedia is a bit of a buzz word at the moment. True it's not exactly new, but then there's no such thing as an original idea…
Henry Jenkins is the father of the movement. The Dumbledore to the wizardry of multiple narratives, if you will.
You may have seen the LA Times piece. It gives a good overview of where Jenkins thinking comes from.
There are countless examples new and old of Transmedia campaigns. Alternate Reality Games are more traditionally associated with this approach. Often used to market films or video games, but also as stand alone experiences, they really did pave the way for multi-channel narratives. They harnessed the hive mind – using the crowd to solve fiendish clues and
rewarded the community with content.
Many ARGs were too niche, you had to be too commited to the whole experience to get anything out of it – and to few people were actually playing to get a good return on the marketing spend. You couldn't snack on them. However, alongside these various experiments in ARGs also came the rise of casual gaming, which inturn has grown the appetite for consumers to experience and explore new ways of enjoying entertainment content. So now we get some simpler – yet equally compelling – games that can be enjoyed by individuals but also as part of a hive. This new game for the Sherlock Holmes game is brilliant. (I mean simple by not taking up your whole life. The puzzles are still fiendish, but I'm told you'll complete the game in 8 hours, rather than 2 years).
This AdAge article talks about a Transmedia narrative that is both horizontal and deep. i.e. there is enough in the content to make it enjoyable on a basic top level, but deep enough that the hardcore fans have plenty to explore. I'm not sure everyone can be entertained all the time – but this approach rests on giving the hardcore fans content that allows them to become amplifiers.
Transmedia in this traditional movie marketing guise is expensive. But PR is essentially story telling, so I think a lot of the values outlined here apply to us in our day to day lives.
1. Make stories drillable.
2. Each piece of a story must be enriching, but not essential, to its overall experience.
3. Recognize the power of your fans.
4. Build a world, not just a story.
A lot of this is stuff we're already doing, but in the future it's going to be essential that every story we create has multiple touch-points. Some media will want the topline info, some consumers will want to be able to drill down and explore the details, it will be necessary for each individual announcement to be a part of a constantly evolving bigger 'world' and – as we know – if we give the audience compelling content then they will also spread the word.
Madisson Avenue types have a heritage in creating this sort of content. But just as they have experience in telling a story in 30 seconds, so we have a professional vocabularly that allows us to reach out to multiple stakeholders and audiences through the channels we know are most appropriate for each conversation. What's more trans-media than that?


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Wednesday, 30 November 2011
12 Days of Christmas Event
LOTV sale news and a posh new currency converter!!
Delight in Simple Things
Hei there.. today I have a few "springy" things to show you. This weekend I was busy with a order I got through my Etsy store for some baby items. I made this card sometime last week using one of Lili Of The Valley's new images called "Never too old for a cupcake" The stamp comes with the cute sentiment but it was a bit large for my layout. I love stamp sets like that – what a great deal to get a image AND a sentiment for the same money. Most of you what a little sucker iam for sentiments. hahahahha
Papers are by Stampin up
Gems and crochet ribbon is by: The Ribbon Girls
hop on over to the ribbon girls blog challenge no #13 for the colour challenge "PINK AND WHITE"
Other: Liquid Applique , Stickles, Spellbinder lacy circles, little pearl Stickers can be found at Cute Stamps and cards
Right now iam sitting close to my sewing machine I have sew a little sack close to stuff with some fibers, to finally finish my pin cushions. My "master plan" is to finish all my knitted and most of my crochet stuff that's been sitting here but the ends have not been waved it. I can not tell you how much I dislike to do this job. By the time I have something "finished" I have the next project in mind I and I think – oh I wave the ends in tonight but it never happens. I literally have stuff from last winter sitting in my closet that has to be finished!
Moonlight Wishes
Can you believe Christmas is less than a month away?! I can't believe how quickly the year is speeding by. Since my kiddos started school, it seems like I blink and another month is gone! I'm hoping to get a few more Christmas cards made before I need to get them mailed out.
Today, I thought I would share a card that I made with one of the Lili of the Valley Christmas images called Moonlight Wishes. This was one of my favorite images from the Christmas releases this past summer.
There is just something so sweet about this image! I stamped the image on copic x-press it cardstock with tuxedo black memento ink. Then, I colored it with these copic markers: YG93, YG95, YG97, R24, R27, R46, R89, W1, W3, Y15, Y17, E35, YG17, YG67, E000, E00, E11, E13, R00, R02, colorless blender. I created a mask with eclipse masking tape. Then, I used a BG72 copic marker and my air compressor to spray the sky. I added some glitter to the moon and stars and some white fun flock the the ball on her cap.
I used some patterned papers from October Afternoon's new Holiday Style paper pad. I added some crocheted lace from May Arts and some baker's twine. The sentiment is from Lili of the Valley's Grunge Christmas Postmarks stamp set.
Have a great day!
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Hello dear friends !!
I wanted to show you a CAS card I made. This is one of the new images from Lily Of The Valley. This is Summer. Isn't she a cutie??
I colored her with my copic's and used some Spica Glitter Pens on her. The papers I have used today are from K&Co.
The sentiment I have used is also from Lily Of The Valley using a die from Go Kreate.
Well that is it from me today. I hope you all have a wonderful week. Thanks so much for stopping bye, I so appreciate it and all your lovely comments you leave.
Don't forget the sale going on over at Lily of the Valley. 10% off and free shipping. A great deal. And a great way to get those Christmas goodies for your friends !!
Sending Big Hugs (((((()))))))))))
Musical Christmas
Stamps: Musical Christmas & Grunge Christmas Postmarks from Lili of the Valley
Sentiment: Christmas Circular Sentiments from Lili of the Valley
Monday, 28 November 2011
Quick Flicks Monday
Hi there, I'm back with the follow on from last week's Quick Flicks colouring tutorial. This week I've concentrated on colouring brown.
Have a great week
Sunday, 27 November 2011
Weekly candy winner
LOTV New Launch
The sentiment is a Mixture Circular with added Friends Forever with it.
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you've had a great weekend although I think many of you feel by heavy winds like we have here!!
Little Trumpet
This time I used 'Little Trumpet' for my card, and I just had to paper piece her gown. It looks like a rich, velvety damask with a bit of shading with my Copics. Just like an angel should have, lol!
The papers are from Kaisercraft, I am loving their Christmas paper pads this season! I also love that they have some coordinating die cuts in the back of the paper pad, easy to add some fancy touches to my layout.
The little silver bells and the pretty wood star are from Wild Orchid Crafts.
Well I'm off to relax on my one day off from work this week, laundry, cleaning and some more stamping, lol! What a way to relax, right?!
Thanks for peeking in,
Saturday, 26 November 2011
Heaven Sent
Hi everyone,
I want to share with you another card of me ... this time I`ve made a baby card using the cute image *Heaven Sent* from Lili of the Valley. This image included the sentiment *A Baby is a Blessing sent from Heaven*, which I´ve placed on a tag and then hidden behind the image.
Stamps: Heaven Sent & Grunge Christmas Postmarks from Lili of the Valley
Have a wonderful weekend all and thanks for stopping by.
Cake Glorious Cake!
It's the weekend! Woohoo!! There are some exciting things happening over the coming days at Lili of the Valley so keep yer eyes peeled here ladies
Today's card is one I made a while back using the sweet image Cake Glorious Cake from the latest release.
The gorgeous flowers and silk ribbon are from Wild Orchid Crafts. I also used some cheesecloth behind the image, new in stock at Wild Orchid Crafts.
The papers are MME Lost and Found Blush from Dies to Die For, the colours are gorgeous in this pad. The swirl die is a Doo Hickey, also from Dies to Die For.
Isn't she just the cutest lol.
Have a fab weekend
Thursday, 24 November 2011
Watering Can
I've used the super cute LOTV image called "Watering Can", along with a couple of sentiments that comes along with some of the other new images :)
Thanks for visiting - have a great day!
Hugs, Lena Katrine
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Santa Mail
Reminds me of something I want to do with my kids each year At Macy's there is a red mail box and I tell my kids we are going there to drop the list off for Santa. Last year I got myself out of it – I told them that I had posted the letter while they were in school and I was at the mail office lol.
this card has been ordered from Sonja quite a long time ago – I just had such a hard time to find a paper I liked with it. I thought I would need papers with reds but also lots of other colors so I can color the clothes in. After I had given up digging through all the pads I have – I just started coloring and it came together so easy and I did not even need many colors.
to the card
Supplies on it are as always Copic pens
Then paper is by Echo Park 12x12 – I must say I love it – I have the entire pack almost used up (shared half with a friend)
Stamps: Lili of the Valley Lots of Letters
Sentiments: Postmark clear this is really a great set to have and best of all they are back in stock! You might want to hurry with them – If you like them. They have been sold out just earlier this week.
Monday, 21 November 2011
Quick Flicks Monday
Morning ladies,I'm back with this week's Quick Flicks. I've had lots of requests to do a tutorial on colouring reds, so here it is. I will continue to colour this image over the coming weeks to demonstrate colouring with greens, browns and gold until the image is complete.
Moonlight Wishes
Hiya all,
here I am again with another card of me. This time I´ve chosen the lovely image Moonlight Wishes from Lili of the Valley and matching to it, I´ve cut out some stars with my slice, which I`ve covered with a lot of glitter, just as the stars on the image :O) I also used the wonderful Grunge Christmas Postmarks, love this kind of stamps so much!
Have a wonderful day and thanks for swinging by.
Sunday, 20 November 2011
Saturday, 19 November 2011
Garden Angel
Here's another of those adorable new Summer stamps from Lili of the Valley, this little sweetie is called Summer Garden Angel. And no surprises….. the card is PINK! I just can't help myself rofl.
The paper is Echo Park Victorian Garden from Dies to Die For. I have used the Doo Hickey Lovely Fence die instead of lace for a change. The butterfly is a Martha Stewart Monarch Butterfly punch.
The scrummy flowers and seam binding are from Wild Orchid Crafts. I adhered 10mm roses to the fence and bow. Those dinky little roses were made for this die I think. I finished it off with a 30mm wild rose, sweetheart blossoms and 8mm semi open roses.
Friday, 18 November 2011
Musical Christmas Exploding Box
And when you slide off the top, voila! A little holiday scene and floating snowflakes pop out at you.
I decorated little die cut pine trees with gold tinsel and red pearls.
The poinsettias are cut from vellum using a Spellbinders die, sponged with a bit of color before assembling.
The snowflakes are a SU die strip, frosted with German glass glitter and attached to thin strips of acetate.
I can't wait to send this to a very special person this Christmas!
Thanks for looking, I appreciate all the wonderful comments.
Stamps: Lili of the Valley, Waltzingmouse Stamps
Ink: Memento, Distress, Marvy Heritage, Distress
Paper: Bazzill, PTI vellum, Kaisercraft, gold mirror c/s, Hammermill, Cascata
Tools & Supplies: SU Northern Frost die strip, glass glitter, Spellbinders Poinsettia dies, Copics, rhinestones, Scor Pal, PTI tree die, pearls, tinsel, gold embossing powder, red satin ribbon
Thursday, 17 November 2011
Rosie with Cake
Hi dear friends,
just wanted to share with you another card of me ... this time I used sweet Rosie with Cake, love her so much and coloured her in pink/blue, my favorite colours :O) It´s the first time that I used some crocket flowers and I am quite happy with it ...
Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day.
Hugs and smiles
Wednesday, 16 November 2011
Little Sleepy Head
I wanted to show you a sweet little card I made using one of the latest images from Lili of the Valley and this image is so darn cute that I could just squeeze that little cuddled down bear!! He is Little Sleepy Head and he was colored with Promarkers and Flexmarkers adding a touch of Prisma Glitter to the mobile. The base of the card is Bazzill, the double matting is PTI, the DP is from the Kaisercraft Lullaby Collection, and all background panels are machine stitched. I used an IO Shake It and cut out the openings with a Nestie, surrounding the image with some lovely blue lace. I filled the shake it with It's A Boy confetti from the local party shop. For the horizontal I used some polka dot grosgrain and dangled a baby footsies charm from the double flat bow.Finally I added a baby boy bead bracelet and some polka dot buttons to the corners!
The inside is very simple, adding another horizontal with double flat bow to the first panel and on the jotting panel, a sentiment from the For You Circular Sentiments set and several baby buttons.
Thank you so much for dropping by today and we would love to have you visit here often!! Until the next time, big hugs from Jacque!
May your layers be many & your frosting be thick
Hi friends … finished an other Lili of the Valley card. This card was ordered and I just loved to make it. This new Lili of the Valley image "Cake Glorious cake" is just too sweet and as you know all stamps have been released today!!!! I went with some pretty Stampin up papers I had saved up for a very long time.
The pinks are from the RV 000 range – I hardly ever color with the RV range but it turned out to be okay.
Sentiment: Stampin up
butterflies and swirls are Recollections – found them at Michaels
lots of love


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ALEXANDRIA, VA– Soldiers can flex their muscles any time at just about any place with a strand of elastic resistance tubing in a pocket-sized package dubbed Army Fitness Deployed. The fitness guide was developed for Soldiers to maintain their muscular fitness while in the field, but the bands are being used for much, much more than a workout.
Being as ingenious as soldiers often will be, they discovered many other uses for the resistance bands, such as corrective eye and sunglass straps, clotheslines, tourniquets and gasoline siphoning.
"During the cold weather here, we had a HUMVEE windshield-washer hose freeze and burst, making the wipers ineffective," Fox said. "I took a piece of one of the exercise bands and cut it to replace the bad hose on the vehicle and it worked."
Fox said the tubing also has been used by combat lifesavers as a restrictor band that helps identify the vein for insertion of a needle for IVs.
"If you're going to give a Soldier a tool to use in combat, give them a tool that has many uses," he said.
Ingenuity aside, the purpose of the kit, recently developed by the Morale, Welfare and Recreation sports and fitness officials at the U.S. Army Community and Family Support Center (CFSC), is to keep folks fit despite their surroundings. The Army Fitness Deployed notepad features illustrations and written instructions concerning everything from warm-up to stretching to a 33-exercise regimen complete with a weekly training plan (see photo: Master Sgt. David Strong and Sgt. 1st Class Jason Sherer do the reverse fly exercise with the Thera-Band® system of resistance found in Army Fitness Deployed, a pocket-sized exercise kit. Photo by Sgt. Maj. Michael Fox.)
"If you follow the booklet and align yourself correctly, you can work the 12 major muscle groups of the body," said Janet MacKinnon, CFSC fitness program manager. "That's why we made sure that each Soldier got a booklet and a band together.
"Army Fitness Deployed has been extremely successful, mostly based on all the phone calls that we've gotten from people saying how much they appreciated it," MacKinnon said. "They thought it was very ingenious that something so lightweight and so practical could be used for Soldiers – not only by keeping them mission-ready but by giving them a sense of recreation."
After having everyone in his detachment of Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Soldiers exercise with Army Fitness Deployed, Sgt. Maj. Michael Fox, chief instructor for the psychological operations course at Fort Dix, NJ, said he realized that he needed more of the kits.
"I began my quest to locate 400 of these to use in our next classes, as well as provide them to the Soldiers we train," he said. "The fact that it was designed to fit in the cargo pocket of the [battle dress] uniform was a great idea. It allows Soldiers the means to stay in shape no matter where they are stationed."
"We've gotten lots of calls from Soldiers who are deployed," MacKinnon said. "The warmest stories are the ones I get straight from Soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. They call directly and tell me how much they enjoy the bands and that they would like more of them."


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The 50th Israel Festival: Batsheva, Merce Cunningham, and More
Video: The 2011 Israel Festival
50 years of the Israel Festival – this country's most prestigious multidisciplinary arts festival – is a milestone worthy of celebration. And for local dance lovers, the jubilee season offers even more reasons to celebrate, for the programming features an extraordinary lineup of artists from home and from abroad. With a rich calendar of performances through June 18, the 2011 Israel Festival is set to lure concert-goers from around the country to Jerusalem. Here's a peek at this year's dance events:
Video: Strange Fruit
The first day of the festival featured the physical marvels of Australia's Strange Fruit in Zion Square and the lyricism of the Israel Ballet and soloists from Russia's Bolshoi Ballet performing Giselle in Safra Square.
Video: Batsheva Dance Company in Ohad Naharin's Sadeh21
Batsheva Dance Company returns to the festival with Ohad Naharin's new Sadeh21, created in collaboration with the troupe's full roster of dancers. Bathed in soft lighting by Avi Yona Bueno (Bambi) and clothed in variously hued and textured costumes by Ariel Cohen, the company presented a short preview to the press on Monday. Although the cast is large, the rapport among the dancers often lends the work an intimate feel and effectively draws the viewer into the world onstage. Sadeh21 premieres on May 25 and continues its run in Jerusalem through May 27.
Naharin is not the only well-known Israeli choreographer premiering work in the Israel Festival. On May 28-29, choreographer Nimrod Freed and composer Israel Breit will unveil La, a work for four singers and three dancers. Drawing on their respective backgrounds in dance and theater, longtime partners Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor will debut Ship of Fools on June 9.
Video: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Two years after Merce Cunningham's death, the legendary choreographer's company is appearing in the Israel Festival as part of its worldwide Legacy Tour. On June 6, the Sherover Theater will host the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's performance of Split Sides (2003) and Sounddance (1975), while the Israel Museum will be the site of several Events – programs including excerpts of Cunningham's renowned repertory – on June 9-11.
Merce Cunningham's Events. Photo by Anna Finke.
Besides these performances, a series of lectures, discussions, and workshops called MerceCampus will be offered at Bezalel, Yaffo 23 in conjunction with the Jerusalem Season of Culture. Sessions include a workshop with Dance Forms, the computer software used by Cunningham to compose his dances; film screenings and performances of music by Cunningham's famed partner John Cage; and conversations with the company's dancers and artistic director. Entry to MerceCampus programming is free, and the full schedule in English is available here.
Video: The Danish Dance Theatre in Tim Rushton's Kridt
The 2011 Israel Festival will close with the Danish Dance Theatre in two programs. Artistic director Tim Rushton teams up with jazz artist Caroline Henderson for Love Songs on June 15. A mixed bill including Rushton's Kridt, Enigma, and CaDance will be performed in Jerusalem on June 17 and in Modi'in on June 18.
For more information about programming and ticketing, visit the Israel Festival's website.
Related Articles on Dance In Israel
- Batsheva Dance Company: The Evolution of Ohad Naharin's "Sadeh21″
- A Peek into Nimrod Freed's Choreography
- Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor: An Interview with Dramatic Dancemakers (Podcast)
- Spring Festival Fever: The Israel Festival in Jerusalem (Israel Festival 2009)
- Israel Festival 2010


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There are several collectors with extensive collections that they open to the public.
Collections & MuseumsEdit
- Tractors
- The Science Museum London has a large collection of 45 (march 2005) (but a lot are in storage).
- The MERL project has compiled a list of collections and their holdings. Also a list of important machines not held in national collections that it is considers would be desirable to preserve examples of.
- Museums List
- Toddington Manor - Gardens and a collection of tractors open to the public. Check opening dates Here
- Add other suitable collections here !
- Plant
- Vintage Excavator Trust Collection (VET) at Threlkeld Slate Quarry, Cumbria.
- Walton Hall Museum Collection of Road rollers[1] , based in Linford Essex.
- Combine Harvesters
- The MERL project has compiled a list of collections and their holdings. Also a list of important machines not held in national collections.
- There is a Scottish Rural life centre with a large collection.
- A few collectors have preserved machines, mainly early ones that are used for odd plots or demonstration days occasionally.
- Steam
- Add Suitable collections here !
- Carters Steam Fair - Traditional travelling steam fair.[2]
- Dingles Steam Village & The Fair Ground Heritage Trust - Based in Devon.[3][4]
- Scarborough Fair Collection - Collection of Steam Fair related exhibits at "Flowers of May Holiday Park" nr. Scarborough in Yorkshire. Collection started by Graham Atkinson. Includes "Iron Maiden" a well known Showmans Locomotive.[5]
- Strumpshaw Hall Steam Museum - The Key family collection of Traction engines, Stationary beam engines + miniature railway
- Thursford Steam Museum - The G. Cushing collection of Rollers & Organs
List of MuseumsEdit
- Main article: museums
With Collections of Steam engines, Old machinery, and Tractors etc.
- The Science Museum, London. - Huge range of Industrial Heritage on display.
- Kelham Island Industrial Museum, Sheffield - Large Stationary Steam Engine and other industrial heritage.
- Museum of Science and Industry (MoSI) in Manchester - Tractors, trains, engines and general engineeing exhibits. (Lot of interactive displays for kids)
- Iron Bridge gorge & Coalbrook Dale Museum nr Telford in Shropshire.
- Anson Engine Museum, Poynton nr Manchester - Collection of engines from earliest to most modern ( Mirrlees No.1 to the record breaking JCB Dieselmax engine.
- Internal Fire Museum of Power, Wales - Museum to the Internal combustion engine (Privately run)
Private CollectionsEdit
These are extensive collections of machines held by individuals. They are Not open to the public normally , but are often shown to organised (invited) private tours of Enthusiasts & local Collectors clubs. Some have an annual Charity open days. They often exhibit items from their collections at the various shows during the summer. Others just exhibit them at the many classic vehicle and steam shows around the UK and Ireland.
- Inclusion - Generally if the owner is a regular exhibitor and has 3 or more tractors or has won trophy's at shows then they are classed as a 'collector' by Tractor Wiki. The main purpose of the collection pages are to showcase their hard work and link the other articles on the individual tractors. The list does not aim to be 100% accurate as collectors buy and sell tractors, and several large collections have been dispersed following the death of the creator. But any additional information is welcome to update the entries and add new ones to ensure greater accuracy.
- S.E. Davis & Son collection - Annual open day and Host of Astwood Bank Vintage Gathering at Redditch, Worcestershire.
- Alan Atkinson collection - Steam Engines, Commercial vehicles, classic cars, steam models & Rally organiser.
- Andrew Beaulah - Holds Annual working Weekend for Members of the VET at his farm in East Yorkshire.
- Adrian Patterson - Priestman collection based at the VET site in Cumbria.
- J.C. Balls & Sons - Displays at various Derbyshire shows and at SED
- Mike Eacock collection - mainly JCB based collection
- Fred Knight collection - Farmer/contractor Fred Knight regularly holds working days for plant on his farm & invites other collectors. (Fred Knight and Friends - Working day)
- Martyn Williams collection - ACMOC Chapter II member regularly shows items from this growing collection of classic plant at local shows, in Wales.
- Ian Hartland collection - Founder member of the Vintage Excavator Trust and Host to the collection at Threlkeld in Cumbria.
- Peter Gaskins collection - collection of Marshall and Fowler machinery.
- John Hanlon collection - Collection of early tractors in Ireland (Organiser of the World Record for the most Vintage Tractors working in one field at Cooley, in Ireland.
- John Bownes collection - This collection is mainly based on tractors built by Roadless. (John is the current owner of this famous brand).
- G. Yarwood collection - Award wining Ford & Roadless collection, includes a stunning J J Thomas conversion.
- Dave Weedon collection home to many machines built by Caterpillar, Scammell, Rotinoff, Priestman, Euclid, and Diamond T.
- Robert Crawford collection - Large collection of Steam engines and Vintage tractors, with some very rare (unique) items.
- M. Robinson collection - Lincolnshire collector of vintage tractors
- R. Parrott collection - Norfolk collector of Charles Burrell and Sons steam engines
- P. Hedger collection - Commercial vehicles.
- David Parfitt collection - Pre-1930 steel wheeled tractor expert & web master of the excellent Steel Wheels web site for pre-1930 tractors.
- Keith Vickers collection - unusual tractors
- John Moffitt collection - Included the Ivel tractor.
- William Hunter collection - Commercial vehicles
- P. Wareing collection - Commercial vehicles and steam wagon.
- Alan Atkinson collection - Commercials and steam vehicles
- Booth family collection - Heavy haulage tractor units
- John Johnstone collection - Steam and heavy haulage units
- Miles Fox collection - classic commercials
- Graham Booth - see Both family collection
- add others here
(if you have more than 2 classic or vintage vehicles you are a collector) !!
Former collectionsEdit
These are collections (mainly private) that have been dispersed (usually on the death of the original collector). Information based on press articles. List is to provide links within individual machines histories. For all vehicles and machinery types featured in Tractor Wiki.
- Please expand this list with relevant entries.
- Lillywhite collection - Cars, Steam engines & Road Rollers.
- Viv Kirk collection - Steam Fair related items included several Showman's Engines.
- The Goodman collection - Tractors, dispersed at auction by Cheffins


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Though not all considered traditional American fare, the dishes in each of these collections were carefully selected with stars and stripes in mind. They're all color-coordinated to appeal to the hues of the day—red, white and blue.
Select your favorite menu, or mix and match to suit your tastes. Just make sure you take a peek at the suggested red, white and blue desserts and libations on your way out. You're going to want to choose a couple of those, too.
Surf and Turf
Plump shrimp dunked into tangy cocktail sauce, flaky halibut topped with juicy cherry tomatoes, stunningly fresh Blueberry Lemon Tiramisu…is your mouth watering yet? A surf and turf themed menu is a great way to satisfy a variety of tastes—seafood, meat and side options abound. Here are a few we love.
Roasted Halibut a la Bruschetta
Beer Boiled Shrimp Cocktail
Grilled Santa Maria Tri-Tip
Summer White Bean Salad
Blueberry Lemon Tiramisu
East Meets West
Looking to lend an eastern flair to your annual gathering on the Fourth? Tender Korean-Style Barbecue Short Ribs—wrapped up in flour-white tortillas—and vibrantly hued, exotically flavored sides are just the ticket.
Korean-Style Barbecue Short Ribs
Red Cabbage Slaw with Marinated Red Onions
Ginger-Lime Slow Roasted Rainbow Carrots
Blueberry Bread Pudding with Ginger Sauce
Very Vegetarian
The bounty of summer produce affords an excellent opportunity to get creative with hearty dishes—so much so that we couldn't not include a few vegetarian picks. We recommend the same for your summer menus.
Fire-Grilled Eggplant with Sweet Tomato Gravy
Tomato Phyllo Pie
Blueberry Farro Salad
Stuffed Red Peppers and Stuffed Baked Tomatoes
Blueberry Crumble
Classic Americana
Usually, when we think Fourth of July festivities, we think hands sticky with barbecue sauce, a banquet table dedicated to salads of all shapes and sizes, and pie. Here are a few of the classics.
BBQ Ribs
Blueberry Cucumber Salad
Red White and Blue Potato Salad
Fresh Strawberry Pie
More Red, White and Blue Desserts
Almost too patriotic to be true, brightly hued summer berries were practically made for Fourth of July desserts.
Fourth of July Firecracker Cheesecake
Fresh Cherry Tart
Blueberry Lattice Pie
Cherry Plum Cobbler
Blackberry Slump
It's hot out. The kids will make do with the sprinklers, but you're going to want something cool to sip on.
Americano Cocktail
Blueberry Lemonade Cocktail
Melon Rum Punch
Mangria with Malbec and Mango
—By Alissa Harb


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2. One of the things that Mr. Elementaryhistoryteacher and I focused on were the many gargoyles on the house. The word 'gargoyles' is derived from an old French word gargouille, meaning throat. The English words gargle, gurgle, and gargoyle are derived from gargouille.
3. Some believe that gargoyles – sometimes called grotesques – are inspired by the skeletal remains of prehistoric dinosaurs and other fossils. Originally a gargoyle was considered a waterspout, directing water away from a building.
Yes, I agree.....the figure below seems rather proud of his ummmm.....attributes.
4. Technically an architect calls a waterspout on a building a gargoyle. It a stone carving does not carry water and has a face that resembles a creature, it is technically called a grotesque.
5. Many people believe that gargoyles were created by medieval architects and stone carvers to ward off evil in an imperfect world.
6. The creatures - gargoyles, grotesques, and chimeras - that decorate the façade of Biltmore House are fantastic, frightful, and fanciful. They lurk in virtually every nook and cranny from parapets, upper balconies and slither from the groins of the ornately arched windows.
7. Why are they there? Richard Morris Hunt, the architect of Biltmore, took cues from the French renaissance and Gothic styles….The influence is evident in the proliferation of curious creatures that embellish it; gargoyles have been fixtures on the cathedrals, public buildings and grand homes of Europe for centuries.
8. The masons of the Middle Ages expanded on this theme by introducing non-functional decorative elements depicting animals and humans in a grotesque (and often humorous) style, or letting their imaginations run wild with chimeras: mythical beasts that combined elements from various creatures. The gryphon, which has the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle, is a well-known example.
9. The monsters that adorn Biltmore House were actually dreamed up by Mr. Hunt's architectural team.
10. Plaster prototypes of each individual statue were provided to the project's master stone carvers, who had been imported from major cities such as New York and Chicago.
11. Working in a tent city set up for the construction crew on the estate's esplanade, the carvers defined the basic contours of the Indian limestone sculptures on the ground, and they finessed the detail in place on the façade.
12. The home's minor grotesques give us a glimpse of the individual style of the anonymous makers.
13. Major works, such as the two fearsome sentinels that overlook the main entrance, were executed to the architect's specifications…..
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Rudd will play dual roles in the eight-episode first season as an unhappy man who undergoes a highly experimental treatment to become a better person. He will also play the new and improved person who replaces the original man. The series asks the question, "do you really want to be a better person once you find out what it takes?" It's Netflix's second "unorthodox treatment" comedy with movie stars after Maniac with Emma Stone and Jonah Hill, which comes out next month.
The series was created by Daily Show alum Timothy Greenberg and will be directed by Little Miss Sunshine's Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. The rest of the cast has not been filled in yet, but with double the Rudd, who else do you really need? The show was originally ordered to pilot by IFC, but it fell through at the small network due to budgetary constraints. Netflix, however, has seemingly unlimited resources, and has hired an Avenger for the lead role, so good for them!
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The lifespan of Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has been quite impressive—especially when it comes to developer support. While the first and only expansion may have come and gone, the booster packs continue to flow. Today, a new batch of content has arrived for the Xbox 360 version in the form of The Fighter's Stronghold—and for free, no less.
The Fighter's Stronghold allows players to "become the Lord of Battlehorn Castle, a sprawling stronghold nestled deep in the Colovian Highlands" and adds the following new content to the game:
- A fully detailed castle for you to explore
- Knights of the True Horn patrol the castle and do your bidding
- Secret treasure vault
- Upgrade the furnishings in every area of the castle
- Hire a vintner to create special wines to enhance your fighting abilities
- Hire a combat trainer to spar with
- Hire a taxidermist to craft lifelike trophies for your great hall
- Purchase an ancient Dwemer Forge that buffs your Armorer skill
The pack is only 10MB and, as mentioned, it's free for the time being, so anyone with a remaining interest in the title should go ahead and download it now—word has it that it won't be free for long.


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Many cities in the U.S. are crazy about their football teams, but the Saints are extra special to New Orleanians.
Most everyone in the region considers football another religion and they accept the Saints as their saviors. In fact, so much so, that the Archbishop wore a Drew Brees Saints jersey under his robe while performing a "black & gold mass" the day after the Saints won the Super Bowl in 2009. The Archbishop was so moved by the Saints' victory, that he even got the Vatican's approval to fly the Saints Super Bowl championship flag from St Louis Cathedral in place of the papal flag that day! Since then, flying the Saints flag from St Louis Cathedral, in the heart of the French Quarter, for one day, has become an annual tradition.
The 2009 Super Bowl game brought all New Orleanians together as they watched a history making event… for the first time in 44 years the Saints claimed the Super Bowl! The Saint's organization used that momentum & national recognition in countless charitable ways to support the city of New Orleans' continued struggle to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina. All recognize & appreciate how much our home team has done for our city & that gratitude will always remain.
So, it's that time of the year again and everyone's got Saint fever! I have to admit that I am a newly recruited football fan… I honestly never knew that it could be so much fun. It's so bad that I am actually reading the sports section of the paper! I think the turning point was when I entered the Superdome for the first and only game I have ever attended. You see it on TV and you hear people talk about it… but, you just have to experience it! There's black and gold EVERYWHERE and the dome is rockin' . The fans chant "Who dat say dey gonna beat dem Saints?!" ; once the crowd gets going, there's no stopping them. The crowd's energy is infectious, even for those of us that are clueless when it comes to the intricate plays of football. Only minutes in, I found myself jumping up & down while chanting & yelling along with the rest of the crowd, "Who dat?!", rocking out to "The Saints are Coming"… and LOVING every second of it! At that moment I knew I was hooked!
The Saints aren't just a football team, they are part of the soul of the city. They have helped to restore our hope & remind us to enjoy life each day, because that's what being a New Orleanian is all about. Although the tickets are sold out for the entire 2011 season, if you want to experience a game firsthand in the Superdome, you can visit the NFL Ticket Exchange online & buy spare tickets from season ticket holders. Or, we're happy to point you in the direction of numerous local bars & restaurants where locals congregate on Sundays to watch the games together. Just make sure to wear your black & gold! Soon, you'll be saying it with us… "Who dat, who dat, who dat say dey gonna beat dem Saints?!".
The city is abuzz with predictions and dreams of a "TWO DAT" season… now, wouldn't that be something?


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The Victorino Noval Foundation's annual Thanksgiving event at Noval's Beverly Hills estate hosted a fireside media panel discussion.
Noval notes: " With the new LONE RANGER movie coming out, we who are involved with the media have a chance to make things better for the American Indians. Johnny Depp, who is part Native American, will plays Tonto in the movie,and Justin Bieber's mom Patty Moilette recently enlisted my help. The Indian nation within our country is our treasure"."Depp's new film role will be in a narrative form from Tonto's point of view.
Attendees included descendants of Geronimo, Anapay and Sitting Bull, Prince Cyrus Pahlavi, whose grandmother, the Shah's twin sisterPrincess Ashraf of Iran, was active during her lifetime in support of descendants of the non-Persian Iranian tribes and maintaining awareness oftheir cultural history. Steve Wynn has also been known to be supportive of American Indian Causes.
Victorino states: "John Wayne did less damage to the native American than the film CASINO JACK. I wonder if Kevin Spacey even realized that American youth are educated by watching films, and the portrayal of Indians as fat cats is especially misleading."
He continues, "Far too few of us think of the meaning of Thanksgiving; President Washington celebrated it but Abraham Lincoln succumbed to media pressure and finally made it into a National Holiday." Noval feels, "We don't need more pictures like AVATAR where the natives people have to be saved by the violence of the tall blond white man."
According to a "Survey of Grant Giving by American Indian Foundations andOrganizations" by Native Americans in Philanthropy, the needs of reservation Indians are so great that even if the total annual Indian gaming revenue in the country could be divided equally among all the Indians in the country, the amount distributed per person would still not be enough to raise Indian per capita income (currently $11,259) to anywhere near the national average of $21,587.
It is of note that our former President Abraham Lincoln was a officer in the Indian Wars prior to the Civil War and is known to have saved natives during the Civil War from unnecessary slaughter.
Noval concludes, "It's a great day when people worry as much about losing descendants of tribes as much as the elimination of the buffalo. Maybe the 'presidential pardon' should not only 'pardon' a turkey, but be extended to embrace our original American partners who helped us create the great tradition of Thanksgiving."


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An open letter to Vince Cable
Dear Mr Cable
I read with interest yesterday your letter to the Prime Minister about some of the issues facing the UK in the future, and in particular the need for a vision and for a connected approach across government. This struck me as timely and useful, as it hopefully signalled the intention of a change in policy at one of the main roadblocks to innovation in improving government and fostering innovation.
I am referring to the policy of your own department – the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills – to restricting access to core reference datasets, such as the Ordnance Survey mapping data, postcodes, and company data, and thus not just stifling innovation and growth but preventing a consistent and connected approach across government.
Though much about the future is unclear one thing is certain, that we are increasingly living in a data world. In that world innovation – and democracy – depends on the ability to access and reuse data, particularly the core reference data on which other data is based: what area a postcode refers to, where something is located, who runs and owns the companies for which we work or which receive government money.
In fact, opening non-personal government data forms part of the government's growth agenda, and it has already published a considerable amount. Yet much of this data is almost useless without the core reference to tie it together – data which is under the control of your department.
When I met with your then junior minister Ed Davey a couple of months ago on this subject, I asked him point blank whether the government was going to publish huge amounts of data under a licence which allowed free reuse, but was going to restrict access to the core datasets which tied these together, that were in fact the core infrastructure for our digital world? He said, 'We've got some ideas for innovative charging models.'
Let's put aside the fact that government departments aren't the right people to come up with 'innovative charging models' – they don't have the right skills, experience, and unlike entrepreneurs like myself they aren't risking their personal money, but the nation's future. Let's focus instead on a 'connected approach across government'. This would seem a perfect example of a relatively minor source of revenue (maybe as little as £50 million, according to the report published yesterday by Policy Exchange) preventing such an approach, and with it a route to how the UK will 'earn our living in the future'.
In my own area, OpenCorporates has in a year grown to be the largest open database of corporate data in the world – without, I should add, any help, encouragement or cooperation from BIS. We have just released a new feature that allows search for directors across multiple jurisdictions, massively increasing the ability of journalists, fraud investigators, investors, civil society, customers and suppliers to understand companies. Needless to say, UK companies aren't included in this list because this data is restricted to those who pay.
One vision for the future would include making the UK a genuinely open and transparent place to do business, for example making UK Companies House as open as that in New Zealand, where all data is available openly and without charge. It would include making the UK leaders in the field of open data, not just generating a world-leading ecosystem of companies such as we have in motorsport, but pioneering the use of open data by companies of all types and sizes. And it would include the government being able to reuse and publish its own data without the corrosive and restrictive licences placed upon it by the likes of Ordnance Survey, and thus have a truly connected approach.
You have it within your power to help enable that vision – I hope you will act on it.
Chris Taggart
Co-founder & CEO, OpenCorporates, founder OpenlyLocal.com
Member of Local Public Data Panel


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Bearings and rod ends requiring maintenance
Bearings and rod ends requiring maintenance must be greased prior to being put into operation. With the exception of a few applications, they must be relubricated periodically.
SKF steel/steel radial spherical plain bearings are made of bearing steel and are through-hardened. The high-strength sliding contact surfaces are phosphated and treated with a special running-in lubricant. These bearings are used primarily in applications where there are:
- heavy static loads
- heavy alternating loads
- shock loads
They are also relatively insensitive to contaminants and high temperatures.
To facilitate relubrication, lubrication holes and grooves are provided in both the inner and outer rings of all steel/steel radial spherical plain bearings – with the exception of a few small sizes. SKF steel/bronze rod ends also require relubrication. However, requirements are less stringent than for steel/steel rod ends, as the emergency running properties of bronze are more forgiving than steel.
The multi groove system
Standard steel/steel radial spherical plain bearings that must accommodate minor alignment movements under very heavy, constant direction loads are prone to lubricant starvation. To maximize the effects of the lubricant under these conditions, SKF has developed the multi-groove system and manufactures these heavy-duty spherical plain bearings with the multi-groove system on the sliding surface of the outer ring (fig. 1).
These bearings are identified by the designation suffix ESL, the lubrication grooves provide the following benefits:
- improved lubricant supply to the loaded zone
- enlarged lubricant reservoir in the bearing
- enable relubrication under load
- extended relubrication intervals
- space for wear particles and contaminants
- extended grease life
The main benefit of the multi-groove system is that it improves lubricant distribution in the heavily loaded zone to extend service life and/or maintenance intervals.


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RV Forum flags - click HERE
Even at my age I can still change my RV tires. Always have Jack. torque wrench, blocks, etc to handle the job. I carry tire repair kits also.
What is FET?
Even at my age I can still change my RV tires. Always have Jack. torque wrench, blocks, etc to handle the jobIt seems to me that what type of towing vehicle makes a difference. If it's a TT, FW, Class B or Class C, I can see someone changing the tire. With a Class A it might be a whole different story. With the first group, you may change the tire in minutes...
I looked up my tire (Hankook AH12 275/70R/22.5) on simpletire and it was $295.99 + 32.51 FET = 328.46.Don't know if tax would be added to that or not. I put in my zip code (to calculate shipping) but didn't see any numberschange - although I didn't put it in my cart........
You have to arrange local installation (mount and balance) and the installer may collect additional state & local fees for things like tire disposal. Technically you are also liable for sales/use tax on the tire purchase price if the state has one, but few people actually declare & pay it.
What is the FET for if you ALSO have to pay sales tax?
FET is Federal, sales tax is state...
How many other products do we have to pay Federal AND State taxes on?So Why do we have to pay both on Tires?
Gas and diesel have both federal and state taxes." What is FET?""FET is an acronym for federal excise tax. It refers to the tax imposed by the federal government on tires used on the road with a maximum load capacity greater then 3500 pounds. Generally this applies to medium truck tires and heavy duty trailer tires."What is FET and why do I have to pay it?
They may try and say it's for the roads because heavy vehicles cause more damage but.....IT is NOT used for our roads - because they are in such bad shape anyone can tell they are not being taken care of even thoughthey are receiving FET money. Sad
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Cheddar & sweetcorn scones
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
- Vegetarian
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal261
- fat12g
- saturates7g
- carbs32g
- sugars2g
- fibre1g
- protein9g
- salt0.9g
- 2 large sweetcorn cobs (or 250g sweetcorn kernels from a can, drained weight)
Sweetcornsw-eet corn
Also known as corn on the cob, sweetcorn is composed of rows of tightly packed golden yellow…
- 350g self-raising flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
Baking powderbay-king pow-dah
Baking powder is a raising agent that is commonly used in cake-making. It is made from an alkali…
- 2 tsp English mustard powder
- ¼ tsp ground cayenne or paprika, plus extra for sprinkling
A spice that's central to Hungarian cuisine, paprika is made by drying a particular type of…
- few thyme sprigs, leaves picked
This popular herb grows in Europe, especially the Mediterranean, and is a member of the mint…
- 50g cold unsalted butter, cut into cubes
- 175g cheddar, grated
Once cheddar was 'Cheddar', a large, hard-pressed barrel of cheese made by a particular…
- 175ml semi-skimmed milk, plus extra for brushing
One of the most widely used ingredients, milk is often referred to as a 'complete' food…
- juice ½ lemon
Oval in shape with a pronouced bulge on one end, lemons are one of the most versatile…
Bring a pan of salted water to the boil. Hold a corn cob at a right angle to the chopping board, then run a sharp knife down the length of the cob, as close to the core as you can get, slicing away the rows of corn. Boil the kernels for 4 mins or until just tender, then drain well.
Heat oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 7. Mix the flour, baking powder, mustard, cayenne, 1 tsp salt and 1 tsp thyme leaves in a large bowl, then rub in the butter until the mix looks like fine crumbs. Tip in most of the cheese and all of the corn. Mix the milk with the lemon juice, then stir into the bowl to make a slightly sticky dough. Don't over-work the dough.
Tip the dough onto the floured work surface, knead 2-3 times to smooth a little, then divide into 10 balls. Shape each roughly with your hands and put onto a floured baking sheet. Brush each with a little milk, then scatter with a little cheese, cayenne and a few thyme leaves. Bake for 10-12 mins or until the scones are risen, golden and sound hollow when tapped on the bottom. Cool on a rack.
Recipe Tip
Ways to serveSavoury scones make a great meal with a bowl of soup, or a tasty addition to afternoon tea. Brilliant for lunchboxes, too. Spread with butter to enjoy them at their simplest, or maybe top with Marmite, ham, or cheese and pickle.


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CHICAGO (AP) — Oprah Winfrey ended her famous talk show Wednesday by telling her viewers of 25 years that they weren't saying goodbye.
"I won't say goodbye, I'll just say until we meet again," Winfrey said.
She hugged and kissed her longtime partner Stedman Graham and shook hands with audience members before walking through the halls of Harpo Studios in Chicago, hugging and crying with her staff.
Winfrey shouted "We did it!" The last shot of the finale showed Winfrey walking away with her cocker spaniel, Sadie.
Earlier Winfrey walked on stage to a standing ovation from her studio audience. She thanked the viewers for watching for a quarter of a century.
"Twenty-five years and I'm still saying, 'Thank you, America,"' Winfrey said. "Thank you so much. There are no words to match this moment."
Winfrey told viewers that sometimes she was a teacher, but more often her viewers instructed her. She called Wednesday's episode her "last class."
The final "The Oprah Winfrey Show," which was taped in Chicago on Tuesday, opened with a clip from her first show.
Winfrey was the only person on stage with little background music and very short flashback clips.
"When she came out, her appearance, the way she stepped on stage and the message she brought (was) about finding yourself, your purpose," said audience member Wanda Nash, 47, of Chicago, an executive assistant and foster parent. "It was all about Oprah."
Some fans across the country planned parties for the finale.
Sharon Evans, 53, of Chicago had pancakes with her mother and girlfriends.
"She was very subdued today and I appreciated that she was taking that last hour not to showcase any celebrities or favorite things," Evans said. "It was truly what she said, a love letter
to us."
Winfrey announced in November 2009 that she would end her popular talk show after 25 years.
Tuesday's taping came a week after Hollywood A-listers and 13,000 fans bid Winfrey farewell in a double-episode extravaganza at Chicago's United Center. The shows that aired Monday and Tuesday included Aretha Franklin, Tom Cruise, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jordan and Madonna, among other stars of television, music and movies.
They were just a few of the approximately 30,000 guests who have appeared on the show over 25 years.
The bare-bones final taping nevertheless had its share of celebrities in the audience including Tyler Perry, Maria Shriver, Suze Orman and Cicely Tyson. None of them joined Winfrey on stage.
There were 404 audience members, according to Harpo Productions.
The show received 1.4 million ticket requests throughout its final season, the company said.
(© Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)


text: Seems one of the 31 metro Detroit Ford dealers has gotten cute and worked up a Ford Flex woody to entice customers in to buy the station wagon/van/crossover. According to Motor Trend's Todd Lassa, the Flex in question is your basic stripper model, so the woody option makes it all the more innuendo-tastic, but that's no big deal as the option apparently carries no extra charge on the window sticker. Considering the pending malaise II era breathing down our necks, we wouldn't be surprised if this kind of thing starts coming from the factory. [MotorTrend]


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Q: How many people are in a group class?
Classes will range between 15-30 people. The larger the class, the more instructors to help out.
Q: Will there be other beginners in my class?
Absolutely. There are always beginners in class. Plus, the advanced students are always eager to help you get you on your way!
Q: Will you help me with my nutritional habits?
Not only do we cover nutrition tips in class, you can schedule a personal appointment with an instructor to cover your specific
Q: Is your class a 'cardio kickboxing' class?
Our class is not a "follow the leader/punch the air" cardio class. It is a well-balanced workout consisting of cardio training and
resistance training to help you burn fat and tone muscle in a short amount of time.
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The combination of cardio, resistance training and proper diet (which we will help you with!) will help you to tone up very quickly.
Q: How many classes per week should I attend?
We have classes 6 days a week so the amount of classes you take is based on your own personal schedule. Most of our members train about 1-3 times per week and see great results.
Q: Why can't I just do some 'cardio' instead of kickboxing?
You absolutely can just do cardio BRI, without the right amount of proper resistance training, you won't see the results you're looking for as quickly and effectively.
Cardio can be an important part of a fat loss program but you need to develop lean muscle tissue to really turn your body into a fat melting machine. The only really effective way to do that is through resistance training, which is exactly what our Kickboxing class does. We combine Cardio and Resistance training into one super fat-buring-muscle-sculpting-fun workout!
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On 21 February 2012, the Nippon Foundation and UNEP marked 25 years of partnership on the UNEP Sasakawa Prize at a high-level gala dinner programme, under the theme "Sustainable Development: The Next Evolution (Lessons from the Past and Actions for the Future)".
The event also celebrated UNEP's 40th years in development and featured the participation of UNEP's past Executive Directors, including Mr. Maurice Strong, represented by Mr. Donald Kaniaru; Mr. Mostafa Kamal Tolba; Ms. Elisabeth Dowdeswell; and Mr. Klaus Topfer.
Guests comprised Ministers, Ambassadors and other high level delegates to the 12th Special Session of the UNEP Governing Council and Global Ministerial Environment Forum were treated to a multimedia retrospective of the milestones of the past four decades, tracing the evolution of the global environmental agenda in the context of sustainable development.
For more than 20 years, the UNEP Sasakawa Prize has been recognizing outstanding individuals and organizations for their significant contribution to the protection of the environment and the promotion of sustainable development.
Following its revitalization in 2004, the Prize was re-launched in 2005 with the new mandate of nurturing grassroots based innovation, research, initiatives and ideas on green solutions to environmental challenges by offering $200,000 as financial support to the winner.
The Prize was especially interested in sustainable projects that can be scaled up or replicated elsewhere, thus helping to inspire others to take a greater interest in protecting our environment and to increase their scope of beneficiary, especially in the under-served rural communities.
By helping these entrepreneurs scale-up their activities, the Prize was able to boost local economies and helped tackle poverty and marginalization, while promoting the sustainable use of resources and ecosystems. Through these contributions, the Prize also contributed to UNEP's work towards building the green economy of the future.
A total of 28 individuals and 11 organizations have received the prize in recognition of their clear plan for implementing innovative, groundbreaking and sustainable environmental projects.
As we have come to the end of the UNEP Sasakawa Prize, UNEP and the Nippon Foundation, on behalf of our Jury – Ms. Angela Cropper, Ms. Wakako Hironaka and the late Prof. Wangari Maathai – would like to thank all those who contributed to this award and made it a success.
In the words of Mr. Shuichi Ohno, Executive Director of the Nippon Foundation, "Only individual leaders, such as the past winners of the Sasakawa Prize, are able to change the public's actions towards environmental problems by having been with the people, fought with them, and brought them assured improvements to their lives." While the Prize may have completed its final cycle, the work of the laureates will keep on as we respond to the challenge of pursuing a sustainable 21st century.
Speech by Ohno Shuichi at the UNEP Sasakawa Prize Legacy & UNEP 40th Anniversary Gala Dinner


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Spondyloarthropathies are a family of long-term (chronic) diseases of
joints. These diseases occur in children (juvenile spondyloarthropathies) and
adults. They include
ankylosing spondylitis,
Reiter's syndrome (reactive arthritis),
psoriatic arthritis, and joint problems linked to
inflammatory bowel disease (enteropathic
arthritis). Spondyloarthropathies are sometimes called spondyloarthritis.
Although all spondyloarthropathies have different
symptoms and outcomes, they are similar in that all of them:
It is important to recognize that the spondyloarthropathies
are different from
rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in adults and
juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) in children.
Experts don't
know what causes spondyloarthropathies. The presence of a particular
gene, HLA-B27, is often associated with ankylosing
spondylitis. Spondyloarthropathies are more likely to run in families than
other forms of rheumatic disease, such as
lupus or rheumatoid arthritis.
Spondyloarthropathies often
Although spondyloarthropathies all result in joint pain,
each type also has specific symptoms.
A general difference between spondyloarthropathies and
juvenile spondyloarthropathies is that in adults, the spine generally is
affected, while in children the arms and legs are more frequently affected.
Children may have 4 or fewer joints that are painful or swollen (typically the
knees or ankles), inflammation of a part of the eye (iritis), and
neck pain and stiffness.
Spondyloarthropathies may cause
inflammatory eye disease, particularly
uveitis. In some cases, spondyloarthropathies can
cause disabilities, particularly if bones in the spine fuse together. People
who have spondyloarthropathies for a long time may develop complications in
organs, such as the heart and lungs.
Spondyloarthropathies are diagnosed through a medical history, lab
tests, and by symptoms of joint and tissue inflammation, morning stiffness, and
other symptoms unique to a specific spondyloarthropathy (such as scaly skin in
psoriatic arthritis). Different types of tests may be done for the different
In most
cases, spondyloarthropathies are mild and may be undiagnosed for many years.
Most people do not have trouble with daily activities. Treatment is focused
on relieving pain and stiffness and on good posture and stretching of the
affected areas to prevent stiffening and deformity.
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are
commonly used to treat pain and inflammation linked to
spondyloarthropathies. Other treatment options depend on the type of
spondyloarthropathy you have. For example, medicines are used to treat
intestinal inflammation in enteropathic arthritis.
The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and the
Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals (ARHP, a division of ACR) are
professional organizations of rheumatologists and associated health
professionals who are dedicated to healing, preventing disability from, and
curing the many types of arthritis and related disabling and sometimes fatal
disorders of the joints, muscles, and bones. Members of the ACR are physicians;
members of the ARHP include research scientists, nurses, physical and
occupational therapists, psychologists, and social workers. Both the ACR and
the ARHP provide professional education for their members.
The ACR
website offers patient information fact sheets about rheumatic diseases, about
medicines used to treat rheumatic diseases, and about care
This website is sponsored by the Nemours Foundation. It
has a wide range of information about children's health, from allergies and
diseases to normal growth and development (birth to adolescence). This website
offers separate areas for kids, teens, and parents, each providing
age-appropriate information that the child or parent can understand. You can
sign up to get weekly emails about your area of interest.
The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal
and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) is a governmental institute that serves the public
and health professionals by providing information, locating other information
sources, and participating in a national federal database of health
information. NIAMS supports research into the causes, treatment, and prevention
of arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases and supports the training of
scientists to carry out this research.
The NIAMS website provides
health information referrals to the NIAMS Clearinghouse, which has information
packages about diseases.
The Spondylitis Association of America (SAA) is a national
nonprofit organization. It is dedicated to the cure of ankylosing spondylitis and
related diseases such as spondyloarthropathy, psoriatic arthritis, reactive arthritis, and enteropathic arthritis through education, advocacy, awareness, and research.
Other Works ConsultedAmerican Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and American Academy of Pediatrics (2010). Seronegative spondyloarthropathies. In JF Sarwark, ed., Essentials of Musculoskeletal Care, 4th ed., pp. 1174–1176. Rosemont, IL: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.Arnett FC (2008). Seronegative spondyloarthritis. In
DC Dale, DD Federman, eds., ACP Medicine, section 15,
chap. 3. New York: WebMD.
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