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In spite of cutting my hand to pieces I am truly blessed.
I'm not quite sure what my Father in Heaven is trying to teach me, but I hope I get it soon.
This will be a quick one, it is really hard to type with one hand and the other one hurting real bad.
As for that hurt hand; it seems to be getting better. I ended up having to have surgery to repair the tendon on the top of my index finger (that's the pointer finger), and part of it was infected with all the metal shavings that were in the wound
But I am going to be fine. All the fingers work and it's healing quite nicely.
But I am going to be fine. All the fingers work and it's healing quite nicely.
I am so happy to have Tyler home from his mission. I could not have been more proud during Tyler's homecoming report. He did such a nice job even though no other speakers showed up.
The Bishop told Tyler he had to take up the entire meeting and he did just that. He has such a strong testimony of the church and his stories of life in Australia were hilarious. My only complaint was that he didn't go 10 minutes longer. Sure enough he saved just enough time for the Bishop to feel compelled to call Bro. Huntsman (that would be me) to come up and bear his testimony. So with a throbbing hand and blood seeping through the bandage I blubbered through how truly blessed I am and how happy we are to have Tyler home.
As you can tell from the photos, he brings so much joy and love into our home. Since Tyler has been home we have spent more time at our kitchen table laughing and playing games than we did in the previous two years while he was gone.
Even Amy has joined us a few times. Which is probably the greatest blessing of all.
Yes I am truly blessed and in case you're reading this, 'Dear Lord', I promise I am paying attention.

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Hov Says Gangstas Are So Last Season
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The day that being gangsta is seen as a negative aspect is a day we can all rejoice. According to Jay Z, that day is coming thanks to Obama being elected as the President. You know what to do
Hip-hop icon Jay-Z says that President Barack Obama's election marks a decline of the "gangsta" image in the black and Latino communities.
The rapper and businessman made the comments during a wide-ranging interview with Cigar Aficionado magazine.
"Obama represents so much hope for blacks and Latinos," the rapper told the magazine.
"The hope he represents is bigger than any of the huge problems he could possibly correct," he said. "When you have positive role models, you can change your life for the better. The day Obama got elected, the gangsta became less relevant."
Real talk, Hov. We agree.
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Friday, January 21, 2011
I am entering this to following challenges:
Pollycraft monday:pastel colors
Pile it on:anything goes
SSDS challenge:anything goes
Fairytale challenge:flowers
2sisters challenge:flowers
Card patterns:sketch
Aifactory:anything goes
Digidoodles:anything goes
Penny's papercraft:anything goes
Actually i was in a dilemma whether to post it or not:(.I made this for mandy's extending background challenge in yvonne's blog.I never thought of combining painting n paper crafts till i see her works,and i was like Wow,..her works are too good.Everything went well till planning,and even i have executed almost the same,but the colors didn't really match well,so what do you think??
Its my long time wish to do a altered canvas,but i think i have spoiled it.Ok,here is what i did.Took a print out of this cute bird house,first disaster is it become over sized,so i cut out all the background and took only the picture,next mistake i made is i applied glue n gloss fully,so the beauty of the pic is gone:((becomes too shinny.I have extended the background like tree,to avoid too much of brown i have added some blue to give a sky effect,then stamping,misting n so many things i tried in this,lol,,and i covered most of the things with flowers n butterflies:)
The good new is i finally found some double sided felts,but very limited color n quantity(any body get these felt in your place?)I love seeing these flowers in yvonne's blog:)and i really gives a good effect.
P.S:Don't forget to enter my giveaway HERE.
Thanks for looking.
Happy crafting,
20 comments:
- mansi said...
OMG!!KAVI...its fab layout ...why r u even disclosing the mistales u did...forget it ,its lookin gr8 and gud to c hw u've used the doilies...gr8 work.
- January 21, 2011 at 6:25 PM
- Tejal said...
You're soo mad!! I sooo love this canvas..an altered piece of art is just what you feel like doing at that moment...love the felt flowers...this is soooo pretty!!
make some more!
- January 21, 2011 at 7:08 PM
- anita said...
You Spoilt It! Are You crazy! Thats a masterpiece!
- January 21, 2011 at 10:38 PM
- Priya said...
wow lovely layout and you rock!!where did you get felt?
- January 21, 2011 at 10:44 PM
- AshKuku said...
Seriously Awesome & Beautiful..... Kudos deary!!!!
- January 21, 2011 at 11:09 PM
- Vanessa said...
Wow, amazing project! And your card is so pretty! Love the soft colors! Thanks for joining us at Card Patterns!!!
- January 22, 2011 at 12:39 AM
- Mallika said...
its bful
- January 22, 2011 at 2:55 AM
- Scrappy said...
WOW! These are both such fun projects! LOVE em! Thanks so much for joining us at Pile it On and AIFactory this week! Hope you'll be back to join us again soon!
- January 22, 2011 at 1:14 PM
- Netty said...
Hi Kavitha, your card is great (I can't see any mistakes !), but I had trouble finding you as you didn't link your blog to your image on our challenge (your picture linked to our own blog not yours!) but I google'd your name and found you. And I'm glad I did, your creations are lovely. Thanks so much for joining our flower challenge at 2 Sisters blog and hope you join us again for our new challenge this week. Annette xx
- January 22, 2011 at 2:06 PM
- Annette22 said...
thanks for joining us at the Fairy Tale
- January 22, 2011 at 2:15 PM
- Bianca said...
I love your cards! They are so colourfull! Thank you for joinung us at Fairy Tale Challenge! xx Bianca
- January 22, 2011 at 3:53 PM
- ~amy~ said...
Your canvas is amazing...so many lovely details!!
Love your sweet card with the pretty bloom and doily! Thanks for joining us at Card Patterns!
- January 22, 2011 at 7:41 PM
- priyanka said...
great work.. so colorful..
- January 22, 2011 at 8:01 PM
- yyam said...
I love how you've interpreted Mandy's challenge! It's beautiful! I love the bright vibrant colours...and all the little details you've added! :)
Thank you so much for playing along with my guest Mandy's challenge! :)
- January 23, 2011 at 6:40 AM
- Karen said...
Very nice, thanks for joining us at Digi Doodle Shops Best.
- January 23, 2011 at 6:49 PM
- Georgia Ehrmann said...
amazing canvas! What a wonderful collage of colors! Thanks for playing at AiFactory this challenge!
- January 24, 2011 at 7:54 AM
- Rachana said...
so so adorable...love the felt flowers too...
- January 25, 2011 at 10:59 PM
- mandysea said...
OOoooh! Kavitha!! this is beautiful! I truly cannot see the mistakes you mention!!
I think any process of creating is being able to adjust and move and rearrange what we have in our hands... and rather than think of it as mistakes.... think of it as a process... like a journey from beginning to the end. I think you took a wonderful journey of learning and exploration!
Its a striking beauty!
Thanks so much for creating this!
- January 26, 2011 at 6:28 AM
- PokSa said...
An amzing work! It looks fantastic.
Thanks for joining us at the Fairy Tale Challenge.
Hugs Sandra
- January 28, 2011 at 2:32 AM
- Roopa said...
i love it!bold and beautiful
- January 31, 2011 at 3:59 PM


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The original Beth Israel Synagogue was constructed in 1911-1912, on the corner of 95th St. and 101 Ave. and was opened for High Holiday services on September 12, 1912. At the time, this was the heart of Edmonton's small Jewish community, which had begun in 1893 with the arrival of Abe Cristall, the Congregation's first President. The bulding is the oldest extant synagogue in the Province of Alberta.
Original Beth Israel Synagogue, c. 1912 photo courtesy Provincial Archives of Alberta, Ernest Brown Collection, B3570.
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A church's late donation filled the void left by Christmas Eve thieves.
A Victorville family's home was burglarized, with the thieves focusing on gifts mostly aimed at the teenage children of the home. Within an hour of the burglary report, a Victorville church offered a variety of leftover presents from a gift event.
On Wednesday, Christmas Eve, at 6 p.m. San Bernardino County Sheriff's Victorville station Deputy Derek Pedersen and Service Specialist Matthew Smith were dispatched to a residential burglary in the 12000 block of Dandelion Way. The victims reported that someone had broken into the home and taken jewelry, cookbooks and Christmas gifts from the home.
"They picked over the presents pretty well" Smith said. "They took the electronics and DVDs, the stuff aimed at the older kids."
Later Doug Mari, of Horizon Church in Victorville, called offering toys and gifts left over from a gift event at the church. Dispatcher Annette Robinson recognized the opportunity to send the gifts to the burglary victims. Pedersen and Smith were able to compile appropriate gifts and deliver them later in the evening.
After the donation from Horizon Church, and the response from the Victorville sheriff's station, the children of the family were still able to unwrap presents Christmas morning.
"The youngest child picked out a stuffed animal and wouldn't let go," Smith said. "The older ones were just thankful they could pick something out. They were just grateful, even for board games and the old paddles with a ball."


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The major issue for ebooks is hitting the right market. Who buys ebooks, how do they buy them, and which ebook buyers will buy my type of ebook?
We know that ebook device owners buy far more than those who don't. Reading on a kindle, nook or tablet is a far superior experience to reading on a PC screen. I'm going to go with my gut, and venture that PC ebook readers make up a miniscule proportion of the market, and that we should pretty much ignore that segment when marketing (or rather, not direct any specific attention to it.).
We also know what the main channels for ebook sales are:
§ Amazon
§ Barnes and Noble PubIt!
§ Kobo (Coming soon, but no fees)*
§ iBooks*
§ Google Books
§ WattPad
§ Project Gutenberg
§ Waterstones* (Via a 'Content Aggregator Account')
§ Your own website via cart system (e.g. Xuni)
§ POD – Createspace/Lightning Source etc
§ Phone apps – a niche, but a profitable one.
§ AudioBooks
§ or the many distributors such as Smashwords
§ Overdrive (library market)
If you are on KDP select with Amazon, this becomes much simpler. Amazon KDP select typically adds up to 27% in terms of revenue from the lending library (though I expect this to fall as more authors jump on board). The added exposure is also worth a fair bit - typically 6-10% per page you move up in the rankings. So, my rule of thumb here is 'If Amazon is worth 85%+ of your market, go select'. Clearly that's a generalisation, each decision needs to be book specific (and take into account the changing market, especially since Microsoft have recently bought into the sector.
So, over market is 75% middle aged or older - a huge proportion given it's a technological product. Unsurprisingly the US is the main market, and more women read than men (which conforms to book demographic norms).
I think this data is broadly correct - but with the caveat it's not a massive sample, it's a bit out of date, and is probably influenced by who uses the Amazon Kindle boards a bit much. Under 25s don't tend to use the kindle boards - and children almost never do, so the data is almost certainly off there.
We also need to remember that demographics are genre specific. Few men read romance, few teens go in for historical fiction etc. I won't list demographics for every genre - it would be hugely cluttered, but it's all available on a quick google for those interested.
Once we've isolated who our target market is that brings with it two questions:
This is where there is no clear cut answer. Advertising methods vary hugely. My preference is for 'opt in' advertising - ask your twitter base, facebook fans, pinterest buddies etc to opt in to a mailing list which gives news on a monthly or bi monthly basis. Give them free short stories or discounts to keep them interest. If someone identifies themselves as part of your market hold onto them - they are gold dust, but are few and far between. A few hardcore fans can be great at advertising for you - they will literally evangelise your work, and help like minded individuals find you.
For most of us, this won't be enough though. Alone, a mailing list might reach a few dozen people, especially if you are a debut indie on a cold start. Chances are you've build up a huge twitter base - how did you get those people?
The biggest pitfall in this area is that indies follow indies. This does nothing for your marketing - we don't buy each other's books that often (I've tried, believe me. I have over 450 indie titles in my bought but to be read pile - but I have 50,000 followers all sending me their book links!).
I think we need to do more to reach readers. One obvious way is paid for adverts - but frankly, the return has diminished massively with the huge number of indies buying adverts.
All the major outlets are booked up for months in advance, and charge huge fees for short promos - this worked early on, but now everyone has jumped on the band wagon it won't work much longer.
We can also reach book bloggers - these guys are your new best friends. Good or bad, reviews sell products, and if you've got a good book they are the kindling that will set your word of mouth advertising campaign on fire. They are free, will give you an honest review, and are generally fair. They also have genre specific audiences - so you are targeting your marketing efforts.
The problem here is they are all backed up - the most popular ones have to be read piles bigger than mine. So, do approach them (politely, professionally and with a tailored email - no BCCing here please!) but it's slow burn. We gave away 50+ copies of Dead on Demand pre-release, but have had maybe 2 reviews from that so far.
The other approach is find them yourself - Goodreads is handy here as the genre boards let you connect with your audience. Shelfari and librarything likewise. You can also search hashtags - #amreading gets you a huge list as do #bookworm #romancenovel etc etc. Just experiment.
Finally, genre forums. Plenty about, just market on those. They are your audience so treat them with respect - don't spam your link. Engage them in conversations, and then slip in the fact you are selling - or better yet let them ask. Hard selling rarely works.
Now we know how to find the right people, how do we avoid the wrong ones? We've all seen it on Amazon - the 1 star review from the guy who doesn't like the genre but bought the book anyway. You'll probably get a few of these sooner or later, but to minimise them don't spam everyone in sight. It's easy to accept every guest post, make every twitter connection and invite every goodreads friend to your launch party on facebook, but if they aren't they right people it will never have a positive effect. At best all you do is waste your time, their time, and possibly your money if you are buying adverts. At worst, you'll get a backlash. This is particularly true for controversial stuff - if you are marketing for niche audiences, or have religious/ sexual themes, be really careful where you market.
Even in crime, I explicitly state Dead on Demand isn't for children. It's very much a grown up murder story. The violence isn't the focus, but murder is rarely clean. The last thing I want to do is upset someone's sensibilities.
So, there are my thoughts. Feel free to add your tuppence worth as always - I'm sure others have had opposing experiences. Some have success with robot messages - or at least I assume they do, otherwise they wouldn't do it. It's just not for me.


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October, 2009
October 22, 2009
New Hampshire Chief Justice John T. Broderick Jr. received a standing ovation from a capacity crowd of judges, attorneys, and business leaders at the 2009 Transparent Courthouse® Award Dinner (now the Rebuilding Justice Award Dinner) in October 2009.
September, 2009
IAALS Leadership Series
September 9, 2009
In September 2009, more than 70 veteran attorneys, business executives, and judges gathered to discuss an issue that many believe has had the biggest impact on the practice of law in recent years – electronic discovery. Part of the IAALS Leadership Series.
March, 2009
Anecdotes to Action
March 2, 2009 to March 3, 2009
IAALS hosted the 2009 Civil Rules Summit. Thirty-two renowned civil justice system experts including U.S. District Court Judge Lee Rosenthal gathered to discuss America's civil justice system problems, but with a greater emphasis on identifying solutions.
October, 2008
October 22, 2008
In October 2008, a distinguished group of judges, attorneys, and business leaders gathered to recognize the extraordinary work of Utah Supreme Court Chief Justice Christine M. Durham, who was honored for her achievements in building a more responsive and effective court system.
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August 5, 2008 to August 6, 2008
In August 2008, judges, JPE coordinators, and experts from nearly 20 states attended this forum, hosted by IAALS. This two-day conference featured two tracks of panel sessions, one focusing on building a JPE program from the ground up, and the other emphasizing advanced strategies for jurisdictions with existing JPE programs.
October, 2007
October 10, 2007
In October 2007, United State Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (Ret.) received the inaugural Transparent Courthouse® Award for a lifetime of work to promote excellence in America's courts.
August, 2007
August 9, 2007
In fall 2007, IAALS and the American Judicature Society (AJS) hosted a panel discussion at the National Conference of State Legislatures' Annual Meeting. The panel discussion was selected as a Top Ten Forum from among 200 policy presentations.
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April 1, 2007
In Spring 2007, IAALS hosted an unprecedented gathering of state Supreme Court Justices, federal and state court judges and top legal reform experts from the U.S. and England. Civil justice system best practices in Oregon, Colorado, and Singapore were discussed and Lord Harry Woolf of Barnes—the architect of England's legal system overhaul—made a presentation.
October, 2006
October 6, 2006
In October 2006, Federal District Court Judge Richard A. Matsch and leading New York lawyer and author Philip K. Howard took center-stage at the University of Denver to discuss some of America's most contentious legal and social issues. IAALS Executive Director Rebecca Love Kourlis moderated the presentation, the first of an occasional series of presentations designed to highlight major issues and experts in the legal and judicial arena.


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Interview With Barna Howard
3rd: Hello Barna, introduce yourself to the 3rd Outing fans?
Barna: Hi Third Outing, my name is Barna, I grew up in Missouri, and finally made my way to Portland, Oregon within the last five years. I've always been interested in the idea of writing and sharing my own songs. Since I've started, I've been having trouble doing anything but that.
3rd: Describe Barna Howard's sound in one sentence?
Barna: Maybe if country and folk music had a kid? It's all relative of course.
3rd: The first time we heard your music was watching the movie Drinking Buddies. Were you happy with the reception your first album received?
Barna: I am. Many kind messages from new fans made it worthwhile. I was happy to hear that the album reached some folks.
3rd: So Barna, tell us more about Quite A Feelin'?
Barna: I like to look at this one as a bit of a continuation of the first record. There were a few more stories I wanted to share. I was able to find more once I started seeing the album more clearly as a whole.
'I think folk music acts as a great outlet for sharing stories clearly. If done correctly, it works. Many of my favorite songs remain so, strictly because of the lyrics. I would like to imagine folk music can ride alongside any generation'.
3rd: You're now based in Portland. How's the city? I've heard it's buzzing these days! Do you ever bump into the Jarmans from The Cribs or Johnny Marr for that matter!
Barna: Portland turned out to be just what I was looking for. It's more of a big town, really, and it's saturated heavily in the arts. There's something going on every night that's worth checking out, it seems. It's hard to stay home, because everything is so damn close and easy to get to. Wonderful people, as well! No, I have not run into the Jarmans or Johnny just yet.
3rd: We love folk music. We also think we need new musicians to define our generation. Have you always been playing folk music or is there a heavy power pop record hidden somewhere? And can folk define this generation?
Barna: It's always been the folk vein for me. I dabbled with some electric guitar back in high school, but that's about it. I think folk music acts as a great outlet for sharing stories clearly. If done correctly, it works. Many of my favorite songs remain so, strictly because of the lyrics. I would like to imagine folk music can ride alongside any generation.
3rd: It was nice talking to you, Barna. Last question. Do you remember the first gig you ever went to and the first record you bought?
Barna: I would have to say seeing Yo La Tengo at Mississippi Nights in St. Louis. Sadly, that venue is no longer. The first album I remember buying would have to be the Green Day "Dookie" cassette.
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Just a quick recap of some of the new places I tried while I was home for the holidays (because I know you are dying to hear about everything I ate in the past three weeks). Prepare yourselves, people:
Cartems Donuterie | 408 Carrall Street (corner of Hastings and Carrall)
I've been waiting to try the donuts at Cartems for awhile now. It was worth the wait, let me tell you. I tried the earl grey (favourite!), Maker's bourbon bacon (kind of tasted like waffles and bacon), and a key lime cream filled one. All amazing.
I didn't really get what the big fuss was about Japadog until I found out that they have one with okonomiyaki on top at which point I added dining at Japadog to my must-try list for Christmas. It quickly became a minor obsession while I was home and it took great self-control not to eat one every time I walked past the store or a Japadog cart while I was out and about.
Rangoli | 1488 West 11th Avenue
My sister and I stopped here for lunch one day. It's the more casual counterpart to Vij's and has also been on my list of must-try places in Vancouver for awhile now. Everything we ordered was delicious and the chai just keeps on comin'. We ordered the Black Chickpea and Onion Cakes in Coconut Curry, Grilled Tilapia, and rice pudding. All highly recommened.
Amazing tacos with creative and unexpected fillings. I tried the Connie's and the Ronny Russell along with a hibiscus lemonade. Very vegetarian friendly.


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New Design – Wider headband, matte black finish and HyperX Signature Memory Foam
Premium Performance – No software or separate audio box required, unlike competing headsets
Additional HyperX Revolver S Specifications:
Driver: Dynamic, 50mm with neodymium magnets
Type: Circumaural, Closed back
Frequency response: 12Hz–28,000 Hz
Impedance: 30 Ω
Sound pressure level: 100.5dBSPL/mW at 1kHz
Input power: Rated 30mW, Maximum 500mW
Weight: 360g
Weight with mic: 376g
Cable length:
Headset: 1m
Audio Control Box: 2.2m
PC extension cable: 2m
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PC extension cable: 3.5mm stereo and mic plugs
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Frequency response: 50Hz-18,000 Hz
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The Cloud Revolver S (MSRP £139.99/€169.99) will be available March 13, 2017 through HyperX's network of retail and e-tail outlets. Cloud Revolver S includes a two-year limited warranty and HyperX's industry-leading customer service and support. The Cloud Revolver S was recently shown at the Intel Extreme Masters World Finals in Katowice (Poland).
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When it comes to buying a boat, there are a lot of factors to consider. In order to save you some time, we decided to provide you with a handful of items that separate us from the rest. We like to hang our hat on a handful of accolades, facts and features that we feel are important to consider when buying a new boat, and here are 9 that you won't find anywhere else:
1. Wakesurf Boat of the Year – 3 years in a row
Riders voted the Super Air Nautique G23 to win the WakeWorld Riders Choice awards in 2014, 2015 and 2016.
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3. WSIA 2016 Most Innovative Product of the Year
The G23 was awarded the most innovative product of the year by the Watersports Industry Association.
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The National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA) recognized Nautique for the tenth consecutive year of achieving excellence in customer satisfaction in the Inboard Watersports Boat category.
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Boating Industry Magazine selected Nautique's Surf Select system and WaveFront™ speaker technology among the top 50 products in the industry.
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These Thunder Bolt Throwing Knifes are pure fun for the whole familiy. Hang an apple or something on the living room wall and let the fun begin. Two tone black and silver stainless steel blades provides a well balanced throw every time. Comes in a set of 3 knifes, includes a black nylon sheath for safe transport
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Classic French vanilla ice cream, with its characteristically yellow appearance, is the more decadent version of its American cousin. The addition of egg yolks in the base results in a rich, easily churned, slowly melting scoop. The problem? It's unmistakably eggy in flavor.
We wanted to bring the vanilla bean to the forefront, without losing the richness and texture the egg yolks provide. A blend of locust bean gum, xanthan gum, and kappa carrageenan—naturally occurring gums that aid in stabilization—came to the rescue. These gums work in concert to provide the stability the ice cream base needs, without adding egg. The result: perfectly creamy ice cream that's vanilla, through and through.
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Subway station: Wangjing Station (line15), Sanyuanqiao station (line 10), Jingshunlu Station (line14), line14will open at the gate of this appartment in December. Bus station: guangshun nadajie nankou, or Futong dongdajie. Lots of buses, such as 404,131,629,111,976,696,427,101....15minutes by bus to Sanyuanqiao Station.
The apartment: it is spacious with bedrooms, 1kitchen, 2 bathrooms and a nice living room. Fully furnished (heating,wifi, internet, couch, cupboard, tv, laundry machine, air conditions, heating, micro wave etc.) .
Master room with separate bathroom: It's about 45 square meters, has a double bed, big window, 1 separate bathroom and bath tab, TV, air condition, table, cupboard. Price: 4000RMB/m, long term prefered. Available time: from now on.
Second room: faced south, about 25 square meters, has a double bed, big window, heating, air condition, cupboard. Rent: 3000RMB/m, long term prefered. Available time: from now on
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I dont often like to talk about my tattoos. For some it can be a sensitive subject. For me it's something fun and personal. Anyway, kim asked me to share about one of my recent tattoos I had done while we were in Spain.
For a while I have been a huge fan of Ghospatrols work. He is a Melbourne based artist and I got one of his drawings tattooed on my ribs last time I was in Melbourne (you can find it here). For a while I have wanted to get a custom piece drawn by him and before leaving for france I asked him for his take on an old fable by french 16th century poet, La Fontaine, Le corbeau et le renard (if you dont know it you can read it here). When we arrived in the south of france there was a package waiting from Ghostpatrol filled with prints, stickers, his latest book and the fox drawing. I had the same artist who did my last tattoo in melbourne do the new one in his studio in Valencia. It's one of my favourite tattoos and an old favourite fable. One of our favourite bands turned this fable into a song which I highly recomend watching here.


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Find out more about this important, new teaching strategy which we are using at Talbot.
This half-term Talbot has embarked on an exciting journey to develop talk across the curriculum. We are doing this because research shows a direct correlation between oracy skills and overall success. We have focused on three key skills:
At Talbot, we know that some of our pupils are reluctant to contribute in class which disadvantages them. While, at the other end of the spectrum, some pupils dominate conversations but are not good listeners. Moreover, we believe that all children can benefit from improving the precision of their comments and building on each other's ideas meaningfully as it deepens the quality of their talk.
At Talbot, we believe, that by using these key skills all children will feel more confident about their learning and be able to share and explore their learning further by offering opinions, discussing strategies and reasoning, as well as developing their vocabulary - at the same time as responding clearly and audibly to their avid audience!
We have been taking part in new activities using Talk Matters strategies such as 'Think, Pair, Share, Square', 'Splat!' and word studies. Ask your children for more information about these and take a look at some of the photographs attached - remember to encourage them to respond in full sentences as well as audibly and clearly to help them to practise their Talk Matters skills!
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Duplicate AdGroup Feature. Allow AdGroups to be duplicated, or at least have the Copy/Move tool retain keyword/ad history as it pertains to approval and ad quality score.
Allow Domain Parking to be a separate bid (like content network).
Allow Search Network to be separate bid (like content network).
Warning when reaching max times for changing daily budget.
Allow the Analytics URL Builder [adwords.google.com] to accept several keywords at a time with the other parameters being the same (i.e. build the tracking code for an entire adgroup at once).
Allow users to see an ad as 'approved' or 'pending' approval as opposed to just 'disapproved'.
In the ad diagnostic tool, add a preview so one can see the results from an IP targeted search.
In the ad diagnostic tool, if selecting 'region' as an option - remember the last country chosen (i.e. add that parameter to the cookie).
In the Google FAQs, add a 'change history' so one can see what policies/questions have been updated and what's the same.
Fix the Traffic Estimator API results so that the API results match the same query done through the direct AdWords interface.
Allow for conversion information, analytics information, and custom date ranges to be shown on the MCC page (add a 'customize this page feature' and let us select what we'd like to view).
Improve search functionality. If I search for 'blue widget', only bring me back results for blue widget not all results for blue and all results for widget.
Allow for negative 'themes'. Google has a very good filter for adult vs non adult results in the SERPs. Allow an account to choose adult or non adult (among others) so that an ad is never shown for an adult search if it's a non adult account.
Allow for ads and keywords to be paused instead of just deleted.
Ability to remove or change permissions on a Google account.
Centralized interface to control permissions of Google accounts (i.e. If I set up my team with hundreds of different Google accounts, let me specify a master Google Account and adjust permissions for all accounts at once. Could even let me create Google account within this interface and adjust permissions there - the new Google accounts are becoming a mess with client account, MCC accounts, analytics accounts, API access, personal accounts, etc). -- This might be my top wish list item at present as the accounts are so confusing to manage with a large list of them & it's really confusing clients who have their own accounts as well.
Fixes I'm happy to see have been implemented (many of these suggestions were from WebmasterWorld threads):
Separate bidding for content vs search.
MCC reports - showing 'account' as a column.
Improvements to saving report templates.
SSL error being fixed on the majority of the AdWords help pages.
Ad Diagnostic tool allowing for regional selection.
Integration of Google maps with the IP targeting feature.
Move/Copy keywords ad text.
Back up payment information.
Auto URL tagging for Google Analytics (FYI - this is under 'My Account' > 'User Preferences' - it's pretty well hidden).
Ability to run a campaign settings report to list off budget, network settings, budget/position preferences, etc settings across all clients in an MCC.
I would like a similar ability to run an Inactive Keyword Report across ALL clients in an MCC, so that I can find out in one fell swoop (or have it emailed to me every morning) if any keywords have gone inactive, rather than have to run each client's report separately. What all this latest foofaraw, it's become a little more important.
I would like a similar ability to run an Inactive Keyword Report across ALL clients in an MCC, so that I can find out in one fell swoop (or have it emailed to me every morning) if any keywords have gone inactive, rather than have to run each client's report separately. What all this latest foofaraw, it's become a little more important.
You can do this now. At the MCC level, set up a 'keyword report' to show 'keyword status'. Then use the G feature to have the report emailed to you daily.
I set up my report and ran it, and it kicked back a couple of words that had gone inactive, but then also kicked back four MORE words that had gone inactive, but were actually located in Deleted campaigns from yesteryear. Presumably I don't care if keywords in Deleted campaigns are inactive, also, I must have at whole raft of deleted campaigns and keywords over the years, but why did it select out just these four words, over two client accounts? Weird.
When you press it the staff member who pasted the stupid cut and paste gets ejected from their seat into the air at 300mph and bangs their head really hard on the ceiling.
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Jacquelyn Velvets and Anne-Marie finally go head to head in this multi round matchup…and here's the breakdown!
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Education Specialist Credential Program Applications for Fall 2019 will be accepted in ED 100 from February 1, 2019 through June 14, 2019.
Education Specialist (Special Education)
Credential Program Application Process
To apply to the program, complete all applicable Items listed in 1-11 and deliver your completed application to the Center for Advising and Student Services in the Kremen School,
ED100. Keep a copy of all application materials for your records.
Program Admission Requirements
- A bachelor's degree from an accredited university or 90 units toward graduation from Fresno State (with the exception of the Blended Degree Program)
- a GPA of 2.67 or higher overall or 2.75 or higher in the last 60 units
If you do not meet this requirement, you still have an opportunity for admission by completing a Special Consideration Form and submitting it with your application.
All requirements are subject to change due to new legislative mandates.
Program Options
Full or part time students are welcome!
- Education Specialist Credential
(Mild/Moderate or Moderate/Severe)
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(Mild/Moderate or Moderate/Severe)
- Dual Multiple Subject and Education Specialist
(Mild/Moderate or Moderate/Severe)
- Dual Multiple Subject and Education Specialist (Dual) Internship
(Mild/Moderate or Moderate/Severe)
- Dual Multiple Subject with Early Childhood Education emphasis and Education Specialist
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(Spring semester start only.)
Adding an Education Specialist onto an existing MS or SS Credential
If you already possess a Multiple Subject or Single* Subject Credential and would like to add an Education Specialist Credential, complete only the following items:
- Complete Program Application Form
- Submit Orientation Attendance Form
- Submit Copy of Preliminary or Professional (Clear) Credential
- Submit verification of University Admission
- Submit copy of Advising Form for appropriate program with signature
- Ed. Specialist Mild/Moderate (Already hold a Multiple Subject Credential)
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- Ed. Specialist Moderate/Severe (Already hold a Multiple Subject Credential) Fall Start
- Ed. Specialist Moderate/Severe (Already hold a Single Subject Credential) Fall Start
*Single Subject advising needed for Subject Matter Competency
Admission Requirement Forms - All Forms
1. Program Application
2. Admission Interview
Provide your signed Admission Interview Form along with your typed responses to the three questions listed on the form.
You may sign up for an interview at the Kremen School of Education and Human Development Building, Room 250 or call 559.278.0240.
Please make sure to have a copy of your responses to the three question listed on the Admission Interview Form prior to your scheduled interview.
The purpose of the 20 minute interview is to assist you in setting goals for your own professional development to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate: verbal and written language skills, professional conduct, professional goals, and cultural awareness.
3. Advising
Select the appropriate Advising Form for your program.
4. Medical Clearance
A Tuberculosis Risk Assessment Certificate of Completion signed by the Fresno State Student Health Center, a private physician, or an appropriate State of CA health agency is required to verify that you are not at risk for TB.
5. Subject Matter Proficiency
Option 1: Fresno State Liberal Studies Program Waiver for students that graduated Spring 2016 or later.
- Submit unofficial Fresno State transcripts.
Option 2: Pass three (3) Multiple Subject CSET tests (Registration and test information may be obtained at www.cset.nesinc.com)
- A passing score on at least 1 Multiple Subject CSET subtest is required for admission. All three (3) Multiple Subject subtests must be passed before final student teaching or to accept an internship.
- Submit a CSET score report with your program application.
Option 3: Graduation from a Liberal Studies Program in California that is approved for Subject Matter Proficiency.
- Submit an original subject matter proficiency verification letter from your University.
6. Dispositions
Please complete the Candidate Dispositions form in this link https://fresnostate.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6tG0QFBoG8SBFGd
Admission Requirement Letters
7. Letters of Recommendation (two required)
Admission Requirement Verifications
8. Documentation of University Application
A University application is required if are applying to the credential program and:
- You have already completed a baccalaureate degree from Fresno State or other University.
- You are a first time Fresno State applicant.
A University application is NOT required if you are applying to the credential program and:
- You are a current Fresno State undergraduate entering the program as an undergraduate student.
- You are a current Fresno State post-baccalaureate entering the program as a post-baccalaureate student.
Submit one set of official transcripts from each college attended. Transcripts are not required if the most recent school you attended was Fresno State.
Your school can send transcripts electronically to: email@example.com
Or, mail official transcripts to:
Fresno State
Graduate Admissions
5150 North Maple Ave. M/S JA 57
Fresno, CA 93740-8026
Your University admission status can be checked at my.fresnostate.edu.
Please provide verification of your University application with your credential program application.
9. Basic Skills Requirement
Provide ONLY ONE of the following:
- Take all three subtests of the California Basic Educational Skills Test (CBEST) and submit verification of having passed.
- Verification of passing the College Board SAT English (500) and SAT Mathematics (550)
- Verification of passing the ACT English (22) and ACT Mathematics (23)
- Verification of passing the California Subject Examination for Teachers (CSET): Writing Skills exam and CSET: Multiple Subject exam
- Verification of a score of 3 or higher on the AP English Language and Composition or the AP English Literature and Composition Exam and a score of 3 or higher on the AP Calculus or Statistics Exam
- Original score report showing a score of "college ready" or "exempt" in the English and Math sections of the Early Assessment Program (EAP)
- Original score report showing a score of 50 on the Entry Level Math (ELM) exam and 151 on the English Placement Test (EPT)
- A combination of the scores from the EAP and the EPT/ELM as long as you have passed a section of the English and a section for Math
10. Certificate of Clearance (Fingerprinting)
For instructions on obtaining a Certificate of Clearance, click on the Livescan/Certificate of Clearance Instructions.
The Certificate of Clearance is a document issued by the Commission to an individual who has completed the Commission's fingerprint;character and identification process, whose moral and professional fitness has been shown to meet the standards as established by law. The Certificate of Clearance is not related to obtaining a clear credential. The Certificate of Clearance provides no authorization to provide instruction or services in schools its sole purpose is to provide verification that the holder has completed a professional fitness review.
Period of Validity: Certificates of Clearance are valid for five years. Fingerprint information will be invalidated for individuals who have not held any other type of valid document for more than eighteen (18) months after the expiration date of a Certificate of Clearance. The fingerprint process will need to be repeated when individuals whose fingerprints have been invalidated subsequently apply for certification.
11. Pre-Program Field Experience
Provide ONLY ONE of the following:
- Evidence that you have successfully completed EHD 50 at Fresno State or successfully completed an equivalent course.
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Volvo Self Driving car commercial
Heres the recent self driving car commercial by volvo :
Heres the recent self driving car commercial by volvo :
This video shows just how cool the new prototype of the BMW m235i really is. Not only can this beast self-drive at high speeds effortlessly around obstacles, it can also self-drift with style!
Renault has released a video of its new self-driving prototype car, the 'Next Two'.
The video shows how the car can drive on autopilot and free the driver to allow him time to perform other important activities or to just kick-back and relax. The car is also packed with loads of other futuristic stuff as can be seen in the video.
Renault hopes to launch the Next Two by the year 2020.


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What is Neuropsychiatry?
Neuropsychiatry is a subspecialty of medicine that focuses on the relationship between neurological disorders (neurology) and mental disorders (psychiatry). Our clinicians are subspecialty-trained in both behavioral neurology/neuropsychiatry and psychiatry, and treat a wide variety of patients with disorders of the nervous system (brain injury or disease) that also have psychiatric problems. These mental problems may manifest as disturbances of perception or motivation, or as issues with speech and language.
The core neuropsychiatry diseases that we treat include autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, traumatic and other types of acquired brain injury, demyelinating diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, and atherosclerosis.


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Simon Schaffer
- Sir Hans Sloane: Collector, Scientist, Antiquary, Founding Father of the British Museum edited by Arthur Macgregor
British Museum, 308 pp, £50.00, November 1994, ISBN 0 7141 2085 5
'The British Museum – not a Museum of Britain', so reads the caption on a photograph of the Museum's imposing portico, at the start of a recent survey of national collections conducted by the Museums Journal. The BM is not an exhibition of the nation nor does it incorporate one coherently developed collection. Until well into the 19th century it housed the legacy of the Royal Library, the Classical legacy of the Mediterranean world, colonial natural history, and a host of private cabinets of curiosity, in apparently chaotic if snooty profusion. Radicals attempted to replace the Museum's aristocratic, Tory management with more scientific and professional direction in the dangerous decade of the 1830s, but the natural history collections were not shifted to Waterhouse's great palace in South Kensington until the 1880s, and they only seceded from Bloomsbury's control in 1963. The Museum's ethnographic holdings, which, unlike some other collections in Europe, do not now count as a branch of natural history, were moved to Burlington House. In 1973, the British Library was formally split off, followed almost at once by plans to shift its collections away from Great Russell Street. Now the holdings of the Museum of Mankind are slowly returning, as the Library even more slowly moves to St Pancras. These wanderings, and the complex controversies which surround them, are eloquent testimony to the intimate relationship between the British Museum and the patchwork of national heritage. So though we might agree, and might even sometimes be grateful, that Britain lacks a museum of the nation, it does possess in this museum a richly fascinating, if often infuriating, emblem of its varying conceptions of value and culture.
These variations are illuminated by the career of Hans Sloane, the confidently opulent metropolitan physician, president both of the Royal College of Physicians and of the Royal Society, whose collections of more than eighty thousand curiosities and antiquities, along with a magnificent library, formed the principal nucleus of the Museum founded after his death in 1753. Arthur Macgregor, who has previously co-edited an important work on the history of museums, has gathered here a series of essays by current and former staff of the British and Natural History Museums, who use the 30 extant manuscript catalogues of Sloane's original collections both to document their contents and to consider his interests and aims.
The epithet 'founding father of the British Museum' (which, intriguingly, appears on the title page, but not the cover), is not entirely apt. Former students of the tortuous process by which the Museum was established in the wake of Sloane's legacy have concluded that more was owed to Parliamentary negotiation than to Sloane's vision, and even doubted whether he was genuinely the author of his own collection. Anxiety about his real strategy in amassing the tobacco pipes and astrolabes, gallstones and 'druids' beads', which stocked his rooms in Bloomsbury and Chelsea, is very marked throughout these essays. The 'huge investment' Sloane made in trying to gather insect specimens from around the world 'was at least partly wasted effort': most have rotted or disappeared. One early 19th-century natural-history keeper staged annual cremations of Sloane's decaying entomological specimens. John Cannon, an eminent plant taxonomist, reveals that after contemplating Sloane's herbarium 'one is left with a slight nagging feeling of anti-climax' because the collector had the misfortune to live just before taxonomy became a proper science with Linnaeus. In a brilliant essay on his attitude to Classical antiquities, Ian Jenkins records that 'Sloane's curiosity was of the blinder sort,' and that 'his was a half-hearted interest and his assemblage an unremarkable affair,' while the editor himself acknowledges that Sloane's interest in Egyptology, accompanied by 'a marked degree of bulk buying, seems accurately to reflect its unfocused and undiscriminating character'. Elsewhere, we are told that he had 'very little interest in the artistic merits or demerits of the multifarious objects in his collection'. Though Sloane acquired some fine Inuit and Oriental material, helped set the taste for Netherlandish painting, and amassed a fine collection of Dürer's work, his approach was always decidedly 'opportunistic', and he acquired such treasures 'almost by accident'. The relic of a rapacious and unflagging accumulator rather keener on compilation than judgment and on show than study, Sloane's collection, it seems, will not receive high marks.
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Vol. 17 No. 7 · 6 April 1995 » Simon Schaffer » Knick-Knackatory
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Emily Dickinson references ideas common in Deist beliefs in her poem 1672. Although there are different Deist philosophies, one of the most consistent viewpoints is that our earth was created by a god who is like a blind watchmaker meaning that the Earth's creator completed it without knowledge, but in a perfect order. Evidence of Dickinson's belief can be acknowledged by Thomas Paine who wrote in Life and Writings of Thomas Paine, "This harmony in the works of God is so obvious, that the farmer of the field, though he cannot calculate eclipses, is as sensible of it as the philosophical astronomer. He sees the God of order in every part of the visible universe." Paine's statement corresponds with Dickinson observation that the Earth is a mathematically systematic creation, and in her writing she did acknowledge her beliefs in Deism, which can be observed in the last sentence, "You are punctual," when she is speaking of "Father".
It is also evident that Dickinson intended to remark on her belief in a creator when she wrote in the second to the last line, "Father, I observed to Heaven", which is also consistent with Deism. Evidence in the belief of a creator, or as Dickinson exclaims a "Father", in Deism, can be observed in Paine's writing when he explains, "Since we know we did not create the creation or ourselves, yet we and the creation do exist, it is logical to believe that God, or an Eternal Cause or Creator created us." Still further, in the beginning, Dickinson made reference to a "yellow star" which had "stepped" "to its lofty place", which evidently she means that the star has a predestined place that it will be at a certain time. This can be construed as meaning that the creator meant for the star, or anything else in the universe for that matter, to be in an exact space and that it is predicted by laws and measurements of man, created by God, to be there. Lightly stepped a yellow star To its lofty place - Loosed the Moon her silver hat From her lustral Face - All of Evening softly lit As an Astral Hall - Father, I observed to Heaven, You are punctual.
Just as she believed that the creator made our Earth in complete order, so did Dickinson create her poem with certain order. For starters, 1672 has perfect rhythm. Lines 1, 3, 5, 7, possibly with the exception of line 7, have seven syllables. Although line 7 has 8 syllables, with the last word in the line "Heaven" throwing off the consistency, it can still be corrected when read properly. As do the odd lines of the poem, the even lines, 2,4,6,8, also show consistency 5 syllables, creating perfect harmony in Dickinson's 8 lines, alternating the rhythm from 7 to 5 syllables in each line.
The rhyming of Dickinson's 1672 is quite apparent with lines 2 and 4 rhyming, and lines 6 and 8 rhyming.
Also, the sonority of 1672 has an order. Dickinson created consonance throughout with a lot of "t" and "l" sounds. For example, the first line, "Lightly stepped a yellow star" contains 3 consonant t sounds in "Lightly", "stepped", and "star" and also 3 "l" consonant sounds, to being in "Lightly", and one in "yellow". Also in the first line the consonant sound of "st" can be heard when read allowed in "stepped" and "star". She continues with the "l" and "t" theme throughout. In the second line the consonant "t" sound can be heard twice as well as the "l" sound in "To" and "its" and in "lofty" and "place" respectfully. In the third line Dickinson uses assonance in "Loosed" and "Moon" with the "oo" sound as well as following the theme of the "l" consonance in "Loosed" and "silver" while also using the "s" consonance in those two words. "Hat" also has a "t" sound following consonance with the other "t" sounds throughout. Not to mention the "er" assonance sound in "her" and "silver". The forth line contains two "l" sound in "lustral" , two "s" sounds in "lustral" and "Face" and an "st" sound consistent with "star" and "stepped" from the first line and "Astral" from the sixth line. Lines 3 and 4 also have the "h" consonance sound in the words "hat" from the third line and "her" from the forth. The fifth line, consistent with the rest has "l" and "s" consonance sounds in "All", "softly", and "lit", and "softly" and "lit" respectfully, along with an "s" sound that is contained within every line besides the last. Line six has assonance in "As" "an" "Astral" and "Hall" with the "a" sound, while also following the theme with the "t" sound in "Astral", the "s" sound in "As" and "Astral" and the "l" sound in "Astral" and "Hall". The word "Astral" in this fit consistently with four different sonority sounds making it the perfect word in both sonority and meaning. The seventh line "Father" and "observed" sound the "er" while "observed" also contains the "s" sound, and "to" contains the "t" sound which is consistent throughout. It is also apparent that Dickinson used the "h" sound in "hat", "her" "Hall" and "Heaven" in lines 3,4,6, and 7 respectfully. In the final line, the word "punctual" has both the "t" and the "l" sounds consistent with the theme. Also mentionable is the "r" sound in "star" in line 1, corresponding with the same sound in "are" of the last line, and the reversed sound "ra" in the forth and sixth lines with "lustral" and "Astral" respectfully.
Bibliography Paine, Thomas. Life and Writings of Thomas Paine. edited by Daniel Edwin Wheeler, 1908, Vincent Parke & Co., New York.


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The Writer
Sarah Woods drives a VW Sharan. She is a playwright often working in the fields of climate change and global justice and will be responsible for the script and narrative development of My Last Car. Sarah has written for BBC radio and television, the RSC, Cardboard Citizens, the Royal Opera house, Hampstead Theatre, Soho Theatre, Birmingham Repertory Theatre and the Northampton Royal and Derngate. Sarah's version of FANTASTIC MR FOX (Little Angel Theatre) is currently touring London venues. Sarah is a passionate mentor and educator, working to champion youth and their place as active citizens. She is one of Wales' Green Heroes for 2010, awarded to individuals for making Wales a more sustainable place to live.
The Digital Artist
Shanaz Gulzar drives a special edition Toyota Corolla. She is a film and digital artist with a growing international and national reputation. She designed the digital content of My Last Car. Her work explores interactions between new technologies and film, place and identity and the lived experience. Clients include: Chol Theatre, Bite The Mango Film Festival, Illuminate, Pillars of Light, Bradford Big Screen Installation, Yorkshire Film Archive, Enchanted Parks Gateshead, Moti Roti, Bradford City Parks and Creative Partnerships. Shanaz is an artist with Meander, a Chrysalis Arts Slow Art commission. She is a creative coach and mentor at Challenge College, Bradford and for CIDA Yorkshire.
The Director
Alan Dix drives a Rover 45 Diesel Classic. He set up 509 Arts in 1994 and directs My Last Car. He is a theatre director, producer and cultural consultant and prior to 509 Arts, was Associate Director at Major Road Theatre Company. Throughout the 80's and 90's he worked created many memorable touring theatre and site specific events across the UK and abroad. 509 Arts has worked with a wide range of public sector bodies and arts organisations to develop projects and programmes of many kinds including the £2m millennium programme in Greenwich and the participation programme for the opening of the St Pancreas Eurostar Terminal. Alan is a Board member of West Yorkshire Playhouse and Greenwich Theatre and Chair of Strange Cargo.
Design and Build
Bryan Tweddle (VW Transporter, Diesel) and Steve Gumbley (Peugeot 406 Diesel) take the project from concept through to full design and build. Bryan and Steve have a long history of design and making of innovative performance pieces in unusual places and spaces. They have worked for Welfare State International, IOU Theatre, Whalley Range All Stars, Royal Festival Hall, Streets of Manchester, ENO, Luxembourg Children's Workshop, Avanti Display and many more. They work collaboratively with the My Last Car team to deliver a highly personalised and aesthetically inspiring installation that delight, amaze and intrigue in equal measure.
Concept Development
Gerry Pilgrim does not own a car. She is an acclaimed installation artist and worked with the team on the early conceptual development of My Last Car.


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If you want to join in the blogging fun, it's not too late! Go HERE to sign up! :)
New Bulletin BoardsOn Wednesday, I went up to work in my classroom for a bit. My main goal was to finish up the bulletin boards and I was able to get several done.
First board isn't quite done, but I did get the fabric hung up. I team teach a Forensic Science class with the science teacher next door and this summer on Etsy, I found this fabric:
Isn't that just the most awesome fabric ever? Sadly, I forgot to take a picture of the fabric on the board, so I'll have to do that when I go up next time.
I also got my door put back together to start the year. You've seen this one before, but I just love how it really sets the tone for the beginning of school:
The biggest chunk of the day was spent on this board, that I tweeted out because I was so happy to have it done!!!
Several people asked for the files, so click on the links below, which should open up a PDF file for you to print. :)
For the board on the left:
The title is made from KG The Last Time, size 350, then printed, laminated, and cut out.
Days and Weeks - font is Rubber Stamp LET
For the board on the right:
Sentence Starters - These mostly came from various sources around the internet, books, Pinterest, etc
Let's Talk - This is KG The Last Time, which is my favorite BB font
I have so much more to accomplish and only a week left of summer!! AAACCCKKKK! :)


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Interra Global, a premier industrial material trading company focused on the desiccant industry, has today announced Kevin Howes, Plant Manager of Homeland Energy Solutions as the winner of this year's winner of the iPad3 drawing at the recently held International Fuel Ethanol Workshop & Expo.
Bill Wallace, the spokesperson for Interra Global who made the announcement, confirmed they take great care and pride in delivering the highest quality Molecular Sieve to the Ethanol industry. "Therefore, we would like to thank everyone who took the time to register for the drawing, for which Kevin Howes of Homeland Energy Solutions was the winner," he said.
As the premier supplier of top quality, affordable adsorbents, Interra Global specializes in Molecular Sieve, Silica Gel and Activated Alumina.
According to Bill, the company recognizes that the drying application mandates that its customers choose only the finest quality adsorbents from the most dependable provider, and for which Interra Global is the preferred distributor.
"Our organization assures that our products will satisfy or even rise above your expectations," said Bill, who assured customers their purchases will get delivered on-time and is always fully supported by their technical staff.
Many of the company's products are generally located in-stock, and are usually prepared to dispatch when needed.
As a company that provides for customers around the world with material sourcing solutions, Interra Global has offices in North America and China. "Our teams are dedicated to meeting the unique material sourcing requirements of our customers and providing the highest level of customer service and support," said Bill, who loves knowing their customers personally.
With over 20 years of experience in the chemical field, Interra Global international team has developed a business model that works. "From state of the art communications technology to face-to-face relationship building, we are here to meet your needs, wherever in the world we may be," said Wallace, who noted they are looking forward to becoming a valued partner to their customers and promise to continuously strive to meet their high expectations.
For further information, please contact: Bill Wallace, 847-292-8600, firstname.lastname@example.com or visit http://www.interraglobal.com


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Download Battle for Wesnoth
This 3D game uses a turn-based strategy mode and has a nice fantasy theme. You will be able to access a lot of races, each having unique units, building and more. You can also add a lot of mods and add-ons to the game, either official or fan-made. Custom campaigns are also something that can be added to the game.
You will have to recruit soldiers and afterwards train them in order to create a powerful army. Your aim is to regain the lost throne of Wesnoth. However, this is not the only ultimate option that you can choose in order to finish the game, thus the replay ability is greater for this game.


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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - San Francisco Giants fans, once in love with home runs and Barry Bonds, will be cheering a selfless, grinding club chasing their third title in five years when the World Series resumes at AT&T Park on Friday.
The Giants and Royals split the first two games of the best-of-seven championship series in Kansas City with the next three to be played in a rocking stadium that the host team says has been sold out for the last 330 games.
Bonds, signed as a free agent in 1993, helped turn the Giants into a winning team and led them into the 2002 World Series as a record-breaking home run hitter but his retirement after 2007 set them on an even more successful course.
"We've built a non-traditional, against the star-system type of team," Giants General Manager Brian Sabean told Reuters about life after Bonds during a batting practice. "We need links in a chain and everybody buys into being a link in the chain."
That is not to say the Giants lack talent or personality. In Buster Posey they have one of the best catchers in the game, and one of baseball's most likeable players.
But these Giants pull together, unlike the muscled-up reign of home run king Bonds, who led a pampered life in the clubhouse with four lockers, an easy chair and preferential treatment.
Instead of being linked to infamous doping source BALCO, the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative that contaminated so many sporting competitions, these Giants thrive on team work.
"I think we learned some things," Giants president Larry Baer told Reuters. "Barry was an aberration in a sense."
Bonds, however, is still revered at the gem of a waterside stadium his impact made possible and even threw out the ceremonial first pitch at a recent playoff game at AT&T Park, which is known for its cavernous gaps and deep corners.
"In our ballpark, you really have to be an extraordinary hitter for power to be (relied on to generate home runs). It became a lot more of a pitching and defense team, and a gap-to-gap hitting team," said Baer.
"That's an architecture that we've worked on, given our ballpark."
Working on the blueprint alongside Sabean and Baer has been manager Bruce Bochy, who has pushed all the right buttons since taking over from Felipe Alou in 2007.
Alou, who remains in the Giants front office, admires the team.
"It took a few years to make that adjustment to play today's type of winning baseball," Alou told Reuters in Kansas City. "It's hard to win on home runs. There's really not that many home runs hit anyway."
Home run numbers have shrunk since MLB's crackdown on performance enhancers.
"The game itself has evolved into the right strategy — good defense, good pitching and great bullpens."
Character also counts.
"We want guys that can play in a team context. The good thing about our team is we can do a little bit of everything," said Sabean.
First base coach Roberto Kelly, a former major league outfielder, came to San Francisco the year after Bonds departed.
"When Barry was here you could sit back and wait for him to hit a three-run homer," Kelly told Reuters. "With the kind of team we had when Barry left you had to put hits together, get pitchers who could really help, and play good defense.
Kelly said team chemistry helped.
"It's a good group of guys," he said. "They really like each other.
"We realize we need each one on this club to be successful. We don't have that one superstar who is going to carry the whole team."
Editing by Frank Pingue


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So I broke the antenna contact wire... now what?
So while I was taking apart my iPhone 4 (just for the fun of it) I didn't notice that the antenna contact wire was connected to the speaker/microphone assembly.
I was following this guide: iPhone 4 Teardown
And I got to step 12 when I yanked out the speaker and broke off the connector at the end of the wire.
The connector is nowhere to be found, and now my antenna wire connection is about 2 mm short off where it's supposed to connect with the main logic board.
Will attempting to solder this do any good? Should I see if Apple can repair this for $100 or so or what?
Is this a good question?
I don't know why I didn't even think about checking eBay for a replacement part. Look's like I can get one for about 10 dollars. Thanks!


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Houses of Parliament Steak Sauce
Posted by liz at recipegoldmine.com May 25, 2001
Source: Rene Stewart (as altered by Marion Wyse)
HP stands for Houses of Parliament. It's an English steak sauce but infinitely better than any other. I don't use it on steak, but it's great on ham, bologna, etc. Anyway, someone once sent me a "recipe" for it but aside from being extraordinarily complicated, the ingredients just don't sound right. HP contains dates, tamarinds and other exotic things. This calls for apples and plums which I don't think are part of the original formulation. Anyway, here's what I have:
This one you have to plan on taking 2 days – maybe 3 if you use frozen fruit. It is, however, a cherished gift to bring to any dinner invitation you receive! It goes best, of course, with beef (my boss would be sooo happy to hear me say that!). If you're gonna do it, make lots (that's my philosophy) as you'll be glad you did. Last year I got 13 pints using fresh fruit and 16 pints when I used the frozen stuff. I ran all the fruit and vegetables through the slicer on the food processor and that cuts down your preparation time.
Ingredients required for Day 1
2 large and 4 medium purple onions (I prefer to use
Spanish or Walla Walla but couldn't find 'em)
24 cups sliced apples
24 cups sliced plums (Italian prune plums are best -
big firm juicy ones)
Ingredients required for Day 2
Sieved fruit
8 teaspoons ginger
9 teaspoons allspice
3/4 cup pickling salt
6 teaspoons nutmeg
3 teaspoons cayenne
(Note: all teaspoons of spice
are well rounded)
9 cups granulated sugar
15 cups cider vinegar
Method – Day 1
I skin and slice the onions first, then I sweat them in large kettle as I would if making onion soup (that is cook on medium heat for about 15 minutes, then reduce heat to as low as it will go and let "sweat" until all other ingredients are ready, i.e. 1 to 1 1/2 hours). The apples I core and remove pits, wormholes (but don't peel), and the plums just pit and remove "scabs". Then through the food processor, measure and dump in VERY LARGE KETTLE. Add sweated onions to apple/plum mixture, bring to boil and simmer for 6 to 8 hours, or until vegetables and fruit are complete mush and can be sieved.
Allow to cool awhile, then I run it through the food processor again, then through the sieve which I set in VERY LARGE stainless steel bowl. I dump the sieved fruit into a container that will be large enough to hold it and can store overnight (preferably in refrigerator) – I've used 2 separate containers when necessary.
Method – Day 2
Put sieved fruit in VERY LARGE KETTLE, add spices, sugar and vinegar, bring to boil and simmer until thick. This can take a very long while and you must be careful that it doesn't scorch (tricky). When I used the frozen fruit I omitted the sugar while I boiled it down and added it later once the fruit mixture was reduced by about one-half. You must bring it back to the boil carefully when you do this as the sugar will sink to the bottom – you must continue to stir for about 15 minutes or so when you do it this way. Then you prepare jars, soften lids, fill jars and process as in salsa and chutney recipes. Easy!


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In the UK, HMRC is assisting business owners in ensuring their records are sufficient:
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Hello, I'm James McBrearty and I'd like to talk to you about HMRC's Business Records Checks.
Now this is a new scheme that has been introduced. What happens is HMRC writes to a taxpayer and then a week later they follow it up with a phone call. Based on their replies to their questions on the telephone call, they then decide if a visit's necessary or if there is any additional assistance people can actually get with business records.
And if you receive one of these records, a copy hasn't gone to your accountant. You just need to make them aware so they can actually assist you with this process, In a lot of cases it is very straightforward and HMRC is looking to be helpful with people and actually assist them if they have any queries.
With business records it's very easy to keep them now and I did a recent video actually talking about the opportunities to use (inaudible) phone to take pictures of receipts and actually store those electronically. So there are a lot of opportunities to keep your business records easily and then with processing modes HMRC accepts electronic copies as long as they are complete copies.
So if you do receive a business records check letter, please do get in touch with your adviser. If you've got any queries or you don't have any adviser, please do contact me for a no charge initial meeting.


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About Nick Garbutt
Nick graduated, with an Honours degree in zoology from the University of Nottingham in 1988. He then spent three months studying Proboscis Monkeys in Bako National Park, Sarawak, where he first began taking photos, most of them abysmal. He was immediately hooked on the photographic process and the challenges it presented, feeling it allowed him a greater freedom to express his fascination with the natural world and convey its beauty and moods. He continued to work on research and conservation projects, including Red Deer studies on the Isle of Rum and endangered bird conservation in Mauritius, while simultaneously developing his interests in photography and writing, before turning freelance in 1996. He has subsequently forged a career primarily as a wildlife photographer and author, while combining this with leading photography and wildlife tours, lecturing and illustration. His travels have taken him all over the world.
Nick regularly contributes articles and photographs to a wide range of magazines such as National Geographic, Africa Geographic, BBC Wildlife and Outdoor Photography. And through his agents, Nature Picture Library, Steve Bloom Images, Super Stock and NHPA/PhotoShot, his photographs also appear in books, calendars, promotional material and other publications worldwide. He is also a Special Lecturer at his old University in Nottingham on the MSc course in Biological Photography and Imaging.
In 2000, Nick was the winner of the prestigious Gerald Durrell Award for Endangered Wildlife in the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition and in 1996 won the Urban & Garden Wildlife category in the same competition. He has also had several Specially and Highly Commended images over the years.
Also an accomplished illustrator, Nick produces detailed ink drawings of wildlife, generally using his own photos as reference. These are used in his books to complement and augment his photography. He also sells originals and prints of his work. In 2009 he was a finalist in the BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year Competition.
Nick's books include:
- Madagascar Wildlife: A Visitor's Guide 4th Ed (Bradt Travel Guides, 2014)
Chameleons (Natural History Museum, London, 2012)
Mammals of Madagascar: A Complete Guide (A&C Black, 2007)
100 Animals to See Before They Die (Bradt Travel Guides, 2007)
Wild Borneo (New Holland, 2006)
Mammals of Madagascar (Pica Press, 1999)