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Yepp, it's another communal blog award/viral/chain-letter doing the rounds in our part of the sphere and I've been fortunate enough to be awarded not only once, but three times! First by Jody at Frontline Gamer, then by Joakim (a fellow Swede!) at The Miniatures Man and finally by Vladdd309 of Too Much Free Time. I guess if I would have been a little quicker writing this post I could have avoided this little pile-up. :)
Nevertheless, many thanks for the awards guys! While I'm usually not one to pay much attention to stuff like this, an excuse to promote some other awesome blogs is always welcome. The idea is to post five awards of my own (preferably to blogs with less than 200 followers) and let them know via a comment on their blog. Now, as far as I'm concerned I don't follow any bad blogs so any of them would fit among these five, but considering the restriction on 200 followers and which blogs I'd like to promote a little extra I've narrowed it down to these five. I did borrow some pictures from your respective sites guys, but let me know if you want them removed. :)
|Dropship unloading.
|Beautiful Minbari fleet from B5.
|A Nomad Zero painted by Tyler.
Delta Vector - Another blog with a fairly eclectic selection of topics by EvilleMonkeigh. Ranging from constructing your own spaceship combat rules set to talking about whether Joe Abercrombie might be better than GRR Martin Delta Vector is always an interesting read. Lately there has been quite a few review as well, and not of the same hyped games everyone else is reviewing but usually lesser known stuff like Scramble! and Empire of the Dead.
|Scourge from Dropzone Commander.
So those are my five Liebster awards! Go check them out and make sure to have a look at their backlog of posts as there are a lot of good stuff hidden away there.
Now I'm going to do some studying, cook some dinner and then hopfully have time to continue on my Dust Warfare speed painting project! More on this later...


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I have had a few requests for a 'How I organise my pantry' blog and video so I thought I'd get it done now before the baby comes and I don't shop for 3 months! ;-)
Here is a breakdown of how I sort my pantry. This is how it looks all the time. I thought it would be best to show an honest view rather than after my 3-monthly clean and spruce up (so be nice!)
When we brought the house we noticed very quickly that the narrow pantry we had was very limited. It looked big enough but when it was full of food it would spill out and we had to reach really far in to get anything. We also had the problem that because of it being narrow and deep it was almost impossible to find anything and we would forever be re-buying stuff we didn't realise we had and finding out of date items way in the back. Quite frankly, it was costing us a fortune!!
So what I ended up doing was a 1-2 day shop. I would buy what I needed for a couple of days and go again a few days later. Not only was this costing us more money doing it this way but I don't enjoy cooking at the best of times and it was such a hassle that sometimes when Dave and I got home from work we would just have 2 minute noodles, toast or take away!
We needed inspiration so off we went off to Ikea where we found the perfect solution to our problems. Here we saw pull out drawers for deep narrow spaces like ours. You can pull out the whole drawer/shelf and can get easy access to everything and can see all the way to the back. It was perfect! The only problem was they were not cheap. However, having a carpenter as a husband can be very 'handy' at times I tell you! So when we got home I sent him to work building pull out drawers for our pantry.
The 5 drawers (from the bottom) are all pull out drawers and we left the top two as they were. That space is for items we don't use often as I can't even reach them standing on a chair! The bottom drawer is made out of a thicker timber (and I still need to paint it!) FYI - if you do not have a magnetic knife strip thingie then do yourself a favour and get one! They are fantastic, quick and easy to find which knife you want and gives you extra space on your kitchen table top (and we all need more of that!)
1. If you have a space like mine, get a pull out drawer. They will change your life and ultimately save you money as you know what you have and have easy access.
2. Group items into categories and place them into baskets. This way everything is right where you want it at all times and everyone knows where they belong. The above picture shows all sauces and oils on the left and in the red basket on the right are all condiments. Below is another example where all the packet mix products are upright in their own basket where they are secure and easy to flick through to find what you are looking for.
3. If you have a young child I find it easy to have a 'kid drawer'. Here I know all her snacks are here so I can grab them quick as I head out the door.
4. I try to unbox as much as I can and place into a basket or container so I know how many I have left. It is a pet hate of mine when you go to grab something out of a box to find it empty! Grrrr...
5. Get yourself a tiered stand. Best invention ever!! These little babies give you twice as much room in your pantry and you can see everything so much better. Perfect for cans as you can see in the picture below. You can buy them quite cheap from $2.00 shops (they are not quite $2 but what is nowadays!) FYI - they are also fantastic to use on you home or office desk!
6. If you haven't already, get yourself a labeller. I think my husband thinks it's surgically attached to my arm at times. It not only helps you to keep organised but also the other members of your family. You may know where things belong, but when you label it EVERYONE knows! Less work for you and no excuses from them :-)
So there is a look into my kitchen pantry and how I organise things. Nothing 'world-first' about it all by any means, but it's what is working for us at the moment. If you have any tips on how you organise your pantry please leave them in the comments below as I am always on the lookout for better ways to organise myself!
I hope you are all having a great day!

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I'm somewhere between on hiatus and retired. I left Facebook at the end of 2017 and don't plan on a day job any time soon. I also don't have any active board seats or advisory roles, so for the first time since 1986, I find myself completely unattached to any company. I always like to hear from people but I am unlikely to take on any commitments in the near future. I have been enjoying the time off, spending time with my family, gardening and hiking.
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My early career was spent mostly in investment banking, I worked for five years at predecessor firms to Credit Suisse and UBS doing M&A and corporate finance transactions in the media, technology and communications space. I worked for two years at boutique merchant bank Sterling Payot and spent a year as a programmer at another start-up which unfortunately was not successful.
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This weekend my sister-in-law and I were discussing their upcoming trip to Paris and I told her how I was dying to go to the Paris Flea Market. Which got me thinking if I could buy one piece in Europe what would it be. And after all these years of loving Mora, I believe it would still be a Swedish clock.
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Have a very well earned holiday the three of you in lovely West Wales.
I doubt many of the 17 million of us expected anything other than a fudge over Brexit, personally i've been itching for them to stall Brexit to prove once and for all to anyone with nous that the three identikit main parties and democracy are sworn enemies so we could give them a bloody good fatal kicking in the general election of 2020.
However, now that the sinister forces Trojan horsed into UKIP over time are doing their best to sabotage the party from within, i'm not sure we'll have a functioning independent UKIP worth mentioning in 2020.
Let us hope Farage is busy sharpening bayonets enough to do what is needed, i get the sneaky feeling that Sir Nigel (as he should be) is sorely needed more than ever.
Regards to you all
- 7 August 2016 at 18:34
Have an enjoyable and restful holiday O.R., hope you'll keep blogging.
Mrs. May might find that stringing it out doesn't work in the long run, a few more crumbling bricks to come loose followed by a good kick and the whole EU s***house could collapse.
- 8 August 2016 at 07:42
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Most kind of you both. May the force be with you!
- 8 August 2016 at 09:02
Sign off blogging? Don't. Seldom comment on blogs, but always enjoy your insights. Hang on in there please.
- 10 August 2016 at 15:23
Enjoy your holiday, OR, & thanks for your blog. Joe Williams.
- 11 August 2016 at 08:32
- James Higham said...
Weather as patchy as politics.
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Lose yourself to dance, as Eden takes you on a journey into Paris' pulsing underground house music scene.
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Well, I started a blog in 2013 and then it kind of slipped-especially when Google was making all their changes. Holidays are over, tis now 2014. No excuses. So, I'm going to pick up the challenge of at least 52 Blogs this year.
So, my next blog, which should follow this one, will focus on an Ancestor. Genealogy blogger, Amy Johnson Crow, has initiated the challenge and I'm forwarding it on. Her blog link is http://www.nostorytoosmall.com/posts/challenge-52-ancestors-in-52 weeks. Who else is in on this challenge?


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Tess Selleck, once as ambitious and determined as she is smart and beautiful, had to leave everything and everyone she loves in San Diego to escape the man who destroyed her dreams and now wants her dead.
Together Booker and Tess find love when they least expect it, until their pasts drive them apart. Is there a happily ever after for these damaged lovers? Or is the thought of loving and trusting again simply Unbearable?
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Sherry Gammon's debut novel Unlovable quickly rose to the top seller list on Amazon. She has added several more novels to her body of work. Sherry and her wonderfully supportive husband, currently call Upstate New York home, which is also the setting for her novels. It is where they are raising their family. Sherry has a degree in Legal Assisting, and served as a medical technician in the Air Force. She and her husband worked in foster care for a number of years, from which they adopted their youngest son. She has worked in the education system for a number of years, and is currently lucky enough to be teaching teenage girls, ages 12-18. She has lived in Michigan, California, Utah, Texas, Pennsylvania, and the beautiful, but over-taxed state of New York where she has spent the last eleven years, and now considers home. It is where she spends her nights writing instead of sleeping :} Her Blog is: www.WordpaintingsUnlimited.com
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I came across this page, and others, while researching my Tappan Deluxe, and thought I'd post my story, now that I have it up and running. I bought it from a friend two years ago here in Dayton, Ohio, who said it was a 1954, but now it seems to be of earlier vintage. It's in beautiful condition, missing only the burner covers and manual. It's a Tappan Deluxe CP model (series 60?). Model # AV667 3, serial #19334. It has the red knob rings, the two Vycor glass grate inserts, three chrome drawers in the left compartment (but none have the word "crisper" on it), Telechron clock in the center of the backsplash and the Visiminder timer to the left. The oven walls are chrome. Everything seems to work well after some tinkering with the wiring, and it looks great in my old kitchen.


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Today is Christmas Eve but it looks like it will not be a white Christmas around here. That's ok with me though, we're all sick in my house and I haven't even decorated. Boo Hoo! Thankfully my boys are beyond the age of Santa Claus. While my family sniffs and coughs, here's wishing the rest of you good health and even better holidays!
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The pad will try to drive the output high or low. If it succeeds depends on what is connected. If the pas is shorted to ground it will not be able to drive high.
In fact it will try to deliver as much current as it can and the current is only limited to what the internal resistance is.
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Travel and Tourism - Germany - February 2012
Tourism – both domestic and inbound – is big business in Germany. Over the past two decades, the number of international tourist arrivals has roughly doubled, reaching a projected 29.2 million in 2012. The German National Tourist Board (GNTB) is the successful driving force behind tourism development. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, tourism has experienced almost annual growth. This is an impressive achievement in light of the challenges that have faced the global travel market over the last decade. These include the threat of global terrorism post 9/11, SARS (Severe acute respiratory syndrome), swine flu and the prolonged grounding of flights due to the volcanic ash cloud created by the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull. World tourism is also still experiencing the ramifications of the current global financial crisis, the impact of which is currently being keenly felt in the Eurozone.
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- Figure 1: Overnight stays, by federal state, 2010-12
- Figure 2: Arrivals in key cities, 2009-12
Tourism and the Economy
- Figure 3: Income generated by international tourists, 2008-12
- Figure 4: Value of the direct travel and tourism industry to Germany, 2004-12
- International
- Figure 5: Arrivals in registered accommodation establishments, 1992-2012
- Figure 6: Top 10 international source markets, by arrivals, 2009-12
- Emerging destinations
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- Domestic
- Figure 8: Domestic travel and tourism spending, 1993-2012
- Figure 9: Annual change in domestic travel and tourism spending, 1993-2012
- International
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- Figure 11: Inbound business trips to European countries, 2009-12
- Figure 12: Purpose of visit for European business tourists in Germany, 2009-12
- Figure 13: International meetings, by country, 2003-12
- Seasonality
- Figure 14: Overnights in accommodation establishments, by month, 2008-12
- Length of stay
- Figure 15: Average length of stay by international tourists, 2000-12
- Domestic
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- International
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- Figure 19: Overnight stays in tourist accommodation, 2005-12
- Figure 20: Capacity of accommodation establishments in Germany, 2009-12
- Figure 21: Hotel and guesthouse occupancy rates in Germany, 2008-12
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I've seen a bunch of movies in the last week or so, and thought I'd blog about the experience. These aren't reviews as such: a couple of the movies have been out for a very long time. These are just reflections on a medium of storytelling that I feel has incredible potential rarely realised.
The first was the CGI Beowulf (dir. Robert Zemeckis), which I have resisted watching until now. Why resist? Well, the poem has a really special place in my heart and I don't want to see it sullied. Also, about the time Zemeckis's version came out, I watched on DVD the little-known Icelandic version Beowulf and Grendel (dir. Sturla Gunnarson) with Gerard Butler as Beowulf and it was really good: sure they dicked with the plot, but it looked stunning. But I slowly came round to the idea of Zemeckis's adaptation. Neil Gaiman was involved in the screenplay. Anthony Hopkins and a few other good actors were in it. Surely it couldn't be that bad.
Well, I guess I'll never know precisely how bad or good it is because I couldn't watch it for more than 10 minutes. It is officially the movie I have given up on quickest in my life. The CGI was awful, just awful. It looked like a cut scene from a PC game. I will never know if Neil Gaiman's quirky brilliance saved it, or if Anthony Hopkins made a wonderful Hrothgar because I couldn't look at it. FFS, if I'd wanted to watch Polar Express I would have rented it.
My second adventure was District 9, which a lot of my friends and family said was Teh Awesome. I'd really been looking forward to this one, but perhaps my head wasn't in the right place to enjoy it more than "meh". For one thing, I couldn't stomach the violence but that says more about me than it says about the movie. I don't actually mind violence. I like it in books, I love it in computer games. But for some reason movie violence irritates me. I always feel as though I'm being manipulated; it always seems a film-maker's shortcut to a visceral reaction. Or something. I really don't know. In any case, I recognise that this movie was a wonderfully original concept, and the aliens looked superb, and the sight of that big ship just sitting up there above Johannesburg was brilliant. But what killed it for me was the lack of a likable character in the first hour. I hated the protagonist (and I've forgotten his name, which says something). I didn't care if he died. I certainly didn't care if his adequately pretty wife was sad (she looked like she had an illustrious career ahead of her modelling knitware in Kmart catalogues) (seriously, just give the nerdy-looking man a nerdy-looking wife). I got more interested in the alien with the little son and genuinely cared about them, but it was a long time coming. And by then, my disbelief had returned from suspension and I saw ALL the plot holes. And they were huuuuuuuuuuuge. Fatal, even. So my verdict is: great concept, uneven execution.
And then, almost by accident, I watched Ponyo (dir. Hayao Miyazaki). A friend had loaned me a bagful of Miyazaki films to show my kids, and I thought my little girl might be taken by the cute, chubby-faced fish. I expected to do housework while she watched, but from the opening frames I was utterly captivated. So I sat on the couch and watched it all, breathless. It is a work of art. Utterly sublime. Some of the scenes will stay with me forever, especially those that captured to perfection the might and beauty and mystery of the sea.
My final adventure was in an actual movie theatre (gasp!) with 3D glasses on my nose and a squirming three-year-old in and out of my lap. We took the kids to see How to Train your Dragon. I have an interest in medievalism, and particularly in Vikings in popular imagination so I was really looking forward to this one (even though it's Dreamworks who usually suck and not Pixar who usually rock). Oh my God. It was so amazing. It was beyond brilliant. The story was tight, tight, tight. The characterisation was superb. The CGI was flawless. The settings were incredible. The flying scenes in 3D made the pit of my stomach drop. And the big final scene had me in actual tears (but, okay, I cry easily). A perfect blend of controlled storytelling and real emotional depth. This is the stuff that I always want to see at the movies. Big story, big heart, beautiful to watch. I'd give this one 11 out of 10, and it's going on the list of my Favourite Movies Evah.
Well, that's it. Now I'll go back to watching podcasts of Good Game and re-runs of Friends, and hanging out for The Hobbit. Meanwhile, check out my cat Onyxia: doesn't she look a lot like Toothless?


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I have officially turned into a horrible blogger :(
I am ashamed to say it ... but what once was my favorite thing to do has now sadly slipped to almost the bottom of my list because I have had ZERO time to do anything lately I feel like.
BUT I am turning I new leaf and getting back in the swing of things ... woohoo! This will be a total random post because I have so much just randomness to share!
First .. I have not gotten caught up on everyone else's blogs yet BUT I did read this post today and literally laughed outloud and agreed with every single word that was written by Ms. Raven ...
Dr. Trace Bratton and his lovely wife, Sarah
The kids did a Father's Day project for Chris where we got the frames with a 5x7 picture on one side, and then on the other side you can do just a certificate or something, which is where we did a "Top 10 Reasons I Love You" and each of the kids thought of their own reasons and got super creative, they did a great job!! To say Chris loved them is an under statement ;) He was so happy and the kids loved presenting them to him in front of everyone! Adorable!
Our condos :)
We found tons of shark teeth on the beach, that is one of everyone's favorite things to do while we are there! So fun! We fill a jar at home with them :)
Chris did pretty good with the fishing this trip :) Such a cute little fisherman ha
My cousin Kenzy has the same Bday as Jake and we got to celebrate with her when we got home too ...


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|Specialist insurer Ecclesiastical Insurance, along with Mazars, are proud sponsors of 2into3's Fifth Annual Fundraising Performance Report.The Report will examine the accounts of over 1000 Irish not-for-profits in order to establish the total fundraised income from philanthropic sources in 2013, the fundraising performance of the sector, the fundraising mix in 2013 compared to 2012 and the cost of fundraising by method.Three events will be held to launch the Report in the following venues
1) Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin: Tuesday 24th November, 08.00 – 10.30
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3) St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church, Galway: Thursday 26th November, 09.30 – 12.00
Lucy Masterson, Chief Executive Officer of Fundraising Ireland, will preside as Master of Ceremonies in Dublin.
The launch of the report will be followed by a panel discussion. The participants on each panel are as follows:
Dublin – Christ Church Cathedral – 08.00
Cork – St. Fin Barre's Cathedral – 09.30
Galway – St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church – 09.30
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Hi Gargy, So nice to hear from you but man what an evenful life you have!
Sorry to hear about your DHs Stepdad and your in-laws/family dramas!
I hope both you and your dog are back to good health very shortly.
Your picture framing class sounds fantastic, what a great idea. Hobbies are my saving grace, i love my crafts so much.
All the best with your weight loosing plans, i always find this so much harder heading into winter.............
Take Care.


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Take a look at some of Monday's midday movers:
Amgen - The biotechnology company rose after it said its blood-cancer drug met its main goal in a late-stage trial.
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals - The drug developer advanced as it's currently developing a drug to treat a broad spectrum of viruses including Ebola, with the partial support of the National Institutes of Health.
Durata Therapeutics - The drug maker gained after saying its Dutch subsidiary had entered into an agreement with Italy's Angelini to market its antibiotic to treat skin infections.


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Saturday, October 10th will officially be "Patti Smith Day" in Boston: Boston Mayor Marty Walsh announced the honor via Twitter earlier this morning, and Smith will be in Boston for the event on Saturday, signing copies of her new book M Train at the Back Bay Events Center. (Stereogum)
"A Fireside Chat With An Active Shooter"—Torch of the Mystics demystified: Twenty-five years after its release, Torch of the Mystics, the single best and probably most sought-after album by the brain-melting world/psych band/freakshow Sun City Girls is getting a vinyl reissue. Forced Exposure talked to the band's Alan Bishop. (Forced Exposure)
Congressman puts Speaker of the House job listing on Craigslist: California's Mark Takano (D-Unsurprisingly) made a CL posting for the now up-for-grabs Speaker position that was presumed to be a lock for Kevin McCarthy until he bowed out of the running under the shadow of a sex scandal yesterday. The ad is full of pretty funny jabs at the far-right crazies that have thrown the legislative process into total disarry. CL pulled the ad, unfortunately, but here's a screencap from Takano's Facebook page:
'YouTube effect' has left police officers under siege, law enforcement leaders say: That the biggest complaint of the USA's hyper-militarized police forces is the citizenry's exercise of its Constitutional rights might just say all you need to know about what's become of cop culture. (WaPo)
KidneyBook: You can get transplant organs on social media now: The international organ trade isn't new. What's new is social media's role in this black market, especially in Southeast Asia. According to the Al Jazeera story, brokers based in India or Sri Lanka create fake Facebook profiles (often young women, who are perceived as more trustworthy) and post messages on kidney transplant support groups saying that they are desperately seeking a transplant for a relative. The brokers change their cell phone numbers and account information every five to six weeks so that they can't be tracked. (Popular Science)
Asshole Ivy-Leaguer says Native Americans should be grateful for Columbus: The Brown University Daily Herald recently ran a rambling, incoherent column by M. Dzhali Maier, a science and society undergrad, called "The White Privilege of Cows." The Herald later published another column by Maier titled "Columbian Exchange Day." Both pieces suggested, among other things, that colonialism was a benefit to native populations. Never mind that pesky genocide part, apparently. (U.S. Uncut)
Why Donald Trump will always be a "short-fingered vulgarian": Graydon Carter famously coined that enduring Trump takedown in the pages of Spy Magazine, and he relates the fallout that's been forthcoming from The Donald ever since: "That was more than a quarter of a century ago. To this day, I receive the occasional envelope from Trump. There is always a photo of him—generally a tear sheet from a magazine. On all of them he has circled his hand in gold Sharpie in a valiant effort to highlight the length of his fingers." (Vanity Fair)
Jason Baca has posed for the covers of over 400 romance novels: But how does a guy get started in the trade? How does it feel being the object of so many women's fantasies? And what happens when you're holding a scantily clad stranger and a lighting fixture comes crashing down? The Guardian spoke to the man himself to find out. (The Guardian)
That 'Renoir Sucks' guy challenged a critic to a duel: This week we (and plenty of other outlets) told you about the protests in Boston against Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The protest's mastermind, Max Geller, is reveling in the attention: "...he tells me with some amount of glee, he's pretty sure that dueling is technically still legal in Massachusetts. This is good news for Geller, who can think of no more appropriate response to the Boston Globe article calling his protest of French Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir 'sophomoric' than challenging the author to a bloody fight to the death." (HuffPo)
Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood announces world music solo LP and Paul Thomas Anderson-directed video: Rockers dabbling in global ethnic musics were given a bad name by some pretty exploitatively appropriative works that emerged during an '80s fad for pop Africana. Since then, people like Ry Cooder and Damon Albarn have rehabilitated the practice, and now Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood has joined that fray. Per Pitchfork's Jazz Monroe: "Earlier this year, Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood revealed he was working on a new album in India with Israeli composer Shye Ben Tzur. Now, it has a title and release date. Junun, which also features Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich and Indian qawwali group the Rajasthan Express, is due November 13 via Nonesuch. As previously reported, it's accompanied by a documentary of the same name, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson." Here's an advance sample clip:


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Twitter Workshop
Analyzing Network Data – Twitter Workshop with Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Darryl Woodford, and Robert Jäschke
Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Darryl Woodford:
Mapping Online Publics: New Methods for Twitter Research
The study of Twitter at large scale and in cloose to real time requires the development of new methodological approaches which are able to process, analyse, and visualise the 'big social data' which can be accessed through the Twitter API. The Mapping Online Publics project in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) at Queensland University of Technology has developed a number of approaches to the study of short- and long-term Twitter publics, from analyses of the dynamics of ad hoc issue publics around natural disasters and political crises through the tracking of information flows and audience interests across mainstream and social media to the comprehensive mapping of the Australian Twittersphere. This presentation will outline the methodological approaches developed for this work, and reflect on the opportunities and challenges facing social media researchers.
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Robert Jäschke:
Identifying and Analyzing Researchers on Twitter
For millions of users Twitter is an important communication platform, a social network, and a system for resource sharing. Likewise, scientists use Twitter to connect with other researchers, announce calls for papers, or share their thoughts. Filtering tweets, discovering other researchers, or finding relevant information on a topic of interest, however, is difficult since no directory of Twitter users with a scientific background exists. In this paper we present an approach to identify Twitter accounts of researchers and demonstrate its utility for the discipline of computer science. Based on a seed set of computer science conferences we collect relevant Twitter users which we can partially map to ground-truth data. The mapping is leveraged to learn a model for classifying the remaining users with high accuracy. To gain further insights into how Twitter is used by researchers, we perform an empirical analysis of the identified users and compare their age, popularity, influence, and social network.
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Axel Bruns is an Australia Research Council Future Fellow and Associate Professor in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. He leads the QUT Social Media Research Group and is the author of Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From Production to Produsage (2008) and Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production (2005), and a co-editor of Twitter and Society (2014), A Companion to New Media Dynamics (2012) and Uses of Blogs (2006). His current work focusses on the study of user participation in social media spaces such as Twitter, especially in the context of acute events. His research blog is at snurb.info, and he tweets at @snurb_dot_info. See mappingonlinepublics.net for more details on his research into social media.
Jean Burgess is Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation (CCI) and Associate Professor, Digital Media in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology. She is involved in several research projects that apply computer-assisted methods to the analysis of large-scale social media data. Her books include YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture (Polity Press, 2009), Studying Mobile Media: Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the iPhone (Routledge, 2012) and A Companion to New Media Dynamics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013). Over the past decade she has worked with a large number of government, industry and community-based organisations, focusing on the uses of social and co-creative media to increase participation, advocacy and engagement.
Darryl Woodford is a Research Fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation (CCI) at Queensland University of Technology. He has a background in Engineering and Game Studies, including research on the agency of avatars in virtual environments. His current research includes work on social norms and regulation in the video game and gambling industries, and he is leading the development of new digital methods for measuring and evaluating television audience engagement using social media analytics.
Robert Jäschke is Professor of Web Information Retrieval and Social Search at the Leibniz University Hannover. His research is focused on the development and integration of algorithms for community detection, ranking, and recommendations into collaborative tagging systems. Further topics of interest include citation and link analysis, entity matching and resolution, and social network analysis. Prof. Jäschke is leading the development of the L3S developed system, BibSonomy, which is used as test-bed for methods and results. As associate member of the L3S Research Center he is also managing the activities of L3S within the Leibniz-Forschungsverbund Science 2.0.
(Please note: This is a public workshop, but we'd like you to send a short e-mail to Gabriele Kraft <gkraft at gcdh.de> if you are planning to attend. Thanks!)
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Hi and Welcome to another inspiration post for All Dressed Up. As Always our challenge is Anything Goes and the only rule is your must use an ADU image.
I used my MFT vertical dies to create this background with a CTMH sentiment.
The image is from the Three Little Autumn Girls stamp set at All Dressed Up.
You have time to enter our current challenge over at the blog, as always its "always anything goes" but Remember to use an All Dressed up Image on your project. The Challenge blog states all the rules and there is a Freebie available for use if you aren't yet an owner of these images.


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i am inetnorth.com. my name is alan.
keeping this short, i work for a mult-national company as the SAP basis technical lead for a very exciting global project.
inetnorth.com is my work away from work and it lends me the opportunity to work in web design and enterprise technologies that excite and frankly, are just pure fun. my inetnorth.com projects are carefully chosen.
have experience with providers large and small. i help understand and manage technology.
we are re-inventing ourselves. in the meantime, as you would expect:
web design, web consulting and help with needs analysis
custom site and product photography
technology reviews
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I adore this skirt but it's a little difficult for me to find things to pair with it - I almost always wear it with blue. I think I may try green or grey next, but it's difficult to veer away from a color pairing that just seems to work (and this top - I think I've worn this skirt a handful of times already and almost every time with this top). If any of your stylish ladies out there have suggestions, I've love to hear them - thanks!
Top: Anthropologie (sim, sim on sale)
Skirt: Boden (worn before - sim under $30, sim in pink under $15)
Necklace: Anthropologie monogram pendant (same in silver)
Bracelets: J.Crew (sim), c/o INPINK (sim, sim under $50)
Ring: INPINK (sim, sim silver under $15)
Bag: Rebecca Minkoff isobel tasseled (worn before - same patchwork, sim, sim under $100)
Shoes: Sam Edelman trina (sim under $50, sim higher heel)


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Vitra Schaudepot, Vitra Campus / Herzog & de Meuron
While Herzog & de Meuron receives the plaudits for its heralded extension that is the new Tate Modern, another piece of its display work has quietly opened at Weil am Rhein, home of the Vitra Museum. Liz Farrelly reports
All images © Vitra Design Museum, Mark Niedermann
Words Liz Farrelly
Days prior to the fanfare accompanying Herzog & de Meuron's new Tate Modern extension, another museum building by the Basel-based architecture practice opened - Vitra Schaudepot.
Sitting atop a raised plaza at the south end of the furniture manufacturer's Weil am Rhein campus, this doubles the size of the Vitra Design Museum and means that it can now put on nine temporary exhibitions a year.
In the world of design museums the concept of Schaudepot - 'open storage' - was pioneered at the Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich only in 2014, which is probably why the term remains untranslated. Vitra's version is much more than neat storage with an occasional guided tour, as it fulfils a long-time need to display an incomparable collection of furniture; visitors often ask 'where are the chairs?'
Briefly on show in Frank Gehry's signature building (opened in 1989) the collection was stored to make way for the temporary exhibitions. It continues to grow, however, and is central to the museum's curatorial programme, as well as providing unique research opportunities for collaborating designers.
Open storage with a framed view through to memphis and Marc Newson
Developed in tandem with a scholarly work -in-progress, an atlas of furniture featuring 2,000 objects (published next year) and an online database, the Schaudepot offers a permanent display of 400 items of furniture on open shelves as well as a basement of archived objects behind glass. There's also a materials gallery and handling collection, library, archive and, of course, shop and cafe. Behind-the-scenes glimpses into conservation studios and museum offices are all facilitated by an architecture that while appearing monolithic and appropriately protective, is also fluid and adaptable.
The building above ground is a windowless, gabled, masonry addition, softened by a process of splitting-and-turning each brick to produce a textured surface in saturated earth tones. It's a quieter contrast to some campus landmarks and on a more modest scale than Tate's Switch House - less a cathedral to art, more a chapter house of design - but as a new-build extension of a former industrial facility, there are similarities.
At the Schaudepot launch in Zaha Hadid's 1993 Fire Station (now an events space), Rolf Fehlbaum, Chairman Emeritus and founder of the Vitra Collection, recalled the initial impetus. Prompted by a need to extend the underground storage space housing the collection, he called on H&dM to revisit the campus. 'If we were not friends I couldn't approach them with such a minor request: could we do an interesting entrance to the basement?'
The relationship was established with H&dM's extraordinary VitraHaus store. For the latest project, H&dM decided it wanted to do far more than an interesting entrance, and Fehlbaum was receptive to a bigger idea. Jacques Herzog describes it as bringing together the 'loft and cave', adding, 'that was how we understood our architectural role at Tate'. Fehlbaum explains: 'He said, "Couldn't we can do half of the building on one floor and then open the floor and look down and see the whole collection?" It wasn't the most practical idea, but it opened our eyes to something very important, that what you see there is a small selection of a much wider collection.' So the architecture underscores the multiple iterations of design worthy collection and display, rather than supporting one didactic, indisputable canon.
Vitra Museum director, Mateo Kries, described the new permanent display as 'a good combination of known icons and hidden treasures, and some unseen things between the experimental pieces and the popular pieces'. Walking through the display and gazing into the thematically arranged storage areas, curator Janna Lipsky points out that multiple narratives are developed 'and each shelf is a kind of history in itself'. So as not to disrupt the archival integrity of the space labelling is minimal, but interpretation and information is accessible via the newly digitised catalogue and on the website.
The windowless upper floors of the new building
Fulfilling a complex range of functions Vitra Schaudepot really represents a sea change. Herzog described it as 'more authorless, timeless, a normal building without being boring', which may hint at 'grand projet' fatigue. Stating that the campus is more than an 'accumulation of interesting architecture', Fehlbaum recognises the Schaudepot as emblematic of a new gateway - together with landscaping and a south–north promenade it opens the campus to public transport links with Weil and Basel, either side of the German/Swiss border.
This is museum building as place making. In the near future Herzog sees Vitra as the world-class cultural centre of a metropolitan neighbourhood. Working around the manufacturing facility the site is more public; Hadid's Fire Station is now accessible from the Schaudepot plaza, no longer fenced off. As Fehlbaum concludes: 'It is a completely changed environment… it's a new site, a new campus.'


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Climate Change and the Common Good: Security, Sustainability, Policy
Visit the conference website at climatechange.nd.edu!
Join us for a multidisciplinary exploration of the challenges and opportunities society faces in addressing climate change and resource scarcity. From scientists and ethicists to policy and national security experts, this groundbreaking conference will bring together a diverse array of scholars and leaders to approach the complexities of climate disruption in a meaningful and productive way.
You can also join the event on Facebook and follow us on Twitter!
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So I have been SUPER busy the past few weeks due to working at a production company during TIFF(Toronto International Film Festival). I was going to post these nails on the first day of TIFF, but I was honestly too tired. A trend that continued throughout the whole festival. Then to top it off the when everything started to wrap up, I started getting sick. Blah! Anyway, here are the nails I did for the opening of TIFF.
The tux nail was inspired by Not Your Average Nails. I totally forgot to credit her on on Instagram, and I felt so bad. I NEVER do that :( I'll probably give her a shout out at some point.
You probably want to know more about the title of the post, right? Well, throughout the festival I saw a ton of celebs. My days were generally spent in a lounge, either helping guests, or dealing with social media. Before the lounge would open we would have to fix up the room for the day. On this day I helped a girl carry some ice back to the room for the wine. So as we were filling up ice, Steve Carell, and Mark Ruffalo walk past us in the hall(you know as they would on a normal day). Now this was neat and all, but the girl I was with had made it clear that the celeb she wanted to see was Channing(She made that clear multiple times in the days prior). When we had finished collecting the ice we started back to our lounge. As we turned a corner guess who turns the corner from the opposite direction. Yes, Channing. The girl I was with stops dead in her tracks, looks at him, and says "HOLY SHIT!". She them proceeds to try and grab a photo with him(He said no as he was on a schedule). Then we proceeded back to the lounge. It was probably the most hilariously amazing 20 seconds of the entire festival for me. It was also kind of strange to watch, mainly because celebs don't make me giddy in that way. It was all just very surreal.
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It's summer, and the long afternoons and change of routine for many of us leads us to read outside – by the pool on holiday maybe, or in the garden. What I like to do though is write outside. I have created several little nooks in my garden, and lurk there under trees, scribbling away in a notebook with a cup of tea on the table and a dog at my feet.
I love writing in my study, surrounded by my books, but there is something about being outside that makes me feel somehow more alive, and more connected with the world. I am very lucky – behind my garden, there is a field. Beyond the field is a huge forest. It is 360 hectares, and has been a woodland since ancient times. Most of the very old trees were felled in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to build ships and for building bridges, but some still remain. Many conifers were planted for wood, and parts of the forest are dark and still, like fairy tale woods. I like to take my books and sit among the trees and write.
I also love writing on the beach. My favourite place is at Cullercoats Bay, on an outcrop of rocks overlooking the ocean. I am writing a story about a sea witch, and the spray of the waves and the taste of salt on my lips helps me to 'enter' the story.
I have always liked to write in places that inspire me. When I was writing Walking with Witches, I wrote in the fantastic library at The Literary and Philosophical Society, where part of the story is set; I also wrote at Newcastle Castle Keep where the women accused of witchcraft were imprisoned. When I was writing a ghost story set at a railway station, I rode round on the trains, taking in the atmosphere as I made notes.
If you like to write – and you probably do, if you are reading this blog – think about stepping away from your laptop. PC or tablet this week and taking an old-fashioned notebook into the Great Outdoors – you might just find yourself truly inspired!


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Summing Up With Seals!
Reading to Learn Lesson
Caitlin Roebuck
Once students have learned how to read fluently, they can begin to read in order to learn. This lesson will teach students how to use the strategy of summarization to better comprehend and remember important information from a text. This concept is something that students will use every time they read and is, therefore, a major step for third and fourth graders to master. In this lesson, students will work with expository paragraphs and whole texts; they will learn how to find the most significant phrases and facts, using these to summarize the text.
1. List of vocabulary words for review: carnivore, crustacean, submerge, environmentalist, activist, commercially
2. Computer, Elmo/Document Camera/projector, and projector screen for teacher
3. Sheet with paragraph on harp seals to model summarization:
Harp seals are found in waters of the Arctic and far north Atlantic Ocean. They are sociable animals that enjoy the company of other seals. A harp seal's main diet consists of small fish and crustaceans. The seals have been known to dive 180 to 280 meters and can remain submerged for up to 15 minutes. Their lifespan averages 30 years. Females can birth one pup each year. Mothers recognize their pups by scent and reject every pup but their own. Harp seal mothers let their young nurse for about two weeks and then the pups are left to fend for themselves. Their mother's milk, however, is rich in butterfat and they usually weigh 40 to 45 kilograms when weaned.
4. Whole text on Harp Seals from National Geographic website (print out 1 article per students)
5. 1 highlighter per student
6. Reading comprehension questions for assessment (1 per student)
7. Bookmark for each student with summarization requirements listed:
a. Pick topic sentence or main idea of text
or main idea of text
b. Underline important details
c. Remove unimportant or repeated information
8. Sheet with the sentence, the carnivore chased after the small animal, hoping to catch its prey, written on it
9. 1 piece of paper per student
1. Begin the lesson with an introduction: "Today, we are going to begin discussing how to use reading in order to learn new information. The strategy we will be using is called summarization. This is an important step because now you can use what you've learned about reading to learn and remember new facts and ideas. With this summarization strategy, you will read longer paragraphs and learn how to pick out the most important information from the text to store in your memory."
2. "Before we read our whole text, we are going to review some of the more difficult vocabulary words." Put the list of vocabulary words on the Doc Cam. "The words we are going to review are: carnivore, crustacean, submerge, environmentalist, activist, and commercially. Now let's begin by looking at carnivore. What is a carnivore?" Put the sheet with the sentence on the Doc Cam. "Listen to this sentence using the word and think about what it could mean: 'The carnivore chased after the small animal, hoping to catch its prey.' Think about what carnivore could mean and turn to discuss it with a partner." Wait for students to discuss and then call on some students to share their answers. "Alright, there were some good ideas about what a carnivore is. A carnivore is an animal that feeds on meat. It does not feed on plants because that is a different type of animal. When you look back to the sentence, 'The carnivore chased after the small animal, hoping to catch its prey,' you can look at some of the surrounding words, like chased and small animal, and see that the definition fits the sentence. Why do you think a carnivore eats meat? What are some examples of carnivores?" Wait for the students to answer. "Good! Now let's try answer another sentence. I want you to read the sentence and fill in the blank: 'The T-Rex is a good example of a __________, as it likes to eat smaller animals.'" Call on a student to answer. " Good job! The T-Rex is a good example of a carnivore. Now let's continue to discuss some of our other vocabulary words." Follow this example with the other words on the vocabulary list.
3. "When you read a passage and summarize its information, you will read each paragraph at a time and look for the most important facts. You should only use one sentence to summarize each paragraph, combining all of the information into one main statement." Pass out bookmarks to the students. "This is a bookmark that has some rules for when you are summarizing the text. Look at your bookmark as I read what the rules are." Read the rules out loud. "Later, you will be reading a text and will need to use these rules to help you summarize the most important information. You will be given a highlighter to highlight the important words and phrases. You will also use your pencil to cross out the unnecessary information, such as repeated words or small details, in the text. This will help you in summarizing the information."
4. Put the paragraph on harp seals on the Doc Cam. (You will combine your modeling and simple practice with this activity.) "Before you begin to summarize on your own, I am going to show you an example using this paragraph on harp seals." Read the paragraph aloud to the students. "Now let's go through and highlight the important words and phrases in the paragraph. You will want to find the information is important to the overall topic of the paragraph, not small details or trivia information." Call on students to help you highlight words, such as Arctic, sociable animals, fish/crustaceans, etc. "After you find these pieces of information, look at what you highlighted and find your topic sentence. Who can tell me what our topic sentence would be from this paragraph?" Call on students to share their ideas. "Good, the topic sentence would be that seals are sociable creatures that live in the north. Now I am going to lightly cross out the extra information that we didn't use with a pencil. After I finish going through my paragraph, I would begin writing my brief, one-sentence summary of the text." Be sure to tell the students that if they were using a longer paragraph, they would need to have a one-sentence summary per paragraph. "Now, I want you to write your one-sentence summary of the text on a piece of paper. Then, you will share your sentence with the class." Give the students 5 minutes to write their summary and then call on some students to share their sentence with the class.
5. Pass out the harp seal article to the students. "Now it is your turn to read and summarize a text. You will be reading about harp seals. This article shares facts and information about these seals that live in the north. How do they travel around? Why do they look the way they do? Why is there conflict with the harp seal? You will have to read the article to find out. You will work to summarize this article like we just did with the other paragraph. Use the rules listed on your bookmark and find the important information in each sentence. You should also use your highlighter to highlight the important words and phrases, as well as your pencil to lightly cross out the useless information. When you are finished, write a summary of the passage using your article. You should have one sentence per paragraph with only the most important information included." While the students are completing this activity individually, walk around the classroom to make sure that they are on task.
6. To assess the students' abilities to summarize the passage, collect their summaries. Look to make sure that they follow the rules of their bookmark. They should:
1. Have a topic sentence for each paragraph
2. Include only the most important details
3. Delete unimportant or repeated details.
To assess the students' comprehension of the text, pass out a short worksheet with the following "putting it together" questions:
1. How do the harp seals travel around?
2. Why do the seals look the way they do?
3. Why is there conflict with the harp seal?
Canadian Geographic. Animal Facts: Harp Seal.
Kilgore, Katie. Sum It Up!!
Lancaster, Allie. Summarization for the Nation!
National Geographic. Harp Seal. http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/harp-seal/
Pierce, Morgan. Flipping Over Summarization.
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