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I haven't written for a while because I've had a some sad events in my life lately - one after the other and haven't found much to laugh about. I try to write only humorous stories as I prefer to look to the positives, so no stories have occurred to me. I'm sure the menagerie were up to their usual hijinks, but the humour just seemed to pass me by.
Yesterday a friend wrote and asked me to keep posting because she missed reading about my life. I wrote back to explain why there had been no posts only to find that there was humour all around me if I only took my own advice and concentrated on the positive.
Cleo is growing like a weed and is quite a character so it's more than likely that once I come out of my funk I'll see lots of things to write about. She adds joy to my day every day. She has a toy squeaky witch (well two identical witches and one new one in the cupboard in case of lost witch emergencies). The witches go everywhere with her and I am forever scouring the houseyard trying to find where she's left them this time. Cleo tries to entice Graeme outside each morning by squeaking her witch for as long and as loudly as she can. She's trained Graeme to come outside at the sound of the squeaking and play their game of who has control of the witch. This goes on for a while, usually until Cleo gets greedy and tries to grab the spare witch while holding on to the witch in play. She then seems to lose both witches and Graeme wins. I've never actually been able to watch one of these games because if I come into view Cleo stops playing to come and give me the score so far. I keep out of sight so Graeme can continue to bond with Cleo who has him wrapped around her large furry paw.
Cleo enjoys accompanying me around the yard, and farm if she's allowed out the gate, her biggest problem with this activity is that Cleo likes to take the lead but isn't entirely sure where we are going so she needs to keep looking back to check I'm still on track and also it seems to encourage me to keep up. She does this by furiously wagging her back end while turned in a pretzel shape. Inevitably this causes her to run into things. I'd never realised how full of hard objects my yard and larger farm contains! My progress is filled with calling out, "Watch out!!" or "Cleo! The wall (or rock, or bird bath, or fence, or on one memorable occasion, the house!). Cleo just bounces off whatever obstacle she's encountered, gives me an accusing look, like I deliberately put the house there for her to run into and continues on her way, still in the pretzel/back end wagging position.
Cleo's other peculiarity is her inability to deal with steps. She manages to dramatically trip up or down the stairs nearly ever time she leaves or comes back to the back porch. I've tried to analyse her technique to see where she goes wrong, but it just seems like she doesn't recognise the need to actually go up or come down the steps. She either falls off from the top or runs into the steps and stumbles up them. I live in dread that she's going to seriously hurt herself, but at the moment, Cleo seems to thing that face planting on steps is the accepted means of navigating them. Who knew some St Bernard pups require remedial lessons in ascending/descending steps?
We have almost finished lambing - only one ewe left to lamb. She is going for the record in being overdue. Actually she officially broke the record last night, so hopefully she'll pop today. I visit her a couple of times each day when I go up to the shed to feed the lambs. I try not to encourage her to get on with things - I remember the feeling of being overdue when pregnant and everyone commenting, "Haven't you had that baby yet?" I just sympathise with her and tell her she's still beautiful (despite the round belly I never mention). I know she's just as eager as we are for her to pop. All the other ewes are either out in the paddock with their lambs or in nearby pens showing off their new babies. Life for a way overdue ewe is no picnic.
31st March Update.
The last ewe finally popped and boy was it worth waiting for! She had the longest pregnancy on the farm ever! No wonder. The lamb is the biggest lamb we've ever produced (or as the mother insists that she's produced!). His birth was no fuss and his mum produced him without any trouble. She's amazing (as I've told her a couple of times) He has all the makings of spectacular. He is our highest ranking ram lamb in LambPlan.
Here he is - remember this lamb is less than 24 hours old.
We have a total of 9 bottle babies this year with the possibility of another two who aren't doing as well as we'd like. All the bottle babies so far are the smallest lamb in sets of triplets. We had a record number of triplets this year and decided to keep back one from each set to allow the other two to be raised by their mothers while we bottle fed one. This will allow the two out with their mums to grow a lot better and of course the little ones kept back by us will do better than they would in the paddock as well. We've found in past years that triplets are just problematic out in the paddocks. Mums have trouble keeping track of all three and often one just falls by the way and is either found starving and weak or dead. If Mum raises all three they are all a lot smaller than the rest of the lamb flock because mum's milk has had to go three ways instead of one or two. Most of the bottle babies agree with our plan and tuck into the bottle with gusto. Two little ewes (all the ones kept back bar one ended up being ewe lambs), object to being kidnapped and give us as much trouble as they can - running around the pen, hopping through the fence baaing for help and asking the other ewes to cal the police - that sort of thing. Graeme and I could try out for rugby league teams by now I think. We are expert tacklers and are getting quite fit dashing around the pen trying to corral two non co-oerative lambs. They still gobble the milk when we finally catch them, but they make sure we know they only do so because they are being forced to.
One of the bottle babies who doesn't need catching to feed.
The last set of triplets to be born are still with their mum in the lambing shed. She's a bit of a dozy ewe and managed to step on two of her three lambs at various times, leaving the little ones with a limp. No bones broken thankfully, but with the limp they may have trouble keeping up with their mum in the paddock, and as she's a bit of a vague one, I wouldn't put it past her to wander off and forget she had little ones lost somewhere in the paddock. So, she's staying in until the lambs are walking normally again. This is a problem in itself as it turns out the mum was a bottle baby. How do we know this? The hard way I assure you! I took the bottle into the pen to give the smallest one (the one targeted for later kidnapping) a top up of milk. I had her on my lap trying to convince her that a rubber teat was almost as good as mum's softer, more personal one when the mum under discussion came over to investigate. She took one look at the bottle and something clicked in her somewhat befuddled mind. After that I had to try to fend off a very determined ewe who had regressed to her days of fighting other lambs for her share of a bottle. The fact that the lamb she was now trying to dislodge from the teat was her very own didn't occur to her. She was a lamb again and getting her share of the milk was her first priority. Let me tell you, holding on to a three day old lamb who is reluctant to drink from a rubber teat while fending off a fully grown, determined, if lacking in even average sheep intelligence ewe who is just as determined to drink, is not to be recommended. There were occasions where the ewe won and managed to get the teat into her mouth. While I struggled to wrest it from her mouth and at the same time keep hold of a struggling lamb, she sucked for all she was worth and boy, could she scoop up the milk. Once I tore the teat from her mouth and restored order to the lambs who were all gathered around mum learning bad lessons in what is and isn't appropriate sheep behaviour I took the better part of valour and retreated to the other side of the fence with the lamb I still had control over. From this protected spot I once again tried to convince the lamb to have a drink from the now rather slimy rubber teat. Mum stuck her head through the bars of the pen and tried to demonstrate to her lamb,once again, just how nummy the contents of the bottle were. The lamb remained unconvinced.
The beauty of all this is I have it to do all over again three times a day. Ah, the joys of bottle feeding lambs.


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2. The larger the crowd of people already in your booth, the more other people will want to visit your booth.
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Senior Estimator –North London - £100k to £120k– RC Frame/Groundwork/Demolition/Pilling
Senior Estimator –North London - £100k to £120k– RC Frame/Groundwork/Demolition/Pilling
Our Client: We are currently recruiting for an Assistant Estimator for our client who is based in North London. They are a leading subcontractor within the RC Frame/Groundwork/Demolition/Pilling divisions of construction and have over 15 years' industry experience. They are looking for the right person to step up into a senior commercial role with the ability to liaise with clients whilst delivering and implementing business' sales strategy. This is truly a unique opportunity to advance your career within a dynamic and hybrid type position with well renowned company.
- Unique opportunity to develop your carer within a dynamic senior role
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- Work for leading sub-contractor
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Role Overview:
- Develop accurate, value engineered and desirable solutions to meet client's requirement
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- Developing strong relationships with new clients, providing continue support.
- Grow and retain existing relationships by presenting new solutions & services to clients
- Reporting into Estimating Manager
- The role will involve the concept design & tending various schemes
- Responsible for each project from inception to securing work.
Duties included:
- Identify the risks, opportunities and requirements of assigned projects to efficiently and effectively produce tenders and estimates for suitable enquiries.
- Deliver efficient and effective customer service at all times.
- Correspond and negotiate with clients, suppliers, contractors and colleagues in collaboration with the commercial department.
- Accurately prepare quotations considering all costs associated with the delivery of projects.
- Provide detailed hand over information to allow for the successful delivery of contracts.
- Efficiently manage situations when workload presents conflicting demands on time and availability, demonstrating an ability to effectively prioritise and schedule.
- Have a strong working knowledge of the unique selling propositions and differentiators of the Abbey Pynford products and use these to help secure work and develop new business opportunities that may arise.
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- Attend industry functions, such as association events and conferences, and provide feedback and information on market and creative trends.
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20 years old Ms. Tian was born in a privileged family. Her father Mr. Tian Wanchang was the former deputy mayor of Liupanshui City of Guizhou Province, in charge of police, court system and local prosecutors. Her mother was an official of the Ministry of State Security.
The Tian family's life turned upside down when Ms. Tian was raped by an even higher ranked official Mr. Zhou Shili on January 8, 2009 in a hotel room in Guiyang. The Tian family had since been on the road to petition for justice. Two years later, the case went nowhere. The family could not find one agency to admit evidence related to the case.
The story was reported by Hong Kong based ifeng.com.
With all resources pertained to the family of senior officials, they couldn't find justice when wronged by a person of higher rank.
Across the Pacific, the murderer of Caylee Anthony was found 'not guilty' by the court despite a clear, unmistakable, and loud national outcry.
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Meet Prabhulal Sharma and team
Meet Prabhulal Sharma from the beautiful city of lakes, Udaipur India. His magnificent ancient art, mother of pearl inlay, has been in his family for many generations and the skills have been passed down from father to son. During the time of the maharaja in India, Prabhulal's four fathers in Rajasthan were invited to do mother of pearl inlay work in the royal palaces and were rewarded with great honour for their work. Prabhulal's favourite part on the job is creating and experimenting with new inlay designs and patterns. His favourite design is the flower detail in the mogul inlay pattern. He feels very proud ad honoured that this ancient art is appreciated and respected all over the world.
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On the early evening of a rainy and cold day of July the 10th we reached Dawson Creek - the historic 'Mile 0' of the Alcan! We have done over 2500km on this one of a kind road that winds through the forests, mountains and along the rivers and valleys of Alaska, Yukon and BC.
It's been very intense experience for us, especially that it was our first 2500km on the road; we know that we haven't been very good at sharing it on the blog (we can blame the wilderness and no access to anything:)), but we promise to make up for it!
So, that's us at the beginning of Alaska Highway (which for us was the end)
On the historic day of July the 10th we were invited for a dinner to celebrate this special moment. So we found the best restaurant in town, called White Spot, that apparently has been running since 1928, and enjoy ourselves as much as we could :)
Marta had Salmon rice bowl, which was grilled salmon with Shitake mashroom, red pepper and ginger sauce; raul ate his best-ever-tried veggie burger (wholemeal roll, roasted mushroom, fresh tomato and lettuce and this huge tofu burger) with home-made chips and we shared a huge plate of salad. Marta toasted with a local lager and raul traditionally with a cup of green tea:)Mmmmm, what a change after eating rice and cheese all the time....
Big thanks to Mrta's parents, who invited us for this dinner
Dziękujemy Mamusiu, dziękujemy Tatusiu!
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1) India Post Recruitment 2012
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Indian Postal Department issued recruitment notification " India Post Recruitment 2012 ". Indian Postal Dept recruit 431 Postal Assistant Jobs , Sorting Assistant Jobs through this recruitment notification . Department Of Post - DOP publish the recruitment notification on www.indiapost.gov.in. Indian Postal Department invites online applications from qualified personals in India. Interested candidates follow the official website www.indiapost.gov.in to recruitment notification . Postal Assistant , Sorting Assistant Application forms available at District Head Post Offices . India Post Recruitment 2012 application forms accepted from 11-08-2012 and last date to submit applications 25-09-2012 .
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Ras-Rotli conjures up cozy memories of relishing this classic Gujarati combo for lunch and then slumbering away the afternoon… Ever tried this ? If not, give it a try. There is no special recipe to making this but you do need to make rotis at home and smear generous amount of ghee on it. If you can't make rotis, how about pooris? Either way, this is a very unique combination of plain and exotic.
For Mango Ras, select a few good quality, sweet, ripe mangoes. The traditional way is to kind of press and massage the mango softly (an art in itself) for a few minutes and then squeeze the juice out but you can just blend the cut mango pieces in a blender and strain the pulp to get a smooth Mango pulp. Add cardamom powder, if you like. Chill the smooth pulp in the fridge for a few hours. Eat with pooris or soft rotis.
2 Cups wheat flour
2 tea spoon oil
1/2 tea spoon salt
1/2 cup COLD water
Mix the first three ingredients and then add water to the flour. Knead into a smooth dough such that you can roll pooris without using flour. Deep fry the pooris.


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Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Free Giveaway! Fairy Belle Flowers!!
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Roses are "Purple"ReplyDelete
Violets are "Blue"
It would be such an honor
to win flowers from you!
(I could not resist being cheeky..lol)
My favorite Flower quote is by Georgia O'KeefeReplyDelete
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it , It becomes your world for a moment.
"Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light." Theodore RoethkeReplyDelete
"Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them."
― A.A. Milne
The flowers of weeds are always so very tiny and delicate, have you noticed? Love Prima flowers!
If Friends were Flowers ,Id Pick YOU....ReplyDelete
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When it's ready it blooms!
"A weed is but an unloved flower."ReplyDelete
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- CherylTJanuary 9, 2013 at 7:42 PM
Flowers are those little colorful beacons of the sun from which we get sunshine when dark, somber skies blanket our thoughts. ~DodinskyReplyDelete
"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important." from the Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-ExuperyReplyDelete
Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.ReplyDelete
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My favorite flower quote is from Helen Keller. "Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same." Sigh. :)ReplyDelete
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To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. William BlakeReplyDelete
With just a little bulb, a little earth, a little water and a little tender and care you hold something magical in the palm of our handsReplyDelete


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Prejudice and Christian Beginnings: Investigating Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Early Christian Studies
Laura Salah Nasrallah, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
Fortress Press - Religion - 319 pages
This interdisciplinary volume addresses this lack by drawing together new essays by prominent scholars in the fields of New Testament, classics, and Jewish studies. These essays examine the intersection of three worlds: First, the construction of gender and race under the Roman Empire; Second, the crucible of nineteenth-century thinking about race and empire in which New Testament and classical studies were given definitive form; And third, the contemporary theoretical frameworks and methods that hold greatest promise for a renewed understanding of the New Testament and early Christian history.
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Facebook expands demographic targeting via Audience Insights
Advertisers are always out to glean as much data from web users as possible. Facebook is one of those advertisers that targets ads at its users using information from profiles. The social networking giant has announced that it has expanded those targeting capabilities with the roll out of Audience insights.
Audience Insights gives Facebook the ability to target users based on metrics like demographic traits, geography, and their purchase history. Facebook says that before the roll out of Audience Insights it only offered advertisers an audience estimator tool.
Facebook can now track the user's age, gender, lifestyle, education, relationship status, job roll, and household size. Some of the user's tastes and tendencies are gleaned from the pages they like.
"Previously, we just had the targeting options in the 'create tool' that had an audience estimator," a Facebook spokeswoman explained on Thursday. "Now, with Audience Insights, these capabilities are actionable so advertisers can understand the reach of these capabilities, as well as how big the targeting groups are."


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Join me in Kensington Market on Saturday October 15 from 2 to 4 pm at Eative Film Cafe for a presentation of my recent paintings.
Art Viewing: Izik Levy
Toronto artist Izik Levy is presenting a selection of abstract paintings. In his work Izik explores the expressive reactions between paint and materials. This gathering is intended to bring people together for a social afternoon with great conversations in a comfortable setting.
Meet us at Eative Film Cafe, 230 Augusta Ave, the South West corner of Augusta and Nassau in Kensington Market. Eative Film Cafe is known for screening silent black and white films in its bright and open space, its innovative menu and drinks.
Kensington Market is one of Toronto's most vibrant and historic neighbourhoods. It is a hub of diverse cultures, art, great food and unique shops. We've curated a self-directed tour and map that highlights the best of Kensington Market for your visit. The event will take place between 2 and 4 pm.
Please ask if you have questions or need help finding the best route to this event. Parking lots are available in the surrounding area. TTC's College and Spadina streetcars will bring you within a short walk of the cafe.
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Posted in Baking Recipes, Candy, Snacks & Treats by Sarah
How To Make Candied Apples
Glistening red, candy coated apples sitting pretty in a row, patiently waiting for the next customer to take that first delicious bite. Candied apples are a sweet treat that is typically found at carnivals, fairs and country gatherings.
The candied apple has a long and rather simple history. A confectioner by the name of William W Kolb created the apple when working in his commercial kitchen. He was trying to come up with creative and new ways to draw customers into his candy store. Working with a hard crack candy mixture, he added a wooden stick to a freshly picked orchard apple and dipped it in the mixture. The sugary treat was placed in his storefront window and well; you can say the rest is history…
The United States is not the only one with a taste for the sugary treat. Germany and many South American countries, for example, eat candy apples during Christmas time, while in the United Kingdom people eat them on Guy Fawkes night while watching fireworks. In Japan they eat candy apples, as well as many other candy-covered fruits, at a number of unique, traditional Japanese festivals.
The smell of cinnamon is the scent that I immediately associate with fall and the holidays. The spicy scent and warm flavor adds depth and dimension to our candy apple recipe. Candy apples are not the only food that can benefit from the warm, spicy flavor. Bring in the warmth of the holidays with our All Natural Cinnamon Flavoring. Bold and spicy, this aromatic flavor tastes as good as it smells. Utilize cinnamon's distinct taste to add a bit of zing to chocolates or favored beverages. Add a hint of intensity to your sweets or try it in your favorite savory dish. All Natural Cinnamon Flavor promises to be your new go-to addition during the holiday season and beyond!


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To all my lovelies may the New Year be filled with every good thing. May God bless you and continue to guide you through all life's challenges and victories.
The year 2015 has been a year that has been filled with peaks and lows, I didn't post much here on the blog as I lost my Dad. Needless to say with my divorce not concluded and his passing I was absent from the blog most of year as my perspective was one of grief and coping with loss. Can anyone out there relate?
I am still not sure how to face the new year, if you know what I mean, it's like I can't face another disappointing thing and I'm frightened somewhat. So regardless of whether I am ready, life goes on and it doesn't miss a beat.
This year I saw both my children, come thru the toughest time in their lives, to come out on the other end, whole, grounded and secure. Nothing can prepare a child for a parent leaving the home, it doesn't matter from what angle you look at it. I have had to put myself on a back-burner to concentrate on them emotionally and mentally. I had taken to reading any and everything I could get my hands to answer their questions. But in the end I needed answers too, to a 15 year marriage shattered and leaving me questioning every memory of it.
I have learnt to embrace my single mum status and to embrace my children and to accept them for who they are. It's amazing how close we are and I wouldn't change that for the world. I would change however, how I relate to a boy now 12 years old, in who confidence is key and an eight year old girl going on 19 who thinks being a florist is her calling in life. So I think I'll be reading more parenting books in 2016.
In conclusion and as 2015 slips away and 2016 arrives, I know one thing for sure - I am not alone, God continues to walk with me and guides me thru the expected and unexpected and I have my family and friends that are true and close to my heart. I will be making sure I treasure them and not take time with them for granted. I miss my Dad, we had a great last conversation, but sometimes I wish I could have said more and done more and be more with him.
So there you are my recap and truth. Ilook forward to being here more and sharing all the loveliness I can find amidst life happenings.
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Job of the Week: JR has hired a sweet young thing to travel from station to station on the Yamanote Line, visiting kiosks on the platforms to relive the gentle ladies manning them so they can take a little break for a few minutes. She spends about 30 minutes at each kiosk. I could do that.
On a t-shirt: "Ambiguous". An invitation to the adventurous.


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torotto is a latest baked chocolate sweets from Meiji.
Soft matcha cream in the tiny cubic baked chocolate shells.
This tastes unique and good. I'll definitely get it again!
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People's bookshelves are strange and storytelling things. They say you can read a person's character from his library. Or lack of it. But I think anyone looking at mine would be a little confused. Certainly there are all my large stock of reference works, rendered these days rather useless by the Internet, my Dictionaries (favourite: French/Hungarian), a lot of Victorian plays, French (mostly) and English, a few favourite fiction works, from Vidal's Duluth to Catch me a Peacock and A Bullet in the Ballet, and, most often opened, a whole cabinet of books by family. Starting with more than a dozen each by brother John and myself.
But why do I have so much Australiana on the bottom shelves? And, for goodness sake, some very odd books in German! Well, the Australian books were collected by my dear, late (Australian) partner. The German ones have descended to me from my father and my Austrian grandmother. Many of them are mountaineering books, but there are two 'strangers': a book of poems by 'Klabund' (Phaidon, 1924), which are said to be translated from the Chinese, and a book of Persian fables, published by Wolf of Vienna, in 1922. Prettily printed and illustrated, but strange things to be featured in a trunk of brought-from-Europe possessions.
I hadn't heard of Klabund. But I've looked him up and he was a well-known young chap. 1890-1928. A tubercular poet of extreme tendencies, who wrote about Rasputin, Lucrezia Borgia and Mohammed, and who died young. I don't think I'll be brushing up my German to read him. But I'm a bit miffed that my Chinesiche Gedichte aren't listed amongst his worklist on Wikipedia. He sounds like the sort of bloke academics would adore researching. But why my nana?
The other is a charmingly illustrated book of tales which seems to be a 1920s mini-equivalent of those wonderful French fairytale books of the previous century. Countess d'Aulnoy and so forth. This one would be worth a bit of German study, I feel.
And it's so beautifully printed and published. Das Papageienbuch. By Ernst Roenau ...
Penny drops. 'Roenau' wasn't a real Roenau, he was a Rosenbaum. Dr Ernst Rosenbaum. One of the bothers of famous the printing firm of Brüder Rosenbaum. He was my great-grandmother, Julie's, brother, and Pepi Gansl's uncle. And the book was printed by the Gesellschaft für graphische Industrie, founded and run by the Rosenbaum family. Oh, nana, why didn't you tell us ... all these years, it just sat there and your two writer grandsons never knew ...
Well, there's only one thing to do. Das Papageienbuch has to come off the bottom back shelf and be promoted to the 'Family' cabinet!
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So if you've been following this seven part series you should be well on your way to understanding how to judge copy…whether it's for yourself or a client. This Secret Sauce process is utterly proven to improve your copy.
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Little Rice ATV Trail
The 46th most popular all terrain vehicle trail in Wisconsin.
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Near Hazelhurst in Oneida County, the Little Rice ATV Trail is a 45 mile route through scenic forest. The Little Rice ATV trail runs through the four seasons Timber Venture Forest Lands and the pristine Willow Flowage. Family trail with a variety of rest areas with access to camping and resorts.
The ATV trail system is maintained by the Little Rice ATV Riders. They are located at 4823 Willow Dam Road in Hazelhurst.
Note: Dirt bikes are prohibitted on this trail system.
Overall, Little Rice ATV Trail is the 46th most popular ATV riding trail of all 48 ATV trails in Wisconsin.


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Monday, 5 January 2009
Back in the Blogosphere & Ski Stories
Wow. So much has happened on my blog while I've been off skiing. All the scheduled posts which of course I planned, but also in terms of comments - thanks everyone, I promise I will get back to each comment one at a time once I've had some dinner!!
So I've come back from a week in the snow to find my village is snowed under as well. Not badly enough to keep us from getting home, thankfully, but a good sprinkling.
I was in two minds about whether to go on this holiday, to be honest. On the one hand there was the ongoing illness of Andy's stepdad (though we correctly predicted there's been no real change in the week we've been away - he is still stable but unresponsive), and on the other hand I'm in physio for an injury sustained last winter when I tried to snowboard.
I have tendinosis - there is a wikipedia article if you're interested - and have to do some very silly looking exercises where I bend my knee a hundred or so times a day. But my physio is fairly philosophical about the whole thing and said I could have a go at skiing so long as I was careful, so off I went.
Now, I learnt one big thing about skiing this year, on day 1, which is that if you're feeling nervous about an injury and don't commit to the turn, IT DOESN'T WORK. Ouch. The old adage "if it's worth doing, it's worth doing well" springs to mind. Someone please remind me of this next year.
Once I just decided to get on with it, it was ok... ish. I managed to ski three days in total, mostly red runs, but I could feel I was picking up bad habits to compensate for the injury so I decided to leave it for the rest of the holiday (which at least gave me a couple of days of quiet writing time in the chalet). Back to the physio in February, until then it's just back to the knee bends.
We had a lovely meal out on New Year's Eve - you can tell you've ordered the most expensive dessert on the menu when it comes with the name of the restaurant piped in chocolate on the plate!! Absolutely delicious, anyway, and we had a lovely (if very unhealthy) evening.
I haven't made any new year's resolutions, unless you count a vague intention to get back into all the good habits which I had before going on honeymoon and haven't yet re-formed.
4 comments:
- Rebecca Slater said...
That pudding looks delicious... didn't happen to bring me back some did you?? hehe glad you enjoyed it and made the right decision to have some time off piste!! xxx
- 5 January 2009 at 23:51
- Kazzy said...
I SERIOUSLY want to go traveling after reading your blog! Thanks for vicariously taking me around the other hemisphere!
- 6 January 2009 at 00:11
- Jeanne said...
Good to have you back -- the scheduled posts were great for a vicarious round-the-world trip, but there's no substitute for real, live, electonic people!
- 6 January 2009 at 00:36
- Rachel Cotterill said...
Becca - sorry, I wish there'd been enough spare to bring you some, but I somehow managed to eat it all by myself :) But feel free to drop round for chocolate (in whatever form) whenever you like!!
Kazzy - glad you're finding the trip inspiring. I met one couple on the train who've gone away for a whole year, which I really couldn't do, I love home too much!
Jeanne - it is nice to be back online, and blogging is so addictive :)
P.S. Do I get some kind of obscurity prize for 2/3 comments having the word 'vicarious'?!
- 6 January 2009 at 08:55
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Windflow Technology Gains ISO
27 June 2008
Windflow Technology has gained ISO 9001:2000 certification for its Windflow 500 wind turbine design, development, and production, as well as the activities involved in the installation and servicing of the turbines at wind farms such as Te Rere Hau on the outskirts of Palmerton North.
Windflow CEO Geoff Henderson said, " The company's ISO
9001:2000 achievement is a forerunner to achieving certification to International
Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) WT01:2001, a standard that has required a
massive commitment in terms of time and focus and is now within reach."
Windflow Technology elected to go for the most stringent IEC wind turbine standard, Version 3 Class 1A, which the company understands no other turbine manufacturer in the world has yet achieved. The majority of the design documentation and type testing reports have been completed and submitted to the certifying body, Lloyds Register, and there are no major engineering issues to address.
The ISO 9001 certification is regarded by many as a baseline activity for companies moving into international trade and export arrangements. The International Organisation for Standardisation better known as ISO falls into the same bracket of international standards as International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
For more information please contact:
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International standards and their use in technical regulations on products, production methods and services play an important role in sustainable development and trade facilitation through the promotion of safety, quality and technical compatibility.
With the increasing globalisation of markets, International Standards as opposed to regional or national standards have become critical to the trading process ensuring a level playing field for exports.


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Patience - Columns (Windows)
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DescriptionPatience - Columns is a freeware, single player, card game from an Australian developer.
The object of the game is to arrange all the cards into four suited, descending sequences from the king to the ace.
Cards are dealt in seven columns each of seven cards. Counting from the left the first four cards in columns one, two, and three are played face down, all other cards in these and all other columns are played face up. There remain three odd cards and these are placed to the right and separate from the main body of cards, face down.
Game-play is deceptively simple, a card and all cards below it can be moved onto a column where the top card of those being moved is one less and the same suit as the bottom card of the column you drop it onto. When a column is cleared completely only a king can be moved to the top of that column. The three cards placed separately to the main body can only be turned over and used when an ace appears at the bottom of a column, and the face down cards in columns one, two and three can only be accessed when the face-up cards have been moved elsewhere.
The game has no save/load function and no sound but it does keep statistics on games won and lost and it allows the player to change the card backs. It is played entirely with the mouse.
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One day I was just browsing through Ebay, as you do, when I came across a sewing pattern I'd used as a young sewist in the 1980s. I just had to buy it! I've found and bought other sewing patterns that I bought and sewed in the 1980s and this has led to me developing a love for 1980s sewing patterns. Perhaps this could be a new sub-category of the Vintage Pattern Pledge, 'Blast from the Past'…patterns you've previously owned, sewn and re-discovered!
This particular pattern is Style 4824 with a copyright date of 1986. There are collar and sleeve or sleeveless options so it's quite a versatile pattern. The first and only time I sewed it, I made View 2 in a rust coloured poly-cotton fabric that I also used for the self-covered buttons. The shirt did actually work well in a poly-cotton and I wore for quite a few years.
These 1980's patterns make me think back to what was happening and what I was doing at that time. It was quite a decade of change for me growing up then. In 1986 I was in art college and having quite frankly, a rare old time. I remember going along to weekly art college discos wearing what I thought was a very cool combo of Doc Martens and (very) mini-skirts, dancing along to a varied and eclectic range of music, including The Communards 'Don't leave me this way', Doctor and the Medics 'Spirit in the sky' and Farley Jackmaster Funk with 'Love can't turn around'. Alongside this chart music they also played much cooler non-chart stuff too, especially James Brown, Louis Prima and Stevie Wonder. What can I say? I was young! It was the 1980s!
Sewing it Up
So, back to the sewing in 2016. One thing about using vintage patterns is that sometimes they have been used before. This one had. The descriptions said the size 10 had been cut out but the cut off bits were there. They were…but not all of them! I pieced all the bits together that I could and did a 'best guess-timate' of the missing bits, which seemed to work out fine, thank goodness. Just something to be aware of but it's all part of the charm and sometimes challenge of sewing used vintage patterns!
I was very surprised at how challenging this shirt pattern was, much more than I expected or remembered it to be. The shawl collar with its back neck seam and the gathered front is tricky to sew and get right. I have a new respect and admiration for the sewing skills of 'young me' in tackling such a deceptively complicated garment!
I wanted to make a more challenging pattern from my surprisingly favourite decade of the 1980's (who'd have thought!), something just a bit different from the batwing sleeved tops I absolutely love, adore and can't get enough of. This 'Blast from the past' has certainly lived up to that…and there's another Vintage Pattern Pledge 'Blast from the past' from 1980 coming up soon on my blog. Love the music from that year!
Thanks Joyce! I really love the shape of the blouse and have such a soft spot for Style patterns. Your blouse is absolutely perfect for contemporary wear and though the floral print is quite 1980s I think the colours give it a great modern twist.
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After two days travel – well, one and a half, but still – we deserved some time off. Having found a simple but comfortable guesthouse, with good food, with a new discovery on the drinks front - Lao Lemon, which is a shot of the undrinkable local whisky made drinkable by mixing it with fresh lemon juice and ice, the gin tonic alternative in remoter Laos where gin and/or tonic are not available -, and with Wifi and all, we didn't move much anymore after arriving in Luang Nam Tha. We took a leisurely walk, across the river and then through a few local villages: not fantastically exciting. The villages we have seen so far appeared much more authentic than what one finds around Luang Nam Tha, a place clearly benefitting from the tourist industry and the economic boost that come with it. An afternoon on the bicycle was more entertaining, although like the busses, these have been designed for Lao people, considerably shorter than we are. Observing village life, people's activities in the fields - and the ever present wedding party, it is the season -, but once again, things are relatively developed here. Even if there are minority people around, they have long switched to Western dress. Strikingly, some of the children here have learned some English words, like 'pen': sad to see that the influx of western tourists here has created a begging culture otherwise absent in this country (with the exception of monks asking their food alms, of course, but that is something else).
(1) the start of our walk.
(2, 3) a local village
(4, 5) local people going about their business
(6) the rice paddies
One of my favourite places in town is always the market, and in that respect we were not disappointed. An early morning stroll in between the stalls filled with every conceivable food stuff is a very enjoyable activity, and Laos markets add the smell: not of rotting foods in the back, as so many other places I remember, but of fresh mint and fresh coriander, and all the other herbs that are being used in Lao food. There is a brisk trade in chicken and geese, the sales woman stuffing the fluttering bird into a plastic bag so as to ensure the utmost freshness. On the other side of the market buffalo ears, tails and feet are sharing the table with everything else from the animal, nothing is being wasted.
(7, 8) The market, just imagine the smell of mint and coriander
(and imagine the chilies, we'll talk about food later…)
(9) and after the shopping, on the way back home again
(10) Also in the market, the local basket seller – this time we could not withstand the temptation
Luang Nam Tha is in fact two towns, the old one having been so badly damaged in the war in the 70s that it was decided to built a new town, 7 km further. The new town is where everything happens, and where the tourist industry is based. A multitude of guesthouses, restaurants, laundry services and trekking agencies that also rent bikes, plus all the foreigners to justify this infrastructure. The main street is totally given over to tourism, normal Lao people not associated with the business don't come here. There is a night market with food stalls, for foreigners, the back-packing variety mainly. Can be a little overwhelming! But then, we are also chilling out here. Did I, in a previous life, comment on the laptop tribe? Well, here they are, once again, mostly with humble netbooks, lined up in the restaurant, at each and every table. And we are part of that, too, of course, otherwise you wouldn't be reading this.
(11) well, OK then, there are still some minority people left in Luang Nam Tha


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The winning side!
As people of faith, when we first come to Jesus, often it was a crisis in our lives that led us to seek help, and in turn find that help in God. Sometimes we just don't know what to do or where to turn in lifes crisis times, or just life's problems for that matter. Do we know even the type of help we seek? Is it a temporary fix to get us out of trouble? Or is it something deeper, more lasting?
Psalm 32: 7-8 says basically: (7) God you are a hiding place for me, there you'll protect me in troubled times. I'll be surrounded by victorious songs. (8) And you God, will guide and teach me the best way in life, also with that, I'll have your advise and protection.
Wow, good remedy for hard times I say. So when crisis, troubles, perplexing problems – life – comes our way, He's there, He's helping, He's listening and active. And with our willingness to allow Him to say and do the perfect things to 'fix' our needs, and not try in our wisdom or strength, we'll soon be through the battles and storms. We are on the winning side, we must never forget that.
Rev. Stephen Hills


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Heather Drain is VIDEO WATCHDOG's newest contributor, appearing for the first time in VW 160 (on its way to our subscribers now). Her work has also appeared in the pages of SCREEM, ULTRA VIOLENT, THE EXPLOITATION JOURNAL and several other publications, and her blog Mondo Heather can be found here. The only predictable thing about Heather is her unpredictability, and her Favorite Discs list takes a different approach than the others I've posted here, being written in paragraph form, amounting to fewer than five titles, and veering entirely away from our staple genres of horror and fantasy. However, since our point in publishing these lists is to direct VW's readers to interesting and offbeat DVD releases which may have escaped their notice, Heather's endorsements certainly fill the bill. - TL
By Heather Drain
2010 has honestly been one of those blur years, when plenty of great stuff has come out but, due to circumstances, finances and creative ADD, I have not had the chance to properly devour a lot of the discs that have come out this year.
That said, there have been a few recent standout titles that I have had the good fortune to watch. Before going into my brief but mega-worthy list, I will preface it by saying that, yes, one of the four titles was technically released in 2009. But as someone who prescribes to the notion that years do not end and begin cleanly and instead bleed into one another, it works. Plus it's my Favorites list and I will fudge if I want to! Anyway, off to the titles!
First up is the Tribeca film release THE WILD & WONDERFUL WHITES OF WEST VIRGINIA. A documentary produced by Johnny Knoxville's company Dickhouse, this is a gritty and unforgettable peek into the famous/infamous White family from Boone County, West Virginia. They garnered national recognition back in the day for patriarch D. Ray White's unique brand of traditional Appalachian folk dancing. In the wake of D. Ray's violent death, his son, Jesco White, took up the mantle and got even more notoriety thanks to appearances on the DIFFERENT DRUMMER series on PBS. The popularity of that led to the now cult shorts, DANCING OUTLAW and DANCING OUTLAW 2: JESCO GOES TO HOLLYWOOD. Between then (1994) and now, Jesco, along with his bad-ass sister Mamie, have become underground folk heroes. The White family has even been immortalized in numerous songs, the best being Hank Williams III's "Legend of D. Ray White," which is well utilized in the film.
Charles Bukowski had the quote that nobody suffers like the poor and this fact is all too clear here. The heartbreak of being stuck in a poor, working-class rut, thanks to locale, class status, an extremely faulty system and self destructive behavior that is often the result of the prior factors, is deeply felt. Being someone who has worked and been related to people very similar to this family, it hit especially close to home. The biggest impact, though, is seeing the charismatic Jesco and Mamie, who both are the big survivors of the brood, dealing with the shrapnel of life around them. While you get a good peek into the younger Whites, it is these two that will stay with you long after the disc has played.
Speaking of folk heroes, there's also Troma's two-disc release of Phillipe Mora's MAD DOG MORGAN. While I still feel like this film probably should have been in the hands of a company like Criterion, since it is basically an art film more in the vein of someone like Sam Peckinpah than, say, Lloyd Kaufman, it is still nice to have this film in print and getting some cherry extras. It's a beautifully made film with one of Dennis Hopper's best performances as Dan "Mad Dog" Morgan, an Irishman with a good heart who ends up becoming an outlaw and bush ranger in the wilds of Australia. For anyone used to seeing Hopper playing manic-eyed and occasionally scenery-gnawing characters, it is refreshing seeing him playing such a vulnerable man.
A film that has absolutely nothing to do with Australian folk heroes or documentaries but does have a connection to dancing is the Amero Brothers' cult adult film musical BLONDE AMBITION. Video-X-Pix went all out for this release, complete with a beautiful print, a well-written booklet, a B&W promo card of star Suzy Mandel, two small strips of the negative and two commentary tracks, the first being from John Amero himself. If you're not familiar with the man, John (along with his brother, Lem) was a pioneer in the world of fringe cinema, helming such early sexploitation gems as THE LUSTING HOURS and, later on, BACCHANALE. It's a great commentary from a warm, talkative man. The second one is from none other than the late, great Jamie Gillis. While Jamie's part in the film is a glorified but funny cameo as an effete porn director, his commentary is also fun with a lot of good stories from the days when the adult genre had real actors and filmmakers. The film itself is a frothy and charmingly silly musical comedy centering on the ambitious Kane Sisters, Candy (Dory Devon) and Sugar (former BENNY HILL actress Mandel.) The sex is secondary to the film making, so even if seeing the dirty hula in action isn't your bag, the odds are still good that you will enjoy this film.
Another disc that rocked my world in 2010 was the documentary about the classic Canadian progressive band Rush with RUSH: BEYOND THE LIGHTED STAGE. This Zoe Records release has lots of rare, behind the scenes footage, some dating back to their pre-Neal Peart days, this film is a dream with the perfect mix of live performances and interviews, giving a rounded view of this amazing band. It's another two-disc beast with loads of extras, so it truly is a prog rock feast.
So when you think of this year's releases, as we begin to edge ever so closer to 2011, please think of gritty documentaries, history-based art films, MGM styled musicals with enough skin and sequins to please the eye and of course, Canadian progressive rock bands. I know I will!


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Last year, DIRTYBIRD label head Claude VonStroke introduced Brooklyn based duo Walker & Royce to his plethora of loyal campers at the DIRTYBIRD Campout. When VonStroke brought them out to open for his Birdhouse stage at Mysteryland this summer, it was clear that he was drawn to their unique tech house production style. It's then no surprise that tomorrow Walker & Royce will be celebrating their official welcome into the DIRTYBIRD family with the release of their debut EP on the imprint, Boy.
If you're a DIRTYBIRD fanatic, like most of us, you've definitely already heard "I.T.B." VonStroke's been keeping it in his back pocket as a secret weapon for his own live sets for a while. Walker & Royce set the tone of the track with a crisp beat and a bouncy percussion, and from the first iteration of the inescapably dirty vocal loop, the track is nothing but booty shaking tech house—straight DIRTYBIRD. Walker & Royce keep the listener enthralled throughout by progressively building the track with some expertly manipulated synths leaving a well defined imprint on the overall release.
This is definitely one track and EP that can not be missed. Pick up a copy when it drops tomorrow.
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Spontaneous Idealists like me are creative, lively and open-minded people. I am humorous and dispose of a contagious zest for life. My enthusiasm and sparkling energy inspires others and sweeps them along. I enjoy being together with other people and often have an uncanny intuition for their motivations and potential. Spontaneous Idealists are masters of communication and very amusing and gifted entertainers. Fun and variety are guaranteed when I am around. However, I may be sometimes somewhat too impulsive in dealing with others and can hurt people without really meaning to do so, due to my direct and sometimes critical nature.
I am a keen and alert observer; I miss nothing which is going on around me. In extreme cases, I tend to be oversensitive and exaggeratedly alert and I am inwardly always ready to jump. Life for me is an exciting drama full of emotionality. However, I quickly become bored when things repeat themselves and too much detailed work and care is required. My creativity, imaginativeness and originality become most noticeable when developing new projects and ideas - I then leave the meticulous implementation of the whole to others. On the whole, Spontaneous Idealists attach great value to their inner and outward independence and do not like accepting a subordinate role. I therefore have problems with hierarchies and authorities.
As a Spontaneous Idealist I am one of the extroverted personality types. I enjoy working in a colorfully diverse group of people who interest and inspire you. Working in a "secluded room" is not my thing. My sense for the motivation of others is almost eerie. I constantly observe that which happens around me and have no problems noticing all sorts of things simultaneously or communicating with several people at the same time.
My enthusiasm is contagious to others and that is why my colleagues and friends all appreciate me as an important member of their team. My articulateness and sensitive ear for nuances in conversations with others obviously play a role. For me, this team-oriented environment is very important because I need to receive positive feedback and recognition like other people need air to breathe. It would be practically impossible for me to contribute everything I need to maintain my high ideals, by myself.
Variety, challenges and fun are important ingredients in my area of responsibility. I appreciate receiving new stimulation, meeting new people, and continuously collecting unique experiences. However, too much routine, too much detail work and the necessity to stick with one project for a very long time is not my thing. My strength are creative problem solutions, discovering new ways and opportunities, the conceptualization of new ideas on one hand, but not so much their concrete implementation on the other. Ideally, I have a staff of capable colleagues that takes over my concepts and runs with them.


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2 baritones and 2 tubas - Grade 3
Composed by Traditional. Edited by null. Book. Duration 2 minutes 15 seconds. Published by Kendor Music Inc (KN.18139).
Item Number: KN.18139
Popularized by Aaron Copland in his 1944 score for Appalachian Spring, this 19th-century Shaker dance tune lends itself beautifully to the rich sound of a baritone-tuba quartet. This fun-loving, theme-and-variations treatment gives each member of the group interesting material to play. Duration 2:15.


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Human artist Jill Miller is stalking Sasquatch in the forests of Southern Cascadia!! She claims it is "performance art" and calls it "Waiting for Bigfoot"!! -- WHY ARE HUMANS ALWAYS OBSESSED WITH OUR FEET?!! Is it because theirs are so puny?! -- She will be putting spy cameras around the forest that will send live pictures of Sasquatch to Norwich Gallery in Human city of San Francisco where effete, black-turtleneck-wearing Humans will treat unsuspecting Sasquatch as texts to be read all the while fantasizing about our feet!! THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE!!!
Perverted Human artists must justify their "performance art" to councils of elder Humans in order to get continued supplies of Human feed that they are unwilling to gather on their own... LISTEN TO THE HUMAN'S ARTSY FARTSY SQUEEKINGS:
Miller postulates that Bigfoot is a metaphor for the natural human desire for mystery and the unknown. In an age that is hallmarked by scientific investigation, Western societies are occupied with the desire to know everything, such as determining how to stop the aging process, or defining which compounds comprise the surface of Mars. Scientific instruments are finely tuned to both our macro and microcosms. Carl Jung explains in Psychology and the Occult that despite the age of materialism and rationalistic enlightenment in Western societies, intense scientific and public interest in ESP, spirits, and invisible forces flourish. Scientific inquiry, in a pure academic approach, does not refute the unknown, but opens doors to pursuing it. Artist Jill Miller is interested in peeling back the layers of fear, irony, and pop culture that surround Bigfoot and creating a space that will generate larger questions of belief and inquiry.
I AM NOT A METAPHOR!!! What does any of that have to do with putting spy cameras in our forests?! Why don't Humans learn to make real art, like MOSS SCULPTURES, BARK MOSAICS, or PINECONE MOBILES?! THOSE LOOK NICE AND EVERYONE CAN ENJOY THEM!!!
Maybe I should make my own "performance art" by going to Norwich Gallery and pummelling it to the ground with boulders!! I will call my work: "HUMANS ARE A METAPHOR FOR PUMMELED MEAT!!!"


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Hello, everyone!
CP Around The Clock kicked off at 12:00pm (PST), on server Marshmallow, and it ended 24 hours later. This 24 hour party was outstanding! That's right; 24 hours – straight! Who knew this was possible?
In the Summer of 2016, Daisydoo14 created CP Around The Clock for the fun of it. Also, considering it was the Summer, she acknowledged that more people would be free to take part in this event. For its first debut, the event was successful! A lot of people found it fun, which is the main objective of this event. However, 24 hours of Club Penguin is as difficult as it sounds; not every hour was fully occupied.
To celebrate New Year's of 2017, Daisy decided bring back CPATC. It was at this one, I became more interested. I managed to reserve and hour and everyone was pumped for it. Unfortunately, this particular event didn't go far.
Bots. And a lot of them.
Someone wanted to ruin the fun, so they deployed several bot penguins across the party – and they were almost unstoppable. I never got to host my hour because of these bots. It was so cruel of them to do this because CPATC is not your ordinary event. It takes a lot of time to prepare it. It is such a shame that one penguin can just ruin that within a matter of seconds.
So, CPATC was officially cancelled during its run.
Daisy was devastated. So was I. I tried my best to keep it going but everyone was tired of the bots. We ended up giving in which made the bots the new worst enemy to our community.
A month later, I proposed an idea to Daisy. During January, I created the So Long CP project. I was determined to revive CPATC from its plunge and I wanted to make it successful again. Daisy and I negotiated and, before long, the event was placed into my flippers. At the time, I was very excited, but the fear of bots never escaped my mind. Daisy warned me about the stress this caused her; I started to feel a bit nervous. On the other hand, I was very determined and I believed that incorporating this event into the So Long CP project would make it even better!
Two months later, CP Around The Clock made its third debut. And it blew me away.
The stress of finding just as many people as last time was higher than I anticipated and there was a lot of drama involved before the event kicked off. I took on board that every host during this event had to be someone I could trust and rely on. For CPATC to be successful, it needs dedication from the community. It costed a few friendships of mine to find the dream team for this event, and it paid off -luckily! Continue reading


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The United Nations is conducting a Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, under the presidency of Fiji. Pope Francis has renewed his call to action in a message he sent Frank Bainimarama, Prime Minister of the Fiji Islands, President of the 23rd Session of the Conference of States Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-23), taking place in Bonn from November 6-17, 2017. The message was read during the November 16 session.
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You have to admit, the Una Burke AW11 lookbook is pretty creepy and unsettling. As though taken from a Marilyn Manson or Nine Inch Nail music video, there is a Gothic element to this photoshoot that is entirely inspired by the leather accessories it is showcasing.
Photographed by Andreas Waldschuetz and Steffan Sappert, the Una Burke AW11 lookbook looks like it is shot in an old, abandoned dungeon. The post-production of the photos themselves also give the entire catalog an antiquated aesthetic. Hauntingly erotic, there is also a fetish feel to the entire shoot, which makes the experience of looking through each image quite voyeuristic.
The Una Burke AW11 lookbook was eerily styled by Adia Trischler. Of course, it doesn't seem like she had a tough time pulling looks since the model appears to be wearing only harnesses.
Fashionable Prosthetics
Leather Harness Fashions
Cage Bra Editorials
Cheetos-Hued Hair
Medical Brace Couture
The Una Burke AW11 Lookbook is Erotically Unsettling
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Today I took a look at the amazing Moran Prizes finalist portrait and photography exhibition! The exhibition finishes this weekend so try and get along if you're in the local Sydney area.
My favourites were the magnificent portraits of Kirk Pengilly (Titled Never Tear Us Apart) by Ernesto Arrisueno and Robyn Nevin(Titled Conversation) by Vincent Fantauzzo. Such brilliant work!


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JFE to build 26MW of PV in Japan
Japanese EPC provider JFE Engineering has started building a 26.2MW PV project on a former golf course north of Tokyo.
Hanwha Q Cells will supply roughly 105,000 modules for the plant, a JFE Engineering spokesperson tells Recharge, without disclosing the terms of the deal.
Nagano-based health-food provider Sunny Health will operate the project in Sukagawa, Fukushima prefecture, after it is completed in March 2015.
Tokyo-based JFE Engineering has become increasingly active in the Japanese solar market over the past year.
Last August, it secured an order to build roughly 21.7MW of utility-scale solar on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.
And in June, it revealed plans to help power facility specialist Kyudenko build and manage 50MW of solar installations throughout the country.


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Butternut squash is typically harvested from home gardens around the first frost of winter and is available year-round in supermarkets. Baking butternut squash in the oven requires little effort and results in a tender, flavorful side dish. You can eat it as-is or use it in recipes that call for winter squash. As a general rule, 1 pound of butternut squash will serve approximately four people.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Wash the butternut squash under cool, running water, scrubbing lightly with a vegetable brush to remove external dirt. Blot dry with a paper towel and place the squash onto a large cutting board.
Cut the squash in half lengthwise with a sturdy butcher's knife. Use a spoon to scoop out the strings and seeds from inside each squash half. Discard the seeds and strings and set the squash aside.
Fill a large baking dish with 1/4 inch of water and place the butternut squash halves inside with the cut sides facing down. Place the pan in the oven and bake, uncovered, for about 45 minutes or until the squash is easily pierced with a fork.
Remove the pan from the oven and transfer the baked butternut squash to a serving dish, with the cut sides facing up. Brush melted butter or margarine over the cut sides using a basting brush, and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese or brown sugar, if desired.
Serve the baked butternut squash immediately for best results, or store in a covered container in the refrigerator for up to three days before discarding any unused portion. Reheat in the oven at 350 degrees for eight to 10 minutes or in the microwave for three to five minutes.


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READ THIS ONE BECAUSE I AM IN IT!! Time spent worrying about Morris is part of the natural order of things around here. Herself and I have our worry schedule just about sorted these days - kids, places, Morris, various techy in laws, Morris, England's sporting prowess(Herself refuses to subscribe to this one), Morris, menopause's male and female, and when that lot are suitably worried about, we fill our spare time with more concerns about...well Morris mainly. Morris-based worries are built upon two foundations First, we fret about the things he does to himself, and then we are forced to consider the threat he poses to the world around us. Self damage is frequent and very seldom cheap to repair. He's never gnawed his own leg off or anything (cue chorus of "yet") but the headfirst, bang-crashity-boom approach to life that all bull terriers employ has left him with a repertoire of structural damages rarely found in a single dog- or at least one that is still alive. Mere annoyances like chair leg splinters in his lips, sunburn on his fat belly and the countless bric-a-brac items he's scoffed and blocked up his bum with over the years, would be two a penny if only they didn't end up costing 50 pounds and upwards. Major catastrophes of the home wrecking kind, which is Morris's specialist subject by miles, can run to hundreds of pounds each but as I point out to Herself at least three times a week, how many times has Morris saved us from being burgled? How many flannel footed scumbags have thought better of it, after casing our joint only to witness the terrifying phenomenon that is Morris head butting the side gate off its hinges to get at a passing earwig? Once, after being taunted by a particularly disrespectful woodlouse, Morris made it clean through the gate, snapping the jaw eroded timber bars with a mighty crack and scattering a posse of nearby dustmen like ninepins."Bleed'nell Mate', quoth the first refuse technician able to draw a coherent breath,'You can't lend me yer dog could yer-I've got the Muvverin Law coming over next week.' Normal worries apart, this time Morris is reeeealy caused us concern. You see, it's been over three weeks since his last disaster, and the suspense is killing us. It's like living with an unexploded bomb. The way things are going it'll be a blessed relief when I waddle into my office to find that Morris has eaten my briefcase again or pee'd on something essential. At least this awful waiting will be at an end. I'd even consider a mangled briefcase covered in slobber a bit of a let-off, compared to some of the unspeakable crimes Morris could be gathering. What if his on going resentment at being excluded from flopping out on the posh chaiars finally erupts? I'd trip lightly down the stairs to greet the new day, only to find myself thigh deep in stuffing, sofa springs and designer fabric. I'd be instantly murdered in a hail of hysterical screaming and flying spittle and for days afterwards, every time a fragment of soft furnishing appeared in Morris's poo, Herself would totally re-kill me because of 'what I'd allowed him to do'. Considering that there are at least 30 potential catastrophes contained within every room of this house and that's not counting the traditional standby's of plague, pestilence, famine or drought all of which Morris can conjure up without breaking sweat is it any wonder that sleep is at a premium these days? As a welcome diversion in this time of impending trauma, Morris and I have contributed our entire technical incompetence to the Internet. Yes folks, the World Wide Web now has a bemused beardy bloke and a brainless bull terrier caught up in it. We campign under the banner of firstname.lastname@example.com and it's all thanks to an email Morris got from a fan in Calgary- that's Calgary, Alberta. The Canadian Calgary. The one that's a very long way away but it's still heard of us. How very important we are these days. Mrs. Marty Schacht emailed Dogs Today and said kind Canadian things about Morris's exploits.Unable to reply e-mdiately, I enquired of a wired up colleague as to how many degrees in electronics one required to exploit the Internet. 'Er, s'easy Tel. You jus' click fings wiv the mouse an' that.' And do you know, he's absolutely right. In fact, the only fear I now have about the Internet, is how much my enjoyment of it is eventually going to cost me in phone bills. Of course! That's what Morris's next great disaster is going to be. I'll log off the 'net after surfing a riveting web site devoted to hanging baskets or something, whereupon Morris will plonk his stupid nose on my keyboard and by the luck that has cursed me all my life, he'll connect me to 'firstname.lastname@example.com'. It'll be three days before I notice it and by that time I'll be 200 pounds down. What fun I'll have explaining that little lot to Herself. Oh God, please let Morris wee on the bloody carpet-just once more. END


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The other day I decided I needed some games for work so my younger clients have something to do while we're talking. I went to the store and bought one of those checkers/chess sets thinking it'd be just as great as the smooth, durable wooden sets I remember from childhood. Turns out most sets nowadays are made out the cheapest, thinnest cardboard available, not to be out-cheapened by the plastic tiddlywink-like pieces that get lost in the carpet in a nanosecond. I knew I needed something sturdy, something fun, and something with replaceable pieces. With all of that in mind, I trepedatiously embarked into the world of board game making! Join me in this adventure and you too can build a sturdy, homemade checker set you can be proud of.
The checker pieces are simple to make, they just require a handful of glass vase beads, paper of your choice, some tracing, some cutting, and a gluing agent (I used mod podge; you can also use silicon glue). If you've ever made glass magnets you'll know that these are exactly the same--you just don't glue the magnet on!
-Mod Podge
-Paint brush for the mod podge
-30 round glass beads (1-1.5 inch diameter)
-2 different sheets of scrapbooking paper (I chose sparkly blue and silver)
-Wooden square (or rectangle that you cut down)
1) Trace your glass beads onto the scrapbooking paper you've chosen. You might want to trace a few, cut a few, so then you know which tracing goes with which bead. When I did it the husband started playing with all of the beads after I'd traced everything--I had no idea which tracing went with which bead leading to a gluing and cutting fiasco.
2) Smear some mod podge (not modge podge as I've always called it) onto the side of the paper you want facing up--then stick the glass bead onto the paper. I also mod podged the back of the paper so that it was smooth and so the sides didn't come up. I waited to do that until the first part was somewhat dry as I pushed out any air bubbles I saw forming. I also made 3 queens for each side in case the stacking didn't work. I did that by making a little crown out of the opposite color paper. I glued the crown to the main paper, then glued that all to the glass bead.
3) Let dry overnight and admire you cute little checkers pieces.
4) Cut your wood down to size. My checkerboard wood came from the as-is section of Ikea. It's been sitting in our closet for a while (the original intention was shelving...but it didn't work out) and I was very happy to find a use for this nice black walnut piece. We cut it down to 12x15 (the extra 3 inches wide give a place for you to show off the pieces you steal from your opponent).
5) Admire your lovely pieces on your newly cut board. Also you can paint the sides of your board if the cutting gave it an unpleasant color (ours was particle board beneath the wood overlay so we just used some black paint we had lying around to touch up the cut sides).
6) Draw the lines for the checkerboard and tape off the squares you want black with masking tape (and the sides in our case)
7) Using a sander, sand down the parts of the board you want to be the non-black color.
8) Wipe off the dust (we used a vacuum throughout the process) and figure out where you need to do a little more sanding.
Additional thoughts:
-You can make these game pieces for any game you'd like! A cute idea I had was have each of your children make their own piece with either a favorite animal, or a picture of themselves as the background. You'll then never have another fight about who gets what color.
Here's another idea for board game making: mancala! The husband and I made this a few years back out of a piece of wood from his backyard. We cut off the side of a log (giving it a rustic look) and made both sides flat with a band saw. Then we drilled the round holes into the board with a drill press and forstner bits. Several coats of gloss later and we had our very own mancala board! The difficulty in the project really came after we finished the board and realized the way each of us plays mancala is quite different....we have to play both versions of the game for us to be happy.


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jumpsuit topshop... shoes ebay...necklace primark...clutch primark...jacket primark...
sooo yesterday sure was exciting! i traveled to london to go to the company style blogger awards!!! it was sooo good, and i will put a whole post dedicated to the night up soon! but i needed to do an outfit post because, after all, that is what my blog is all about! :)
i was so undecided as to what to wear, i didn't really know if it would be really dressy or a bit more casual... outfit dramzzzz! so i decided to play it safe in my staple all black colour motif (literally, you cannot go wrong!!) and bought this lushh black jumpsuit from topshop. it was a simple cotton material, and on the sleeves and top part had a panel of mesh to add interest. i should have taken a photo of the back, as it had a big open slit to give it a really chic feel. it's absolutely gorgeous, and was so comfy to be in all day. i can wear this casually, on holiday, and at work - a fab buy!
i wore mahoosiveeee heels with it, they were from eBay a while ago and are Jeffrey Campbell dupes. whilst i loved the height, and they did last me all day, by the end of the night staggering around the tubes my feet were absolutely weeping, and i have two blisters to prove it. oh well, they made it look a bit more dressy! i wore my transformers-esque necklace, which acted as a centre piece for the outfit. teamed with my jacket, i quite liked the overall look :)
that was the outfit! i will be blogging about the event very soon so watch this space :) xo


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Sophisticated modeling techniques can be powerful tools for decision makers seeking to understand the effects of cancer control interventions on population trends in cancer incidence and mortality. Yet the proven value of such models in health policy is limited by legitimate concerns over lack of transparency of complex models and variability in published results from different groups. NCI's Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET) was created to promote collaboration between independent modeling groups investigating similar questions. By using the same sources of data for inputs and agreeing on uniform outcome measures, the variability in results reflects uncertainty in the effects of cancer control interventions rather than differences in design of the analysis. Further, by working together, the modeling groups can coherently explain the causes of variation. This proposal furthers the goals of CISNET by using comparative modeling approach to estimate the contributions of tobacco control and screening to reducing deaths from lung cancer. Over the next 5 years, major trials will report results on the efficacy of helical CT screening for lung cancer. The five CISNET models described in this proposal represent an existing infrastructure with which to synthesize these new data with existing data from observational and cohort studies and tumor registries. This group of models is poised to translate trial results into population-level effects and to project trends in lung cancer incidence and mortality if these policy interventions were adopted alone or in combination. We propose to disseminate our results in ways that will allow decision makers to prioritize one or more specific interventions to achieve the greatest reduction in lung cancer deaths.
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|Levy, David T; Huang, An-Tsun; Havumaki, Joshua S et al. (2016) The role of public policies in reducing smoking prevalence: results from the Michigan SimSmoke tobacco policy simulation model. Cancer Causes Control 27:615-25
|Holford, Theodore R; Levy, David T; Meza, Rafael (2016) Comparison of Smoking History Patterns Among African American and White Cohorts in the United States Born 1890 to 1990. Nicotine Tob Res 18 Suppl 1:S16-29
|Cherng, Sarah T; Tam, Jamie; Christine, Paul J et al. (2016) Modeling the Effects of E-cigarettes on Smoking Behavior: Implications for Future Adult Smoking Prevalence. Epidemiology 27:819-26
|Levy, David; Mohlman, Mary Katherine; Zhang, Yian (2016) Estimating the Potential Impact of Tobacco Control Policies on Adverse Maternal and Child Health Outcomes in the United States Using the SimSmoke Tobacco Control Policy Simulation Model. Nicotine Tob Res 18:1240-9
|Levy, David T; Meza, Rafael; Zhang, Yian et al. (2016) Gauging the Effect of U.S. Tobacco Control Policies From 1965 Through 2014 Using SimSmoke. Am J Prev Med 50:535-542
|Tramontano, Angela C; Sheehan, Deirdre F; McMahon, Pamela M et al. (2016) Evaluating the impacts of screening and smoking cessation programmes on lung cancer in a high-burden region of the USA: a simulation modelling study. BMJ Open 6:e010227
|Levy, David T; Lindblom, Eric N; Fleischer, Nancy L et al. (2015) Public Health Effects of Restricting Retail Tobacco Product Displays and Ads. Tob Regul Sci 1:61-75
|Ten Haaf, Kevin; de Koning, Harry J (2015) Overdiagnosis in lung cancer screening: why modelling is essential. J Epidemiol Community Health 69:1035-9
|Tramontano, Angela C; Schrag, Deborah L; Malin, Jennifer K et al. (2015) Catalog and comparison of societal preferences (utilities) for lung cancer health states: results from the Cancer Care Outcomes Research and Surveillance (CanCORS) study. Med Decis Making 35:371-87
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A Man was walking down a street when he heard a voice from behind: u take one more step, a brick will fall down on your head And kill you." The man stopped and a big brick fell right in front of him. The man was astonished. He went on,and after a while he! was going to cross the road. Once again the voice shouted: "Stop! Stand still! If you take one more step a car will run over you, and you will die." The man did as he was instructed, just as a car came careening around the corner, barely missing him. "Where are you?" the man asked. "Who are you?" "I am your guardian angel," the voice answered. "Oh, yeah?" the man asked. "And where the hell were you when I got Married?"
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