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Stand Number: 812
Hydra Creative Ltd
We are an award winning, full-service digital agency based in both Sheffield and London. Client satisfaction and creativity are at the heart of all that we do. Our expert in-house team of digital experts are built up of multi-skilled individuals who work collaboratively to achieve outstanding results for our clients. We ensure that every client is given a tailored, bespoke experience to maximise client satisfaction and return on investment.
With over a decade of experience, our team's approach to client projects if by first gaining an understanding of what the client wants to achieve. Using the client's brief, our team will then thoroughly research the business's message, industry, and competitors to ensure the highest quality client experience that delivers results. Being a full-service digital agency means, whether you`re needing a bespoke website creating or an effective SEO campaign to improve your rankings to put you ahead of competitors, we are able to create an appropriate plan that suits your needs.
Our services range from:
Web Design & Development.
We understand that every client has different requirements for their websites, which is why we always deliver a bespoke experience. Businesses come to us because they are looking for a digital solution that perfectly matches their branding. Our team will develop fully bespoke, seamless websites that engage your target audience, improve user experience, and ultimately encourage customer enquiries.
Our team do not just stop at websites, they have extensive experience in creating bespoke systems to assist you in managing your new website's content and future updates through building content management systems. We can also develop robust intranets, and intricate CRM systems to support your business.
Graphic Design & Branding.
Every element of graphic design and branding is underpinned by a thought process, collaboration and intensive research. We strive to produce work of the highest quality, and take pride in the effective results that our clients achieve through our designs. Honest designs with no gimmicks.
Whether it be a multi-channel campaign, a complete rebrand, or simply a business card design, our design team work hard to achieve complete client satisfaction, with not an ego in sight.
When we are approached to work on your brand, we make sure we fully understand your business. From your current brand identity to client behaviours, the more we understand, the better a job we can do. We undertake thorough background research during the initial stages, including looking at your competitors and who your target audience are. This helps to ensure that the outcome is a strong and relevant brand identity that can effectively carry your business forward, and ultimately encourage customer loyalty and brand recognition.
Digital Marketing.
Digital marketing is the art of getting your brand - and chosen message - seen online, either through earned exposure, or by carefully planning paid-for search campaigns that will boost your position, allowing you to be placed in front of the right customers at the right time.
Our campaigns are built through extensive research, client collaboration, and data analysis, ensuring that your digital marketing strategy is targeted and will bring your business the most efficient ROI possible.
Here at Hydra we are experts in getting you the results you need. Whether that be immediate results through an effective and targeted Pay Per Click (PPC) Campaign or long term organic growth in the form of a carefully planned Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Campaign, our in-house team can maximise your customer reach, digitally.
Video & Multimedia.
Having recently being nominated for a national award, our videographers and animators can create compelling strategies for your video marketing to utilise this versatile and innovative medium. Video is a dynamic and effective form of marketing that conveys a strong message to your target audience. While animation and 3D visualisation can effectively convey how a product works, which helps provide your users with clear, accurate information about what your business provides.
We are coming to you at the London business show to have a chat about what we can do to help your business reach that next step in digital imaginativeness. When we put our heads together, we're Hydra.
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Norman Pattiz is the executive chairman of PodcastOne. As of August 2017, Pattiz's company has developed a new app for people to listen to audio programs. Listeners have can have access to easy communication with radio presenters and other listeners via a messaging feature. In addition to messaging, they can also search for exclusive articles and photos. With Podcast's new reward system, users can rack up points and redeem them for premium features and services. The points can also be used for getting discounted features or viewing exclusive programs (i.e.: special virtual reality). The PodcastOne app can be accessed on Android and Apple devices. The company has created an alliance with Mandt VR to develop VR and spherical videos. PodcastOne is the largest provider of podcasts that uses advertising as its business model. The most popular programs on the internet are broadcasted in the PodcastOne network library.
Pattiz was appointed by President Clinton to become part of the Broadcasting Board of Governors of the U.S.A in 2001. Then, he became reappointed again by President Bush in 2002. Podcast One was established by Pattiz in 2012 after founding Westwood One in 1974. His idea for PodcastOne came from Kit Gray. When Mr. Pattiz got admitted formally into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2009, the Library of American Broadcasting awarded him the Giants of Broadcasting Award. In 2010, he established Courtside Entertainment Group. Pattiz holds affiliations with the Council of Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Relations.
Outside of his broadcasting career, Pattiz is the chairman of Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Security Laboratories. He serves as a regent for the University of California system. Reading business news is one of the things that Pattiz recommends to anybody. Every workday for Pattiz is extraordinary as he performs nearly every function due to the size of his company. Once he hears an idea, he checks if it could be implemented. Every job that Pattiz held was a good experience for him. Therefore, he has been satisfied. Taking initiative and dedication are the strategies that have been beneficial for him in business growth. Instead of reading books, Pattiz listens to on-demand audiobooks. His ideas were influenced by important figures in his life, such as Bill Paley, Steve Ross, and the boss at his first job. Norman Pattiz has been married to Dr. Mary Turner Pattiz for almost three decades. Learn more: http://normanpattiz.com/author/npattiz/

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I recently made some accounts in the various Artix games, and I currently made this new alter-ego with quite a precise idea in mind-to the create one of the most epicly insane (or was insanely epic ? Well, let's not indulge in details) characters of AQ and AQW. Now, bear in mind that when I say that I don't mean "strong" or "cool" (not that I would mind that, though...) because it would be quite a delusional fantasy.The very purpose of such a character is actually to make fun of epicness and "ownage"-some kind of parody of the very well-known mythological hero Achilles (the name sounds pretty similar and is NO coincidence) and all powerhouse characters ever made.I think it's quite appropriate because it's pretty obviously the very same approach that Artix developers themselves use on that matter.
Another quite interesting thing I will try to do is to test the game somehow (especially AQW) and see how far a character can go by only using "basic" equipment (non-members, non-AC).For those who will encounter the insane warrior during his crusade against evil, chaos and pretty much everything with a red name over his head, I'd like to say that I won't accept friendship requests until I'm around level 40 and I'll generally give priority to the 13 Chaos Lords quest for practical reasons-but I'll obviously be glad to help (and be helped) in furious boss battles.
With that said, here are the links to both Atreides accounts:
AQ: http://aq.battleon.com/build30/charview.asp?temp=83701246
AQW: http://www.aq.com/aw-character.asp?id=XAtreidesX
I will might even decide to write down a couple of stories about Atreides deeds sometimes - who knows ?
Well, at any rate...


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Having unreliable internet, at our building and no PC's, We have been burning our DVD's to play the media content. Then we procured USB players.
Copy and paste the link below:
Western Digital WDTV Live HD Media Player http://r.ebay.com/UPqQO0
It has reduced our work load greatly. Our 3 TV's have entire seasons on it in folders ordered date. It makes curriculum date adjustment for Easter and Christmas easy. We use Dropbox for all our volunteers with the same folder organizational system so we can switch the order of the lessons so Christmas and Easter fall on the right day without causing mass confusion. Whenever Lifeway's software allows superintendents to change the order of Units and Sessions we will give access to the content directly on MyCurriculum Manager. Until then we will stick to Dropbox.
God Bless!
The Ten Commandments: Love God
I am what you can call a "runner of opportunity." I really enjoy running, but life has this way of getting in the way, and I will go weeks or months without running at times.
When I go for a while without running, three things happen. First, I put on weight because I love to eat. The main reason I run and exercise is so I can eat what I want. So when I stop running, I get pudgy. Second, my running pace and endurance tank. It's amazing how I work so hard at running longer distances and speeding my pace and then I stop for a few weeks and the next run out sets me right back to day one. Third, I lose my enjoyment of running. When I am running regularly and in shape, I get that "runner's high." I actually have days where I can't wait to get out and run. But when I try to start again after not running, it is a chore. It's oppressive. I can feel every extra pound that I put on. Instead of being excited about running, I dread it.
OK. So why am I sharing this?
Because the way I feel about running in those times is a good illustration of how I used to feel about the Old Testament law. You see, I grew up in a church environment that was more legalism-centered than gospel-centered. It wasn't the oppressive, over-the-top form of legalism; it was more of the mainstream "we don't quite get how the gospel connects to life after you trust in Jesus, so we are going to try to live good enough lives to please God" kind of legalism. So my context of the law was that it was a long (very long) list of difficult (very difficult) rules I had to follow to be good with God.
And you can anticipate how that turned out.
There were sporadic times when I felt pretty good about the law—times when I was either somewhat obedient (at least to the biggies!) and/or when I wasn't really honest with my sinful heart. But most of the time, I felt burdened by the law—just like I feel burdened by my extra pounds when I start running again—and following God was a joyless chore. I didn't want to obey God; I felt I had to. Or else.
This week is the first of two sessions on the Ten Commandments which will bring the law into our classrooms for the first time in this cycle of The Gospel Project for Kids. My heart (and I trust yours as well) is that we don't burden our kids with the law the way I was burdened by it. It's so important that as we introduce our kids to the law that we show them its true purpose. We want to lead our kids to life and joy in Jesus through the law. So here's a brief primer on the law to help you as you prepare to teach The Ten Commandments: Love God. (Exodus 19:1—20:11; 31:18)
First the numbers
There are 613 commandments in the law, with the Ten Commandments being just 10 of them. Of these commands, 365 are negative (e.g. "Do not…") and 248 are positive (e.g. "Do…"). Now I share that in part because it is a fun fact, but also to show us the sheer weightiness of the law's volume. That's a lot of rules to follow! And then when we zoom in on just ten of those laws—the Ten Commandments—we see how hard it is to follow just one! Have any of us really honored our parents completely? But we can't even stop there. As we read through The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) we see Jesus tell us that we can break these commandments in our hearts without ever even lifting a finger. Even if we haven't murdered (an action), we have all hated (a heart posture), meaning we broke that commandment because hate is the heart condition behind murder. And then we come across James 2:10 which tells us if we have broken a single law, we have broken the entire law.
We can only conclude one thing: we stand condemned before holy God as the wretched sinners we truly are.
And that is the conclusion God intends for us to reach. That is the purpose of the law. The law was given to condemn us (Romans 2:12-13), not to justify us (Galatians 3:11). In other words, the law shows how we fail over and over again and there is no way we can be good enough for God.
And there is the burden of the law and the defeating DNA of legalism. Legalism says we need to be good enough; the Bible says we can never be good enough. And there's the conflict—a conflict legalism loses every time. And it should. Because legalism is not from God, it's from man.
Enter the gospel
Galatians 3:23-24 tells us that the law was given to be a guardian, or a tutor, until Jesus was given. God intended for the law to show us our sinfulness and to prove our inability to be right with Him on our own. Trying to fulfill the law should lead one to cry out in desperation for another way. The law is too hard! It's impossible!
That way is, of course, Jesus. Jesus came to fulfill the law (Matthew 5:17)—to show what perfect obedience looks like. And when we trust in Jesus, we receive His righteousness. It's beautiful isn't it? We can't obey the law ourselves, but we get Jesus' credit for His perfect obedience.
Once again, it isn't a matter of what I can or need to do for God. It's a matter of what Jesus has already done. It's not my obedience; it's Jesus' obedience. It's not my goodness; it's Jesus' goodness. We have fulfilled the law—all of the law—perfectly because Jesus has and we get His credit for doing so.
So when we look at the law, we are to throw aside the lens of legalism and instead embrace the lens of the gospel. We still fall short—woefully short—in day-to-day life, but because of grace, we stand forgiven and positionally perfect before holy God, because we stand before Him bathed in Christ's righteousness.
Applying the law to daily life
Now, all of that is a critical positional truth that defines our standing, or position, before God. And we have to first apprehend that truth as we study the law. But we can't stop there. There's also the experiential side of the equation—how we live. If this two-fold system of approaching the Bible and theology is new to you, perhaps it will help you to think of it this way:
- Positional truths center on the reality of who we are in Christ. These truths are based on the declarative aspects of trusting in Jesus—who God has made us in Christ, period. So positionally, we are children of God. We are completely forgiven. We are holy. We are saved. Those are all declarations expressed by God. And they are all unchanging and set.
- Experiential truth on the other hand center on how we are living in a fallen world with a lingering sin nature each day. Quite simply, we don't live our identity much of the time. We still live according to our old nature, instead of our new one. As we mature and grow and the Spirit works in us, the gap between our shifting experiential truths and positional truths should shrink as we live more like our true identity.
Getting back to the law, the positional truth is that Jesus fulfilled the law in our place. However, we still need to consider how the law should frame how we live as the Spirit closes that gap. The answer is that we should joyfully yield to the Holy Spirit to work in us and through us so that we obey the spirit of the law. Not to earn God's favor—that has already been given to us—but because of God's favor that we have received in super abundance.
Notice I said the "spirit of the law." That is important for two reasons. First, there is question about how much of the law is applicable for followers of Christ today and how much is not. For example, can we eat shellfish today even if it was forbidden in the law? There's lively discussion and debate about this, but I personally have found this three-fold system of understanding the law to be quite helpful. Basically, there are three types of Old Testament laws:
- Moral laws. These are laws that reflect God's nature (e.g. not murdering because God is the author of life).
- Ceremonial laws. These are laws that explain the Old Testament worship system (e.g. sacrifices).
- Civil laws. These are laws that explain how the nation of Israel was to function (e.g. restitution for killing a borrowed animal).
There would be universal agreement that Christians are to keep the moral laws today. There is also a general consensus that we are not bound by Israel's civil laws. But there is some disagreement concerning the ceremonial laws and also how to classify some of the laws. So depending on how you understand the ceremonial laws and define the moral laws will reveal the "spirit of the law" we should obey.
The second reason I used "spirit of the law" is because of what Jesus shared in Matthew 22:
When the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they came together. And one of them, an expert in the law, asked a question to test Him: "Teacher, which command in the law is the greatest?"
He said to him, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and most important command. The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commands." (Matthew 22:34-40)
Because there were so many laws, and at times it was impossible to keep more than one law at the same time, the rabbis of that day developed a classification of "heavy" and "light" laws. The "heavy" laws were the more important ones to keep. If you ever had to choose between obeying a "heavy" and a "light" law, you would choose the heavy. The Pharisee was basically asking Jesus for His system of classifying "heavy" and "light" laws. He expected Jesus to answer based on one of the common systems of that day, which would offer the opportunity to refute Him.
Instead, Jesus offered Deuteronomy 6:5 as the greatest command, but then notice He offered Leviticus 19:18 as the second greatest command even though He wasn't asked for the second. Love God. Love people.
Pay attention to what Jesus said after that. It's vital. He shared that all of the law hinges on those two commands. In other words, every single one of the 613 commands falls under one or both of those broad ones. We see this in the Ten Commandments. The first four reflect the way we love God—our vertical relationship. The last five reflect the way we love people—our horizontal relationships. The fifth commandment—honor your parent—goes both ways and serves as a hinge because it applies to honoring our heavenly Father as well as our earthly parents.
With all of that said, the spirit of the law would be loving in those two directions. We love upward and we love outward because of God's inward love of us. We cannot love one direction without the other. I cannot love God and fail to love the people whom He loves. Neither can I love people without the transforming love of God in my heart. It's not either-or, it's both-and.
Whew! That was a lot! Congratulations if you made it to the end. Let's try to summarize: The law isn't a burden because it is fulfilled by Jesus and we receive His perfect obedience when we trust in Him. And because of God's good gift to us in Jesus, we should want to joyfully live out the spirit of the law—loving God and loving people—as an act of worship and to point others to Christ.
Now, why didn't I just say that in the first place?
How have you helped your kids realize their identity in Christ to avoid legalism? Leave a comment below.
Here is more help for leaders preparing for the January 24, 2016 session (Unit 4, Session 5) of The Gospel Project for Kids.
Brian Dembowczyk is the team leader for The Gospel Project for Kids. He served in local church ministry for over 16 years before coming to LifeWay in 2014. Brian earned an M.Div. from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a D.Min. from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Brian, his wife, Tara, and their three children—Joshua, Hannah, and Caleb—live in Murfreesboro, TN, where Brian enjoys drinking coffee and teaching 1-3 graders at City Church.
Having unreliable internet, at our building and no PC's, We have been burning our DVD's to play the media content. Then we procured USB players.
Enjoyed reading the article. Really great perspective and helpful for preparing my lesson!


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Press Release
|Medtronic CFO Gary Ellis to Speak at Morgan Stanley Healthcare Conference
MINNEAPOLIS - Sep 6, 2013 - Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), the world's leading medical technology company, today announced it will participate in the Morgan Stanley 2013 Global Healthcare Conference on Tuesday, September 10, 2013, in New York.
Gary Ellis, senior vice president and chief financial officer of Medtronic, will make a presentation about Medtronic beginning at 9:10 a.m. EDT (8:10 a.m. CDT).
A live audio webcast of the presentation will be available on September 10, 2013, by clicking on the Investors link on the Medtronic home page at http://www.medtronic.com.
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Biography Isaiah's only album 1975 features a mix of jazz, blues and progressive rock elements. Lead by the charismatic voice of flautist and guitarist Gert Raabe, the band counts as one of Austria's most versatile bands of the 1970's, often likened to Jethro Tull, YES and ELP. Digatone restored their demos for the previously unreleased second album which were declined by the label at the time for being too weird. The band disbanded 1977. Original copies of the album very rarely come up for sale these days and when they do command a price of several hundred €uros. For the first time available: 2xLP + 2xCD Deluxe Reissue incl. their rare original album, a LP full of unreleased songs, liner notes & enhanced bonus material. Heavy gatefold package with glued in and removable CD.CD1 The Original Album 1975
01.Jericho 5:10
02.Summer Farewell 5:11
03.Leave It All Behind 5:28
04.Afterwards 7:42
05.Prophet 8:39
CD2 Unreleased Demos 1973 - 1977
01.Playing The Circle Game 2:43
02.Nightmare 4:35
03.Same To You 4:46
04.No Reason 4:46
05.The Fighter 4:21
06.Long Way 10:35
07.Hero 11:15
08.Sunset 3:43
Gerd Raabe - lead vocals, flute, acoustic guitar
Michael Bornhorst - tenor sax, clarinet
Hans Gasser - bass guitar
Walter Reschauer - drums, percussion
Edu Weber - lead guitar, 12-string guitar, backing vocals
Hubertus K. Nolte - piano, Fender Rhodes, keyboards, backing vocals


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After a few weeks, little plants have emerged from our milk jugs with Rouge Vif D-Etampes leading the pack. The crowded plants needed to get moved into individual biodegradable pots to allow further healthy growth. Once again I believe I planted too many seeds this year. Pumpkins and Squash alone, we have well over 50 plants. Included in the count are: Squash Turks Cap, Squash Triamble, Squash Jumbo Pink Banana, Squash Long Island Cheese, Rouge Vif D-Etampes Pumpkin, and Squash Atlantic Giant Pumpkin (growing to 800-1500 lbs!)
Once the plants get big enough you will want to cut the top off. I have labeled the bottom half in the beginning to keep record of each plant.
Here is the gear:
- Biodegradable pots
- Soil
- Fork
1. Gently loosen the small plants inside the milk jug with an old fork keeping as much dirt with the plant as possible
2. Place one plant into biodegradable pot
3. Fill with soil and water
4. Place biodegradable pot directly into ground when ready to plant


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Bed-Wetting and Chiropractic (Nocturnal Enuresis)
Does your little one suffer from bed-wetting? Have you tried every solution you know of like waking them up frequently, plastic sheets, mattress protector, decreasing liquid intake in the evenings, but to no avail? Have you ever considered chiropractic care?
Bed-wetting typically affects more boys than girls and can be categorized into either a persistent type or a regressive type. The persistent type describes a child that has never been dry at night. The regressive type is a child that was previously dry at night but is now beginning to wet the bed.
In many cases, the child's inability to coordinate their bladder function stems from a misalignment in the tailbone (sacrum). Nerves that pass through these segments become pinched and the brain is unable to tell the bladder when to empty or stay full. A simple, and gently chiropractic adjustment to the tailbone, lower back and sometimes the upper neck can have great results when treating a child with bed-wetting issues. Children typically respond incredibly well and can now focus on dry nights and can continue with a positive mindset.
If your child is struggling with wet nights, don't hesitate to bring them in to see the Chiropractic Physicians at Pro Chiropractic in Belgrade and Bozeman, Montana! You'll be amazed at the results that can be achieved NATURALLY and GENTLY! Your child, (and you) will look forward to many more dry nights!


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Jack Jelly or Your Passport which would you rather Misplace? #adDICKtion @gunoil
Ugh..... we know what you're thinking.
We woke up this morning looking for our passports (lost our Driver's Licenses decades ago) and realized that we couldn't find our passports which were likely somehow lost during last night's fast food mission. .. hunty!! We were mildy upset about the possibility of losing our only forms of identification but we didn't "pop-a-tuck" we just said a little a prayer, thawed out our hang overs & eventually found them without even breaking a damn sweat.
Jack Jelly:
A few weeks ago we gave a little shout out to our buddies at Gun Oil and they generously rewarded us with a box full of their products... everything from boner pills to female toy gel #ewww! Anywhoooo we fell in love with a little item for the boys called Jack Jelly. WARNING Jack Jelly is actually extremely a-DICK-ting... we can't stop ... oh & we won't stop jacking with this jelly!!! Anyways the bottle some how went missing between load #3 of the day & load #4 of the day. As you can imagine we had a nervous fu(king break down. We literally turned our tranny shack upside down trying to find the Jack Jelly & it was absolutely know where to be found. Moments of sheer panic quickly escalated into fits of rage as we begun to search every nook & cranny over and over again. Gurl we broke a sweat & an antique chair!!! Finally... while crawling on our hands & kneed like the desperate pervs we are... we found IT in the closet between some boots. We grabbed the jelly and immediately applied it for an instant boner & jerked off like it was our last chance to nut on earth.
So what's our point....
Honaaaay!!! We were more upset about losing our new Jack Jelly for 10 minutes than losing our passport & having to navigate through LA with out any form of identification for weeks.
This sh!t is so amazing we're never leaving the house again.


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Beginning in the early 1960's throughout Alaska, Native groups were getting organized and filing protests to State land selections. The focus of all this organization was not simply land claims, but on the economic, educational and basic welfare of the people. Living in rural Alaska meant high prices and few jobs. Hunting and fishing regulations were encroaching on traditional hunting and fishing habits, making times hard. As time marched on, non-Native interests were getting anxious to put in the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, and the disposition of the land the pipeline would cross became a major catalyst in settling Native land claims.
The United States Congress passed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 USC 1601-1624) — Public Law 92-203 (known as ANCSA) on December 18, 1971, officially extinguishing aboriginal claims on public lands in the State of Alaska and giving birth to a new breed of business: the Alaska Native corporation. The Act conveyed 44 million acres of land to the Alaska Native people and paid a cash settlement of nearly $1 billion. The catch? Both the land conveyances and the cash payments were made to infant profit corporations formed in compliance with ANCSA to manage its proceeds.
ANCSA incorporated a body of village and regional Native corporations to manage the lands and money, and made comprehensive conditions concerning the administration of the corporations. ANCSA stock cannot be sold, or otherwise alienated. A person can only receive stock through inheritance or a "gifting" instrument executed by specific lineal relatives. The intent was to keep the corporate assets under Native control. There are thirteen regional corporations, and Section 1610 of ANCSA listed 204 villages that qualified for incorporation under the Act. The Law conveyed acreage of surface estate to the village corporations, and the subsurface to the villages' corresponding regional corporations. OC was formed pursuant to ANCSA in 1973. An excellent ANCSA resource site is offered by the Anchorage law firm, Landye Bennett & Blumstein LLP. Visit it by clicking the button to the left.


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Sunday, 11 June 2017
Not so shabby..
Today's challenge from CWWC Challenge
There was a bit of a hiccup with the sponsor for this challenge
so I decided to revisit one of my fav images from previous challenges.
I chose to re-use "No My Dolly"
from Lemon Shortbread
This style of creation gave me another opportunity to
create my own background card :D
Distress inks and overstamping...
and a bit of water spritzing...
makes for a wonderfully shabby finish.
*close up*
I matted this straight onto a white base card.
Next I "scruffed up" some scraps of paper with matching ink
to use for layering...
before colouring my image.
Added ephemera from an old
Hot off the Press paper pad.
*Ribbon and pearls are a must to add chic to my shabby*
Enjoy :D XXX
Entering for the following challenges;
Sunny Day Crafting # June Tic/tac/toe (Sentiment/pearls/flowers)
Labels: Card, CWWCDT post, Lemon Shortbread image
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Cute! Thanks for sharing at Sunny Day Crafting.ReplyDelete
~Owner/DT Janis
I keep on falling in love with your subjects attires. Now, I want her boots... and her dolly. :-DReplyDelete
Your shabby not so shabby background and finished design is delightful Gina. Have a great week xxxReplyDelete
This is a perfect mixed-media card! Love your style. Thank you so much for entering our ATG challenge at Through The Craft Room Door this week. Looking forward to see you again next challenge.ReplyDelete
Aletha Jane
Cards and Creativity {My Blog}
Through The Craft Room Door
Fantastic mix media card and design,beautiful colors...thank you for joining us at COLOUR CRAZY CHALLENGE this week,hope to see you againReplyDelete
Priceless! So cute! Big Hugs Gina!ReplyDelete
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So I've decided to do a new feature... 'Video of the Day' which will include videos such as music videos, film trailers, fashion films, random vlogs or even a funny video from Youtube.
Just watched this new music video from the fabulous super talented Beyonce, 'Best Thing I Never Had'. This video was just released yesterday yet already has half a million views... the only 2 reasons this is because Beyonce has a huge fan following (as she is awesome) and she looks damn sexy in bridal lingerie! :P I've been listening to this song non stop from her new 4th studio album, 4. I love the upbeat major key to the song and casual beat to it making it a funky 'ballad'. Though this song has 'Beyonce' style written over it, there's nothing wrong in being typical especially when the song is so catchy. Watch her new music video here:
P.S. (I want to look that beautiful for my wedding! haha)
Further Reading:
BeyonceVevo / Beyonce Online / Beyonce Facebook


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Non-alcoholic drinks – Most of them have caffeine! PART 1
It seems that the world began to understand that our body in order to function better, needs a appreciated liquid quantity. And the industry and commerce were on stage providing a full range of soft drinks and spread the idea that the tap water would be unhealthy. This is how, currently in the US it consumes carbonated drinks twice as much than 25 years ago. Unfortunately, many don't know that this growth has contributed to obesity, tooth decay and osteoporosis and asks: Are not non-alcoholic drink an excellent way to consume more fluids? The answer is an emphatic NO.
Here are some data related to carbonated drinks
Water plus sugar plus numerous chemicals means:
- unbalanced alimentation because a dose contains 120-180 of empty calories that produce large oscillations of the glycemia, triggers a higher secretion of insulin – and we know that insulin is poison for arteries, and the sugar usually turns into fat;
- carbonated drinks increase the stomach acidity and delays digestion;
- most soft drinks contain preservatives, coloring substances, flavor enhancers and other chemicals that requires an extra effort from the liver and kidneys, to be detoxified and eliminated;
- some contain substances that irritates the stomach lining;
- most carbonated drinks contain phosphoric acid, with acidifying effect that, in order to be neutralized and disposed from the kidney, uses the calcium out of the bones, and the result is osteoporosis.
Although they don't contain alcohol, these drinks are a catastrophe to the body. Replace an evil with another is not a wise measure.
But fruit juices? Fruit and vegetable juices are decidedly more nutritious than carbonated drinks. However, they are less nutritious than products of origin. Ultimately, orange juice, for example, is a refined product robbed of the most valuable fibers, which our body needs so much. The orange juice does not lower cholesterol as effectively as the whole fruit. It has more calories and, at the same time, less nourishing. Through the word NATURAL that often appears on the labels, you can understand a lot: the water that is added, the fruit juice, which may represent 25% of the volume, but also sugar, which is also natural, but robbed of fibers.
If it's known that Cola and Pepsi drinks contain caffeine, only very few are aware that most of the carbonated drinks contain caffeine and, through them, in a sense, the whole world became caffeine addicted.
The first historical accounts related to coffee talk about a goatherd from Abyssinia, Ethiopia today, who, around 850 AD, noticed that his goats were dancing around what, subsequently it became known as a coffee tree. He tasted the beans and, according to the legend, he started to dance along with his goats.
Research has shown that coffee intake increases the risk of cardiovascular and neoplastic diseases, as also favors a number of complications related to pregnancy. The harmful effects of coffee is done through several mechanisms, among which that of homocysteine growing in the blood. The high levels of homocysteine in the blood, a amino acid containing sulfur which indicates an increased risk of morbidity and cardiovascular mortality. High concentrations of homocysteine were frequently met in women who had complications related to pregnacy and those with an unfavorable pregnancy evolution.
Among the most common causes of high levels of homocysteine are folate and cobalamin deficits of, ie vitamins B11 and B12.


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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Hearst Magazines wants visitors to its websites to post questions and get responses -- and occasionally let advertisers offer advice as well.
Using technology from Answerology, which Hearst Magazines Digital Media bought in March 2008, the website for Seventeen magazine has recently added an area called "Get Advice!" and the CosmoGirl site has introduced "Ask It."
There are already plenty of questions, along with answers from other visitors and people Hearst considers experts.
One visitor to Seventeen's site, for example, posed the question "What age do most have their first kiss?" Twenty-four answers from other users follow (consensus response: it depends).
"Hearst, like everyone else, realizes that users are doing more than just reading content online," said Matt Milner, Answerology's founder and VP-social media at Hearst Magazines Digital Media. "They're social, and they need social media to stay relevant. The call Hearst made a couple years ago was to say, 'We're not in the business of creating new websites like Facebook or MySpace. What we're in the business of doing is socializing our existing assets.'"
A standard ad unit for Cusp by Neiman Marcus appears between the first-kiss question's second and third answers, but Hearst has more interesting ad sales in mind as well. Advertisers, it hopes, will buy their way into the actual stream of answers.
"The whole concept is they're joining the conversation," Mr. Milner said. "It's an opportunity for the advertiser to come in and say, 'We are the Seventeen guest expert.'"
The marketer's paid inclusion will have to be clearly marked as such, Mr. Milner said. "It's got to be fully transparent." But the details haven't been finalized yet. Hearst is out looking for its first advertiser now.
In an effort to keep the questions and answers safe for visitors and advertisers, Hearst is monitoring them for filter words it considers sensitive. If one of the watchwords appears, a community moderator checks in on the situation.
The platform echoes one of Yahoo's more successful products, Yahoo Answers, which it introduced in December 2005.
Intuit's TurboTax brand has created its own Yahoo Answers-like service, called Live Community, in which users ask and answer tax-related questions. It initially launched Live Community as part of its TurboTax online tax-prep service, integrated into the online software so filers saw questions and answers related to the items at hand. But the marketing team has repurposed the content as a customer-acquisition tool, syndicating it across the web. The tax-help information on Military.com, for example, contains military-related tax questions and answers from TurboTax.
"You'll see Live Community all over the internet in relevant places," said Seth Greenberg, director of marketing at Intuit.
The question-and-answer sections also extend Hearst's effort to fill its sites with content and activities that go beyond anything print can do. The company has also built out gaming areas on sites for magazines including Good Housekeeping and Redbook.
Some 779,000 people visited Seventeen.com in February, down 14% from February 2008, according to ComScore. CosmoGirl.com, which has outlasted CosmoGirl's print edition, attracted 483,000 people in February, ComScore said, down 38% from February 2008. Yahoo Answers, which enjoys the benefits of a choice link near the top of Yahoo.com, attracted 34.1 million people in February, up 34% from February 2008.


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100 tables of Contemporary and Antique folk art: displaying antique and contemporary muzzleloading rifles, powder horns, hunting bags, knives and accoutrements. Also redware pottery, handmade furniture, copperware, tinware, hand forged knives, silver work, art, books, and more. There is also a separate room featuring muzzleloading gun parts and supplies.
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American Indians
I have never attempted to paint American Indians before even though the idea of painting some up for my AWI collection has been around for a while. I certainly did not want to do the wrong thing with issues related to Indian culture and traditions while I was also concerned about painting skin tones. Anyway I have a pack of Old Glory Indians from their French Indian War range and these are the first 4.
They are not a bad figure nice and solid with some good facial expressions my only real critisism is that the muskets lack definition and detail.


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I was in Taiwan for a good ten days. I travelled to the east of Taiwan, Hualien, and explored the capital of Taiwan, Taipei. Now that I think about it, I could have done a lot more exploring but it was a good scene through this ten days.
I would define the soul of Taiwan with a word, tranquil. When I travelled out of the capital, it slowly got it's peace and calm. The train was so smooth, I had the best experience of a train ride to the east of Taiwan. The only person who bothered me was the ticket master, beside that, everyone was doing their things and I was simply in a slumber or enjoying my view.
Through the trip, what mesmerised me about Taiwan was the presence of water and mountain. As I do not get that in Singapore, I could only imagine staring out to a valley with a gentle stream of water, flowing in between rocks and boulders, and beside the valley was a rather steep mountain with luscious greens, grown at the curbs of the wall. That was my view for most of my train rides and I have to say, I could stare at the beauty of mother nature for hours.
We were on Shakadang trail when I took these photos.
Some buildings might be old and rundown but I think that is what makes Taiwan, Taiwan. It withholds its culture and history, yet at the same time, revolve with this ever changing world. There was a good mixture of young and old.
And what I really took home with me was how in love the locals were with the beauty of their motherland. They took pride and savour every glorious detail they have in their country. That truly tells me Taiwan receives love from both human and mother nature.
It was such great fun writing this piece. I hope you have enjoyed part 1 of the Taiwan series. Thank you for reading and till next time, See You!
Spread Love & Be Kind. Xoxo Pei Gee
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Timeless Beauty The iconic Cartier Tank fuses practicality and aesthetics. by Laura Jacobs November 2009 Email Facebook Twitter Elegance, style: Jackie Kennedy Onassis wearing a Cartier Tank, 1969; Warren Beatty, 1967., From Hulton Archives/Getty Images (Onassis); courtesy of Cartier (watch); by Jack Robinson/Cond? Nast Archives (Beatty); by Jack Nisberg/Roger-Viollet (Ranier). In the beginning it didn't have a name. It was simply the answer to a practical question: How will men who need both hands free tell time? It was, as well, the answer to an aesthetic question: How do you make a wristwatch that isn't just a small pocket watch on a strap? At first glance, these questions might seem trivial. But as the 19th century turned into the 20th, bringing telephones, automobiles, and airplanes into human life (in other words: connection, speed), and also bringing horror (world war), time changed forever. It came out of the vest pocket and off the fob, and was buckled just above the hand that steered the wheel and flew the plane. The man who put it there—squarely, incomparably—was Louis Cartier. Placed without ceremony into the windows of Cartier's Paris salon in 1919—90 years ago—this wristwatch instantly took its place in history as an icon, a symbol, and a standard for modern design. Within months it had a name: the Tank. And within a decade it was the watch of choice for the most singular people in the world, first-namers who would include Greta, Cary, Jackie, Truman, Andy, Diana, and, most recently, Michelle. Technically, the Tank wasn't the first documented wristwatch (that honor goes, in uncertain order, to the Swiss companies Patek Philippe and Girard-Perregaux). And it wasn't even Cartier's first wristwatch. That would be the Santos. Created in 1904 for Alberto Santos-Dumont, a wealthy flier and dandy, this watch was powerful, masculine, with screws spaced like rivets around the bezel. The Tank, however, was the first wristwatch to solve the problem that consumed Cartier: how to attach a face to a band with complete conceptual integrity. In fact, Cartier was alone in thinking that this was a problem. "Watchmakers were not really concerned with style," explains Sam Hines, vice president and head of the watch department at Christie's in New York. "Yes, you did get many beautifully designed pocket watches, but the pocket watch is kept in the pocket. Their concerns were: How is the watch running? How is it performing in this test or that exhibition? Cartier, being a jeweler, had an advantage because he was concerned with the design, how it would look on one's wrist." Another advantage: Louis Cartier was unafraid of the future. While the name Cartier was to Paris as Fabergé was to St. Petersburg (the two houses shared some of the same suppliers), Fabergé was known for ancien curves and elaborate chase work, where Cartier favored clean geometries and rectilinear restraint. ("The French don't so much go for circles," notes the style writer Holly Brubach.) Fabergé, despite its renowned imperial eggs, was not hatching any new ideas. But in Cartier's workrooms it was full speed ahead. "You have to remember," says Pierre Rainero, Cartier International's director of image, style, and heritage, "that it was the period of Art Nouveau. And Louis Cartier was totally against Art Nouveau. Totally against! Because he thought it was a dead-end street for style. No evolution. And at Cartier everything we do in terms of design should be an open door to other possibilities." As early as 1905, in advance of Art Deco, Cartier was already making abstract jewelry, according to Rainero, "with volumes, shapes, and colors just for the pleasure of assembling volumes, shapes, and colors. And not in a figurative way." As artistic movements such as Cubism, Bauhaus, futurism, and de Stijl caught fire in the teens, introducing grid-like structures that suggested perception unadorned or perception multiplied, Cartier, with the lightest touch, brought abstraction to bear on his "problem." Deep in the Tank's design were the dynamics of modernism's beginnings—the grids, the war, the ideas of "less is more" and "form follows function." With the prototype of 1917, Louis Cartier produced a solution that has never been bettered. One could call Cartier's new wristwatch "son of Santos," for the Tank is nascent in the Santos design, which has a face that's almost square and brancards that hug the band. Yet the Santos still has curves—baby bumps, let's say, at each corner. It still has the same relationship to its band that a circular face might have. But the first Tank! Unbending. Unblinking. Unapologetically industrial and undecorated. Curves have been banished; its face is a perfect square. The band is the exact same width as the face, its points of attachment (the lugs) hidden, because all elements are held in suspension between the two parallel brancards, which have the linear reach of a rectangle, continuing well beyond 12 and 6. "When you see a Santos and a Tank," says Rainero, "you see that the Tank is an incredible progress, in terms of purity of design. Because there's not that curve anymore. It's just straight bars. It's such a simple idea, but so bright and so obvious when you see the object." This object was named not for a man but for a machine, and not officially until sometime after it had appeared in the store, in November 1919. It was not sold as a "Tank" watch, says Rainero, "which would have been perceived as very provocative. The customer would come to Cartier and would buy the rectangular watch, and that was it. [But] it was our internal vocabulary, yes. Because every time we design an object, we name it. Nobody knows who starts the name. It can be a designer; it can be a worker—an allusion to, or a comparison made." Lore has it that Louis Cartier was directly influenced by the new machine of the Great War, and it's true that France's zippy little two-man Renault FT-17 light tank was first delivered in March 1917. The watch's brancards are remarkably like the parallel treads of a tank. But historians remain unconvinced. Franco Cologni, author of the stunningly erudite book Cartier: The Tank Watch, has said, "That's a legend. The Tank followed the design of the Santos watch—it was an evolution of style. But Louis Cartier was not a stupid man. He was a salesman, a P.R. man … so he said it was copied from the tank." Cartier further nailed the point by giving the prototype to America's General Pershing. Thus the equation was made: Cartier Tank as Zeitgeist machine. Or, as Cologni put it, "the first elegant wristwatch destined for the modern man of action." Prince Rainier III and Grace Kelly in Paris, in front of the Cartier boutique on the Rue de la Paix.
In 1919, a mere six Tank watches were made. In the following year, 33. Over the next 50 years, 5,829 Tanks were produced. (Until the 60s, most years saw fewer than 100 new Tanks.) The Tanks were made in golds (yellow, white, pink) or platinum or both, and the brancards were sometimes enameled or bejeweled. The first Tank, the design that set the standard, was called Tank Normale. Soon after, Cartier began introducing variations on his iconic theme—stretching, softening, narrowing, twirling, playing, but always within the bracing paradigm of those parallel brancards. Some of the more than 250 re-interpretations that followed could be a vocabulary of la danse: Chinoise, Allongée, Cintrée, Basculante, Asymétrique. Louis Cartier's magnificent little Machine Age, Art Deco grid gave him infinite room to move. This year, Cartier is celebrating its 100-year anniversary in America. The Tank is still a top seller, still integral to the company's image. "When you talk about Cartier," says Rainero, "people spontaneously think of sumptuous jewelry. The Tank shows that we are also preoccupied by essential design." The most recent Tank model is the Tank Française, first produced in 1996 and distinguished by jazzy bevels at the ends of each brancard. It is currently Cartier's best-selling Tank. For collectors, the Tanks that heat up the auction houses are the early ones, especially the Normale. "A platinum top with a pink-gold back," says Daryn Schniper, Sotheby's worldwide head of watches. "Because of the rarity and the ultimate chicness of it. It gives you the whole Cartier mystique. Of course, should Tanks arrive where there's some enamel, the 30s … anything that's a little bit different." Sam Hines, of Christie's, cites the Tank Cintrée. "In platinum," he says. "It's like the Tank Normale, but the Cintrée is larger, and it's curved so that it bends around the wrist. You never ever come across these watches. I've seen one in 10 years. It can easily make in excess of $50,000." As for the most beautiful Tank design to grace his desk, Hines answers, "There was a Tank Normale from 1928. When you wound the watch, the power and ticking you could feel going into the movement, it made me think of a sports car of the time." "There's nothing superfluous in the design," says Holly Brubach. "I think of the Tank watch as being so quintessentially French. It's hard to imagine it could have been designed in any other country." Which is probably why it's been worn by so many couturiers, among them Pierre Balmain, Hubert de Givenchy, Pierre Cardin, and Yves Saint Laurent. It's quintessentially androgynous, too. From the start, the Tank was referred to as "la Tank," because in French the word for "watch" is feminine. Moreover, Tanks have always been produced in models for women—yet another way Cartier was reaching into the future. Jackie Kennedy Onassis wore her Tank with turtlenecks. The late Princess Diana's, a gift from her father, the Eighth Earl Spencer, is now a treasured possession of her elder son, Prince William. And for Michelle Obama's White House portrait she wore a stainless-steel Tank Française on her long, strong, sleeveless arm. Look closely. That square watch face continues to say exactly what Louis Cartier meant it to: "Now." Laura Jacobs is a Vanity Fair contributing editor. Diana FOLLOW Michelle Obama FOLLOW Follo dyczesnw. praghas faire Hublot san India w to get the latest news and analysis about the players in your inbox. See All Players Share Email Facebook Twitter Laura Jacobs Laura Jacobs joined Vanity Fair as a contributing editor in 1995. YOU MIGHT LIKE Ivanka TrumpвАЩs History of Sitting in Inappropriate Seats Vanity Fair Steve Bannon Half-Heartedly Disowns Milo Yiannopoulos Vanity Fair ComeyвАЩs Cryptic Tweets Are Fueling Speculation That HeвАЩs Running Vanity Fair Melania Resumes Doomed Effort to Curb Her HusbandвАЩs Favorite Pastime Vanity Fair Why Robert Mueller May Be the Last Hope to Link Trumpworld to Russia Vanity Fair Why Trump Just Accused a Grieving War Widow of Lying Vanity Fair Around the Web Powered by Zergnet RELATED SEEK Ivanka TrumpвАЩs History of Sitting in Inappropriate Seats BY EMILY JANE FOX Steve Bannon Half-Heartedly Disowns Milo Yiannopoulos BY TINA NGUYEN SEEK
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The quintessence of Cartier's style harmoniously combines a reminiscence from the past with contemporary trends. The silver opaline dial is accented with Roman numerals and sword-shaped blue steel hands. Dedicated to Cartier lovers, the steel tank case holds a Cartier calibre 690 quartz movement and is attached to a round scale alligator strap.
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INSIGHT: The 100 year history of the Cartier Tank, and the people who made it famous Tank Louis Cartier from 1944. For any designer, regardless of product type, the holy grail is to create an object that so perfectly balances form and function and so elegantly expresses an aesthetic that it will not only last for many generations but will forever look as modern as it did when it left the drawing board. Among those rare products are Le Corbusier's Chaise LC4, Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona chair and Cartier's Tank wristwatch. Louis Cartier's practical, no-frills design has not only become one of the most successful and enduring watches of all time, it has accepted tweaks, updates and experiments without ever losing its integrity. And it is loved equally by men and women – for the not-so-simple reason that it's perfectly suited to both. The beginning Cartier Tank Original 1919. It's hard to think of a less likely time than 1917 – three years into the havoc of World War I – for launching an object that would become a symbol of 20th-century luxe et chic. Louis Cartier. Grandson of the maison's founder, revolutionised timepieces when he introduced the Tank watch in 1917. © Ministère de la Culture – Médiathèque du Patrimoine, Dist. RMN / Atelier de Nadar Before the war, Cartier's fame had grown, thanks to its boldly modern jewellery designs and the marketing instincts of Louis-Joseph Cartier. In 1904, he designed a wrist-worn watch for his friend, Brazilian aviator, Alberto Santos-Dumont, to enable him to read the time more easily while flying. It was not the world's first wristwatch but it was a catalyst: clearly these, not pocket watches, were the future. The Santos-Dumont watch was also a catalyst for a major shift in taste. Louis Cartier couldn't abide the fussiness of Art Nouveau – and his next two watches, the Tonneau (1906) and Tortue (1912), were equally clean-lined. Then, in 1917, came the prototype of the Tank (the model now known as Tank Normale), its design a radical step beyond its predecessors. The bold, square case was visually 'stretched' into a rectangle by the brancards that extended its sides to form the lugs; Roman numerals on a simple, creamy-white dial offset the strong lines. Marquis Boniface de Castellane, Boni to his friends, a dandy and figure of the Belle Époque, wears the square watch given to him by his friend, Louis Cartier. 1918. With permission of Ch.-H. and C. Allibert © Ministère de la Culture – Médiathèque du Patrimoine, Dist. RMN / Atelier de Nadar The romanticised version of what inspired Louis Cartier is compelling (and, having a nose for marketing, Cartier did nothing to dismiss the story): the shape of a Renault FT-17 tank seen from above – so the story goes – gave Cartier not only the design codes for the simple, stripped-down form of the watch but also its name. The brancards represent the tracks of the tank and the square case its main housing, while the chemin de fer minutes ring was a stylised version of tank tracks. When Cartier presented the prototype to General John Pershing, Commander of the American Expeditionary Force in Europe, the story became inseparable from the watch. General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe in the First World War. Louis Cartier gave him the prototype for the Tank watch whose form echoes that of a military tank. 1918. © Scherl/Suddeutsche Zeitung/ Rue des Archives. The 1920s Cartier Tank Louis Cartier from 1925. As the Jazz Age played out in a streamlined Art Deco setting, wristwatches became de rigueur for stylish men – albeit sometimes worn in addition to a pocket watch. 1926 brought the Tank a moment of high-camp incongruity as Rudolph Valentino swashed and buckled all over ancient Araby in Son of the Sheik , Tank watch strapped to wrist. Not a faux pas by the wardrobe department; the actor was so in love with his watch that he refused to take it off during filming. Rudolph Valentino in The Son of the Sheik, 1926. © United Artists Associated/Sunset Boulevard. In 1921 Cartier offered the first variation on the 'Normale' – the Tank Cintrée, which slimmed the square into an elongated rectangle and curved the case to follow the shape of the wrist. Made in small numbers, its elegance was personified by Fred Astaire, who bought one in 1928. Sketches for the Tank Cintrée. In 1922 came the Tank Louis Cartier – which has become the 'default' Tank, with its beautifully proportioned rectangular case and rounded angles. Also that year, as a craze for Far Eastern exotica swept Europe, Cartier introduced the Tank Chinoise – its brancards shaped like the lintels of a Chinese temple portico. Cartier Tank Chinoise As the decade rolled on, Duke Ellington was packing them in at the Cotton Club and giving even Jay 'the Great' Gatsby a run for his sartorial money. His suits were made on Savile Row by Anderson & Sheppard and (like the equally dapper Maharajah of Patiala) he wore a Cartier Tank à Guichets on his wrist. It showed jumping hours and minutes through small portholes in the brushed-gold case. Duke Ellington wearing a Tank à Guichets watch circa 1930. With permission of the Estate of Duke Ellington – Collection F. Driggs/Magnum Photos. Cartier Tank à Guichets. The decade fizzed with creativity: in 1922 came Tank Allongée, in 1926, Tank Savonette and Petite Tank Rectangle (one of just a few models aimed specifically at women), and as the decade drew to a close, the square-faced Tank Obus. As throughout Tank's history, some models created a big splash, others remained little-known (until, in some cases, being revived in the early 2000s by Collection Privée Cartier Paris – CPCP – of which more, later). Cartier Tank Cintrée from 1929. The 1930s and 1940s Rather than dampening Cartier's creativity, the Great Depression seemed to have the opposite effect. The 1930s opened with three new variations: the little-known Tank Forme Baguette (an elongated rectangle), the Tank Étanche – with a lunette over the dial and a lockable crown that made it waterproof (étanche being French for impermeable) and Tank 8 Jours, with a double-barrelled movement that provided an eight-day power reserve – an outstanding technical feat at the time. Produced in very small numbers, the 8 Jours is highly coveted by collectors (estimated at more than $100,000 by Antiquorum way back in 1996). The Maharajah of Indore Yeshwant Rao Holkar II wears a small Tank Rectangle watch on a leather strap. Circa 1930. © Man Ray Trust, Prolitteris, Zürich 2012 et Adagp, Paris 2012. As it became chic to participate in sport, Cartier (hot on the heels of Jaeger-LeCoultre's Reverso), introduced a Tank that was ideal for the rough and tumble of the tennis court or polo field. The case of the Tank Basculante (1932) pivoted lengthwise to hide the glass and expose the metal caseback. Then came the brief appearance of the Tank Mono-Poussoir, an elegant square-faced chronograph. The Cartier Tank Basculante. The Tank Asymétrique of 1936 was a bold experiment in aesthetics (seen again in the 1963 Tank Oblique) as well as an essay in functionality: with the case and hour markers rotated by 45 degrees, it was designed for drivers, corresponding to the angle of their hands on the wheel. Tank Louis Cartier from 1944. This was to be the last significant Tank variation for several decades, as the outbreak of World War II was followed in 1942 by the death of Louis Cartier. Gary Cooper wears a Tank Basculante watch. Circa 1940. With permission of Maria Cooper Janis – Rue des Archives/RDA However, despite there being only minor tweaks – the Tank Carrée of 1944 and the Arrondie about the same time – the Tank continued to draw devotees. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor bought each other matching Tanks, while Clark Gable and Gary Cooper helped to preserve its status as the choice of Hollywood royalty. Clark Gable wears a Tank watch. 1948. With permission of the Estate of Clark Gable – MGM/Collection Sunset Boulevard. The 1950s to 1970s The Cartier Tank Rectangle Broad. As the 1950s segued into the '60s and '70s, bringing radical change to the social order and shaking up the rules of fashion, the Tank remained impervious to trends, adopted by vastly different tastemakers and celebrities. How little Muhammad Ali, Pierre Balmain, Warren Beatty, Ingrid Bergman and Stewart Grainger had in common, yet how well the same watch worked for them all. After an absence from the United States of more than 20 years, the actress Ingrid Bergman, star of Casablanca , returned to the stage in Los Angeles, in 1967. Image: Bill Ray – Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image For most, Tank meant the classic Louis Cartier Tank. And, despite only a few new variations during this period – the Broad Rectangle of 1952, the JJC (standing for Jean-Jacques Cartier), Elongated of 1966 and, for women, the Mini Tank Allongée of 1962 – the watch became more entrenched as a stylistic icon. Andy Warhol summed it up: "I don't wear a Tank to tell the time. In fact, I never wind it. I wear a Tank watch because it's the watch to wear." The Tank Allongée. Andy Warhol in 1973. Image: Arnold Newman/Getty Images In 1959 Simone Signoret gave her husband, Yves Montand a Tank for his birthday; he wore it in the 1960 musical Le Milliardaire opposite Marilyn Monroe. Alain Delon wore his Tank Arrondie on set during filming of Un Flic in 1971 – only to discover that the director, Jean-Pierre Melville, had the same watch. Hubert de Givenchy and Yves Saint Laurent were among the fashion luminaries who also wore Tanks. Alain Delon & Jean-Pierre Melville. The actor and director during the filming of Un Flic in 1972. With permission of Alain Delon © Studio Canal/Collection Sunset Boulevard Truman Capote, an avid Tank collector, interrupted a 1972 interview because he couldn't stand the watch the reporter was wearing. "Take that ugly watch off your wrist and put this one on," he said, unbuckling his Tank and handing it over. "I beg you, keep it. I have at least seven at home." Truman Capote in 1973. With permission of Truman Capote Literary Trust – Rue des Archives/ Farabolafoto/Ital Following the launch of the Must de Cartier collection in 1977, the Must Tank (with that most ultra-modern of inventions, a quartz movement) swept numerals off the dials, replaced the classic creamy white with lacquer in deep red, followed by blue, black and a series of other strong shades, and made the watch much cheaper, using gold-plated silver (vermeil) rather than solid gold. More than just an aesthetic change, it was a bold, early move in the democratisation of luxury that we now take for granted. The Must de Cartier Tank. The 1980s to 2000s Catherine Deneuve in 1980. Image: J.J. Lapeyronnie/GAMMA Even as the mechanical-watch revival gained momentum, the Tank (by now mostly quartz-powered) remained the watch for many buyers. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" could have been Cartier's mantra. The maison focused on new Tank designs rather than mechanical innovation: Tank Américaine in 1989 was a bigger, bolder take on the elongated rectangle of the 1920s Cintrée; and the Tank Française in 1996 introduced an assertive square case and chunky metal bracelet. In 2002, Cartier flipped the Tank on its side with the Divan. This striking design had a relatively short life and is now very collectible. The trilogy of models representing Cartier's three international divisions (based in Paris, New York and London) was eventually completed by the Tank Anglaise in 2012. The Tank Américaine from 1989. In 2012 Cartier also introduced the Tank Folle (imagine a regular Tank locked in a room with Salvador Dalí and a pile of diamonds) and a revival of the Tank Louis Cartier, which had remained in the catalogue from 1922 (with a minor update in 1944) until 1998. The new Tank Louis Cartier XL Slimline, carrying Cartier's hand-wound in-house calibre 430 MC and measuring just 5.1mm thick, was a triumphant return of the design that had become a point of reference for all rectangular wristwatches for nine decades. Cartier by Jean-Charles de Castelbajac. Meanwhile, it had been left to Cartier Paris to fulfil watch enthusiasts' desire for mechanical sophistication. For a decade, from 1998, Cartier Paris Collection Privée (CPCP) revived a series of original Tank shapes (as well as other cases), issuing them in very limited runs with mechanical movements sourced from the likes of Piaget, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Gérald Genta, Techniques Horlogères Appliquées (THA) and Frédéric Piguet. Cartier reassembled these high-quality movements and gave many watches a clear sapphire caseback to display its signature finishing, which included Côtes de Genève and the double-C Cartier logo. Everything released by CPCP is now highly collectible. Among the most coveted prizes: the Tank Mono-Poussoir with a new movement co-developed by François-Paul Journe, Denis Flageollet and Vianney Halter (yes, really!); Tank à Vis (an adaptation of the Étanche with a four-screw bezel); and a Tank Double Fuseau with an Arabic-numeral and Chinese-numeral dial. Large model Tank Anglaise. A few years into the new millennium, Cartier realised that the key to a seat at horology's high table was to develop and produce its own movements. And so, the Cartier Fine Watchmaking division (led by the brilliant Carole Forestier-Kasapi) took over from CPCP. The 2009 launch of the Tank Américaine Tourbillon Volant (with calibre 9452 MC, the first Cartier movement to carry the Geneva Seal) set the scene for what has followed, with various Tank cases hosting a series of haute horlogerie movements – not least the sublime Tank MC Skeleton and the Tank LC Sapphire Skeleton. The Tank LC Sapphire Skeleton from 2012. The fact that every variation has looked and felt so utterly right, so very Tank, is proof that Louis Cartier's original was not just a good design but a truly great one. The question, it seems, has always been: can a Tank be better than a Tank? Can an icon outdo itself? The story isn't over yet.
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Sunday, 7 November 2010
Papier Mache and Bears
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Tina, for people who don't sew...I hope they know how skilled you are with the needle! It's not easy to make tiny teddies out of fabric like this! He's precious!
Hugs, Diane
- 7 November 2010 at 14:07
- A Vintage Chic said...
What an adorable, sweet little teddybear, Tina! You have such a gift!
Looking forward to seeing what you've created with papier mache'! I'm sure they will be wonderful, too!
Have a beautiful day, my friend!
- 7 November 2010 at 14:37
- sonya said...
Hi Tina,
Your teddy bear is just adorable. All your teddies are! You have such a talent.
I have a tutorial stuffed in my file box on a papier mache` project that I need to try...just another one of my projects in my head! I just need 48 hours in a day!
Thank you for sharing your talent with us, I always enjoy it.
- 7 November 2010 at 17:01
- Paula said...
Hello sweet Tina,
Jacob is adorable!!! All of the bears in your show are so beautiful and sweet!!! You are a very talented and creative artist!!! I love your beautiful bears and all of your beautiful creations and I love you sweet friend!
I am so excited you are taking a paper mache class! I know your figurines will be in one piece and will turn out fabulous! I can hardly wait to see them! It is so much fun to make new things!
I hope you have a beautiful week!
Love, Paula
- 7 November 2010 at 22:54
- Lotusblüte said...
Der kleine Jacob ist so süüüß :O) Leider funktioniert der Link zu der Show nicht- schade! Have a nice new week and kindly regards Gaby
- 8 November 2010 at 14:24
- teddy bears Marin to Venice said...
what a marvelous blog! so many beautiful things!
- 8 November 2010 at 15:41
- Suz said...
Those are so amazing!
- 8 November 2010 at 16:27
- cheryl kuhn said...
If your paper mache pieces are as special as your bears then they will be masterpieces! Best of luck at the show!!
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Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and Democratic Vice President Joe Biden will be making stops across North Carolina next week, talking about their respective visions to move the country forward. Both sides might do well to pay attention to Saturday's "Truth and Hope Poverty Tour" in Rocky Mount.
The one-day summit follows a series of meetings in 27 communities to document poverty and the economic challenges facing many North Carolinians.
The NC NAACP, the UNC Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, the NC Justice Center, the Institute for Civic Engagement and Social Change at NCCU, and the AARP of NC launched the tour in January to put a face on poverty behind these startling statistics:
- Nearly 1 in 5 North Carolinians lived in poverty in 2010. That is roughly the same percent of the state's population that was struggling with economic hardship in 1969.
- Approximately 1 in 4 African-Americans and 1 in 3 Latinos lived in poverty.
- Job loss, high unemployment and low earnings combined with underinvestment in the institutions that support opportunity are driving economic hardship in communities across the state. African-Americans, for example, in 2010 had a joblessness rate of 17.4 percent – nearly 7 percentage points above the state average of 10.5 percent for that year.
- High and persistent poverty impacts families and their communities. For children especially, growing up in poverty has lifetime consequences. In North Carolina, 40.2 percent of African American children and 42.6 percent of Latino children lived in poverty.
- Educational achievement suffers in these conditions of economic hardship and underinvestment. For every 5 students in North Carolina who enter high school, four years later only 4 of them graduated. For Latinos the graduation rate after four years is 68.8 percent and for African-American students the graduation rate is 71.5 percent.
- Poverty impacts not only quality of life but also longevity. The average African-American in North Carolina lives 6.5 fewer years than the average white North Carolinian.
Organizers of the summit will also debut a documentary Saturday about the poverty tour:
For those wanting to attend this weekend's summit, it will be held at the Opportunities Industrialization Center, 402 E. Virginia St. , Rocky Mount.


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Take A 'Virtual' Walk on the Wild Side
by Rosie Colahan
Heading offshore this Christmas? The Ocean Girls group of the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria (ORCV) are hosting an evening on Thursday 4 December 2014 for a social get together and information session and everyone is invited.
Whether you will be on a keelboat racing, delivering or cruising or sitting at home sailing the 'virtual' voyage, come and 'take a walk on the wild side' with Maureen Dickins and Dee Colledge, both ocean racing veterans of ten Melbourne to Hobart (M2H) Westcoaster races.
Hear about how to prepare for your adventure and how to look after yourself along the way to get the most out of your opportunity.
Everyone is welcome - crew, friends, partners, male and female to come along and join in. Registration fee includes dinner. For further information and to register for the event, go HERE
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The collection of background information about women and children is necessary to better understand their personal characteristics and experience of violence, as well as to identify the supports they are requesting or need.
Background information is best completed by shelter staff during the initial discussion that takes place when receiving a woman at the facility, and may be gathered using an intake form. The intake process should remain flexible in order to best support women to share critical information about their circumstances given the various potential challenges they may face (such as a heightened state of crisis/stress or language barriers) which may prevent them from completing the process.
Information may continue to emerge over the course of a woman's stay at the shelter as she develops trust with shelter staff. Women have the right and may choose not to provide all information requested, which should not be pursued as it may cause further trauma for women to disclose (e.g. specific details about their exposure to violence) or may not be known to the woman (e.g. legal considerations, income).
Information should only be gathered if it is needed to provide assistance. The type of information gathered will vary depending on the services provided (e.g. if medical services are offerred, more detailed medical history will be needed than if women are referred to external healtrh care providers). Common information collected may include:
Sample intake categories
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Demographic information
Stability Factors
History of exposure to violence
Source: Canadian Network of Women's Shelters and Transition Houses.
During the process of gathering information (upon arrival, as well as during all other interviews, intervention or examinations, and counseling sessions), staff should:
Staff training is important to support their capacity to gather information in a respectful and survivor-centred manner. In particular, they need to understand how to: collect intake information in a conversational way; gather sensitive information (e.g. child welfare, addictions, mental health history); and balance the client's needs with the information needed by the shelter.
Sample intake forms may be obtained from agencies and revised to meet the shelter's requirements.
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Monday, 3 May 2010
Rocket behaviour chart
Print, laminate and cut out the little smiley face. Lots of uses but very effective used when child is sitting on the carpet. Stick on the whiteboard or somewhere the teacher can reach easily and the child can see. The teacher can move the smiley upwards each time she catches the child sitting nicely, answering a question etc. Just as easily the smiley can move downwards. A small reward each time the smiley reaches the star. I like this because the teacher doesn't even have to speak. The child can visually see when she is pleased or not.
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Squeezable Kinetic Sand is malleable sand where you can FEEL the fun! You've seen it before, but you've never felt anything like it! Pack it, pull it, shape it and love it, Squeezable Kinetic Sand is so incredible you can't put it down. It's kinetic – meaning it sticks to itself and not to you! It oozes, moves and melts right before your eyes. It flows through your fingers like a slow-moving liquid, but leaves them completely dry, yet it itself never dries out. Squeezable Kinetic Sand stimulates creative skills allowing them to create anything they can imagine over and over again. This soft and stretchy sand easily cleans up while delivering non-stop fun!
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With a stay at Residence Inn San Diego Sorrento Mesa/Sorrento Valley in San Diego (Central San Diego), you'll be within the vicinity of Torrey Pines Golf Course and University of California-San Diego. This hotel is within the vicinity of Geisel Library and Torrey Pines State Reserve.
Make yourself at home in one of the 150 air-conditioned rooms featuring kitchens with refrigerators and stovetops. Wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary, while video-game consoles and premium TV channels are also offered to provide entertainment. Conveniences include desks and separate sitting areas, and housekeeping is provided daily.
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Grab a bite from a grocery/convenience store serving guests of Residence Inn San Diego Sorrento Mesa/Sorrento Valley. Meet other guests and eat at a complimentary reception.
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Doubly MAD!
As well as being in the US edition, the Australian MAD has bravely published my ugly mug in this month's issue:
Also pictured are the immensely talented Jason Chatfield, Sergio Aragones and Sam Viviano. To read more about my trip to The Reubens, please read my notes from Boston.


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ChemtrailsAreDemonic.org › The KJV Bible is Settled in Heaven
The KJV Bible is the only Bible that is settled in heaven.
The Lord has emphasized and made clear to many of his servants that the KJV Bible is the only translation that can be trusted as God's word. Only the KJV Bible will bless you the way God intended and keep you from deception. The major problem with other versions is rooted in the Vaticanus texts. Vatic-anus, or Vatic (Prophet) - anus, or Prophet of the anus, should tell you where the Vaticanus text came from. It came from the Satanic powers that are installed from the practice of sodomy. Satan and the fallen angels, through the agency of the false anal prophet, want to corrupt God's word for takeover of the world and destruction of humanity, and this plan has been in place since the fall of man.
The KJV (not NKJV) is the only Bible that is settled in Heaven, purified seven times. If you want to be in tune with the Lord, you need to be using this Bible. Through deliverance sessions, the demons have admitted that they are working on corrupting God's word. This is why the KJV has received so much attack in recent years. Satan wants you to have a version of God's word that is not settled in Heaven, and therefore, have no power. Your Bible needs to line up with the Word of God in heaven. The Lord has confirmed this. It is critical to be using the correct Bible version. All Bible verses on these pages are from the KJV Bible. David W. Daniels at Chick Publications has some excellent information if you would like to learn more. Image credit to Al Cuppet.


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Dance Students present work at American College Dance Assn.
March 4, 2016 1:04 PM
Three Senior Dance Majors will present their choreography at the 2016 American College Dance Association's Mid-Atlantic Conference in March.
"October" by Ryan Bailey
"Temple," by Caleb Williams
"Seasonal Sensibility" by Marta Stachorowski
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Well, two weeks later (argh!) I finished the next project on my craft list. A recycling project too!
For this project, I had some old socks and tights to turn into something new and cute.
Doll Clothes!
The socks became cute little sweaters using this tutorial, sort of. The pattern for the tutorial was for 1/3 scale ball jointed dolls, mine are smaller than that. They are 1/4 and 1/6 scale dolls.
So I had to make my own patterns. If anyone is interested, I decided to post the patterns on my doll blog.
With the tights I made actual doll tights and socks. Two pairs black tights, two pairs of white tights in two sizes, and three pairs of white sock in two sizes. Whew!
But they are quick and pretty easy to make, even by hand. Actually I made all these sweaters and legwear by hand sewing except the first sweater. Machine sewing is not recommended at all.
Anyway, this first sweater (for Hikaru) is made from a navy blue knee sock that didn't fit right. Knee socks are great for this because you get plenty of material to work with.
The sweater has lace along the neckline and a row of faux pearl bead "buttons" down the front. It closes with sew-on snaps.
The tights, I think are pretty much fool proof to make. The material is stretchy enough to fit well and hide any goofs you make while sewing.
Now doesn't her outfit look so cute, and perfect for an Arizona "winter"?
I made this sweater (for Usagi) with the other navy blue sock. It has thin ribbon along the neckline and bottom hem and closes just at the top with a snap. I added a "large" button at the top "to close" it.
In addition to tights, I made this doll a pair of thigh high socks. They are basically tights with the top cut across and hemmed, and no elastic needed.
Paired with a plaid skirt, it kind of looks like a school uniform. She just needs more appropriate shoes.
And finally, I made these two cute white sweaters using little bobby socks. Smaller socks for smaller dolls.
They are both embellished with ribbon bows and more pearl "buttons".
The tights came out just as well on this smaller doll as with the larger dolls. It makes me wonder how easy it would be to make tights for fashion dolls, like Ever After High dolls.
The socks are knee length and are super quick to make. I found they look cute both when worn to the knee and when scrunched down at the ankle.
They both are so adorable now all bundled up. All the dolls look so cute, it makes me want to make more sweaters. I guess it's time to dig out more socks.
Here's the updated list:
Pink dress Accessories Socks Headbands
- T-shirts
- Tank Top
Four down, just two more to go. And I will either have it done by the end of the week, or just postpone it until January. Christmas is coming quickly after all, and I need to start working on those crafts. Look forward to it.


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Malia and Shane
I totally love Malia and Shane. I have loved every shoot with them. They have a great time together and I love the way Malia laughs a lot. The interaction between both of them is so perfect...I have to say it's been a breeze to get great pictures of them! Make sure to check out Malia and Shane's slideshow.
Even though this post says it's from a month ago and the previous post says it's from September...these are really posts that I'm making on March 3rd...it's taken me that long to figure out how to get all this to work. :)
So...stayed tuned to see more pictures as well as a slideshow of Malia and Shane's wedding.
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It is with a heavy heart that I write this farewell message to you all. Weddings have been a wonderful part of my life for the past several years, but now I think it is time to gracefully say goodbye to them. After all, a wedding is only supposed to be the beginning (a marriage is till the end).
It has been a beautiful journey. Thank you so much to everyone who has taken the journey with me!
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Dessert Idea: Serve each of your guests a cupcake on its own little cupcake stand, then let your guests take home the stands as favors.
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To fill the frame with the small red eye tree frog, I used a 50mm macro lens plus an extension tube. The depth of field, which encompasses the entire frog and the stem on which it was resting, is the result of using a lens aperture of f/32. Yes, the smallest apertures degrade image quality especially at the edges, but shallow depth of field doesn't reveal all of the intriguing detail and texture of small subjects. Photography is all about compromise. In this case, I opted for slightly less quality in exchange for more sharpness throughout the image. I know that sounds odd -- contradictary, actually -- but lack of focus (i.e. shallow DOF) is much more of a degradation than what happens when f/32 is used.
I took this shot last week during my semi-annual frog and reptile workshop in St. Louis. The next one will be in September.


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I posted the compliment challenge last week – here's my own response to it…
She was pure evil at work. No, really, I mean it. I swear she's the world's most evil co-worker. There is but one word to describe her impact on everything she came in contact with: toxic. Here's the evidence to support it:
1) I never heard her say ANYTHING nice. i.e. Upon hearing a co-worker's mom died after a long, painful prolonged illness, she responded "Great, as if I don't have enough to do, now I'll be doing his job all this week too, if not longer."
2) She would spin stories out of innocent situations to make others look bad. A co-worker took an unexpected sick day. She convinced our manager the co-worker was interviewing for a new job, claiming she had been acting funny the day before at work and that she had seen her whispering on the phone. She even went so far as to find the co-worker's resume on-line. The co-worker returned the next day and was grilled by our manager until she finally admitted she had taken a sick day because she had found out her fiancee had been cheating on her with her best friend. She had taken the day to move out of the apartment they shared.
I could cite many more examples, but it only gets me angry, and the point of this exercise is to put my emotions in check and find a way to connect with someone I don't like. So, here is my compliment:
You were always consistent and reliable in your work. I could count on you to complete a task on time and without error – and you always needed minimal information or guidance to get it done. It was nice not to have to worry about that piece of the business because it allowed me to get more work done.
Whew! I'm glad that's over. But saying it gets me thinking…
Over the years, I've trained myself to remember that people like that usually have had some hard times in their life that have made them that way. I also try to keep in mind that a person who is that negative lives a really sad life in their head. On the rare days that I feel grumpy (for those who don't know, I'm an annoying optimist), I can feel the negativity sucking the life out of me. So, I can't imagine being like that all the time! Looking back, I see my former evil co-worker as a test to my ability to be in control of my thoughts. She was a constant reminder of why I wanted to stay positive. So, here's one more compliment…
Thanks for showcasing the affects of being evil in the office. You showed me the kind of person I would NEVER want to be, nor would EVER hire for my own company. I even have a set of interview questions I use specifically to ensure employees have the right mindset.
Wow – I guess evil in the workplace has its value too.
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