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We were quite impressed with the entries we received for our $1,000 teen contest, and we're not just saying that to deceitfully pump up the spirits of those who didn't win. We're saying that to truthfully pump up the spirits of those who didn't win. Most were very good.
We'd also like to acknowledge and thank Ms. Christine Kervian and all the students in her stock market class at Holyoke High School in Holyoke, Mass. Though likely forced to do so by the ruler-wielding Ms. Kervian, the kids sent in several excellent entries. Go, Purple Knights!
If you're a Holyoke student, there are two things you need to do when you return to class next week. The first is to walk up to Ms. Kervian and personally thank her for giving you a head start over the vast majority of teens on the road to financial independence. Based on the entries we received, she's taught you well. To top it off, she gave you a shot at $1,000 by having you enter the contest. She deserves more than an apple; she deserves your undying gratitude (and 1% of everything over $1 million you accumulate because of the knowledge you gained from her class).
The second thing you need to do is walk up to Tim Cavanaugh and ask him to borrow some money. Why? Because he's our $1,000 winner! Fool co-founder David Gardner spoke during an assembly at Holyoke yesterday and presented Tim with the grand prize.
Teachers across America, take note. We've committed to run this contest for four more years, and we're taking entries now for 2003. If you're going to give your students homework, at least give them a chance to win $1,000!
And now, a look at the top three entries, beginning with Tim's:First place: Tim Cavanaugh
Tim's entry is an excellent, concise overview of some basic Foolish financial philosophies.
If there is one thing that all teens have in common, it is an insatiable desire for money. Being 16 myself, I know how it is: Kids always want new clothes and toys, and those things cost money. So the realization must be present that kids need to be smarter with their money. And there are rules.
- Invest. Be it in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, or what have you, put your money into the markets.
- Along with investing comes the proverbial diversify. When investing, try not to put all of the principal into one entity, because if that goes belly-up, so do your savings. Make sure you get creative with your money.
- Make your money grow. Don't just keep it in the piggy bank under your bed; if you're reluctant or unable to invest, then buy a CD (that's certificate of deposit, not the music kind) or at least open a savings account. Though interest rates may seem infinitesimally insignificant, it will build up over time. Besides, you won't earn anything by keeping your money at home.
- Don't get in debt. In fact, don't get a credit card at all. You're just asking for trouble, and you'll end up paying more in the long run than you would with cash. It may seem easier, but you won't think so when the bills are piled up in a few years. And checking accounts will only encourage you to spend.
- Don't become a slave to trends. Even if all of your friends are out buying the hottest fashions or music CDs, try to resist, or spend in moderation. Pretty soon, you won't want those clothes anymore and you'll be stuck and out of money.
- Plan ahead. You may be only a teenager, but if you start saving and investing now, you'll be able to retire earlier. Open an IRA if you have a form of compensation (it's never too early), and you'll be reaping the benefits in your 50s and 60s.
- Budget. Set a monthly limit and make sure you adhere to it. Try to curb any reckless spending habits.
- Read up. Make use of books, periodicals, and, above all, the Internet. The Web has some great sites to learn about investing or even practice with using the stock market. Fantasy investing games can get you accustomed to how the market works.
- Don't get caught up in a car. Cars are expensive. Keeping cars is expensive. Gasoline is expensive. Walking is free. Get the picture?
- Work for your money. Learn what it's like in the real world; don't rely on your parents for money all the time. Get a job, but don't become consumed by it.
Well, those are the top 10 pieces of advice I can offer. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to plan for my financially independent future.
Second place: Lance Contento
Lance is already in business for himself, and tells how to light your entrepreneurial fire.
Advice for teens for starting a business:
- Pick something you are passionate about.
Before starting any business make sure you have a passion for the business of your business. If you are really into computers, try to think of a business idea that has something to do with computers. If you like cooking try to create a business around that interest. Don't start a dog-walking service if you hate dogs, even if it seems like it would be extremely profitable.
Doing something you enjoy will, first and foremost, make starting and running the business a lot more enjoyable, and it will also probably make the business more profitable in the long run if you really care about what you are doing.
- Once you have an idea, don't let people talk you out ofit.
About a year ago, I had an idea for a business in which I bought vending machines/pinball machines and put them in local bars. All my friends, and even my parents to a degree, ridiculed the idea and listed numerous reasons why it wouldn't work and why I shouldn't pursue it. "Vending machines cost way too much," "No one is going to let a 15-year-old kid place a vending machine in their bar," "People don't play pinball anymore," "Why don't you just get a job?" (A question I still cannot answer.).
Anyway, long story short, I ended up with a juke box and a pinball machine in a local bar, which together rake in about $70 a week. All I have to do is go collect the money. The lesson is not to let other people's pessimism and jealousy stop you from starting your business.
- Don't let fear of failure deter you from starting your business.
I can only imagine how many people have had a great business concept and never acted on it because they were afraid it would fail.
As a wise man once said, "Never let fear prevent you from doing something." So what if you spend $1,000 on a business that flops? You are only a teenager; just the fact that you had the desire and drive to start your own business means that you are way ahead of the pack when it comes to entrepreneurship. Plus, the lessons you learn from a business failure now will be worth much more in the future than any amount of money you could have spent on your less-than-successful business.
A good way to get past this fear is to start your business with a friend. Not only does this spread the financial risk, but also when you are in it with someone else, starting the business becomes much less intimidating. Plus, it's a lot more fun with a friend. And speaking of fun...
- Have fun!
Starting your own business should be an extremely fun endeavor. You should thoroughly enjoy what you are doing, and in addition you get to work for yourself instead of someone else. You are part of an elite group of people who are not content with settling for a stereotypical, minimum wage, teenage job. So enjoy yourself!
Third place: Brianna James
The importance of an early start in investing cannot be emphasized enough.
My best Financial Investing advice is called "The Seven-Year Plan." This is my plan for retirement.
I encourage everyone to go to college, and also to hold down a job during these years. My goal is to invest $208.33 each and every month for seven years in an IRA. The first year my initial investment will be $2,500 (the current maximum deductible IRA contribution in state of California). That's only a little over $52 a week.
If I begin this way at the age of 18, by the time I'm ready to retire at 65 I will have $2,080,027.75 (if I earn the historical market average of 11% compounded annually). Remember, I'm only committing to contribute for seven years -- the rest is compounded interest.
The sooner you start, the sooner you can stop. It's much harder to start at a later age, because you lose the value of time. Do it while you're young. Don't be foolish. Don't be tempted to spend it on clothes and junk.
For added emphasis to Brianna's entry, see Time Really Is Money for some mind-boggling comparisons about the benefits of starting sooner rather than later.
Thanks for all the entries, folks. Be sure to enter this year's contest... if you're a teen, that is.
Rex Moore is the father of Patrick, a brand-new teenager. His profile is here, The Motley Fool disclosure policy is there.


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Vernon Robinson, The FEC and Me
I received the following response from the FEC the other day:
The FEC also has two request for additional information documents at their site here, both dated 5/18/06. I am pretty sure it is in response to my letter, but I am not certain. The tone of the letter is one that asks for cooperation, but states on page 3, "The acceptance of excessive contributions is a serious problem. Again, the committee's procedures for processing contributions should be examined and corrected in order to avoid this problem. Although the Commission may take further legal action, prompt action by you to refund, redesignate, and/or reattribute the excessive amount will be taken into consideration."
So, Vernon needs to refund a whole lot of money he collected illegally, and he may still be fined on top of that. If they are looking at Robinson's past history with FEC regulations, it probably doesn't bode well for him. Past history here (look at#7).
My whole point of this and my other attacks on Robinson for Congress is, why would you vote for someone who wants to go to Washington and make laws, yet in the campaign stage can not follow the existing laws themselves? I guess you would vote for him if you wanted more Tom Delay and all the other corruption and scandal in DC.

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Ready for part 2? This one has lots of gifs, so you'd best be ready for it!
Homework: The Curse of the Group Project
Oh yes. Homework. Does the word give you shivers? It should. I've been fighting off lots of projects and whatnots, which is why I fell behind with NaNoWriMo of course. And one of those nasty projects was a group project, which is the nastiest kind of nasty project there is.
Especially when your group has bad communication. Argh. We had to give our presentation this morning at 11.00, and so we all hopped online a couple hours beforehand to make last-minute preparations. Now, it was 8.30 in the morning and I am not a morning person, so when one of my group mates started giving me sass, I was not having any of it.
Then I just about lost it on another group mate. Part of my responsibility was to put together a concept map addressing each of the aspects of the virus (we were researching the effects of Hantavirus on humans) that our group looked at. It was a pain to put together, especially because I had to whittle down everyone else's info. So it wasn't something I was able to make changes to at 9.30 in the morning when I needed to leave the house at 10.00. But my lovely group mate decided she would point out this one tiny word on the map she wanted me to change, which WASN'T EVEN HER PART OF THE INFORMATION. I had to grit my teeth and explain calmly to her that it wasn't actually her part and I wasn't going to change it, which she would've known if she'd actually come to group meetings.
I hate group work.
But I totally slayed that presentation, so yay for that!
But now that my group project is done, I have a much more pressing matter to attend to: my chemistry exam.
The Tale of the Terrible Term Tests
My chem exam is on Dec. 1st. And I'm freaking out.
The information we're learning right now is organic chem, and this is the content we were learning in grade 12 when I got so sick I thought I was going to die. Therefore, I don't know it very well—not as well as I should. Honestly, I don't feel like I know any chemistry as well as I should. And it's making me want to cry. Every time I look at example problems, I want to cry. Because chemistry is literally terrifying me right now and I don't think I can handle it.
I mean, if I had to describe me trying to do chemistry, I would say it looks something like these following gifs:
So I might have my cry, and freak out a bit, but then I'm just going to have to hit the books and do my damn best to learn it. Chemistry is a dragon. I am a knight. There's a risk I'll be burned to a crisp but I've got to fight, no matter what.
Oh yes, I will rise.
I will be a hot mess, but I will emerge victorious.
Haha, but calculus isn't going that well either to be quite honest. I understand it for the most part, but sometimes a question comes along that I don't even know how to handle. Guess I'll be hitting those books too.
Oi. So there's my homework rant. I am not looking forward to exams, at all, whatsoever, except for my bio exam because I really really love bio. And what's more? I get to take TWO bio courses next semester! Yes!
Procrastination: Strong As Ever
Of course, the more work I know I have to do, the more I want to procrastinate. These very posts are testament to that. Just think of what I could've done if I'd actually attempted studying rather than searching up all these gifs. Oh, the possibilities.
But I think you can agree that this is a pretty good use of my time, yeah? You all get to read these lovely posts, after all!
And there's this small rebellious part of me that whispers "is that right?" every time my teachers tell me I should be studying.
But more seriously, I actually read something recently that said that we procrastinate because of fear or uncertainty. Considering how I feel about chem, I don't doubt it, ugh.
And on an unrelated note, it's officially winter here, whether we want it to be winter or not. The good news though is I've got snow tires so I feel like the queen of the road (not really). Bad news is I have to scrape off my car just the same as everyone else.
But I will persevere, through the studying and the snow. And I'll get through it all somehow, won't I?
I'm sorry if I broke your computers with all the gifs. I'm not sorry if I annoyed you. I had fun. And it's images like these that keep me sane:
Maybe sane isn't the right word.
How's your life, dear readers?
May you handle all the craziness in your life with the ferocity of a dragon. Or a dragon-fighter.
P.S. I also had absolutely delicious potatoes yesterday. Jenny knows what I'm talking about ;)


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Prevent Injuries with Self-MassagePrint
By preventing injuries, self-massage may be the best way for active people to stay active. By best, I mean most effective and least costly.
If you're an active person, you run the risk of suffering two types of injuries: acute and overuse. An acute injury is an injury from a single cause such as a collision or a twist. An overuse injury occurs over time and results from repetitive micro trauma to your tissues.
Acute injuries are becoming less common while overuse injuries are occurring with greater frequency among athletes and active people. That's because younger people, the kind that take excessive risks in sports, are exercising less often, and older people who are likely to be more cautious are exercising more frequently. Let's take a closer look at overuse injuries and see how they can be avoided.
Overuse injuries, also known as repetitive motion injuries, result from using the same muscle groupover-and-over-again causing repetitive micro trauma in muscle tissues to accumulate. If the repetitive motion continues day after day without allowing your muscles to sufficiently recover, the trauma grows bigger and bigger. And then, one day, the muscle doesn't work or radiates pain. You're injured. Ouch! You're out of action for days, weeks, or maybe months.
While massage therapy is an effective way to reduce your likelihood of injury, self-massage is arguably even more effective. That's because self-massage is handier, it's there when you need it. A professional massage therapist can't be present every time a muscle tightens up any more than a professional chef can be present every time you get hungry. Self-massage also has the advantage of putting you in touch with yourself. No matter how it's delivered, though, massage is an effective way to prevent injury.
Here's why:
Massage speeds recovery after exercising and reduces muscle soreness
Massage improves flexibility
Massage identifies weaknesses in muscle tissue
Massage catches injuries when they're small
Massage improves circulation
Massage improves health by strengthening the immune system
Speeds Recovery
Exercise leaves you weaker in the short term, not stronger. It's only in the period following your workout that your muscles are allowed to recover that they grow stronger. By speeding recovery after workouts, massage reduces your chances of injury.
Improves Flexibility
Massaging muscles warms them, making them more flexible, almost fluid. Fluid muscles are happy muscles, and happy muscles are less likely to be injured.
Identifies Weaknesses
Massaging your muscles puts you in touch with them in a way that provides valuable information about how they feel and whether they need rest.
The Smaller the Better
Massage lets you identify muscle problems while they're still small. As the philosopher Lao Tzu observed 3,000 years ago, "the biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small." Most sports injuries start as small imperceptible weaknesses and grow into large overuse injuries. Massage helps repair them before they have a chance to grow into full-fledged injuries.
Massage Releases Trigger Points
Massage improves circulation in two ways, one is obvious, the other is not. Trigger points are tiny knots that form in the ultra-thin fibers that make up muscles. Everyone suffers the effects of trigger points. These knots impede circulation which impairs the strength of muscles, decreasing performance and making you more susceptible to injury. Massage releases trigger points. Because it takes more intense pressure to release trigger points, it is important to use a massage tool like the Knobble® II or Backnobber® II.
Improves Health
Clinical tests show that when massage is received at least twice a week for thirty minutes, it strengthens the immune system and reduces stress, anxiety and depression. Thus, massage improves mood and health. When your spirits are high and health is good, you're less likely to get injured.
Easy to Learn
Self-massage may be easier to learn than you imagine. The new book Self-Massage for Athletes presents a simple but powerful new system for learning self-massage. With the self-massage-for-athletes system of massage, you can learn massage in about an hour. Or you can take classes, watch a DVD or ask a massage therapist to teach you a few basic strokes. In any event, self-massage is easy to learn and simple to do.
Self-massage is a low cost, highly effective way to prevent overuse injuries. Try it, your body will thank you for it and you'll learn to feel better fast.
In Good Health,
Rich Poley
Self Massage for Athletes
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The insurer hopes to launch the qualifying recognised overseas pension schemes within the coming weeks but still has some details to finalise.
Group chief executive Kenneth Wrench says: "If a product is within the EU, as both those jurisdictions are, then that is a fair comfort to lots of people as they have the same legislation as the UK and are both very well regulated."
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Montfort International managing director Geraint Davies says: "Qrops should only be handled by the very best advisers. IFAs should not get sucked into it because it is flavour of the month, it could be misselling waiting to happen. My fear is that the wrong people are advised into Qrops and the right people are not."


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Monday, July 7, 2008
CaNcUn or BUST
Tuesday morning Chris and I are making our way to Cancun for 7 glorious days. We got our passports in our pockets and our bags packed we are all set for take off. We will be staying in one of their beach front all inclusive hotels :) 14 restaurants and cafes with all you can eat food lets just say heaven here we come. See ya'll in ONE WEEK YAHOOOOOOO!!!!
Posted by Ashley Miles at 4:42 PM
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- elizabeth said...
so jealous!! have fun!!!! we'll miss you!
- July 7, 2008 at 5:29 PM
- KaSs said...
That' pretty freakin' sweet!!!!! Have so much fun and take more pictures than necessary!!
- July 7, 2008 at 8:44 PM
- Matt H said...
Have fun! My girlfriend and I leave Sunday for 5 nights.
- July 7, 2008 at 10:16 PM
- Fullmer Family said...
How fun! Have a blast:)
- July 8, 2008 at 2:21 AM
- ¡emily frame! said...
i come into accounting looking for you daily and todd keeps telling me you are in cancun. i hope you are habing fun!
- July 10, 2008 at 8:04 PM
- Kayla R. said...
OMG...lucky;) have so much fun love you*
- July 11, 2008 at 7:35 PM
- chadandsydney said...
WOW!! Have a blast
- July 13, 2008 at 5:46 AM
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Below you can check out the first worship album from ONEHARBORMUSIC as well as some great books that our Pastors recommend. If you see a book that you are interested in, feel free to pick it up in the Bookstore at either the MHC or BFT sites this weekend.
In Romans, Paul says: "May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." Our prayer and hope behind this album is that we would be reminded constantly that we are made ONE by the blood of the spotless lamb and by His power to overthrow sin and death!
A PRAYING LIFE by PAUL MILLER
Miller's down-to-earth approach and practical nature will help you see that your relationship with God can grow and your communication with Him can get better. Parents will find Miller's family-life experiences especially helpful.
ADOPTED FOR LIFE by RUSSELL D. MOORE
Russell D. Moore does not shy away from this call in Adopted for Life, a popular-level, practical manifesto for Christians to adopt children and to help equip other Christian families to do the same. He shows that adoption is not just about couples who want children-or who want more children. It is about an entire culture within evangelicalism, a culture that sees adoption as part of the Great Commission mandate and as a sign of the gospel itself.
WASHED & WAITING by WESLEY HILL
'Gay,' 'Christian,' and 'celibate' don't often appear in the same sentence. Yet some who sit next to us in the pew at church fit that description, says author Wesley Hill. As a celibate gay Christian, Hill gives us a glimpse of what it looks like to wrestle firsthand with God's 'No' to same-sex relationships. What does it mean for gay Christians to live faithful to God while struggling with the challenge of their homosexuality?
TO LIVE IS CHRIST, TO DIE IS GAIN by MATT CHANDLER
In this disruptively inspiring book, Chandler offers tangible ways to develop a faith of pursuing, chasing, knowing, and loving Jesus. Because if we clean up our lives but don't get Jesus, we've lost! So let the goal be Him. To live is Christ, to die is gain—this is the message of the letter. Therefore, our lives should be lived to Him, through Him, for Him, with Him, about Him—everything should be about Jesus.
Answering questions like "How far is too far?" the authors articulate a biblical theology of dating aimed at persuading a new generation of Christians to get serious about honoring Christ with their sexuality.
MONEY: GOD OR GIFT by JAMIE MUNSON
This book is for people who love money: "No one can serve two masters," Jesus said. "for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money." There is no middle ground. This book is for people who hate money: It's not money's fault that we're prone to love it, live for it, and even die for it. God's provision is a gift, the Lord grants wealth, and money answers everything.


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Descartes's algebra allowed mathematicians to move beyond spatial intuitions to manipulate symbols utilizing precisely defined formal rules. This shifted the dominant mode of mathematics from diagrams to formulas, resulting in, among other things, the event of calculus, invented roughly 30 years after Descartes by, independently, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz.
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Are you noticing a trend here? Yes, I love my wildlife photography in summer here in British Columbia. My favourite thing to do is go out in my little boat Snoopy and photograph the marine wildlife, should they choose to visit me. You can't just chase them down. Usually I'll see them off in the distance and go towards the general vicinity, cut the motor, and watch from … [Read more...]
Reasons to Love Vancouver Island in Summer: #3 Bald Eagles
We have a bald eagle nest in the estuary behind our campsite in Campbell River, British Columbia. It's too far away to photograph (for me), but with a spotting scope, we can watch over the eaglets. In spring when we arrive here, we see the adults coming and going with sticks. Once I saw and heard one of the adults break a branch off of a neighbouring tree! There was a great … [Read more...]
Reasons to Love Vancouver Island in Summer: #2 Humpback Whales
Another one of my favourite photography subjects in summertime is seen during my frequent boating trips: Humpback Whales. In fact, I'm seeing more and more of them all the time. They are returning to British Columbia in increasingly higher numbers every year. Commercial whaling in British Columbia ended 50 years ago (the year I was born actually). Since that time, the … [Read more...]
Reasons to Love Vancouver Island in Summer: #1 Orcas
Ahhhh, summertime in BC. It's truly spectacular. The long summer nights, the mountains, the lakes, the ocean, the waterfalls, the beaches, the trees, the wildlife, and did I mention the boating? Even though Ray and I live a nomadic lifestyle now and have the freedom to go anywhere we want, we return to Vancouver Island, British Columbia, every summer because there is no place … [Read more...]
How the Beauty of Autumn Broke My Darkness
It's hard to stay positive sometimes. After my mother passed away, the grey cloud came, both literally and figuratively. It rained and rained and rained. They were dark dreary days. There were some days that I didn't even get out of bed - didn't or couldn't. But when I did get out for a walk around the campground, I couldn't help but notice the colours of autumn. All the … [Read more...]
First day with my Sony A6000 at Paradise Meadows Strathcona Provincial Park
I wish I could be one of those people who always has the latest and greatest camera gear. I love gear! I mean, obviously it's not as important as having a vision and being able to carry it out with a camera, but I still love gear. While I can't afford the newest models (I'd love to get my hands on the A7rII), I am certainly up for the models that were released a couple of … [Read more...]
Bald Eagles on Vancouver Island BC
After last year's amazing wildlife viewing from our campsite in Campbell River, BC, Ray and I decided to come back for four months this year and we've enjoyed another incredible summer. One day we walked out to the spit just at the end of the road and there were all sorts of people out enjoying picnics, walks, kite flying, and there were even a few crazy joggers. "You'll … [Read more...]
Sunset at the Estuary in Campbell River, BC
A few evenings ago we were treated to the most beautiful sunset at our campsite at Thunderbird RV park in Campbell River, BC. This is our view from the back window of the RV! I'm so glad we picked an RV with a big picture window in the back. The estuary fills up with water at high tide, which just happened to coincide with sunset, producing beautiful … [Read more...]


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I am back at work now its the end of summer. This always causes me a bit of anxiety and tiredness. I try to avoid it but it always happens, no matter how carefully I try to adjust to new sleeping patterns. I'm not a morning person...I find getting up early difficult and even the walk to work just about wakes me before I get to work. Its a 3 mile walk. That should tell something about my zombie state most early mornings.
The weather has suddenly changed here in the past few days. It did nothing but rain all day Friday and it was actually cold. Saturday was dry but still bitter. I walked my son to his guitar lesson and we had a chat about life and the meaning of the universe as normal. We put the world to rights and then quickly forget our solutions on arrival home. However, that walk was punctuated with talk about the cold wind and what a shock it was to the system.
On a positive note, I finished the lining on the satchel my other half crocheted for me. Its beautiful and unique. I'm very happy with it. Its a wool blend with a cotton lining so I will only hand wash this and let it air dry. Its actually pretty hard wearing. Here's a picture for your viewing pleasure:
|Inside view of lining
|Closed with buttons
I finally got my colouring pencils from the States. All 72 of them. Beautiful ones indeed. So no excuses, I can get on with some art. I also got my beautiful Kaffe Fassett fabric as well. When we were in Liberty over the holiday, they had some there and I won't even tell the price per metre...it was not in my budget!
So yes, lots of project in mind. One tunic dress to be made with new fabric. Portrait of other half to be completed. Cardigan to be finished.
On the plus side, I'm not ill. All last night, my body ached all over, even my wrists and this is never a good sign. I was convinced that I managed to catch some nasty bug this weekend or from work. However, last night I slept like the dead and feel like myself once again. I think its just Arthur again screwing around my joints and the excess rain we had on Friday triggered a return visit from him. It made me realise that the weather had dry and warm for so long, I was living without pain for most of the summer. Oh the joy of winter coming...grumble, grumble, grumble.


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Figures released yesterday paint a depressing picture of the British high street, after retailers suffered their worst January for sales since 2013.
With big name retailers filing for administration, it's no wonder 2017 is commonly described as the start of the "retail apocalypse", and it would be easy to imagine a grim future for the high street.
And yet there is growing confidence in the potential of physical retail, as a stream of digitally enabled retail concepts take shape.
The industry is at a tipping point where the success of individual retailers will depend on how well they are able to blend physical and digital experiences.
We envision a high street of digitally enabled stores that have shifted their focus from being transaction centres to engaging showrooms that provide a highly personalised, highly serviced in-store shopping experience.
The future of retail means every touch point in stores will be enhanced by technology, affecting the entire shopping journey.
When entering a store, customers want to receive a high level of service. However, often at times, sales people are in survival mode, desperately trying to clean up the store, checking stock availability, bringing items to changing rooms, trying to find the latest campaign imagery – making it nearly impossible for them to have the bandwidth to offer customers personalised service and recommendations.
The role of the sales person will evolve. As technology takes over repetitive and mundane tasks, like working the cash register or bringing clothing to changing rooms, sales people will become advisers.
Many retailers are already changing how customers can find and try on clothes. For example, United Colors of Benetton's digital showroom allows customer to use interactive screens to scan through products and outfits, click on the size they need, and have it appear in the dressing room.
Currently this is being done by sales people, but soon robots will be able to bring products directly from the stock room, as is already happening with Zara's click & collect service where robots fulfill orders and place them in mailboxes for customers to pick up.
More stores will be equipped with mirrors featuring technology that allow customers to "virtually" coordinate items.
With the advancements in artificial intelligence, personalisation will be offered at greater scale, and customers will be showed products based on their choices and previous purchase history, as well as their wish list. Sales people will be a facilitator, helping to tweak and adjust the algorithms.
When it comes to buying a product, customers can skip the queue at the till by paying through an iPad, self service station, or their mobile device.
Tech should also eliminate the hassle of lugging around shopping bags by having products shipped directly to your office or home – sometimes even on the same day.
In our opinion, physical retail is not dead, it is just reinventing itself based on the ever-growing demands of customer expectations. Thanks to technology, going shopping on the high street is something we will continue to enjoy in the future.


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Seven hundred "National Volunteers" of southern sympathizers rallied within the Washington Monument and traveled for the station to confront the combined units of troops, which unbeknownst to them ended up unarmed and experienced their weapons unloaded.[five] Kane's newly organized metropolis police pressure usually succeeded in guaranteeing the Pennsylvania militia troops' Harmless passage marching south on Howard Street to Camden Street Station in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Even so, stones and bricks were being hurled (in addition to a lot of insults) and Nicholas Biddle, a black servant touring with the regiment, was hit on the head. But that night the Pennsylvania troops, later referred to as the "Very first Defenders", camped with the U.S. Capitol beneath the uncompleted dome, which was then below building.[8]
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In 1861, most Baltimoreans were being anti-war, and didn't guidance a violent conflict with their southern neighbors.[citation wanted] A lot of sympathized passionately Along with the Southern lead to. While in the preceding yr's presidential election, Abraham Lincoln experienced gained only one,100 of much more than thirty,000 votes cast in town.[2] Lincoln's opponents were infuriated (and supporters upset) if the president-elect, fearing an infamous rumored assassination plot, traveled secretly from the city in the nighttime on a special railroad shielded by some aides and detectives including the before long-to-be popular Alan Pinkerton in February en path to his inauguration (then constitutionally scheduled for March 4) in Washington, D.
The regiment will march through Baltimore in column of sections, arms at will. You might without doubt be insulted, abused, and, perhaps, assaulted, to which you will need to spend no notice whatsoever, but march together with your faces to your entrance, and spend no awareness towards the mob, even whenever they toss stones, bricks, or other missiles; but if you are fired upon and Anybody of you is strike, your officers will get you to fire.
The forced transfer manufactured the troopers of the Sixth Massachusetts vulnerable as, as opposed to the Pennsylvanians daily before, that they had to stop and wait although horsecars hitched up and afterwards rolled over Pratt Street's rails to Camden Station."
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In truth, as the militia regiment transferred in between stations, a mob of anti-war supporters and Southern sympathizers attacked the teach vehicles and blocked the route. When it became evident that they might journey by horse no more, the four companies, about 240 troopers, bought out of your cars and trucks and marched in development throughout the city. Nevertheless, the mob adopted the troopers, breaking retailer windows[citation desired] and producing problems right up until they ultimately blocked the soldiers.
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[24] To the evening of April 20 Hicks also approved Brown to dispatch the Maryland point out militia for the purpose of disabling the railroad bridges into the town—an act he would later on deny. One of the militia leaders was John Merryman, who was arrested one particular thirty day period afterwards, and held in defiance of a writ of habeas corpus, which resulted in the case of Ex parte Merryman.[twenty five]
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A person designed to be considered a Maryland Point out Militia soldier was detained in Ft. McHenry, and Decide Giles, in Baltimore, issued a writ of habeas corpus, but Significant W. W. Morris, commander of your fort, wrote back again, "At the day of issuing your writ, and for two weeks previous, the town which you reside, and the place your court has actually been held, was completely underneath the control of groundbreaking authorities. Within that period of time United states of america troopers, while committing no offense, had been perfidiously attacked and inhumanly murdered in the streets; no punishment had been awarded, and, I feel, no arrests were made for these crimes; provides of provisions meant for this garrison has been stopped; the intention to seize this fort were boldly proclaimed; your most public thoroughfares have been daily patrolled by huge figures of troops, armed and clothed, at least in part, with content stolen from America; and also the Federal flag, even though waving around the Federal places of work, was Reduce down by some particular person putting on the uniform of the Maryland soldier.
So as to add the foregoing, an assembly elected in defiance of regulation, but claiming for being the legislative human body of your respective Point out, and so identified by The manager of Maryland, was debating the Federal compact. If All of this be not rebellion, I do know not what to simply call it. I unquestionably regard it as ample lawful bring about for suspending the privilege of your writ of habeas corpus." What's more, Morris wrote, "If, within an practical experience of 30-3 a long time, you have never before known the writ to be disobeyed, it is just mainly because this type of contingency in political affairs since the present hasn't ahead of arisen."[33]
[32] (Ironically, federal troops imprisoned the younger newspaper editor in Fort McHenry, which, as he mentioned, was exactly the same fort where the Star Spangled Banner were waving "o'er the land in the totally free" in his grandfather's music.[32]) In 1863 Howard wrote about his knowledge like a political prisoner at Fort McHenry in the e book Fourteen Months while in the American Bastille;[32] two of the publishers providing the e-book were then arrested.[31]
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In Brown's later assessment, it was the Baltimore riot that pushed the two sides above the edge into entire-scale war, "for the reason that then was lose the very first blood within a conflict amongst the North plus the South; then a move was taken which built compromise or retreat nearly impossible; then passions on either side were being aroused which couldn't be controlled".[22]
There were calls for Maryland to declare secession in the wake from the riot. Governor Hicks known as a Unique session from the state legislature to contemplate the specific situation. Because Annapolis, the capital, was occupied by Federal troops, and Baltimore was harboring many Professional-Confederate mobs, Hicks directed the legislature to satisfy in Frederick, within the predominantly Unionist western A part of the point out.
The publisher later on returned and resumed publication in the Wecker which ongoing all over the war to get a supporter in the Union cause.[19] The editor moved to a different paper in Illinois.[20]
The evaluate passed on April seventeen following minimal debate. Virginia's secession was especially sizeable a result of the state's industrial ability. Sympathetic Marylanders, who experienced supported secession ever considering the fact that John C. Calhoun spoke of nullification, agitated to affix Virginia in leaving the Union. Their discontent increased in the days afterward when Lincoln set out a call for volunteers to serve ninety times and stop the insurrection.[citation desired]
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My site of the week - New Math
My site of the week this week is another one of those sites that doesn't actually do anything but provoke thought. Shown (of course) as equation. It's by a guy called Craig Damrauer. Not much on his site to give any clues away though. Some thought provoking stuff here, check it out:
He also has another site which is interestingly littered with his artistic interpretations (and a few student works too by the looks) which he prompts: A little bit of Craig Damrauer's work, for what it's worth:
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How I made stickers for iOS, on iOS...
Using an iPad.
The sticker pack
In September 2017 I launched the second version of my Inky Sticker pack for iOS.
What made this set different to the previous? To start, the sticker pack more than doubled in size (over 50 stickers!), the quality improved tenfold, and they were now entirely digital. In fact, I designed and produced the sticker pack using an iPad Pro! Not a case of 'I used it a bit for that sticker' - instead, the iPad was the primary tool in the creative process.
Timelapse video captured from Procreate.
Many characters were modelled after emotions to make converstaions more expressive! (I love the 'Fury' character, he is SO angry!)
Colour experiments were fun with my 'Crayon' brush.
Recipe for a sticker pack:
Organising Layers in Affinity Photo for iPad
- Take a high resolution scan and remove the dust in Affinity Photo brought in by the poor quality scanner.
- Separate the spots from the paper using Affinity Photo for iPad. Learn how!
- Export to Procreate and use Jethro's Studio pen to draw the characters.
- Keep adding characters over the course of a two day conference (I was listening to the talks! I love sketching while I listen though)
- Transfer back to Affinity and organise all the layers!
- Test out outline styles and fill in the gaps.
- Create a super fantastic action in Photoshop for batch creating the outlines and exporting all the characters.*
- Arrange the characters with Astropad & Photoshop to create a fantastically wide Instagram marketing image!
- Compile the stickers in Xcode
- Adjust as necessary.
- Recompile and test!
- Repeat 9-10 over a few days.
- Release on the App Store!
Testing Character outlines for the perfect 'sticker effect' made easy with Layer FX applied to whole groups.
Even the text for this article was written on my iPad, the photos edited on it too. Not to prove a point, but because it was the best way to accomplish the project before me.
Sure, my laptop was used in the process, and it will be a few years before I could even consider working without it (if ever), but for now the iPad has become a key part of the creative process. It's the fun bit too.
*My custom Super-Fast-Outline-Crop-and-Export-action (it adds the outline, crops the sticker to size, and exports the sticker ready to be moved into Xcode) was created in photoshop to help speed the process along. As soon as custom actions (or 'Macros' as they are in Affinity) are available on the iPad, I'll be trying that out.
For those who want to know the exact tools I used. Here's the complete list:
- iPad Pro 10.5"
- MacBook Pro 13" without touchbar (I'll save myself £200 thanks)
Of course there was always going to be a dinosaur...
Dinosaurs are essential. Always.
Animating character text was hand drawn in Procreate before being taken into Photoshop to create the 4-frame loops.
Personifying expressions and feelings turned 'hunger' into Dracula!
While many represent common emojis, there are some for adventure!


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Supreme Court blocks release of former PM Rajiv Gandhi's killers
The Supreme Court blocked the release of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's killers on Wednesday, saying the Tamil Nadu government had no power to remit their sentences without the Centre's consent.india Updated: Dec 02, 2015 11:34 IST
The Supreme Court blocked the release of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's killers on Wednesday, saying the Tamil Nadu government had no power to remit their sentences without the Centre's consent.
The top court upheld life sentences for all seven convicts in the case, saying the state government couldn't release them as the Centre had the final say in cases where the probe was carried out by a central agency such as the CBI.
A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu was hearing a petition by the central government challenging a 2014 order by Tamil Nadu to free the convicts, a move aimed at cashing in on pro-Tamil sentiments before the Lok Sabha polls.
Read | 'Godse's brother was released, why not Rajiv's killers?'
On February 18 last year, the apex court had commuted the sentences of AG Perarivalan alias Arivu, Sriharan alias Murugan and T Suthentiraraja alias Santhan, who were the only ones facing the death penalty in the case at the time, citing inordinate delay in their executions. Four others were already serving life terms.
A day later, Tamil Nadu announced the release of the convicts, triggering widespread celebrations in the state with support from all political parties, except the Congress.
The former PM was killed by a suicide bomber from the LTTE while campaigning in an election in Tamil Nadu's Sriperumbudur city in 1991 after he dispatched Indian troops to aid Sri Lanka in its fight against the separatist militant group.
A total of 26 people were found guilty of conspiring to kill Gandhi, but 19 of them were later acquitted amid a wave of sympathy for the killers, who were seen to have been fighting for the Tamil cause in the island nation.
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DOVER — Community Action Partnership of Strafford County was the recent host site for a well-attended training on understanding child and family trauma, featuring nationally and internationally known speaker Kathleen Mulrooney from Zero to Three.
More than 85 community members attended, including representatives from the health care, education, child care, human services and legal sectors.
The training was supported by NH Maternal Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program funds, a federal program administered by the State of New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services Maternal and Child Health Program. Participants learned to understand and respond to the needs of families at risk, including chronic and toxic stress, trauma and substance abuse. Many of these families benefit from home visiting services, one of the many programs provided by Community Action Partnership of Strafford County.
"When children experience trauma in any form, it impacts their long-term health, well-being, and academic importance," said Heidi Petzold, Home Visiting Program Coordinator for the Maternal and Child Health Program, "Our family support workers face these trauma challenges with clients every day, and must have the tools to strengthen the resilience of these vulnerable families."
"Trauma and adverse childhood experiences shape the lives of so many families nowadays," noted Halen Gori, Home Visiting Manager at Community Action Partnership of Strafford County, "We feel that by educating service providers about how trauma impacts children and families, they will be better equipped to continue the amazing work already being done in the community."
"We are thrilled to have the opportunity to bring Zero to Three's national expertise to New Hampshire, and share this and other training opportunities with our community partners," continued Ms. Petzold, "I would like to thank Katherine Robert, MPA, from the Community Health Institute and Community Action Partnership of Strafford County for their continued service in supporting our children and families."


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By Warner Todd Huston
In an article that is ostensibly supposed to be about the many Iowa homeschoolers that are supporting Mike Huckabee, the Washington Post pins the reason to the fact that homeschooling parents must hate Mormons! This has easily become the MSM's favorite theme as they try to divide and anger portions of the GOP primary voting base against each other. In this MSM meme, anyone who votes against Romney or questions the relative Christian merits of the Mormon faith is a bigot who hates Mormons and won't vote for Romney merely because he is one. They are also unanimous in pinning support for Huckabee to an anti-Mormon sentiment. The MSM is doing their level best to start a religious war on the right.
In the Post's article, religion is the central theme of pro-Huckabee homeschool advocates. Here the Post reveals the efforts of a homeschooling Mother named Julie Roe (bet they chose her for her familiar name: Roe) who has stumped for Huckabee by making homemade buttons and making numerous phone calls.
Julie Roe, an early believer in Mike Huckabee, worked with what she had… With no buttons, no yard signs and no glossy literature from his nearly invisible Iowa campaign, she took a pair of scissors and cut out a photograph of the former Arkansas governor. She pasted it on a piece of paper, scribbled down some of his positions, made copies and launched the Huckabee for President campaign in rural Hardin County.
So, why Huckabee? (My emphasis added throughout).
Huckabee's name is no longer a mystery to Iowa's Republican voters, in large part because of an extensive network of home-schoolers like Roe who have helped lift his underfunded campaign from obscurity to the front of a crowded field. Opinion polls show that his haphazard approach is trumping the studied strategy of Mitt Romney, who invested millions only to be shunned by many religious conservatives such as Roe, who see the former Baptist preacher from Hope, Ark., as their champion.
But, even the Post contradicts this religious basis only a few paragraphs later.
While early attention focused on Romney and other better-known and better-funded opponents, home-schoolers rallied to Huckabee's cause, attracted by his faith, his politics and his decision to appoint a home-school proponent to the Arkansas board of education. They tapped a web of community and church groups that share common conservative interests, blasting them with e-mails and passing along the word about Huckabee in social settings.
It was the endorsement by prominent national home-school advocate Michael Farris that helped propel Huckabee to a surprising second-place finish in the Iowa straw poll in August. And it was the twin sons of a home-school advocate in Oregon who helped put Huckabee in touch with television tough guy Chuck Norris, who appeared alongside him in an attention-getting TV spot and on the campaign trail.
Sorry, Washington Post. It isn't really Huckabee's religion that the homeschoolers are excited over. It is the fact that he handed homeschoolers a big plum when he was Gov. of Arkansas. It isn't the religion of the matter as the Post tries to make it seem, but just good old fashioned politics.
Huckabee has given the homeschoolers power and they are paying him back for that past support of their cause. It's just that simple.
Yes, Huckabee is of the same basic religious background of the great preponderance of homeschooling parents, but if Mitt Rmoney had handed the homeschool lobby such a choice state job in Massachusetts, HE would have gotten their notice just like Huckabee did.
In reality it has little to do with religion. After all, how many pundits or supporters of other candidates have you really heard say they won't vote for someone based on their religion? Hardly anyone and certainly no one in the chattering classes!
Yet, here we have the Washington Post fanning the flames of religious bickering. Why is that do you think?
The answer is, of course, to divide and conquer the GOP candidates. If the MSM can hurt both Romney and Huckabee at the same time with the religious angle, so much the better to help their favored Democrat candidate win at a later date.
Get the factions to bicker and they won't be united later. It's an ages old strategy and the MSM is trying their hearts out to employ it.
Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as newsbusters.org, townhall.com, New Media Journal, Men's News Daily and the New Media Alliance among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events. He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book "Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture" which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of publiusforum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions : EMAIL Warner Todd Huston
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I read her first book, Breakthrough to Creativity, and loved it.
This is an old interview about another book, Thru the Curtain.
Dr. Karagulla is the aunt of Coast to Coast AM host George
The one question that everyone wants an answer to is what happens after we die. Many of us also wonder if mediums really do talk to dead people. The only way to find that out is go to a medium or two and find out for yourself, which is what I have done. I have learned for myself that the answer is yes, there are people who talk to dead people. If mediums are not talking to dead people, then there has to be another way they receive the information and that leads to a lot more questions.


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Kathryn and Karl met and got together whilst working at the same bar back in 2003. Kathryn had been saving up to go travelling and only realised that their relationship was serious when it was time for her to leave the UK. Karl went and met Kathryn in New Zealand 6 months later and they spent the next 4 months travelling around in a campervan. It was then that they knew their relationship was special.
Kathryn and Karl had simply the best wedding day ever.
Just before their 5th anniversary in 2008 Karl told Kathryn that he had organised something special. All he said was that jeans and trainers were not allowed where they were going! After jumping into a London cab Karl said "The Ritz please!". Kathryn couldn't believe it. After an upgrade to a king-size room, a wonderful meal in the restaurant and a dance to a jazz band Kathryn thought that if Karl was going to propose then tonight would be the night.
With in minutes Karl told Kathryn to close her eyes as he had a present for her. When she opened them Karl was down on one knee with the ring and asked Kathryn to marry him. The engagement ring was a diamond on a white gold band that Karl chose himself and Kathryn loves it!
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Wedding venue: Ettington Park Hotel
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No shags today, will this Cormorant do?
Surprise birds of the day were four Snow Buntings over Burghead heading towards Findhorn. Very good numbers of Razorbills out in the Moray Firth but as yet no Guillimots seen.
Not a lot about but a nice day to be out and about.
Capercallies tomorrow..............................................


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Dr. Hope Russell knows a thing or two about the history of women. So much, in fact, that she teaches courses all about it at Niagara University.
Russell is an adjunct professor of women's studies at Niagara, and has spent over 12 years educating students on past and present issues regarding women in society. Her courses range from introductory feminist studies to women's representation in media and literature, each constructed with the goal of exposing young adults to the realities of sexism and inequality in the modern world.
As an undergraduate, Russell found her calling after taking a women's studies course at the University at Buffalo. From there, she began to notice a lack of representation in other fields.
"I did my master's in education and English, and noticed that women were absent, race was absent," Russell said. "It just wasn't doing the same feminist work I had done as an undergraduate."
She went on to earn her Ph.D. in gender studies, and began teaching at Niagara University in 2004, joining the women's studies department. Now, as she educates an upcoming generation of activists, Russell works to ensure every student has the opportunity to learn more about the history of women.
"It is so sorely needed," Russell said of teaching women's studies to young adult students. "The way that it opens people's eyes to important social problems and issues, and the way that it gives names to those things; it provides means in which to advocate and make social change."
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"As someone who is on the Women's History Month planning committee, we work really hard throughout the year to have a number of events for it, especially across disciplines," she said.
Last year, Niagara hosted its first ever Take Back the Night event, which promotes awareness about sexual assault and dating violence on college campuses. Held at the end of March, this event serves as a powerful conclusion to Women's History Month, and the committee anticipates great success for this year's gathering.
"Several hundred NU students attended, in addition to faculty, staff, and community members," Russell said. "The interest level and supportive energy surrounding the event, as well as the programming, dedication and hard work of our faculty, staff and student clubs, combined to make it an incredible event. I cannot wait to see what this year brings."
Russell is one of many who support the celebration and promotion of Women's History Month at Niagara University. And, as a women's studies professor, she knows broadcasting women's issues doesn't stop at the end of March.
"Women's History Month is incredibly important as it allows the campus community to recognize women's accomplishments throughout history, and makes important bridges to the present and future," Russell said. "I always ask my students what mark they plan to leave on history or what mark they are making, or planning to make, on our college campus."
To learn more about the women's studies program at Niagara University, visit www.niagara.edu/womensstudies.


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Researchers recruited 100 men and women, between the ages of 18 and 35 using an eligibility requirement of not being on medications, suffer from a current or past mental disorder, use recreational drugs or smoke cigarettes.
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Thursday, May 17, 2007
Frankenstein on the Rampage!
I can't stop laughing. I had the idea for this hat/yarn/marketing project weeks ago. It came to me while I was having a Shiatsu massage. Seems I get my best ideas either while in the shower, or while having a Shiatsu. Must be something about feeling relaxed and letting my mind wander.
In my mind, I could picture this acid green yarn with deep blue/purple contrasts. I could see it knitted up into a hat, and of course I would call it Frankenstein. Next thing, I saw these skull beads for sale at etsy, and today it all came together. The yarn, the hat (finished about an hour ago), the beads, the description. I have to share it here because, for some reason, I can't stop laughing. It just strikes me funny.
You can check out the full listing at etsy, if you want to see all the pix etc. But here is a snippet of the description:
Frankenstein has lost his favorite knitted hat. You know, the one that went perfectly with his acid green complexion and Johnny-Cash-Black Hair. He's pretty grumpy and I heard he was on the rampage looking for it. If he comes beating down my door for it, I'll be ready. Will you?
Oh, and by the way, Frankenstein's hat is the first totally finished item I've knitted in aeons.
11 comments:
- Joan said...
Way cute model.
- 6:14 p.m.
- CatBookMom said...
I take it that's DH mugging???
BTW, I didn't/won't buy the Noro. Thanks.
- 9:12 p.m.
- Lisa W. said...
Love it! So is that YOUR hand dye or someone else's?
- 9:12 p.m.
- jayne said...
Yes, Lisa, that is mine (mine mine all mine).
I have it listed over at etsy as yarn, skully marker, and pattern. One of them has flown out of the shop already.
CBM, you crack me up. That's Colin, the ham.
- 9:18 p.m.
- Kim said...
The yarn is really pretty. I get my best ideas in the shower too. Only place with no noise!
- 5:23 a.m.
- Jennifer said...
- 9:35 a.m.
- Alyson said...
I saw this in your shop and it definitely made me smile. I love the colors too!
And I keep being really sucky about letting you know that I got the contest yarn and I love it! Your colors are so vibrant!
- 12:43 p.m.
- Karin said...
Love the hat Jayne! Wish my DS would pull his head out of his A**e long enough for me to knit him one :)!
- 8:27 p.m.
- benne said...
Jayne, that is so funny! It looks like Colin thinks so too. ;-} Glad you have a FO, feels good doesn't it?
- 9:35 a.m.
- Madge said...
LOVE me some monster themed yarn!
You should have a series for Halloween. :)
- 6:36 p.m.
Your hat made me smile too! Brought back memories of a bright green Frankenstein plastic toy & a Halloween bean bag Frankenstein that talked when you pushed it. Not surprised that you've sold a kit already!
- 7:55 p.m.


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An overwhelming majority of middle and lower families will slash their festive budget by over 40% this Diwali season as they struggle to cope up with their monthly expenses due to rising inflation, less job opportunities and shrinking real wages reveals an ASSOCHAM quick survey.
A recent ASSOCHAM Survey on "High prices dampening the festive spirit" conducted under aegis of ASSOCHAM clearly showed over 72% respondents from middle and lower middle income families would be forced to slash their Diwali expenditure by 40% and on average spend nearly 25% of their monthly salary on Diwali for shopping, sweets, gifting, apparel etc. Delhi-NCR is on top of the chart projecting curtailment of festive Budget thanks to eroding purchasing power, reveals the ASSOCHAM.
The survey was conducted in a period of two months beginning August to September 2013 in major cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Pune, Chandigarh, Dehradun etc. A little over 200 persons were selected from each city on an average. Delhi ranks first in curtailing their expenses during the festive seasons followed by Mumbai (2nd), Ahmedabad (3rd), Kolkata (4th) and Chennai (5th).
The skyrocketing prices of essential commodities have left the "aam admi" hard pressed. Be it sweets, dry fruits, crackers, pulses, dairy products, fruits or vegetables, the prices have registered large increase this year compared to the Diwali last year. Even gold, the much sought after item during this festive season, stays in the range of Rs.30,000/- per 10 gm compared to Rs.22,000 last Diwali, said D S Rawat Secretary General ASSOCHAM.
The survey reveals the high income group remains unaffected from rupee fall, double digit food inflation. However, a large number of lower and middle income groups indicate that they are finding ways to cut back spending now or indicating they will do so in the future, noted the survey.
Majority of respondents said that they plan to spend fewer amounts on this festive season as the prices on average of most of the gifts and traditional Indian sweets have gone up by 55%, while the value of saving has gone gown by almost 15%. Revisions in interest rates by banks have also sent their EMIs soaring further eroding their monetary power.
Most of the respondents plan to cut down on personal expenses or go bargain hunting to keep their festive budgets in control. Over 57% of the respondents will buy only on sale or discounts, 12% will buy fewer gifts and the rest 2% will buy a group gift. Only a small percentage feels that festivals are the time to splurge, even as discounts remain the biggest attraction for most buyers.
Over 76% of the respondent said that monthly grocery bills have jumped to about Rs 7,000/-, compared to Rs 4,000 in the last 12 months. The prices of vegetables and bakery products have also risen in the last few months. Obviously, this will affect the Diwali celebrations.
Milk, butter, sugar, dry- fruits, flour and labour charges – all go into making an irresistible sweet have turned dearer. On the other side, dry fruit & sweets are the most expensive item of Diwali, adds the ASSOCHAM survey.
Similarly, the rates of ghee, sugar, edible oils, atta and spices have also registered increases of around 25 per cent to 35 per cent during the past one year.
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ASSOCHAM Questionnaire – Will you spend in festive seasons?
ASSOCHAM conducted a survey to gauge the consumer sentiments. Majority of the respondents tighten their purse strings to splurge this seasons.
Q) Will you spend more, or less, than last year this festive season?
A majority of the respondents is unlikely to go on a spending spree this festive season: As much as last year 14%), More (17%) and Less (69%).
Q) If you plan to spend less, what is the reason?
High inflation, less job opportunities and shrinking real wages are the main reasons for buyers cutting down on their spending: Saving for big purchase (17%), EMI have increased (12%), prices have gone up (50%) and Value of saving has gone down (21%).
Q) How do you plan to cut down your expenses?
Most respondents plan to cut down on personal expenses or go bargain hunting to keep their festive budgets in control: Buy fever gifts (17%), Buy only on sale or discount (45%), recycle gifts (7%), Buy a group gift (4%) and spend less on sweets, cloths (27%).
Q) If you plan to spend more, what will be the incentives?
Only a small percentage feels that festivals are the time to splurge, even as discounts remain the biggest attraction for most buyers: Higher Discounts (68%), I am earning more (8%), I have received a bonus (10%) and It's the time to splurge (14%).
Q) On which items will you spend the most?
Gifts, food & drinks (25%), renovating the house (10%), Vehicles (6%), Cloths (27%), Electronics (28%) and Gold & Jewellery (4%).
Q) How will you pay for your purchases?
Only a small percentage of respondents plan to take on more debt or dip into their savings when they go for shopping: Use a debit card (39%), Use a credit card (47%), Dip into my savings (3%) and Opt for EMIs at 0% (11%).
Q) How much of your monthly take-home salary will you spend?
Only a small 21-40% (26%), 41-60% (17%), 61-50% (6%), 81-100% (5%) and 0-20% (46%).
Q) Which is the best deal?
Most of the respondents opted for instant cash discounts as the best deal, rather than choose one where they would have to spend more for stuff they may not need: Up to 50% discount (51%), Buy one, get one free (29%), Buy two for the price of one (15%) and Spend Rs. 5,000 get a gift worth Rs. 500 (5%).
Q) Do you believe most festive offers by retailers are genuine?
Most consumers feel that discounts and freebies should be taken with a pinch of salt as they may not be genuine: Yes (9%), only some of them (53%) and No (38%).
Diwali to see 40% cut in festive budget, Delhi-NCR top in expense curtailment!
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Dear Friends and Family,
What an exciting time this week. The Jews get their first commandments from Moses (starting with Rosh Chodesh, moving on to Pesach), the Egyptians get the last three Makkot, and the long journey to the land of milk and honey begins.
One line summary: Visualizing the best possible you and acting as if you're already there is the fastest way to maximize your time and abilities.
Parshas Bo: Loving Torah and G-d works at Every Age
The brief idea: Torah is the only material that can challenge and be understood by five year old and 75 year old alike, and both can be right in their understanding if they approach with the right attitude. Moreover, it is the only text that both 5 and 75 year old can talk to each other about, and both will be interested and perhaps, both will learn something new.
The converse is not true. There are masses who approach Torah with the wrong attitude, and whether they are young or the highest IQ academic, they will come out with extremely incorrect and wrong understanding.
We see this with Pharaoh and his ministers at the beginning of Parshas Bo. Pharaoh and his ministers are the most powerful and intelligent in the kingdom, and though they constantly admit the error of their ways ("I have sinned, Hashem is the Righteous One and I and my people are the wicked ones," says Pharaoh at the end of last week [9:27]), they immediately come up with rationalizations upon relief. A person who always wants to justify his current ego-driven life and beliefs will never be able to grow. Thus, even a child brought up the right way understands Torah more than the lifelong atheistic academic.
Even when Pharaoh is ready to let the people go, he refuses to let the children go (Shemos 10:10). Even when he agrees to let the children go, he refuses to let the animals go (10:24). Every new discovery, every ounce of insight into Torah, causes him to only budge an inch. It's beyond him to consider the complete truth, the complete value of what he's experiencing. Thus, every new revelation is painful instead of glorious, every insight into Torah wisdom is a concession instead of a delight.
May you be blessed to delight in Torah insights and build a world and family of love and learning.
Great Shabbas!
-Ari Melman
Parshas Bo — G-d's Movie: Visualizing Transcendence
This week introduces three of the four sons from the Pesach Seder Hagada. The wise son will wait until Devarim (6:20). What's the advice given? In the future, when your children ask about your observances, tell your…
Wicked Son: "Hashem skipped over the houses of the Children of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, but He saved our households" (Shemos 12:27).
One who doesn't know how to ask: "It is on account of this that Hashem did for me when I left Egypt" (13:8).
Simple Son: "With a strong hand, Hashem removed us from Egypt, from the house of bondage" (13:14).
A generation later, what's the message we pass down? Holding onto the mental image of leaving Egypt. Visualizing what we're living for and what we came from is the single most powerful way to hold on to our Judaism.
Rav Dessler says in the name of the Gershaz, "What skill most develops Gedolim (the most brilliant and learned leaders) of Klal Yisrael? The Power of Imagery.
Judaism has known the power of imagery long before the age of movie screens and portable cameras. The Yetzer Hara's biggest tool is imagery. It appeals to you with false visions of immediate pleasures, of material desires, nearly always through emotion-sense triggered imagery. But the most powerful tools of our baser instinct can also be used powerfully by us. Fight images with images.
The Piacetzner Rebbe served as Grand Rabbi of Piascetzno, Poland until he was murdered in a Nazi camp in 1943. He wrote a personal diary of his spiritual growth called Tzav V'zeiruz, the only personal diary in publication by someone of his stature in Jewish learning and leadership. There he writes that a person becomes great by "envisioning your ideal spiritual self: envision yourself as already the ideal spiritual person you really are. Just imagine the greatness of your soul… see how your soul shines in G-d's garden, in Eden… Meditate deeply on these pictures…hold these images in your mind's eye…inevitably you will be aroused to a higher awareness…savor the bliss of embrace by the great Creator as you yearn to actualize this from the depths of your soul."
During the Rosh Chodesh Amidah this week, I took a minute to first imagine myself as an older, wizened, version of myself. My posture straighter, my opinion more respected, an advisor and partner to an incredible leader. Then I imagined myself giving a report and holding a business meeting with that leader, only able to see His throne, knowing he was listening to every word. So I spoke clearly and professionally, humbly but with confidence, going over the outline of points to discuss one by one. My Amidah was extremely powerful, more so than it has been in months. All because of visualization.
The Sefer HaChinuch gives reasons behind the Mitzvos, listing each one in the order they appear in Chumash. The sixteenth commandment appears in this parsha, specifically, "You shall not break a bone of it" [the Passover offering] (Shemos 12:46). Rashi explains that these bones "are fit for eating, which has meat on it."
The Sefer HaChinuch explains: "At the root of the precept lies the purpose to have us remember the miracles of Egypt…For it is not a way of honor for royal princes and counsellors of the land to scrape the bones and break them like dogs. This is fit only for the hungry poor of the people to do. Therefore, at the beginning of our emergence to become the choice of all nations, a kingdom of Kohanim and a holy nation (Shemos 19:6) and again every year at the same time, it is fitting for us to perform deeds which reflect the great degree of excellence to which we rose that hour. Through the action and the symbol that we perform, we set this matter in our souls permanently."
One last beautiful point on the power of visualization comes from Rav Nachman. He says that when we dream, we visualize an entire story compounding hours or weeks or years within a few seconds of measurable time. But just as we are completely immersed in the dream world until the moment we awake, so too in this world we feel completely immersed until we "awake". When we don't visualize a big goal for our lives, a measurement of success in the direction we're heading, then days, weeks, years, or decades can pass by in a whirl. Looking back, we might have trouble figuring out where all that time went. In our memories, large chunks of time can take on the nature of the dream.
The solution is twofold, and both involve visualization. First, visualize what you want to accomplish in this life, and constantly check yourself to make sure your thoughts and actions are aligned with that goal. A famous Harvard Case Study found that graduates with a concrete five-year plan were far more successful than those with higher GPAs but no clear vision.
Second, visualize that all our actions and thoughts in this world are but a dream for the world to come. Recognize that every event in your life plays a role in encouraging you toward G-d's path, and the more you perfect yourself and bring out your greatness within, the more you're likely to succeed in your spirituality and personal growth.
May you be blessed to visualize our redemption from Egypt in your every day struggles, and may your biggest image of yourself simply be the beginning of unlocking your true greatness.
Great Shabbos,
Ari Melman


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