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Time Was, by Ian McDonald
Posted July 1, 2018on:
published April 2018
where I got it: purchased new
Stories tell us who we are, but books are the vehicle. Physical books are vehicle, medium, and method, a metaphor unto themselves, they are both particle and wave.
I've read Time Was by Ian McDonald twice now, both times started out exactly the same: A quick glance at cover art that communicates nothing, a quick skim of the back cover copy, a quick shrug. A few pages in an immediate annoyance with Emmett, who speaks quickly and with little context, a man who isn't ready to let anyone in. Then I meet Tom, who I immediately feel protective over as I imagine his quiet smile and puppy-dog eyes. In the moment that Tom's eyes meet Ben's, I feel honored just to be in the same room with that beautiful blossoming emotion of their immediate chemistry.
When Emmett stumbles upon a battered and slim volume of poetry at the death of a local bookstore, he find a folded and faded love letter inside. Entitled "Time Was", the book has no copyright date, no publisher information. Used bookstores lucky enough to have a copy appear to be under strict instructions to never sell the book, only to always have it on the shelf.
Emmett has grazed the edge of the mystery of Ben and Tom, two men who were forced to discover a means of communicating across time by leaving letters in specific books in specific bookstores. To sully something beautiful, a particular book was their dead drop. But it's been decades since the war, why are the instructions still being followed to the letter?
Whoever is writing Doctor Who these days could do a lot worse than writing an episode based on Time Was.
Open Road Media is publishing the complete short fiction of Clifford Simak's short fiction, so far there are twelve volumes. From what I can tell, the first three volumes are available in print, and right now the rest are only e-book. The short fiction isn't in chronological order, for example, this first volume, titled I Am Crying All Inside and other stories showcases fiction from as early as 1939's "Madness from Mars" to "I Had No Head and My Eyes Were Floating Way Up in the Air" that was written in 1973, but hasn't been actually published until 2015.
I bopped around the table of contents in this collection, and read whatever caught my fancy. Some stories really grabbed my attention, and others were great fun, but forgettable.
I quite enjoyed "Small Deer", in which a mathematical genius and an engineer create a time machine, and the engineer goes back to the days of the Dinosaurs. He discovers something horrifying about the history of life on Earth. What he learns is so outlandish, who would possibly believe him? Can a horror story be gentle? This one is. I always get a kick out of time travel stories, especially when weird Kage Baker or Ijon Tichy stuff starts happening.
"I Am Crying All Inside", is well worth a read, and deserving of being the title track. What will happen, generations from now, when we've all left Earth for somewhere better? What will happen to the people and robots who get left behind? What kind of society will they build? Told from an obsolete robot's point of view, this poignant story feels a little like the movie Wall-E, only much, much sadder.
"Ogres" was a super fun, and super smart story about what a vegetable society might be like. We've landed on a planet and are trying to figure out what we can exploit, sort of "Little Fuzzy" style. The intelligent species on this planet are all plants. No bones, no vertebrae, no central nervous system, no wheel, no invention of fire. Lots of telepathy and strange music. Maybe we can export the musical trees! Nothing is what it seems, and the human explorers eventually figure out something fishy is going on. But what threats could we possibly make that would scare a planet full of trees and vegetables? Hmmm… I loved the evolutionary ideas in this story, and I got a laugh out loud chuckle out of the end.
Usually fun, smart, and gentle, Simak stories always feel timeless. Give him a try if you haven't.
The Tourist, by Robert Dickinson
Posted August 12, 2017on:
The Tourist, by Robert Dickinson
published June 2017
where I got it: received review copy from the published (Thanks Hachette!)
Welcome to the 24th century, where the most exotic vacation a person can take is to a 21st century mall. Experience germs and cell phones, risk mild food poisoning and interactions with sullen gothy teenagers, and then spend the night safely ensconced in a resort hotel. There are tons of travel companies that offer these types of tours. The companies and their employees choose to ignore all the smuggling that often takes place right under their noses. Time travel has become so easy and common, it's not even called "time travel" anymore, it's just called "travel", and you get to your destination via a high energy technology called translation.
"It's the logic of travel: the past is just another country, and, if you can afford the translation, you can always go back. Nothing is lost, nobody really dies. You die, of course: but, if they have the right resources, other people can always come back and see you. You remain alive."
The Tourist, page 310
The opening chapters of The Tourist fall somewhere between Kage Baker's Company novels and the movie Twelve Monkeys, complete with a shadowy future century no one is allowed to see, rumors of a genocide in recent history, a near extinction event, and the challenges of how to tell someone you are from the past or the future. There is a "map" of sorts in the front of the book, that on first glance looks like a map of a shopping mall, but then you realize it's a chart of a time line. The time line is U shaped, with the character's lives jumping back and forth all over the place. Ahh, the tricks you can play in a time travel book!
Spens is a rep with one of the travel agencies, his job is to shepherd his charges to the mall, show them how paper money works, and warn them against 21st-ers who know how to trick naive idiots. For shock value, he buys a muffin at a coffee stand and eats it. This is just a job for Spens, he lives at the resort and gets together for drinks with the other reps at night to share stories of their idiot clients. He'll work at the resort forever if it means he never has to work the tunnels again.
And then one day he loses a client.
Pilot X, by Tom Merritt
Posted July 23, 2017on:
published in 2017
where I got it: purchased new
Do you like Doctor Who?
Have you never seen Doctor Who but you're curious to know what all the fuss is about?
If you answered Yes to either of those questions, Tom Merritt's novel Pilot X might be for you. I say "might", because there isn't much to Pilot X, and if you go into looking for deep characterization or a memorable plot, you'll come out disappointed. This is a weird little book to review, because plot and character wise, there isn't much to it. But there are these fun little other things going on that have nothing to do with X's story that I enjoyed. There is a lot under the surface of the text, and had Merritt explored and expanded on what lies just under the surface, the style of this book would have been very, very different. I think the trick to enjoying this novel is knowing what it is, and knowing what it isn't.
X is a time traveler. He starts out as an apprentice, becomes a pilot, and holds other titles during his career as well. In his culture, everyone has a unique name, with their "first name" being their title or occupation. He was born the first year that single character names became allowed. (Fun thing number one: does the length of someone's name tell you what era they are from?). This is a society of timelords time travelers, so it's easy for X to go on a mission that might take him weeks or years, and be able to report back to his superiors twenty minutes after he was given the assignment.
As first, I was annoyed by the episode nature of the plot of the book, and much of the actual missions that X goes on were rather forgettable. (fun thing number two: This is a non-linear story, so the episodic nature actually makes some sense. When you're a time traveler, does the order in which things happen even matter?) As X gets more missions and spends more time with the man who gives the orders, he starts questioning if he's actually on the right side of the Dimensional War. X doesn't even know if he's made contact with a secret operative or not. If he is successful in his final mission, he will be the only survivor of a race that has been erased from memory.
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published in 2007
where I got it: purchased used
I've been trying (and not always succeeding) to read Kage Baker's Company books in the order of publication. Which meant next up was Gods and Pawns, which was published in 2007. The series starts with In The Garden of Iden, a novel that completely broke my heart into a billion little pieces. Then came Sky Coyote, in which I fell a little bit in love with Joseph even though he is a complete asshole. Or at least, I thought he was an asshole until I met Porfirio, now that guy is a piece of work. The Company books get darker and darker the further you read in the series, and yet Baker's writing style is full of humor and wit, so you're laughing at the same time. With all the research that went into these novels and short stories much of her work reads a little bit like Tim Powers, that of course these crazy things didn't happen . . . but no one can prove that they didn't….
Gods and Pawns is a collection of short stories that take place in the Company world. Similar to her collection In The Company of Thieves, these mostly light-hearted short stories are excellent entry points into Baker's Company world.
What is The Company? In the future, time travel is discovered. However, you can only travel backwards in time, and recorded history can not be changed. The owner(?) of The Company sends operatives back in time, where they take in orphaned children and turn the children into immortal cyborgs who are now employees of The Company. For the cyborgs, it's a post-scarcity life – they never need to worry about money, or a job, or a roof over their heads. The job security is great because they are immortal. But what are they working towards? What is the point of finding and then hiding all the valuable paintings and manuscripts and gems in the world for some future you may never see? Is this a good gig? Is it slavery? What's the retirement policy like?
I have condensed and vastly oversimplified Baker's amazingly complex world. If you enjoy long running space opera series with fantastic writing, time paraxodes (paradoxii?) horrible secrets, lots of dark humor, all written by an author who is a genius at playing the long game, this is a great series for you. If you're not sure if that is something you'd like, the short stories are a great place to start. For more information, and possibly epic spoilers, checkout the Company reread that Stefan Raets did at Tor.com last year.
While I was disappointed that Mendoza doesn't star in a larger portion of the stories in Gods and Pawns, I was happy to see my favorite side character, Lewis, get the spotlight.
Surprising nobody, my favorite short story in Gods and Pawns is the Lewis/Mendoza story, "To The Land Beyond the Sunset", in which our two immortal operatives act as mortal guests of a family of supposed gods. Mendoza is excited about the rare plants she finds on their property, and Lewis is trying to figure out how exactly these people are related to each other, and why they seem so ignorant. There's also the whisperings in the walls of a secret family member who keeps getting moved around the villa so the "visiting mortals" can't see him. There's the expected humor in this story, Mendoza and Lewis are immortal, and do have what could be construed as godly power. And this lonesome family appears to be underfed, ill-informed, living in a ramshackle villa, and not godly at all. Everyone is playing a role, it seems. Mendoza's first discovery makes me hope these people die a horrible death for what they are doing. The next discovery makes me feel so terribly sorry for them.
Time Salvager, by Wesley Chu
Posted July 10, 2016on:
- In: Wesley Chu
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published 2015
where I got it: purchased new
I do like me some time travel books. And a time travel story where objects and people are brought into other times, and you have to go. . . . back to the future? Great Scott, sign me up! Seriously though, I'm a sucker for a good time travel. That movie Looper? It made no sense and all, and I loved it. So, it makes sense that Wesley Chu's Time Salvager would be right up my alley. The gist of the plot is in a few hundred years, Earth is in shambles. Chronmen go into the past to get resources, batteries, energy sources, valuable minerals, just about anything that's worth anything. ChronoCom uses the time travel technology to give Earth a few more years of existence. Anyone who can afford to left Earth long ago to live on a colony elsewhere.
Chronman James Griffin-Mars self medicates his way through too many dangerous missions. He's left too many ghosts behind, too many people he couldn't save, too many people he had to let die, because the history books said they died. You can't rewrite history, you can't change the future, everyone knows that. When James brings a woman back into the future, he breaks every law of time travel, and he seals his own fate as a traitor to everything he thought he believed in.
Cinematic action sequences and high octane pacing, this sounds pretty intense, right?
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The Life of the World to Come, by Kage Baker (Company #5)
published in 2004
where i got it: purchased used
As this is the fifth book in Baker's Company series, spoilers are unavoidable. You've been warned, and I am not at all sorry. If this is the first you've heard of Kage Baker, or of her Company series, stop reading right now and type "Kage Baker" into that search box thingy on the upper right.
I can never decide if I want to wait in-between Baker books, or binge read the whole thing. Because I want to know what happens . . . but I'm enjoying the anticipation. And like my Banks books of which I have become so fond, I must ration Baker. Because there will never be any more.
In the year 2350, a group of hobbyist re-enactors use their nearly limitless resources to change history. Or at least, sort of. One of the so-called rules of time travel is that history can not be changed. So how are these naive idiots doing it? Frankie Chatterjie and Foxen Ellsworth-Howard meet at their friends Rutherford's home, which also serves as a museum. Wealthy, bored, (and thus supremely dangerous) and connected with Dr. Zeus, Inc, the three friends use anachronistic slang, sip fake brandy, and fuss about with genetics. You see, they've been tasked with coming up with a better, smarter, more contemporary version of the Company's Enforcers. An upgrade, of sorts. This perfect person that they are genetically creating will be bright, irresistible, and willing to die for a noble cause. Each iteration of their fellow will tell our genetic dabblers what changes they need to make to build the perfect enforcer. He will be tall, not exactly handsome, determined, and irresistable. Sound familiar?


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Nominating and Governance Committee
I. Purpose
The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee (the "Committee") of the Board of Directors ("Board") of Minerva Neurosciences, Inc. (the "Company") is appointed by of the Board to assist in fulfilling certain of the Board's oversight responsibilities. The Committee's purposes shall be:
- To recommend to the Board the composition and operations of the Board;
- To identify individuals qualified to serve as members of the Board, and to identify and recommend that the Board select the director nominees for the next annual meeting of stockholders and to fill vacancies;
- To develop and maintain the Company's corporate governance policies;
- To recommend to the Board the responsibilities of each Board committee, the composition and operation of each Board committee, and the director nominees for assignment to each Board committee; and
- To carry out any related matters required by federal securities laws.
II. Membership
- The Committee shall be composed of at least two directors, each of whom must be independent, as determined pursuant to applicable rules of the NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.
- The members of the Committee shall be designated and approved by a majority of the whole Board and shall serve for one-year terms. The Committee shall recommend, and the Board shall designate, one member of the Committee to serve as Chairperson. The members of the Committee shall serve until their resignation, retirement, or removal by the Board or until their successors shall be appointed. A majority of the independent directors of the full Board [not including the director being so removed] then in office may remove any member from the Committee at any time with or without cause.
III. Meetings and Procedures
- The Committee shall meet as often as it may deem necessary and appropriate in its judgment to carry out its responsibilities, which meetings may be in person or by telephone conference or other communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other.
- A majority of the members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for purposes of holding a meeting and the Committee may act by a vote of a majority of members present at such meeting. In lieu of a meeting, the Committee may act by unanimous written consent in accordance with the Company's Amended and Restated Bylaws.
- The Chairperson of the Committee or a majority of the members of the Committee may call a special meeting of the Committee.
- The Committee may delegate authority to one or more members of the Committee when appropriate, but no such delegation shall be permitted if the authority is required by law, regulation, or listing standard to be exercised by the Committee as a whole.
- The Committee may request that any directors, officers, or employees of the Company, or other persons whose advice and counsel are sought by the Committee, attend any meeting to provide such information as the Committee requests. However, the Committee shall meet regularly without such individuals present.
- The Committee shall fix its own rules of procedure, which shall be consistent with the bylaws of the Company and this Charter.
- The Committee shall keep written minutes of its meetings, which minutes shall be maintained with the books and records of the Company.
IV. Resources and Authority
- The Committee shall have the sole authority to retain, set compensation and retention terms for, oversee and terminate any legal counsel, experts or advisors that the Committee determines to employ to assist it in the performance of its duties. The Committee shall have the authority to retain, set compensation and retention terms for, and terminate any search firm to be used to identify director candidates.
- The Company shall provide for appropriate funding, as determined by the Committee in its sole discretion, for payment of compensation to any such persons retained by the Committee.
- The Committee shall have access to internal advisors and all other resources within the Company to assist it in carrying out its duties and responsibilities.
V. Duties and Responsibilities
The Committee shall have the following duties and responsibilities:
- Board Size and Composition
- Consider and recommend to the Board the appropriate size and the needs of the Board. The Committee shall determine what types of backgrounds, skills, and attributes of Board members are needed to help strengthen and balance the Board. Periodically, the Committee shall determine the qualifications for nominees for election to the Board. In addition, the Company may adopt corporate governance guidelines which shall provide for, among other matters, limits on the number of public company boards in which directors may serve, and mandatory retirement age for directors.
- Evaluate and recommend to the Board the slate of nominees for directors to be elected by the stockholders at the Company's next annual meeting of stockholders and, where applicable, to be appointed to fill vacancies. The Committee shall consider any director candidates recommended by the Company's stockholders pursuant to the procedures set forth in the Company's corporate governance guidelines and described in the Company's proxy statement.
- Oversee the establishment of the Board's policies and procedures for stockholder communications with the Board.
- Determine, evaluate and recommend to the Board any policy or procedures for nomination of directors by stockholders, including any procedure proposed by stockholders relating the nomination of directors, and implement such policy and procedure as approved by the Board.
- Develop, subject to approval by the Board, a process for an annual evaluation of the Board and its committees and to oversee the conduct of this annual evaluation.
- Board Committees
- Recommend to the Board the responsibilities of the Board committees, including each committee's composition, operations, and authority to delegate to subcommittees.
- Evaluate and recommend to the Board those directors to be appointed to the various Board committees, including the persons recommended to serve as chairperson of each committee.
- General Corporate Governance Matters
- Recommend general matters for consideration by the Board, which may include: (i) the structure of Board meetings, including recommendations for the improvement of such meetings, and the timeliness and adequacy of the information provided to the Board prior to such meetings; (ii) director retirement policies; (iii) policies regarding the number of boards on which a director may serve; (iv) director orientation and training; and (v) the roles of the Company's executive officers and the outside directorships of such executives.
- Consult with the chief executive officer, as appropriate, and other Board members to ensure that its decisions are consistent with the sound relationship between and among the Board, Board committees, individual directors, and management.
- Consider, develop and recommend to the Board such policies and procedures with respect to the nomination of directors or other corporate governance matters as may be required or required to be disclosed pursuant to any rules promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission or otherwise considered to be desirable and appropriate in the discretion of the Committee.
- Review and reassess the adequacy of this Charter annually and recommend any proposed changes to the Board for its approval.
- Perform any other activities consistent with this Charter, the Company's Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the Company's Amended and Restated Bylaws, and governing law, as the Committee or the Board deems necessary or appropriate.
- The Committee shall conduct an annual evaluation of the performance of its duties under this charter and shall present the results of the evaluation to the Board. The Committee shall conduct this evaluation in such manner as it deems appropriate.
Adopted April 29, 2014.
David Kupfer, M.D. Hans Peter Hasler
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Anything can happen at any time – and you can see it coming! Wind speed in the January 2015 hurricane were estimated at 170mph. Waterfalls sometimes go uphill, sea spray crosses the peninsula from west to east. Or it can be like a sunny day in Spain. Three tier rainbows and incredible cloud formations.


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Famed British fund manager Anthony Bolton meets his China match
Anthony Bolton was a star fund manager in Britain but his investment trust over here has earned a paltry 2 per cent these last three years
Anthony Bolton's decision to stop managing Fidelity China Special Situations highlights the tough conditions foreign asset managers face in China, where even seasoned investors can fall prey to accounting fraud and dodgy companies, observers say.
"Many investors don't want to invest in China now," said one market participant. "Managers are under mounting pressure to generate decent performances. There have been liquidity outflows and bad returns - they have had nothing to bring to the table for years."
Bolton began running the investment trust in April 2010. He favoured small and medium-sized companies run by private individuals or families. That was the investment style he deployed when he transformed £10,000 in 1979 into £1.49 million by 2007 when running the Britain-focused Fidelity Special Situations fund.
He failed to repeat the miracle in China and his fund generated just 2.11 per cent in returns over the three years to May.
"Bolton was in the right sector, but he was in the wrong companies," said Morningstar analyst Zhao Hu. "Obviously, he had not discounted enough risk into his investments in those small, unproven Chinese firms."
According to Hu, the worst bets Bolton made were in small-cap consumer stocks, such as Japanese noodle maker Ajisen (China), personal health-care product maker BaWang International and children's apparel maker Boshiwa International.
All three companies met with either accounting fraud or product-quality scandals in recent years.
Even Dale Nicholls, Bolton's successor to run the Fidelity China Special Situations investment trust, is not confident about the China market.
According to Lipper research analyst Kevin Pollard, Nicholls has been reducing his fund's exposure to the market.
Nicholls currently runs two Luxemburg-domiciled funds at Fidelity. The Pacific A fund, which invests in all Asia-Pacific equity markets, cut its weighting in Chinese equities to 21 per cent in March from 24 per cent in June 2010. In April, he cut the fund's weighting in Chinese equities to 18.9 per cent.
The withdrawal of Nicholls from the China market over the past few years helped his Pacific A fund rank eighth among the 81 funds accessible to British investors. It returned 38 per cent over the three years to May, according to Pollard.
By comparison, Bolton's Fidelity China Special Situations investment trust, with its 2 per cent return, ranked 73rd out of the 149 China-focused equity funds distributed in Britain.
The Shanghai Composite Index has fallen 34 per cent since 2010. It is down about 5 per cent this year so far.
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Litchi chinensis is the sole member of the genus Litchi in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae. It is a tropical and subtropical fruit tree native to China, and now cultivated in many parts of the world. The fresh fruit has a "delicate, whitish pulp" with a "perfume" flavor that is lost in canning, so the fruit is mostly eaten fresh.
Overview of Litchi chinensis Genome Project
Whole genome shotgun (WGS) strategy will be adopted in Litchi chinensis de novo sequencing with Illumina solexa sequencing technology. The gradient insert libraries of 200 bp, 500 bp, 800 bp to 2 Kb, 5 Kb, 10 Kb, 20 Kb are constructed based on the features of repeat sequences in the species and are sequenced by paired-end in order to cross many different repeats in assembly. The sequencing depth reaches at least 60X genome coverage to ensure the precision of each single base and genome integrality. The whole genome map of Litchi chinensis will be generated with BGI's own assembly software SOAPdenovo and bioinformatics analysis will be carried out to further decode the Litchi chinensis genome. The bioinformatics analysis includes:
i . Genome annotation:
repeat sequence annotation
ncRNA annotation
gene structure prediction
gene function annotation
ii. Comparative and evolution analysis:
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phylogenetic analysis
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
BASE Camp - Day Two+
The theme for today's BASE Camp experience was care for God's creation. We returned to Stockton Street to help our friend Steve with a community park he has built and we have returned to year after year to assist with landscaping, dredging of the pond, painting, and general cleanup of the area. Steve has built a little oasis of peace in the middle of one of Baltimore's poorer neighborhoods, but it's a sizable task to maintain the property. There is a pond, which includes a masonry structure topped by a cross and water fountain, many, many trees and bushes and open space. But it's a quiet, peaceful place nestled just a stone's throw away from the bustle of Pratt Street. This is our fourth year working this property and it's something our group has taken a sense of pride and ownership about. Even our "newbs" jumped into the project with gusto, and were rewarded with a walking tour of the area which included a visit to Hollins Market and then snowballs from a streetside vendor on the way back (featuring four - count 'em, FOUR - delicious flavors to choose from... grape, strawberry, banana and egg custard). Tommy noted the providential nature of our snowball stand visit - after a discussion of snowballs and sausages at Hollins Market we bought snowballs from a vendor that was using a sausage machine to grind the ice. God has a sense of humor as well as tying things up neatly with a bow.
As always our youth dove in with enthusiasm, clearing and trimming shrubs, repairing masonry and painting walls that have been damaged by graffiti. Steve feels it important to share God's Word with all who visit the park, and the nearby walls are another way of getting that Word out. The artists in our group loved re-painting the walls and adding new verses to those we've painted in the past. They even were able to demonstrate their creative side on one of the walls. We also finished our work on Poppleton Street, and look forward to tomorrow when we'll tackle the big lot at the corners of Pratt and Mount Streets.
We met many, many new people today, and the one thing that has been particularly exciting to see is the boundless enthusiasm of our young people. They have worked hard while maintaining a good humor, have gone out of their way to meet and greet the local residents of the community, and displayed humility in accepting the "Thank Yous" for the fine work they've done. One of our young people was told today by a resident that they are so grateful to have us come there and help them once again have a community they can feel proud of.
Our young people have been models of prayer, justice and love in all they have done these first two days. As we chanted "Veni Sancte Spiritus" to open our evening prayer I couldn't help but be moved by their young voices singing as one, asking for the Holy Spirit to be with us this day and throughout BASE Camp. Their youth is a gift. Not just to the community of South Baltimore where we do our work, but to all of us. They ARE Christ present among us, and like Christ they are (in the words of Walter Brueggemann, from our closing prayer) "giving gladly... giving in abundance... giving in joy... giving as he gave himself up for us all."
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You Make My Heart Sing
I'm not a feather person. I received a pack of the Bella Blvd feathers in this month's Scrapbook Circle kit and decided I needed to try to use it. So, I layered it in behind some of the paper layers.
I've been using my sewing machine a lot more frequently late, particularly over alphas and titles
I love anything paper-clippy added into my page. I just got these yo-yo flower paper clips and have almost gone through the entire package already.
Supplies: patterned paper - American Crafts (Dear Lizzy), Crate Paper, My Mind's Eye; paper clip and die cut card - American Crafts; feather - Bella Blvd; other - buttons, wood veneer frames, twine
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One of the highlights of festive decorating for me is dressing the Christmas table. I like my kitchen table to be set in all its festive finery for the duration of the season, but that doesn't mean breaking the bank or going overboard. Candles, greenery and festive fabrics will all make the table look Christmas-ready in a flash. Firstly, you need to choose your colour scheme. I went for red, white and green, with a Scandinavian-inspired feel. The starting point was this Scandi style Christmas fabric from John Lewis, which formed the basis of this year's table setting and the last of my festive Rosie Makes in collaboration with JL Edinburgh: a DIY Christmas table runner.
To make your own Christmas runner, you will need to measure the width and length of your table. For the width of my runner, I measured a third of the width of my table and allowed 1 cm seam allowance on either side (if you have more time, you could allow 2 cm and fold in twice for a neater finish). For the length, decide how much overhang you want at either end of the table; I left it quite long as we have a leaf in the table that we put in when we have more guests, and I wanted it to work both ways! Next, you want to press your seams. For the long edges, measure in 1 cm down the entire length, pressing wrong sides of the fabric together. Then you can pin and tack but I was in a hurry!
For the pointed ends, simply measure halfway along the width and fold the fabric into a point, then press neatly.
Now it's time to sew: you need to stitch all away round the runner, starting with the long edge. When you get to the corner where the point starts, leave the needle in the fabric and pivot, sew almost to the end and then pivot again to turn the corner. Pivot when you get to the end of the corner, sew the next long edge and then follow the fabric around the next point until you reach your starting stitches. Simple!
Simply trim the excess on the pointed ends, press your runner again and position in the middle of your table. You could put it over the top of a plain sheet as a makeshift table cloth or leave your table uncovered like I did. Then I simply dressed the table with gathered greenery, lots of candles, fairy lights and my best crockery (c/o Denby), sparkly glasses and a wee smattering of vintage and modern props. I tied the cutlery on top of each plate with some sparkly twine, a small piece of greenery and woodland creature each, with names on parcel tags. More Christmas table inspo here, and remember to check out my DIY pom-pom garland, snow globes and foraged baubles too.
How do you dress your Christmas table?
Fabric, thread and sparkly twine c/o John Lewis; plates c/o Denby; vintage glassware; candle holders from Art and Vintage Edinburgh, with vintage taper candles; scented stars and tea lights from The White Company; light-up snow globes from M&S; wooden animals from Meri Meri via Biscuit Bruntsfield; parcel tags via Tiger.


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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Fussy Cutting....
This is a Mo's Digital Pencil image called "Little Elf Mim" available as a digital image at Mo's and in rubber at Penny Black. I have the digital image and over the long weekend a few weeks back, I coloured it with some Copics and then did the fussy cutting.. slowly and carefully! I ran a dark grey Copic around the edge to hid any white bits that I missed. I added the PP to the cream card stock, after I had added some gold pen edging. The lovely red PP oval was cut with a Spellbinders Floral Oval die. I stamped the sentiment directly onto the oval before adding Mim.
I took some of my cards to work and this one was one of the first to go! So I've started colouring a few more Mim's to make it again. I managed to sell 16 cards! I must admit I sell them cheaply... for way less than it actually costs to make them! but as I enjoy making them, selling at any price is a bonus.
I've got another Mo's image to colour up tonight, as I got a order from one of the woman at work for a "girly" Christmas card for her 3 year old and I found the perfect image over at Mo's.
Thanks for popping by today.. I really appreciate all your lovely comments.
13 comments:
- Doreen said...
A beautiful card,lovely image and papers.xxx
- November 14, 2012 at 9:10 PM
- MaxineD said...
Love this Dawn - Mim is beautifully coloured, and I love the way you have mounted her.
- November 14, 2012 at 10:03 PM
- paula said...
Dawn this is a wonderful image, I get so tempted to buy them. I am so glad that you sold some of your wonderful cards. I can see why this card was one of the first sold as it's so beautiful.
- November 14, 2012 at 10:05 PM
- Karen said...
how adorable and so fun...
- November 15, 2012 at 1:18 AM
- Barb said...
I love that stamp! Adorable card, Dawn! :)
- November 15, 2012 at 3:45 AM
- Kelly Booth said...
Just ADORABLE Dawn...have always admired that cute Stamp!!
- November 15, 2012 at 4:32 AM
- CinnamonSally said...
Cute card Dawn and a beautifully coloured image.
- November 15, 2012 at 7:19 AM
- Deirdre said...
Love this too... have the digi - must dig it out and get colouring after seeing your fab creation. Hugs.
- November 15, 2012 at 10:25 AM
- Anita Rex said...
So pretty! Love how well you colored it and that die cut inbehind! And yay for card sales!
- November 15, 2012 at 11:14 AM
- Isha Gupta said...
Oh Dawn. This is just sooo pretty. Love the image, coloring and colors.
- November 15, 2012 at 9:35 PM
- Maureen Morton said...
Fussy is an understatement....this cutting is so precise I don't know how you ever did it. This guy brings a real smile - your coloring is top-notch! Glad you are selling some of your work - it makes it less guilty to buy new products. Love this.
- November 16, 2012 at 1:46 AM
- Greta said...
This is adorable!
- November 16, 2012 at 5:58 PM
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Just a quick few snaps from around the marina we are moored at. Tomorrow we head out for the day and take the in laws with us. Fingers crossed the river isn't too high as we have had so much rain in a few days.
I have finally been making time for crochet and self care. I will be blogging about this soon. Until then, enjoy these snaps! 🙂
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Go Chic is an electropop group which started in Taipei, current members are Sonia Lai (賴思勻), Ariel Zheng (鄭思齊), Sarah Wen (溫一珊). All three graduated from the same high school and hooked up in 2007. This new band hit the scene with brightly colored tights and short shorts, laughing and joking with the crowd as they pumped out raw, catchy, electro-pop.
Since then, Go Chic has lost a couple of members, gained a male drummer-Winston Li (李昀璁), and graduated to silver tutus and a coveted place as one of Nike's top 10 Taiwanese bands for the company's NIKE SPORTSWEAR NIGHT PARTY. They've played with such notable acts as Peaches, Vicarious Bliss (Ed Banger FR), Dandi Wind (CA), Shitdisco (Dim Mak UK), Death Is Not My Aim (JP), etc., and are currently active in Taiwan playing various festivals and venues. Source
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They have released two albums so far: "I Am Confused" and their sophomore album "We Ain't Home". Go Chic have more of a rock sound for their debut album while "We Ain't Home" features a much more electronic sound. I think this change was for the best. It fits them and their attitudes more. It was an improvement and earned them two nominations in this year's 2014 Golden Indie Music Awards. One is for Best Electronic Album for "We Ain't Home" and one is for Best Electronic Single for "City Slickers' Night Pressure".
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If the funding comes through, Furlenco is likely to use the proceeds to launch operations in Hyderabad and Chennai, where it is setting up warehouse infrastructure
New Delhi: Furniture rental start-up Furlenco is in the process of raising equity capital of $10 to 15 million from new and existing investors, three people aware of the talks said.
Besides early investor Lightbox, Furlenco is in talks with other venture capital firms for the round. Mint could not ascertain the identity of the new investors.
If the funding comes through, Furlenco is likely to use the proceeds to launch operations in Hyderabad and Chennai, where it is setting up warehouse infrastructure.
Furlenco's rival RentoMojo raised $10 million from Bain Capital last year.
Furlenco chief executive Ajith Mohan Karimpana did not respond to calls and messages seeking comment.
Operated by Bengaluru-based Kieraya Furnishing Solutions Pvt. Ltd, Furlenco raised $15 million from Lightbox in tranches over the last two years after the VC firm's first investment of $6 million in 2015. The firm has also raised debt at regular intervals to support business operations.
Furlenco raised about $3 million via non-convertible debentures recently, according to company filings with the Registrar of Companies for January and February.
About Rs8 crore came from debt firm Trifecta Capital and another Rs10 crore from a group of high net worth individuals, namely, Rekha Hrishikesh Mafatlal of the Arvind Mafatlal Group, Lakshmi Narayanan, ex-vice chairman of Cognizant, and the M. Krishna Sindhuri Private Trust.
In the preceding months, it got a Rs5 crore credit line from LendingKart and a Rs2 crore investment from actor Aamir Khan. "Furlenco designs its furniture and invests in assets, so it raises debt on an on-going basis from HNIs and NBFCs," one of the persons mentioned above said on condition of anonymity.
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The sixties were a time of rapid changes in all spheres, including fashion, music, literature, politics and sport. Everything was characterized by a revolution of some sort, either sexual revolution, political revolution or even revolution regarding recurring themes in literature. It was the time of ultimate freedom and love was the highest virtue; above all and that is visible in most of the aspects of the 60's. This decade became synonymous not only with love but also with freedom in every aspect of life. Fashion broke free from the chains of gender roles in the 50's so tailored suits were no longer reserved only for me.
Literature was more personal and its topics were more controversial and used to be considered taboo. This era is also called The Swinging Sixties because of the fall of these taboos that were mostly about experimenting with mostly drugs or sexuality. When it comes to politics, it was also a revolutionary era even though there were a lot of tension between the USA and the Soviet Union regarding Cuba, nuclear missiles and space exploration. Fashion changes rapidly every day and the sixties were no different – on the contrary, 60's were a decade in which the fashion was the matter of some serious changes.
In the fifties, women were more dependent on men and that was even visible in their fashion sense. Lines were feminine – narrow waist, pencil skirts that enhanced the figure, sleek haircuts with and subtle makeup with only a thin eyeliner line pointed outwards, red lipstick and brownish eye shadow. Colours were not bright or vibrant at all, they were either darker (grey) or they were light, like beige, light lime and light pink. The sixties emerged as a contrast of the fifties – colours were bright and vibrant, styles were bolder, women gained more freedom and everything was revolutionized.
Some of the most famous 60's styles include waistless bag dress, funky oversized florals, graphic op-art lines, psychedelic lines, patterned tights, knee-high go-go boots, animal and ethnical prints and mini skirts. Subcultures of the time had a great influence on the fashion as well. Where would the fashion be if it were not for the psychedelic culture with its people that were known for using psychedelic drugs. They used them to experience highly distorted and surreal visuals, vibrant colours, cartoon typography and full spectrums. These people also often experienced hallucinations and synesthesia which also influenced the fashion.
Because of all that, the psychedelic fashion was that of vibrant colours, with kaleidoscopic prints and vividly coloured jewelry. Along with the psychedelic culture, one of the first things that come in mind when talking about sixties is the hippie culture. Hippies have created their own fashion, as well as their own movement that was all about peace, love, sexual revolution and prevailing gender differences. They used to wear second hand clothes, bell bottom pants, tie-dyed garments, vests, long, full skirts and they listened to psychedelic rock. Their symbols and iconography were purposely borrowed from "low" or "primitive" cultures.
Their fashion represented their disorderly vagrant life style so both men and women had long hair (due to trying to prevail gender differences) and they were often barefoot or wore sandals. Completely opposite style is the mod style. It originated in London in the late 1950's but emerged to its greatest popularity in the 60's. The original mod scene was associated to amphetamine driven all night partying but around 1966, this culture started to decline. The original mods were getting in the age in which they should bear children and earn money for they families so they didn't have the time or funds to pay for their expenses.
The mods symbol was the Royal Air Force roundel. Their opinion on gender roles was revolutional as well, they accepted the idea that a young woman should be attached to a man; instead she should go out, have her own source of income and be independent. When it comes to music, the most important events that occurred were The Summer of Love in 1967 and Woodstock in 1969. The Summer of Love was a social phenomenon that gathered 100 000 people of all age near San Francisco. It was the melting pot of love, politics and sexual revolution.
It attracted a variety of people, ranging from high school and college students to middle-aged people and soldiers that were based within driving distance. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair occurred in 1969 on a dairy farm in White Lake, New York. At first, it was not considered to be as popular as it grew, but 500 000 people attended this three – day festival during which 32 acts performed. Even though it had numerous possibilities of fatalities, riots and catastrophe, 500 000 people spent three days in love, peace and music and this festival is actually considered a victory of peace and love.
Rock music was the most popular type of music but it came in the variety of genres and the most popular was psychedelic rock. This kind of music tried to imitate the sounds while under the effect of these drugs. It was pioneered by artists such as Beatles but it gained popularity with the bands like Jefferson Airplane, The Jimi Hendrix experience, The Doors and Pink Floyd. Rock and roll was still popular in the sixties, though not as much as in the 50's. Elvis Presley was still active but his manager set him a tight filming schedule so he did not have much time for music.
Nevertheless, some of his most famous songs come from this decade as they were recorded as soundtracks to his movies. Songs like Viva Las Vegas and Can't help falling in love were not popular at all at that time but gained the popularity later while Crying in the chapel was a top ten hit at that moment. Except for the psychedelic rock and rock and roll music, blues rock, folk rock and surf rock were also popular with artists such as Janis Joplin, Simon and Garfunkel and The Beach Boys. On the other hand, there was something completely different than rock that helped emerge African – American people and their music to the mainstream.
It was the distinctive "Motown sound" made by two major record companies, Motown and Tamla. The latter was characterized by r'n'b influenced music and typical Motown early hits were more based on catchy pop tunes mixed with soul music. These artists were well groomed and toured for a large amount of time and the most notable acts were The Marvelettes, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer and the Supremes and Jackson 5. As a slow transfer between the music and poetry, Leonard Cohen is the right example.
He is a Canadian musician, songwriter, poet and novelist. His first album was published in 1967 (Songs of Leonard Cohen) but he wrote poetry throughout all 1960's. While he was living in Hydra, Greece, he published a poetry collection Flowers for Hitler (1964) and the novels "The favourite game" and "Beautiful losers". The novel "The favourite game" is actually an autobiographical ''bildungsroman'' about a young man that finds his identity through writing. Recurring themes in his work include sex, love, religion, politics, depression and music itself.
Since he was depressed for most of his life, many of his works are bathed in that feeling. His literally influences were Walt Whitman, Henry Miller and Federico Garcia Lorca whose poems he liked so much that he even named his daughter after him (Lorca). Confessional poetry is a style of poetry that emerged in the United States in the late 50's and gained popularity during the 60's. It is also known as the poetry of the personal. These writers were trying to express their deepest fears and emotions because they were often troubled individuals burdened with depression, suicide and death.
These poems are autobiographical and they were special because these writers spoke out loud about the things that were considered taboo at the time; mental illness, sexuality, infidelity and suicide. Most famous writers were Robert Lowell and his students Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and William De Vitt Snodgrass. This poetry style had a backlash in the 70's and the 80's because these new poets believed that the poetry should be about others, about their surroundings, about nature and that it is selfish to write just about yourself.
Confessional poetry influenced many works of the 1990's such as Elizabeth Wurtzel's Prozac nation and Dave Peltzer's A child called it. One of the major representatives of this writing style was Sylvia Plath. Her recurring themes include women victimization, rage, rebellion and her poems had a psychoanalytic and mythic dimension since she loved to read Freud. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best know for her collection Ariel and a semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar. She won a Pulitzer Prize posthumously for The Collected Poems.
Prose in the 1960's reflected what was happening in everyday life, so post war feelings were dominant. Since this age was the age of revolution and liberation, writers were often writing about topics that were considered taboo in the past. Their themes also involved subjects of sexual exploration (they were one of the first writers to openly write about their homosexual experiences) and their work often consisted of sexually explicit images. To kill a mockingbird is considered a classic of modern American literature and it is a novel written by Harper Lee in 1960.
It was immediately successful and won a Pulitzer Prize. The plot is loosely based on author's childhood and her observations of family and neighbours. The main theme of the novel is mostly controversial, which was typical for the 60's and, even though it is praised for its humour, it also deals with difficult topics like rape and racial inequality. One flew over the cuckoo's nest is a novel by Ken Kesey and it is situated in a mental hospital. It was published in 1962 and included in Time's magazine's "100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005" list.
As for the political, scene, Cuban missile crisis, or as it is often called in Cuba, October crisis was one of the major confrontations of the Cold War. It lasted for 13 days in October 1962 and it was a confrontation between Cuba and Soviet Union on one side and the United States on the other. It is considered to be a point in the Cold War in which the parties were closest to starting a nuclear war. The Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev learned of the missile installments in Turkey, near the USSR and he wanted to introduce the nuclear missiles to Cuba to prevent American attacks.
Cuba gladly accepted this offer as they were afraid of the USA. The United States wanted to attack Cuba via air and sea but decided to block them instead. The US stated that it would not allow shipping any weapons to Cuba unless the Soviet Union removes the missile bases that were already under the construction or even already built. While Kennedy and Kruschev were trying to get to an agreement, Soviet ships attempted to run the blockade which only burst the flame and the situation got so serious that the order was given to the US navy to fire warning shots and then open fire.
In the end, two sides reached an agreement – Kruschev would remove the missile bases from Cuba and Kennedy would dismantle all missiles that they have set in Italy and Turkey against the Soviet Union. This confrontation is considered to be a confrontation of the Titans even though the United States outnumbered the Soviet Union when it comes to weaponry. That wasn't the only political event concerning Cuba; in 1959, Che Guevara and Fidel Castro led a revolution in Cuba and their revolutionary movement seized the power over the entire country. As soon as the new government was established, the US attacked Cuba.
Many members of the UN as well as the US populace supported the cause, even though USA didn't agree with it. The US populace even thought of Guevara and Castro as ''romantic freedom fighters''. President Eisenhower approved the plan to overthrow the Cuban government by force. He also approved of the economic sanctions to be imposed on Cuba, thus excreting economic warfare. It turned out to be very effective, especially regarding oil and sugar production in Cuba which went down drastically. It would have been the end of the country if it wasn't for nationalization of the U. S. wned banks and corporations and help of the Soviet Union.
All of this wasn't enough to overthrow the government so USA had to turn to some more direct assaults – The Bay of Pigs. It has been an unsuccessful attempt by the US to overthrow the new founded government led by Guevara and Castro. The US invaded Cuba by Cuban exiles and the attack lasted for 72 hours in which Cubans managed to resist the attack. Another main political event that took place in the 50's and the 60's was the Space Race; a competition between the US and the Soviet Union for supremacy in space exploration.
Space race began with the successful Soviet launch of an artificial satellite in 1957; the Sputnik 1. One of the main events during the Space Race occurred in 1961 when Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth one time and became the first man in space. The USA dominated in the second half of the decade and it all culminated in 1969 when Edward ''Buzz'' Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first men to walk on the Moon – the Apollo 11 mission. Changes weren't occurring only on the political sphere, 1960's were also a time of great changes in sport. Winning is not everything; it is the only thing" is the quote that can summarize the fan's and player's attitude towards sports. Introduction of the television in homes allowed sports to be seen by a much wider audience because people didn't have to go to stadiums to watch sports anymore.
The need to win also stems from the fact that most of the players and clubs had a sponsor so they were somewhat required to win for them. Players were under a lot of pressure to win and that was the first time that illegal substances that enhanced their performance appeared. Even hough sports in the 60's started being commercialized and were controversial and scandalous, fans were rewarded with some of the most memorable moments, performances and athletes in sports history. Great characteristic about the sport in the 60's was the fight against racism. Some of the most famous athletes of the time were actually African – American; Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russel, Abebe Bikila (who won the marathon running barefoot and became the first black African Olympic champion) and Muhammed Ali. The 60's were indeed the age of revolution and it was exactly what the society needed.
This revolution occurred at the right time and if it wasn't for the 60's, our everyday would be dull and lifeless, locked with the chains of shame over the things that should be normal, things like human sexuality. We've made a progress since then but we are desperately in need of the new 60's; we need a revolution, especially in Croatia. We need people to achieve the Western point of view and to realize that being different is not a bad thing, that we as society should just live and let live and that riots and bombings are not the solution.
Sure, this is an era burdened with many problems but we should really look back to the 60's and learn something from them – learn to be happy for the small things, for the freedom, love, unity, nature. Even though it was also an era in which the nuclear war almost began, it was also an era in which the government didn't control the people. The mass had something to say and they said it in every way possible and the music was one of their strongest allies. We need someone to just stand up and say ''Give peace a chance. ''


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Bitcoin ---- Challenging the fiat money system or catalyzing economic development? March 2014
Today's presentation Brief history of Bitcoin What is a cryptocurrency? How does Bitcoin work? Variations on Bitcoin Benefits and drawbacks Recent events Moving forward
Within 5 years: Challenging the fiat money system? Bitcoin – An emergent phenomenon • Open source project on SourceForge in Jan 2009 • Original source code by "Satoshi Nakamoto" – pseudonym? • Developed by self-organizing community of thousands of strangers across globe • Approx USD 7.8 bln in circulation (March 2014) and 80,000 daily transactions • SEK 50 bln of Bitcoin vs Swedish Crown: 91 bln SEK Teigland, Yetis, Larsson 2013 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2263707
Bitcoin Online Forums
Bitcoin Foundations across the globe
Institutions Emergent Collective vs E.g., Bitcoin Community ~ Emergent collective of users across globe connected through internet Teigland, Yetis, Larsson 2013 E.g., Central Bank ~ Long-standing financial institutions and regulations
What is a cryptocurrency? Digital Decentralized, peer-to-peer (P2P), i.e., no central, third party Uses cryptography to validate transactions Also uses cryptography to generate currency itself
How does Bitcoin work? Screenclip from: How Bitcoin Works under the hood, by "Curious Inventor" Block chain • Shared public ledger • All transactions ever made included • Chronology and integrity enforced by cryptography
Screenclip from: How Bitcoin Works under the hood, by "Curious Inventor" Transactions between Bitcoin wallets secured through digital signatures
Screenclip from: How Bitcoin Works under the hood, by "Curious Inventor" Verifying a transaction
"Mining" confirms waiting transactions through distributed consensus system Generates new Bitcoins (at decreasing rate) Does coding and de-coding that verifies and stores transactions (increasingly complex)
Screenclips from: How Bitcoin Works under the hood, by "Curious Inventor" Preventing double spending fraud
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Where can I buy Bitcoins in Sweden?
Benefits of Bitcoin Improved transaction security Trust in cryptography rather than institution(s) Transparency Lower transaction costs Cross-border, faster transactions No outside intervention No inflation (although market volatility)
Who accepts Bitcoin? http://coinmap.org/
Bitcoin becoming more mainstream?
Drawbacks of Bitcoin Tax concerns Only as safe as wallet holding coins or exchange's servers Consumer uncertainty Market volatility (commodity or currency?) Potential for illicit use High electricity consumption to "mine"
Bitcoin – one of many cryptocurrencies Currency Code Year Est. Founder(s) Active Website PoW PoS Bitcoin BTC or XBT 2009 Satoshi Nakamoto (pseudonym) Yes N/A Yes No Ripple XRP 2013 Chris Larsen & Jed McCaleb Yes ripple.com No No Litecoin LTC 2011 Charles Lee Yes litecoin.org Yes No Peercoin PPC 2012 Sunny King (pseudonym) Yes peercoin.net Yes Yes Dogecoin DOGE 2013 Jackson Palmer & Billy Markus Yes dogecoin.co m Yes No Namecoin NMC 2011 N/A Yes dot-bit.org Yes No Mastercoin MSC 2013 J. R. Willett Yes mastercoin.or g No No Primecoin XPM 2013 Sunny King (pseudonym) Yes primecoin.or g Yes No
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Recent events Closure and bankruptcy filing of world's largest Bitcoin exchange, Mt Gox in Japan − Unclear what happened – Exchange says it was hacked − Others allege CEO, Mark Karpeles, stole millions of dollars of Bitcoin Will the "real" Satoshi Nakamoto please step forward?
Optimism prevails among users, new and old
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More Poetry Sites for Kids!.....
Andrea Shavick's wonderful site has oodles of poems by her as well as by children! She also does author visits to schools for kids of all ages! (UK)
Angela Yardy has a well indexed and cross-referenced slew of funny poems for children, along with lots of cool info on poetry devices, types, etc. (click "poetry index" button!)
Another wonderful site for children's poetry: CJ Heck's Barking Spiders Poetry
She also does school visits and workshops for K to adult! (Florida)
Bedtime Favorites is a Nursery Rhyme resource guide where you can find a wealth of nursery rhymes to read to little ones!
Bill's Children's Stories is a collection of endearing stories and poems that children of all ages will love!
Fizzy Funny Fuzzy is a wonderful children's poetry site by Gareth Lancaster. It is well-organized and the poetry is totally charming and varied in theme.
Funky Piglet's Party is worth checking out for the some delightful poems and wonderful illustrations.
Funny Poems for Kids is a delicious website of funny and nonsense poems and so much to learn about poetry!
Funny Poems for Free has loads of cute and hilarious poems for every occasion and season! Also some great poetry-writing tips and instruction.
J. Patrick Lewis, children's poet and author, has a colorful website with his many books listed and the opportunity to book him for a school visit or even a Skype visit!
Here's another one! Kristine O'Connell George has a beautifully done site that showcases her charming books and poetry for children. She also has some great teaching poetry resources for parents/teachers/homeschoolers!
Visit Kenn Nesbitt's Poetry4kids.com Visit for tons of poetry fun, including games, contests, discussion forums, and, of course, lots of funny poems! School visits nation-wide.
Denise Rodgers' The Poetry Lady is a site with wonderful poems by children. She is also a teacher, and visits schools to teach children about the joys of writing poetry (Michigan).
Check out Reading Juice, a fun site of poetry and stories for children!
Lots of giggle-worthy poems by Shane D. Williams on this site for kids! He has several school visit programs as well (Utah).
Some delightful poems for children by Susan Noyes Anderson on her welcoming site.
Some wonderful poems that you can HEAR rather than just read! That Poetry Guy (Ted Scheu) also works with school children (Vermont).
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Just like any other major CMS, much of Joomla's powerful functionalities derive from the use of modules. Modules are a set of standalone components that bring extra functionality to a CMS. In this guide, I'll take you through the process of installing a Joomla module.
- Download Module
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- Navigate to Admin Panel
- Go to Extensions -> Install Extensions
- Upload Module
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Download Module
Firstly, search the interweb for the module that you are looking for. A good resource for Joomla modules is the official Joomla extension site. Once you find a module that best suits your needs, download it to your computer.
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Your module has now been successfully installed. The last step is to configure the module that you installed according to your needs. Each module is configured differently so make sure you properly read the documentation for the module that you are installing.
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