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I was awake at really silly o'clock today with no hope of dropping off again - trouble is that it feels like elevenses time already and makes for a long day. I had an idea for this card while I was eating breakfast so my next move was into the craft room while it was still fresh in my head. The background paper is from a pad which has been in my stash forever and the other elements are various die cuts and a bit of computer work for the 'birthday' word. Once the pieces were cut it was just a case of assembling them into this 'card for a gent'. Details of dies below as usual and now I think I'm off for my mid-morning coffee (early) and then maybe onto some boring domestic jobs.
Face - Looking Dapper dies from Sizzix onto Sizzix heart die shape
Splat - Splatter die from Sizzix
Happy Word - brush alphabet lower case dies from Sizzix
Birthday Word - produced on the computer and cut out with scissors
Banner - die from Stampin' Up embossed with Sizzix cogs die
Thursday, 3 August 2017
6 comments:
Great masculne card Val and a a brilliant 'light bulb' momentReplyDelete
Hi Val,ReplyDelete
what a veru wonderful card.
I love your super design and the paper is so brilliant.
Lots of crafty love. Jenny L.
Wow, a great idea for a card Val, this is great. I love the background paper.ReplyDelete
Sue xx
Great masculine card Val, love the layout! xReplyDelete
The gents face made from the heart shape die is a brilliant idea and lots fab. Hugs Mrs A.ReplyDelete
What a fabulous male card this is. A great idea and I love all the elements. Sorry you didn't sleep too well but something good came from it! Hugs, BarbxxReplyDelete
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Rules for Good Hunting Behavior
- Be a good neighbor. Ask permission whenever you hunt on private property! See RCW 77.15.435 for laws on trespassing while hunting.
- Be a safe hunter. Know all basic safety rules, and follow them 100% of the time!
- Obey all rules and regulations. Follow the law and the landowner's wishes!
- Be responsible. Practice shooting before hunting season, but not on live game!
Being a good hunter is the same as being a good student, a good worker, or a good citizen. Everybody knows the "Golden Rule," but not everybody applies it as often as they should! Non-hunters will judge all hunters by your actions. What kind of hunter do you want to be? Will you be a good citizen when you're afield?


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CPAN Ratings: MAB2 reviews http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/MAB2 CPAN Ratings: MAB2 reviews en-us 2000-08-23T07:00+00:00 firstname.lastname@example.com email@example.com Perl 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 1 daily Jakob Voß http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/MAB2#7086
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This package is only a first public release from years ago that has sadly never been update. If you manage to get it installed and running at least you can parse MAB2 somehow. To make real use of it a refactoring is needed. The dependency of BerkeleyDB should be dropped with all the Tie::MAB2 classes. Instead a MAB2::Parser class is needed to parse a stream of MAB2 records (and deliver MAB2::Record objects either via a callback method or via a next() method). Such a parser and the MAB2::Record::* and Encode::MAB2::* classes are all you need. A pure-perl version would also be nice but the most urgentl part is to drop BerkeleyDB - that task of storing MAB2 should be independet from parsing and decoding it.
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text: Yesterday I went to Ceramic Art London which describes itself as 'The International Contemporary Ceramics Event'. It is a 3 day event held at Central Saint Martins in the remodelled Granary Building which is a fantastic setting of striking architecture. I got there with what I thought was plenty of time to grab a coffee & piece of cake before heading to the lecture theatre for a talk by Grayson Perry. Apparently not.Read More


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For my daughter's third birthday last month I threw her a sprinkles/confetti birthday party. She loves sprinkles and I love confetti so what better combination than a sprinkles/ confetti party! This was a fairly easy and simple theme that can be used for all ages. Her dessert table was kept simple with confetti sprinkled on the table and adorned with gold shimmer bows and confetti filled balloons. In addition to cake we served cake balls and macaroons.
To tie in the confetti theme I made her birthday banner. I used a simple Happy Birthday banner from Target, used a paint brush to rub glue all over the letters and I sprinkled confetti on the letters. Very easy but time consuming.
Drink Station
I also added a touch of confetti onto the favor tags and drinking cups.
Party tags created by Simplypchee
Party favors consisted of a confetti popper, a jar of sprinkles and frosting with sugar cookies to decorate.
About the Party/Vendors:
Cake Stand: Vintage milk glass cake stand purchased off of ebay for my daughter's 1st bday. It will someday be handed down to her.
Cake: Michelle's Patisserie
Balloons were filled with confetti (Hard to see in the pics)
Polka Dot Party Straws: Shop Sweet Lulu styled in a mason jar with confetti
Confetti Birthday Invite: Designed by Cake Events
My inspiration for Elle's party came from this invitation. I loved the 3 cheers since Elle was turning 3!
Birthday outfit: Polka Dot tulle skirt Crazy8, knit top crew cuts, gold polka dot leggings Old Navy


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This is the newest picture to join the house. Most of our pictures have a water or beach theme. We've just painted the stairs and landing a duck egg blue- and the background on this picture brings the colour together with what will be the new carpet colour (beige of some description). I wasn't too sure when the colour went on the wall- as it looked a bit different when on a large expanse! It's brighter than I was expecting. But now we've been living with it for a while- it's made the place look a lot brighter and cheerier! We've got another 2 pictures to put up on the stair wall. One is a harbour scene made printed like a collage- I'll add a photo when the walls have had a final overcoat! We borrowed a special ladder to do the bits we couldn't reach- and now need to add a second coat. But for now it looks done!
Last year we spent the weekend in Derby for our anniversary. There was a craft fair going on in Bakewell and the artist was selling lots of pictures. We both picked the same ones out for a short list and this one was our favourite. We were going to buy a smaller one- but decided to splash out and get this one. This is waterside based aswell!
Another little plaque hanging in the kitchen.


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So far, the majority of Tumblr users seems to be in an age range between teens and early to mid thirties. A lot of the content shared is multi-media including pictures and texts or videos. A lot of the content shared is fan oriented, but I also see a lot of Social Justice causes shared on Tumblr. A lot of the content on Tumblr is unique to it, which means that it isn't cross shared across multiple social media platforms.
Why should authors use Tumblr? If your target demographic is on Tumblr, you'll want to be on there as well. But there's also a variety of other reasons to consider having a Tumblr presence. What I like about Tumblr is the hashtag feature, which while not altogether unique, is useful for finding your target audience and connecting as well making sure your contents get in front of that target audience. Another feature I find intriguing is how Tumblr is set up to encourage sharing of content, both in terms of reblogging and favoriting. To comment on posts you typically need to reblog a post and offer your own commentary, which makes commenting a bit less back and forth.
How should authors use Tumblr? If you are going to use Tumblr, there are a couple suggestions I have. First, make sure you post some unique content just for Tumblr users. For example I'll share excerpts of my latest book on Tumblr and nowhere else. Or I'll write an essay that's just for Tumblr. Second if you want people to respond and comment, makes you sure end a post with a question. This creates a little box at the bottom of your draft that asks if you want to let people respond. Doing these two things has helped me engage with my Tumblr audience more effectively.
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I'm willing to die for vengeance. Until she gives me a reason to live…
People call me a rising star in New York City's underground MMA scene. I'm winning all my matches, and I can have any woman I choose.
Except the one who was lost to me, and now, the one I want but can never allow myself to have.
Carly Anderson is gorgeous and funny and sexy as hell. She isn't shy about letting me know she's interested. But she's far too innocent for me to taint with the sins of my past—and my present. In my circles, being in the wrong place can make you end up dead. My father and older brother embraced the dark, dangerous world of the mafia that I'd turned away from, until the person I loved most was caught in the crossfire.
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Morning everyone. How much pathos did I get in that greeting? It's a little hard to express just how bad the hangover is from that gut-wrenching final session last night is when the only tools you have at your disposal are bold and italic.
In the particularly ropey edition of The Spin I wrote earlier this week [I admit it was done with a shocking hangover, the kind that comes once a year] I did manage to get one thing right. It just wasn't the positions of the apostrophes. "In fact, though English fans may have missed it in all the excitement, their team is actually as vulnerable now as it has been at any point since the first day of the first Test."
The reason I mention it, other than to boost my own sense of self-worth, is that I went on to discuss the Headingley Test of the 2009 Ashes. England were 1-0 up then as well, and knew they were only a win away from a series victory. They were even worse in that match than they have been in this one, conceding 445 after being bowled out for 102. By the end of the second day they were, uncannily, 82-5 (as opposed to their current 81-5) and still trailed by 261. The game was up. But the next morning Andy Flower called a team meeting. "This match is lost," he told the players. "But the preparation for the next Test starts now." Stuart Broad and Graeme Swann put on 108 runs in 12.3 overs. They tucked into Stuart Clark, who had tormented England in the first innings, with particular relish and they ended up with a score of 263, losing by an innings and 80 runs. But the tone for the next Test was set. They had showed that they would not wilt just because they had endured two bad days in a row. And of course you don't need me to tell you what happened at the Oval ten days later.
So the upshot is, what happens today matters. And England know that from personal experience. If they fold inside the first hour, then there are going to be very few positives to pluck from the wreckage. Bat on into the afternoon and at least they will have ended the match on a sweet note.
By the way, if they do make it that far there will be a complete and utter moratorium on emails from you lot saying things like 'how many more runs before we start thinking about England winni...'.
Ian Bell is one man with something to play for. If he makes it to fifty it will be his fifth in five successive Test innings. His injury in the summer meant that his hot run of form has seemed a little fragmented, but a surprisingly chipper Rob Smyth points out that since he scored that 140 in Durban last December Bell has scored 909 runs for England at an average of 82.63 in 13 Test innings.
England will face a few selection conundrums in the next few days. The decision to move Ian Bell up to no5 in the order should be one of the simpler ones. Far harder will be whether or not to give Steve Finn a break or not. He has bipolar statistics in the series so far. He has taken more wickets than anybody (14) but he his overs have also been more expensive (4.3 runs each) than everyone other than poor old Dougie Bollinger.
And then there's Paul Collingwood. For the first two Tests in this series he looked a little like a fireman with no fires to put out. Collingwood is a contingency player, you pick him as insurance in case things go wrong. In this match though, he has been able to do anything aboutthe sticky situation England have found themselves in. Since he scored 145 against Bangladesh in Chittagong last March his scores look like this: 3, 0, 82, 1, 28, 5, 3, 0, 4, 42, 5, 11. Ouch. That said, no, I wouldn't drop him.
As for Australia's line-up for the next Test, well the news is that Ricky Ponting has fractured the little finger on his left hand. The team haven't decided yet whether or not he will field today. But if it is even an option that he might do, then he will presumably be fit to play the next Test. In fact I imagine he will insist on it, given what he personally has at stake in this series.
Judging by the state of my inbox some of you folks need to go look up 'moratorium' in the dictionary. That means you, Jonny Sultoon. "Anderson 15, Bell 160*, Prior 87, Swann 33*, Extras 14. England win by 2 wickets." You know, I think I liked the England fans better when they were all miserable defeatists. I don't know what it is. All this optimism just rubs me up the wrong way.
Australia are out on the pitch, but Ricky Ponting is not with them. Michael Clarke is in charge. "With my usual immaculate timing this is the first night of this Test I'm actually awake, not otherwise engaged and able to send an email or two," says Phil Sawyer. "Have I missed anything? When do we hit the winning runs?"
Jimmy Anderson is going to get some serious heat here, and no word of a lie. The Australians are going to enjoy working him over after all the words he has had for them in the series so far. He's going to have to deal with Mitchell Johnson first up.
28th over: England 85-5 (Anderson 3, Bell 0) Three slips, two gullies and Johnson opens with a pair of bouncers that whizz past Jimmy's head. He's between a a rock and the proverbial is Jimmy, because he is not going to get much sympathy from the English press after his batting last night. He turned down a single of the penultimate ball of the day, sending Paul Collingwood back to the striker's end. Of course Colly got out next ball. Vic Marks was quite kind about it in the Observer, describing it as "a marginal single, justifiably rejected by the nightwatchman", but elsewhere in the press he has been slated, notably by Scyld Berry in the Sunday Telegraph. Anyway, here he has started by punching the first runs of the day away to extra cover.
29th over: England 89-5 (Anderson 3, Bell 4) And at the other end it's Ryan Harris. Bell beautifully drives his third ball away for four to extra cover. Intriguingly Atherton is saying that Greg Chappell gave an interview yesterday in which he said that Australia were not at all sure about who should take over the captaincy from Ponting, Clarke, they think, is just not in "the right place mentally". Vic has written a piece picking up on suggestions that he might be have been leapfrogged by Shane Watson. A good email this, from Rajesh Balasubramanian. "I think there is a parallel to 2005 Ashes here (dont know whether this has been mentioned before). The on-paper favourite wins the first decisive match comfortably, tall-thin fast bowler injures himself, key player puts in good all-round performance, crucial batsman gets out right at the stroke of day 4. If England make this one look like a close contest and lose, the parallel could evolve further." Broad is not McGrath, but I take your point Rajesh.
30th over: England 89-5 (Anderson 3, Bell 4) Anderson flashes a cut shot at a wide ball from Johnson, but doesn't connect. Otherwise he leaves and blocks the rest. It's a maiden. "Should I go to bed?" asks Matthew Tom. "I'm flying to Australia in the morning." Turned turncoat have you? Well, you've nothing to lose by staying up then, I'd suggest.
31st over: England 94-5 (Anderson 3, Bell 9) That's a good looking shout for an lbw, but Australia opt not to refer it. Bell was trying to flick the ball to leg, but it swung back inside the bat and hit him high on the pad in front of leg stump. And that is a sweet shot, the kind that makes the connoisseurs purr, a late cut for four past backward point. The next isn't so good. - it squirts away off the inside edge for a single.
WICKET! Anderson 3 b Harris (England 94-6) Well there's one of them. Anderson is undone by an inswinger from Harris. He offered a rather abject defensive prod to a ball that slanted across towards the off stump after pitching on leg. It splattered his stumps all across the turf. That's Harris' sixth wicket in the match, for just 90 runs. "Why watch?" asks James Wrout. "I'm here because I want to see Bell batting beautifully. How many other batsmen would I get up this early for when the gale is effectively over? Sehwag? ABdV? My internet stream is about 5 minutes behind, though, so he's probably got out by the time you get this."
32nd over: England 94-6 (Bell 9, Prior 0) Bell is beaten by a ball that slides across him, passing perilously close to his outside edge. As Atherton points out - this is the problem for England now. In the first Test they were able to leave deliveries like that one from Johnson well alone, secure in the knowledge that they could do no harm. But now he has started to move the ball back in the batsmen have to play at them to try and cover the swing, which means they are far more likely to nick off to the slips.
33rd over: England 104-6 (Bell 9, Prior 10) "No optimism from me," says Alfred Moore. "We're going to lose, and probably within the first hour of play. But I still expect a close series. We always knew (or we should have known) that our batting is pretty weak other than on flat pitches against flat bowling, and Perth has just shown it again. Fortunately for us, this is the last sporting wicket of the tour - the next two tests will suit the flat track plodding of our top order, and I think we'll win at least one of them. One draw, and that's the Ashes in the bag." It all sounds so easy when I copy and paste it onto the page, Alfred. After what we've seen this week I imagine the curators at Melbourne and Sydney will be wondering whether it is too late to scatter some more grass seed on their wickets. Prior launches a six up and over Haddin's head. He was aiming through square leg, but made a mess of the shot.
34th over: England 111-6 (Bell 16, Prior 10) Bell pats eases a drive away to extra cover. He stops to admire what seems set to be a certain four before it dawns on him that Peter Siddle has will chase the ball down before it crosses the rope. There's still time to sprint two. He doesn't need to run for the next one though, it races away to wide third man for four. A single from the sixth ball, driven uppishly to point, means he wll keep the strike.
REFERRAL! Bell 16 lbw Harris (England 114-7) Bell's done by an in-dipper. He's toast. Kicked the bucket. Bought the farm. The referral is just a formality. And hardly one worth bothering - the ball would have hit the middle of middle stump. Harris is bowling well here.He has 4-41, the best figures of his brief Test career. Swann is in and the end is nigh. He whips his first ball away to mid-wicket for three.
WICKET! Prior 10 c Hussey b Harris (England 114-8) That's a stinker of a shot, but a beauty of a catch by Hussey in the gully. It was a short ball, again, and Prior flailed at it. Harris has his first-ever five for, and he celebrates by raising the ball into the air. England have capitulated in truly sorry fashion here. It's almost as if they didn't even read my preamble before the start of play. Australia on the other hand have lots of little positives to draw on - Harris is bowling well, and they've clearly figured out how to bowl to Matt Prior. Now all they need is to break Swann's spinning finger and their work will be done.
36th over: England 120-8 (Swann 9, Tremlett 0) Swann top-edges a four away to third man. He may as well enjoy himself while it lasts. Not that it lasts long.
WICKET! Swann 9 b Johnson (England 120-9) Swann throws a drive at a full ball and only edges into his own stumps. D'oh. Johnson needs one more for ten wickets in the match. "As for Bell, well, I got the "1" and "6" right," says Jonny Sultoon. "The less said about the "0" and the "*" the better. Goodnight."
36th over: England 123-9 (Tremlett 1, Finn 2) I should warn you, readers, that I've had eight hours sleep in the last 48 hours and so I'm on a short fuse. And there is something about this email from Lee James that sticks in my craw: "Are you still confident of this newfound toughness? The sticking around for an hour to pick up some momentum hasn't really panned out. We still have serious deficiences in our batting that were hidden by the wicket and top order in Adelaide." Yes. That's right. Never mind that this team won the Ashes in 2009. And drew a series in South Africa, twice holding on for draws when they were nine wickets down. On the evidence of this one match we should revise out entire opinion of their achievements and write them off as feeble and deficient.
WICKET! Finn 2 c Smith b Harris (England 123) This shambles is all over. Finn slices a catch to third slip. Australia have won the third Test by 267 runs and the Ashes are level, 1-1 with two games to play. England lasted just ten overs today.
Harris leads Australia off, waving a stump above his head as he goes. He finishes with Test-best figures of 6-47, meaning that he and Johnson have taken 18 wickets between them in the match. Looks like Australia have finally figured out what their best bowling attack is.
Happy birthday Ricky. He's just turned 36. And as a special OBO treat for the great man and his nation, we will allow one more email like this from one of his countrymen. "Is this the worst Australian side ever?" says Mark White, quoting the Guardian poll from two days ago. "No." No indeed. The question the Graun has to ask now now has to be 'Is this the worst England side ever?'*
*That's a joke. I hope.
I'll stick around to bring you a few of the postprandial rigmarole. Some interesting words from Bumble, who says that "Andy Flower has admitted in private that his batsmen were spooked and unable to cope" by the pace of this pitch. He also reveals that the Test pitch due to be used at the MCG has been switched to one nearby that might just be a little greener and a little quicker. Australia's plan is to take Swann out of the game and bombard England out of the game with their battery of fast bowlers.
"I didn't intend to aggravate you," says Lee James. "It's just the first nights' play I've been able to catch of this Test." Really, you poor sod. "It's more perhaps that I am uncomfortable with the lack of respect for Test cricket that the 'best every English team', unbeaten predictions etc has shown- not from yourself I might add! I miss the appreciation of greyness that seems to be disappearing from sporting (and life) analysis and all the time this 'toughness' word seems to be used, but I think it's a little overplayed is all." Lee, that's a very fair point. Sorry I bit your head off. I was just anticipating the onrush of idiotic reaction to this Test that we're going to be treated to next week. As you so eloquently say, "the appreciation of greyness that seems to be disappearing from sporting analysis."
Here's Ricky: "we've had a lot of doubters over the last few weeks but the way we were playing we knew we could turn things around pretty quickly." He says he has a pretty good chance of playing in Melbourne.
And Andy Strauss: "We came here fully expecting to play the same sort of cricket we played in Adelaide but we didn't replicate that ... our batting in both innings was sub-par ... but one bad defeat doesn't make you a bad team over night, we've already played a lot of good cricket on this tour ... when the momentum shifted against us we weren't able to grab it back again, when we lost one or two wickets we went on to lose three or four, so that's something we have got to look at. But one thing I would say is that now is not the time to panic. It is a case of keeping a calm head and making sure we do the right things in our preparation for Melbourne."
Right, think I'll wrap this up now. Thanks for your emails and company over the last few days. On to Melbourne. See you back here in a week or so. Cheerio and merry Christmas.


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Blog: Sonny Defarge (5.25.17)
To whom it may concern,
This Saturday the world over shall celebrate the 15th anniversary of CHIKARA. The fact was recently brought to my attention that the unmannerly cyclists known as Dez Peloton have accomplished the feat of achieving three points and have earned the right to contend, on this day, against my business associate, Mr. Crummels, and I, in yet another feeble attempt to remove the Campeonatos de Parejas from our well-deserved possession. To this I say good luck to you gentlemen.
Throughout our storied and successful careers as businessmen and combatants alike, Mr. Crummels and I have amassed many treasures, prizes and awards. For as long as I can remember men and women of a lesser capacity for success have attempted to pilfer what we have earned through precision and teamwork. The situation found here involving the detestable cyclists is no different than these past attempts save for one detail; Dez Peloton has defeated us in the past. No other team in CHIKARA can legitimately make such a claim. However, Mr. Crummels and I are more than prepared to face this obnoxious team once more because, as we have proven in the past, in spite of the vigorous training through which they put their bodies and minds, Dez Peloton cannot function under high pressure conditions.
Mr. Crummels and I perseverate in our success in the face of doubters and multiple attempts at the expropriation of the titles that we have earned through innumerable legitimate victories the likes of which are unheard-of in both the realms of business and professional combat sports. Meanwhile we continuously find Dez Peloton sharing kale recipes and personal records in their fitness-related outings. Mr. Crummels finds himself, now, in need of medical attention after having fallen ill during a business venture in Kiribati the likes of which many wouldn't understand. However he trains still! (Though we will be accepting donations in favor of his health fund, as well as pledges and contributions to benefit our training. We now accept bitcoin!) Meanwhle, Jasper Tippins couldn't even be bothered to appear in the Infinite Gauntlet. The lack of determination is apparent.
All of this to say that we have proven in the past, over the course of three seasons, that we, CHIKARA's legitimate businessmen, are the greatest tag team to have ever graced the sport of professional wrestling with its performance. Dez Peloton has only succeeded in proving the durability of their quadriceps over long distances. Hardly enough to compete with the Campeones de Parejas.
In conclusion, sirs/and or madams, Dez Peloton will ride their momentum all the way to the Aniversario event in Hellertown, PA and that is where their momentum will stop. Legitimate business will prevail through an attempted hostile takeover, yet again, while the gears rust, the chains seize, and the pedals stop moving. And every good businessman knows that when a bicycle's pedals stop moving, the only thing left for a bicycle to do is collapse.
As always, for this and all of the business ventures shared by Mr. Crummels and I, I have some great expectations.
-Mr. Defarge
Blog: Kobald (5.23.17)
Did it work? IT WORKED!! IT REALLY REALLY WORKED!!
People thought Kobald was CRAZY! People thought Kobald had a DEATH WISH! People thought I would end up the same way Deucalion left me, but no! No no no no no. NO! For months I have been TRAPPED in my own mind, split into TWO, a fissure dividing us. I waited & hoped & pleaded & begged to be FIXED! No one came to help me for so long! But now? Now… KOBALD IS WHOLE ONCE AGAIN!!! Rewatch the footage & see the smile smeared across my face! KOBALD IS FIXED!!!
WHO DO I HAVE TO THANK? Who has brought me back to singularity?? Who has closed the fissure in my mind??? My HERO! My KNIGHT! My SAVIOR! OLEG the Usurper! Oleg, I know we have had a rocky relationship through the years, BUT ALL IS FORGIVEN!!! You have completely redeemed yourself. I NEVER doubted you this entire time! I knew YOU would be the one to FIX KOBALD. I knew YOU would save me! I KNEW it would only take ONE "Off With His Head" to unclog my cranium!
How can I possibly repay you, Oleg? How? What do you desire? What do you hope to obtain? Name it & it is YOURS! I have already compiled a list of items I know you'll enjoy. Your first shipment should have already arrived at your doorstep. But there's more in store. MUCH, MUCH more! I have something SPECIAL in store for you in Hellertown on May 27th. SEE YOU THERE!!
THANK YOU, OLEG!!! [Clap clap clapclapclap] THANK YOU, OLEG!!! [Clap clap clapclapclap]
YOU FIXED KOBALD!!! [Clap clap clapclapclap] YOU FIXED KOBALD!!! [Clap clap clapclapclap]
Blog: Jeremy Leary (5.5.17)
I don't know about you, but I've been feeling pretty....infinite lately, daddy.
You see, the CHIKARMY was all expectin' a repeat of Kennebunk, Maine when we made our way down to Florida for my rematch. They expected Ophidian to embarrass the best hair in wrestling once again. They wanted to see it, too. They love seeing Jeremy Leary being embarrassed for their leisure, by one of their most beloved heroes.
No. My blood is too thick for that.
So, I heeded words from a man who spoke so softly...but his message was so very loud. And as this strange, strange man showed me the power of post-hypnotic suggestion and of mind over matter. We made a deal. You all know how this story ends. I put a stop to his witchcraft that you all seem to love, and I made good on my word and cut the head right off of the snake. Another one of CHIKARA's heroes...fallen to Jeremy Leary. The Whisper helped me bring a darkness to sunny Florida on that hot afternoon. Do you love it??
Now, we are a mere couple of days away from my second Infinite Gauntlet, and this bad Leary is on fiyah! My epidermis is just crawwwwwwlin' with anticipation. Imagine, if you will...Jeremy Leary eliminating your favorites, one after the other. The chance to once again take away something oh-so-important from that Ol' Juke Joint. The possibility makes my mouth water. There's one more possibility that gives me goosebumps just a liiiiiiitttttlllee bit more though.
Lucas Calhoun, it ain't no secret that you haven't been having much good luck since you've crossed paths with Jeremy Leary. Even in defeat, I have broken you down. You're a man without a country. You aren't even sure who you are anymore. You've had to bring a side out of yourself that you haven't tapped into since you wore tin foil and that creepy mask. You want to get back to the upper tier, and I know how to do that, brother.
You've said I have a target on my back, and Juke Joint, I think you're going about this all wrong. Fight along side me. Learn to upgrade yourself and acquire the features of This Year's Model. Show them you aren't this broken down mechanism that they're all starting to say that you are. I.... no, WE... know somebody who can install these upgrades.
On May 6th in that Ol' Infinite Gauntlet, with me, you can show the world that the possibilities, well, they're endless, daddy.
Blog: Ashley Vox (5.3.17)
The Infinite Gauntlet is just days away...but I'm still banged up, icing my back, taking care of Jawsolyn. Do I feel ready? Am I close to being ready? I may not be at 100% but that's not going to stop me from doing what I must this Saturday.
Sure, there's 31 other competitors that my attention should be on but, I'm focused on Merlok. Maybe I wasn't taking things seriously enough when it came to Merlok. Maybe I was naive. He can toss Delmi and I around because that is our job, it's what we have been trained to handle. But when he laid his menacing hands on Jawsolyn, who had nothing to do with OUR match, I finally woke up. It's one thing to strike someone, but to decimate them like that, especially a non-wrestler, is unquestionably over the line. Merlok, I hope you get a good gulp of water before you enter that ring this Saturday, because the moment I sea you come - in it's all over. I will destroy you like you destroyed the one thing I love in this world and I will not show mercy. I will personally sea to it that justice is done in the Infinite Gauntlet.
Blog: Donald Kluger (5.1.17)
I thought I would pause from my RIGOROUS training schedule to share my musings about some recent developments here at CHIKARA.
Firstly, it is with the utmost enthusiasm and ZEAL that I am stratagizing for my GLORIOUS OPPORTUNITY to WIN the Infinite Gauntlet!!! This grueling and SAVAGE contest will be a TRUE TEST of my willpower. Some of the most EXTRAORDINARY competitors in the HISTORY OF CHIKARA will be competing on this FATEFUL NIGHT. In spite of these obstacles, NAY… BECAUSE of them, I believe that THIS HALF of Dez Peloton will prove victorious.
Secondly, I know that my previous statement must beg the questions "Will the luxurious Jasper Tippins also be participating? Will your friendship be at RISK?" The answer to the second inquiry is simple - Jasper and myself have FORGED a bond of real FRIENDSHIP through rigorous competition. Our friendship is NEVER at risk. Such a quandary however, is not relevant in this case, as it is with a heavy HEART I regret to inform you that Jasper Tippins will not be in attendance. He will still be in recovery from a BRUTAL attempt to qualify for the Tour de Romandie (CURSE you Richie Porte!!!)
The Infinite Gauntlet requires perseverance, determination, and ENDURANCE for success. These are traits I not only have, I EMBODY THEM. I will outlast every competitor until NONE REMAIN ANYWHERE FOREVER. I have no apprehension in calling my shot here - Donald Kluger will climb that summit and STAND TALL IN VICTORY.


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Britain was braced for further terrorist attacks following the Manchester atrocity as Theresa May said the threat level was being raised to its highest possible rating.
In a live televised statement from Downing Street, the Prime Minister said the terror threat level would be increased to "critical", meaning an attack was expected imminently as it was possible a "wider group of individuals" could have been involved in the Manchester Arena attack rather than just suicide bomber Salman Abedi.
In a sign of the increased threat, the military could be deployed to support armed police officers, May said.
Monday night's attack at a concert by US pop star Ariana Grande left 22 people dead, including an eight-year-old girl, and dozens injured.
Speaking at Number 10, Mrs May said: "The spirit of Manchester and the spirit of Britain is far mightier than the sick plots of depraved terrorists.
"That is why the terrorists will never win and we will prevail."
It is the first time since the attempt to attack Glasgow Airport in 2007 that the threat has been raised.
May continued: "In my statement earlier today, I said that the police and security services needed to investigate whether Abedi was acting alone. Those investigations continue.
"But the work undertaken throughout the day has revealed it is a possibility we cannot ignore that there is a wider group of individuals linked to this attack.
"This morning I said that the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, the independent organisation responsible for setting the threat level on the basis of the intelligence available, was keeping the threat level under constant review.
"It has now concluded, on the basis of today's investigations, that the threat level should be increased for the time being from severe to critical."
"This means that their assessment is not only that an attack remains highly likely but that a further attack may be imminent.
"The change in the threat level means that there will be additional resources and support made available to the police as they work to keep us all safe.
"As a result of the JTAC decision the police have asked for authorisation from the secretary of state for defence to deploy a number of armed military personnel in support of their armed officers.
"This request is part of a well-established plan, known as Operation Temperer, in which both the armed forces and the police officers involved are well trained and well prepared to work in this kind of environment.
"The secretary of state for defence has approved this request and Operation Temperer is now in force.
"This means that armed police officers responsible for duties such as guarding key sites will be replaced by members of the armed forces, which will allow the police to significantly increase the number of armed officers on patrol in key locations.
"You might also see military personnel deployed at certain events such as concerts and sports matches, helping the police to keep the public safe.
"In all circumstances members of the armed forces who are deployed in this way will be under the command of police officers.
"Precisely how the military and armed police officers will be deployed is an operational decision for police commanders, and Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley of the Metropolitan Police will be making a statement giving further details from Scotland Yard later this evening.
"In the coming days and weeks there will of course be many events being hosted up and down the country.
"The police will work with the organisers and hosts of these events to come to a judgment about how they can go ahead while making sure the people who attend them are safe and secure."


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The full-page advertisement in the widely-read Apple Daily also demanded the government take action to stop the "infiltration" of mainlanders into the former British colony.
It features an enormous locust overlooking Hong Kong's iconic skyline with the words "Hong Kongers have had enough!" and "This city is dying, you know?"
Online group Golden Forum funded the page-11 ad with donations from users of its Internet chat service.
The group "strongly demands... a stop to the unlimited infiltration of mainland Chinese couples into Hong Kong," it said in the ad, referring to the thousands of mainland women who come to Hong Kong to give birth every year.
Many Hong Kongers also dislike the shadowy role that Beijing plays in local politics, along with the flashy displays of wealth by mainland Chinese tourists who are coming to the city in increasing numbers to splurge on luxury goods.
Last month Italian clothing chain Dolce & Gabbana apologised to the people of Hong Kong for allegedly discriminating against them in favour of wealthy mainland shoppers.
The upmarket clothing chain had faced weeks of angry protests at its showcase Hong Kong store after a security guard allegedly told local people that only mainlanders were allowed to take photographs there.
In a similar vein, an audio file uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday claims to expose health and beauty products retailer Mannings for discriminating against locals in a sale of baby formula.
A shop assistant is heard telling a local woman that the sale is only available to people with mainland Chinese passports. A Facebook page calling for a boycott of Mannings already has 133 "likes".
"How can stores in our own Hong Kong discriminate against us... this is spread of hate mentality," reads a comment on the YouTube clip.
Over 100,000 people have "liked" a Facebook page dedicated to forcing the government to stop mainland Chinese women from giving birth in the city.
Local women have taken to the streets in protest at shortages of beds and soaring maternity costs.
"Officials are to blame for this mess that impacts each and every Hong Konger. Shame on them!" reads one comment on the Facebook page.
The "Anti-Locusts" campaign follows remarks by a Chinese professor in January calling locals of the former British colony "bastards", "dogs" and "cheats".
Kong Qingdong said Hong Kong people were "used to being the dogs of British colonialists -- they are dogs, not humans".
Hong Kong was returned to Chinese rule in 1997 under the One Country Two Systems arrangement giving it limited autonomy and enjoys civil freedoms not seen on the mainland.
The professor was furious at a video that went viral online showing Hong Kongers scolding a mainland girl for flouting rules against eating on the city's subway trains.
A recent survey found that more than 79 percent of Hong Kong people identified themselves as Hong Kongers instead of Chinese. More identified themselves as "Asians" than as citizens of the People's Republic of China.
A senior central government official criticised the University of Hong Kong's poll as "illogical", saying respondents should have been asked if they saw themselves as "British citizens" or "Chinese citizens".


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Bread is made from flour and water.
It has been made for thousands of years.
The first bread was flat bread made on a flat rock on a fire.
Yeast makes dough get bigger so a loaf or bun can be made.
There are lots of different kinds and shapes of bread.
Bread is called a 'staple food', which means it is a basic food commonly eaten.
Bread is made from a dough of flour and water, and is usually baked. It has been a staple for many thousands of years, since the earliest times when humans learned how to grind grain to make flour.
History of bread
Thousands of years ago, humans mixed together flour and water and baked it on flat stones at the edges of an open fire.
This was a very early form of bread. Simple flat bread such as this is called unleavened bread.
The ancient Egyptians started using a wild yeast to make bread rise. Bread made with yeast is called leavened bread. They developed ovens in which several loaves of bread could be baked at once. The ancient Romans also baked leavened bread, and Roman bakeries produced a variety of kinds of bread.
Leavened bread dough can be made into different shapes before baking, such as long rolls, short or round rolls, loaves, round loaves called cob loaves, and many others. Dough can even be plaited, like the Jewish challah loaves.
It wasn't until the 1800s that yeast was identified as a plant-like organism. It is the way bread is leavened because yeast produces a gas that raises the dough.
Yeast is added to flour and warm water. Because it is an organism, it can be killed if the water is too hot. Slightly warm water will encourage the yeast to grow. Bread dough is left in a warm place to 'prove', which allows the yeast to grow and increase the size of the dough. The dough is kneaded, shaped, and left once again to prove, usually doubling in size. It is then baked.
Bread technology
In 1928 the bread slicer was invented and so sliced bread became a product people could buy instead of uncut loaves they would slice at home.
At about the same time the electric toaster was invented. Before then, toast was made by holding a slice of bread on a long fork in front of a fire.
There are many different kinds of bread, mostly made with wheat flour, but other flours are used as well, such as rye.
There are different breads in different countries and cultures. There are many leavened and unleavened breads.
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CSS Breadcrumb Trail Design
Hey guys! We are here again with a new tutorial on CSS Breadcrumb Trail Design. As breadcrumbs are the important part of the web applications to indicate the current part of web app on which user is acting upon.So lets see how to design the Breadcrumbs with simple HTML and CSS. Here we are going to create the arrows with CSS; which we had covered in our earlier tutorial.
So now we will see how to nest the elements so that we can create the desired breadcrumb trail.
There can be two approaches to do this; though both of them are most likely same.
With Pseudo Elements:
Here will will leverage the pseudo elements to draw our breadcrumb trail.
Without Pseudo Elements:
Here we will use only divs to create our breadcrumb trail design.
Now coming to the breadcrumb design. The essential part is the design of a single slice or step of the breadcrumb design. To design a slice; we need three parts
- Slice Body
- Slice Head
- Slice Tail
Slice Body:
The slice body will be a simple inline-block div of fixed height. Suppose the breadcrumb will be having background of #999 i.e. Grey.
Slice Head:
The Slice head will be created by the help of div; and it will be a triangle of grey color (#999) created by CSS; it will be inline-block and placed after the Slice Body. The full guide to create the CSS Triangles is available here.
Slice Tail:
The Slice tail will also be a triangle but wil a different kind of design; for head, we created a grey arrow with a transparent/white background. Here it will be a triangle of transparent/white color and the background is of Grey color (#999).
Following is the HTML and CSS for the above Slice:Now the trail of these will form a Breadcrumb Trail; but there is another problem with this. The arrow head and trails are not spaced properly.
So we need to fix the Margins and Z-indexes of Slice and Slice-Head respectively. Following is the updated code for the breadcrumb trail:
And it looks like this:
Now; with the above design, the HTML is a bit complicated and the CSS is confusing.So we can impose a HTML structure with either divs or ul-li. One more thing is that we can take the benefit of pseudo elements to create Head and Tail of a slice. For that
:before and
:after pseudo elements will be used and they will be positioned absolutely to make an exact look that we achieved in previous slice design. Following code will let you design your breadcrumb with both divs or ul-li:
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The text of De Clementia takes up 38 pages of the 480 of this book, but anyone who may feel that this is a rather high proportion can be reassured: the author's views on the dating (Dec. 54-6), structure, sources and ideological standpoint, only sketched here (pp. 6-8), will eventually be argued for at length in the introduction to Malaspina's edition of the same work in the series 'Classici Latini' UTET. The present handsomely produced volume contains, besides the text, 'Prolegomeni' on the manuscripts; a 'Lista Critica' giving details of manuscript readings and editorial conjectures that did not find a place in the apparatus criticus proper; a full commentary; a 'Nota bibliographica', and 'Indices librorum, locorum, nominum'. It is easy to object that this is all on too large a scale for comfort; but there will be no disagreement on the learning, industry and acuteness that inform this book, which will become a standard work.
The tendency to gigantism is encouraged by the author's commitment to 'un approccio globale al testo antico' (p. 6): an editor should look both forward, by employing the latest methods, and backward, by not neglecting our distinguished predecessors, who had to read texts where we can click on them. Accordingly, frequent use is made of the old giants, especially Lipsius and Gruter. This is very well and good when their words are cited: thus Lipsius, magisterially, on 1.26.4: 'sicut aratro condebantur [sc. urbes], ita eodem significabant exscindi.' But is anyone really going to look up even one of the references to Gruter, Lipsius, Gronovius and Ruhkopf listed on 2.5.3? And though it is nice to be told that Erasmus already knew the Greek verse alluded to at 2.2.2, we do not need to learn how he spelt one of its words. As to the future: the use of PHI enables Malaspina to list countless (and often unnecessary) parallels for some locutions and to note that others are found nowhere else. He would have done better to select the most relevant parallels rather than give unnuanced lists. And there are dangers. Malaspina must be well aware e.g. that the fact (retailed on p. 277) that PHI shows up 30 case of 'quoties' against 1284 of 'quotiens' tells us more about editorial practice (or negligence) than about the practice of scribes, let alone authors. And where so many undoubted locutions lack a parallel, it is hardly good method to object to a conjecture because it produces a phrase not found elsewhere (thus on 1.19.8: 'una successione di pronomi ille hoc cui ... sarebbe hapax in latino'). Again, the fact e.g. that all three Senecan cases of 'o ne [affirming]' are followed by a verb in the perfect indicative should not be seen as more than a hint as to the possibilities at 1.19.8. At 1.10.4 Malaspina tells us that Seneca elsewhere writes 'alieno sanguine' without remarking that that order here would give a markedly dactylic run.
In this context, I add some further remarks on method. Malaspina has devoted enormous labours to (what he takes to be) the extant archetype of all our MSS of De Clementia, Vaticanus Palatinus lat. 1547 (N). He has not merely (as one would expect) re-collated it; he has in the most elaborate possible way analysed the kinds of errors it displays (pp. 117-23). But the knowledge thus won is perhaps used too mechanically: thus at 2.7.1 conjectures are ruled out because the confusion of C and Q is 'del tutto assente in N'. Malaspina is in any case to my taste far too worried about palaeographical considerations when conjecturing or judging a conjecture; it is surely true that all of us (not only a Préchac) can, if we wish, find a palaeographical argument for anything at all whose claims we wish to press. Equally, a scribe, in a bad moment, can write anything (contrast Malaspina's disallowal of 'un errore casuale' at 2.2.2). Malaspina's painstaking and intelligent discussion of many cruces in this volume seem to me to be unduly constrained by his own presuppositions, both particular and general.
I am in no position to dispute Malaspina's view that the recentiores are all descended from N via another ninth-century MS, Vaticanus Reginensis lat. 1529 (R) (though one might wonder why in that case he reports eight of them so fully in his Lista Critica). But doubts may be expressed of his 'Prove di un rapporto immediato N > R' (pp. 64-6). Nothing adduced here seems to prove that R is a direct copy of N (indeed I am not sure what would constitute such a proof); and their readings at 1.1.2 (mortalium R corr.; motalium N; motarlium R) seem to point to an intermediary where 'r' was added above the line in an ambiguous position. Nothing hangs on the directness of the descent; much more, of course, on the fact of the descent. Malaspina handily sets out the evidence of R's improvements on N in De Clementia on pp. 88-90 (it would be interesting to see parallel data for De Beneficiis). It certainly seems that almost all of them could be attributed to conjecture (again we could do with an intermediary, in which some clever person wrote his corrections); but one does wonder about 1.22.2 parcitas (paritas N; only here in Classical Latin), 1.24.2 nobiles (R; N has 'no', cut short by the end of a line) and 2.1.1 Vt de (R; VIDE N); and I should hardly call the change of 'uix ei ibis' to 'uix uiuis' at 1.10.2 merely a matter of orthographical correction, as Malaspina does (p. 54 n. 159). Still, the clean lines of the stemma permit a clean apparatus criticus, and Malaspina's is lucid and professional.
The final section of the Prolegomeni is devoted to prose rhythm. Where Bourgery found this treatise one of the least rhythmical of all Seneca's works, Malaspina sees 'attenzione quasi sempre vigile di Seneca al lato ritmico di clem.' His own critical use of this aspect of style is oddly uneven. Thus rhythm is not mentioned in support of an accepted reading at 1.1.6 meliusque, or of attractive (but rejected) readings at 1.1.7 contigit, 1.9.4 parta, 1.12.3 utatur, 2.1.1 [me] memini (cf. prov. 5.5, ep. 75.9: these exact parallels are typically lost in Malaspina's long list). A supplement of Gertz's that makes a colon end 'tuta haberi' is printed at 1.1.5, and Malaspina's own at 1.19.3 closes a section with 'in minima re congerere'. On the other hand, fine distinctions are drawn between unconvincing clausulae at 1.9.1 (where it is true that one needs all the help one can get); and I see nothing 'bella' about the clausula 'ulli salutaris sit' at 1.25.1. At 1.6.4 Seneca would have scanned 'peccando' with a short final syllable.
For some miscellaneous comments I follow the order of Seneca's text. 1.1.1 I do not find 'hoc iugum' (which causes Malaspina to posit a lacuna) any more mysterious than 'his bonis' at 1.1.7. 1.1.7 Is not 'omnibus ciuibus tuis' dative with 'exprimitur' ? 1.2.1 The position of 'quoque' deserves a note. 1.3.3 For the 'inversion' of 'tam...quam' here Malaspina could have cited his own helpful note on 1.20.2. 1.8.3 Erasmus's 'ista' (not discussed) seems to me far superior to 'ipsa' (I also prefer his deletion of 'et' at 1.11.1). 1.9.1 On precepts v. examples cf. Quintilian 12.2.30. 1.9.10 Haase's 'putas' is dismissed too readily. Do we really want a 'parallelismo con il precedente domum ... potes '? 1.14.2 Kruczkiewicz, quoted by Malaspina, says all that needs to be said in favour of deleting the superfluous (and unrhythmical) words 'illis hoc tribuentes'. 1.20.2 I expect that Malaspina explains this correctly, but 'ut appareat' is awkwardly misleading after the preceding 'ne...ut...ut...' 1.21.4 For these 'small animals', doubtless beetles, cf. Quintilian 12.2.14 (also 12.10.76, where Austin comments 'glow-worms or fire-flies'). 1.26.2 One misses a note on the topic of captured cities (observe Quintilian 8.3.67-9). 2.2.1 Malaspina's note favouring 'immane' has the effect of convincing me of the virtues of 'immensum'.
Such a richness of linguistic detail lurks in the thickets of this vast commentary that one would have welcomed an Index of words and constructions: not too much to ask of an editor so chalcenteric that he can (for example) give us statistics of the kinds of 'a' used in N (p. 20) or a league table (pp. 103-4) of successful innovators (Erasmus wins by a wide margin). This book, one repeats, may be judged to go into too much detail. But it has solid virtues that will make it last: not least a sensible and well punctuated text, and a commentary that gets honestly to grips with the difficulties of this intriguing treatise.


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Let's have a look at some of that evidence from the Corbyn party. 68% don't agree with renewing the Trident nuclear weapons system (opens as PDF), while in the late 1990s that figure was 'only' 44% (at that point 45% of Labour's members agreed with keeping Trident, so the party was pretty evenly split). But in the 1990 data we can see that 72% of Labour people thought that 'Britain should have nothing to do with nuclear weapons' - a very, very similar number to that we see now, and in fact as you can see even a little bit lower. So on this measure, Labour have really just gone back to the relatively unilateralist views of the last days of Neil Kinnock as leader (above), at a point when he had only recently abandoned his own commitment to scrapping Britain's nuclear forces.
Take another example - the restrictive trade union laws that the Conservatives introduced while in office during the 1980s, and which New Labour in power only in part repealed. Labour members are way out of line with public opinion on this one, as you can see from that link above: 64% of them think that the trade unions should have more influence on British national life than they do today, as against 'only' 41% of Labour voters, and a much smaller 23% of all British voters. But when we look back at the situation in 1997, at the height of New Labour's electoral success, and on a rather different question, 74% of Labour members thought that there should be no more anti-trade union laws: a much lower 49% of voters thought the same. That's a narrower gap between the people and Labour supporters, but the gulf was already there. 74% of Labour's 1990 members disagreed with the proposition that 'it is better for Britain when trade unions have little power'. In 1999 that number was exactly the same - confirmation, albeit on a different question, that Labour people were always (as one would expect) much more sympathetic to the trade unions than most other people in the country.
Or how about this one? Only 23% of Labour's 2016 members and supporters agree with the statement that 'it is possible to achieve better public services such as health, education and the police by running them more efficiently, without spending more on them'. Again, they're way of out line with the voters - 57% of whom are happy to concur with this proposition. But if we scroll back to 1990, though again utilising a different question, 73% of that sample disagreed with cutting public spending, a figure that had admittedly dropped to 65% by 1997. We're not convinced that the more recent numbers represent a convulsion. The general public may have shifted rightwards a tiny bit on some issues, and Labour has certainly moved left since most of its members voted for David Miliband as leader in 2010. However, some more details found in Mr Warren's polling (opens as PDF) - that Mr Corbyn would be much less popular if he started to lose elections, and that his left-wing ally John McDonnell does not enjoy the same level of support - should give us pause before we conceptualise Labour as already that new ally of Syriza, Podemos and Die Linke that some around the leader want to build.


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This Week's Guest: DJ Kirkland
Now I don't mean to alarm you but there are evil forces within and without, teaming up to take you down. I'm referring of course to the cruel collaboration between our outer critics and our inner saboteur. DJ Kirkland was an accomplished artist in grad school when some cruel comments from an instructor took up residence in his brain, persuading him to give up on his passions and his dreams. But fortunately, he was able to pull himself out of a years-long spiral, thanks in part to the inspiring power of some very pretty guardians.
By the way, I'm moderating the panel at the upcoming GaymerX convention. It's called "Playing with Pride," and it'll be a one of a kind forum to hear people from very different sectors of the game industry share their experiences as queer fans and creators. Today's guest, DJ, will be on the panel, along with the wonderful Tanya DePass from I Need Diverse Games and Lauren Comp, a producer who works on same-sex romances. It's on Saturday, October 1 at 2pm at GaymerX. If you're in the San Jose area, I hope you can join us for a fun, enlightening conversation.
And if you can't make it to GaymerX on October 2nd, sign up for updates at PlayingWithPride.com and we'll let you know when you can see the panel online.
This Week's Recommendation: House
Thanks again to DJ for joining me. I'm so excited that he's working a book with Oni Press and I cannot wait to see his work on Black Mage.
But until then, if DJ's love of Sailor Moon has but you in the mood for some schoolgirls and magic from Japan, allow me to recommend the movie House. It's kind of the anti-Sailor Moon: instead of having magic powers and defeating evil, the un-magical girls in House are easily dispatched by evil forces.
The premise of the film is fairly standard haunted-house: a group of high school students trapped in a house in the country with a sinister old woman and a cat that can both open and close doors. There are entertaining ghosts and decapitations and gore and floating heads, as well as my favorite horror trope, a skeleton dancing on strings.
And while the girls are the main characters of the film, it's the villain who's the real treat. No spoilers, but head boss in this movie is having a ball. She's eating eyeballs, floating through the rafters, plunging the girls into a pool of blood, and at every moment she is loving her life.
Last year around Halloween I wrote about gay men's affection for witches, from Ursula to Hermione Gingold. You have never seen a more delighted witch than you will in this film, a strangely compelling aspirational villainess for whom you are solidly rooting by the time the last girl is lamented.
Villains and enemies and saboteurs can't exist by themselves -- they need victims to keep them entertained. At least one victim, but preferably a whole team. And in their tormenting, the bad guys become as much of the team as anyone else, assuming a role in the mayhem alongside their prey. On a well-balanced team, everyone does their job in harmony, but every now and then you get a situation like House, where one person decides they're just taking over, and get out of the way, because this show belongs to them now.
In real life, that's a miserable situation to be in, and you're best off extracting yourself from the team as fast as possible. But in a movie, it's so much fun to sit back and watch just how bloody things can get.
Clips of Stuff We Talked About
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The Baltic Sea Art Park
The Baltic Sea Art Park will be established in two parts. A ground based area acting as a park defined by a corridor and an above-water itinerant museum, composed of ten national floating pavilions. Kunst Dokk uses the Baltic Sea as the main space for its peripatetic and temporary forms of art exhibition and performance.
Ten art barges will depart from Pärnu, making multiple stops at harbors in a choreographed crossing of the Baltic Sea. Designed to contain kinetic light sculptures or large-scale pieces, the barges will operate in a convoy formation that follows passenger ferries. Each stop will feature temporary spectacles and collaborations with various artists, musicians, chefs, and other creative people.
Organized from Pärnu, the itinerant pavilions will connect leading cultural institutions and underground creators from the worlds of art, music, food, literature, and film for a series of site-specific cultural interventions. In addition to bringing art to the cities, the organizers will raise funding through ticket sales and donations to support "non-traditional programming" at various museums and galleries across the Baltic Sea.
About The Designer
Luis Callejas has served as a faculty member at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design since 2011, where he is engaged in graduate-level design instruction and research as part of the architecture and landscape architecture departments.


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How expanding your retail business to Amazon can increase your profits and sales with little on no investment on your part.
By: Skip McGrath
If you are like most retail stores the size of your market is limited by your location.
If you are in a busy shopping mall you get thousands of potential customers walking by your store every day. But if you are in a small town your market is limited to your population and any others you can pull in with advertising.
Obviously a retail store on a busy street in Manhattan or Los Angeles gets a ton of walk-by traffic due to the high population of those cities. But how would you like to have a retail store in a city of 90 million people? Because that is what you get when you list your products on Amazon.com.
That's right – Amazon gets over 90 million visitors a year and the average visitor spends several minutes on the site. And unlike a store where you get a lot of browsers, when people come to Amazon they are usually looking for something specific – in other words, they are shopping.
This is a mega opportunity for almost any retail merchant. I have met retailers that more than doubled their business in one year and only hired one part-time employee to help them do it.
Most retail store owners think in terms of setting up a website –and that is a good idea as local folks often check on the web for nearby businesses when they are looking for something. But lets face it. In terms of selling merchandise, websites are no longer the Mecca they used to be. That is because all of the large online shopping sites like Amazon, Sears.com, Wal-Mart.com and others now dominate Google search results. If you have a small website where you offer your products it can be virtually impossible to be found in search results unless you are selling an extremely unusual niche product –or someone is searching locally.
But Amazon is different. Have you even noticed that if you Google a product search, a listing for that product often comes up on Amazon first?
Why people shop on Amazon.com
Amazon is simply the single most trusted shopping site on the Internet. Buyers know that Amazon stands behind every sale whether Amazon, or a third party seller like you or me sells the item. Amazon has a liberal return policy, they ship on time and you can find virtually any standard retail item on Amazon in 25 different categories.
In 2016 Amazon did over $118 Billion in sales. What is not generally known is that almost 50% of that went to third party sellers who sell on Amazon as independent merchants. (That's folks like us)
Try this: Enter Bamix Stick Blender into the Amazon search box and look at the results
If you click on the title you will see that this stick blender is sold by Amazon, but if you look where it says More Buying Choice you will see there are 22 other offers –each of those is an independent seller selling the same item. (Note: 22 is such a high number because the sales rank of this product is so high that it sells several units a day. You can see that right under the price it says, "Only 7 left in stock." Those seven will probably be gone tomorrow and one of the other sellers will move into that number one spot). I am one of those sellers and I sell about a dozen of this model each month. On most products on Amazon you will only see a few sellers and this means you get to share the buy box (the number one selling position that comes up when you click on the product title to look at the offering).
If you happen to be a kitchen store, one of those sellers could be you.
How Amazon works
There are two ways to sell on Amazon – Merchant Fulfilled (MF) and FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon). A MF seller is someone who lists the product on Amazon and when it sells you ship it to the customer. An FBA seller is one who sends their merchandise into Amazon in bulk and when it sells, Amazon handles all the shipping and customer service.
Most retail store owners prefer to sell Merchant Fulfilled because you can simply list items you have in stock and ship it to a customer when it sells. If you operate a retail store, the problem with FBA is you have to invest in additional inventory to send into Amazon. Having said that I think its only fair to point out that goods in FBA tend to sell much faster than merchant fulfilled goods, so the investment could very well be worth the while as you will turn your inventory over much faster.
Listing a product on Amazon
Listing a product on Amazon is very easy and for most products takes less than 30 to 45 seconds. If the products you are selling are already listed on Amazon, all you do is enter the UPC code number of the product, and Amazon will find the listing and open a form. The only information you have to enter is the price, quantity, check a box if the item is new or used and set the start selling date. Hit the Complete Button at the bottom of the page and your item will be available for sale on Amazon within 15 minutes.
If a product is not listed on Amazon, it takes a little more time. Amazon will bring up a form where you will type in the title of the item, the UPC (or EAN or ISBN) code, write a description, upload a photograph and fill in some more details such as the size and weight of the product, the department (men's, women's, child's, etc.) and depending on the type of product they will ask you some more questions. For example if you are selling jewelry they will ask you what it is made of and what type of stones (if any) are in the piece. Obviously hardware or sports and outdoor items have different questions.
Once you have done about ten listings you can get very fast at it. I find I can create a unique listing in 5 or 6 minutes.
Amazon Fees
Obviously there is a cost to sell on Amazon. There are two types of sellers on Amazon – Basic sellers and Pro Merchants.
The selling fees for a Basic seller are 15% + 99¢ per item. There are no listing fees.
The selling fee for a Pro Merchant is just the 15% without the 99¢ extra. However, it costs $39 per month to become a Pro Merchant. So if you are selling more than 40 items a month, which is not that difficult, it is actually cheaper to pay the $39 and save the extra 99¢ fee on each item sold.
Amazon calculates a shipping estimate for each item based on size and weight and this (and any sales tax) are paid by the customer. Amazon collects the sales tax for you and sends it to you, but it is your responsibility to pay it.
If you are an FBA seller the fees are higher because Amazon charges you for storage, pick and pack and a weight-based handling fee.
Amazon Vs. eBay
Some retail store owners sell on eBay. I also sell on eBay, but I can tell you that my Amazon sales dwarf my eBay sales. I list many of the same items on both sites and I will typically sell 6 or 7 on Amazon for each one that sells on eBay.
That is pretty much it. Adding the Amazon sales channel to your existing retail business can bring in additional sales and profits. If it adds 20% to 30% to your business you can probably do that all on your own with no additional help. But if you want to grow it larger you may want to invest in a part-time employee. A 20-hour per week employee can allow you to scale your business to the point where it almost matches your existing sales.
If you want to learn more about selling on Amazon, visit my website at WWW.SkipMcGrath.com where I sell several training courses including my flagship product – The Complete Amazon Marketing System. I also publish a free blog for Amazon sellers that contains articles with news, tips and tricks for selling on these platforms.


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Treatment for diabetes with a modified meal plan and exercise is something strongly recommended before the use of medications. There is so much to talk about exercise that we will cover this in this whole section. The diabetes educator will talk to you about exercise in more detail.
How can treatment for diabetes with exercise help? In order to live fully and healthfully, being active certainly will play an important part. There are different types of exercise and you can choose the best one for you. Research has shown that being physically active can:
Physical activity not only helps with the treatment for diabetes but also it prevents Type 2 diabetes as discussed in another section but here let's find out what kinds of exercise can help. There are four kinds that we will discuss in detail, but for now, let's see what they are:
Why is stretching a part of the treatment for diabetes? Because it raises flexibility, lessens stress and aids in the prevention of muscle soreness that may be caused by other forms of exercise. As to the kind of stretching to do, a member of the health care team will be of help.
Being more physically active every day should be easy. Such chores as walking around while watching TV or while on the phone, gardening, cleaning the house, playing with the kids, washing the car and taking the dog for a walk will all contribute to a more active life. That is why this is considered as part of the treatment for diabetes.
As for strength training, doing exercises with elastic bands, hand weights and weight machines all help build muscles. More muscles than fat will use up more calories even before exercises thus improving balance and coordination and the bone's health. No wonder it is part of the treatment for diabetes.
Aerobic exercise employs large muscles and makes the heart beat faster. The recommendation to make this part of the treatment for diabetes is 30 minutes a day five or more days a week. But go easy at first. Check with your doctor first and then start slowly and build up from there.
Some aerobic exercises you can try are walking briskly, cross-country skiing, hiking, playing tennis, basketball, volleyball or other sports, dancing, climbing stairs, swimming, riding bicycles either outdoors or indoors, swimming and taking aerobic classes. Choose which one you enjoy the most is what treatment for diabetes guidelines will say.
Your health care team will explain the best time to exercise because you have to consider your daily schedule of meals and medications. Don't exercise when your blood sugar level is above 300. Wait till it gets lower. The same thing is true when your fasting blood sugar is above 250 and there are ketones in the urine.
There are also exercises that you should avoid if you have eye problems as this can be made worse as when you lift heavy weights. The same is true when the there's nerve damage in your feet because they will be numb. The training for diabetes suggestion in this case will be to try swimming instead.
Physical activity can make the blood glucose low during exercise or after exercise or even a day after. When this hypoglycemia occurs and your blood sugar is 70 or lower be ready to have one of the following and have another serving if after 15 minutes, the blood glucose is still too low:
There are things to do to be ready for hypoglycemia. Before exercise, make sure you did not skip a meal. Check blood sugar and if it's below 100, have a snack. Your health care team will talk to you if you take insulin because a change in the dosage may be necessary,
During exercise, make sure you have your medical bracelet on. Bring food or glucose tablets so you can treat hypoglycemia right away. And if you're exercising for more than an hour, check your blood glucose at intervals. You may need a snack before you finish your exercise. After exercise, find out how it affected your blood sugar level.
Let's recap. Make sure you check with your doctor as medications and complications will dictate what type of exercise to do. Find a buddy and keep track of the physical activity. Reward yourself for a job well done with a movie or flowers. If one activity does not work, don't let this stop you. Find something else you enjoy and maybe another time devoted to exercise will be more convenient.
And here's a video about the ancient Chinese art of Tai-Chi. It has long been practised for its general therapeutic value. But a new study suggests it can have specific benefits for people with type 2 diabetes. I do Tai-Chi as soon as I wake up every day because if I don't do it, I will be in pain all day long.
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Will this eclipse hype ever end? In about 500 million years
Get ready for today's solar eclipse with this eclipse trivia quiz
Wondering when the hoopla around the total solar eclipse will end?
Today's eclipse wraps up for California viewers around 11:30 a.m., but the U.S. will experience another total solar eclipse in 2024, with more partial and total eclipses coming throughout the rest of the 21st century and beyond.
In point of fact, you'll have to wait at least 500 million years for total solar eclipses to stop being a thing for whoever's still on Earth at the time.
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tells Mashable that tidal forces push the moon about 1.5 inches farther from the Earth each year. In time – a really long time, anywhere from 500 million to 1 billion years – the moon will be far enough away from Earth that it no longer fully covers the sun during a solar eclipse.
(Solar eclipses occur when the moon's orbit brings it in front of the sun. You knew that, right?)
Earth will still experience partial eclipses, but total eclipses of the sun will be a relic of the distant past. Like "Total Eclipse of the Heart," though the 1983 hit's experiencing an eclipse-related resurgence with Bonnie Tyler set to perform it during, when else, the total eclipse this morning on a cruise ship from Florida.
In a 2015 "Ask an Astronomer" post on Cornell University's website, an astronomer says the moon will stop moving away from the Earth in a mere 15 billion years. At that point, the Earth's rate of rotation, the moon's rate of rotation and the moon's orbital period will all be in synch at about 55 days each. The moon will be around 1.6 times farther away from the Earth than it is now.


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South Africa: four players killed in road accident
The South African Football Player's Union (SAFPU) is saddened by the news of an accident that claimed the lives of four Polokwane City players and left seven critically injured. The union urges clubs to guarantee the players' safety when travelling to and from matches.
On Sunday, strikers Khomotso Mpakatesane, Moeketsi Nthete, Mojalefa Mphuthi and winger Koketso Takalo all died when the bus they were travelling in was hit by a car, allegedly driven by a drunk driver neglecting a red traffic light.
The players from Polokwane City - a second-tier side – were reportedly travelling to a post-match meeting after a 1-1 draw with Atlie FC (from Benoni). There were 22 passengers on the bus, 19 of them players.
FIFPro, the voice of all professional football players worldwide, wants to express its sympathy with the players, their families, friends and relatives.
'As soon as we could, we took to Polokwane to convey our deepest condolences to the team and the players', the South African players' union SAFPU reacted in a statement. 'We release this statement with clarity that our task as SAFPU is far much bigger than issues of salaries for our members. These players are sons, brothers and bread winners whose careers have been cut short. May their gallant soul rest in peace.'
'We will push that the circumstances regarding this accident be fully investigated. Whoever is responsible through negligence should face the wrath of the law. We will further engage with the leagues and the team to ensure that benefits due to these players as employees are provided to their families without any hassles.'
The accident happens only three weeks after former professional football player and South Africa national team assistant-coach Thomas Madigage lost his life in a traffic accident. 'This happens in this Decade of Road Safety of the United Nations which South Africa is a signatory of. Having said that, we would like to applaud the ongoing efforts by the Ministry and Department of Transport at National and Provincial level to promote behavior change by the drivers and road users. With a positive and responsible attitude towards usage of the roads, we will all be safer.'
'The death of these players brings to a sharp attention the need for proper working conditions to be put in place for all football players. Travelling is an inevitable part of the working conditions the players are faced with as they travel from place to place. (…) Team owners cannot risk the lives and health of the players by introducing cost-cutting measures when it comes to transportation between matches. That will endanger the players' lives.'
SAFPU refers to the travelling conditions that many players face in South Africa. For example: on October 31st, FC Cape Town played an away match at Roses United from Botshabelo, 1,000 kilometers away from Cape Town. They drove by bus. 'It cannot be correct that players will travel from Cape Town to Botshabelo, play a soccer match and return by ground travel back to Cape Town. They were back on the road immediately after the game. Whilst we understand that finances are tough, teams cannot risk the lives of players in pursuit of profit.'
'Accidents do happen, but measures should be put in place to avoid them. Long distance travel not only affects the performance of the players but of the drivers as well, it is even worse when the mode of transport being used is sub-standard. We will call upon both leagues (the Premier Soccer League and National First Division) to regulate the mode of transportation and accommodation used to ferry teams between matches and ensure that the safety of players comes first.'
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Don't have plans this Fourth of July? Let the Biltmore be the official holiday planner as travelers still have time to exercise their rights to a fabulous vacation and indulge in a getaway to Miami's Biltmore hotel. Enjoy a weeklong fête at the Biltmore for a package that includes great rates, fantastic live musical entertainment and happening nightly events.
The Biltmore is offering special room rates this holiday featuring three and two night packages starting at $299 and one night at $129.
July 4th celebrations include special performances by The Marc's Brothers and Cleaveland Jones that will light up the night with an electric mix of Brazilian beats, New Orleans funk, and Caribbean reggae. Guests can add some sparkle to their vacation by visiting the renowned Biltmore spa or reserving a luxurious, private poolside cabana. Enjoy a special sneak preview of the 2007 Miami Spice menu at the 1200 Courtyard Grill and Palme d'Or (available Wed-Fri). Other exciting holiday events include:
- Havana Nights Tuesday (July 3 from 6:00 -10:00 p.m.): No passports required! Enjoy 2-for-1 happy hour specials poolside at Cascade restaurant featuring music by DJ Jorge Castellanos
- What's Hip Wednesday (July 4th from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00pm): 1/2 off cocktails as well as fashion by Neiman Marcus at the Biltmore Bar
- Live Thursday (July 5 from 6:00 p.m.- 10:00 p.m.): Showcasing Carlos Bertonatti , a young, local singer/songwriter whose infectious songs mix eclectic instrumentation, Latin percussion and Hip-Hop, and enjoy 1/2 off Sauza Tequila cocktails poolside at Cascade restaurant
Reflecting the passion and cultural dynamism of one of America's most exciting cities while offering serenity and sophistication, the Biltmore is a 150-acre protected jewel in a tropical garden setting in the midst of Miami. Offering championship golf, tennis, the largest hotel swimming pool in the country, with new private Cabana Suites, a stunning new world-class spa and an award-winning fitness center, the 276-room Biltmore is one of the very few true destination resorts in a major metropolitan area. The elegant Palme d'Or – voted the Best Restaurant in South Florida – the chic 1200 Courtyard Grill and the new poolside Cascade restaurant as well as the handsome Biltmore Bar have put the resort on the map as one of South Florida's most-sought-after sophisticated and innovative dining experiences and "must-do" social scenes. The hotel's iconic status among American resorts has made it a favorite among heads of state, celebrities and sports stars.
Other facilities and services at the Biltmore include the 40,000-square foot Conference Center of the Americas, used for the highest level of international meetings and events; 33 meeting rooms and three majestic ballrooms; a full-service Business Center; 24-hour concierge service and a shopping arcade.
The Biltmore is a member of The Leading Hotels of the World. For further information and reservations, contact the Biltmore, 1200 Anastasia Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33134; telephone 305-445-1926 or visit the website at www.biltmorehotel.com.
SOURCE: travmedia.com


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Giveaway: $10 Starbucks gift card & some Christmas goodies in honor of the release of Jane Porter's novella, Christmas at Copper Mountain Bonus: Christmas at Copper Mountain is free on kindle today!
The scoop: Since the loss of her family in a plane crash, Harley Diekerhoff has led a quiet life and keeps to herself. Taking the temporary job at the Copper Mountain Ranch as widower Brock Sheenan's housekeeper seems perfect for her. But her calm cocoon is invaded with the arrival of Brock's pre-teen twins, Mack and Molly who've never experienced a proper Christmas and before she knows it, Harley's determined to make their holiday perfect.
Annoyed at first by Harley's interference, Brock is secretly pleased she's changed Mack and Molly's world. It doesn't hurt that he finds Harley incredibly attractive, fierce, smart and passionate. It's also an added bonus that she's not afraid to challenge him and get his blood heated! But when sparks fly and the attractions sizzles between them, Harley's not so sure she can handle something permanent with this dark, taciturn cowboy who doesn't know how to let her in. But Brock is determined to hold on to her and praying for a Christmas miracle…
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