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Kissta Koala - Best Apps Apps
Toddler Animal Sounds 1.5.0
Baby Peekaboo Safari 1.1.2
Toddler Peekaboo Safari is an amazing peekaboostyle educational game for your toddler. Searching for hiddenanimals in the African or Australian jungles and forests, yourchild will be introduced to some of the most iconic and fascinatinganimals on earth, ones they will know and love their whole lives.They will also hear their sometimes unexpected calls.....what doesthe fox really say? And what sound does a kangaroo make? The animalwill make their characteristic call and then when you touch thepartially hidden animal, you will hear their name pronounced inEnglish, Spanish, Chinese or Japanese (your choice), as it revealsitself.Features:- Perfectly designed for easy interactive play by younger children,toddlers and babies- Animal sounds, together with voice recordings of animals inEnglish, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese- High resolution (HD) graphics for tablets- Touch, see, hear, and discover technology- Free child development game
Jurassic Dinosaur Dig 1.2.0
This amazingly fun dinosaur game will have them digging into funand skills development for hours on end! Start the excitement bydownloading Jurassic Dinosaur Dig!Jurassic Dinosaur Dig Features:-Great cartoon graphics that kids love- Very interactive for curiouslittle ones- Cool effects and sounds that bring the dinosaurs tolife- Perfect for junior paleontologists in training from ages 2-4
Kids Piano Animal Deluxe
Kids 11 key electric keyboard game, with both'free play' and 'learn to play' modes, and animals galore.♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ MANY RICH PIANO FEATURES ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥- Freestyle play function - includes optional drum backing indifferent styles- Learn to play function, teaching an entire 16 nursery rhymefavorites!- Alternately, you can also listen to the nursery rhyme songs playthemselves- Colorful keyboard and cute graphics▶ App contains the following 3 instruments and 6 animals toplay:- Piano- Xylophone- Guitar- Dog- Cat- Duck- Frog- Sheep- Pig▶ App contains a full 16 nursery rhymes to listen to and learn toplay:- Three Blind Mice- Twinkle Twinkle Little Star- Old MacDonald- Itsy Bitsy Spider- London Bridge- Ba Ba Black Sheep- Row Row Row your boat- Humpty Dumpty- 5 Little Monkeys- Ring-a-ring a rosie- Clementine- Mary, Mary- Miss Muffet- Hickory Dickory Dock- B*I*N*G*O*- Muffin Man
Kids Touch Music Piano Game
♥ Free, colorful, easy for kids to use, fun 8tone piano game with both 'free play' and 'learn to play' modes♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ FEATURES ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥- Freestyle play function - includes optional drum backing- Learn to play function - free version teaches 4 nursery rhymefavorites!- Colorful keyboard and cute graphics▶ App contains the following 'instruments' to play:- Piano- Guitar- Duck!▶ App contains the following music to learn:- Itsy Bitsy Spider- Twinkle Twinkle Little Star- Old MacDonald- Three Blind Mice
Baby Touch Balloon Pop Game 16.0
Baby Touch Balloon Pop Paid 14.0
Peekaboo Farm Barn 1.1.3
This amazing peek-a-boo style game app forbabies and toddlers will take them straight to the farm with an allstar cast of animal favorites that they can find hidden behindbales of hay and reveal themselves.To see each animal, the user merely needs to click on the haybale obstacle hiding it. The animal is revealed to the delight ofthe child. Touch a second time to hide them once again, bringing anew animal to listen to, and starting over again.Peekaboo Farm Barn Features:- The animals and background are expertly designed with great kidsappeal.- The play is supremely simple, but mentally stimulating,culminating in learning the names of farm animals .- Additional option of helping to learn numbers with a peekaboonumbers option.- Touch, see, hear, and discover technology. Peekaboo Farm Barn isan excellent first app for any baby or toddler.In short, this brilliant game will help your child whileentertaining and delighting them for hours of farm yard fun!Download today and get your child off to a galloping start!
Baby Mini Drum Studio
After our Kids Piano app started drippingawesome, we decided to try our hand at a simpler drum app for evenyounger minds, and Mini Drum Studio was born:Your child will get lost within the creative flow of tapping awayand developing rhythm. In addition to the drums there are someextra features that should help to entertain and keep your child'sinterest:- children's songs to drum along too- Multi-touch- includes 5 drums and 3 cymbals.- visual feedback of hitting drums- additional animal sound featureRock this real drum kit and download now for free!tags: baby drum school
com.kissta.feedthetoddler 12.0
This simple yet wonderful app is a super fun way for your toddlerto learn (English) food names. By tapping pictures of food, anentertaining sequence of events occur with food being eaten and thetarget vocabulary, the food name, spoken in a cute way. It's fun,educational and sure to delight your toddler.
Baby Touch Balloon Pop Paid 14.0
Toddler Match Shape Puzzles 10.01
Kids ABC Sounds Letter Fun 9.0.4
Kids ABC Sounds Letter Fun is a fun free appto help kids better identify the letters of the alphabet. It helpschildren learn their ABC's in a fun, positive learning environment.This app is made up of FOUR different games that work togetherto improve a child's knowledge and practical use of thealphabet.This free app also includes:• positive friendly voice comments• sticker rewards• cute graphicsNote: The spoken word and the background music volumes arecontrolled separately to give you total control. Please maximize"media volume" to increase the spoken volume and decrease "ringtonevolume" to minimize background music as required.
Fun Coloring Scratch Game 1.2.0
'Fun Coloring Scratch Game' takes the fun of coloring and adds in asplash of extra fun by turning the black and white coloring bookpicture pages into dazzling full color pictures with just a swipeof the finger. Color many different images of cute and interestinganimals, vehicles, scenes, and more! With hundreds of high qualityimage pages to color, no in-app purchases, and ease of use FunColoring Scratch Game is perfect for the young and young at heart.There is no need for crayons when you have Fun Coloring ScratchGame! Have fun coloring just about anywhere! Fun Coloring ScratchGame Features:- Fun coloring- High quality images- Awesome colorsand dazzling effects- Over a hundred pages for hours of coloringand scratching- No in-app purchases to worry about when you havelittle ones coloring on your deviceFun coloring Scratch Game is funand entertaining for all young coloring fans!
Dinosaurs for Kids 1.0.3
Baby Fun Phone - Touch Game 9.0.5
Bubble Pop - Free the Animals 10.0.1
The colorful sights and interesting sounds of this game will amusebabies for long periods. The easy to use mechanics, and both funand funny high quality audio and graphics have been developed forthe best and easiest child interactions. Download now to see yourbaby's face light up as they pop bubbles and set animals free.
Fairy Tale Picture Game 9.0.3
This amazing game, expertly created and designed for youngchildren, is a perfect game for little hands. This easy to usegame, with its many beautifully hand drawn graphics of fairies,princesses, dragons and fairy tale characters, is a fun anddelightful game for young children. Revealing the imaginationinspiring images will help develop creativity and imagination.Children will have hours of fun exploring the gorgeous art andcolors behind either the solid colored screen, or the black andwhite screen. As they remove the color, one swipe at a time, anenchanting scene unfolds, to whimsical sound effects in thebackground. Great fun for the little ones and peace of mind forparents that care about their children and the quality of the gamesthey play. Download Scratch Picture Game for your kids now andwatch them smile with delight.Scratch Picture Game Features: ❤ Manybeautiful hand drawn images ❤ Easy to manipulate controls ❤ Fun andcreative play style ❤ Whimsical sound effects ❤ HD Graphics and funcharacters
Toddler Christmas Touch Game 9.0.3
Here's our free Xmas holiday game, featuring asimple and easy touch button interface, perfectly designed fortoddlers and young children to use and enjoy. Touching each picturebutton displays a different Christmas animation at the top of thescreen, while it's name is spoken and a short catchy or Christmas-yburst of music is played.
Find Animal - for kids 1.02
Are you looking for a great mobile game forkids to play on their device or yours? Download Find Animals nowand take your little ones on a fun and colorful safari!This fun game combines kid-friendly matching challenges with anamazingly sweet game. It has the great benefits of stimulatingmental exercise and hand eye coordination skills.It's easy to play; you simply locate the matching animals on thescreen and tap the two that match and the game removes thoseanimals. Finding animals has been professionally created andexpertly developed with the little ones matching fun anddevelopment in mind.Finding animals Features:• Great HD graphics• Easy to play• Cute animal characters• Imaginative and colorful
Cars For Kids Free Touch Game 11.0
Baby ABC Animals Touch Game
Free cute alphabet learning app to helpyounger children learn their ABC's in a fun filled learningenvironment.This game has:▶ ease of use touch interface for toddlers▶ cute and funny animations of animals▶ clear pronunciation of letters and names▶ fun and exciting music(Banner Ad Supported. Letter icons courtesy of our friends atwww.iconarchive.com)
Math Fish Eat Numbers (Paid) 1.02
*Ad-Free version*Can you feed Math Fish?Math Fish Eat Numbers is a fun, awesome game that challenges youto combine number bubbles to match the numbers that Math Fish ishungry for! The target number will appear on his belly and you haveto drag number bubbles together to add or subtract for the targetnumber. Once you have the right number, the Math Fish will gobbleit up, and you can watch him grow! Math Fish makes learningaddition, subtraction, and even negative numbers so much fun! Infact, it just feels like a fun game! With over 75 cool andchallenging levels and many different fish species to unlock, MathFish Eat Numbers will have you completely addicted to this way ofmath learning, which is entertaining and rewarding!Math Fish Eat Numbers Features:- Fun math learning- Cool graphics and game play- 75 outstanding levels of math challenges- Target age = 7 [good for 5-9 year olds]- Addition, subtraction, and negative numbers are all includedfree- Pick from a variety of exciting and fun fish species to useMath Fish Eat Numbers is an extremely fun and rewarding gamethat blends learning and gaming. Download it now!
123 Animal Count For Baby 1.0.6
Baby Dress Up 13.3
Let your imagination run wild and your baby look amazing. ☆☆☆What's inside ☆☆☆ - 5 adorable babies! - 20 perfectlocations, both indoors and out. - 25 special dresses - 25 cuteaccessories - 25 fun shoes, sandals, and boots - 35 varied tops -50 shorts, trousers and skirts; so many to choose from! ▶▶▶ OVER 1MILLION DOWNLOADS!!! SO COME JOIN THE FUN.
Piggy Evolution - Clicker 1.0.1
What bizarre creature can you create next?It's time to get your madscientist hat on, and combine some cute little piggies, to createeven cuter or perhaps much weirder creatures. And the sky is notthe limit; pigs in space is the final frontier. ❤ FEATURES ❤❀ 5different stages, from the farm to the heavens, and many, many pigspecies to discover❀ Easy drag n' drop game play, using similarpiggies to create a cute new species❀ New higher species create anincome, allowing you to speed the evolutionary process even more ❀Perfectly designed to play a little each day❀ Cute doodle styleillustrations
Fairy Tale Princess Dollhouse 2.03
This awesome app is a great way to create a fairy tale world fullof stories. With so many characters to choose from and cool dollhouse decorations to use, you can have many hours of fun creatingimaginative story worlds. Choose amazing castles, palaces orfabulous homes, and make them your own as you add items andcharacters to complete whole scenes or stories about your princess,prince and their friends. This all-ages fairy princess app isperfect for playing alone or making family quality time with yourprinces and princesses even more creative and enjoyable. ❤❤❤ APPFEATURES ❤❤❤ ✿ Make your own fairy tale come to life ✿ Awesomecastles and cute homes with many rooms ✿ Over 200 fantasticdecorations to add to the rooms of your choosing ✿ Plenty of coolcharacters and pets that bring stories to life in fun scenes thatyou create ✿ A variety of well known fairy tale charactersavailable to choose from; including Little Red Riding Hood, Aliceand the Mad Hatter, fairies, ice princess and many more Make yourown fairy tale scenes and stories with hundreds of fun and cutecharacters, decorations, and awesome castles and homes.
My Own Family Doll House Game 2.3
Toddler Musical Kitchen 1.0.3
Let your child make music on your phone or tablet, with theirvirtual musical kitchen coming to life!Toddler musical Kitchen is:- original, different and great for the imagination- creative funfor toddlers and kids filled with creativity bursting to get out-designed for kids with simple navigation and fantastic kitchencharacters
ByeBye Monster 1.1.1
Touch and Make - Animal Game 1.1.2
This brilliantly designed game app isperfectfor infants and toddlers brimming with creativity. With atouch ofthe finger, an animated creature is born and startscrawlingaround! These happy little creatures will thrill anddelightyounger children.♥ Touch the grass to make insects, like lady-beetles, andfingerdraw lines to make cute and colorful worms♥ Feed them to make them grow'Touch and Make' game features:- FUN and EASY, make creatures with a touch of your finger- Lots of animated creatures- Extremely interactive- Accidental back button hits disabled to avoidwanderingfingersDownload now to give your child an absorbing and funplaytime
Baby Dress Up Paid 1.0.3
Animal Scratch Picture Game
This professionally created app for youngerkids offers more than just play, it's also great for helping withdevelopment of more refined motor skills and imagination! The bestpart for the young ones though is that it's fun.Download this high quality enchanting game now for your kids and besure to introduce your play date parents and friends to thisamazing app and share this fun game and its interesting animalcharacters.
com.kissta.ftb2 2.0.0
A baby of your very own! Feed the Baby 2 is a fun, easy game foryou and your preschoolers, infants, and toddlers. The largegraphics and clear sounds make it perfect for you and your littleones! This game offers you the chance to have fun with your childwhile caring, playing, and training a virtual baby. Provide food,baby care, baths, and toilet training with no stinky diapers, wepromise! With awesome sounds and voices, together with beautifullycreated graphics and cool animations, Feed the Baby 2 will have youand your little ones sharing quality play time together. Feed theBaby 2 features: ▶ Fun game for little ones ▶ Quality time withmom, dad, and baby ▶ Easy to play and understand; perfect forlearning ▶ Fantastic animations and graphics for all ages gamingfun ▶ Professionally designed and brilliantly created baby game appWhether this very special, cute, happy, baby is saying please orthank you, needs to go potty, or simply playing with his wonderfultoys, he's always having a fun time doing it. And so will you,helping him along the way. Play Feed the Baby 2 with your littleones today!
Fun Touch Effects 2.1.4
Features:- More varied, funny, interesting effects than other apps-Highly interactive- Designed perfectly for the youngest of children/ toddlers- Attention getting and engaging play sessionsFeaturedinteractive effects include:balloons, bubbles, animals, stars,fireworks, superheroes, bubble wrap, piano keyboard, drums, colorripples, planes, and more
Bouncing Balls Supreme 3.0
Bouncing Balls Supreme Paid 1.0


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Monday, April 25, 2011
Ramps Recipe - 3 Onion and Beer Soup
3 Onion-Beer Soup makes 4 servings
2 c. mixed chopped onions, ramps bulbs and greens, spring onions, and chives
3 T olive oil
2 T flour
1 1/2 c. oatmeal stout beer
1 c. vegetable stock
salt and pepper to taste
croutons for serving
1/2 c. shredded Swiss cheese
1. Sautée the chopped onions in the olive oil until they are translucent and wilted, about 5 minutes.
2. Add the flour to the pot, and cook to create a light roux. Pour in the oatmeal stout and vegetable stock, whisking to prevent lumps. Bring the soup up to a boil, then reduce it to a simmer. Cook for 10 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste.
3. Serve with croutons and shredded Swiss cheese on top of the soup.
2 comments:
- Casey said...
Um...this sounds DELICIOUS!!!! Thank you - any recipe with oatmeal stout works for me!
- April 25, 2011 at 9:16 PM
- The 3 Foragers said...
We used Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout, the soup was awesome.
- May 5, 2011 at 11:02 AM
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Their video management platform called Backlot, which went through a complete overhaul in September 2008, is a scalable video platform that gives users control over the delivery, organization, analytics, and monetization of their online videos. They recently announced support for ads from YuMe Networks , Tremor Media , DoubleClick Inc., AOL LLC 's Lightningcast, and Google's AdSense for Video. (See the press release below)
Here's a short video about Backlot:
According to Ooyala CEO Bismarck Lepe one of their key tenants is to help content providers build their businesses. They are responsible for real-time management of the Content Delivery Networks (CDN) and has partnered with many CDNs to broker the best price. On revenue side they provide access to ad supported models to maximize across networks. Their Business model is usage based, which is different from others. Ooyala's competitors include Brightcove, Move Networks, and Maven Networks.
In September, I got a demo of Backlot by Lepe who described the Backlot content management system with the following features:
- Built in Adobe Air – desktop application, can upload large files chop it up, make every packet as small as possible and can open up as many as 7 connections
- Enterprise and consumer side
- Transcode to H.264 stream (Quality 200 Kbps and 4 Mbps)
- Dark room editing tool to set up syndicating rules, preview images and insert ads
- API – can add additional meta player
- Syndication side – gives content owners ability to create syndication groups
(YouTube and Bebo) Flight times to push
- Advertising side – hub for all video, Silverlight and VC-1 support down the line
- Can add interstitial adds like key frames, post rolls, advertising place sets and rules sets, ability to add advertising
- Help content owners to build an online business
- Ad serving – channels, placements on web sites, media lists, sets up ad queue
- Analytics – dashboard, can be customized, performance
- Displays
- Search
- Engagment – helps them optimize content and ads
On back end, there's lots of secret sauce. Ooyala gives give content owners the ability to create hotspotting and contextual advertisement through Backlot's ability to analyze the video for recognizable objects and then offer up to the viewer other clips or information about the objects. Like movies an actor has been in, or sports statistics. Targeted ads can be shown, or "baked in" into video. Ooyala takes the video, slices it up and distributes across multiple CDNs. This behavioral data can also help direct advertising to viewers based on their interests and habits. When you fast-forward through the video you can see thumbnails which enable easy access to video segments.
They launched an exclusive promotion for Brightcove customers who are affected by the announcement a few weeks ago about the closing the "Brightcove Network."
Here's another video from Ooyala about their video platform and their recent press release:
New Capability of Company's Ground-breaking Ooyala Backlot Video Content Management System Helps Video Owners Improve Return on Investment (ROI)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ooyala, Inc, a leading global online video platform provider, is announcing the launch of Ooyala Backlot™ Ads. This feature simplifies the process of monetizing online video content by enabling easy ad integration with major ad servers and ad networks such as YuMe, Tremor, Doubleclick, Lightningcast, and Google AdSense for Video. Ooyala also offers access to its own, custom-built ad server, which intelligently returns key metrics for ads within the Backlot Analytics module. Ooyala's Ad module supports various ad formats such as pre-roll, post-roll, mid-roll, and overlays. Backlot Ads is a key module in Backlot, Ooyala's enterprise grade video platform, that provides all the tools necessary to transcode, publish, and monetize high quality content.
"Online video is moving out of the laboratory and into mainstream use," stated Bismarck Lepe, CEO of Ooyala. "This is forcing companies to generate revenue from their content and build real businesses. By simplifying third-party ad server and network integration, we're giving publishers access to millions of ads and increasing the rate at which they can turn viewership and unique users into revenue," Lepe added.
Fueled by the growth in broadband penetration, the total number of Internet users and overall time spent online has increased significantly. This trend has resulted in more online video sites and available monetizable inventory. According to Forrester's report 'What It Really Means To Watch TV Online' written by VP Principal Analyst James McQuivey, Ph.D., in-stream online video advertising is the fastest-growing category of interactive marketing – rising from $471 million last year to nearly $7.2 billion in 2012, or 12% of total interactive marketing spend. Ooyala developed Backlot Ads to enable partners to capitalize on this opportunity, further strengthening its commitment to help businesses of all sizes generate revenue from their online videos.
Other key modules in Backlot include Content Management, Analytics, Syndication, and Player Customization. Last month, Ooyala announced the launch of new hyper-syndication controls, which enable content to be syndicated to YouTube and other distribution sites.
About Ooyala
Ooyala is a video technology company that provides an integrated platform enabling the delivery, management, and monetization of high quality video content. Committed to providing the most accessible and comprehensive video solutions to companies worldwide, Ooyala's services are easy to use, quick to deploy, and customizable. Its modular and distributed framework allows Ooyala to integrate seamlessly with existing systems and scale to millions of concurrent users. Ooyala's partner portfolio includes 1000s of media companies including Bebo, TV Guide, Glam, and Electronic Arts. Free trial Backlot accounts can be created by clicking here: http://www.ooyala.com/products/install. For more information please visit www.ooyala.com.
Ooyala is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with sales offices in New York and London.
©Ooyala 2008. Ooyala and Backlot are registered trademarks of Ooyala Inc. All other brands and product names and trademarks are the registered property of their respective companies.
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New Delhi [India], Nov 13 (ANI): Tech giant Motorola's most anticipated offering, Moto X4 was launched in New Delhi at Rs. 20,999 for the 3 + 32GB variant and Rs. 22,999 for the 4 + 64GB variant.
Available in sterling blue and super black colour variants, the device features a dual rear camera with an intelligent camera software, an IP68 water and dust resistant design and a first of its kind audio innovation, the new smartphone is crafted to perfection.
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Bomb It is an international graffiti and street art documentary directed by award-winning director Jon Reiss and premiered at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. Filmed on five continents, featuring cities such as New York, Cape Town, London, Paris,Amsterdam, Tokyo, Berlin and Sao Paulo, Bomb It explores the interplay between worldwide graffiti movements, the global proliferation...
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Back from a Walk
Assassinated by the sky,
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I'll let my hair grow.
With the tree of amputated limbs that doesn't sing
and the boy with the face white as an egg.
With broken-headed small animals
and the tattered water of dry feet.
With all the weary deaf-mutes
and the butterfly drowned in the inkwell.
Tripping over my face every day.
Assassinated by the sky!
Federico García Lorca, "Vuelta de paseo"
Translation by Jack Hayes
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"Lucky Strike Date" (1921): Stuart Davis
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The Enterprising Rubyist - Bootstrapping Your Business with Ruby
A talk by Paul Campbell at RubyConf 2010
About the Talk
November 11, 2010 12:15 PM
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Many of the leaders in the Ruby community are business founders. As a basis for this talk, I will interview a number of founders who are also key influencers in the Ruby world. How has working with Ruby helped shape the products they build? How have needs and constraints of the business impacted on their software and the code they've written? What are the benefits of being a hacker and an entrepreneur? What are the downsides? Through consideration and curation of these interviews, I will present an insightful look into the relationship and interdependence between business and code. This talk will appeal to anyone who is bootstrapping their own startup using Ruby, or who is interested in doing so.


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Window tinting and automotive customization provider partners with Dallas-based spoiler and hood scoop manufacturer
BOCA RATON, Fla. – June 30, 2015 – Tint World®, a leading auto accessory and window tinting franchise, has announced an official partnership with automotive spoiler and hood scoop manufacturer, DAR Spoilers. With the agreement, DAR's high quality, American-made products can be purchased and installed at Tint World® Automotive Styling Centers™ nationwide.
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From Sophistication To Imitation: The Changing Role Of The Fashion Blogger
The wave of fashion bloggers to flood our screens shows no signs of slowing. With the temptation of front row seats, partnerships, and advertising deals, more and more style devotees are opening their wardrobes onto that of the World Wide Web. Just a quick click away from other fashion fanatics stepping on each other's heels for a slice of notoriety, personal blogging has become a force to be reckoned with in the fashion industry, where girls who idolised the models in the magazines now determine their very own fashion shoots. Cue pout, convenient cupcakes and tripods at the ready!
The entire purpose of blogging was always to create some distinction from the falsities of glossy magazines and take the attention onto real people, with real lives and without the Beckham budget. It gave ordinary people an international platform, an exceptionally powerful podium to share their personal take on style. Now, the very reason we fell so hard for bloggers, (their original take on outfits) and blogging alike, is coming full circle and we risk becoming what we were trying to avoid all along; the glossy magazines that made so many of us lose confidence in our body image.
It's hard to deny the overall change in how bloggers look. Personal style posts used to be about the unique, often unconventional appearances of quirky girls like Rumi Neely, and Karla Delas, to name just a few. These bloggers are still successfully doing what they did before, however, it is an undeniable truth that there is a certain clique of 'it' bloggers, with an overall resemblance in clothing style and even similar techniques.
What was once a distinctive, substantial, and cultivated art (a la Susie Bubble, Tavi Gevinson), has become comparable and overdone (i.e. standard static outfit posts). As we continue to become further established as a community, with the freedom to create our own content, it's important to remember how our contributions appear within the standards of the industry. Without this awareness we risk losing the true meaning of our independence in a contradictory industry where beauty is both worshipped and scrutinised.
Our ever-increasing, technologically advanced society means things naturally start to lose their shine over time and like all trends, become last season. So, like leg warmers, velour tracksuits, and trainer wedges, has fashion blogging become less distinctive and more repetitive? Is it becoming stale? And if so, what does the future hold for the media savvy fashionista?


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Shaun Knowler is a Canadian artist, writer and editor. Along with Josh van Reyk, both are known as the co-creators of the Mosaic project.
In December of 2008, it was announced that Knowler and Van Reyk will write IDW's Transformers Spotlight: Jazz. This marks the writing partners' first professional work on an IDW Transfomers comic. Spotlight Jazz is scheduled for a March 2009 release.
External links
- Interview with Van Reyk and Knowler at Newsarama (includes info on fan submissions)
- Transformers: Mosaic at deviantART
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This is an important developing story about Israel's moral crisis/delegitimization in the eyes of the world.
Last Friday, Hagai El-Ad, the head of the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem, spoke at the United Nations Security Council in a special discussion on Israeli settlements and urged it to take action at last against the occupation because, as he explained later, "The reality will not change if the world does not intervene. I suspect that our arrogant government also knows this, so it's busy fearmongering against such an intervention."
At the U.N., El-Ad described the administration of the territories as "a legal guise for organized state violence." He itemized how every aspect of the illegal colonization project receives the legal blessing of Israeli judges and officials, and how human rights atrocities against Palestinians are never investigated.
We have had plenty of time to work towards a more perfect occupation…. Look at the occupation and all the legal pretense surrounding it, and call it for what it is: a legal guise for organized state violence.
And he threw in this challenge to the U.S.
Six-and-a-half years ago US Vice President Joe Biden warned that "the status quo is not sustainable". … The "status quo" – that ever progressing vector of Israeli interests at the expense of Palestinian rights – has proven not merely sustainable, but in fact thriving.
Lara Friedman of Americans for Peace Now also spoke at the Security Council session and described apartheid-like conditions in the occupied territories (without using the a-word) and said, "I urge you here today to finally take action in the Security Council."
All weekend Israeli PM Netanyahu lashed out against B'Tselem, and Americans for Peace Now too.
PM Netanyahu will act to amend the national service law so that it will no longer be possible to do national service with the B'Tselem org.
— PM of Israel (@IsraeliPM) October 15, 2016
On Facebook Saturday, Netanyahu said that what B'Tselem and Peace Now could not achieve by democratic means, they were trying to achieve by international pressure. They'd "joined the chorus of slander" of Israel, by saying that "the occupation of the west bank settlements" was the reason of conflict, when it's the Palestinian refusal to recognize "the Jewish state." Partial translation from Haaretz.
In Israeli democracy fleeting and bizarre organizations like B'Tselem can also express themselves. But most of the public knows the truth. We will continue to defend justice and our state in the face of all international pressure…. the truth is that the Palestinians attacked Israel for some 50 years, before there was one settlement. They continue to attack Israel from the Gaza Strip even after we left it completely.
The State Department yesterday issued a statement in support of B'Tselem:
"We believe that a free and unfettered civil society is a critical component of democracy…we believe it is important that governments protect the freedoms of expression, and create an atmosphere where all voices can be heard.
"We are troubled by instances anywhere in the world where these principles are threatened."
The New York Times had a good story on the flap yesterday, saying the Netanyahu threat is symbolic:
Mr. Netanyahu's pronouncement was largely symbolic: Only three volunteers from a program for 18-year-olds exempted from compulsory military service on ideological, religious, health or other grounds have applied to perform national service at B'Tselem in the last seven years. Amit Gilutz, a spokesman for B'Tselem, said no other volunteers were in the pipeline
Facing a firestorm in his country, El-Ad issued a statement about why he spoke at the U.N.– because there must be global intervention:
Intervention by the world against the occupation is just as legitimate as any human-rights issue. It's all the more so when it involves an issue like our ruling over another people. This is no internal Israeli matter. It is blatantly an international matter.
Here's another conclusion: There is no chance Israeli society, of its own volition and without any help, will end the nightmare.
The personal parts of his statement are moving:
I spoke at the United Nations against the occupation because I am an Israeli. I have no other country. I have no other citizenship and no other future. I grew up here and will be buried here. I spoke at the UN Security Council against the occupation because I am optimistic, because I am an Israeli, because I was born in Haifa and live in Jerusalem, and because I am no longer a young man and every day of my life has accompanied our control of them. And because it is impossible to carry on like this.
We must not carry on like this. I spoke at the UN Security Council against the occupation because I am striving to be a human being.
El-Ad defended himself in part because a Labor activist filed a treason charge against him! The Times of Israel:
An activist for the Labor party has filed a police complaint for alleged treason against the human rights group B'Tselem, amid anger over a speech by the organization's director criticizing Israeli settlement policy at a United Nations forum last week.
The complaint… alleges that B'Tselem has worked to damage the sovereignty of the state, give land away to a foreign entity, and has taken steps that could cause a war. The three accusations are listed as clauses in Israel's criminal code under "Treason."
David Harris-Gershon makes a fair analogy:
Imagine the
@ACLU being attacked by Obama & charged w/ treason. This is happening in Israel to @btselem for exposing human rights abuses.
The B'Tselem confrontation might play into American action, or inaction, at the Security Council in weeks to come. The Washington Post had a strong report on El-Ad's speech, which cites the role of the harsh U.S. condemnation of a new Israeli settlement, from two weeks back. Daniel Seidemann's political take:
Netanyahu is leading Israel to a frontal collision w/ the world over occupation. His only response is demonizing those sounding the warning.
The New Israel Fund's Daniel Sokatch issued a statement last night warning that Netanyahu is inciting violence, and behaving like Donald Trump. He reminds us that B'Tselem has gotten death threats before.
[B]y threatening legislation to retaliate against B'Tselem, the prime minister is acting in a manner that is deeply at odds with democratic values. This is the type of vengeance we might expect from a Donald Trump-controlled government, but not from the elected leader of a truly democratic society….
This rhetoric has consequences. For decades, Israel's human rights activists didn't have to worry much about personal security. But, as the incitement against them grew, that changed. You may remember that two years ago NIF had to approve emergency funding to B'Tselem so that they could upgrade their security protocols. We have had to continue that support. Netanyahu's action this weekend ups the ante and creates more threats that Israel's human rights community must address.
Sokatch reached an optimistic conclusion that reminds us that liberal Zionists live in never-never land.
I have every reason to be confident in the ability of the Israeli public to understand what's really going on here, to understand that Netanyahu has over-played his hand, and to reject what he's trying to do.
Below is El-Ad's speech on video, complete with the disturbing videos he played during the speech, followed by the transcript.
Here's the transcript of El-Ad's speech:
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Before I begin, I would like to express my deep thanks for this unique opportunity of speaking at this distinguished forum and engaging with the members of the UN Security Council.
What I'm about to say is not meant to shock you. It is, however, meant to move you.
For the past 49 years – and counting – the injustice known as the occupation of Palestine, and Israeli control of Palestinian lives in Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem, has become part of the international order. The first half-century of this reality will soon be over. On behalf of B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, I implore you today to take action. Anything short of decisive international action will achieve nothing but ushering in the second half of the first century of the occupation.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
What does it mean, in practical terms, to spend 49 years, a lifetime, under military rule? When violence breaks out, or when particular incidents attract global attention, you get a glimpse into certain aspects of life under occupation. But what about the rest of the time? What about the many "ordinary" days of a 17,898-day-long occupation, which is still going strong? Living under military rule mostly means invisible, bureaucratic, daily, violence. It means living under an endless permit regime, which controls Palestinian life from cradle to grave: Israel controls the population registry; Israel controls work permits; Israel controls who can travel abroad – and who cannot; Israel controls who can visit from abroad – and who cannot; in some villages, Israel maintains lists of who can visit the village, or who is allowed to farm which fields. Permits can sometimes be denied; permits must always be renewed. Thus with every breath they take, Palestinians breathe in occupation. Make a wrong move, and you can lose your freedom of movement, your livelihood, or even the opportunity to marry and build a family with your beloved.
Meanwhile, ever present, are the settlements and the settlers. They are Israeli citizens living, ostensibly, in a first-world democracy, that somehow exists only for them, beyond the borders of their country. This ever-expanding venture, its illegality notwithstanding, is to be found everywhere throughout the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Settlements encompass the built-up areas as well as the generous allocations of land around them, meant for future expansion or "special security zones"; they mean checkpoints for Palestinians, and bypass roads for settlers; they mean the Separation Barrier; and finally, they mean the fragmentation of Palestine into hundreds of isolated communities, floating – or rather I should say, slowly sinking – in a sea of Israeli domination. Who could possibly deserve to endure such conditions for half a century?
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Almost all aspects of this reality are considered legal by Israel. Israel's control of Palestinian lives is unique in the careful attention the occupying power gives to the letter of the law, while strangling its very spirit. The occupation has so perfected the art of watering down International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law as to render them virtually meaningless. Once military lawyers, State Attorneys and Supreme Court justices are done masterfully chiseling out legal opinions, all that remains is raw injustice.
Show me a dead Palestinian whose killing must be explained away to ensure impunity, and there you will find a learned opinion by the Military Advocate General. Show me the 100,000 Palestinians ignored and neglected on the other side of the Separation Barrier built inside East Jerusalem, and I will remind you that even this glaring injustice has been pre-approved by Israel's High Court of Justice.
Show me a plot of Palestinian land you wish taken over, and the Civil Administration will come up with the appropriately tailored legal mechanism – of course, it must all be legal! – to achieve that end: military training zones, nature reserves, archaeological sites and, above all, declaring thousands of acres "State Land" – what "State" exactly? All these are successfully used in order to forcibly displace Palestinians and justify denying them access to running water or the power grid. Of course, such Israeli actions aren't successful 100% of the time. That would be too transparent. So once in a long while, maybe once a decade, a low-ranking soldier might be put on a show trial; and once in a blue moon a master plan for a Palestinian village will be approved. These extraordinary cherry-picked rarities provide useful distractions from the big picture.
In order to uphold the guise of legality, Israel applies "due process" in just about everything: to potentially force-feed hunger strikers, as recently approved by the High Court; to routinely approve and renew administrative detention orders, or extend prolonged imprisonment without trial, of hundreds of Palestinians; to demolish the homes of the families of Palestinians who perpetrated attacks – yes, that too has happened hundreds of times, with due process and a seal of approval by the High Court. Since the year 2000, more than 4,400 Palestinians have lost their homes in this way.
Yes, Israel has professional lawyers, attorneys and judges. It is, indeed, a highly "professional" occupation. We have had plenty of time to work towards a more perfect occupation. But you don't need to be a lawyer in order to recognize injustice. Look at the occupation and all the legal pretense surrounding it, and call it for what it is: a legal guise for organized state violence.
Video screened during address: Razed to the ground, July 2016
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Israel has systematically legalized human rights violations in the occupied territories through the establishment of permanent settlements, punitive home demolitions, a biased building and planning mechanism, taking over Palestinian land and much, much more. Israel's military law enforcement system – if one can call it that – routinely whitewashes hundreds of cases in which Palestinians were killed or abused.
Here are some figures: Israel has declared 20% of the West Bank "State Land"; Israel "generously" allows Palestinians to build on one-half of one percent of Area C, the 60% of the West Bank placed "temporarily" under Israeli control a generation ago; over the past decade, Israel has demolished some 1,200 Palestinian homes in the West Bank, excluding East Jerusalem, thereby rendering homeless over 5,500 people, half of them minors; East Jerusalem figures would raise these by roughly another 50%; in April 2016 there were about 7,000 Palestinians in Israeli custody, a quarter of them individuals remanded for the duration of their military court proceedings, and roughly 10% administrative detainees. One final figures: in a quarter of the 740 plus complaints referred by B'Tselem to the military authorities since 2000, no investigation was even opened; in another half, the cases were eventually closed with no action taken; and only in 25 cases, were indictments served. And get this: during that time, the military authorities have physically lost track of 44 cases – more than the 25 cases that went to court. Israel insists that all of this is legal, under both Israeli law and international law.
It is not.
But this fact is of little practical significance in terms of keeping Israel from carrying on implementing its policies because, regrettably, international law lacks any effective enforcement mechanisms. And so, Israeli policies are implemented and advanced with ever greater domestic support. Despite broad international agreement – including previous Security Council resolutions – that the settlements are illegal, the only measurable change in this area is the growing number of settlements, of settlers, and of Palestinians living in their shadow, facing demolitions or displacement.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
B'Tselem has worked for 27 years to document and publish violations of human rights in the occupied territories, to analyze and interpret data, and advocate locally and internationally on these issues. We are not advocating for any specific political outcome: we are fighting human rights violations. In fact, we realize how Israel has effectively used the "peace process" itself to buy time – a great deal of time – while it further establishes more facts on Palestinian ground. B'Tselem's mission to tell the Israeli public about the ways in which the state oppresses Palestinians will continue as long as the occupation does. We were and will always remain relentless in this effort, for it is our basic moral obligation. But after so many years, one has to draw certain conclusions. Moral principles alone will not be enough. Israel will not cease being an oppressor simply by waking up one day and realizing the brutality of its policies. Decades of false pretexts and genuine fears, economic interests and political dogma, have come together to prevent that eventuality, while too few convincing reasons to change course were presented. And globally?
Six-and-a-half years ago US Vice President Joe Biden warned that "the status quo is not sustainable". Clearly he was at least six-and-a-half years too early in voicing such a warning. The "status quo" – that ever progressing vector of Israeli interests at the expense of Palestinian rights – has proven not merely sustainable, but in fact thriving.
Almost exactly a year ago the European Union embarked on a six-month "structured dialogue" with Israel, seeking to end administrative home demolitions in Area C. Six months later, the dialogue was going nowhere and demolitions were on the rise, yet the EU decided – to extend the dialogue. If an unprecedented number of demolitions goes hand-in-hand with an unlimited timetable for international dialogue, why stop demolitions?
Clearly, the occupation is internationally sustainable. It is so, because so far the world refuses to take effective action.
Recent years have made that realization even more painful. Israel's long-term project to maximize its benefits from Palestinian land while minimizing the nuisance of Palestinian presence there has become even more palpable than perhaps ever before. Admittedly, even just half a day spent in the West Bank has long been more than enough to realize the permanence sought for the enterprise that Israeli governments right, center, and left have been advancing there since 1967. Similarly, retired Israeli officials have openly said so – most recently it was put quite simply by a former OC Central Command who said: "The army is there because the State of Israel has no intention of leaving." But now that Israeli leaders currently in office, from the Prime Minister down, have been skipping the lip-service in real time and openly admitting this – with such a level of official clarity – it seemed that surely, finally, there would be implications. Was one naïve to have that expectation?
Perhaps. While unprecedented clarity in Israeli language has narrowed the divide between Israeli actions and the empty rhetoric on negotiations and diplomacy, the global response to it was, well, yet another report. Demolitions have been stepped up, making 2016 the worst year on record in this sphere. I feel compelled to ask: how many more Palestinian homes must be bulldozed before the realization sinks in that words that are not backed up by action do no more than indicate to Israel that it may carry on?
Video screened during address: Military renews segregation on main street in Hebron, 2015
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The realization of human rights need not wait any longer. Palestinians have the right to life and dignity, the right to determine their own future. These have all been delayed for far too long – and justice delayed is justice denied.
As Martin Luther King Jr taught us, "we know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor". So the reality facing the international community is this: absence of action not only effectively gives the oppressor a license to proceed without having to suffer too many repercussions, but also gives the oppressor the power to decide when will be the right time to start considering alternatives. "Wait," demands Israel, "now is not the right time". But "'Wait' has almost always meant 'Never'," responds Martin Luther King Jr. "The time is always right to do what is right." That time is now: the time to, at long last, take action. The UN Security Council has more than just power: you have a moral responsibility – and a real opportunity – to act with a sense of urgency, before we reach the symbolic date of June 2017 and the second half of that first century begins, to send to the world, to Israelis and to Palestinians, a clear message, backed by international action: Israel cannot have it both ways. You cannot occupy a people for fifty years and call yourself a democracy. You cannot violate the rights of millions and claim international perks justified by hollow words about commitment to shared human rights values.
Israel is a sovereign country established through international legitimacy granted through a historic decision by this very institution in 1947. I am a citizen of that country. It is my homeland. For most of my country's existence, the world has allowed it to occupy another people. I have lived my entire life, every single day of it, with that reality. Millions of Israelis and Palestinians know no other reality. We need your help. Fifty years of "temporary" occupation are too long for even a single person on this planet to accept such a contradiction in terms. The rights of Palestinians must be realized; the occupation must end; the UN Security Council must act; and the time is now.


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Nocona Newspaper article by Tracy Mesler: "MONTAGUE – With a dozen children in Montague County "awaiting permanent families" through adoption, the Montague County Commissioner's Court adopted a resolution Friday proclaiming November as National Adoption Month. Brought by the Montague County Child Welfare Board, the court took time to continue shining the spotlight on the county's … Continue reading ADOPTION DRAWS COUNTY SUPPORT
Arche Winery supports Child Welfare Board
Many thanks to Arche Winery for years of support of our children. This Friday they're having a jazz musical presentation from 1 to 4 PM with proceeds coming to our Child Welfare Board. Thank you Amy and Howard ! "Live Music, November 23 Need a little break from the Black Friday craziness? Come to the … Continue reading Arche Winery supports Child Welfare Board
New fence from Affordable Fencing in Decatur
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Thanks to Bowie!
Thanks to the City of Bowie and especially Stony Lowrance and his associates for the outstanding help with our Children's Center there. The Chamber and the city management has been long-time supporters and we greatly appreciate it.
Western Heritage and Cattle Drive in Bowie supporting our Child Welfare Board
"The Bowie, Texas Chamber of Commerce is presenting The Chisholm Trail Heritage Festival, Cattle Drive, and Wagon Train on April 11-15, 2018. The Montague County Child Welfare Board is a major beneficiary of this event, with a portion of the proceeds donated to our Board. Events include several trail rides on neighboring ranches, and highlighted … Continue reading Western Heritage and Cattle Drive in Bowie supporting our Child Welfare Board
Counselor Position open at Montague Child Welfare Board
The Montague County Child Welfare Board (MCCWB) is seeking a License Professional Counselor (LPC) to counsel children in Montague County. Our goal is to provide counseling for children who've been abused and neglect, or have been referred to us by county schools so that parents are not forced to drive great distances to provide their … Continue reading Counselor Position open at Montague Child Welfare Board
Free Watermelon at July 4th Celebration at Saint Jo
Paul, Jeanette, Sheriff Thomas, Cindra, and Clint served melons to big and little kids:
Chisholm Trail 150 year celebration in Bowie on Saturday April 22
Come to the Bowie Chisholm Trail 150 celebration Saturday April 22nd and bid on this Longhorn bull to be auctioned off. All money goes to our Child Welfare Board and benefitting abused and neglected children of Montague County. Auction will be about 5:30-6:00 PM in the Bowie arena by the civic center. Come to the parade … Continue reading Chisholm Trail 150 year celebration in Bowie on Saturday April 22


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