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Our veterans and service members are some of the most brave men and women in our country. They're passionate and disciplined when it comes to protecting and serving our country, which is a commitment we're grateful for every day.
The Invisible Wounds of War
That bravery continues off duty as well — many carry the heavy weight of the sights and experiences they encountered while serving. Consider these statistics:
- 20 percent of veterans who served in Iraq or Afghanistan suffer from depression or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
- A 2014 JAMA Psychiatry study found PTSD to be 15 times more likely for veterans and service members compared to civilians. The same report found depression to occur 5 times more frequently among military members than civilians.
- The same study from JAMA found 1 in 4 active duty military members suffer from a mental health condition.
PTSD, anxiety, traumatic brain injury (TBI), military sexual trauma (MST) and other mental health conditions can all occur as a result of military service. And, these health issues are every bit as serious as injuries we can see.
Healing These Wounds
Our veterans and service members need access to quality mental health programs. They also need to know it's okay to talk about their experiences. If someone you love may be suffering from a mental health issue, please check in with them regularly. Ask them how they're doing and be ready to simply listen.
If you're a veteran or service member suffering from any mental health symptom or condition, please reach out for help. Talk to a friend, family member or fellow veteran. Most importantly, don't be afraid to seek professional help. You should never be embarrassed to get treatment for a mental health issue.
Honor our veterans and service members this Veterans Day by sharing this message with others. You can also help change the way the world sees mental health by taking the stigma-free pledge.
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text: A hood lof latex flows around your head, cutting your vision off from the rest of your surroundings. Very soon thereafter it begins to pump a thick gas that makes you feel light-headed and aroused, as well as increasing the pleasure you feel from the smooth vinyl rubbing against your cetacean body. As a protrusion swells up in the mask, it exploits your moment of weakness to slide itself into your mouth, its decidedly phallic shape forcing its way past your lips and down your throat. Dizzy in this haze, it's becoming even more difficult to stay lucid!

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There is one conclusion to be drawn from the Autumn Statement. Maggie
was right; there is no alternative. No-one has set out a plausible
alternative strategy: a quicker and less painful route back to economic
growth. George Osborne did not only sound authoritative on Wednesday
because he had learned the lessons of the Budget degringolade. He was
impressive because he was telling the House about the facts of economic
life. Ed Balls was not only bad because he tripped over his own feet,
which he now blames on a childhood stammer (he is not good at
self-pity). He was poor because he was incapable of outlining a deficit
strategy. He did not even sound as if he was convincing himself. He also
sounded as if he should be covered by the Dangerous Dogs Act, but anger
is not a policy.
There is a further, self-evident point. If there
were an alternative, the Chancellor would already be implementing it.
If there were an alternative and for some bizarre reason the Chancellor
and the PM were refusing to adopt it, the Liberals would have left the
coalition. They are all Thatcherites now; all seeing reason.
Growth needs demand, and in the UK, that is a problem. There are four
major potential components of increased demand. The first is consumer
spending, which is held back by indebtedness. The second is government
spending, ditto. Third comes investment by business. Plenty of companies
have healthy balance sheets, but if they spend the money, where will
they find customers? That leads to the fourth, exports.
That takes
us to the Eurozone.
The debt mountain is frightening. Normally, countries have a brutal way
of dealing with such high levels of indebtedness: default, or inflation,
or both. Admittedly, we British did cope with the government
indebtedness created by the Napoleonic War, but there are three caveats.
First, it took years. Second, there was serious political and social
instability during the early phase. Third, we had the Industrial
Revolution, to boost productivity, and the Empire, to absorb the output.
Many years ago, Jonathan Miller produced Alice in Wonderland on
television. John Bird, who played the Caterpillar, invented a wonderful
line, worthy of Lewis Carroll. "I can do nothing for you," he told Alice.
"I can't do nothing for you just at the moment, but I hope to be able
to do nothing for you very soon".
Sometimes it seems as if we are
on the verge of caterpillar economics.
So the Government must pull us back from that brink, and that might be
easier than it appears. Ministers should begin by employing an unusual
political tactic. They should tell the truth. The public know that we
are in a mess; no-one over the age of eight believes in Santa Claus. It
is never difficult for Messrs Cameron and Osborne to command a hearing,
even if it is an unenthusiastic one. They should do more to explain
themselves. Next, not everything is gloomy. Rolls-Royce has an
order-book worth £74 billion pounds. In the North-East, some car
factories are breaking world records for productivity. Admittedly, they
are Japanese-owned, but they have a British workforce. I keep on hearing
about manufacturing firms which are globally competitive. They are a
long way from the metal-bashers of yesteryear. The nearest that they
come to a production line is a computer-guided laser beam. That puts
them in the vanguard. Even in hard times, even in challenging markets,
they are flourishing.
Because of Michael Gove's reforms, it will
gradually become easier for these firms and others like them to recruit
the employees they need without importing them. Equally, the welfare
reforms should improve the UK's labour market. Amidst the
public-spending crisis, that is one consolation. If money had not been
so tight, we might never have set about reforming the ill-fare aspects
of the so-called welfare state.
There is one difficulty. In the early 1960s, John Hare, then the
Minister of Labour, received a delegation of the unemployed. Having
exceeded their allotted time, they were still banging on. Hare got up:
"Don't know about you chaps – but I've got work to do". Although today's
politicians are more sensitive, it is still awkward for prosperous,
well-fed-looking characters to empathise with the hardships of the poor.
again; Messrs Cameron and Osborne versus Messrs Miliband and Balls in a
human sympathy competition: the Tories would have every chance.
Our current Ministers will remain firm in purpose. They will refuse to
underestimate the obstacles or to be deflected by fantasy. The PM and
the Chancellor are replete with self-confidence and they should not be
afraid to display it. Some voters will resent it. Plenty of Lefties
would try to out-snarl Mr Balls (they would fail). But in austere times,
politicians who tell the truth and appear to know what they are doing
can win respect, even if grudging. David Cameron and George Osborne
should ignore the yelps and growls from the Lefties' kennels. A far
larger number of voters will find reassurance in self-confident leaders.


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Hi, In addition to the making of the tenth scale model I was asked to also make a Cross section of the midship of it, Actually I started working on it before I was commissioned.I started on a one twenty scale. just for kicks, Seeing this they requested a one tenth scale to go with the model for educational purposes, It is a triple layered hull and with ceiling on the inside.
PS. I never expected such a good response from "The Jocks". Glad I found you lot. We have so much to brag about. As for me, I'm Last of the species – Wood working Boat builders in this part of the world. These guys don't realise that we are needed to make the wooden plug for the fibreglass mould and products. They just chuck me away after they get the plug made.
I shall send you pictures of the largest Boat I made. and Much more – Just Bragging
-- tuanie
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#1 posted 08-21-2009 07:27 AM
Nice job,it is just amazing
-- Shawn,Minnesota
#2 posted 08-21-2009 08:11 AM
Brag away this is awsome. As is the full model.
The problem is this: either people like you inspire people to keep on trying, or give up and make macaroni sculptures.
I'm just saying…
The only thing I see or do not is the stacks of cannon balls. A stack here or there would be a nice touch.
-- Measure once cut twice....oh wait....ooops.
#3 posted 08-21-2009 12:41 PM
keep bragging. We get to benefit from your skills!
just amazing.
-- ~ Debbie, Canada (https://www.facebook.com/DebbiePribele, Young Living Wellness )
#4 posted 08-21-2009 12:48 PM
Nice work! Boy, you sure stretch your imagination on that project. We all benifit from one another.
-- Paul, Bristol,Rhode Island
#5 posted 08-21-2009 01:02 PM
Do the cannon work? Oh, come on, tell me the cannon work.
Very cool anyway. I really like the scale, big enough to be out of the typical "model maker" range.
#6 posted 08-21-2009 01:12 PM
I just finished watching the link on u tube. That is simply amazing! May I ask what wood you used? Pardon me if I missed it.
-- Paul, Bristol,Rhode Island
#7 posted 08-21-2009 01:16 PM
quite impressive!
#8 posted 08-21-2009 01:20 PM
Now that is really nice work…...well done Tuanie.
#9 posted 08-21-2009 02:02 PM
I LOVE what you are doing here. I think it's amazing!.... You are VERY talented.
#10 posted 08-21-2009 02:09 PM
A great skill that we are losing…but maybe a few quality people will continue to make wooden boats to keep the trade going for centuries…provided we'll still have forests in a couple of hundred years.
-- /\/\/\ BarryW /\/\/\ Stay so busy you don't have time to die.
#11 posted 08-21-2009 02:51 PM
well done , tuanie .
for most of my working carrier , ( 45 years )
then i found this site .
and was totaly humbled and awed !
check out charles maxwell ,clockmaker .
ohad milner , woodworking inovator
i could name everyone here , we all have a story , we all seek learning .
i felt that my knowlege was going to be lost ,
the responces here were so strong ,
now i am amongst fellow students , almost 12,000 around the world !
watching someone take an idea , freely given ,
go to home page , and roll the dice .
you are home , you are one of us .
relax ,
-- david - only thru kindness can this world be whole . If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle
#12 posted 08-21-2009 03:31 PM
Makes a old Sailor want to get back to sea! I thoroughly enjoy your posts. Keep them coming. CDR Max
-- Max the "night janitor" at www.hardwoodclocks.com
#13 posted 08-21-2009 04:02 PM
When you got it, flaunt it… take pride and enjoyment from what you do.
I'm just starting out in the learning… and I learn from and enjoy the projects and write ups by you pros… obviously, you take no short cuts…
-- Al H. - small shop, small projects...
#14 posted 08-21-2009 04:08 PM
You are not bragging, you are inspiring!!
-- Lew- Time traveler. Purveyor of the Universe's finest custom rolling pins.
#15 posted 08-21-2009 05:13 PM
That is a great model. It nice to see for us non-seaworthy types what is the makeup of a boat.. I love. Post away, we accept bragging on this site.
-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Appomattox Virginia [email protected] †
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Tyler Wentworth Wentworth Dynasty Tyler 16"
2009 Fall Collection. Limited Edition 500. Dressed Doll. Original Tyler Sculpt. After ten years in the fashion industry, Tyler Wentworth® reflects back on the dynasty that has brought her where she is. She makes plans to catch up with Regina wearing a stretch velvet suit with elegant trim and sparkling rhinestone buttons. Floral mesh tights, faux leather high-heeled shoes, matching headband, and rhinestones stud earrings also included. Sugg. Retail: $175
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Avishai Cohen arrived at the studio happy with his trumpet under his arm. A couple of hours before, he had forgotten his faithful companion in the train that was leading him from Huesca to Barcelona. Luckily, it was only a shock that ended in an anecdote to Avishai who could delight us with his virtuosity, together with his trio Triveni. This Israeli musician and composer, already an eminent jazz player, wrapped us in a dreamlike atmosphere with the track "Dark nights, darker days", from his latest LP "Dark nights".
Avishai Cohen, who shares his name with the homonymous bass player, brought to The Furious Sessions his contemporary jazz that he keeps enriching with multiple influences. A real pleasure for refined ears.
Texto: Valentina Mercuri
Production_The Furious Sessions
Direction_RiD Produccions
Cameramen_Miquel Rodriguez, Javier Dominguez, Bernat Rueda and Tiziano Caffi
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For those of you in Portland, SweetPersimmon will be showing handbags at the Art Over Macleay Park, Saturday and Sunday, December 5th and 6th.
Handbags at Art Over Macleay Park
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I bought a handbag from you a few years ago at the Portland Buddist Obon. I love my purse! However, on one side, one of the rivets that hold the handle to the purse has come loose, and I can see that it was not securely fastened to enough of the handbag leather. Anyway, I would like to get it fixed please. Also, i'd be interested to see your other handbags. How do I contact you?
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Babies are thought to not be delivered by storks, but sometimes an envelope is the right place for a baby. Here's a design that will wrap a newborn up in warmth. The design is simple and it doubles as a play mat.
One of the best things about these envelope blankets is that they are very simple to make. Newborns will stay warm in a creative piece of work that their own parent has made, and it's a great conversation starter as well; just don't be surprised if you see your friend's newborn wrapped up in one of them sometime down the road!
Another wonderful benefit from making this blanket yourself is just how inexpensive it is to make. It's far cheaper than buying a similar blanket at the store or purchasing online but if you were interested in getting a personalized blanket, consider a photo blanket. But I digress.
On top of all that, you get to show just how creative you really are! Your friends will be very impressed that you were able to make this blanket by yourself. The secret is that it's very simple and quick to make, but they don't have to know that…let them think it took you a long time to make it!
However, please note that it is not recommended for use in the car as it could be dangerous to use something like this in a car seat. The best course of action would probably be not to try to use one in a car seat until/unless they get some kind of approval and are deemed safe for that.
But for non-car situations, there is a variety of variations on the baby blanket. Some are round, some are star-shaped. You can also be as creative as you want to be while making it. You can add all sorts of doo dads, ribbons and decorations if you feel like it. However, your baby's safety should be of the utmost importance, and if you feel that he'll be in danger of ingesting any part of the design it's probably best not to include them.
Overall, you really can't go wrong with this DIY envelope blanket. Your baby will be able to comfortable nap anytime of the day, and you can watch them sleep with your baby monitor, aka your third eye. You could find new and more suitable monitors here, if yours doesn't meet your standards. You'll not only be the envy of your friends, but your baby will be securely wrapped up in this inexpensive, quick to make, and adorable blanket. You can Google "how to make the DIY envelope blanket" or click on the links below for instructions. Enjoy making it!
Here's some images and links to free patterns for them:
FREE PDF Pattern. 0-4 months & PDF Pattern 4-6 months
For more photos/information, and The Patterns, visit This Webpage


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Vernal pool
On Tuesday April 20, 2010, Sarah Bankert and Dan Overton offered a hike to one of the vernal pools in the woods beyond the end of Cherry Street, near Holyoke Community College. I was delighted to join them and the group from the Boys and Girls Club. See also photos of a 2009 hike to the same pool.Read More


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Using Wireless to Enhance Safety and Save Lives on Lakes
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — When preparing to head out onto the local lakes this summer, you might be forgetting on safety tool that could save your life. A wireless phone!
Along with life jackets, flares and two-way radios, Verizon Wireless says that boaters should keep in mind the importance of wireless phones.
Each year thousands of Carolina's wireless phone users take to area lakes and Verizon Wireless' safety awareness campaign, "Water Safety With Wireless," is intended to remind lake-goers that wireless phones are just as important as other safety items. To kick off the campaign, Verizon Wireless has arranged for a special event to take place June 22, at the First Union Plaza uptown, from 11 to 1 p.m. During the event, Verizon Wireless will donate more than 30 pre-programmed 9-1-1 phones to lake lifeguards and local marinas that rent boats to the public. Marinas at Lake Norman and Lake Wylie and lifeguards from the Lake Norman YMCA, who patrol the lakefront daily, will receive the wireless phones. A rental boat from Lake Norman Marina will be on display at the plaza. Representatives from Verizon Wireless and local lifeguards will also be on hand to answer questions about water safety.
"Water Safety With Wireless" also encourages boaters and others enjoying Carolina's lakes to use wireless phones to increase safety for themselves and fellow lake-goers by reporting unsafe boating and other lake emergencies to local law enforcement. Calls made on wireless phones to 9-1-1 are free no matter what your location.
"Sadly, each year on Carolina's lakes there are a number of boating accidents and other life-threatening emergencies," said Jerry Fountain, president of Verizon Wireless' Carolinas region. "There was recent tragic reminder that accidents do happen on lakes as a local man died after he had a heart attack while fishing. Verizon Wireless wants its local communities to know that wireless phones can save lives."
In conjunction with the phone donations, the campaign also features a boat windshield sticker (sample on pg. 1) distributed to lake-goers during boat inspections, lake patrols and other lake-related activities with the help of organizations concerned with water safety, including the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department; sheriffs departments in York, Catawba, Iredell and Lincoln counties; Lake Norman and Lake Wylie Marine Commissions; Lake Norman Power Squadron; and local marinas.
Some tips from Verizon Wireless' "Water Safety With Wireless" campaign:
- Always carry a wireless phone to report suspected drunken, speeding or erratic boaters on the lake, call for emergency medical attention, and summon help for mechanical problems.
- Check and charge your battery regularly. Remember that you can use your onboard cigarette lighter adapter to power your phone.
- When calling 9-1-1, be prepared to describe your location to the operator using buoy markers or other landmarks.
- Provide the 9-1-1 operator with your wireless phone number in case more information is needed.
- As with all calls, when dialing 9-1-1 remember to press the SEND button for the call to go through.
About Verizon Wireless: Verizon Wireless is the largest wireless communications provider in the U.S. with more than 18 million wireless voice and data customers and nearly 4 million paging customers. The new coast-to-coast wireless provider was formed by the combination of the U.S. wireless businesses of Bell Atlantic Corp (NYSE:BEL) and Vodafone AirTouch Plc (LSE:VOD; NYSE:VOD). The new company includes the assets of Bell Atlantic Mobile, AirTouch Cellular, PrimeCo Personal Communications and AirTouch Paging. Verizon Wireless will be further strengthened by the addition of the wireless assets of GTE Corp. (NYSE:GTE) when it completes its merger with Bell Atlantic. When the merger is complete, the new company will have a footprint covering nearly 90 percent of the U.S. population, 49 of the top 50 and 96 of the top 100 U.S. markets. Verizon Wireless, headquartered in New York City and Bedminster, NJ, is 30,000 employees strong. Reporters and editors can find more information about the company in its Media Center on the Web at: www.verizonwireless.com/mediacenter.####


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Second Seed Martinelli Survives in Long Three-Setter; 12-Year-Old Gauff Advances to Round of 32 at Girls 18s Clay Court Championships
©Colette Lewis 2016--
Memphis, TN--
Last year's 16s Clay Court champion had all she could handle in Tuesday's third round of the USTA 18s Clay Courts, but No. 2 seed Samantha Martinelli kept her cool in the oppressive Memphis heat to post a 6-4, 6-7(4), 7-5 win over Sophia Patel.
Martinelli had a match point in the second set, and saw two more match points get away in the third set, with the 17-year-old from Las Vegas finally putting away the stubborn Patel on her third attempt to serve out the match.
The first set, which was interrupted in the fifth game for over an hour due to lightning in the area, featured only one hold of serve by either player, with Martinelli getting that in the third game.
After getting broken in second set to fall behind 2-1, Martinelli won four straight games and served for the match at 5-3, earning a match point at 40-30. Her backhand went long on that point, but a let called, caused by a ball from another court, had broken her concentration.
"I hit what I thought was a winner, but they called a let as I hit it," said Martinelli, whose match had a chair umpire, as all matches at the Racquet Club do. "That got to me mentally a little bit; that was tough to bounce back from."
Patel won four straight games to serve for the set, but was broken, giving Martinelli another chance to end it in straight sets. Patel played an excellent tiebreaker, however, going up 6-1, and converting on her fourth set point.
After the mandatory 10-minute break, Martinelli broke Patel to start the third set and was serving at 4-1 and 5-2. In her second attempt to serve out the match, and her first in third set, Martinelli didn't earn a match point, with Patel hitting a perfect drop shot at 30-40 for the break.
Martinelli's second and third match points came in the next game, with Patel going down 15-40 on her serve. Although Patel played impressive defense on both points, Martinelli ended up making forehand errors on both match points and Patel held for 5-4.
Martinelli started her third attempt to serve out the match with two double faults, but recovered with two forehand winners for 30-30. She missed a forehand long to give Patel a break point, and a crazy net cord on a desperate defensive lob by Patel dribbled over to make it 5-5.
"She definitely didn't let the pressure get to her," said Martinelli. "She played like it was any other score. That's fun to play against, but at the same time, a little frustrating."
Unfortunately for Patel, the same problem of holding serve presented itself in the next game, and after coming back from 0-40 to 30-40, Patel could only watch as Martinelli's forehand winner gave her a fourth opportunity to serve out the match.
This time Martinelli got first serves in and blasted her forehand for three straight winners, setting up match point No. 4. Another great forehand forced an error from Patel and Martinelli had survived.
"I like to pride myself on not changing my game tactics the closer the match gets," Martinelli said. "I want to play as aggressive as I was, I don't want to revert to pushing or anything like that. I just went for my shots in the last game and it worked at the end, at the last minute."
Martinelli admitted that although she trains in Las Vegas, the brand of heat she's encountered this week in Memphis, where the temperature peaked at 100 in the mid-afternoon, has been draining.
"I'm not used to this kind of humidity and heat, being from Denver," said Martinelli. "I was in Virginia Beach last year, and I don't remember it being like this. This place is crazy."
Martinelli was the only Top 4 seed taken to three sets, with No. 1 seed Janice Shin defeating Sasha Cayward 6-1, 6-3 and No. 4 seed Ann Li beating Hada Chang by the same score. No. 3 seed Meible Chi lost the first three games, two of them on her serve, to Emily Zhou, but Chi began to find her range midway through the first set to post a 7-5, 6-0 victory.
Two No. 5 seeds were eliminated in Tuesday's third round. Alyvia Jones was beaten by Nina Sorkin 6-0, 6-2 and 12-year-old Cori (Coco) Gauff defeated Cameron Corse by the same score.
Gauff, who finished third at the Southern Closed 18s last month, knows she's in a unique position now.
"It's fun playing up, because there's no pressure," said Gauff, who trains at ProWorld Tennis Academy in Delray Beach. "I try to take the advantage. I also get to meet other girls who are going to college or wanting to go pro."
Against Corse, Gauff lost only six points in the first set, with Corse struggling with double faults throughout the match.
"She was having trouble with her serve, which I was surprised about," said Gauff, who will not be able to play ITF junior events until next March, when she turns 13. "When I watched her match yesterday, her serve seemed pretty good, she had a nice kick serve and when she made it in, it was tough to get it back because it would bounce so high. She was a good player, but I don't think today was one of her best days."
Gauff said she has been growing, with her current height 5-feet-6-and-half inches, and has been fortunate not to be suffering any issues from that.
"I got taller, so I'm not the shortest anymore," Gauff said. "Most people have pain in the knees, but I haven't any pain. The footwork, it's been tough to adjust, but my coaches at ProWorld have been helping me and it's gotten a lot better."
One No. 9 seed, McCartney Kessler, lost today, with Mimi Levine recording a 6-4, 7-6(3) victory. Levine is one of four unseeded players remaining in that eighth of the draw, with Sorkin, Alycia Parks and Nicole Conard the others.
There were no doubles matches played today, with the round of 16 scheduled for Wednesday evening.
For all results, see the TennisLink site.


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Our comfortable 3 double bedroom townhouse sits less than 6.5km from the centre of Sydney (10 minute car ride) in the midst of Little Italy and the wonderful cafes and restaurants the area provides.
Our home is in a fantastic location with easy access to public transport to get all over Sydney.
The "Bay Run/Walk" is a short 15 minute stroll from the front door. Wikipedia describes "The Bay Run is particularly popular with joggers, walkers, roller skaters and cyclists who enjoy the pleasant waterside scenery whilst participating in exercise. It is 7 kilometres long and passes through 7 suburbs providing excellent views of Iron Cove for its entire course as it constantly hugs the shoreline."
The new light rail line is 50 metres from the front door and provides incredibly convenient and comfortable transport to the Fish Markets, Darling Harbour, the Star Casino, Chinatown, Central Station and the edge of the CBD. There are buses located a short 5-10 minute walk that will take you to the CBD, Eastern Suburbs beaches and the harbourside eclectic suburb of Balmain.
2 small local shopping centres (10 & 15 min stroll away) provide all your needs in regard to 3 supermarkets, fresh food markets, specialty stores and food courts while there are a myriad of local specialty food providores (award winning fresh pasta, bakery, patisseries, deli, cheese specialists, chocolaterie) along with some of Sydney's best cafes and restaurants catering to all food tastes.
This is the best place to base yourself to explore the sights, sounds and tastes Sydney has to offer.
Our home is two storeys - upstairs has 3 double bedrooms (all with builtin robes) and the bathroom has a separate bath and shower, toilet and basin. The ground floor contains a separate lounge and dining room, kitchen, laundry (washer & dryer) with second toilet and a study with desktop computer. The fully stocked kitchen has a dishwasher, electric oven & stove and a microwave. We love to cook with the wonderful fresh ingredients available locally so there's plenty of crockery, cutlery and serving dishes if that's your thing too.
The private courtyard has a new BBQ and comfortable seating for 6 guests around a table - or squeeze 12 in as we have done before. Outdoor cantilever umbrella available for those extra sunny days. Take a trip to the fish markets in the morning, buy your fill of wonderful seafood, meats and fresh fruit & vegetables and then come home and cook up a BBQ feast in the courtyard whilst sipping on some beautiful Australian wines available from 4 local bottle shops. After your BBQ feast - take a stroll up to Norton Street to any number of specialty Gelato shops and indulge in something special.
There's WiFi throughout the house, Apple TV available on the flat screen, blu ray DVD player and iPhone/Pod music dock. The complex has 12 townhouses and the neighbours are quiet and friendly.
Across the road is a beautiful park that has an off-leash dog walking area that takes you down to the harbour foreshore.
There's a local cinema on Norton Street (15 min walk) showing the latest in main stream and art house movies, film festivals and classic movies.
Parking is easy out front if you have a hire car.
With unparalleled views of Sydney harbour and neighbours the Opera House and Botanic gardens, walking is the preferred mode of transport. This grown ups only...
Our Lower North Shore home is ideally and centrally located with easy access to city, beaches and all that Sydney has to offer.
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Greetings Good Gentles of the West Kingdom! We invite you to come join the merry folk of the Southern Shores as we celebrate all the wonderful things that the SCA has to offer in the Greater Bay Area! We welcome all our new Fighters, both Heavy and Rapier, to prove their might & enter the 1st year, 2nd year & Open Tournaments! Prizes will be announced via the website for both Fighters & their consorts! Classes of various interests to newcomers & seasoned citizens will be provided, as well as some hands-on classes and activities to delight one & all!! Please refer to our SoShores website (http://www.southern-shores.net) for extended details.
Autocrat: Catherine Holcombe of Arden
Site Information:
Cupertino Memorial Park / Quinlan Community Center (10185 N. Stelling Road, Cupertino CA 95014)
Start Time:
Site opens at 10:00 a.m. Site close: 5:00 p.m. (sundown)
Site Fee:
$5 per adult; under 16 yrs free
Take your best route to Highway 280 & DeAnza Boulevard. Exit south to Stevens Creek Boulevard & go east to Stelling Road. Turn left. Park will be down the street a little ways on your left. Parking will be on the street around the grassy area (where the event will be), NOT in the paved parking lot next to the Comm. Ctr Bldg.


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Random Access Memory (RAM) is a kind of laptop information storage and it stands as somewhat buffer between your CPU and Challenging Drive. The TRA's presence in GITEX's latest edition aims to spread the innovation culture in the IT sector, utilize all technological capabilities to increase people's every day life, as nicely as communicate with all segments of society and motivate them to adopt a wise life-style, he explained. In contrast to reading books and long magazine articles (which call for pondering), we can swallow limitless quantities of news flashes, which are bright-coloured candies for the mind. No matter whether national networks will overtake tiny neighborhood startups or neighborhood app networks will mix news with a assortment of other local data, the terrain here remains in flux.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Friday ordered unlisted PACL to refund the funds inside 3 months, after ruling that the company's investment schemes had not been registered with the capital markets regulator. As of current reports the 2015 earthquake is of 7.9 magnitude with far more than 1500 individuals dead in India and Nepal. The stories are inspiring and for establishing India it is crucial to have such entrepreneurs who started from scratch.
The point is you will not succeed in this sort of organization if you will just pray that a funds will come down from heaven with out moving your feet and hands. Twitter has been swiftly adopted in newsrooms as an essential mechanism to distribute breaking news rapidly and concisely, or as a tool to solicit story tips, sources and facts (Farhi, 2009 Posetti, 2009). You can also read other entertainment news in this newspaper such as khmer boxing, sports and stars in Cambodia.
This approach means journalists adopt an interpretive standpoint regarding the utility of a tweet around a news occasion or subject, generating a selection as to what to exclude or include. At present there are 26 Coffee Bean franchise outlets in India, and the California primarily based caféteria franchise is hunting forward to open 15 more Coffee Bean franchise outlets throughout India within 2013.
Effectively, this year, 2016, my husband is not on Hughesnet & it really is just me. I have gone more than my every day allowance twice, but I have not watched motion pictures or played games either. During the news system, the tease does not cease there, since what is recognized as 'bumpers' and 'teases' are employed to hold one watching via use of 'promises of exclusive stories' and 'tape', 'good looking anchors', 'helicopters', 'team coverage', 'hidden cameras' and better journalism.


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Political organizer Fernando Romero told a reporter with the Las Vegas Sun Times that if immigration reform isn't tackled soon, Hispanics may strike out on their own.
The Las Vegas Sun Times has this story on rumors about formation of a "Tequila Party," which would be a kind of Democrat cousin to the Tea Party movement.
Here is an excerpt:
Latino leaders in Nevada and nationwide are quietly debating whether to sever their traditional Democratic ties and form an independent grass-roots political group.
The idea, born of frustration over the party's inaction on immigration reform and fears that as a voting bloc they're a political afterthought, Latino leaders have discussed the idea among themselves locally and in conference calls with colleagues across the country.
The unlikely model for the movement they would like to launch is the Tea Party — not in substance, of course, but in its grass-roots organizational style. Acknowledging the source of their inspiration, Latino leaders have dubbed the proposed movement the "Tequila Party."
These Hispanic leaders have noticed that while the Tea Party has had spotty electoral success, it has called attention to its concerns and values and put the establishment on notice.
"I don't know if it's going to happen, but there's talk," said Fernando Romero, president of the nonpartisan Hispanics in Politics, Nevada's oldest Hispanic political group. "There's discussion about empowerment of the Latino vote."
The story goes on to say that "Congress' actions over the next month could decide the fate of the burgeoning Tequila Party."
If comprehensive immigration reform is shelved again, some Hispanics will likely decide to strike out on their own.
"It would definitely induce us," Romero said. "We would have to do something at that point to get ready for 2012."
Romero was part of a Latino coalition that opposed a controversial ad campaign that encouraged Hispanics not to vote in the November election.


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Monday April 29-Day 10
This morning we slept in a little longer as the ship was cruising nicely up the Danube. Around 1.00 pm, the Idun entered a set of locks at Gabcikovo where there is also a hydro power generating station. The locks here are some of the deepest on the Danube with a lifting capacity of about 60 feet. We were able to watch the whole process from the sun-deck of the ship.
Lunch followed as Don, Lynore, Cynthia and I were joined by Bob and Hazel, a lovely couple from Ontario. They were both well into their eighties. She was hard of hearing too, and had me pegged for a"Marcus" so I went with it. However, she didn't believe me when I told her my middle name was Aurelius!
At 2pm, the Idun came to rest at its moorings near the centre of the city of Bratislava. I think this is one of the features I like most about the river cruise…we can often get off and within a 10 minute walk, we are in the centre of the city.
The city tour rolled around at 2.30, but I was on my own today as Cynthia decided to rest after a disturbed night and Don and Lynore were on a different trip. The tour took us to see the castle, destroyed by fire in 1811 and rebuilt in the 1950s.
We were dropped at the edge of the old town and our guide Bea walked us through. It was reminiscent of Prague with its cobble stoned streets and pastel coloured buildings.
I enjoyed the tour but was glad to be set free to walk back. I wandered around the square for a while looking at buildings, vendors' stalls and even sat for a while people watching. The trams were interesting too, as many of them were brightly painted in mural form.
In spite of the breeze, the 25C temperature encouraged me to head back to the boat around 4.30. Cynthia was still snoozing when I reached the room, so hopefully she will feel a little better this evening.
Dinner came and went very nicely. Don and Lynore told us of their visit to a local home where the owner brewed his wine and gave them tastes. They bought some to try too and generally had a fine visit.
At 9 pm, on board came a Slovakian folk group. In total they were two violinists, a double bassist, a young man on the dulcimer, a female singer and two dancers. They played and danced local or national folk tunes and we clapped along with them. They were wonderful musicians and their energy was inspiring.
The vessel set off for Vienna at 11pm. If all goes well, we should dock at 6 am. It's time for me to get my beauty sleep now, so goodnight and God bless.


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I didn't want to lose those priceless markings but since I painted the bookshelf I needed to repaint the rest of the trim in the room ("needed to" is relative I understand). I picked up a pre-cut 1" x 5" x 6' board from Home Depot and then sanded, conditioned, stained and poly'ed it. Then I printed out the numbers on paper, cut them out and traced them on the board.
I went over the tracings with a black Sharpie.
I placed it on the side of the renovated bookshelves because I liked how it picked up the color of the french doors.
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I have realized my shoes collection has mostly only black high heels or any form of high heels. Which means, I have too few of flat shoes and that is too enjoying because it is hard to walk longer distance in heels.
Also, I have been to lazy to buy new flats. The reason is very simple, why should I buy new shoes when I will not be in Sweden for so much longer then a year more. It is crazy how fast the time moves on. Therefore, I do not want to spend money on new clothes, bags or shoes, because they will last for a period and I m going to face huge problems next May.
Instead of buying, I asked my mom if she has any par of shoes for me. Lucky me she had. Blue and colorful shoes. On top of that, they are so extremely comfortable to walk in and you do not really feel you wear any shoes. Well, this shoes will mostly only last this summer, because of the material but on the other hand, they are perfect summer shoes.
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Groundbreaking Political Documentary Series Goes Behind The Scenes In Washington And On The Campaign Trail As Newly Empowered House Democrats And 2020 Hopefuls Take On President Trump
LOS ANGELES – January 4, 2019 – THE CIRCUS returns for its highly-anticipated fourth season on Sunday, January 27 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on SHOWTIME, as Democrats take control of the House of Representatives and 2020 hopefuls begin to plot their presidential bids.
Hosted by John Heilemann, Mark McKinnon, and Alex Wagner, THE CIRCUS will venture behind the scenes in Washington and beyond, exploring the shifting power dynamics on Capitol Hill as Democrats take control of the House of Representatives, along with covering the escalating drama around President Donald Trump's White House as it grapples with mounting legal entanglements and continued scrutiny from Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
With the 2020 presidential race already taking shape, the series will also follow the burgeoning field of Trump challengers as they make their initial forays on the campaign trail.
After covering the historic midterm elections and the convulsive Brett Kavanaugh confirmation to the Supreme Court, THE CIRCUS completed its third season with an hour-long finale Sunday, November 11. John Heilemann, Mark McKinnon, Alex Wagner, Banks Tarver, Ken Druckerman, Ted Bourne, and Tom Johnson serve as executive producers.
John Heilemann has covered politics, business and their intersection for 25 years in the U.S. and abroad. He is currently National Affairs Analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, where he appears regularly on Morning Joe, The Last Word, The 11th Hour, Deadline: White House and other shows. During the 2016 election cycle, he served as co-managing editor of Bloomberg Politics and co-host of With All Due Respect on MSNBC and Bloomberg TV. Previously, he was national affairs editor at New York Magazine and a staff writer for The New Yorker, Wired and The Economist. Heilemann is a co-author of The New York Times No. 1 bestsellers Game Change and Double Down: Game Change 2012. The first Game Change book was adapted into a movie of the same name, which went on to win five Emmy(R) Awards, three Golden Globes(R) and a Peabody Award.
Mark McKinnon is a political advisor, reform advocate, media columnist and television producer. He was the chief media adviser to five successful presidential primary and general election campaigns and is cofounder of No Labels, an organization dedicated to bipartisanship, civil dialogue and political problem solving. McKinnon has worked for many causes, companies and candidates, including former President George W. Bush, Senator John McCain, late Governor Ann Richards and Bono.
Alex Wagner is currently a national correspondent at CBS News, a contributing editor at The Atlantic and co-host of their weekly news and affairs podcast, Radio Atlantic. In April, she released her first book, Futureface, which examines questions about American identity and immigration in the 21st century. Previously, Wagner hosted the Emmy(R) nominated MSNBC political affairs program NOW with Alex Wagner. Before joining MSNBC, Wagner was a reporter with the Huffington Post, where she covered innovation in the American economy, investigating the intersection of business, politics and new technology. Prior to this, she served as the White House correspondent for Politics Daily and the Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning FADER magazine.


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The food was bright and fresh; no grease. But the scene didn't suggest home-cooked, slow-food purism. Fresh vegetables sometimes arrive already chopped. Produce isn't necessarily local. High-quality chicken shows up already baked and cut. A whiteboard reminded managers of the week's big number: the target MPLH, or meals per labor hour, measured to a tenth of a meal. Quesadillas with Spanish rice, burritos, spaghetti with little meatballs, turkey sandwiches nothing looked all that complicated. But turning out 30,000 fresh meals at school-cafeteria prices, with exacting nutrition standards, can be nothing less than a science.
The National School Lunch Program has been around since 1946. The idea, initially, was to make sure kids got the calories they needed to focus on schoolwork and grow up healthy enough to serve in the military. (Schools also offered an outlet for USDA surplus.) But what exactly kids should eat that's where it got tricky. The law mandated that schools serve a mix of proteins, grains, fruits, vegetables and dairy, but with so many loopholes and perverse incentives, it never really required wholesome food, and after waves of budget cuts, many schools couldn't afford it.
Big food manufacturers offered an easy solution: cheap, frozen kid favorites fast food, essentially, but USDA-approved that schools could simply warm and serve. Over time, cafeterias adapted to the food supply. Today, few are equipped for cooking from scratch.
Lots of school districts are working to develop better lunches. The bigger ones have it easier. They can concentrate higher-paid, higher-skilled staff in a central, professional kitchen and get by at most schools with cheaper heat-and-serve operations. "I assumed that central kitchens and satellite systems were inherently inferior to food cooked on-site," writes Janet Poppendieck, a leading scholar on hunger, in a new book about school lunches, Free for All. "Central kitchens, as it turns out, are far more likely to make their own sauces, stews, baked goods and salad dressings, and thus to control the use of preservatives, coloring agents, sodium and other unwelcome components." They also have enough purchasing power to get healthy-food suppliers to address their needs. When New York City schools couldn't get their yogurt supplier, Dannon, to sell them yogurt without high-fructose corn syrup, they found a local dairy company that would.
Revolution Foods was co-founded in 2006 by Kristin Groos Richmond and Kirsten Tobey, a pair of 20-something friends just out of business school, as a kind of central kitchen for hire. (It was a novel enough idea that they earned an invitation to the White House earlier this month to meet with the First Lady's staff and the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation.) Revolution Foods would buy all natural ingredients and prepare meals fresh every morning, then seal them and ship them across the region just in time for lunch. And if the company grew big fast, it could help encourage healthy-food suppliers to develop and package their products with schools in mind, as fast-food suppliers do. "Smaller districts with less clout are looking to the larger districts to improve product quality and open up distribution channels," says Kathy Lawrence, program director of School Food FOCUS, a nonprofit initiative that aims to aggregate the buying power of 29 large districts.
Revolution Foods hired Klein, a former operations director at Teach for America who had switched careers and gone to culinary school. That first year, she worked out of a tiny kitchen. Richmond and Tobey's friends would show up at 4:30 a.m. and volunteer on the line before heading off to work.
The company, which has grown to 260 employees, has learned a lot since then. Klein stopped to inspect a big plastic bin of black beans with fresh lime, corn, garlic and chopped onions. They tasted great, but she wasn't happy. "How did you chop the cilantro?" she asked a cook. If it's wet or chopped for too long, it will coat the beans and turn everything a murky green. "Kids eat with their eyes," she said. And green is dangerous; get it wrong, and they won't eat it.


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Be Aphrodite for Valentines Day
Having trouble deciding what to give your sweetheart this Valentine's Day? Ultra-hot and deliciously naughty, consider gifting your man with a boudoir album this year. Boudoir is infinitely better than a cheesy card or box of chocolates, because he can return to those pictures again and again. Not only do you feel like a goddess for a day, but your boyfriend or husband will appreciate such a truly special gift.
How to Boudoir
You might be pondering about the experience and checking out social media sites or photographers like Chantal Benoit Photography in Ottawa for details on a boudoir shoot. You might be worried that putting on lingerie and standing in front of a camera is too revealing. Or you might not feel comfortable in your own skin.
Trust me, after a one-on-one conversation with a professional photographer and sip of wine, you will be ready. The photoshoot is not just for him, after all. Every shot taken, and every hour spent editing and compiling the perfect photo album is in your honor. So when you ask about how to do boudoir, we simply say, just let your beautiful self shine through.
A professional photographer will know how to erase the parts you are not comfortable with, such as wrinkles or cellulite (which is beautiful—never think otherwise) so all you and your husband see is the Aphrodite dwelling within. Also, if you are worried about the price, there are options available to accommodate every budget.
Will You Boudoir My Valentine?
There are a number of reasons boudoir for Valentine's Day will blow your special someone's mind—in a good way! Here are some ways you can get creative with your boudoir photography shoot to deliver an epic gift this year:
- Wear lingerie that he had picked out for you before;
- Wear his favorite colors or color scheme;
- Highlight the engagement ring or another piece of jewelry you received from him;
- Dress in one of his button down shirt;
- Highlight the parts of you that drive him crazy;
- If he is artistic, get creative with shadows and colors. Talk to your photographer about various settings and lighting options;
- Pose with his favorite guitar or instrument;
- Get silly. For example, if your man loves your baking skills, take a pic with you biting into (or pretending to) a cookie or cupcake;
- Add the spirit of the holiday by using props, like Valentine's Day colors, cherub wings, and roses;
- Get various sized photographs for his wallet; make a photobook; or ask your photographer to build a 12-month calendar for you. Options about how to display the photos are endless.
Remember, being you is the main part of boudoir. Except you are dressed a bit more sexily than normal. Having fun and be proud of the gift you have put together is what matters.
Professional boudoir photographers like those of Chantal Benoit Photography are happy to give you some advice, set up a meeting, and map out exactly how to craft an awesome Valentine's Day gift.


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From "Iron Man" to "The Avengers" – A guide to Marvel's post-credits scenes
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You have to hand it to the Marvel Studios team. They know how to keep an audience in the seats right through the credits.
What started as a bonus scene in "Iron Man" has now become the norm for Marvel movies, with each film in the series offering up a brief, extra scene long after the main narrative ends and the credits begin rolling. And what's more, the extra scenes haven't simply been outtakes or scenes recovered from the cutting room floor — in nearly every case, they've provided the connecting line from one Marvel movie to another, and advanced the over-arching narrative of Marvel's cinematic universe.
So, just in case you might've missed one of these along the way — or simply want a refresher on what each of them entailed — I've put together a brief guide to Marvel's post-credits scenes in each of the six Marvel movies.
Iron Man
Marvel used its very first post-credits scene to introduce the world to Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, who Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) finds waiting for him in his home after he tells the world, "I am Iron Man." In a wonderful bit of foreshadowing, the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. tells the billionaire superhero, "Mr. Stark, you've become part of a bigger universe. You just don't know it yet." The scene closes with Fury dropping the tease heard 'round the world: "I'm here to talk to you about The Avengers Initiative."
The Incredible Hulk
The final scene in this film tied the activities of the famous green behemoth into the greater Marvel cinematic universe, with Tony Stark approaching a drunk, defeated General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross (William Hurt) after his efforts to take down Bruce Banner's rampaging alter ego end in failure. "I hate to say I told you so, but that super-soldier program was put on ice for a reason," Stark tells Ross, a statement that also connects Stark and Ross to the program that originally gave the world Captain America. "What if I told you we were putting a team together?" Stark asks Ross, offering up yet another hint of the crossover to come.
Iron Man 2
This time around, it's S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) who serves as ambassador of the post-credits crossover, with the agent arriving at the site of a massive crater in New Mexico. "Sir, we found it," he announces into his phone — most likely to Nick Fury. The camera then pans out to reveal Thor's mighty hammer Mjolnir resting in the center of the crater.
Nick Fury returns to the post-credit Marvel movie-verse at the end of "Thor," introducing scientist Erik Selvig (Stellan Skarsgard) to what we'll later learn is the Tesseract, a mysterious cube of immense power that features prominently in "Captain America: The First Avenger." Loki's appearance at the end of the scene foreshadows his return in "The Avengers" and the role the Tesseract will play in that film as well. This scene also serves as the most direct link to the narrative of "The Avengers," which picks up during Selvig's subsequent study of the Tesseract.
Captain America: The First Avenger
In addition to the final scene in the main arc of "Captain America" that features Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) waking up in the modern era, the film's post-credits scene teased the character's introduction to The Avengers. "Trying to get me back in the world?" Rogers asks Fury when the S.H.I.E.L.D. director approaches him after a particularly intense workout. "Trying to save it," responds Fury.
The Avengers
Marvel didn't cut the post-credits party short after "The Avengers," though, and dropped not one but two scenes into the credits of the blockbuster team-up film. In the first scene, it's revealed that Loki's return and his alliance with the Chitauri invaders was actually orchestrated by a far greater villain: Thanos. As the powerful titan is told that threatening Earth is to "court death," he smiles — confirming that Marvel's plans for the superhero team could very well bring them into conflict with one of the universe's most dangerous beings.
The second post-credits scene in "The Avengers" was significantly lighter, and played on Tony Stark's earlier line about wanting to try some shawarma. The scene is silent, save for the sounds of the entire team chowing down on shawarama around a large table.
What was your favorite post-credits scene from the Marvel movies? Chime in below or on Facebook or Twitter.


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Eric S. Goldstein, Latonia C. Williams
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Human rights organisation Amnesty International has welcomed the decision by the Cameroonian authorities to release Anglophone leaders, but urged them to also release others detained on spurious charges.
Amnesty International's deputy regional director for West and Central Africa Samira Daoud said in a statement that the other detainees including journalists should not be forgotten.
"We should not forget that the Cameroonian authorities are detaining many other individuals on spurious charges related to national security … They should be released immediately and unconditionally," she said.
Among the detainees she mentioned included Fomusoh Ivo Feh and his two friends who were jailed for 10 years for sharing a private joke about Boko Haram by text message; and Radio France International's Hausa service journalist Ahmed Abba who was jailed 10 years on terrorism charges.
We should not forget that the Cameroonian authorities are detaining many other individuals on spurious charges related to national security ... They should be released immediately and unconditionally.
She also mentioned Aboubakar Siddiki, leader of the political party Mouvement patriotique du salut camerounais and Abdoulaye Harissou who have been held in detention for more than three years without trial.
President Paul Biya ordered the release and dropping of all charges against arrested leaders of the Anglophone South West and North West regions.Lawyer Felix Nkongho, Dr Neba Fontem, and Ayah Paul Abine among others were facing charges at the Yaounde Military Tribunal.
They were arrested six months ago and accused of inciting violence during the protests in the regions.
They pleaded not guilty to the charges which included complicity in hostility against the homeland, secession, civil war, and campaigning for federalism.
Late last year, series of protests were held against marginalisation in the Anglophone regions.
Anglophone teachers, lawyers and students were beaten and intimidated by the security forces during peaceful protests against the imposition of the French language on their schools and courts.
Anglophone journalists also condemned a government order banning all radio and television discussions on the political situation in the region.
President Biya subsequently signed a decree establishing the National Commission of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism to solve the matter.
Rights groups have raised concerns about increasing repression under the 35-year-old rule of President Biya.


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June 27th to August 25th
First Ontario Performing Arts Centre
Call it fate, destiny, or whatever you will, Actor and Producer Emily Oriold was destined to work with esteemed Canadian playwright Norm Foster.
Growing up near Listowel, ON the Blyth Festival was a summer tradition of Oriold's. She was fresh out of high school when she saw Norm Foster's play The Melville Boys. Oriold was inspired by the experience. "I fell in love with it and felt it was the best play I had ever seen. I decided to become an actor and director," explains Oriold, who thought it would be a great idea to have a live theatre company for a living Canadian playwright. "I immediately designed a logo for the Foster Festival."
Oriold continued to build her portfolio as a professional actor in Toronto while working as Director of Marketing and Sales for a company specializing in Audience Development. Ten years quickly passed and Oriold still held onto the logo she had designed for her idea for the Norm Foster Festival. "I talked to a variety of people to find out what it takes to run a festival," explains Oriold. With a business plan in hand, Oriold contacted Foster. "He said, 'Let's meet,'" recalls Foster.
Oriold met her idol in September of 2014. "He was pleased with the idea for the Festival and recommended Patricia Vanstone for Artistic Director," says Oriold. "We met in Patricia's kitchen in November and Norm said he had fond memories of performing in the Niagara Region," says Oriold. "After reading the 2020 culture plan for the City of St. Catharines, from a marketing perspective it just made sense." Oriold completed the not-for-profit application and as she describes, "we hit the ground running and haven't looked back."
Oriold quickly established a partnership with the Marilyn I Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts and filled a space in their venue that will provide entertainment in the off season.
Foster's plays are heartfelt comedies that deal directly with life's ups and downs. "You may laugh one minute and shed a tear the next," says Oriold. You recognize the character on the stage either in yourself or someone else. His works are quite profound and relatable," explains Oriold.
"It is nice when people approach me and say 'Thank you, I needed to laugh today,'" says Oriold. "We want you to come and share the laughter with us."
"There are currently 11 actors in the company for the summer line up," says Oriold. "Norm writes two new world premieres a year exclusively for the festival and we produce a third play from his life's collection." The festival runs from June 27th to August 25th, 2018. Each of the three plays are on stage for a duration of three weeks for a total of 56 shows.
Fans are not the only ones who enjoy experiencing a new play from Foster. "What actors love about a new world premiere play is how they get to create the character. They are not walking in the shadow of the person who played the role before them," explains Oriold. "They are the original cast to perform it."
In the off season Oriold is busy with charity work and partnerships. "We run a youth drama club for the Kristen French Advocacy Centre where we work with 16 year-old girls who have experienced a traumatic event and help them heal through the arts," says Oriold. "The St. Catharines Rotary Club graciously donated funds for us to meet the needs and expand the program to work with girls aged 9-11." Oriold also works with the Niagara Children's Centre to provide children with disabilities an opportunity to participate in a six week dramatic program that ends with a presentation for family and friends.
In partnership with the Marilyn I Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, Oriold's sets are built by students gaining valuable experience in the field of set design and carpentry. "We wanted to give students an out of school experience and we are happy to give them their first experience in the field," explains Oriold, who was the recipient of the 2017 Women in Business Award for Excellence in Tourism and the 2017 Niagara 40 Under 40 Business Achievement Award.
While Oriold and Vanstone were working together on the Foster Festival the two realized that the very first play that Oriold saw so many years ago at the Blyth Festival was directed by Vanstone. It was just meant to be. For more information visit fosterfestival.com.


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February 2, 1996, Section B, Page 9Buy Reprints
There were strong indications out of Seattle yesterday that the Seahawks intend to fill the National Football League void in Los An'eles by playing their 1996 home schedule at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. Such a move would be the fifth actual or proposed relocation of an N.F.L. team in the last year and would send more shock waves through a league that is battling an image problem regarding franchise stability.
Last spring, both the Raiders and the Rams abandoned the Los Angeles area, the nation's No. 2 television market. The Raiders went back to Oakland, Calif., and the Rams moved to St. Louis, which lost the Cardinals to Phoenix in 1988. Cleveland has announced plans to move to Baltimore next season and Houston has announced that it will relocate to Nashville within two years.
Tampa Bay, Arizona and Cincinnati are threatening to relocate if they do not get new stadiums.
According to radio reports out of Seattle and an Associated Press report that cited team sources, the Seahawks will play the 1996 seas'n at the Rose Bowl, using it until a stadium can be built in Southern California. However, a woman who answered the telephones at the Rose Bowl executive offices and would identify herself only as Betty said they had no information or comment on the reports out of Seattle.
"The only information we have is what the media is reporting," she said. "This is the first we're hearing about any of this."
The Seahawks' owner, Ken Behring, a wealthy California developer, met with King County Executive Gary Locke yesterday afternoon in Seattle and the meeting centered on Behring's desire to shift his team to Los Angeles unless King County makes expensive renovations to the Kingdome, the Seahawks' indoor home since they entered the league as an expansion team in 1976.
Neither side had any comment following the three-hour meeting. The parties plan to meet again today.
If the Seahawks have indeed struck a deal with the Rose Bowl, they will have violated a resolution adopted by all the N.F.L. teams last year that called for any team wishing to move into the Los Angeles market to go through the league first. Seattle voted in favor of the resolution at an owners meeting last July.
Joe Browne, N.F.L. senior vice president of communications, said the Seahawks have not formally petitioned the league to relocate in Los Angeles. The N.F.L.'s Stadium Committee, which has been working on getting a new stadium built in Los Angeles, has identified four suitable sites for relocation in Southern California -- near Dodger Stadium, Hollywood Park, El Segundo and Orange County-Anaheim.
Behring has asked that King County do more than $90 million in renovapions to the Kingdome to make it able to withstand an earthquake that would measure 8 to 9 on the Richter scale. King County officials believe Behring's request is a pretext to get out of his lease, which runs until 2005. And they believe that any renovations to make the stadium seismically safe would require between $10 million and $30 million.
A nebulous clause in the Seahawks' lease calls for King County to provide the team with a "first-class facility" to play in. Many believe that the Seahawks will sue over that clause to get out of the final 10 years of the lease and move to Los Angeles.
In 1994, the Seahawks missed two preseason games and three regular- season games at the Kingdome while ceiling tiles inside the dome had to be replaced.
The city has already redesigned the Seattle Center Coliseum and renamed it the Key Arena for the SuperSonics, the National Basketball Association team, and has selected a firm to design a new baseball stadium for the Mariners. The Mariners' owners had threatened to sell the team if the city did not act to build a stadium.
Those moves might have made Behring feel left out in the cold, similar to the way the Browns' owner, Art Modell, described feeling when he watched the city of Cleveland build Gund Arena for the Cavaliers and Jacobs Field for the Indians.
Whether Seattle can afford to build two new stadiums is questionable.
The league will have another void on its hands if the Seahawks relocate to Los Angeles, for it would leave the N.F.L. without a presence in the Northwest.
Behring has not been a beloved figure in Seattle since he bought the team from the Nordstrom family in 1988. Many i' Seattle feel he has no ties to the community, since most of his business and philanthropic concerns are in California. He gained wealth and prominence by building Blackhawk, a 2,300-home planned community in the Mount Diablo Foothills of Northern California. And he established the W. E. Miller Transportation Research Library at Blackhawk and affiliated it with the University of California-Berkeley.
Behring fired Tom Flores as coach last year and hired Dennis Erickson, a native of Everett, Wash., to establish the team as a playoff contender. After a rocky start, Erickson, who had never been a head coach in the N.F.L., got the team on the right track and had it contending for its first playoff spot since 1988 late in the season.
But the Seahawks finished 8-8 and missed the playoffs, as did the Rams, the Raiders, the Browns and the Oilers.


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one out of every two presidential pardons granted over the last four decades have been granted in this month alone. President Obama - the slowest Democratic president in history to exercise the pardon power - has now gone a whopping 680 days without granting a single pardon or commutation of sentence.
Do we think the president will exercise clemency this month? Yes, we do. The only question in our minds is whether or not Mr. Obama will wait more than 19 days, and pass George W. Bush as the slowest president of all time!
Who will pull off the seemingly impossible act of receiving federal executive clemency from the Obama administration? We just don't know. We have confirmed with the Office of the Pardon Attorney (in the Department of Justice) that the following people have filed formal applications: Clarence Aaron, Jim Black, Duke Cunningham, Katie Hall, Jonathan Pollard and George Ryan. Here are some other individuals who have 1) expressed interest in clemency 2) been mentioned in media outlets as deserving clemency or 3) are being supported for clemency through assorted "campaigns":
- Clarence Aaron (drug dealing) application in
- ACORN (voter fraud)
- Weldon Angelos (marijuana)
- Jim Black (corruption) application in
- Randall "Duke" Cunningham (bribery, tax law violations) application in
- Edwin Edwards (racketerring) application rejected by Bush
- Katie Hall (mail fraud) application in
- Dan Hanks (quite the rap sheet!)
- Ron Isley (tax evasion)
- William Jefferson (bribery, corruption)
- Jack Johnson (violation of Mann Act) not looking good
- Marion Jones (steroids)
- John Walker Lindh (terrorism)
- Michael Milken (junk bond king)
- Leonard Peltier (double murder)
- Jonathan Pollard (spying) application in
- Tony Rezko (corruption) a "spokesman" has said it will not happen
- George Ryan (corruption) application in
- Michael G. Santos (cocaine distribution) application in
- Richard Scrushy (bribery)
- Don Siegelman (trading favors for contributions)
- Martha Stewart (conspiracy)
- Michael Vick (conspiracy to operate interstate dogfighting ring)
- Mark E. Whitacre (wire fraud, tax fraud, and money laundering)
See anyone missing? Let us know. Make your case! We might very well add them! Incidentally, we are not keeping score here. But, in the past, the following people appearing on our "Watch List" have received pardons or commutations: Ignacio Ramos, Jose Compean, Charlie Winters, John Forte, Lawrence Hutchins.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Obama: The Pardon "Watch List" Returns!
Posted by P.S. Ruckman, Jr.
Labels: G.W. Bush, Obama, watch list
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add Paul Free a sentence of Life Without Parole for a marijuana conviction
I hope to encourage him to put application in
- December 2, 2010 at 8:47 PM
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As an unseasoned and inexperienced field collector, the story here to unfold amazes me more than any other mineral collecting experience of my life. It's all about the booty I managed to uncover within the course of but an hour on August 6, 2009, by sifting through surface material at the Manhan Lead Mine Dumps near Loudville, Massachussets. Having forgotten my loupe and equipped with but with a small hammer, my odds of getting lucky were further restricted by having to collect on my knees in just a couple little spots thanks to a condition for which my right hip was totally replaced this past Tuesday. Furthermore, the entire space available for collecting covers no more than a few hundred square feet scattered with rocks tracing to a 17th Century operation. For decades, if not centuries, the gospel has emphasized how necessary it is for one to dig deep. As an aficionado of micro minerals, I beg to differ.
Photographed at about 30x, the image beneath our title is little more than a couple millimeters across the inside of a little quartz rock I split open with my hammer. The linarite, wulfenite, and pyromorphite should be obvious enough for all to observe. Look more closely or blow up the image further, and there's evidence of a light emerald green colored mineral and a hint of something the hue of turquoise. According to a 1983 article that was published in 1999 by the Triassic Valley Bulletin, I would speculate that the light green material is brochantite. "Anything the color of turquoise, I would guess is probably aurichalcite, although it's fun to stretch the old imagination a bit in the direction of caledonite or wroewolfeite, both of which the above referenced paper acknowledges to be present here. For that matter, Loudville is the type locality for wroewolfeite.
No farther-fetched would be my speculation that the image at left could be micro plumbogummite. The same article stated that this rare hydrous lead aluminum phosphate had been reported here in 1981. Its resemblance to a micro photograph by Peter Cristofono that appears on MINDAT of plumbogummite from Loudville is my frame of reference, albeit a long shot.
A more certain if less remarkable find yielded up by the dump surface were the white blocks of barite shown at right. Regarding a more confident identifcation, I'm once again indebted to Peter Cristofono for the photograph of Loudville barite he submitted to Mindat, which is shown at right.
I confess to reservations about tooting my horn over all this and am well aware that plenty of my speculation could be subject to question if not scoffed at. The rationale, instead, is to make a pitch on behalf of how much more fun the pursuit of microminerals can render the collecting game to be. For sure, I wouldn't dare to dream of coming up with a cabinet specimen at this spot beyond perhaps the likes of some mediocre massive galena and sphalerite or weathered pyromorphite. The pyromorphite was rather common, usually in the form of a dull light brownish green crust. Often it was associated with rocks with vuggy surfaces that I busted up and then placed the least boring looking chunks into my knapsack. I had little expectation that any of them would ultimately prove to be interesting.
What a wonderful surprise to get home and peer at just a few of these pieces under my scope. I collected about five pounds worth, of which thus far, I've checked out about a pound, so there's plenty left in my knapsack.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Manhan Lead Mine Dumps: A Myopic Perspective
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Includes your choice of 8 hors d'oeuvres, a selection of 6 cold and 1 hot appetizers, one entrée, one desert, late night sweet table and unlimited soft drinks and juices.
Hors D'Oeuvres
- Choice of eight Hors D'Oeuvres based on six pieces per person
- Special Artisan Bread Basket on Table
6 Cold Appetizer Salads on Each Table
Appetizer Salad Options:
- Fresh Gourmet Beet Salad
- Marinated Cucumber Salad
- Hummus & Tehina
- Relish Tray of Assorted Olives & Pickles
- Black Olive Tapenade
- Grilled Red Peppers and Zucchini
- Babaganoush
- Edamame and Corn Salad
- Fried Eggplant and Roasted Pepper Salad
- Eggplant Sliced Marinated with Garlic
- Marinated Mushrooms
- Spicy Carrot Salad
- Baby Spinach Salad with mandarins and sliced almonds
- Matboucha
- Quinoa Salad with Cranberry, Almonds, Sweet Potatoes in a Lemon Vinaigrette
- Mixed Bean Salad
- Avocado salad
- Herring (silodka)
- Smoked Salmon
- Classic Potato Salad (Oliviya)
- Tabouli Salad
- Classic Cole Slaw
- Waldorf Salad
1 Hot Appetizer on Each Table
Hot Appetizer Options:
- (Crepes) Blanches with meat
- (Crepes) Blanches with mushrooms
- Dill Potatoes
- Potatoes and mushroom roulade
- Stuffed vegetables
- Dollma
- Burakas (potato or spinach)
- Meat Filled Sambusa
- Baked basa filet or talapia with coriander, roasted peppers and tomatoes
Placed at the centre of each table
- Accompanied by basmati rice, potatoes, and seasonal vegetables
- Three Charcoal Grilled Shish Kebob Platters to include: salmon, beef and chicken
- Lamb can be added as an option and is based on market price.
*Choice of one*
- Classic Creme Brule & Apple Crumble Tart with Butterscotch Sauce
- Molten Chocolate Cake with Mulled Wine Poached Pear with Dark Chocolate Sauce
- Trio of Coconut Flan, Chocolate Macaroon and Chocolate Mousse
Late Night Sweet Table
- Fresh Seasonal Fruit
- Petite Fors
- Assorted Cake Pops
- Mini Desert Shooters
- Chocolate Fondue and Funnel Cake or Waffle Station
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1. All prices are subject to 13% HST
2. Prices do not reflect: venue rental, requirement of culinary staff to set up, serve and tear down, wait staff to set up, serve and tear down, rental of kosher kitchen equipment, rental of kosher dishes, cutlery, flatware, serving pieces, alcoholic and non alcoholic drinks, rabbinical supervision fees, landmark fee, and delivery.


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Naked yoga may seem like it would be a whole lot of awkward, but these photos prove that assumption wrong.
Nude Yoga Girl, whose website and Instagram conceal her true identity, is posting some truly stunning naked yoga photos. According to her website, the 25-year-old model and photographer does all her own work, from the lighting to the Photoshopping (editing all the "necessary" bits out).
Body Positivity Through Photos
What makes her channel even better, though, is that with each picture she posts, she has an inspiring message to go with it. It's great to see such awesome messages of body positivity and acceptance spread around.
Her blog, which covers everything from life stories, to tips on advanced yoga poses, is full of awesome advice and musings on beauty and how it functions in society.
So if you're looking for an extra bit of beauty in your day, or need a quick pick-me-up, check out Nude Yoga Girl's Instagram or website. We'll definitely give her a follow!
Do you love these photos as much as we do? Do they inspire you to get on your mat? Share your thoughts with us below!


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2018 Presentation Day Ceremonies
Thursday 6 December - Cameron Centre
Junior School 9:00 am - until approx. 10:30am
Senior School 11:30 am - until approx. 1:00pm
Senior School 11:30 am - until approx. 1:00pm
Parents are encouraged to join their children at the Presentation Day Ceremonies where we celebrate and recognise the achievements of the academic year.
The last formal school day will be Wednesday 5 December.
There are no school buses on Presentation Day, students need to make arrangements for transport.
Full summer dress uniform is required for all students.


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The Sharks Academy Southern KZN is the first satellite "Sharks Academy" to open in one of the five sub unions that constitute the Kwa Zulu Natal Rugby Union. (KZNRU) Situated at Douglas Mitchell Sports ground in Uvongo, this Academy's mission is to develop the game of rugby in the Southern Kwa Zulu Natal region by providing young men an equal opportunity to further their careers in rugby and to further their academic studies. The Academy is a registered NPO and forms part of the Southern Kwa Zulu Natal Rugby Sub Union. (SKZNRU) an affiliate of the KZNRU.
This Academy has the full backing of the KZNRU and The Sharks (Pty) ltd. It is our intention to ensure that the development of rugby will be entrenched in the rural areas and in doing so, will, of course, improve the standard of rugby in our Province and in particular, will augment the development of previously disadvantaged communities. The Academy will be an institution where young boys can achieve their life goals with a combination of the development of their Rugby abilities and the furthering of their academic education.
The Academy will be aggressively collaborating with local schools within our region to identify rugby playing school leavers at the end of their matric year. Students from other provinces will also be considered.. A structured program envisages "early identification" of rugby talent, and the development thereof through a high –performance program which enhances the conversion rate of players from amateur into the professional rugby arena. In addition, this program is under-pinned by a well balanced academic programme which strives to ensure that all players are equipped with suitable educational and life skills. Our partners have also recognised the development imperative of black rugby players within our province and identified the Academy as the ideal platform to accelerate our region's contribution towards the Sharks and South African rugby in general..
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"BlackKklansman" is going to hit about 50% of the country in that sweet spot. The rest it's going to leave cold. Why is that? Have we become so politicized as a nation that a real-life tale of heroism against organized crime can get recolored by modern life? Honestly, I think the montage at the end of the film makes the case for it. How much of that is Spike Lee auteur flair and how much of that is barely hidden agenda?
"Chi-Raq" is finally getting the praise that it deserves almost 3 years of its release. While I'm a big fan of better late than never, it's also telling. Modern life becoming radicalized changes tastes in everything from the Arts to cuisine to fashion. That's not to say that there wasn't strife in the Obama era or prior. But, Trump's America thrives on strive. You are either resisting, supporting MAGA or trying to stay isolated from the sweeping sea of change smacking at your feet.
Spike Lee doesn't give a damn about your desire to stay removed from the struggle. If one American suffers, then they all suffer from a wicked machinery that a certain part of the populace won't let die. Officer Ron Stallworth is a charming person and has spoken at length about his time infiltrating the KKK and working as the first African American cop in Colorado Springs. But, outside of the KKK…it was never considered that big of a story until now.
Why is that? Officers like Stallworth opened new venues for policing and beginning to establish community standards of trust. That being said, he's still a cop. When his lady friend Patrice rejects him, it's not because he lied about what he does. Carl Stallworth has become part of the authority that breeds things like the KKK, local rednecks and the ever-pressing boot on the back of so many Americans. Stallworth is a good person and he's making progress within an antiquated system. But, he still wears the uniform of the problem.
This point is highlight best in John David Washington and Adam Driver's arguments over infiltrating the KKK. They are both marginalized people, but they also want to hide behind the freedom that the uniform gives them. However, Driver still passes as a Christian white male to anyone that sees him. When he does get outed in the movie, it's only because a former perp IDs him and fails to make the connection to David Duke.
In that way, we look back on John David Washington as being one of the most tragic figures in a Spike Lee movie. He is an educated black man that gets the best of the Grand Wizard of the KKK. However, he's still going to be a lower-tier African American officer in a predominantly white area of Colorado. Any advancement he makes will compared to what is made by Adam Driver's Flip Zimmerman. By the way, what a bizarre cosmic happening with that last name.
If anything, the film's final 10 minutes highlights the frustration of being the lone minority voice attempting to police the worst of white society. No matter how many good ol' boys you bust or watch burn themselves alive, someone bigger always escapes. David Duke is still alive and endorsing Trump. Trump is also using many of the old methodology in a way to reach a nation of Good Ol' Boys hiding in out-of-the-way areas and many police departments across the country.
Hell, I can't wait for a Stallworth commentary on the film. I want to know what he thinks of what Spike Lee did here. "BlackKklansman" is a Gary Cooper western where Cooper gets told that he did a good job for shooting Lee Marvin in a supporting role. Then, the bad guys get to keep doing what they're doing with the support of his town. In the best sense, Spike Lee has a made a Western for our times. There are no happy endings, just an acknowledgment that one lone lawman isn't enough to fix a system that is rotten to its core.
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- Focus Features
- Content Score - 97%97%
The Plot Thus Far
From visionary filmmaker Spike Lee comes the incredible true story of an American hero. It's the early 1970s, and Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) is the first African-American detective to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Determined to make a name for himself, Stallworth bravely sets out on a dangerous mission: infiltrate and expose the Ku Klux Klan. The young detective soon recruits a more seasoned colleague, Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver), into the undercover investigation of a lifetime. Together, they team up to take down the extremist hate group as the organization aims to sanitize its violent rhetoric to appeal to the mainstream. Produced by the team behind the Academy-Award® winning Get Out.


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Seattle Times Article Linked Here
Sep. 23, 2019 at 6:00 am Updated Sep. 23, 2019 at 8:33 am
"Our homeless students were not making gains academically," said Gail LaVassar, director of community and school partnerships in South Whidbey. "So we needed more academic support that was flexible, that could be responsive to what individual students need."
Since 2017, graduation rates for homeless students in South Whidbey schools have risen from 60% to 100% this year. That's about double the statewide average graduation rate of just 55% for homeless students.


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Sunday, May 1, 2016
Stamp of the Month Blog Hop: Celebrate with Cake
Michelle's blog, you a hopping right along. When you have finished your stop here, you will be heading over to Brenda's blog.
For this artwork display, I created two cards. The first is paper pieced. I stamp on several different patterned papers from the Kaleidoscope paper packet, cut the pieces and then layered them together for a yummy spring cake.
This second card is not "cake" related but I loved the simplicity of the banner and roses for a card.
You can purchase this stamp set only during the month of May. Contact your consultant for details or if you do not have a CTMH consultant, you can order from my website here.
Now don't forget to move on to Brenda's Blog to see her artwork using this stamp set.
And don't forget to celebrate with cake!
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Great cards. I especially like the cake card with printed papers.ReplyDelete
I really adore your paper pieced cake card. Lots of work but it came out so cute!ReplyDelete
Those are cute and sweet cards! I love them!ReplyDelete
Love your choice of colors-- makes the paper piecing beautiful!ReplyDelete
Very fun, I esp like the paper pieced layer cake card, so cute!ReplyDelete
That patterned paper card is adorable!ReplyDelete
Your paper pieced cake is perfect! Love them.ReplyDelete
Love the paper pieced cake from patterned paper. Great job.ReplyDelete
Your paper pieced card is just lovely! It's amazing how that little rose accent really makes a nice embellishment. I like the second card also.ReplyDelete
:) Marie
Your paper pieced card is just lovely! It's amazing how that little rose accent really makes a nice embellishment. I like the second card also.ReplyDelete
:) Marie
Beautiful cards! I love how you used the pattern paper to make your cake layers.ReplyDelete