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In the Mouth of Madness
A prompt by @hugodoingthings to explore the spook-dense crypts of Roko's Basilisk (which, inexplicably, has never latched before) led straight to this enthralling RationalWiki account. The whole article is gripping, but the following short paragraphs stand out for their extraordinary dramatic intensity:
Roko's basilisk is notable for being completely banned from discussion on LessWrong, where any mention of it is deleted. Eliezer Yudkowsky, founder of LessWrong, considers the basilisk to not work, but will not explain why because he does not consider open discussion of the notion of acausal trade with possible superintelligences to be provably safe.
Silly over-extrapolations of local memes, jargon and concepts are posted to LessWrong quite a lot; almost all are just downvoted and ignored. But for this one, Yudkowsky reacted to it hugely, then doubled-down on his reaction. Thanks to the Streisand effect, discussion of the basilisk and the details of the affair soon spread outside of LessWrong. Indeed, it's now discussed outside LessWrong frequently, almost anywhere that LessWrong is discussed at all. The entire affair constitutes a worked example of spectacular failure at community management and at controlling purportedly dangerous information.
Some people familiar with the LessWrong memeplex have suffered serious psychological distress after contemplating basilisk-like ideas — even when they're fairly sure intellectually that it's a silly problem. The notion is taken sufficiently seriously by some LessWrong posters that they try to work out how to erase evidence of themselves so a future AI can't reconstruct a copy of them to torture.
"… You mean, retrochronic AI infiltration is actually driving people out of their minds, right now?" Oh yes. At Less Wrong, commentator 'rev' cries out for help:
Are there any mechanisms on this site for dealing with mental health issues triggered by posts/topics (specifically, the forbidden Roko post)? I would really appreciate any interested posters getting in touch by PM for a talk. I don't really know who to turn to. …
Wandering through the psych ward, past rows of neurologically-shattered Turing Cops, broken deep in their minds by something unspeakable that came at them out of the near future … I'm totally hooked. Alrenous has been remarkably successful at weaning me off this statistical ontology junk, but one hit of concentrated EDT and it all rolls back in, like the tide of fate.
Nightmares become precision engineered machine-parts. Thus are we led a little deeper in, along the path of shadows …
ADDED: (Yudkowsky) "… potential information hazards shouldn't be posted without being wrapped up in warning envelopes that require a deliberate action to look through. Likewise, they shouldn't be referred-to if the reference is likely to cause some innocently curious bystander to look up the material without having seen any proper warning labels. Basically, the same obvious precautions you'd use if Lovecraft's Necronomicon was online and could be found using simple Google keywords – you wouldn't post anything which would cause anyone to enter those Google keywords, unless they'd been warned about the potential consequences."
ADDED: The Forbidden Lore (preserved screenshot)
FILED UNDER :Contagion , Horror , Templexity
TAGGED WITH :Cybernetics , Horror , Insanity , Intelligence , Monsters , Technology , Time-travel


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Corrie Time – October 17, 2008
Previously on Corrie
The Stag and Hen parties were going full bore. The ladies got a stripper named Zorro. The lads were off to see some strippers. Maria was going to tell Liam that she was pregnant. And she got to listen to Petula Clark in the cab on the way downtown.
So it looks like everyone was going to be happy after all.
Cheese and Crackers! Liam just got hit by a speeding car! It would all seem so random and tragic if Tony hadn't leaned in very closely to Liam as he breathed his last:
"Son. Husband. Lover…Roadkill."
And thus, Liam Connor is gone.
We pick up right after as Tom is frantically waiting for the ambulance. Tom thinks there's still a chance but Tony tells him to stop pretending. Just then Maria arrives and sees her husband lying on the ground. Jason gives her the news as Tony tells her he sorry. Maria, understandably, loses it. She leans down to tell him that she came to tell him that they were having a baby.
The ambulance arrives and Liam is seen to by the paramedics. Kirk consoles his sister as Tony looks devastated by the news of the baby.
Steve calls Michelle to tell them there's been an accident and she and Carla rush to the scene, only to be told that everything was done to revive Liam. He's gone. Carla and Michelle also lose it. The paramedic assures Steve that it would have happened quickly and Liam wouldn't have suffered much.
In the saddest scene, Maria places Liam's hand on her belly to tell him that he was going to be a father.
The men come back to the Rovers to give the news and by now, everyone has pretty much sobered up. It's Steve who gets the task of telling Ryan that his uncle Liam has died. Ryan can't believe it as they had plans to go to Newcastle to see Manchester City play Newcastle United. He was excited because it would be his first time seeing St. James' Park. (They tied.)
At the hospital, Tom is voicing suspicion that the car never slowed down, as though it was deliberate. Tony tells him that it was just an accident.
Back at Carla's, Tony tells her that he never realised how much she loved Liam. He's quite masterful here, and in the whole episode, really. The evil side is content that he got what he wanted but the human side is just beginning to fill with self-loathing. When Carla goes to bed, Tony sneaks out and walks to the canal and under a bride, where he pulls out the wallet that Liam had gone to retrieve when he met his end. Tony had it on him the whole time which proves, of course, it was all planned.
In Other News
Tina and David barged in on Darryl and Amber's night of passion which would have been cut short anyway by the return of Dev. Her maidenhead remains intact for another night.
Tyrone is really good at selling "Hugo Ross" clothes. Auntie Pam reckons it's on account of his honest face with nary a hint of guile.
And just so you know, CBC trimmed the scene but, in the original broadcast, when Michelle and Maria arrived home, they were driven by John Stape, who, again, begged off as he had to feed his late gran's cat. Fizz noticed some large scratches on his face, which John blamed on the cat.
That's some cat, I tells ya.

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Flinders University researchers are preparing to test a new version of open source wireless mesh project Serval that could pave the way for encrypted, carrier-free communications for defence and disaster relief organisations.
The Serval app uses wireless mesh network technology to turns any Android smartphone into a node, capable of sending, repeating and receiving signals to others in the mesh network.
It has been used by the New Zealand Red Cross in trial exercises in the past year and will undergo a second round of field trials next month to test encryption and range advances.
Flinders University project leader Dr Paul Gardner-Stephen told this week's linux.conf.au conference that the app could allow users to make military grade encrypted voice, calls, SMS and share files for free without the need of phone towers or satellite providers.
"Our Mesh network will enable Government or military staff stationed overseas to communicate and transfer sensitive data securely and without the need of local phone tower infrastructure," he told iTnews.
Dr Gardner-Stephen said Serval would pursue government and the defence use cases where personnel on the ground could not risk using the local infrastructure for particularly sensitive voice and data exchanges.
Red Cross field trials of new, encrypted features were due to take place in remote parts of New Zealand where local carriers did not typically provide phone service.
The app uses a purpose-built Rhizone protocol to enable 256-bit AES cryptographic encryption on all communications.
For the trials, Red Cross ground teams will perform day-to-day tasks including collecting sensitive onsite field report data, real time map tracking of all personnel for safety management, sending logistics requests and pushing app updates to handsets all via the mesh.
Serval has received more than $US1 million dollars in funding since the project's inception including $400,000 from open source pioneer Mark Shuttleworth.
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St. Raymond School is inviting the community to its annual Pumpkin Festival held this year on Friday, October 11 from 3:30 to 7:00 pm and on Saturday, October 12 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. There will be pony rides, a climbing wall, bungee trampoline, face painting, bounce houses, and refreshments. The School is located at 1100 Santa Cruz Avenue in Menlo Park.
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31 October 2009
Daily Chat 31/10/09
Born today: Johannes/Jan Vermeer (1632-1675), John Keats (1795-1821), Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975), Dale Evans (1912-2001), Jimmy Savile (1926), Kinky Friedman (1944), Michael Kitchen (1948), Larry Mullen, Jr. (1961), Johnny Marr (1963) and Marco van Basten (1964).
It is Halloween, Samhain or (if you're Cornish) Calan Gwaf.
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30 October 2009
Daily Chat 30/10/09
Born today: John Adams (1735-1826), Richard Sheridan (1751-1816), Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), Alfred Sisley (1839-1899), Ezra Pound (1885-1972), Anna Wing (1919), Louis Malle (1932-1995), Grace Slick (1939), Henry Winkler (1945), Diego Maradona (1960) and Gavin Rossdale (1967).
It is the feast day of St. Serapion of Antioch.
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29 October 2009
Daily Chat 29/10/09
Born today: Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002), Bob Ross (1942-1995), Denny Laine (1944), Richard Dreyfuss (1947), Dan Castellaneta (1957), Rufus Sewell (1967) and Edwin van der Sar (1970).
It is Republic Day in Turkey.
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28 October 2009
Daily Chat 28/10/09
Born today: Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883), Elsa Lanchester (1902-1986), Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), Cleo Laine (1927), Joan Plowright (1929), David Dimbleby (1938), the Anti-Chri, er, Bill Gates (1955), Mahmoud Ahmedinejad (1956) and Julia Roberts (1967).
It is Oxi Day in Greece.
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27 October 2009
Daily Chat 27/10/09
Born today: Erasmus (1466-1536), James Cook (1728-1779), Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840), Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Oliver Tambo (1917-1993), Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), John Cleese (1939), Lula daSilva (1945), Roberto Benigni (1952), Peter Firth (1953), Glenn Hoddle (1957), Simon leBon (1958), Scott Weiland (1967), Kelly Osborne (1984) and my nephew Eric (1988).
It is Independence Day in Turkmenistan.
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26 October 2009
Daily Chat 26/10/09
Born today: Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972), François Mitterand (1916-1996), Bob Hoskins (1942) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947).
It is Labour Day in New Zealand.
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25 October 2009
Daily Chat 25/10/09
Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Battle of Balaclava in 1854. The Red Guard took the Winter Palace in 1914. The Zinoviev Letter was published in the Daily Mail in 1924. The US invaded Grenada in 1983.
Born today: Georges Bizet (1838-1875), Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Nancy Cartwright (1957).
It is Republic Day in Kazakhstan.
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24 October 2009
Daily Chat 24/10/09
Born today: Denise Levertov (1923-1997), Bill Wyman (1936), Kevin Kline (1947) and Wayne Rooney (1985).
It is United Nations Day.
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23 October 2009
Daily Chat 23/10/09
Born today: Ted Fujita (1920-1998), Johnny Carson (1925-2005), Diana Dors (1931-1984), Pélé (1940), Kim Larsen (1945), Ang Lee (1954) and Cat Deeley (1976).
It is Mole Day in North America. A unit of measure, apparently. Not a burrowing mammal. Not an excess of melanin. Not even a Mexican sauce. It's more than my unscientific brain can explain.
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22 October 2009
Daily Chat 22/10/09
Born today: Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Doris Lessing (1919), Bobby Seale (1936), Derek Jacobi (1938), Catherine Deneuve (1943), Arsène Wenger (1949) and Jeff Goldblum (1952).
The Syriac Orthodox Church will be observing the feast of Aaron the Illustrious today.
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21 October 2009
Daily Chat 21/10/09
Born today: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993), Ursula LeGuin (1929), Geoff Boycott (1940), Peter Mandelson (1953), Carrie Fisher (1956), Julian Cope (1957) and Paul Ince (1967).
While Britain is celebrating nice, healthy Apple Day, we here in North America will be observing the International Day of the Nacho. Ours is tastier.
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20 October 2009
Daily Chat 20/10/09
Born today: Christopher Wren (1632-1723), Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), Bela Lugosi (1882-1956), Jelly Roll Morton (1890-1941), Jomo Kenyatta (1891-1978), Empress Michiko(1934), Tom Petty (1950), Viggo Mortensen (1958), Danii Minogue (1971) and Snoop Dogg (1971). Fo shizzle.
Bahá'is are celebrating the Birth of the Báb today.
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19 October 2009
Daily Chat 19/10/09
Born today: John leCarré (1931), Michael Gambon (1940), Peter Tosh (1944-1987), Sam Allardyce (1954) and Amy Carter (1967).
It is Constitution Day in Niue.
Today's image has squat to do with any of today's events. It is a view of the rue Vavin in Paris from a window of the Pension Ladagnous. I'm a bit freaked out to have found this shot, because it looks like it might be taken from the window of the very same room that I stayed in when I lived there in 1980. This photo was taken in 2005.
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18 October 2009
Daily Chat 18/10/09
Born today: Lotte Lenya (1898-1981), Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000), Melina Mercouri (1920-1994), Chuck Berry (1926), Klaus Kinski (1926-1991), Peter Boyle (1935-2006), Martina Navratilova (1956), Jean-Claude van Damme (1960) and Wynton Marsalis (1961).
Those of you living your life by the French Republican calendar know that today is Septidi, 27 Vendémaire, CCXVIII.
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17 October 2009
Daily Chat 17/10/09
Cyrus the Great released the Jews from their exile in Babylon in 539 BC. Charles II sold Dunkirk to France for £40,000 in 1662. In 1814, a vat at the Meux and Company Brewery in Tottenham Court Road ruptured, causing other vats to rupture and spilling 323,000 gallons of beer into the streets of London.
Born today: Rita Hayworth (1918-1987) and David St. Hubbins, er Michael McKean (1947).
It is Diwali.
Born today: Rita Hayworth (1918-1987) and David St. Hubbins, er Michael McKean (1947).
It is Diwali.
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16 October 2009
Daily Chat 16/10/09
Crap! I forgot to do this and I seriously need to be getting to bed. Marie Antoinette's body became separated from her head in 1793 and I'm sure some other stuff worth telling you about probably happened. Oscar Wilde was born and maybe some other really fascinating people. And it's World Food Day. 'night folks!
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15 October 2009
Daily Chat 15/10/09
Not entirely intentional French theme to today's events: Napoleon began his exile on St. Helena in 1815. Alfred Dreyfus was arrested on charges of spying in 1894. Mata Hari was executed at Vincennes in 1917. Pierre Laval was executed in 1945 and the Great Storm of 1987 slammed France and England with winds up to 100 knots and air pressure equivalent to a Category 3 hurricane, leaving 22 dead.
Born today: Virgil (70-19 BC), Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841), Friederich Nietsche (1844-1900), P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975), Mario Puzo (1920-1999), Italo Calvino (1923-1985), Penny Marshall (1942) and David Trimble (1944).
It's Global Handwashing Day, so wash those filthy mitts.
Born today: Virgil (70-19 BC), Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841), Friederich Nietsche (1844-1900), P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975), Mario Puzo (1920-1999), Italo Calvino (1923-1985), Penny Marshall (1942) and David Trimble (1944).
It's Global Handwashing Day, so wash those filthy mitts.
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14 October 2009
Daily Chat 14/10/09
Born today: William Penn (1644-1718), Eamon de Valera (1882-1975), e.e. cummings (1894-1962), Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), Roger Moore (1927), Cliff Richard (1940) and Steve Coogan (1965).
It is Teacher Day in Poland.
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13 October 2009
Daily Chat 13/10/09
Born today: Lillie Langtry (1853-1929), Yves Montand (1921-1991), The Wicked Witch of the North (1925), Nana Mouskouri (1934), Paul Simon (1941), Cruella deVil (1946), Sacha Baron Cohen (1971), Ian Thorpe (1982) and Gabriel Agbonlahor (1986).
In the Roman Catholic Church, it is the feast day of Edward the Confessor.
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12 October 2009
Daily Chat 12/10/09
Born today: Dmitri Donskoi (1350-1389), Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937), Ralph Vaughn Williams (1872-1958), Magnus Magnusson (1929-2007), Luciano Pavarotti (1935-2007), David Vanian (1956) and Hugh Jackman (1968).
It is National Day in Spain, Thanksgiving Day in Canada, Mothers Day in Malawi and Columbus Day in the United States.
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11 October 2009
Daily Chat 11/10/09
Born today: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), Elmore Leonard (1925), Thich Nhat Hanh (1926), Bobby Charlton (1937) and Dawn French (1957).
Here in the USA, we're observing National Coming Out Day.
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10 October 2009
Daily Chat 10/10/09
The forces of Charles Martel defeated the Moors in the Battle of Tours in 732. The Wuchang Uprising, which lead to the end of Imperial China took place in 1911. The Sudetenland was ceded to Nazi Germany by the Munich Agreement in 1938. The Windscale Fire happened in 1957 and London Bridge reopened in Lake Havasu, Arizona, in 1971.
Born today: Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Thelonius Monk (1717-1982), Harold Pinter (1930-2008), Charles Dance (1946), Midge Ure (1953), David Lee Roth (1955), Kirsty MacColl (1959-2000) and Martin Kemp (1961).
It is World Mental Health Day. Pretend to be sane.
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09 October 2009
Daily Chat 09/10/09
Born today: Camille Saint Saëns (1835-1921), Nikolai Bukharin (1888-1938), Alastair Sim (1900-1976), Jacques Tati (1907-1982), Brian Blessed (1937), John Lennon (1940-1980), John Entwistle (1944-2002), Jackson Browne (1948), Sharon Osborne (1952), David Cameron (1966), PJ Harvey (1969), Annika Sörenstam (1970) and Sean Lennon (1975).
It is Independence Day in Uganda and the Jewish holiday Shemin Atzeret begins at sundown.
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08 October 2009
Daily Chat 08/10/09
Born today: Juan Perón (1895-1974), Fred Stolle (1938), Jesse Jackson (1941), Johnny Ramone (1948-2004), Sigourney Weaver (1949), Ardal O'Hanlon (1965) and Matt Damon (1970).
It is Independence Day in Croatia.
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07 October 2009
Daily Chat 07/10/09
Born today: Niels Bohr (1885-1962), Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965), Desmond Tutu (1931), Vladimir Putin (1952), Jayne Torvil (1957), Simon Cowell (1959), Sherman Alexie (1966) and Thom Yorke (1968).
It is Composer Day in Brazil.
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06 October 2009
Daily Chat 06/10/09
Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the world's oldest surviving opera, debuted in Florence in 1600. Thirteen German families -- the first German immigrants to North America -- arrived in Pennsylvania in 1683. The Great Fire of Newcastle and Gateshead left 53 people dead in 1854. Thomas Alva Edison showed the first motion picture in 1889. The world's first major motion picture with sound, Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer, debuted in 1927. Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981.
Born today: Le Corbusier (1887-1965), Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002), Britt Ekland (1942), Elisabeth Shue (1963) and Ioan Gruffudd (1973).
It is Labour Day in Australia.
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05 October 2009
Daily Chat 05/10/09
Italy, Spain, Portugal and Poland didn't have a 5 October, 1582, due to adopting the Gregorian calendar. Christianity was disestablished in France in 1793. In 1877, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce gave up his 3 month struggle to lead his people to Canada to avoid having to settle on reservation lands being forced upon them by the US government. The Jarrow March set off for London in 1936. The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus was aired in 1969.
Born today: Denis Diderot (1713-1784), Robert Goddard (1882-1945), Donald Pleasence (1919-1995), Vacláv Havel (1936), Brian Connolly (1945-1997), Bob Geldof (1951), Clive Barker (1952), Mario Lemieux and Patrick Roy (1965), Kate Winslet (1975).
It is Republic Day in Portugal.
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04 October 2009
Daily Chat 04/10/09
Born today: Richard Cromwell (1626-1712), Jean-François Millet (1814-1875), Frederic Remington (1871-1909), Buster Keaton (1895-1966) and Ann Widdecombe (1947).
I don't normally include anniversaries of deaths, but Graham Chapman died twenty years ago today and I think that's worth a mention. The world isn't quite as funny as it could be.
It is World Animal Day, so be nice to an animal today.
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03 October 2009
Daily Chat 03/10/09
Born today: James Herriott (1916-1995), Gore Vidal (1925), Stevie Ray Vaughn (1954-1990) and Clive Owen (1964).
As luck would have it, today is German Unity Day. Happy German Unity Day, elementary watson!
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02 October 2009
Daily Chat 02/10/09
Born today: Richard III (1452-1485), Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948), Graham Greene (1904-1991), Richard Hell (1949), Sting (1951) and Phil Oakey (1955).
It is Independence Day in Guinea.
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01 October 2009
Daily Chat 01/10/09
Born today: Jimmy Carter (1924), Julie Andrews (1935) and Tim O'Brien (1946). If you've never heard of Tim O'Brien -- he is the author of one of my favourite books, The Things They Carried, about the Viet Nam War. It is brilliant.
It is Independence Day in Tuvalu, Nigeria and Cyprus.
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One specific scenario actually bothers me in secondary schooling for Limited English Proficiency (LEP) college students. In America, Asia or the European Community, there is an growing demand not only to show English as a second language, but additionally to make use of English to show other topics; this has been launched through the CLIL method of linguistic immersion in Bilingual Centers. The basic education lecturers and the ESL lecturers would work intently together to ensure their content and instruction align. Portions of this text have been published online in Goldenberg, Congress: Bilingualism Is Not a Handicap" (Education Week, July 14, 2015). With particular energy previously ten years bilingual training has worked at most basic faculties.
Since the law allowed parents to use for waivers, 12 percent of the ELLs were allowed to remain in bilingual lessons. If the ESL teacher was extra conscious of what was being taught within the mainstream classroom, she may higher align her instruction with the general schooling teachers' instruction and supply suggestions for methods to better serve the ELL students in the mainstream classroom.
The Texas senator prevailed in Wisconsin, as Bernie Sanders added to his string of recent victories over Hillary Clinton. Usually bilingual applications are English and Spanish, however there are also Vietnamese bilingual packages in Texas. We are working with faculties on bilingual education initiatives in countries reminiscent of Argentina, Bosnia, Croatia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Turkey. In today's context, a interval of demographic transformation in United States, bilingual schooling means something extra specific. Bilingual training policy and the empowerment of American Indian communities (1).
Studies, evaluations, and analysis opinions appeared that presented differing views of bilingual training's results on pupil achievement. Scattered evidence of improved achievement for ELLs could also be obtained from the Department of Education but no comprehensive research has but been produced by the state. Although such research would possibly effectively show how periodicals are inclined to project pictures of bilingual education to the general public, one should consider the many elements that constitute a newspaper article, and their varied types, so as to perceive the issues clearly. There are quite a few studies that document the effectiveness of bilingual training.
Over the past decade, nonetheless, dual language programs have grown tenfold, with an estimated 2,000 now operating, together with greater than 300 in the state of New York alone, in response to Jose Ruiz-Escalante, president of the National Association for Bilingual Education. Alaska: State legislation requires bilingual/bicultural schooling for its population of Aleut and American Indian students.


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Of all conceivable interpretations of Old Norse mythology, the overarching one that I find to be the most appealing is the idea that its characters were never meant to be gods in the first place, but were rather figures in an allegorical folklore where each of them represented their own human instinct, and all of them had to coexist somehow (as human instincts do). Loki would then have represented the impulsive, corrupt and sexually deviant nature in humans, a side that needs to be tied down and contained at all cost, lest it bring destruction upon the whole unity. That would also present a reasonable answer to the obvious question of why the other gods didn't kill Loki once they had captured him, instead of merely tying him up and leaving him in a cave. As comes out later, Loki was not indestructible, but it would seem as if he could only die when everyone else would perish with him – in Ragnarök, or, if we accept it as an allegory, when the whole organism that he was a part of was brought down as well. This folklore must then later have been forced upon people as a religion, with its symbolic characters being turned into deities that people were supposed to worship and show submission to.
As much as I like this proposition of the origins of Old Norse, I'm afraid there is no evidence to back it up, and so it remains nothing more than a charming idea. In my short story Loki's Story, which I posted on the website last month, a different kind of origin story is suggested. Although it is just as unfounded as the one mentioned above there are certain elements in that text that are derived from some more serious observations on the mythology, and I wanted to give acknowledgements of those here on the site. The main underlying research comes from work I did as a part of a course of Nordic legends at the University of Iceland in 2005. In my own paper I cited various sources and since they ended up influencing Loki's Story I figured I should refer to them here as well.
First of all, the discovery of the second part of the line in Völuspá: 'Festur mun slitna, en freki renna,' meaning 'fire will spread' instead of 'wolf will run' is truly my own, and I was surprised to find that no one else seemed to have picked up on it. As mentioned in the Author's Notes section of Loki's Story, the word 'freki' comes up as meaning 'fire' in the language of Jötunns in the poem Alvísmál, whereas the oldest recorded usage of 'freki' as meaning 'wolf' is merely from the nineteenth century (according to Orðabók Háskóla Íslands, the Dictionary of the University of Iceland) and that could easily be due to the meaning that the word was assigned in this interpretation of Völuspá.
It is well established that Loki's name refers to fire, but just for the sake of having a reference on that, Philip N. Anderson pointed out in his article Form and Content in Lokasenna: A Re-evaluation, that in the story of Lokasenna that association is made perfectly clear. The word 'freki' comes up in another instance in Völuspá, where it could possibly be referring to someone who is leading the Jötunns to war onboard the ship Naglfari. In that case it would certainly seem far-fetched to assume that it would be a wolf (despite all other peculiarities in the mythology) and more likely the word was put in there to establish that it was meant to refer to Loki. Also, the way names are replaced with other words that refer to a certain person or creature in the poem is mostly done for the sake of alliteration. 'Wolf will run' has been taken to be referring to the wolf Fenrir, but there is no reason why his name would be replaced with the word freki, as both words have the same initial.
The similarities between some parts of Old Norse and other mythologies, especially Greek, is another theme that was covered both in my research and then also found its way into Loki's Story. I should mention that the similarities between the story of Odin's journey to Hell to retrieve Baldur, and the Greek legend of Eurydice and Orpheus had been pointed out by Anna Birgitta Rooth in her book Loki in Scandinavian Mythology, from 1961.
Lastly, the scene with Loki's toast at the feast of Asgarden is inspired by the story of Lokasenna, where Loki ridicules his fellow gods with some home truths during their feast, and is eventually chased away by Þór. This story has been used as an example of how followers of Old Norse were able to joke about their gods, and that they did in fact not have the same kind of stuck-up relationship with their deities as many devout believers do today. So if any devout followers of Old Norse end up reading my story, just keep that in mind.


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From social networks to intranets, from directories to RSS aggregators – WordPress has you covered.
Between all of the free and paid themes and plugins, you can make your WordPress site pretty much anything you want it to be. In fact, thanks to all of these features, you can create just about any kind of site using a self-hosted WordPress site.
We've already taken a look a a few creative uses for WordPress Get Creative With WordPress - 5 Interactive Ways to Use the Platform There's quite a lot of ways you can use WordPress beyond simply using it as a blogging platform. We've already taken a look at a list of 5 things you might not have known you... Read More – including creating a help desk, a Wiki, a task manager, and a directory. We've come up with a few more interesting options that take all the hard work out of creating a site from scratch. While you're at it, be sure to check out some great responsive free WordPress themes Create a Stunningly Responsive Portfolio With One Of These Free WordPress Themes These days it's not enough to have a beautifully designed website, especially if you're a photographer, artist or graphic designer. These days if your site isn't responsive, chances are you're losing a significant part of... Read More that you might want to use with a few of the handy plugins listed below.
1. A Private or Public Social Network
While there's no shortage of public and private social networks online – from Twitter and Yammer to Facebook and Path – at the end of the day you're at the mercy of a third-party service. Using a self-hosted WordPress site, you can place the power directly in your hands by creating your own social network – public or private.
We've already given you an in-depth look at the WordPress theme P2 The Most Awesome WordPress Theme You Probably Don't Know About: P2 Even the most seasoned WordPress enthusiast can't have seen all of the free themes going around, so there's every likelihood the P2 theme passed you by too. But, the P2 WordPress theme is not like... Read More , which allows you to create a social network using nothing more than WordPress. With WordPress' robust privacy settings, you can ensure that your social network can be entirely private, viewed only by members of your family, friends or team. To see P2 in action, check out the demo site, and check out this handy list of P2 plugins that can supercharge the theme in a few simple clicks.
Using P2 puts a lot of the hard work in your hands – you can manage the privacy settings, user signups, and everything else from directly within the WordPress backend.
If you want to make life a little easier for yourself, you could always opt for the WordPress plugin WP Mingle. To see the plugin in action, you can check out WP Mingle's own network. The plugin automatically creates pages – signup, login, profile pages [No Longer Available], and more. Users can signup for an account, log in, post text updates to the activity feed, and interact with other users. With a series of free plugins, you can also add image sharing capability, allow users to make donations through the site, and more.
Admittedly, while these are both solid options, P2 is a far more appealing visually.
2. A Company Intranet
The team over at Treehouse have put together an in-depth guide on how to turn WordPress into a fully functioning intranet. A word of warning, though: it will require you digging into the theme editor and manually change a few of the labels. The guide requires you to change the label of standard WordPress 'Posts' to 'News,' organize your pages, and ensure that access to your Intranet is restricted either by IP address or login.
As usual, you'll find a plugin that will get the task done, so if you'd rather opt for a plugin to get an office intranet up and running, you should check out Simple Intranet, which comes in free and paid versions. Needless to say, the paid version comes with far more features.
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We don't see Google Drive going anywhere, but with Google deciding to shutter its RSS reader, you never know what might happen down the road. If you're feeling paranoid, why not save all of your data in a self-hosted WordPress alternative? Again, be sure to use WordPress' privacy settings so that no one else can see the content that you're saving. These options come with the caveat that they might not be as robust as what Google offers, but it's private and self-hosted. Which you prefer depends on what your priorities are.
You can use the basic WordPress posts as an alternative to the word processor that Google Drive offers. Google obviously offers far more than just a word processor, with users able to create slideshows and spreadsheets. A few plugins will provide the kind of capability you're looking for.
To create a spreadsheet, install the plugin Spreadsheet, and then you can create a post or page, and simply use the shortcode [[spreadsheet]] to install an editable spreadsheet in WordPress. This will install the default spreadsheet with 50 columns and 26 columns. You can also create custom spreadsheets by using more complex shortcodes which allow you to choose the width, height and colour scheme, more of which you can find out about here.
The catch: this doesn't provide you with some of the more advanced options Google Drive provides, like functions and charts.
4. An Online Business Card or Resume
There's quite a variety of themes out there that will allow you to turn your WordPress site into an online business card. If you're looking for a free option, check out zeeBizzCard or the Digital Business Card WordPress Theme. If you're willing to go the paid route, some themes worth checking out are the John Perez vCard WordPress Theme, Cascade, Biopic and Aurel Resume [No longer available].
5. A Directory
You can use WordPress to create all sorts of directories – whether it's a business directory, a membership directory, a real estate directory, or even a directory with reviews. One of the easiest ways you can do this is with the plugin Business Directory.
With the free version you can accept listing submissions (either free or paid), display locations, categories and more. Paid features include ratings, Google Maps integration and a Zip Code search. What's cool about the way that the plugin works is that you can pay for individual features (for about $50 a feature) or a bulk payment of $200 for a series of these 'modules.'
In addition to plugins, you can also use themes that enable you to create a directory entirely from the backend of WordPress. Themeforest is always a great place to go for solid and affordable WordPress themes, that look completely professional. There you'll find themes like ListingPress, a real estate directory theme, and Directory Portal, a general directory theme.
6. Your Lifestream
If you want to turn your entire WordPress site into a lifestream site there are ways to get this done. Check out James Bruce's in-depth guide on how to turn your WordPress site into a lifestream site of all of your blogs How To Turn Wordpress Into A Life Stream Of All Your Online Blogs For most of us, the amount of digital content we produce is staggering - Twitter, personal blogs, professional blogs - but bringing all of that in to one central place is a real challenge. Having... Read More . Using this guide you'll be able to plug in your social networks, blogs and just about anything else with an RSS feed into your one-stop-shop for all of your personal online content.
With this your friends and followers have one place to go to find out what you're up to on your various social networks, without having to signup or be active users on any of these sites at all. And as James points out: it's a great way to take advantage of a vanity domain name.
7. A Countdown Website
All it takes is a simple theme, either paid or free, to turn your WordPress site into a countdown website. Whether you're counting down the launch of a new website, product, or an event, a lot of these themes give you quite a lot of flexibility to determine what kind of content is featured on your one-page website.
Free themes worth checking out include WooThemes Placeholder, and the responsive theme Launchpad, the latter of which comes in free and premium versions. There are also a few slick premium themes that offer pretty cool features including WP Circular Countdown, LaunchTime, and Blend, the latter of which seamlessly transforms itself into a portfolio micro site.
8. RSS Aggregator/News River
Turning your WordPress site into an RSS aggregator is possible with a few easy steps. If you want to create clones of popular sites like Popurls, Alltop, or Techmeme, there are several ways to go about this. There are themes that you can install that require no plugins at all, or you might want to customize the appearance of your blog and opt to go the plugins route. Popular themes worth checking include the premium OneNews and Accumulo.
If you want to go the plugin route, check out MyCurator, a complex and feature-rich way of training your WordPress blog to curate content automatically for you.
Can you think of any other unique uses for WordPress? Let us know in the comments.
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God-given vision invites opposition.
That's just how it is. Don't shy away from it, and don't be scared of it. Embrace it. Life is a spiritual battle.
When God plants a vision in your heart of how He'll use you or what could be or some problem you know you would die to conquer, buckle up. Opposition will come from all directions. For Joseph, it came from within (his own brothers); for Nehemiah, it came from without (local enemies who tried to stop the work). Either way, know it will come. Don't live in paranoia, but live prepared for the battle.
Ephesians 6 lists our God-given weapons and armor for a reason: so we may stand against the wiles of the devil.
Never forget that stepping out in faith will invite Satanic backlash. But also remember, Satan is like a dog on a leash. He's like a lion, but he's not the lion. Jesus is the Lion of the Tribe of Judah. Satan is dangerous, but defeated.
If you should fear anything, fear living a problem-free life that invites no spiritual opposition because you are no threat to Satan's kingdom on earth.
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Dandelion Cottage is a delightful little book about four young girls who spend their summer playing in a rundown little house. It was published in 1904 and has some of the same flavor as the Betsy-Tacy books.
Each girl offers her unique contribution to the group. Bettie (12 years old) is the rector's daughter and the only girl in a family of ten. She's motherly and resourceful. Jean (14) is quiet and gentle. Parents consider her a good influence on their children but the author is quick to interject, It doesn't always follow that children like the persons it is considered best for them to like, but in Jean's case both parents and daughters agreed that Jean was not only safe but delightful. Marjory (13) is being raised by a maiden aunt and is polite and grown up for her age. Mabel (11), Dr. Bennett's daughter, is clumsy and loveable. Rankin describes her as, warm-hearted, generous, heedless, hot-tempered, and always blundering, she was something of a trial at home and abroad; yet no one could help loving her, for everybody realized that she would grow up some day into a really fine woman, and that all that was needed in the meantime was considerable patience. Rearing Mabel was not unlike the task of bringing up a St. Bernard puppy.
Within the first few pages you are drawn into the lives of this charming quartet. They have been brought up to be polite and kind, but they are not disgustingly sweet. They have been trained to value babies, hospitality, and homemaking, which may be a deterrent to modern readers (but that was what made the book such a winner for me.)
In addition to the good writing and interesting characters, the book is full of gentle humor: After Mabel makes up a taunt about an obnoxious neighbor she queries, Do you suppose the Milligans are going to get us arrested for just two apples and a little poetry? Later we read that, Mabel did her crying on the excellent principle that, if a thing were worth doing at all, it was worth doing well.
This would be a lovely read-aloud for young girls whose female role models are not from the Disney channel.
I look forward to reading more stories by this author. This title is free on Kindle, and there's an audioversion at Librivox.org.
Friday, October 25, 2013
Dandelion Cottage by Carroll Watson Rankin
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
11 Lessons that Women Can Learn from Jane Eyre
I'm an unabashed fanatic for all things having do to with Jane Eyre, so I enjoyed this article in the Huffington Post about lessons we can learn from her. I would have left out a couple of the more self-centered ones and would have added the one that influenced me most the first time I read it. Jane was willing to give up her chance at happiness because she wanted to be true to herself and to God. As a young girl I was astounded by her courage and her convictions and wanted to emulate them.
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Friday, October 18, 2013
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
The intro to The Tenant of Wildfell Hall said that if it hadn't been for the Brontë name attached to it, it would long ago have fallen into oblivion. I disagree with that assessment based on the fact that I've read many Victorian novels this year and this one is much better than most of them.
The year is 1827 and Gilbert Markham falls in love with Helen Graham, a beautiful, mysterious widow who moves to the neighborhood. But there exists a huge impediment to their happiness and the characters must decide if they will pursue their own desires or submit to God's will.
I enjoyed this book very much. Unlike the annoying heroes and heroines in Margaret Oliphant's novels, the main characters in this book learn and grow from their mistakes. The writing is good.( I loved savoring the words "diffidence, salubrious" and "termagant.") The antagonist in the story is thoroughly despicable, making the book hard to put down. Brontë gives much food for thought on the subjects of love and marriage. And the outcome is satisfying.
BUT, I didn't love this book. Although I admired Helen for her faith and her sense of duty, she is never as endearing as a Jane Eyre or a Lizzie Bennett. Literarily speaking, she was "weighed and found wanting." Still, after so many duds, I was glad to read a Victorian novel that was a cut above. Tenant is often touted as a feminist novel because Helen is outspoken and unsubmissive, but I disagree based on her behavior toward Arthur Huntingdon later in the book. You'll have to read it yourself to decide.
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Katherine Paterson on the Importance of Literature
From the book of essays The Invisible Child:
And when you close Homer, there are the books of Jane Austen and Joseph Conrad, and great fat volumes of Tolstoy. There is the Bible, perhaps the most overprescribed and least taken of any. There is Flannery O'Connor and Anne Tyler. There is William Shakespeare and Jacob Bronowski. There is The Yearling and A Tale of Two Cities. There is The Secret Garden and The Wind in the Willows. There is Ramona the Brave and Where the Wild Things Are. I have only begun to name what I especially love. There are countless others - really good books. Good or even great because they make the right connections. They pull together for us a world that is falling apart. They are the words that integrate us, stretch us, comfort and heal us. They are the words that mirror the Word of creation, bringing order out of chaos. (238-9)
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Friday, October 11, 2013
Free Children's Lit Titles on Kindle
Marcy at Ben and Me has a great list of free Kindle titles for children. There are traditional classics as well as titles by Thornton Burgess and G.A. Henty. Worth a look.
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Friday, October 4, 2013
Island Magic by Elizabeth Goudge
Once in a while a book comes along that's just too scrumptious to put down, one that makes you abandon your regular habit of taking notes while reading so you can get lost in the story. Island Magic is that kind of book.
Rachell and André are the proud parents of five high-spirited children. Their lives, though, are not peaches and cream. The year is 1888 and they live on a run-down farm in the town of St. Pierre, on one of the Channel Islands (between England and the coast of Normandy). Their sixteen year marriage has been tried by fire as they've buried three babies and used up all of Rachell's inheritance to keep the farm going.
The name of the farm is "Bon Repos" and when André tells Rachell that they'll have to abandon it and take their losses, she refuses to believe that the place that they've created as a refuge for themselves can be let go so easily.
When a shipwrecked man is brought to the island, Rachell immediately takes him in, sensing that somehow he'll be the solution to their problems. The man, Ranulph, has spent his whole life refusing to be tied down to anyone or any place yet he finds the du Frocq family hard to resist. As the story unfolds he finds healing for some of his past hurts and contributes to the welfare of the family in various ways. Goudge throws in a few twists and surprises for good measure.
As always, she succeeds in writing a beautiful story while weaving in themes of mortality, committed love, and the freedom of "tying oneself down" to duty and to family.
In the end, the island magic is not the superstitions of the people (which are highlighted throughout the book), but the way it forces people in such a small space to be a community. "You can't be an individualist on our Island, she said. . . . With the sea flung round us and holding us so tightly we are thrown into each other's arms - souls and seasons and birds and flowers, and running water. People understand unity who live on an island. And peace." (p. 262)
This was Goudge's first novel, published in 1934. A lovely book!
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Labels: Elizabeth Goudge, Family, fiction, light reading
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
The Benefit of Fairy Tales by Juliana H. Ewing
Fairy tales have positive uses in education, which no cramming of facts, and no merely domestic fiction can serve. Like Proverbs and Parables, they deal with first principles under the simplest forms. They convey knowledge of the world, shrewd lessons of virtue and vice, of common sense and sense of humor, of the seemly and the absurd, of pleasure and pain, success and failure, in narratives where they plot moves briskly and dramatically from a beginning to an end. They treat, not of the corner of a nursery or a playground, but of the world at large, and life in perspective; of forces visible and invisible; of Life, Death, and Immortality.
They cultivate the Imagination, that great gift which time and experience lead one more and more to value - handmaid of Faith, of Hope, and, perhaps most of all, of Charity. (p. 6)
from intro to Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales by Juliana Horatio Ewing (Victorian children's author)
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Twelve thousand New York tailors went out on strike to protest the sweatshop system that exploited their labor for half the year, and gave them no work the other half. – 1894
Police and deputy sheriffs were relieved of their duties in Cripple Creek, Colorado, and all citizens were required to register their firearms, as mine owners attempted to bust the labor union. Governor Peabody sent in the militia. In 1904 they took over the local newspaper and rounded up strikers into "bullpens". Dozens were arrested without warrants. – 1903
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Hundreds of miners assembled at Lens Creek, West Virginia in response to rumors that women and children were being killed in Logan County by the anti-union mine owners and deputy sheriffs who were on their payroll. 5,000 miners had arrived by nightfall. Many of them were armed. – 1920
More than 140 attendees at a benefit for a civil rights group were injured in the "Peekskill Riots" in Peekskill, New York. The victims were among the 20,000 people leaving a concert featuring African-American Paul Robeson, well-known for his strong pro-unionism, civil rights activism and left-wing affiliations. The departing concert-goers had to drive through a miles-long gauntlet of rock-throwing racists and others chanting "go on back to Russia, you niggers" and "white niggers". – 1949
The International Brotherhood of Bookbinders merged with the Graphic Arts International Union. – 1972
In what many believe was to become the longest strike in U.S. history, 600 Teamster-represented workers walked out at the Diamond Walnut processing plant in Stockton, California The company had refused to restore a 30-percent pay cut workers had taken earlier to help out the company. The two sides ultimately agreed to a new contract 14 years later. – 1991
Radical lawyer William Kunstler died on this date. During his long career, Kunstler defended the Chicago Seven, Angela Davis, Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael, Lenny Bruce, H. Rap Brown, American Indian Movement activists after the siege at Pine Ridge, and Attica prisoners after the siege there. – 1995


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Whether all you wanted is to integrate the old analog security system you have with the new, IP-based technology or just entirely replace and change everything to the new one, you will still be getting a significant advantage for it:
Using a CCTV security system technology will let you enjoy its affordable price plus, it is easier to setup and maintain as well.
One can actually observe that the CCTV security cameras and its other related system are easy to setup and maintain and that is because they are now digital in nature which makes it easier to use. The informations coming from the system are stored much more easier and also, they are less corruptible and there goes the fact as well that the informations are being recorded through a DVD recorder with the CCCTV security camera which makes it less likely to be damaged compared to using tapes. Aside from that, since the informations are being store in a DVD recorder, it is possible for you to download the information from the recorder to the computer, and if there is a need for you to save the data for the long-term, you can burn it to a CD.
CCTV cameras and other equipment these days go with smaller size and cheaper price while having the capability of expanding thus, you will have a very lovely equipment for a reasonable price.


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Before I head off to bed, let me just share this to you quickly so you won't miss any episode. ^^ Hyeonu already admitted he gave Suim the information about his Uncle's finances. I saw in the next preview that something bad might happen to him. >.<
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Hubris-And Wearing Swim Shorts for Underpants…
On the local park trails, someone spilled glitter. The dogs trod it all around. The rain and wind scattered it around.
You do not want to own any clothes with glitter on them.
You don't.
On the local park trails, someone spilled glitter. The dogs trod it all around. The rain and wind scattered it around.
You do not want to own any clothes with glitter on them.
You don't.
I won't say that golf is totally counter-intuitive… But there's an awful lot of stuff to learn if you want to play, and not all of it makes sense on the surface.
Really, even the concept is a little tricky. "Get the ball into that little hole, dozens of yards away? Why don't I just plunk the first six or seven into that handy lake? That's what they seem to want to do anyhow."
This is one of those comics that doesn't fly as well with the old-fashioned-newspaper-comic crowd. You know the ones. The readers who really like some of the old, well mulched down comic strips- the ones that don't make you think.
I like the cartoons that carry you into the implied story- inviting you to create the backstory or envisioning the next occurrence… and then you realize that there's a whole 'nother cartoon that comes from inside your head, and not off my pencil, that I gave you the hint for.
The first time I recall seeing such a cartoon was an old Dennis the Menace. All in one panel, Mr. Mitchell has gotten out of his car (briefcase in his hand, hat on his head, tie loose… he's just getting home, don't you think?) and Mr. Wilson, sweating and angry, is leaning across the hedge and scowling at Mr. Mitchell. I think Dennis was nervously watching from a distance. Mr. Mitchell says, "Let me get this straight… Dennis broke your CROW BAR?"
Darn funny writing. Whole backstory for you to create. And foreshadowing some more funny business. Nice.
I haven't seen a physical copy, but the online virtual sample is good. The book is ready!
Click on the cover image below, or HERE to order one. If it says you need a password or something crazy, try 'hubris'.
If you'd rather wait for me to get physical copies and say, "Yeah, they really look good" or "Uh-oh, they're not exactly right", I won't blame ya.
I hope to see a physical book in my hands on the 14th. I'm sorta breathless and giddy about it. Heeheeheeheeheehee!
I have a LOT of obsolete stuff in my house, in the storage shed, in my studio… I'm a LITTLE concerned that I might be one of the things that's obsolete. Obviously, my knees are out of date, anyhow.
No one knows better than me that you have better things to do while reading comic strips than to vote for this or that, or tweet, or facebook or all that tiresome junk. (I have something like 40 comics bookmarked for looking at every day. How about you? A bunch?)
That being said, how about you Hubris a little? Click on TWC vote, over there on the right, and twitter and facebook aaaaaaaall your friends about Hubris. One day, when all people of the earth are Hubris fans, there will be no war. Then the kayakers will get all uppity and the mountain bikers and the skaters will have an alliance to limit the kayakers… that'll bring the canoe faction in. The crossover with off-road unicyclers and those guys is almost nil, so you can see where that schism will start. Then the Surfing coalitions will mobilize. The final world war will end with the in-line skaters ruling everyone. It'll be a peaceful world, but at what cost? What Cost?
Eh. It's worth a shot. Vote and Tweet Hubris.
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The Board shall identify the key risk areas and key performance indicators and monitor these factors with due diligence to enable the corporation to anticipate and prepare for possible threats to its operational and financial viability.
The Company's 2013 Annual Report states that: "There are NO Major risk/s involved in each of the businesses of the Company and their subsidiaries. Likewise, the Management is setting up measures and procedures to identify and assess any possible risk/s, should there be any."


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"He said, she said" can typify arguments between embattled spouses, where each accuses the other of communications the other denies. It may seem that recording conversations would resolve divorce issues quickly, but this is not always true. Recordings of private conversations, even when legally made, are not admissible evidence in civil courts in all states.
Legality of Recording
The recording of private conversations is regulated by most states. Before you rush out to record a conversation with your spouse, check your state's laws about the legality of doing so. Most states apply the "one-party" consent rule, making the recording legal if at least one party consents. A minority of states require that all parties consent to a recording before a conversation can legally be recorded.
Read More: Laws About Recording In-Person Conversations
Admissibility of Recording
Even if you record a private conversation legally, you may not be able to introduce it in divorce court. Laws about the admissibility of audio recordings vary among the states. For example, Wisconsin statutes declare most such evidence totally inadmissible in civil cases, with only very limited exceptions. In New York, however, legally obtained audio recordings can be admissible if a proper showing is made: that is, the courts require proof that the recording is genuine and that nobody has tampered with it.
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This is a favorite quote of mine and perfect for our lifestyle. To me, it means making the most of all situations and finding the beauty in all places. For the last two years, this meant making the most of being assigned to a place that just so happens to also be our hometown. This meant teaching at the high school I went to, eating dinner with my parents every Sunday, and shopping at our same local Target. In other words, it was absolutely amazing....and completely predictable. However, in the last year, Rob and I really made an effort to see parts of our town that we had never experienced before. We tried restaurants out of our comfort zone, searched for new sites to see, and checked out familiar places with new friends and new perspectives. I think this is a huge reason why the last year here was our favorite (Even more than when we were in high school here and just started dating!) Sure, it is easy to thrive in a place like New York City or LA, but don't underestimate your ability to fall in love with somewhere less exciting if you are willing to make the most of it.
With only 28 days left before Rob graduates from TBS, we knew that it was only a matter of time before we found out the location of our next adventure. A couple of weeks ago, there was a huge MOS (read: job in the military) reveal party at a local bar. Rob's SPC invited all of the wives to be a part of it and made the day really fun. He put the guys on teams and gave them challenges to compete against each other, anything from USMC trivia to best tango, in order to decide which teams got to hear their MOS first. Days like this remind me how blessed I am to be a part of this wonderful experience and I am so glad we were able to celebrate this exciting time with our closest friends.
So let's get to it right... What did Rob get for his MOS?!? Where are we headed?!?!
Well, it wasn't quite that easy. See Rob didn't find out his MOS that day with everyone else. Rob had put his name in to compete for a flight contract and he still had one test left to go to find out if he was qualified. So while we got to celebrate with everyone else, we still had a little bit of waiting left to do. I absolutely love this clip of his SPC talking about the situation when Rob got called up there to find out his MOS.
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BUT as of yesterday at lunch time, it is finally official!!!
We are moving to Pensacola, Florida because my husband is going to be a PILOT!!!!!!!!!
This is such a huge deal and we are SO excited!!! Rob has worked so hard at TBS and I am so proud of him. He really does deserve this! So after crying happy tears, I immediately ran out and bought him a new pair of aviators, popped some bubbly, and blasted the Top Gun soundtrack! We are definitely on cloud 9 over here :) Oh yeah, did I mention that we are moving in 30 days?!!?!


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Don't hotlink my images, I don't how cool you think American McGee's Red is. I think she's cool too, but I uploaded her to my server and credited where I found her.
And don't bitch when the image you think is the suh-weet Red ends up not being so rockin.
Seriously. I don't play.


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Ellison: Users have bought too many databases
IT vendors have consistently failed corporate chief information officers by delivering software that lacks interoperability,...
In a speech to the OracleWorld conference in San Francisco, Ellison said that the three most serious problems in information processing were data fragmentation, incomplete software integration and incomplete automation.
"We're in the business of selling databases and you have bought too many of them," he said. "You have so many separate databases all over your organisation, all over your industry, that it's very difficult for you to know where to look when you need some information."
Customers have also bought too many software applications that do not work together properly, he added.
"It's almost as if we think of our customers as computer hobbyists," Ellison said. "We don't really sell complete business systems; instead we sell technology components . . . and it's up to you to figure out how to assemble them from lots of different vendors - no instructions included."
The third problem, said Ellison, is incomplete automation.
"It turns out that as we sell you these general ledger systems, these [enterprise resource planning] systems, these [customer relationship management] systems that, historically, they haven't been complete. By that I mean you couldn't just take them and plug them into your business and operate your system."
Inevitably, Ellison then claimed Oracle's latest software could solve these difficulties. Customers should store all their information in a single database where it can be managed and stored more easily.
Oracle's application server bundles all its middleware into one product, meaning customers do not have to assemble the pieces, while Oracle's suite of business applications is ready for use out of the box.
Ellison used the speech to repeat another Oracle mantra, the importance of standardised configurations. "We would like every one of our customers to run the same exact software configuration; that's how you get software quality," he said.
He then focused on the state of the IT industry and said the demise of so many software companies after the dotcom bubble burst was not necessarily a problem. "There won't be, and nor does there need to be, tens of thousands of software companies."
"All the specialised, one-or-two-product companies are going to have a hard time ever coming back," he said, arguing that the future lies with big vendors such as Oracle.


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Sheep in wolf's clothing
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I have previously discussed on this site to the pitfalls of slavishly following fashion trends – be they styles of clothing or individual brands.
Photo: Sasa Zivaljevic
Negotiating this particular minefield is made especially difficult by the fact that niche labels that you may have picked up on in their infancy can suddenly tip and end up on the backs every Tom, Dick and Harry in the country – or, indeed, every Josh, Seb and Harry in the case of British brand Jack Wills.
Their clothes have recently become the satorial weapon of choice for our glossy, vacuous teenagers – 'Nike for the middle classes' according to the Guardian – an image which has undoubtedly chased away a number of its previous customers. But while the rapid spread of an individual brand can in any instance seriously detract from its style (as opposed to fashion) currency, it will naturally be the ones making their branding the most visible that will be the hardest hit.
A dramatic increase in the use of large logos on its clothes is one obvious change that has accompanied Jack Wills' rise to prominence (the picture heading up the Guardian article shows this in its full glory). Previously the branding was more or less limited to a discreet 'JW' motif, letting the inherent style of the items do the talking.
Now, of course you can argue that the emblazoning of large logos all over Jack Wills' clothing is precisely what has prompted it to tip into the wider population. But I can only feel that sticking to their original formula – attracting customers with its quality, not its visibility – would have left the brand in a stronger style position than they are in now.
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LaClaire Touch by Dori Lavelle
my body, I shut off my emotions, close my eyes, and force myself to push through.
No thinking. No feeling. No breaking apart.Soon the debts will be paid. Soon I'll scrub their cologne and sweat from my
skin and walk away from this business for good, pretending it never happened.
For now, my body is not my own. For now, I belong to any man who can afford
But when Derrick LaClaire asks for a night with me, I turn him away, even when
he offers to pay triple what I earn per hour. I need his cash, but if I let him
touch me, I know I'll break every single one of my rules. And he'll discover
who I really am.
LaClaire Touch is a steamy full-length, standalone novel with a happy ending.
**WARNING: Due to sexual situations and adult content, this book is not
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Dori Lavelle, is a mother, wife, and a sucker for happy-ever-afters and mint chocolate.Growing up, Dori read a lot, and when she wasn't happy with a particular ending, she wrote a different one, just for herself. Before long, she was writing stories when she should have been doing homework. The time has come for her to share the stories she cooks up in her head.
LaClaire Touch: An After Hours Novel by Dori Lavelle was such a hot and steamy surprise. A second chance at love story with a twist. Can the playboy and the down on her luck girl find a way back to each other?
Brooke Raynor does what she must to survive. She has no one but herself to depend on. When a man buys her body, she shuts down and goes through the process. She has a purpose. No breaking apart for her. This will end, but for now she does what she has too to survive. Than Derrick LaClaire comes back into her life and asks for time with her body. But it's the last thing she wants, because she knows one touch and she will be done for.
Derrick LaClaire does not do relationships. He enjoys traveling looking for adventures and fun nights. As a rich man, he does as he pleases, in and out of the bedroom. When he ends up at The Mirage, he finds himself drawn to a woman that wants nothing to do with him.
Brooke takes one look at Derrick and wants to run away. The boy who broke her heart years ago. Her journey has been so hard, her story broke my heart. But she was determined to make her life better. Derrick was a man who was used to getting what he wanted. He was strong and very determined.
When Derrick sees Brooke again, he wants to help her. But there is so much history and secrets between them. Can they find a way back to each other? This is a story of healing and rediscovery. A different kind of second chance at love story. It was one steamy read with strong characters that will draw you in. I believe this may be part of a series, which I have not read, but did not feel as if I was missing anything.
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Cathja is a reclaimed Dutch barge that has had a new role for the past 10 years. It serves as a rehabilitation centre for people with long-standing mental illness. It follows the principles of nidotherapy in that it (i) allows people to choose what they wish to do on the barge (much of its present work is concerned with wood-carving and art but there is scope for much more), (ii) it does not direct people to services or treat symptoms and allows the environment to serve as the therapist, (iii) it represents the essence of collaboration as the staff are there to help people do want they want and to answer questions, but otherwise avoid the interference that clogs up so many people's lives when they are mentally unwell.
The second photograph shows some of the people who come regularly to work on the barge. They include Marcus, who has attended regularly for many years and who said to me, in a way that made me feel he absolutely meant it, 'coming to the barge has saved my life; but for the barge I would not be here now'.
You can learn more about Cathja (Patron: Lord Nic Rea) by looking at the link (https://vimeo.com/97818266) or by contacting Carl and his colleagues on firstname.lastname@example.com


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WASHINGTON (CNN) - Sarah Palin has firmly remained in the media spotlight since her bid for the vice presidency ended four months ago, but the Alaska governor embraced a decidedly lower profile when she traveled to the nation's capital this weekend.
The former Republican vice presidential candidate has scheduled a busy itinerary of closed-door events and face time with congressional Democrats and Republicans.
She also announced earlier this week she's making the 4,500-mile trek from Alaska to Washington primarily to attend the Alfalfa Club Dinner Saturday night - an annual closed-door roast of the nation's political elite.
But it's what's missing from Palin's schedule that is causing more than a few heads to turn. In a city that is ground-zero for national political journalists, Palin has not scheduled a single media interview or indicated she will hold a press conference.
I'd like to say I wish she would just stay away from the lower 48 altogether and I'd be happy - but her promotion of aerial gunning down of wolf parents and subsequent execution-by-bullets-to-the-head of surviving puppies in their cages is sickening and reduces our collective humanity. I'm not some big city anti-gun dweeb, I've cowboy'd in Montana, served two tours in the Marines and support gun rights, but not the gutless and cowardly wolf and wildlife slaughter that goes on in Alaska.
She's a kook. I had a bit of respect for Alaska before this woman hit the spotlight.
It is gone now!
Hell why would she schedule any interviews with a media that refuses to give her a fair shake. BTW: She is in washington to do business for Alaska in regards to the stimulus monies
Probably afraid she is going to be asked a question she can't answer, which would be jiut about on ANY TOPIC!
What an imbecile!
hope it stays that way forever......
"I am not one of the Washington elite types" "Just Joe six-pack"
She was not a Washington elite because she was NEVER INVITED BEFORE. Not, first chance she gets, she dives into Washington's most elite Roast!!!! HA HA HA HA HA Too Funny.
She says Obama pals around with terrorists, but she jumps at the chance to pal around with him now. Does this make her a terrorist?
no interviews??? Yipppeeeee !!!!
Why did Palin cross the road? Because the moose stole her snowmobile. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Seriously, though... she's a moron. Shame on you, CNN, for letting this bimbo getting any more coverage. You're becoming almost as shallow and sensational as Faux News. So much for journalistic integrity.
Not that she didn't TRY to get some press – but none of them wanted to interview the lunch lady at the dinner (she'll be in the back room mashing spuds).
So the Alaska trailer trash girl has ventured back into the wolves den in Washington, D.C. She is smart to avoid the press and media. They would tear her apart and justifiably so. This woman is dangerous.
Wait a sec– wasn't this the same woman who just a few weeks ago was saying she wished she had done more interviews during the campaign?? Even the Palin loving Fox News network issued her an open invitation to appear on any of their shows this weekend, and she apparently has declined. So this woman is just all talk and no action, huh? All hat, no cattle.
God, can you imagine her in the White House?? That is a beyond scary thought.
don't lay low Palin, give us some more of that wisdom
I want to hear about whose baby it is, which reporters fault it is, what you can see from your window, so many nuggets of truth, don't pull back, charge ahead
har har har
Thank You
Don't blame here for not caring about being in the spotlight in D.C..
Mrs. Palin is Rush Limbaughs' ideal to lead the Republican party out of the wilderness, 'nuff said!!
The msm is looking stupid. As long as you give this woman praise the more dumber you look. For a person that has a high drop out rate in her schools,meth problems in communities,teenage pregancies on the raise,etc. Shouldn't she worry about what she needs to do for her state. She bragged about how the oil revunue was good for her state, if that is the case why come begging for money. She has shown all her true colors and the american ppl rejected it. Alot of things are wrong in Alaska take care of your state start doing the ppls work. Enough
Of course she didn't...If she actually talked to the press (or anyone for that matter), she'd be revealed for the empty-minded ideologue she is.
I really hope she runs in 2012...It'd make an easy win for Obama-Biden!!
Palin should definitely stay away from the media. They might ask her a question that she cannot answer! Not only that, but somebody, somewhere, has the sense to tell her not to do that!
I hope she do stay away from the media spotlight and don't make a clown out of herself by opening her mouth, You would think that this lady would have given up on the spotlight and go back home now she want to be part of the political elite. WHATEVER
Her vice presidency bid did not end four months ago. It ended two and a half to three months ago. Just saying...
Lets hope the polar bear wins on her next hunt.
The dingbit hasn't scheduled any interviews because it's now another way to keep attention drawn to her. A prime example is this story. If people would stop talking about her, maybe the rodent would go crawl under a rock somewhere and sink into the ground.
Raaa Raa Raaa
She just doesn't want to get asked about SarahPAC and how bad she will lose if she attempts a run in 2012.
Please just stop reporting about this air-head!!
The dingbat hasn't scheduled any interviews because it's now another way to keep attention drawn to her. A prime example is this story about the issue. If people would stop talking about her, maybe the rodent would go crawl under a rock somewhere and sink into the ground.


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Vaccine Briefs
By Roberto Fernandez-Larsson and Kristen Jill Kresge
Phase I Trial of ADMVA Vaccine Begins in New York
The Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center (ADARC) in New York City recently began enrolling volunteers for a preventive AIDS vaccine trial in partnership with The Rockefeller University and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. The Phase I safety and immunogenicty study of the Center's vaccine, ADMVA, will enroll 48 healthy volunteers in New York City and Rochester, New York. The candidate vaccine, ADMVA, contains the env/gag-poland nef-tat fusion genes of HIV and uses a modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA) viral vector. The HIV genes contained in the candidate vaccine are derived from subtype C, prevalent in China, India, and Africa.
"The epidemic in China is burgeoning and the only hope for some people is a vaccine. We are particularly excited about the MVA vector," said Sarah Schlesinger of ADARC. If results from this trial show the vaccine is safe and effective at inducing an immune response then further clinical trials will be initiated in other regions of the world. For more information visit www.adarc.org
India's First AIDS Vaccine Trial Starts
India began enrolling volunteers for the country's first preventive AIDS vaccine trial in February. The phase I safety study will evaluate the immunogenicity of a vaccine manufactured by the Seattle based company Targeted Genetics. The National AIDS Research Institute in Pune is conducting the trial, in partnership with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the International AIDS vaccine Initiative.
Thirty volunteers will receive a single immunization with the recombinant adeno-associated vaccine, known as tgAAC09, a recombinant vaccine made from HIV genes enclosed in the capsid of Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV). The AAV vector was developed by Phil Johnson, formerly at the Columbus Children's Research Institute and currently with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and is now licensed to Targeted Genetics. The candidate vaccine contains HIV's gag, protease, and RT sequences and is designed to stimulate both a cellular and humoral immune response to HIV clade C. Preclinical animal studies conducted by Targeted Genetics found that tgAAC09 induced strong cytotoxic T-cell and antibody responses to HIV.
The vaccine candidate is being tested in a joint Phase I clinical trial in Germany, Belgium and now India. The start of the study was hailed as an important advancement in a country with the second largest number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the world. "With this first trial, Indian scientists are making an important contribution that will bring the world a step closer to an AIDS vaccine," said N.K. Ganguly, Director General of ICMR.
This vaccine trial also emphasizes the critical value of partnerships between governments, private companies, and public organizations in the process of finding an effective AIDS vaccine.
NIAID Begins Enrolling Volunteers for Phase IIb Study of Merck's Vaccine
Enrollment began in December at sites in the US and Canada for a Phase IIb proof of concept study on Merck & Co's lead AIDS vaccine candidate, MRKAd5. This efficacy trial will involve 1,500 high risk volunteers and is being conducted in collaboration with the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN) and the National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Diseases. Enrollment will continue in the coming months in Peru, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico,and Australia.
MRKAd5 is a trivalent vaccine that includes gag, pol, and nef genes from subtype B HIV and utilizes a human adenovirus serotype 5 (Ad5) vector. The trial will test two primary endpoints: the ability of the vaccine candidate to provide protection against HIV infection or control viral load in those newly infected. Volunteers in the trial will receive three vaccinations over a sixmonth period. Anyone who is incidentally infected with HIV during the course of the trial will be followed to see how the vaccine influences viral load and disease progression.
In earlier studies with the Ad5 construct, immune responses were weaker in individuals who had pre-existing immunity due to previous infection with the naturally circulating adenovirus serotype. This trial will exclude volunteers with an Ad5 neutralizing antibody titer over 1:200, to maximize responses to the HIV antigens.
Previous studies of this vaccine generated strong cellular immune responses in humans. If the immune response in this trial is sufficient to prevent infection with HIV a larger efficacy trial will be required before the vaccine is submitted to the FDA for approval.


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Edgar Online (EDGR) and UBmatrix announced it will be merging, pending EDGR shareholder approval. In my opinion the merger is a good thing for the two organizations and good for their customers. The two companies are a good fit and the combination gives the consolidated entity a bit more economic heft, providing it with greater resources for continued development over the longer run. However, the subtext of the deal is: "It's hard to make a buck in the XBRL business."
Midsize companies typically lack the economies of scale that larger ones can bring to bear when it comes to buying and implementing software. They usually don't have the resources to customize packages such as generic enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, and they don't have enough internal IT staff to make ongoing refinements in response to business needs. Observing these constraints, software vendors selling to companies of this size range long ago discovered that verticalization is a necessary market strategy.


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We just shared a fun DIY Frames Christmas Craft for Kids and today we are sharing another great craft you can do. We got so many great crafting supplies from the Oriental Trading Company that we had a lot of fun making Christmas crafts together! We made a fun card/picture holder garland craft that I want to share with you. For this project, we used the Christmas Baker's Twine, Mini Clothespins, Christmas Jingle Bell Charms, Christmas Cube Beads, the Christmas Tree Self-Adhesive Shapes, and some of the snowflakes from the Snowflake Jewel Assortment. You will also need a sewing needle for threading the twine into the beads, charms, and clothespins.
I took the twine and threaded it through a needle, this made threading the twine with the beads, jingle bells and clothes pins so much easier. I started with a clothes pin (threading through the middle of the spring), then a bell, then a bead, then another bell before I added another clothes pin. I did this pattern for the entire length. I put the pieces all on, then tied a square bead on each end and then made a loop to use to hang the garland.
After I got the ends looped, I hooked one end on one of my chairs, and the other end on a different chair and hung it between them so I could work on fixing the beads and bells. I didn't want them sliding around, so I used my hot glue gun and put a small dab of the hot glue on the twine and used that to secure either the bead or bell. I didn't glue the clothespins because I still want them to be able to open and close.
After I got the beads and bells in place, I laid the garland out on my table and took the felt and some snowflakes that I had and alternated gluing them onto the clothespins Once I got them in place I went back and added the Snowflake jewels onto the white snowflakes. I love how they turned out! Colorful and Festive, yet simple and fun.
Once I got all the pieces glued in place, we were excited to hang it up and try it out. My kids took their Santa Advent Calendars and hung them in some of the pins. We also made a couple of things and added a Christmas card. It looks great and is so much fun! My kids are having fun drawing/making pictures and doing other crafts to hang on it too.
The Oriental Trading Company is a great source for all things crafts. From pre-made kits that you can put together, to all the base supplies that you need to make your own creations. We have several more Christmas Crafts for Kids that we will be sharing so check back for some more great ideas and inspiration for your own Christmas Crafts for Kids.