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15 Favorite Kids in the Hall Sketches: 5 – 1
June 8, 2021 June 25, 2021 by Paul Stoecklein
Here they are. My five favorite sketches from Kids in the Hall. I love these guys. I wish I could do nothing but sit and watch them all day long. I know a lot of people these days are enamored with other people and things: Jake Paul (whoever he is), The Bachelorette (never seen it), TikTok dances (hey, whatever makes you happy), gaming (I think the last video game I played was Pac Man in 1984). Everybody has their deal. My deal is, well, lots of things, but KITH is definitely one of them.
#5 Drunk Dad Advice
I don't know why I like this one so much. My dad wasn't a drunk, so I can't really relate to that. But there is something really funny about the embarrassment of your dad trying to give you life advice. Especially when he drives you out to a big rock in the country during your 13th birthday party to do it.
Via annakinzen on YouTube
#4 Painting a Chair
Gavin just might be my favorite character ever on KITH. Everybody seems to have gone to school with a kid like this. And if you think you didn't, well, it was probably you.
Via Ricky Shambles on YouTube
#3 Things To Do
I'm definitely a list maker. It's one of my favorite things in the world. And apparently Kevin McDonald is obsessive like that too; that's why he wrote this sketch. It's just… perfect.
Via Popular Vote Gaming on YouTube
#2 Censored Sketches
This one could offend some people, but it really shouldn't. In my opinion, there's a whole lot of stuff out there that people get offended at way too easily (e.g., cursing), and a whole bunch of other stuff out there that people really SHOULD be offended at, but aren't (e.g., poor people starving).
Anyway, this is such a funny idea, to make up previously unaired clips that were supposedly blocked by the censors but now being shown on the last episode of the original series. Always makes me laugh.
Via NancyPantsTM on YouTube
#1 The Care and Keeping of a Male Slave
This is the one. This is the one that makes me laugh out loud through the whole thing. I can't help it.
One of the things I've always loved about KITH is that one of the cast members, Scott Thompson, was openly gay at a time when it was much more difficult to come out. Not only that, but he used the show as a platform in a way, especially with his recurring character Buddy Cole. Scott plays Buddy in this sketch about his new male slave, Brucy, played by Kevin McDonald. The sketch pokes fun at the ridiculous stereotypes that a lot of people seem to associate with gay people. It's so well done, placing it in the world of one of those goofy 1950s short "documentaries." I love this sketch.
Via FBIVideo1 on YouTube
censored sketches drunk dad advice funny kids in the hall male slave painting a chair things to do
15 Favorite Kids in the Hall Sketches: 10 – 6
Wish I Could Move Like That


With 2019 being the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, you'd be forgiven for wanting to cash in on the legacy of some of the greatest designers of the modern age. Because, unless you're a National Socialist, what's not to like about the influential design school that was headed by Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer and Mies van der Rohe until the Nazis forced its closure in 1933? Luxury lighting manufacturer Bert Frank has been inspired by the masters with its Bauhaus range – like the Stasis Wall Lamp (pictured) that, ahem, shines a light on the 'clean geometric forms, bold shapes and functionality' that have helped ensure the school's reputation lives on to this day.


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Little Bone 74B is an Indian reserve of the Zagime Anishinabek in Saskatchewan. It is in Townships 23 and 24, Ranges 3 and 4, west of the Second Meridian. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 24 living in 8 of its 8 total private dwellings.

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Indian reserves in Saskatchewan
Division No. 5, Saskatchewan
Zagime Anishinabek

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Under the Federal Government plan, captive populations will be boosted and extra feed and nesting options will be provided to encourage the 50 or so parrots left in the wild to breed.
It is easy to blame "drought" when loss of habitat is the surest way to lose a species!
National President of SPA, Sandra Kanck, says "If we pause on Australia Day to reflect on our identity, our thoughts should turn to reforming the anthem. It is an absolute nonsense to say that this continent has boundless plains to share, as is claimed in the second verse of the anthem."
The "exploding kangaroo population" in Thargomindah Queensland, apparently, is because Russia has banned the sale of roo meat. It sounds like the kangaroo industry pushing their own agenda! The media has reported stupid things like a a woman who was too scared to hang her washing out because of the kangaroo coming close to the town, implying very strongly that they are creating a safety problem as well!


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Q: Trying to highlight current nav icon with JQuery I'm trying to figure out how to highlight the current navigation icon on my site. It's made more complex as apart from the blog section, all other nav links go to different sections on the same page. I want the home icon to be highlighted in all instances unless the user is on my blog section. I have used CSS to set opacity of the icon to 0.5, and to highlight the icon a class is added using JQuery the changes opacity to 1. I'm almost there, however when the user goes to my blog section and then back to home section, the icon doesn't highlight (unless I refresh browser). Here is my JQuery:
 // change opacity of nav icons
    $('#nav-home, #nav-port, #nav-exp, #nav-cont, #nav-blog').hover(function(){
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        }, function(){
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    // highlight current nav icon
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    $('#nav-blog').bind('load click', function(){
        if(queryString[1] == 'blog-home' || queryString[0] == 'article')
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    $('#nav-home, #nav-port, #nav-exp, #nav-cont').bind('load click', function(){
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Thank you!
EDIT: Sorry! Here is my site http://www.jonhudsonweb.com
EDIT: Figured it out!! But I'm not allowed to answer my question yet as I'm not good enough :(
Here's my solution:
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        var queryString = location.search.replace('?','').split('=');

        $(window).bind('load unload', function(){
            if(queryString[1] == 'blog-home' || queryString[0] == 'article')
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            if(queryString[1] == 'home' || !queryString[1])
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+1 for me!
Yay.

A: Jon, your solution looks a little awkward to me. Why not add an .active class to the icon you want to appear constantly active, and style that with CSS?
Furthermore, you should really use a class that unites all the navigation icons, and reference that class for your .hover() method, as opposed to listing out each ID. Coincidentally, I'm doing the same thing on my site.

A: My solution:
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    var queryString = location.search.replace('?','').split('=');

    $(window).bind('load unload', function(){
        if(queryString[1] == 'blog-home' || queryString[0] == 'article')
            $('#nav-blog').addClass('nav-current');
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Snap Judgment tells intriguing stories about extraordinary and defining events in people's lives. The program's raw, intimate, and musical brand of storytelling dares listeners to see a sliver of the world through another's eye.
Review: Genuine 'Love Letters'
Howard Shapiro
Michael Learned and Daniel Davis in Delaweare Theatre Company's production of 'Love Letters.' (Photo courtesy of Joe del Tufo)
It's no wonder that audiences love "Love Letters" – even though it's a play with basic costumes, little make up, no scenery, no movement, and in some productions no intermission. What it has, though – and what people identify with almost immediately – is plenty of genuine feeling.
Actors and directors love it too for a special reason: Compared with just about any other production, "Love Letters" takes very little effort to stage. The rehearsal time is miniscule. A. R. Gurney's 1988 play has two actors, a man and a woman, reading from letters their characters have written each other a half century. There are no lines to memorize.
Even so, productions of "Love Letters," as for any play, can vary in interpretation and delivery. So it's great to report that over the last week, I've seen two of them, both at the highest level. The first was the play's Broadway revival with Mia Farrow and Brian Dennehy in the initial part of the run, which opened last week, and with other celebrities moving into the parts through January. The Broadway "Love Letters" is a bare-boned 90 minutes without intermission, and with little more than the actors' interpretations carrying both the play and the day.
The second production I saw is currently at Delaware Theatre Company in Wilmington, where the artistic director, Bud Martin, has added just a few flourishes. Martin seats his two actors at individual, simple but elegant tables, where they respond to each other (not directly) by reading excerpts from the letters that make up Gurney's script. Martin has added a backdrop – a wall with three art pieces by Mary Page Evans. The wall is lit by Scott Cocchiaro in different colors for each act, which Martin separates with an intermission.
The show's two actors – the redoubtable Michael Learned (she's played in TV's "Nurse," "The Waltons" and others) and the excellent Daniel Davis ("Frasier" and others) – give their characters inviting personalities from the letters they read. By the end of the play, which begins with their exchange of notes in grade two and ends when they are both well into their years, we feel we've been in on the key, and not so key, moments of two lives. We know them.
Gurney's script is all the more clever for what we can't see, but hear about before or after it happens. Letters, after all, comment on events that come and go. The actual events occur between the letter writing. How exceptional, then, that in "Love Letters" the letters themselves become the main event.
"Love Letters" runs through Oct. 5 at Delaware Theatre Company, 200 Water St., Wilmington. 302-594-1100 or www.delawaretheatre.org
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Critic Howard Shapiro offers reviews and insights into Philadelphia's theater scene.
Opera Philadelphia uses 'Soldier Songs' to explore post-traumatic stress
The opera-turned-film is based on interviews with combatants in five different American wars.
Black, Southern, gay poetry collection selected for One Book, One Philadelphia
Pulitzer-winning "The Tradition" by Jericho Brown has been picked for One Book One Philadelphia, the first time the citywide reading project chose poetry.
Philly has 3,600 murals and few ways to protect them
If the owner of a wall wants to get rid of the mural on it, there isn't much the artist or community can do. Jane Golden wants to change that.
About Howard Shapiro
@howardshapiro shapiroontheater@whyy.org

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Discussion in 'Archived Classifieds' started by congsle, Feb 27, 2013.
I'll take that at asking mate.
Is this site acting up for you? It's saying I have a PM, but I can't actually see it.
It's like the boards not updating.


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We are available throughout the working week. Just visit us or send an email.
In addition to German, this year we will also be providing counselling in Arabic through Ebrahim & Zidan, in Russian through Rakhmonbek, in English with Ahad & Orane and in French with Orane.


7pm – 10pm — Semtex kicks off this year's Hip Hop weekend with a look at what is to come over the next 60 hours — featuring cameo appearances from contributors to the weekend and snippets of the shows to come.
10pm – 12am — The Life & Times Of… Busta Rhymes — A veteran of over 15 years in the business, Busta gives Rodney P an exclusive insight into his time as a pioneer in the Hip Hop game.
4am-6am — Turntabalism — Blakey teams up with 4 giants of the turntabalism game.
6am – 9am — Hip Hop's Big Breakfast — Dev gives you nothing but BIG hits!
9am – 12pm — The 1Xtra MVA's — Ace & Vis host The 1Xtra Music Video Awards with a difference.
3pm – 5pm — Rodney P & Skitz's A-Z of Hip Hop — A unique look at the complete alphabet of Hip Hop.
5pm – 7pm — 2Pac Remembered — Commemorating the 10th anniversary of 2Pac's death, a 1Xtra listener wins the chance to join Semtex in LA for the exclusive chance to retrace some of his steps and speak to some people who played a part in his life.
10pm – 12am — The Life & Times Of… Diddy — They don't come much bigger than Diddy — Label Owner, Producer, Artist, style Icon, Fashion House Boss, Restauranteur — he has been an beacon for the changing face of hip hop which saw it go from just an artform into a multi million dollar business. Rodney P finds out the TRUE story behind the success.
12am – 2am — 1Xtra Live – The Roc A Fella After Party — Hot off the back of their sold out UK tour, the Roc A Fella crew party hard, UK style. Features a performance from Memphis Bleek and 1Xtra Dj's Rampage & Semtex..
4am – 6am — DJ Drama — Hip Hop's most influential DJ of the moment hooks up with 1Xtra for his own BIG 2 hour mix session.
6am – 9am — Vibrations — DJ Fitz brings us the best in inspirational hip hop.
9am -12pm — Broke 'n' English from Manchester. The biggest hip hop outfit from the North west — Strategy, DRS & Konny Kon — come live from their home town.
12pm -3pm — Basement All Stars — A host of stars choose a defining hip hop track that has helped musically shape them.
3pm -5pm — Hyphy — The hypest hip hop phenomenon on 2006 — DJ Semtex goes to the heart of the scene — San Francisco's Bay area to find out what it is all about — features E40, 2wiceberg Slimm, Backside, DJ E Rock, Souls Of Mischief and Wolf Pack.
5pm -7pm — 100% Homegrown — Ras Kwame hosts a special broadcast with 1Xtra's Hip Hop team hitting the road and representing from 4 areas of the UK with thriving hip hop scenes. Rodney P checks out Scotland, Semtex goes up to Manchester, Blakey travels to Brighton, and Skitz travels to Wales, for what promises to be a very special show.
8-10 — Hip Hop Hall Of Fame — Ice Cube — Following on from the Hall Of Fame's Chuck D's inaugural reception last year, 1Xtra salutes the artist and actor Ice Cube. Today Ice Cube is as well known for his work on screen as his work behind the mic, Cube breaks down the journey he has had to get to this point including the heady days with NWA, representing for the West Coast, and managing to be a performing artists and Hollywood actor.
10pm -midnight — The Life & Times Of…Jermaine Dupri — The number one producer of his generation…self made millionaire by 21; production credits list is huge and is spearheading the ATL Snap revolution! In between all of this, JD also manages to head up the Virgin Records Urban Dept.
12am -2am — Hip Hop All Over The World — Celebrating the true global nature of hip hop, DJ's from around the world rep their ends, tell us what the scene is like where they are from and play a track from a local artist.
Twin B selects the best of the tracks we have collected on the road over the previous few weeks and gives them their debut radio airing.
4am -6am — Xtra Talent — Your chance to end the Hip Hop weekend — shout out to all budding DJ's, Mix DJ's and MC's with skills.


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Actor/Director/Maker
Play-script - No.3
Title: Stoning Mary
Writer: debbie tucker green
Setting: The play is set in the country it is performed in. All characters are white.
This play was first performed at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, 1st April, 2005, London.
Characters; Wife
Wife ego
Husband ego
Child Soldier (Son),
his hair shaved down to a number one.
Older sister
Younger sister (Mary)
Boyfriend ego
Older sister ego
One prescription isn't enough for two. A child soldier comes home. And Mary faces her last request. What if this was happening here? And what if these people were white? Stoning Mary puts British characters in situations more familiar to African families implying they (we) would act differently if the problems depicted (AIDS, scarcity of resources, genocides using child soldiers, the stoning of women) were closer to home.
This is not an easy play to read and would only reach its full potential in performance. This is mainly due to the use of overlapping dialogue and Brechtian scene titles. However, it was a fascinating read. It reminds me of the work of Sarah Kane, Caryl Churchill and Harold Pinter. Although, Debbie Tucker Green certainly has her own strong voice, mixing poetic rhythms with vernacular phrases, rap-song repetitions with complex psychology. Stoning Mary is a highly charged, political commentary on the issues facing the majority of African families; these issues are heightened by the use of an all white cast.
This play has quite a large cast (13), it would suit a theatre company that wished to perform a piece in a festival setting or a company dedicated to producing more experimental theatre. Not one for the traditional theatre makers, unless you want to push the boundaries of your audience.
*There are possible female audition monologues, both the Older and the Younger Sister have several, including Older Sister's obsessive questions about Mary's glasses, and Mary's 'bitches' speech.
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My first time at Danesfield House Wedding Venue and hopefully not the last! Eleanor & Craig were an awesome couple and I loved every minute of this wedding! I met Eleanor and Craig over Skype last year and loved them from the start. It was no different in person when I met them the day before where I was greeted by two grinning happy faces pulling up the driveway to the venue. It was fair to say we had a blast and these guys both know how to have a party. A particular fond moment of the day was when the brass band they had hired started having a sing off with the Bride and Groom and their guests to cover versions of Spice Girls hits. I was grinning from ear to ear watching it all unfold! All the guests including family and friends were amazing and I felt really welcome all the way through. One thing that I remember really well was at the end of the night when I was saying my goodbyes to the Bride and Groom, they had revealed how the day before everything became real and a tiny bit daunting, but having met me they felt how important it was to "just trust" me. I think this is such an important thing and I'm glad they had told me because it really does show in the photos. These guys really did trust me and If you trust your photographer to do their thing, then you can just get on with having an amazing time! This is what will truly make for great wedding photographs! Congratulations again guys – what an amazing day!


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loose wire blog
Jeremy Wagstaff: ex Reuters/BBC/WSJ etc
Guidance for PR
Tag Archives: the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Puppy Love Scam
A few weeks back I wrote about love scams ("You Give Love a Bad Name," WSJ.com) — how scammers are trawling online dating sites looking for suckers. What interested me about the scam is that in some cases the scammers play a very patient game — luring the mark in over a period of months before any sting is attempted.
Sophos, the antivirus people, say they have found a new twist on the same scam, where scammers are apparently luring folk by offering a puppy up for adoption:
The emails, which come from a husband and wife who claim to be on a Christian Mission in Africa say that their Yorkshire Terrier dog is not coping well in the hot weather.
Says Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos:
"The criminals are offering the pet puppy in an attempt to gather information from kind-hearted people who jump in to help. If you respond the scammers will try and steal confidential information about you, or sting you for cash. If you fall for a trick like this you'll be the one ending up in the doghouse."
Actually this is not quite new and not completely accurate. The LA Times wrote back in May about how the scam works:
People who responded to the ads eventually were asked to send hundreds of dollars to cover expenses such as shipping, customs, taxes and inoculations on an ever-escalating scale.
Some reported paying fees totaling more $1,500.
A piece in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette last week said the scam had been going across America for a year and points out that a Google search for "Nigerian Puppy Scam" turns up more than 200,000 "hits." (I must confess I found only 16,000.) Bulldogs and Yorkshire Terriers are favorites. The paper was apparently alerted to the scam when ads were found to be running in its own paper. A month earlier the Toronto Star reported that a local woman had parted with $500 for a 11-week old terrier, after responding to an ad on a free local classified site and complying with requests for three payments to ship the dog from Nigeria. (A reporter called up the scammer, who uttered the immortal scammer's words:
"Are you trying to call me a scam? I'm a family man," he said. "I am a man of God. I am a missionary."
For more detail on scams and how to spot them, check out this page on the IPATA website.
Dogs work because we love them, and are suckers for the sob story. What's interesting here — and why these scams are in some ways more dangerous — is that the scam does not play upon people's greed at all, but instead upon their charity and sense of decency.
Two conclusions from this:
These scams are aimed at throwing a wider, and slightly different, net to the old scams. The victims are going to be people who are moral, not greedy.
Chances are the scammers are aiming at making less money from these scams, but perhaps make up for it in volume. Perhaps the days are over when scammer aimed to make five-figure sums.
Puppy offered for adoption by Nigerian email scammers
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This blog has been running, on and off, since 2001. It collects my writings for the Journal, Review, BBC and Reuters, and some I write for my own amusement.
I'm a technology writer and consultant, based in Singapore.
I consult for companies large and small trying to make sense of technologies and how best to position themselves. I largely do this by creating bespoke content that hits a high ethical bar. I was chief technology correspondent in Asia for Thomson Reuters. Before that I was a technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal and the Far Eastern Economic Review (the Loose Wire column). I was a correspondent for Reuters in the 1980s and 90s. I have an irregular slot on the BBC's World Service Business Daily show.


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«Трофей» — український телеканал, присвячений рибальству, полюванню, збору лісових ягід, грибів і трав.

Опис
Телеканал присвячено захопленням: рибальству, полюванню, збору грибів, трав та ягід, кулінарним рецептам.

Місія телеканалу — висвітлення здорового способу відпочинку на природі, розвиток інтересу до природи України, розширення знань про її ліси, річки та їх мешканців, залучення українців до рибальства, мисливства та збору трав, ягід та грибів.

Логотип
Телеканал змінив 3 логотипи. Нинішній — 4-й за рахунком.

Тематика програм
 Сімейне рибальство
 Міське рибальство
 Календар рибалки
 Кулінарні передачі
 Рибацькі та мисливські новини
 Збирання грибів та ягід
 Передачі про рибальські та мисливські знаряддя
 Секрети рибальства та мисливства

Супутникова трансляція

Примітки

Російськомовні телеканали в Україні
Засновані в Україні 2014


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> It appears that foo-1.0's %preun is run after foo-2.0 has been installed.
> available under a different name before it gets erased?


Smittybilt makes an 8" wide console for Jeep Wranglers. After installing Smittybilt XRC Racing seats I found only a 6.5" wide space between the front seats.
Smittybilt also makes a 6.5 inch wide console but I still found this to be a little tight for space. So this is what I decided to do. I modified the 8" console to 6".
Stock photo of a mounted Smittybilt Console with built in head-unit compartment and cup holders.
First I removed the head-unit compartment and cup holders with 2 long cuts of a saws-all.
With a saws-all (greatest tool in the world!) I cut a 2 inch wide section from all 4 sides. Top/bottom/front/back.
After cutting, I finished the edges cleanly and proceeded to reconnect the sections with long 1 inch steel strips on the inside and rivets.
Here's a view with the previous cushion to show how much metal was removed.
New elbow cushion and Oak accent mounted.
I finished the Console by making front and rear panels. Using matching material and vinyl.
I incorporated 2 pockets each with elastic openings sewn in. 4" deep pockets at the top for an iPhone and remote control and lower 8" pockets for iPhone charger/stereo connection cables, flashlight, etc.
Elastic opening pouches made of matching material in the front and black vinyl for the rear pockets.
Editor's Comment: Nice job, Steve. Looks great!
I installed a similar Smittybilt console on my '95 Wrangler which was (and still is) a little tight between the stock seats. However, it is working fine with the exception of the female seat belt arm that tends to get pulled out of place when the passenger seat is swung forward to allow someone into the back seat. Then it is a hassle to get the belt back into place between the seat and the console.


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    private List<BaseCommandProcessor> processors = new ArrayList<BaseCommandProcessor>();

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    public void registerCommands(CommandRegistry reg) throws OpenAS2Exception {
        for (BaseCommandProcessor processor : processors) {
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An initiative group of Youth Club Active members was inspired by the amount of positive feedback from previous events and decided to make something bigger and even more breath-taking. In addition, our organisation has won the Häkaton support of 2500 € grant and sponsoring from Telliskivi Loomelinnak providing our event with a place and catering. That's how the idea was born and hard work began.
The event was organised on the 2nd of September 2018 in capital city of Estonia, Tallinn. There is a beautiful modern district that corresponded the concept the best and it is called Telliskivi district. There is a space offering alternative experiences hand in hand with elementary commodities and professional technical solutions and it is called Club of Different Rooms. This is the spot where the action took place.
This time was decided to invite to tell their story as many people with different backgrounds, as we will be able to find, and also make it possible for the 'Living Books' and their Readers to meet professionals – people, who know much more about the history and concept of the Human Library.
Similarly to the previous event, we ended up having 25 Books. However, this time the working language of the event was Russian, English and Estonian and all of the quest were able to select the appropriate language.
Three 30-minute conversation sessions – we took into account the feedback from both Books and Readers after the previous event. We have also made the Book catalogue available online prior to the event, so people could have a look and possibly get curious about the concept, as well as have an idea which Books they might want to read.
was opportunity to listen about their experience. We had experts from 3 different countries: Russia, Lithuania and Spain/Estonia.
We also had a Facebook event here, so mark yourself, if you are planning to come! Also there you can find a schedule for you to plan your day!
12:30-13:00 – Registration + Doors open.
14:00-14:15 – Break, time to find your next book.
14:45-15:00 – Break, time to find your next book.
15:30-15:50 – Books and sponsors rewarding.
possibility to chat with living books in the main hall.
I want to express endless gratitude to my two companions, without whom it would have been impossible to carry it all through. And, of course, many thanks to Youth Club Active for technical support , volunteers and the creative space from Telliskivi Loomelinnak for support and service.


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Students Evaluate Themselves at Parent-Teacher Conferences
Research Shows Self-Reported Grades Impact Achievement
By Erin Albanese
Marcey Dorris and teacher Hannah Everhart listen to Darcey Dorris' spring conference presentation
During spring conferences at Kentwood Public Schools' Bowen Elementary School, fifth-grader Mia Johnson told her mother, Stephanie Mitchell, what she loves about school, her academic and behavior goals, and what she's still working on.
Instead of teacher Mary Campione updating Mitchell about her daughter's progress while Mia sat and listened, Mia told her mom herself through a Powerpoint presentation. She outlined her goals, many she's already met and some still under way.
"I will read more than 20 minutes a night and read interesting books," she said, of working toward her self-challenge of reading at a high-school level.
Bowen Elementary fifth-grader Mia Johnson presents a progress report about herself to her mother, Stephanie Mitchell
When it comes to getting the most out of her education, Mia is owning it. It's a trend catching on in classrooms as educators shift their focus from being the gatekeepers of students' grades and test scores to putting the data into the hands of students to use as a constant metric for self-growth and introspection.
"The research says that if a kid is aware of where they are at, they will progress at a higher rate," said Bowen Elementary Principal Blair Feldkamp. "Self-reported grades is the number-one ranked most effective best practice."
The study Feldkamp referred to is by John Hattie, author of "Visible Learning," who researches best instructional practices. Self-reported grades, according to Hattie, could be relabeled as student expectations. If educators know what students expect of themselves, they can help them raise those expectations above "safe-targets" students sometimes set for themselves.
At Bowen, it was the first year student-led conferences were held for all students. Feldkamp said he plans to continue them each spring when students have worked all year to hit targets set in the fall.
At Kentwood's Discovery Elementary, fifth-graders have led conferences for their parents for several years, but in the past students were just summarizing what they've studied. This year, students include what they're confident about, what they need to work on and their goals.
"It enables kids to tell their own stories about their own learning," said Discovery Principal Deb McNally.
Darcey Dorris presents her progress report to her mother, Marcey Dorris, explaining academic goals. "It was very different. It was good to hear her perspective," Marcey Dorris said
New Perspectives for Teachers, Parents, Students
Not all conferences go as smoothly as Mia's, Feldkamp said, but even the difficult ones allow students to take ownership of their academics, and for parents to see what's going on during the school day in a new way. And teachers learn to a greater degree what students are thinking. "It allows students to track their progress," he said. "Allof a sudden they have a much higher level of investment in their own learning because they are working toward something. It was repeatedly stated by parents that having students being able to explain to them what they're working on currently, and what they're working toward, was powerful and meaningful."
Teachers say students are stepping up to the opportunity to talk with their parents about how things are going for them at school. Families can then delve into reasons behind struggles or lack of growth. "It gives them more ownership," Campione said. "The kids are excited to share with their parents, both their progress and their challenges…This gives parents the opportunity to see their child in a different light. Their child's not just sitting next to them, quiet, while I talk. They are actually learning from their child, and for a parent, that's got to be very powerful."
Creating the Self-Assessments
What Kentwood fifth-Graders Presented During Conferences
What they like about school
How they are doing in math and reading
Their goals around those subjects
How they can work to meet those goals
Their strengths and weaknesses
Social/behavioral skills and challenges
The conferences look different at every grade level. In kindergarten through second-grade, students rate themselves on both academics and social-emotional skills. Kindergartners, for example, mark how they are doing with smiley-, straight- or frown-face stickers. At conferences, they tell their parents and teachers why they marked things as they did.
The process gets more complex for older grades. Third-through fifth-graders create student portfolios, setting goals at the beginning of the school year and working to meet them. Fifth-graders create PowerPoint presentations to summarize their standardized test data, district benchmark scores and behavioral and social goals.
What's been striking, Feldkamp said, is how on-target students are with their self-evaluations.
"It was amazing the honesty they reported with. It's different for me to call home (with a concern). The parent's natural reaction is to be defensive. But when you have your child sitting across from you and they are reporting their progress, it's much more valuable."
Feldkamp said he thinks embracing student ownership has already resulted in school-wide growth. The Michigan Department of Education has designated Bowen Elementary as a Reward School for the 2014-15 school year for being in the top 5 percent of schools making the greatest gains in achievement.
Student ownership of grades and test-score data was also pinpointed as a way for schools to increase achievement by the Reading Now Network, the Region 3 initiative to increase third-grade reading proficiency to 80 percent or more. In schools with high-reading success rates, students used data to set goals.
Mia's mother, Stephanie Mitchell, said hearing her daughter present was better than a normal conference.
"It makes the kids become more responsible for their learning, actions and social behavior, and I think it's really good for them to be the ones that have to say 'This is what I've done and this is what I need to work on,' " Mitchell said.
She also sees the benefit for students without much support at home.
"For them to have the chance to get up there and say something good about themselves, and to own that, and feel good about that, will really help them. For those who aren't doing as well, maybe it will help them become more responsible."
Brittany Hobson, mother to first-grader Adrian, said it's meaningful to hear from her child about his school experience.
"It made it a lot easier and more interesting for me," Hobson said. "It's a lot better for me to hear from him, because that means I know he knows what he's doing and what he needs to work on."
John Hattie on Self-Reported Grades
Erin Albanese is associate managing editor and reporter, covering Byron Center, Kentwood, Wyoming and Grand Rapids Community College. She was one of the original SNN staff writers, helping launch the site in 2013 and enjoys fulfilling the mission of sharing the stories of public education. She has worked as a journalist in the Grand Rapids area since 2000. A graduate of Central Michigan University, she has written for The Grand Rapids Press, Advance Newspapers, On-the-Town Magazine and Group Tour Media. Read Erin's full bio
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It is a beautiful evening and you want to go somewhere where you can sit back and relax. After thinking about a few places you finally decide to go to the Cerco Garden which is not far from where you live. It is a beautiful garden and it is a very peaceful place because it is located far away from the populated town that you live in. You go to the garden and enter the gate. Forgetfully you shut the gate behind you and it gets locked. Now that does not make you feel good. You start looking for a way to open the gate. You know that you must find the key but it will not be as easy as you may have assumed. Good luck!


With a stay at Westone Manor Hotel in Northampton, you'll be within a 10-minute drive of University of Northampton and County Ground. This hotel is 3.2 mi (5.2 km) from Sywell Country Park and 3.4 mi (5.5 km) from Market Square.
Stay in one of 71 guestrooms featuring flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available to keep you connected. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include desks and coffee/tea makers, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Satisfy your appetite for dinner at The Terrace, a restaurant which specializes in British cuisine, or stay in and take advantage of the room service (during limited hours). Need to unwind? Take a break with a tasty beverage at one of the 3 bars/lounges. Cooked-to-order breakfasts are served on weekdays from 6 AM to 9:30 AM and on weekends from 7:30 AM to 10 AM for a fee.
The preferred airport for Westone Manor Hotel is Birmingham (BHX).
All guests must show a valid photo ID. For more details, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking. For non-refundable bookings the credit card used to book the reservation must be presented by the cardholder at check-in. For more details, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.


Furniture and homewares retailer Habitat has launched a new website to enable it to evolve its online customer experience after reporting an increase of over 35% in traffic in the last year.
Developed by an in-house team and digital agency Salmon, the new responsive site has been built with a mobile audience in mind as over 50% of online shoppers are now using mobile and tablet devices to purchase from the brand.
Phase one of the project has aimed to offer an improved user experience with easier navigation and multi-divide image browsing, an easier check-out process, enhanced search function and improved rich editorial content. The platform will also allow for near-term developments such as the introduction of user-personalised experiences across channels and a click-and-collect service from Habitat flagship stores and its 84 Mini Habitat shops nationwide.
Bullock continued: "At the start of the project we identified a series of customer demands that we simply could not meet with a platform that was being outpaced by our competitors. Our aim was to upgrade to a more flexible, sustainable platform that would support our multi-channel growth and at the same time allow us to develop an inspirational brand experience – and this is what the new platform has allowed us to do.


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That Was The Weekend That Was: A London Weekend In The Premier League
Posted by Ian | Mar 4, 2013 | Latest | 0
It is an obvious reflection on the extent to which Manchester United are running away with the Premier League championship that the most important match of the weekend was the North London derby between Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal. Much had been made over the course of the previous few days or so of whether this was a match that would somehow "alter the balance of power" between the two clubs, but most Spurs supporters have seen far too many false dawns – they provide, on average, two to three per season – to get over-excited by all of this, although the league table will make for particularly satisfying reading for those of a navy blue and white persuasion in that part of the world this morning.
As things turned out, though, Spurs did air a couple of their more neurotic character traits at White Hart Lane yesterday afternoon. Having been gifted two goals in three minutes in the first half by an Arsenal central defence which might as well have been made of rice paper and strips of parcel tape, Spurs wasted a handful of chances of their own and allowed Arsenal back into the match early in the second half with some chaotic defending of their own. Still, a granite-like performance from Jan Vertongen was enough to keep Hugo Lloris' goal relatively free from incident, and Spurs are now back up to third place in the Premier League table with just ten matches of the league season left to play. Spurs, however, have a tricky run of fixtures coming up which will offer Arsenal supporters with a little hope that even this deficit could be overturned, although whether Arsenal could be relied upon to take advantage of whatever slip-ups Spurs may make over the coming weeks remains, on the current evidence available, a moot point.
The third part of this desperate London triumvirate, meanwhile, had issues that they needed to take care of on Saturday afternoon. Rafael Benitez's minor meltdown after Chelsea's FA Cup win at Middlesbrough during the week – and it was only a minor one; it's not like he was holding the still lifeless body of a recently decapitated cat, pensively stroking a 9mm pistol or whatever – was always likely to make for a pensive atmosphere for their match against West Bromwich Albion, but the afternoon passed off without John Terry turning up dressed up as General Pinochet and issuing a communique confirming that he had "taken control" of the first team or Roman Abramovich chasing Benitez around the pitch with a sharpened corner flag, and under the circumstances that and a win that was a good deal more convincing than the eventual one-nil scoreline suggested was probably about as much as Chelsea supporters might have hoped for, considering everything. Chelsea rose briefly to third place in the table with these three points, but they didn't stay there for very long and now find themselves back in fourth place, sandwiched between the feuding North London rivals. A London club sandwich, if you like.
At the other end of the Premier League table, meanwhile, another Londoner, Harry Redknapp, was expected to get a rough reception at Southampton upon his return with Queens Park Rangers following taboid stories concerning the goings-on during a club get-away in Dubai last month. 'It was a disgusting story in the paper,' Redknapp said after the match, 'It was completely full of untruths,' before adding, somewhat cryptically, that, 'I know where the story come from, I know who done the story and they are trying to make problems for the football club.' Still, it was a good day at the office for Redknapp, whose team won the game by two goals to one and remain just about in touch with the clubs just above them at the foot of the Premier League table. Reading, meanwhile, were beaten by Everton and Wigan Athletic were thrashed at home by Luis Suarez in the Saturday evening, so it wasn't that bad a weekend for Queens Park Rangers Football Club, all told.
At the top of the Football League Championship, meanwhile, there are signs that the discontent away from the pitch at Cardiff may be starting to take something of a toll on it. Cardiff lost to Middlesbrough on Saturday, while Hull City closed the gap at the top of the table to five points after they thrashed Birmingham City at the KC Stadium. Watford dropped two points on Friday night after conceding at injury time equaliser at Wolverhampton Wanderers, but Wolves dropped a place in the table after Peterborough United surprisingly won at Blackburn Rovers. They were, at least, spared the ignominy of dropping to the very bottom of the table after Barnsley were beaten at gome by Bolton Wanderers. Stil, though, it will have been three months since Wolves last won a match of any description by next weekend, and a ssecond successive relegation beckons unless manager Dean Saunders can somehow extract something from a dysfunctional group of players who have offered little of substance of late.
If the sound of party poppers was in the air anywhere on Saturday afternoon, however, then Crewe Alexandra's Gresty Road was probably its source. Portsmouth hadn't won any of their previous twenty-three matches going back to a home win against Shrewsbury Town in October, but this weekend they finally managed a win. It may be too late to save their season on the pitch – the club is eleven points from the dotted line at the bottom of the League One table – and tensions at Fratton Park have largely been directed away from the pitch over the last few months, but only those with the coldest hearts could not have not felt something for those that have kept the faith as the club has plummeted through the divisions at this unwanted run finally coming to an end. Doncaster Rovers stay at the top of the division after a home win against Hartlepool United, with Sheffield United in second place and Swindon Town in third.
Finally, it's we'll hear a lot about the fixture congestion caused by the inclement weather conditions of the last couple of months over the next few weeks or so, but there are few clubs that will have as much cause to look mournfully at the fixture list than Guernsey FC of the Combined Counties League might do this week. Guersney have only played nineteen league matches so far this season and they have twenty-three left to play. On top of this, they travelled to the West Midlands on Saturday to play Walsall Wood in the quarter-finals of the FA Vase, only to come away with a goalless draw and a home replay this week. Should they win this match, they will have a two-legged semi-final to play in order to book a place at Wembley, meaning that, although we are now into March Guernsey may still have to play twenty-six matches before the end of this season. Considering the travelling that they'll have to do from the Channel Islands between now and then, it is likely to be a long couple of months before the summer holidays come for their players.
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"Electra Mining has definitely grown exponentially over the past few years in terms of the scale and variety of companies, products and solutions showcased", was the observation by Glen Pringle, Technical Director at Vital Engineering, on visiting the show with members of his sales team last week.
The company has been a leading provider to mining (and many other industries) of a wide range of products – including non-slip floor gratings and walkways, safety handrails and stair treads – for almost 80 years now.
"This year's show was well integrated, with many innovative indoor and outdoor stands; as well as new local and international companies represented. It is good to see a strong focus on automation and condition monitoring, as well as on safety," Pringle continues.
He adds that the well-attended show is a positive sign, which also seems to indicate a prevailing attitude of "cautious optimism" – despite continuing concerns about governmental policymaking and how this will affect the country's key economic sectors such as mining, steel and manufacturing (not to mention the exchange rate) moving forward.
"Even though the South African mining, steel and manufacturing sectors are under pressure, things are looking promising in sub-Saharan Africa, with many positive developments and projects.
Thanks to our broad range of reliable, low-maintenance and cost-effective products, we have been able to provide consistently good quality and safety to the local and pan-African mining sector," he asserts.
Apart from Vital's flagship product lines – such as gratings, expanded metal, hand railings and stair treads – the company also offers a wide range of innovative ancillary products. An excellent example of this is its Vitaclamps grating panel fixings.
Vitaclamps are applied from above, and not underneath like traditional fixings; which leads to improved safety as well as substantial cost savings, by reducing the installation time and the need for scaffolding.
"A further positive aspect is that these – and the vast majority of our other products – are locally manufactured. Going forward, South African procurement legislation will require mines to procure 60% of their products and services locally; which is certainly advantageous to local manufacturers," he comments.
However, procuring locally should not mean a compromise on safety, as Vital Engineering's products are produced according to the strictest local and international safety standards. Vital is also recognised internationally for the quality, functionality and suitability of its products, which are frequently specified by international mining houses on pan-African projects.
"We are recognised – and specified – because of our uncompromising and absolute dedication to safety and quality," he says.
"We also work hard at ongoing research and development, and our clients should 'watch this space' for innovative new products soon to be launched," Pringle concludes.


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To hell with punctuality! A personal rant
So, this is a short rant about the obsession with punctuality of some transit operator.
First of all, I wrote an earlier article talking about bus speed and ridership, about how as the number of boardings increase for a bus, the more it has to stop and the slower it gets. But how can you predict exactly how many times a bus will have to stop at its bus stops? Or at traffic light? Or how fast traffic will be moving? The answer is, you can't, but you can expect a certain range of values.
So let's take this graph I made for the earlier article, showing a theoretical relation between average speed of a bus line and the number of boardings per kilometer.
Average speed of urban buses versus the number of boarding per km, supposing bus stop spacing of 200 meters
Now let's suppose that you expect the average number of boardings to be 3 per kilometer, plus or minus 0,5 boarding per kilometer. Visually, it means that you can expect this range of speed:
Average boardings/km and range of possible values
So in this case, you expect speed to vary between 19 km/h and 16 km/h. It may not seem like much, but on a 10 kilometer route, that's a 6 minute difference. So what is a transit agency to do?
Maybe the spontaneous answer is to schedule the bus line for the average and let the chips fall where they may. On average, buses will be on time, but some will be a bit early, others a bit late. Except that this is often seen to be a terrible idea. A bus can be a bit late, no worry, most users even expect buses to be a bit late. But a bus shouldn't be early, because then anyone who followed the schedule and arrived at the scheduled time will rage at missing their bus as it was too early. On less frequent lines, missing a bus can impose quite a delay on users, up to 1 hour on some suburban lines, but even on urban lines, 10-15 minutes until the next bus aren't rare. So you don't want buses to be early.
The solution is to then schedule the bus for the average, or even the worst possible scenario, and tell the bus driver to slow down if he's early to follow the schedule. In effect, scheduled times mean "the bus will arrive no sooner than...". Visually, it gives something like this:
Range of speed for the scheduled average with directive not to be early
So in this case, speed varies less, but it does so by being capped to a maximum of 17 km/h. So though you improve predictability, you also slow down service and increase travel times for most people. Yay?
That is why if you have ever taken a bus during off peak times, you will notice the bus driver is driving quite lazily, at 40 km/h (25 mph) in 50 km/h zones for instance (30 mph). It's not that he wants to be slow, it's that he's being told not to be fast.
But that's not all. Administrators often love punctuality, it's an easy metric to calculate and to boast about (our bus service has 99% punctuality! We are #1!!!). So what they will do then is schedule the worse possible case, assume the slowest bus possible is the rule and tell all buses that have either less passengers, face less traffic or hit more green lights to slow down to match its speed. Meaning in the previous case that all bus drivers will be told to have an average speed of 16 km/h and no faster.
So... to avoid some buses being 2 or 3 minutes late, you impose a delay of 3 to 6 minutes on ALL users. If you care about good service, that is a terrible, terrible deal that will waste dozens of hours for users each day and make it more expensive to run the bus. But hey, buses may be slow as hell, but at least they're punctual!
So that is why I say: to hell with punctuality. OK, punctuality on a transit line with the means to be punctual without slowing down, like subways or trains on their own right-of-way, is pretty great. But punctuality achieved by making the entire service worse? That's insanity. The next time you hear a transit agency head boast about their record of punctuality, hear what they are really saying: "we have slowed down all our buses and made our service crappy to game the stats about on-time service".
What brought this about is that my transit agency has just modified my buses' schedule to deal with a temporary construction zone, adding a 10-minute buffer in their schedule that wasn't there before. However, the people doing the construction have given buses a lane to avoid all the congestion and traffic, so that in effect, buses are only slowed by 1 or 2 minutes.
The result is that, this morning, my bus went at 30 km/h (20 mph) in a 70 km/h zone (45 mph), but even this wasn't enough, so the bus driver had to stop 2 minutes at an intersection not to be early on his schedule. The poor guy looked apologetic and really embarrassed, but I don't blame him. I blame his idiot bosses. This means that my trip to work has just gone from 30 minutes to 40 minutes each and every single fucking day, all so a transit operator can boast about his on-time performance.
I'll take a bus that sometimes is 2-3 minutes late over a bus that is on-time but ALWAYS takes 10-15 minutes more to get to destination. Maybe I'm the only one, but I had to get it off my chest.
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Keith Hennessy & Circo Zero No one does homo-angst like Hennessy. He's a tenacious activist/performer, and despite wearing his politics on his sleeve, he represents a new generation of queer artists that changed the way San Francisco choreographers make art. Sometimes abrasive and always unapologetic, his politics sometimes overshadow his art-making, but luckily for us, he's our designated cultural conscience that reminds us that there's a world beyond our iPhones, Xboxes and Gap clothes.
Krissy Keefer & Skydancers Curator Krissy Keefer has been on the vanguard of queer art-making for two decades, and Dance Mission has been the locus for much of her groundbreaking programming. This year was the fifth annual Skydancers , a largely queer women's festival that highlighted the amazing aerial dance that has been pioneered in the Bay Area the last 30 years. Whether running for Congress or curating an Anti-War Performance Festival (next March at the Herbst Theatre), you can count on Keefer to deliver in-your-face dance that isn't afraid to step on your toes.
Sean Dorsey & Fresh Meat Productions Dorsey and company are the trans community's goodwill ambassadors to the world; how hard is it not to like the charismatic Dorsey? With easy-to-watch choreography, Dorsey is quietly subversive; imagine discovering that Prince Charming was really a transman and Cinderella wasn't a bio-girl. The Fresh Meat performance festival in June has become one of Pride's most popular events, selling out and pointing the direction for new trends in art-making.
Navarrete x Kajiyama Dancetheater Their season at the ODC Theater came and went this year without a lot of fanfare. Jose Navarrete and creative partner Debbie Kajiyama created a series of new pieces in collaboration with such luminaries as Joanna Haigood (Zaccho Dance Theatre), Sara Shelton Mann (Contraband) and June Wantanabe. The new works dealt with issues of immigration, bio-engineering and cultural identity, contemporary survival and making sense in a chaotic world.
Anne Bluethenthal & Dancers Bluethenthal is old-school; the politics are right out-front, and the dancing is carefully crafted, using lots of technique and a generous amount of heart. Bluethenthal is equally passionate about both her choreography and her politics. She's an elder among the queer community's art-making activists.
Ceres Dance Brittany Brown Ceres is a young choreographer who has her feet planted in both the creative side of dancemaking and the administrative side. As one of the directors of the Bay Area's West Wave Dance Festival, Brown Ceres has helped shepherd many young choreographers into spaces like the Cowell Theatre and the Project Artaud Theater. This year, she presented her own full season at Dance Mission, and helped West Wave find a new home with Dancers' Group.
Twincest Jez Lee and Shawn are two maverick choreographers who push the creative envelop to include arts and crafts, performance art and body politics. They're on hiatus right now, but they're in our Top 10 because nobody captured the Zeitgeist of this year's queer art-making quite the way they did.
Experimental Performance Institute (EPI) at New College, and Mama Calizo's Voice Factory (at the former Jon Sims Center for the Arts). Dwayne Calizo juggles multiple balls along with EPI co-directors Erika Shuch and Zak Barnett, as these two programs continue SF's long history of renegade art-making on a shoe-string. It's a little hard to find out what's happening at Mama Calizo's, but if you know someone, check it out. EPI has multiple performance programs (including the Faultline Festival), and it's a great way find out what the Mission hipsters are up to.
Frolic CounterPULSE's burlesque and circus party has become an end-of-the-year celebration of everything queer. CounterPULSE has always been a safe haven for the dance community's risk-takers. With Frolic, they've created an event where committed artists don't have to take themselves too seriously. Start with the best drag queens, add a little punk rock and a few experienced choreographers (Monique Jenkinson, Lauren Steiner and Jessica Fudim), and you just can't lose. Now if only the rest the year could be this much fun.


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Porthminster beach is a short level walk from the harbour and town centre of St Ives, it is ideal for families and provides safe bathing and of course good sand castling. At extreme low tides, you can walk from the harbour beach around the headland. Historically, this was the beach mainly used by the Victorians who came by train from Penzance and further afield. The single track railway still passes along the scenic coastline to Carbis Bay and St Erth. There is also a large station car park but for those traveling from out of town, the rail link is recommended.
The Porthminster Beach Cafe and Restaurant is highly regarded and with many awards and has featured on the discovery Channel series, it is important to book particularly for dinner but this is special. Right on the beachside, the open terrace is the place to be, listen to the surf, watch the sunset, even fireworks on New years Eve, the quality of local produce and the inventiveness of the chef ensures an excellent dining experience.


Watermelon might just be the best summertime fruit. It's refreshing, easily shared and incredibly versatile—it's tasty whether eaten plain, made into sweet sorbet, or mixed into a savory salsa, as in this recipe. This dish combines diced watermelon, ripe plum tomatoes, red onion, jalapeño and cilantro for a simple salsa that's the epitome of summer flavors. Adjust the spiciness to your liking—leaving the seeds in the jalapeño adds heat. Enjoy this delicious, healthy condiment spooned over grilled fish, chicken or steak, as a side for your next taco night, or straight out of the bowl with tortilla chips.
This flavorful, low-carb salsa is also very nutritious: watermelon is filled with vitamins A and C and antioxidants. Raw tomatoes are the best source for lycopene, an antioxidant that's been linked to heart health, as well as beta-carotene and Vitamin C.
Per Serving: 6 calories; 0g fat; 1.4g carbohydrates; 0g protein; 0mg cholesterol; 13mg sodium.
Its clear that this salsa is a crowd favorite. I am a big fan of different variations of salsa as I have tried avocado salsa, guava salsa, peanut salsa, tamarind salsa and many other salsas. This salsa is so refreshing and definitely one of my favorites. I will certainly be making this salsa a lot going forward.
The heat of the jalapeños + the cool, earthiness of the cilantro + the sweetness of the summer's most perfect watermelon = this absolutely perfect summer salsa. I now have a totally new reason to look forward to watermelon season each year!
This was so easy to make! It's delicious, refreshing and packed with flavor. I used on tilapia but think it would do great with any other white fish or chicken. Only used half jalapeño because I don't like super spicy but even with half it was too hot.
This salsa was amazing on fish tacos! I used mahi mahi and the mix of flavors was delicious! I added a dash of garlic salt to really bring out the watermelon flavor and my husband and I both ended up eating a few bites of the salsa itself because it was so good! An absolute favorite!!
I was always a skeptic about watermelon salsa and then this came along! So refreshing; love the heat from the jalapenos that goes so well with the sweet watermelon and popping flavor of tomatoes. Cilantro rounds it out nicely. I tend to use cherry and sungold tomatoes in my salsas, so opted for those this time around. Delicious.


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Home: BJP-led NDA appears set to sweep Lok Sabha polls for second term in power
BJP-led NDA appears set to sweep Lok Sabha polls for second term in power
By Sonny Abraham/NetIndian News Network
New Delhi, May 23, 2019
BJP workers burst fire crackers as they celebrate after the counting trends for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections show that the party appeared set to retain power at the Centre, in New Delhi, on May 23, 2019. (Photo: IANS)
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) appeared set to retain power for a second consecutive term as it surged ahead in 329 of the 542 Lok Sabha constituencies where elections were held between April 11 and May 19.
Counting of votes in the elections began at 0800 hours and early trends indicated that the BJP was leading in 290 constituencies, while its main rival Congress was ahead in 50.
Among its allies, the Shiv Sena was leading in 19, the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) in 15, the Lok Jan Shakti Party (LJP) in six, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in two, the Asom Gana Parishad in two, the AIADMK in one, the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) in one and the AJSU in one.
Among the Congress allies, the DMK was leading in 22 seats, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in five, the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) in three, the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) in two, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in one, the National Conference in one and the Kerala Congress (Mani) in one.
Among other parties, the Trinamool Congress was leading in 25 seats, the YSRCP in 24, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)-Samajwadi Party (SP) combine in 20, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in 12, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in 1, the Naga People's Party in one, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in two, and the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) in two and the All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen in one.
The BJP appeared to be doing well in most parts of the Hindi heartland, including in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh as well as in states like Gujarat.
Congress President Rahul Gandhi was involved in a tight contest with Union Minister Smriti Irani of the BJP in Amethi in Uttar Pradesh but he was far ahead of his Left rival in Wayanad in Kerala. His mother and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi was ahead in Rae Bareli.
BJP leaders who were ahead included Union Ministers Rajnath Singh and Maneka Gandhi.
Votes are also being counted in the Legislative Assembly elections which were held in Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim along with the Lok Sabha polls.
Polling for 542 of the 545 seats in the Lok Sabha was held in seven phases on April 11, April 18, April 23, April 29, May 6, May 12 and May 19. The poll in one constituency, Vellore in Tamil Nadu, has been rescinded by the Election Commission of India (ECI). Two seats in the House of the People are filled up by nomination from the Anglo-Indian community.
This time, the Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips will be counted from five randomly chosen polling stations in each Assembly segment in each Lok Sabha constituency, after the counting of the votes polled in electronic voting machines (EVMs), and this is expected to delay the final results by a few hours, sources said.
More than 8000 candidates were in the fray for the 542 seats, while 67.11 percent of the 90.99 crore electors exercised their franchise -- the highest ever turnout in Indian elections.
The Opposition parties had urged the Election Commission to tally the VVPAT slips with the EVM count in the five randomly chosen polling stations in each assembly segment first before counting the votes polled in the EVMs.
The Election Commission said on Wednesday it had deliberated on the issue in detail and found that the suggestion was neither possible nor feasible to accede to in the overall context and especially in view of a judgement of the Supreme Court on April 8 which directed that the random selection of VVPATs shall be subjected to the process of slip verification as per the guidelines of 16.6 of the EVM Manual in force.
The Commission assured the Opposition parties and all the electors of the country that the entire counting, especially guarding the strong rooms and counting centres, was already being done in an absolutely fair and transparent manner.
The Commission has also set up a 24-hour EVM Control Room at its headquarters here to monitor complaints relating to polled EVMs. Complaints related to storage issues at strongrooms, the security of strongrooms, permissions to candidates to post their agents at strongrooms, CCTV monitoring, movement of any EVMs and any complaints during counting related to EVMs can be registered at the Control Room. The Control Room contact number is 011-23052123.
Meanwhile, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has alerted the Chief Secretaries and Directors General of Police of all States about the possibility of violence during the counting of votes.
It has asked the States and UTs to maintain law and order and peace and public tranquility. States and UTs have been further asked to take adequate measures for the security of strongrooms and venues of counting of votes.
"This is in the wake of calls given and statements made in various quarters for inciting violence and causing disruption on the day of counting of votes," an official press release said.


Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for changes to OAR chapter 333, Division 8 - Updating rules for Medical Marijuana pertaining to registration fees and adding new fee charges. The Oregon Health Authority, Public Health Division, Oregon Medical Marijuana Program is proposing to permanently amend administrative rules in chapter 333, division 8. The 2011 Legislative Assembly adopted a Public Health budget that requires an increase in fees charged to OMMP applicants as well as an additional fee for growers to generate revenue to fund other public health programs. The new fees will be implemented beginning October 1, 2011. The current administrative rule does not require a fee for the growers in order for an applicant or grower to obtain an OMMP registry identification card. The Oregon Medical Marijuana Act (OMMA) mandates the Authority to adopt a fee structure in rules. In order to comply with the OMMA and legislative direction, the OMMP must amend its rules to increase the application fee, the replacement card fee, add a grower fee, and also, to add definitions to clarify new terms and meanings for Authority, food stamps, grow site, and replacement registry identification card which are provisions in the rule that are not defined.
- Be articulate, respectful, and only address the issues which are relevant to the OARs that are proposed for amendment.
- Submit written testimony, along with your oral testimony.
- While waiting in the audience, be quiet and respectful of the proceedings.
*** Make a respectful and articulate demand to include a sunset clause that will automatically revert the fee structure to its current state on July 1, 2013 or when the revenue for the 'other' programs has been generated, whichever comes first.
Background: despite the strong recommendation by the Rules Advisory Committee and the ACMM to add a sunset clause, and despite the lack of need for the additional revenue after this biennium, and despite the lack of legislative direction to continue the fee increase after this biennium, the OHA has deliberately omitted a sunset clause from the proposed OAR amendment. Unless we include a sunset clause NOW, we may NEVER be able to lower fees because the OHA and the legislature will always see this extra revenue as a source of revenue for other programs, and will likely continue to increase OMMP fees in the future. I cannot overstate the importance of adding this sunset clause!
Earlier this week activists had a meeting with the new OMMP Administrator, Jody Noon, to discuss adding this sunset clause. She made it clear that the OHA has not made a final decision about the sunset clause, and that testimony at the upcoming hearings will influence their decision about this. It's bad enough that our fees are increasing, but it would be far worse if our own OMMP decides to make those fee increases permanent. Our best opportunity to prevent this damage from becoming permanent, is if we all focus our testimony on the one thing we can change, without creating distractions about things we cannot change. Please keep this in mind for both testimony and protests.
OMMP Meetings, Advisory Committee on Medical Marijuana (ACMM) meetings, and any others of interest. Adds, Changes or Deletes? (Heaven forbid) ... Post your Meeting Info, or Idea or even a new Category in the NotePad or e-Mail us.
Advisory Committee on Medical Marijuana (ACMM) meeting hosted by the OMMP. Last Quarterly meet was: Monday, June 18, 2007 from 10 am to 3 pm Portland State Office Building 800 NE Oregon Street, # Conference Room 1E Portland , Oregon 97232 We'll get whatever documentation we can and post.
See: below for details, including any info we have, like proposed agenda, etc. We'll get copies of documents and stuff from the meetings - and post in our online library, print out and otherwise Keep you in the loop! - as we can(!) You can also keep up on Public Meeting Notices by visiting the OMMP website at: http://oregon.gov/DHS/ph/ommp/ * Call the Program at 971.673-1234 for more info on OMMP hosted meetings. Also, see: http://oregon.gov/DHS/ph/ommp/acmm.shtml for more detail on the Advisory Committee on Medical Marijuana (ACMM).
Index to MERCYs' info on public Oregon Medical Marijuana Program (OMMP) Meetings, as well as relevent Resources and other related Items.
This is our index to OMMP Meeting Information, we know about, if you know of others, please communicate!


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Comments on War with Germany, May 21, 1915 (excerpts)
JANE ADDAMS IN BERLIN TO PRESENT PEACE RESOLUTIONS
Expects to Confer with German Officials -- Does Not Fear There Will Be War With U.S.
BERLIN, via London, May 21. -- Miss Jane Addams has arrived in this city to present to the Foreign Office resolutions adopted at the Women's Peace Conference, held recently at The Hague. She expects to have a conference with Foreign Minister von Jagow before Sunday, and possibly to see Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollwegg as well. She lunched yesterday with United States Ambassador Gerard, who, it is understood, will assist her in an unofficial capacity.
Miss Addams will go to Vienna and then to Berne and Paris upon the same mission. She expressed the belief today that there need be no fear of serious eventualities between the United States and Germany.
"President Wilson and Secretary Bryan both are firmly opposed to war," she said. "It seems as though the whole world had gone crazy. There must be some little spot left where reason will rule."
Bethmann-Hollweg, Theobald von (1856-1921)
Bryan, William Jennings (1860-1925)
Gerard, James Watson, Jr, (1867-1951)
Government of Austria-Hungary
Government of France
Government of Germany
Government of Switzerland
International Congress of Women (1915)
Jagow, Gottlieb von (1863-1935)
Presidential Address, International Congress of Women at The Hague, May 1, 1915
Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)
While in Berlin to present peace resolutions, Addams comments that though the world is war-crazy, she expects the United States to remain neutral.
Miss Addams in Berlin with Peace Resolution, The Harrisburg Telegram, May 21, 1915, p. 4.
Addams, Jane, views on peace
World War I, United States neutrality
World War I, peace negotiations
peace movement, in Germany
J-HT - Harrisburg Telegram
PeaceWomen's RightsWorld War I
Felner, Talia
Risman, Samantha
JAPA-0550
Published document
Addams, Jane, "Comments on War with Germany, May 21, 1915 (excerpts)," Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed February 2, 2023, http://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/10003.


Since money was not a close associate of mine for many years, this short but wise piece of advice helped me make the best of situations. Frequently, I would find that items had been left on my front porch simply because neighbors knew that if I couldn't use it or renew it, I would find someone who could.
Today, I am in a much better place financially and situationally, but I still do not like to see things go to waste. Some of the stuff that people will throw away is sometimes unbelievable! In my quest to make everything beautiful, I have discovered many treasures. I am sharing with you some of my finds and how I have re-used or re-purposed them.
I pulled this lovely little table off the curb, simply cleaned it up and put it straight to work as a bedside nightstand.
This adorable highchair just needed some cleaning, the broken footrest removed, and the rails on the legs re-glued. I didn't bother to paint it because I loved the aged look. Definitely not safe for use with a child as a highchair, but perfect for displaying a plant!
Some scrubbing and a few nuts and bolts later, this easel is perfect for little ones to create art.
These wicker baskets still had the liners! I put the liners through the wash, and scrubbed the baskets and lids. Perfect storage for my dozens and dozens of stuffed animals.
Three for one in this vignette! The diamond frame was someone's remodeling waste. This one was the only unbroken frame. The vase was broken in half (you can see the glue line still since I have not yet figured out how I want to cover it) and in the trash cart at a store. The two shelves are from one of those pressed wood computer desks, the kind that you buy in a box and scream at the faulty instructions as you assemble the pieces. I disassembled the no-longer-needed desk, and used two of the shelves here after sanding, painting and gold-glazing them. Some of the computer desk parts were made into a laundry folding table, another shelf, and the rest are still awaiting a creative touch.
I found this bamboo table base alongside a deserted country road. By adding a Donato's table top from a store remodel, it makes a great game room table!
This lovely and very heavy changing table is still awaiting a beauty treatment. After sanding and painting, it will make a lovely addition to our guest room as combination TV stand and storage center. It was not easy to drag that thing three blocks back to my home on trash day, but it was well worth the effort.
Another piece awaiting transformation. After emptying it of old papers and miscellaneous trash and scrubbing the spiderwebs and dirt away, this little chest of drawers went straight into the office to hold small supplies that tend to be scattered. Its future holds being decoupaged with old maps and receiving new drawer pulls.
Okay, I did buy the wicker vase at The Salvation Army Store for $2. The bamboo sticks however were a curbside find. I love the height and drama they add! The bamboo also made its way into my master bathroom, up next.
The bamboo sticks in the stones and salt arrangement just adds such a serene quality to the room. The cabinet below is a favorite find. When I pulled it from the trash, it was a country blue with a birdhouse theme painted on the front. Cute, but definitely not my style.
Two of my grandsons helped me paint it. I then mod-podged the gold-patterned tissue paper to the panel on the door. I removed one of the two shelves inside to accommodate a plunger and toilet brush, leaving the top shelf to hold extra toilet paper. Practical, convenient, and beautiful!
These furniture pieces are child-sized and were being thrown away by a childcare center. They will be perfect after being reupholstered! The rug on the floor is made from tattered towels cut into strips and sewn onto a not-so-tattered towel. Comfy and completely washable.
This last photo is composed of many rescued pieces. The fort was discarded by a childcare center because a child's parent complained when their little angel got a bruise from the wood. The play ring was discarded due to some stitches coming out, which I easily repaired. The two racks were curbside finds, one still with all of its sorting tubs! I found the other tubs at Goodwill stores, but they can also be purchased separately from the racks online. The large wicker basket holding toys (to the left) also cleaned up nicely after saving it from the trash.
I have many, many more finds that I may share in future posts, but I think this is enough for one time. Maybe I am luckier than most when it comes to "finding" these kinds of treasures. Maybe it is the aforementioned mantra, especially the "make-it-do" portion. Maybe it comes from having nothing unless I was creative.
My purpose in sharing these photos is to hopefully educate and inspire people to look twice and look hard at what is being discarded, and to try making something beautiful. If nothing else, maybe you will give me a call before trash collection day. Happy hunting!
This entry was posted in Beautiful Things, Home and Hospitality and tagged home decor, trash to treasure, upcycling on July 15, 2015 by teeohemeye.