The National University of Ireland, Galway offers Irish Language summer school courses at beginners', elementary, intermediate and advanced levels each summer. These summer school courses are located at the University's Irish-Language Centre, Áras Mháirtín Uí Chadhain, An Cheathrú Rua in the heart of Connemara (approx 1 hour from Galway City).
Quite apart from being a region of great beauty, Connemara is a major Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking district) and is endowed with a rich folk tradition. The village of An Cheathrú Rua, therefore, provides the ideal location for learning Irish in its natural environment.
Excursions and visits will be arranged to several Irish-speaking locations to experience language and culture in their natural environment. Towns and villages that will be visited include Ros a' Mhíl, Ros Muc and An Spidéal with its local specialised crafts. The course will include receptions and evenings of traditional Irish entertainment for students.
Intensive instruction in spoken Irish each day.
Special classes in traditional Irish singing and dancing.
Introductory lectures on relevant topics including Irish History, Literature, Folklore and Society.
The Irish Language Summer School course handbook will be available in March for download at the bottom of this page.
This four week intensive course provides a basic knowledge of spoken Irish and a general introduction to Irish linguistic culture. It is designed for those who have no previous knowledge of Irish.
The University is also offering a course for those who have some knowledge of the spoken language. Its aim is to help participants express themselves at an improved level of fluency.
The University is also offering a course for those who have a general knowledge of the language structures and a good vocabulary. Its aim is to help participants become fluent and communicate more effectively in the spoken dialect of Connemara Irish.
Tá an Ollscoil ag tairiscint cúrsa dóibh siúd a bhfuil ardchaighdeán Gaeilge acu. Beidh na rannpháirtithe in ann labhairt go líofa agus beidh tuiscint acu ar struchtúir agus rialacha na teanga.
Students are required to stay in approved accommodation. Accommodation is provided with Irish-speaking families. Students who have some knowledge of Irish may request to stay in accommodation with students of similar ability. Applicants wishing to avail of this facility should complete a special form after enrolment.
Courses on offer are at beginners', elementary intermediate and advanced level. Students are registered for the course best suited to their standard in the language. Applicants should be 18 years of age or over.
Applications open 31 October, 2018 and close 19 April 2019.
The Fulbright Commission offers Gaeltacht Scholarship Awards to US citizens while the Ireland Canada University Foundation offers scholarships to Canadian citizens who wish to study the Irish language. The Irish Embassy in Hungary offers a scholarship to Hungarian citizens interested in learning the Irish language.


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Q: Cannot ssh to raspberry pi through hostname after upgrading to Jessie For a long time, as long as I connect my Mac and RP directly using a single cable (with or without any other devices like monitor or keyboards connected), I can ssh to my RP using command
ssh pi@raspberrypi.local

Yesterday, I upgraded to Jessie, then strange thing happens:

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*If the monitor is connected (through HDMI) when booting the RP

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*If my mac is connected to a Wifi, the ssh will FAIL! However, if I immediately re-ssh again, it will succeed!

*If my mac is not connected to other networks, the ssh will succeed.

*If the monitor is not connected when booting, I can NOT ssh through hostname.

*In both case the RP is not connected to any wifi or other networks.

Neither before of after upgrading have I modified any system configuration.
Could anyone help? Particularly, I am wondering how does connecting a monitor through HDMI affect ssh connection?!

A: You could ssh manually to the pi's local ip address instead. You can view its ip in your router settings when it's connected then run ssh pi@xxx.xxx.xxx. Hope this helps

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The Spring Jazz Festival was the annual spring version of the Jazz Night hold every year in November/December. Latin, Fusion, Soul, Big Band and many more. Also, specials guests like the Jazz Orchestra Concertgebouw Amsterdam were present.
This year the Spring Jazz Festival has broaden its horizons by collaborating with Jazz Maastricht, University Maastricht and the Lumière: the Cross Currents Festival.


Coppeen and its surrounding areas in West Cork hold a wealth of historical sites and monuments of unique archaeological value. The fort of Cahirvagliair is one of these unique sites. It is a bivallate ringfort and was one of the chief residences of the Cineál Laoighaire. It has been suggested that the name comes from the Fort of the Son of Laoighaire 'Cathair Mhac Laoighaire'.
The fort has also been connected through local folklore to one of Ireland's best known historical figures, Brian Boru. It is believed that Brian was held hostage here when he was a young boy between the ages of 8 and 16 years. It has been suggested that because of its size and the stonework in the entrance, that Cahirvagliair must have been built by someone of great importance and may even have been a royal residence.
Cahirvagliair Fort was taken into state care in 1915, but despite this, the fort is in very poor condition. The fosses and ditches which were restored in 1983 and 84 are now in parts, almost non-existent after being flattened. The internal diameter is 42 meters and the overall diameter is 75 meters.


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Saturnalia (, "Seven Books of the Saturnalia") is a work written after  431 CE by the Roman provincial Macrobius Theodosius (b.  390 CE - d. ?). The Saturnalia consists of an account of the discussions held at the house of Vettius Agorius Praetextatus during the holiday of the Saturnalia. It contains a great variety of curious historical, mythological, critical, antiquarian and grammatical discussions. "The work takes the form of a series of dialogues among learned men at a fictional banquet." There is little attempt to give any dramatic character to the dialogue; in each book some one of the personages takes the leading part, and the remarks of the others serve only as occasions for calling forth fresh displays of erudition.

Contents

The first book is devoted to an inquiry as to the origin of the Saturnalia and the festivals of Janus, which leads to a history and discussion of the Roman calendar, and to an attempt to derive all forms of worship from that of the Sun. The second book begins with a collection of bons mots, to which all present make their contributions, many of them being ascribed to Cicero and Augustus; a discussion of various pleasures, especially of the senses, then seems to have taken place, but almost the whole of this is lost. The third, fourth, fifth and sixth books are devoted to Virgil, dwelling respectively on his learning in religious matters, his rhetorical skill, his debt to Homer (with a comparison of the art of the two) and to other Greek writers, and the nature and extent of his borrowings from the earlier Latin poets. The latter part of the third book is taken up with a dissertation upon luxury and the sumptuary laws intended to check it, which is probably a dislocated portion of the second book. The seventh book consists largely of the discussion of various physiological questions.

The primary value of the work lies in the facts and opinions quoted from earlier writers. The form of the Saturnalia is copied from Plato's Symposium and Gellius's Noctes atticae; the chief authorities (whose names, however, are not quoted) are Gellius, Seneca the philosopher, Plutarch (Quaestiones conviviales), Athenaeus and the commentaries of Servius and others on Virgil.

Editions and translations
 Robert A. Kaster (ed.), Macrobius: Saturnalia. Loeb classical library 510–512. Cambridge, MA/ London:  Harvard University Press, 2011. 3 volumes.
 Percival Vaughan Davies (trans.), Macrobius: The Saturnalia. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969.

External Links
Latin text on LacusCurtius
Loeb Classical Library edition

References

5th-century Latin books
Gallo-Roman religion

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On November 2nd and 3rd, 2001, almost 300 participants and speakers gathered near Washington DC for the National Summit on the Mathematical Education of Teachers. The Summit was an intensive two-day event, hosted and organized by the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences. The purpose of the Summit was to launch the document, The Mathematical Education of Teachers (MET), and to stimulate the mathematics community into making the mathematical education of teachers a priority for this decade.
Participants formed a diverse group, geographically (representing 35 states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands), by specialty (mathematics, mathematics education, and education), and by affiliation (universities, four-year colleges and two-year colleges). Together, discussed the recommendations of MET, the challenges involved in implementing those recommendations, and efforts underway now at several institutions to improve the mathematics education of teachers.


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Schwarzenegger: DC Full of "Wimps" Who Let Oil Companies Win (Video)
Driving sustainability mainstream
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California Arnold Schwarzenegger had some harsh words for Washington politicians -- perhaps especially the Obama administration -- during his interview with Diane Sawyer earlier in the week. He said that Washington DC is full of "wimps" who backed down on energy and environmental policy after the oil companies lobbied them -- and then he called on our leaders to "stand up and fight" them. Rousing words from a man whose legacy will likely end up being his commitment to clean energy and fighting climate change. Watch:
Say what you will about the rest of Schwarzenegger's colorful, often controversial tenure as governor, there's no disputing that the nation needs more politicians who are willing to passionately voice support for climate and clean energy reform. He's a major reason that California will continue to lead the nation in innovation, this time in clean technology. And he's stood by the climate law he signed that reduces the state's emissions, fighting the Texas oil-backed Prop 23 campaign to overturn it tooth and nail.
And by and large, he's right on -- the Obama administration, and Democratic politicians in general, have let oil companies push them around. Even in the face of the worst oil spill in American history, they've ceded a brief offshore drilling moratorium and made next to no progress in updating our backwards energy policy, which is still stuffed with subsidies to oil companies to this day. We should be fighting the oil companies, who have spent millions to oppose climate policy and support anti-climate science politicians to entrench the nation's dependence on fossil fuels -- and the politicians we elect to protect our interests as citizens should be fighting too.
More on Arnold Schwarzenegger:
Schwarzenegger Blasts "Black Oil Hearts" of Prop 23 Backers ...
Arnold Terminates Offshore Drilling (Video News)
Schwarzenegger Proposes New Climate Change Conference
California Arnold Schwarzenegger had some harsh words for Washington politicians -- perhaps especially the Obama administration -- during his interview with Diane Sawyer earlier in the week. He said that Washington DC is full of "wimps"
10 reasons to go green starting NOW
Recycling is broken: California's rePlanet shuts all its recycling ...
How tall is the tallest tree in the world?
California hotels banned from offering mini toiletries in plastic

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I've created a website for North Wales Fly Fishing School (NWFFS) who specialise in providing fishing courses and holidays.
The site has been designed so that new content can be added easily as I manage all the updates to the site and hence update fees need to be kept as low as possible.
The site has been produced so that any changes and updates automatically get submitted to the major search engines.
Over time, booking & enquiry forms, application forms, payment processing and videos have been added to the site.
Most of NWFFS's business is generated from the website.


World Bank estimates Iran loses $900m per year due to problems caused by Tehran's pollution and overcrowding.
Iran is considering to shift the seat of government from its rapidly growing capital city.
Severe pollution and choking traffic is making life increasingly miserable in Tehran. Poor air quality this week shut down primary schools and forced the elderly to stay indoors.
But decentralisation, including moving the capital, is not a new idea. In fact, it was a focus of the previous government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.


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(20271) Allygoldberg (1998 FK32) – planetoida z pasa głównego asteroid okrążająca Słońce w ciągu 3,28 lat w średniej odległości 2,21 j.a. Odkryta 20 marca 1998 roku.

Zobacz też
 lista planetoid 20001–21000
 lista planetoid

Linki zewnętrzne

Planetoidy pasa głównego
Nazwane planetoidy
Obiekty astronomiczne odkryte w 1998


Last summer I did my first ever giveaway, and was so amazed with the positive response. I have wanted to do another one for such a long time, however have just struggled to find the time to put one together. As you are probably aware by now, I have been working closely with a company called Coconut Lane for a few months. They contacted me not so long ago, wondering if I would like to host a giveaway with them. This was the perfect opportunity to do another, and I decided to give it a beauty theme. I have just put together a few beauty products that I have been loving in the past few months, in a handy pink polka dot bag.
1. Following both myself and Coconut Lane.
The deadline will be on Tuesday at 6pm. The winner will be randomly selected by myself.
T&Cs: You must be UK based; neither myself or Coconut Lane can be held liable for anything lost in the post.
As always, a massive thank you to all my viewers and the support I receive everyday. It really means the world.
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Q: Is there a Maven plugin that runs a non-fat jar? Imagine a normal java maven project with a Main class that produces the artifact project-a.jar. This project has a dependency on project-b.jar.
Is there a Maven plugin that allows to run that jar by a command like that?
mvn run-plugin:run org.mygroup:project-a:3.1 <args>

The plugin would resolve the runtime dependencies (using META-INF/maven/(...)/pom.xml), install the project and its dependencies to the local maven repository (if not already there), construct the classpath and invoke
java -cp (...)/project-a-3.1.jar;(...)/project-b-2.1.jar org.mygroup.Main <args>

I know that the usual way is to build an executable (fat) jar that contains the dependencies, but that's not what I am asking for.
Actually, it is not even necesary to read the pom from the jar, because maven can download it from the repositories given the coordinates.
Why this question is different to the Maven Run Project question:
I do not want to start from having the project's source already checked out. So the usual use of the exec plugin is not applicable. The OP of the Maven Run Project question obviously assumed the presence of a source code project folder. Her purpose was testing and she accepted an answer that clearly needs a project. The wording of both questions is correct, too. There is a difference between the words "project" and "jar" and their actual meaning in their respective contexts is quite different.

A: You can use the appassembler-maven-plugin plugin, it creates a shell script that has the dependencies in the classpath for you.  Heres an example config
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
            <artifactId>appassembler-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <phase>package</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>assemble</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
            <configuration>
                <extraJvmArguments>-Xms256m -Xmx1536m</extraJvmArguments>
                <programs>
                    <program>
                        <mainClass>com.package.MyMainClass</mainClass>
                        <name>TestFormattingUtils</name>
                    </program>
                </programs>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>

You can find the output script in .../target/appassembler/bin  You can manually inspect the script and you'll see that its doing the type of command you wanted where it adds the jars to classpath via the command line.  ie java -jar (...)/project-a-3.1.jar -cp (...)/project-b-2.1.jar <args>

A: I'm not a fan of jars-in-jar either, but I do maintain various tools with lots of dependencies. So, at one point, I decided to write an executable AppBoot jar which puts all the jars from a lib-subdirectory in a class-loader and then calls the main-method of the desired (executable) jar. This question prompted me to investigate if the exec-maven-plugin could do something similar, and it can.
The exec-maven-plugin does not require a "Java project" directory, but a pom.xml in a directory is required. The pom.xml I used is shown below, note that it can be placed in any (empty) directory and the application can be started by opening a shell/prompt in that directory and executing mvn exec:exec. Use mvn -X exec:exec to review the classpath used by the exec-maven-plugin.
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>com.descartes</groupId>
    <artifactId>exec-embed-demo</artifactId>
    <version>1.2.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>pom</packaging>

    <!-- Start the demo using Maven repository artifacts, execute with "mvn exec:exec" -->

    <properties>
        <demo.version>1.2.1.GH</demo.version>
        <mainclass>com.descartes.basicjsp.embed.demo.Launch</mainclass>
        <appname>${project.artifactId}</appname>
        <homedir>${project.basedir}/</homedir>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <!-- exec-maven-plugin will get all required (runtime) jar-files from this dependency. -->
            <groupId>com.descartes</groupId>
            <artifactId>basic-jsp-embed-demo</artifactId>
            <version>${demo.version}</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <!-- The "outputDirectory" is added to the classpath by the exec-maven-plugin. -->
        <!-- Add this pom's directory to the classpath instead of "./target/classes". -->
        <!-- The directory should contain "logback.xml" to prevent a million lines of debug output from Tomcat. -->
        <outputDirectory>${homedir}</outputDirectory>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.4.0</version>
                <!-- mvn exec:exec configuration -->
                <!-- Embedded Tomcat will not stop with "ctrl-c" -->
                <!-- Use http://localhost:8080/shutdown instead -->
                <configuration>
                    <executable>java</executable>
                    <arguments>
                        <argument>-Dapp.name=${appname}</argument>
                        <argument>-Dapp.home.dir=${homedir}</argument>
                        <argument>-Dapp.conf.dir=${homedir}</argument>
                        <argument>-cp</argument>
                        <classpath/>
                        <argument>${mainclass}</argument>
                    </arguments>
                </configuration>
                <!-- mvn exec:java configuration -->
                <!-- "ctrl-c" stops Tomcat but embedded Tomcat fails to start properly, probably a classloader issue. -->
                <!--
                <configuration>
                    <mainClass>${mainclass}</mainClass>
                    <systemProperties>
                        <systemProperty>
                            <key>app.name</key>
                            <value>${appname}</value>
                        </systemProperty>
                        <systemProperty>
                            <key>app.home.dir</key>
                            <value>${homedir}/</value>
                        </systemProperty>
                        <systemProperty>
                            <key>app.conf.dir</key>
                            <value>${homedir}/</value>
                        </systemProperty>
                    </systemProperties>
                </configuration>
                -->
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

</project>

AppBoot is part of the basic-jsp-embed project that uses embedded Tomcat and that project can be found here (to install, download the latest release, unpack the zip-file and run "mvn install" in the root directory of the multi-module project).
On a side-note: managing a jar-set is tricky, use tools like jHades to verify you will not run into trouble with multiple versions of the same class in different jar-files.

A: You are looking for the maven exec plugin.
mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass="com.example.Main" [-Dexec.args="argument1"]

would run your program

A: Maven can not do what you want, simply because it has no way to resolve the dependencies of project A once it has been built into a final jar.
Maven does not magically download libraries from the Internet: what makes it work are the definition of repositories inside the pom.xml. Without pom.xml, like you seem to suggest, how would it know where to download libraries from? Maven is not a downloading tool, it is a project management tool and what you have is no longer a project but a final library.
Since you have control over project A, you should really rely on Maven conventions and either build a fat jar or an assembly (with maven-assembly-plugin).
By the way, the pom.xml file located under META-INF is not guaranteed to exist, and, in fact, it is not there if you look at Spring artifacts. Take a look at Maven Archiver documentation: the presence of this pom file is controlled by the addMavenDescriptor boolean attribute. Set this attribute to false and your main artifact will not have this pom file.


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Q: Is this necessary to pay to upload my app in android market? Since i am new to android market, is it necessary to pay $25 in android market to upload my one app?

A: Simple answer: yes, it is. Google introduced this to avoid pure spamming submissions.

A: Yes in order to have stuff on the market you need to pay that fee.
This helps keep multiples upon multiples of Hello Worlds off the market :)

A: If you want it in the market, you have to pay the fee.  It's only a one time fee, unlike the iOS app store which is a yearly subscription.


Handstand push-ups (kipping and strict).
*For the skill session--if you have kipping HSPU use this as a strength session and do as many strict HSPU as possible.
STRENGTH: 5 x 5 front squat.
60 Russian swings heavy AF.
For this workout you will complete 100 swings and 55 squats. Each round you will do 1 less squat but you'll always do 10 swings. All reps on all sets MUST be unbroken.


Fundamental Lies of The UN's IPCC: "Food Production Harmed By CO2 & Warmer Temperatures"
The empirical evidence and peer reviewed research is indisputable - essential food production has dramatically improved while CO2 levels and global temperatures increased.
Those are the stubborn facts that the adjacent chart reveals as unequivocal.
Yet, because of the political-driven agenda the IPCC pursues, their latest report states that the world's food production would be more "secure" if CO2 emissions were reduced. Hmm...the exact opposite of known scientific fact.
"There, it can be seen that enriching the air with CO2 almost always leads to significant increases in the photosynthetic rates and biomass production of all of the world's major food crops. And as for the highly-unlikely increase in global temperature that the world's climate alarmists predict to result from projected increases in the air's CO2 content, there are also many studies that reveal the positive consequences of warming for agriculture in Earth's cooler high-latitude regions, such as the recent study of Meng et al. (2014) dealing with maize production in the northern reaches of China. And there is also the significant body of work that reveals that as the atmosphere's CO2 concentration rises, the various temperatures at which different plants photosynthesize most proficiently rise right along with it..."
"Yet the primary efforts of both of these entities [Ed. the UN's IPCC and the UNFCCC] have been, and continue to be, directed against that which is most needed to produce the required amount food, as they both argue for reductions in anthropogenic CO2 emissions, which comprise much of the aerial "food" that sustains all of our food crops."
Truth be told, the headline of this post is not an IPCC quote but obviously it represents what the IPCC is attempting to convince the public of, and unfortunately, the real-world, objective science does not support it in the least.
Summary: The IPCC's fundamental lies continue to establish the blatant anti-science which permeates the entire UN's climate "research" reporting - it's propaganda spin all the way down.
Additional 'C3' charts that challenge the IPCC's anti-science. Note: NOAA CO2 levels on above chart have been super-imposed on the original found here.
A Reminder From NOAA: It's Now 17+ Years And Global Warming Trend Still AWOL In U.S.
NOAA's empirical evidence does not lie, nor deny. Over the last 205 months (Feb. 1, 1997 thru Feb. 28, 2014), the continental U.S. has cooled at a per century rate of -0.96°C.
This has taken place despite the assurance of almost every taxpayer-funded climate scientist that the exact opposite would happen.
They told us that their powerful and sophisticated computer climate models could accurately predict what future climate conditions we would experience.
Except they were spectacularly wrong from day one; and yet, they kept spending multi-billions of taxpayer funds by throwing it down this failed climate research rabbit hole.
Why were the "experts" and the computer simulations so, so wrong?
"Realities about climate models are much more prosaic. They don't and can't work because data, knowledge of atmospheric, oceanographic, and extraterrestrial mechanisms, and computer capacity are all totally inadequate. Computer climate models are a waste of time and money...Inadequacies are confirmed by the complete failure of all forecasts, predictions, projections, prognostications, or whatever they call them."
Addtional regional temperature charts and climate model charts.
Download dataset used in Excel to create chart. Don't know how to chart in Excel? It's easy. Go here to learn how.
Previously, we analyzed the claim by Democrats that global warming was being caused by American light bulbs.
As shown here, that claim is found to be without any empirical merit - essentially, pure anti-science rhetoric on the part of Democrats.
Next we take a look at the Democrats' claim that plastic bags are a major cause of global warming.
For many Democrats, the banning of plastic bags in their local communities has become a personal cause célèbre that represents a badge of honor in the fight against global warming.
But does the plastic bag "cause" have any scientific merit or is just more anti-science from quacks?
To the math. In the U.S. some 100 billion plastic bags are used each year. Yikes!
On average, it's been estimated that a plastic bag weighs 32.5 grams (for the record, a typical grocery store plastic bag weighs only 5 grams). And its been estimated that a plastic bag at the average weight represents about 200 grams of CO2 (when accounting for the plastic bag's production and eventual incineration).
As a result, via simple multiplication, those 100 billion plastic bags equal 20 trillion grams of CO2, which converts to 20 million metric tonnes of CO2.
Sooo.....what's the plastic bag impact on global warming from 20 million tonnes/year of CO2 over the next 20 years?
Well, it's squat, too. There is no warming impact, which makes the Democrats' claim more anti-science propaganda of the quackery sort.
Banning plastic bags due to their climate change impact is sheer nonsense, but banning them for other environmental reasons is a whole 'nuther issue.
For comparison purposes, the 'C3' estimator replica above also reveals what would happen to "global warming" if the entire U.S. economy shuts down for one year, eliminating some 5.8 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion - again, it's a global warming nothing-burger.
Read about the 'C3' simple estimators.
Per NOAA's published annual mean temperatures, the modern warming trend for the U.S., since the beginning of 1950, amounts to an increase of 1.35°C by century end.
But this modern trend is just +0.36° higher than the trend that existed from 1895 to 1949. For the records, that existing pre-consumer/industrial CO2 trend was already at a significant +0.99°C, by year 2100.
Yet, the prior period to the modern era experienced a climate change trend that was equivalent to a 1-degree change. Essentially, a built-in, long-term trend some 3-times larger than the additional modern trend increase.
And this larger, pre-modern, in-the-pipeline warming trend took place when human CO2 emissions were a fraction of the modern era's - literally, one-tenth the amount of emissions (see chart).
Then there is the whole embarrassing issue of the great climate science mystery, which includes the U.S. climate records. During the last 17 years that span from February 1997 through February 2014, the continental U.S. actually cooled at a per century rate of -1.0°C (per NOAA's monthly anomalies).
Now what does all this empirical evidence mean?
Well, obviously, the pre-1950 climate change was significantly greater than that of the modern era. Again, obviously, the modern U.S. climate change has been way over-hyped by politicians and government scientists when put into a historical perspective, as above.
Then there is the indisputable NOAA fact that the last 17 years have witnessed a general cooling for the U.S., which, obviously, is at substantial odds with the "consensus" climate scientists predictions and the IPCC's "expert" computer models.
When combining all this very obvious evidence, one can fairly surmise that either global warming is not very "global" or that human CO2 emissions are not a very powerful influence on the Earth's climate or institutional, orthodoxy climate science has failed, badly - or maybe it's a lot of all three.
Additional regional and modern temperature charts.
Note: NOAA U.S. dataset (converted to Celsius) used for temperature calculations from this site. CO2 emission datasets covering 1895 thru 2012 here and here. Used estimate for 2013 CO2 emissions.


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Atomic Wings Franchisee Fahad Samad to Open New Restaurant in Manhattan November 20th
The new restaurant, which is celebrating its grand opening on November 20th, will be located at 980 Second Ave in New York City.
NEW YORK (PRWEB) November 11, 2020
Atomic Wings, the emerging chicken wing concept that serves all-natural, hormone-free wings alongside 16 proprietary flavors, is opening a new location in Manhattan. Multi-unit franchisee Fahad Samad has decided to relocate his previous Manhattan Atomic Wings location, which operated as a commissary kitchen from a bar on the corner of 49th Street and Second Ave, to a storefront restaurant at 980 Second Ave. The grand opening will take place on November 20th.
To celebrate, the restaurant will host a grand opening event between 10 a.m. and midnight. The first 100 guests will receive free fries, with all other guests who visit Atomic Wings' new location on the 20th able to receive free fries with every wings purchase. Additionally, the restaurant will host a raffle, with the lucky winner receiving a 65-inch flat-screen TV. Only five guests will be allowed in the restaurant at a time in order to adhere to COVID-19 safety standards.
"Although our previous Manhattan location did well, due to COVID-19 and bars being shut down, we knew we had to move out of our previous location," said Samad. "Instead of finding another commissary kitchen, we decided that now was the time to upgrade to a storefront and were lucky enough to find a perfect site only a few blocks away."
Samad started his career as an analyst with Topps Trading Cards, where he has worked for over eight years. Before opening his first Atomic Wings and bringing crispy, tender, halal wings to New York, Samad said he had little interest in franchising at all. He notes that it was his conversation with CEO Zak Omar and his general love for the delicious product that sold him on the idea. Over the last two years, he's opened three Atomic Wings locations across New York, marrying his love of sports and satisfying wings to make game time enjoyable for his community.
"One of the things that drives Atomic Wings sales in Manhattan is the sports season, especially football," said Samad. "Downtown, sports restaurants are a huge business, and we are confident that this location will be able to tap into that segment. In addition, we want to capture walk-in customers, which we never had before because we were in the basement of a bar. Now that we have a storefront, we will be able to leverage the high foot traffic in the area. Of course, we know that customers are changing and the demand for delivery and take-out has never been stronger. At this new location, we will continue to meet that demand while also promoting our catering option to appeal to larger groups who are ordering food for delivery in the area."
Omar notes that Fahad is an important part of the Atomic Wings team and that the new Manhattan storefront is going to be a great step forward for the brand as it looks to expand across the East Coast and beyond through franchising. "Our goal is to expand locally within the Northeast before we think about expanding outward," he said. "We pride ourselves on getting everything right with our wings, from the nitty-gritty details in our ingredients to the overall big picture of our customer-service process. Expansion shouldn't mean that we forfeit that customer value, and our franchisees are all committed to that vision."
With 11 locations currently open in New York and Maryland and 10 additional units signed in Arizona and Nevada, Atomic Wings is capitalizing on its decades-long success with the goal of taking its fan favorite recipes to cities across the country.
For more information about Atomic Wings, please visit https://www.atomicwings.com/franchising.
ABOUT ATOMIC WINGS
Atomic Wings was created in 1989 out of founder Adam Lippin's mission to share authentic New York-style Buffalo wings with the world. Now, with more than 10 restaurants open in the U.S., Atomic Wings is setting its sights on nationwide growth. In addition to its existing locations in New York and Maryland, Atomic Wings has 10 additional units signed to open in Arizona and Nevada. The brand is currently led by owners and brothers Zak and Ray Omar, and offers customers never-frozen, natural and hormone-free chicken wings hand-tossed in more than 14 proprietary sauces, a classic menu, a welcoming dining experience and a commitment to quality. For more information about Atomic Wings, please visit https://www.atomicwings.com/franchising.
Cassie McAloon
1851 Franchise


Start with your friends and family and then check in with the Home Builders Association of Greater Springfield for a list of members. You can also talk with a building inspector, who'll know which contractors routinely meet code requirements, pay a visit to your local lumberyard, which sees contractors regularly and knows which ones buy quality materials and pay their bills on time. Another easy way to ask for recommendations from a broader range of acquaintances is to make a "looking for recommendations" post on Facebook. Your Facebook friends will love to tell you which contractors were amazing, and also which ones to avoid.
Here's a few key questions to ask: Are you insured & what type(s) of insurance do they carry. Do they take on projects of your size?
Are they willing to provide financial references, from suppliers or banks? Can they give you a list of previous clients as references? How many other projects would they have going at the same time? How long have they worked with their subcontractors?
The answers to these questions will give you insight to the company's availability, reliability, how much attention they'll be able to give your project and how smoothly the work will go.
3. Have a Face to Face Meeting.
Based on the phone interviews, pick three or four contractors to meet for estimates and further discussion. A contractor should be able to answer your questions satisfactorily and in a manner that puts you at ease about your upcoming. It's imperative that you two communicate well because this person will be in your home for hours, days & even weeks at a time. On the other hand, don't let personality fool you. Check in with your Missouri's consumer protection agency and the Springfield Better Business Bureau to make sure contractors don't have a history of disputes with clients or subcontractors.
You have your short list of contractors whose track records seem clean and whose work ethic looks responsible. Now it's time to stop looking back at past work and start looking forward to your project. A good contractor will want not only a complete set of blueprints but also a sense of what homeowners want out of a project and what they plan to spend. To compare bids, ask everyone to break down the cost of materials, labor, profit margins and other expenses. Generally materials account for 40 percent of the total cost; the rest covers overhead and the typical profit margin, which is 15 to 20 percent.
5. Get. It. In. Writing!!!
Draw up a contract that details every step of the project: payment schedule; proof of liability insurance and worker's compensation payments; a start date and projected completion date; specific materials and products to be used; and a requirement that the contractor obtain lien releases (which protect you if he doesn't pay his bills) from all subcontractors and suppliers. Insisting on a clear contract isn't about mistrust, t's about insuring a successful renovation or new construction project.
Finally, remember that as soon as a change order is made or a problem uncovered, the price just increased and the project just got longer.


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We are going to share the best free Android file transfer apps. With the help of these apps, you can easily transfer files from your Android smartphone to another or even in PC. Without using inbuilt characteristics like Bluetooth and Nfc etc, you can transmit files to any other Android device with very accelerated speed supervising these apps. So in this post, I will tell you the Best Android File Transfer Apps.
Today there are countless third-party apps that are available on Play Store from which you can transfer files in Android. By these apps, you will have the file transfer speed up to 3-5 MB per second. And certain apps have crossed platform feature which works on every version of Android. You can download and install these apps and have the exceptional experience of fast file transfer over the Android.
Below I have listed best Android file transfer apps by which you can easily share all your media from one Android to another with a very high speed.
ShareIt is one of the best WiFi transfer apps for your Android smartphone and the purpose it has been put on the top of a list because of its reliable and user-friendly Interface. Using ShareIt for file transfer from Android to Android over WiFi is quite easy. Here's a brief tutorial on what else this app can do.
Xender is another app for WiFi file transfer, but it's even one step ahead than ShareIt. Unlike ShareIt which is for transferring files between one sender/one receiver, Xender enables even group transfer! i.e one sender and multiple receivers. Using Xender too doesn't require an Internet connection.
There are some contenders like xender which was fighting for the third spot, but I eventually went to Zapya, because of characteristic as well as due to the fact that other app's have annoying ads. Zapya is super easy to use and supports multiple languages! File transfers have never been simpler!
SuperBeam is another example of a file transfer app with an intuitive interface. It also has the standard features mentioned in the previous apps. One of its best features is the methods it uses to pair your Android phone or tablet to your computer. SuperBeam lets you pair devices via NFC or QR codes, so there's no need to do a lot of clicks and manual sharing of keys.
This is one of the most downloaded apps in its category. WiFi File Transfer allows you to upload and download files to and from your phone/tablet and computer through an easy-to-use web interface. That interface also lets you delete, copy, rename, zip or unzip files quickly. You can upload entire folders if you use the Google Chrome browser.
The app is just 981KB and has a simple web interface to view and manage files. If that sounds boring, please note that you can also stream the music and videos saved on your Android device to your browser.
Infinit is the easiest and fastest file transfer app for sending any file, of any size to your friends; and transferring large files between your own devices: phone, tablet, and computer. Infinit is the fastest file transfer application on the market thanks to a unique peer-to-peer (P2P) technology that bypasses the cloud, directly connecting the sending and receiving devices.
Portal makes transferring pictures, videos, and other files from your computer onto your phone simple. Just grab the app, scan the code above, and then drop as many files as you want on this site. We'll get them on your phone, and we'll do it fast!
With Pushbullet you can do everything like sending text messages while typing with your computer keyboard. See your phone's notification, exchange links and of course transferring files.
WiFi Shoot it is the first app in the Google Play to use the WiFi Direct technology to wirelessly transmit photos, videos and any file directly between two Android devices! The app works super fine on Samsung Galaxy and HTC devices.
Well, this is another best Android app that allows users to securely send Android files of any size. The great thing about Send Anywhere is that it transfer files via WiFi direct. So, its one of the best WiFi file sharing app which you should have on your Android device.
Mi Drop is one of the best alternatives to Shareit and Xender. The best thing about Mi Drop is that it's lightweight and it supports almost all Android devices. You can use Mi Drop to share files without an internet connection. The WiFi file sharing speed is also high compared to others.
Well, if you are looking for an easy to use file sharing app, then CM Transfer is just for you. The best thing about CM Transfer is that it's very fast and it can transfer files wirelessly at the speed of up to 10Mbps. The app operates just like Shareit or Xender and its one of the best file sharing app available on Google Play Store.
4 Share Apps is one of the leading file sharing apps that you can use on your Android smartphone. Since the app relies on WiFi to exchange files, the file-sharing speeds are high. With 4 Share Apps, you can share photos, videos, installed apps, and other files types. Apart from that, the app also allows users to back up the installed apps to SD card in just one tap.
Zapya Go is the lightweight version of Zapya which has been listed on the article. The app is lightning fast and it requires very less space to install on your smartphone. Every other feature of Zapya Go remains the same as of the Zapya app. The app also offers users an offline chat feature which you can use to chat with your friends without an internet connection.
Files by Google is a multi-purpose file sharing app that you would love to use on your Android smartphone. Talking about file sharing, you can use the app to share images, videos, and other large files via WiFi. Not just that, but all files that you send using Files by Google is encrypted over direct WiFi network. Apart from that, it's also a file manager in itself.
If you are searching for an app to easily transfer files between Android devices, then Easy Share might be the perfect pick for you. Just like all other WiFi file sharing apps, Easy Share also allows users to share all kinds of files whenever and wherever. The most notable thing of Easy Share is its ability to transfer files to the PC through FPT server. So, Easy Share is definitely the best WiFi file transfer app that you can use right now.
XShare is another best app on the list which uses WiFi to transfer files within Android devices. According to the Play Store listing, XShare is one of the most convenient file transfer tools which is almost 200 times faster than Bluetooth. Other features of XShare includes QR Code fast matching, no file transfer limits, etc. So, XShare is another best WiFi file transfer app that you can consider.
So above are the Best Android File Transfer Apps. Through these apps, you will have the great experience of transferring files to the Android device as those apps will contribute high file transferring rate. Just download and install these apps from Google Play Store. And have fun with these apps. Don't forget to share the post.


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PROPER PLACEMENT: UGONSA AGAIN WRITES THE HOS OF THE 36 STATES
Ahead of the next National Council on Establishments (NCE) meeting, UGONSA has written to the heads of service (HOS) of the 36 states of the federation and their permanent secretaries on establishments a reminder for passage of the proper placement memo of the BNSs degree submitted by the Federal Ministry of Health. Below is a full text of a sample of the letter:
The Head of Service,
Abia State Civil Service,
Office of the Head of Service,
79, Abiriba Road, Bende Road,
Umuahia, Abia State.
Permanent Secretary on Establishment, Abia State
Sir/Madam,
MEMORANDUM ON PROPER GRADING OF THE BACHELOR OF NURSING SCIENCES (BNSc): A REQUEST FOR YOUR PATRIOTIC INTERVENTION
Nightingales' greeting from our members comprising nurses with minimum qualification of first degree in nursing.
2. We appreciate the efforts of the National Council on Establishment (NCE) at fostering equity and fairness in the Civil Service of the Federation. However, we are writing your esteemed office a reminder to our earlier letter on the above subject matter Ref No. UG/NAT/20/HOS/AB/01 dated June 8, 2020, and to again request that you deploy your patriotic latitudes to ensure that equity and fairness are extended to the nursing profession.
3. It is pertinent we appraise the issue at stake to refresh your memory on the inexplicable injustice that has been meted on the members of the nursing profession.
2. As of date, nurse interns are the only interns in our health sector that are "under-placed" on Grade Level 08 (. i.e., CONHESS 07), whereas their counterparts from other core healthcare disciplines such as Pharmacy, Medical Laboratory Science, Physiotherapy and so on, are placed on Grade Level 09 (. i.e., CONHESS 08). Post-NYSC (National Youth Service Corps), the university graduates of nursing are aberrantly employed into the Civil Service on Grade Level 09 (CONHESS 08). In contrast, their counterparts in other core healthcare disciplines are employed in the same health system on Grade Level 10 (CONHESS 09), thereby under-placing the university graduates of nursing at a one-grade level below their counterparts.
3. More appalling is that this injustice of under-placement of graduate nurses to the tune of one grade level below par occurs despite that nursing and the aforementioned core healthcare disciplines have similar entry requirements and course duration for the first degree in the university.
4. Moreso, the wrongful under-placement is at variance with the gazetted verdict of the Industrial Arbitration Panel (IAP) of the year 1981, which granted that in the healthcare delivery service of Nigeria, the profession of Nursing is on parity with that of Pharmacy as is the case in Great Britain (Please refer Annexure A for the IAP document). By the unambiguous provision of the IAP verdict, the basis for the appointment of graduates of Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm) degree, as well as the university graduates of the other core healthcare disciples unto Grade Level 10 (CONHESS 09) post-NYSC, also justifies why the graduates of the Bachelor of Nursing Science (BNSc) degree, who are on parity with them, should be appointed on the same grade level, especially as both professions of Nursing and Pharmacy and the other healthcare disciplines aforementioned have similar entry requirements and course duration for the first degree in the university plus a one-year internship training pre-NYSC.
5. The Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) understands that this injustice is grievous and detrimental to the progress of our health system, hence presented the case to the NCE for rectification at its 42nd meeting as "A Memorandum on Proper Grading of the Bachelor of Nursing Science (BNSc) Graduates" (please refer Annexure B). Had the issues on proper placements or adjustments on cadre/rank/post/GL fallen within the purview of the FMOH, this glaring injustice would have been rectified without bureaucratic hassles. The FMOH has washed its hands off the injustice by presenting the memo to the National Council on Establishment (NCE) on whose purview lies the rectification of the anomaly. It is now incumbent on the NCE (which your office is an indispensable part of) to live above board and once again show equity and fairness by endorsing and passing the memo.
6. As part of its bureaucratic process, we learned that the NCE, at its 42nd meeting held in Ikeja, Lagos (from November 30 to December 4, 2020), referred the matter to its standing (technical) committee for in-depth studies for consideration at the next NCE meeting. While we are not opposed to the bureaucratic processes of the NCE, we wish to humbly infer that the case is crystal clear and has no justification for further delay. Injustice pervades where two equal things are deliberately made unequal. There is no justification whatsoever in logic, principles, rationality, or common sense, for treating the university graduates of nursing as subservient to their par and counterparts in other core healthcare disciplines.
7. In countries with exemplary health systems where our political class usually runs to for treatment, nurses earn more than their counterparts in other core healthcare disciplines on the basis of workload.
8. In terms of workload, nurses are the heartbeat of the hospital. They are the main frontline healthcare professionals with the highest bedside visibility, who stay with patients round-the-clock from birth till death serving as a tapestry of care similar to the roles played by mothers in families; a tapestry woven through nurses' daily contact with patients, through attending to patients' physical, psychological, emotional or otherwise holistic needs, administering treatments and medications, monitoring patients' responses to those treatments and medications, helping patients to prevent illnesses or live with their illness or helping educate them about how to live with their illnesses, liaison with patients' family members and social network systems, and helping patients die with some measure of comfort and dignity when recovery is paled, and death is inevitable.
9. The curriculum of the Nigerian BNSc degree is robust and among the best in the world and has enabled Nigerian nurses to thrive and compete favourably with a superlative performance in international arenas.
10. The curriculum of the BNSc degree as designed and set by the National Universities Commission (NUC) and the Nursing & Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN) is in line with the best international standard such that the BNSc programme produces polyvalent nurse/midwife practitioners whose roles in addition to health promotion, disease & illness prevention, health restoration, acute care & treatment, rehabilitation & palliative care, also cut across management and administration. Thus, the university education and training of nurses verily equipped them with the necessary knowledge, skills, and capabilities for critical thinking, clinical reasoning & judgment, and the clinical competence to play and coordinate independent, dependent, and interdependent roles in our healthcare delivery system.
11. We are therefore calling on your esteemed office as an indispensable part of the NCE to put on a patriotic garb of equity, justice, and fairness and see that the memo for righting this wrong which has been lying on the table of the NCE is approved without further delay at the forthcoming NCE meeting.
We passionately request, appeal, and demand that you kindly, in collaboration with other members of our revered National Council on Establishment (NCE):
1. pass and approve at the next NCE meeting the Memorandum on Proper Grading of the Bachelor of Nursing Science (BNSc) Graduates seeking to make Grade Level 09 (. i.e., CONHESS 08) the entry point for the nurse interns and Grade Level 10 (. i.e., CONHESS 09) the entry point for the graduates post-NYSC as is obtainable with other core healthcare professions.
2. make correcting the perennial injustice of wrongful under-placement of graduate nurses your personal project and rank it among the topmost priority service problems to throw the weight of your esteemed office behind for on-the-spot rectification at the next NCE meeting.
Submitted with a deep sense of respect and responsibility.
CHIEF (HON.) S.E.O. EGWUENU NURSE P.O. ETENG
National President Ag.National Secretary
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The varsity sponsored 4 players to South Africa for the 8th edition of the Federation of Africa University Sports (FASU), following a spectacular win during the universities trial games that were held in Eldoret on 14th May 2016.
The team scooped 8 medals in total; 1 Gold medal, 2 silvers medals and 5 bronze medals. The team faced steep competition in the 200m and 100M races from the Ghananians whom they had met earlier at the all Africa Senior games in Durban.
The University team comprised of sprinters Sylvester Nakeel, Peter Mwai, Mathew Rapando and Charles Wanjiru was ranked 3rd position in Africa. Late last year they were crowned KUSA Relay Champions at Bondo.
Speaking during their home coming celebration, the Dean of Students Mr. Evans Omwango congratulated the team and assured the students of the support from the management towards their all-round growth.


Support extravaganza – part 2!
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Q. having upgraded from a Nokia N95 to a 5800 XpressMusic, I've been very happy with the extra functionality and that lovely large screen. however, quite a few of the utilities that I'd grown to depend on in the N95 seem to have disappeared. Specifically Sync, N-Gage, Search, Connection Manager, GPS Data, Wireless Keyboard and Memory (Backup). Whew, quite a long list, actually. Can any of these be downloaded separately?
Q. I've got almost 1000 songs loaded on my Nokia smartphone, whose mass memory is now about 75% full. Music is played fine, but getting to a particular track is very slow when its name doesn't come near the start or end of the alphabet. Browsing by artist sometimes speeds things up, but many of my (legally) ripped CDs are 'Various Artists', so I'm stuck. What music utilities are there to help speed up finding particular songs?
Q. why is the size of the firmware update through the phone itself (Over the Air) around a few MB (at most), while Ovi Suite says the update is well over 100MB?
How can I upgrade my Ovi Store client to the latest version?
Q. How can I upgrade my Ovi Store client to the latest version?
Q. I've been syncing my Symbian smartphone happily to my Mac for over a month, yet all of a sudden the iSync has started failing, with error: "[Nokia N97 mini] Connection to the phone failed. please make sure that your phone is turned on." I'm tech savvy and have tried power cycling both phone and Mac. What's next?
Q. Nokia's Ovi Store application seems to have got itself confused, it's showing the 'Download' buttons for some freeware applications (that I'd tried in the past) greyed out – so I'm unable to try them again.
Q. I use a Vodafone pay as you go SIM card with my Nokia smartphone and until recently I've been very happy. I only use mobile data sparingly, grabbing email every now and then and hardly using Web over 3G. And in the last few months, my SIM credit has been draining far faster than it used to. do you think it's something I've installed?
Q. I have a Psion Series 5 and am very happy with it, but I want to update to something newer. How can I convert my data files into a more modern device?
Q. How can I back up everything on my Symbian smartphone? Not just data, but every application, every license key, and so on?
Q. help! I've bought a Nokia N96 and, after inserting my memory card, Music player's now giving me 'System error' when I try and refresh my music library. my card has all sorts of useful files on it, can I solve the problem without formatting it?
How do I recalibrate my touchscreen?
Q. How do I recalibrate the touchscreen on my smartphone? some of the taps get mis-registered!
My phone remembers too much about me!
Q. I'm worried about securing my sensitive data on my Symbian phone should it be lost. I've got the really personal stuff in Handy Safe Pro, but I'm talking here about about auto-logins for Gmail and web forums (both using login data from previous sessions). I'm also worried about securing notes and downloaded emails.
Q. Somewhat weirdly, on my Nokia smartphone, Google's YouTube client has started misbehaving. it used to work fine, but now just terminates almost immediately. I've tried reinstalling, to no avail. help!
Q. When driving, why can't I use the FM transmitter in my Symbian phone while it's being charged via the cigarette lighter lead?
Q. I'm pretty sure that assisted GPS is set up properly, and yet my Nokia still sometimes takes up to ten minutes to get a GPS satellite lock. Is it faulty?
Q. I'm generally quite happy with Ovi Maps on my new Nokia N97 mini – I downloaded the new v3.0 and it's proved superbly reliable. But I'm not happy with all the distances being in metric. I know Finland wouldn't know their inches from their miles, but is there any hope?
Q. When I go to Photos on my new N97 it shows the icon of one picture I took a few weeks ago (all others have all been transferred off onto my PC). however, when I tap the icon to open it, I get the broken image icon and a 'General system error' when I try to delete it. the picture isn't visible in Windows Explorer when my phone is connected to my PC. How do I remove the broken image completely?
On a phone, what is an EDoF 'full focus' camera?
Q. I see the new Nokia E55 and E52 have an EdoF camera. What is EdoF?
Q. I'm new to Symbian phones, but really loving my Nokia E71. I think it is a thing of beauty and probably the greatest phone I have ever owned. I have one slight niggle though, the provided headset hurts my ears. I got a 2.5mm to 3.5mm adapter and bought a high quality stereo headset with a 3.5mm 4 pole jack. But the phone won't recognise it as a headset, though music plays OK. How can I use the headset for calls as well?
Q. Is there a way to permanently delete information on my S60 phone? I have had several confidential documents and want to be able to electronically shred them after use, such that they can't later be recovered.
Q. on my Nokia E90, I've upgraded to new firmware and seem to have disabled the ability to change the screen brightness on the internal screen. it is considerably darker than the external screen (which I am still able to change). I think it has been set to minimum illumination by default. Is this a deliberate measure in order to prolong battery life or a bug?
Why do I still need a mains charger?
Q. With my new Nokia N85 now using USB charging, why do I still need a mains charger? this phone came with both!
Q. help! I'm getting utterly fed up with all the security warnings in Web on my Nokia smartphone. For example, "you are leaving a secure page. Continue?". Over and over again. Talk about living in a nanny state! Is there a way to upgrade Web so that it doesn't keep nagging me?
Q. my Nokia N97 (mini) sits happily open, angled nicely on my desk. I'd like it to act as a desk clock, i.e. keep its screen on, showing the current time. Power isn't a problem, as I usually have it plugged into a microUSB lead.
Q. I keep setting built-in messaging apps to use my mass memory for their data and they keep switching back. why do they do this?
Q. For a premium camera and camcorder smartphone, the Nokia N86 8MP (in my case) is proving disappointing – low light photos are blurred and not much better than those from other phones!
Maps Booster makes my position fix worse!
Q. on my Nokia, I've been experimenting with Maps Booster. having bought and installed it, I've found that it makes the accuracy of my phone's location fix worse, not better! What could be wrong?
Q. How can I print photos from my Nokia Nseries to my photo printer?
Q. on my Nokia E75, I'd like the same word correction and completion aids as on my friend's E71. How exactly do I turn these on?
Q. why do all the recent Nseries phones from Nokia make blurry videos?
News Discussion comnut ok, here is one about my nokia 5800 – when I am traveling round London, I find quite a lot of 'unlocked' wifi spots.. trouble is, some of these seem to not like(?) my phone('back' button wont work, but 'options' does??)… Yes, they are 100% or 50% power, 'details' say 'open', etc… (one was even named 'free wifi access'.. but then I have seen one named 'you have a virus' that made my mate panic!! :con? – must be kids playing….)slitchfield Ignore these hotspots. many will be proxies for selling OpenZone access or similar, others will be malevolent, others will simply not be working as advertised. Sadly. Stick to places you KNOW have free Wi-Fi and CHECK their access point name before connecting. And even THEN, be careful about logging into anything confidential over that access point – you never know who may be eavesdropping or doing a 'man in the middle' attack!Jejoma I read your answer re databases with some amusement. Half a dozen suitable applications??Ignoring the handful of password protection programs HanDbase is the only one I know of and that is firmly routed in the days of Palm. Use it and it's like going back ten years or more!ever since I switched from my Geofox (remember them?) I have searched desperately but in vain for a decent app to hold my dozens of databases. I have them on HanDbase but because it is such a clunky program I rarely use them. a real shame because they hold a lot of really useful information.slitchfield will you accept "half a dozen applications-which-claim-to-be-suitable-but which-are-in-fact-not-a-patch-on-Psion-Data"? HanDBase is still the best of the crop, though. there are a few iPhone database apps which might do the trick, though I haven't tried getting data into them 8-)Jejoma Fair enough :)comnut thanks, slitchfield :icon14: yes, my 'filterlist' is growing bigger & bigger…. if you know a *simple* way to not display 'locked' ones(with an exception list!), it would make it simpler… :)jamescrash good. but i would like to advice to recheck one more time.


I saw the challenge theme and immediately the lyrics from a song from the opera Porgy and Bess started going through my mind. "Summertime and the livin' is easy.Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high." Well it doesn't feel like Summer where I'm living and I haven't gotten my fishing license yet so I don't know whether the fish are jumping. No cotton around here to get high either but the livin' is easy.
Thoughts start going through my head of heading to the ocean my favorite spot any time of the year but especially in Summer when it is usually warm enough to wade in the water with one of my dogs. For now though I must go to the beach and fly my kite and wade in the water only in my head.
This card would not have come about without Cameron who cut out most of the print and cut images flawlessly. I'll forgive him for the wave as I probably re-sized it too small and didn't edit a point in one spot.
O.K. I know you want to see my masterpiece. Just a moment while I pull the curtain off. Ta Da! Opps! Cover your ears for a moment and please remove all children from the area. My camera card just went belly up so sorry about the quality of the picture but I had to use my camera phone.
O.K went in to Photo Shop and enhanced the top photo so it is a little better quality.
The kite is from the Silhouette store the rest of the Summer images were scanned from a glitter sticker book but it is long gone so I don't remember the name other than it was from Dover Publishers. I thought I could trace the full page of images and cut them out that way but the way they were laid out on the page they cut wonky. I ended up having to individually crop each image and save. While at it I went ahead and enhanced some of them. The clouds are by Bird.The wave is from a template in the book Card Making. The sandpaper and card base are the only two things that Cameron did not cut. The sun,title,and thongs were heat embossed with Recollection glitter embossing powder. The beach ball was heat embossed with clear embossing enamel. I did it so it looks like it has water drops on it. I took silver ink and daubed it on the clouds to give them a little bit of texture. I folded the top of the waves over to make it look like the tide was coming in.
So what do you think? My roommate said it is too busy. LOL! He should have seen it before I started subtracting elements.
That is all for now but I'll soon have a tabbed card to share with you. Just wanted to get this done and posted before the deadline.
Thank you for looking and do come back. Wishing you Happy Frugal Crafting till we meet again.
Summer is here and with it more people will be drinking out of bottles with twist off caps. Some of those bottle caps will be metal. It is true you can buy bottle caps in craft stores but why put out the money when you can have them for the cost of whatever is in the bottle. If you are not too bashful you can ask your friends and neighbors to save them for you.
Bottle caps can be decorated in many ways. Word stickers may fit on them. You can cut circles out of fancy paper. I did a print and cut of an image for the one I used. You can spray paint them. Maybe with a glitter spray. The possibilities are endless.
The image was glued on the bottle cap using Beacon 3-in-1 glue. It did slide a little bit when I was positioning it. I was worried it might not stick on there but it is down tight. The bottle cap is attached to the flower with a couple of pop dots stacked.
The flower is a free studio file. I just deleted the center in order to have it solid. It is heat emboss with silver. I decided to go with silver since the edge of the bottle cap is silver.
The panel is a rectangle that Cameron cut out and I used my decorative edger ruler for the two edges. I'm a loving that ruler. I tore the paper slowly to get a more rustic look.
The panel was an experiment. I saw in a book where a woman used the mini egg shape ink pads and rubbed them over the paper in a design. I didn't have any of those but do have square chalk ink pads. Decided to see what I could do with those. It was so much fun that now I want to buy a bunch of those mini egg shape ink pads.
She stamped with silver ink an image over the design but my silver ink pad is dead. I played with different inks on a scrap piece that I had played with the chalk inks and decided to use my purple solvent ink. After all just because you see something on a blog, in a magazine or book doesn't mean you have to copy exactly.
I hope I have inspired you to use those twist off bottle caps instead of tossing them in the garbage. Of course if you don't want to use them crafting you can always send them my way.
Thank you for stopping by and do come back. I think I have figured out how to make a tab card cutting file now. If so I will share a card as well as directions of how to make your own with or without a cutting machine.
Happy Birthday My Grease Monkey!
My son has a birthday next month and I'm always at a lose for what to make a card of for him. While going through my digital stash looking for an image for another project I found a background that started the creative juices flowing.. From there the project clicked into place.
I'm loving how this card all came together. Oh you wanted to see the card. Drum roll please! (click image to enlarge)Opps! Hold on a second while I upload new pictures. I thought that car in the garage looked funny. It was parked upside down. Good thing it was easy to fix.
I decided to have the Classic card face towards the opening of the card so that it would not hide the details in the background. No tracing required for the background since I was just cutting out the whole image. Just make sure the setting is set to cut edge. I drew a narrow strip on the street side that the car was going to be traveling on and centered it horizontally for the track.I cut out one background with the slit and one without.
I traced the classic car and the race car in the garage. I cut out two of the Classic cars. Brushed on one of them Dimensional Magic for the windows and head lights. When that was dried I placed pop dots on the backside. Slipped it through the track and attached the other car to it. Make sure the pop dots are not too large as you want the car to freely move on the track. I pop dotted the race car onto the back wall of the garage. Trying to place it so it looked like it was parked in there.
I brushed Dimensional Magic on the windows in the background on the one that had the slit in it. When dried and after the car was attached I glued that piece onto the other background. By the way a little bit of Dimensional Magic goes a long way so don't let the price scare you away from buying it. It can be a fun way to add to your project.
The sentiment was typed in Studio and the letters filled along with the line color filled and set to print. I didn't like the white background so decided to play with pattern. The argyle pattern appeared to have the same colors as in the background. In addition argyle to me is classic and classy. I felt like it needed something when laying things out on the Studio work-space. I often do that to get an idea of how the finished card is going to look. I came up with the idea of using a couple of wheels.
So what do you think of the card I made for a man who is a mechanic,loves to legally drag race,and has been in love with Classic cars since before he could talk?
Thank you for stopping by. Do come back. I'm not sure what project I will feature next but I'm working on a couple of them.
I must admit I've been in a messy and experimental mood lately. I decided since I had my alcohol inks out dyeing paper towels (see previous post) to see what I could do with photo paper.
I definitely will be cutting more shapes out of Photo paper with my Silhouette and using alcohol and water color paints on them. I was thinking why didn't I think of this sooner. LOL! Here are my cards.
I could have cut out the flower with Cameron but decided to use the Sizzix die I won last year. I love how the photo paper worked for a flower. This was the first one I did where I learned that dry photo paper grabs the ink. Duh! I then sprayed gold Perfect Pearl mixed with water on the photo paper and dripped alcohol ink on it. The water helped the ink to move. The resulting pattern reminds me of something I might find in a Summer dress. I also cut out some sheer ribbon with my Big Shot and layered them between the flowers when I put it together. The square was stamped with a wood background stamp my sister gave me. I saw a card with pink wood background today and loved it. I went ahead and randomly stamped the pad over the stamped background. I am not normally a pink person but I'm loving this card.
I sprayed the photo paper with water and then sprayed colored water but alas that particular mister no longer gives me a fine mist so I got splatters. I then randomly dripped Butterscotch ink and rotated the paper. The scallop is the scallop label in Studio. The butterfly is actually a free applique pattern which I converted to a cutting file. I sprayed them with water mixed with wild plum and stream alcohol ink. Then splattered gold water color paint while they were still wet. I'm not sure I like this card but it was fun playing and I know that someone will probably like it. LOL! So it is safe from the garbage can.
Have I inspired you to try photo paper either for backgrounds or cutting shapes out of? Since I can buy at a dollar store packages of the large size I think I'll be using it more. Where else can you buy unique paper for five cents a piece?
Thank you for stopping by and Happy summer. Wishing you happy Frugal crafting till we meet again.
Paper towels are for more than cleaning up messes in your craft area. They can add texture to your projects. They can be colored with thinned acrylic paint with food colors or inks. I have even spritzed glimmer mist on paper towels. Most paper towels are two ply so they can be separated. The main reason I separate them is I can get two pieces of paper for the price of one.
Although in the past I have dipped paper towels in thinned acrylic paint and crumpled it and then unfolded it and let it dry for this card I did something different. I even stamped on a paper towel which is something I have not done before.
I tie dyed the paper towels with alcohol inks and soap dye mixed in water. I did not like how the darker base turned out so decided to see about splattering with a bristle brush a mixture of ink,water and pewter Perfect Pearls. I also splattered gold water color. The splattering helped the colors to bleed more The light colored one on the heart was too light but I sprayed the darker green on my plastic bag and laid it down on the bag pressing it down to pick up the ink.
I stamped the heart using a Ditto background stamp. I hate to admit it but I've had the stamp for a couple of months and this is the first time I've used it.
After gluing the paper towels on the shapes I tore the excess off. I glued crotchet thread around the heart and wrapped it around the heart. Then I tied my key on it. I decided to tuck the key under the thread so I could position it better.
The heart is a free Silhouette file. I ungrouped and deleted the star and stripes inside it. The panel is a rectangle shape drawn in Studio. I found the key when I put in free SVG keys in search. My gold embossing powder is lumpy and normally I break up the lumps but this time I left it to give an aged look.
What do you think? Have I inspired you to try paper towels as a crafting medium?
Thank you for stopping by. Do come back. As long as I had my alcohol ink out I did some play with them and photo paper which I'll share. Along with a card. Now I can't wait to go buy more alcohol inks.
For the most part my DIY glue paint play was disappointing. I discovered that alcohol inks mixed in glue left specks as it did not totally dissolve in the glue. I discovered that not all white glues are equal. My Elmer's multi-purpose glue was way too runny for drawing with and leaving a raised design. In fact it spread into a awful blob. However, I am pleased with how a couple of things turned out. I went ahead and used the glue paint with the specks because you know me I don't waste anything. Here is the card I made using my glue paint elements.
I love the background piece. I've done this before but this time I did it a little different. I used two different glue paints. One mixed with Butterscotch alcohol inks and the other with Stream. Next time I'll color the glue with my soap dyes. I've used those before. Food coloring works great and used to be inexpensive I don't know if it still is.
Paint glue on your wax paper and place single ply facial tissue,napkins, paper towels. or gift wrapping tissue in the glue This time instead of using the whole sheet like I normally do I tore it in pieces and layered. Pressing it down as I went along.
Keep adding glue and paper until you are satisfied with the look. I went ahead and added a whole sheet of facial tissue on top. Then daubed the glue paint on top. Don't worry if your media tears you can always mend it with more paper. You can either leave it like it is or add another piece of wax paper on top. Depending on what effect you are after.
You don't have to limit yourself to one color. You can daub on other colors like I did here. Also while the paint is still wet you can add things like dried flowers,glitter,confetti, etc.
I tore the edges with a edge ruler for this card. Usually I just tear them straight. You can also trim them with a paper cutter.
The flowers are print and cut and the image is from Dover clipart. I painted a light coat of my Stream glue paint which I thinned with water on them. It was lighter color than I wanted and not as shiny. I added more ink and added another coat. If you coat printed images too heavily with the glue you will lose your lines. Wonder how I know. Better to add two or more light coats.
Yes, I had to play with my Orchid Liquid Pearls. I don't know what I did because they flattened out but I still like them in the middle of the flowers. It was my first time using the Liquid Pearls. Hopefully I'll get better before I empty the bottle. LOL!
If you have kids out of school and they are bored send them outside with glue mixed with food coloring,wax paper and whatever thin paper you have on hand. Maybe that will keep them out of your hair for awhile and you will have some neat one of a kind papers to use. LOL! That is unless the kids can't part with their masterpiece unless you pay them.
My frugal tip is when school supplies go on sale stock up on white glue. You can always find a use for it.
Thank you for stopping by and do come back. I promise I won't be as long winded next time. LOL! Wishing you happy Frugal crafting till we meet again.
Maybe you find yourself at a home improvement center and not by choice. What are you going to do while the person you are with is drooling over tools and other things. Especially if you are stranded there for an hour or more.
You can walk around with a camera phone and take pictures of rugs and things which inspire you. Also you can pick up some free crafting supplies. No! I am not talking about shoplifting. I'm talking about free samples.
There are paint chip samples and many of them are large size and can be cut with a cutting machine if you have one. Some stores have wallpaper samples free for the taking. There is also though samples you might have overlooked. I'm talking about the counter-top samples. There are different sizes. I didn't realize that the larger size was the perfect size for my pre-scored card bases or I would have picked up more.
The fairy and the flower background are from the delightful book Fairies Artist Studio. It comes with a CD of images which you can manipulate in Photoshop. I saved the background as a png. Then I had fun playing with different layers so I could customize my fairy. She was saved as a png.
In Studio I traced the fairy and then filled in the wings and boots with color. The dress did not fill in right. Some images just do not trace well. I went and deleted all but the filled in areas and retraced her and selected trace outer edge. Argh! Her wings printed blue instead of the teal color I had selected for fill in Studio. I chalked in her skin and outfit. Then used a color pencil for her hair. I used Stickles in the waterfall color on her wings. She is pop dotted in the middle and one foot glued down. I wanted her to look like she was actually walking down the stairs.
The floral background was a little more trickier. After tracing and selecting trace outer edge I still had to edit points and do some deleting. I used chalks and color pencil to color it.
Because the samples have a hole in them you are going to have to either cover it with a background or find a creative solution like I did with the ribbon.
There you have my card using creatively a free sample. I hope my granddaughter likes it. Let me know what you think.
Thank you for stopping by. Do come back as I share with you about my failure and successes using DIY glue paint. As well as a card using some of what I made.
I wanted to make my roommate a special Father's Day card. Originally I had wanted to use the dogs but after many frustrating hours trying to trace the photo of them I wanted to use for a print and cut I gave up. I did however go with my original idea and added to it.
Yes, I used my track so that the dog moves through the grass. I'm thinking of using some craft floss for a leash tied around the dog's neck. I have no idea where the dog came from but I modified him from the original file. I had to cut him out three times before getting him fat enough to not fall through the track. I did narrow my track. Since my fur babies are black with brown I. went ahead and used some black chalk.
The grass is a Studio file which I filled in with color as well as the track. I made one piece of grass shorter and glued it on top of the other piece. For some reason white showed after cutting out the grass so I went ahead and rubbed what was suppose to be green ink on the grass. The grass is pop dotted to the track. I just used the dots on the sides. The track is pop dotted onto the card.
The bone is another Studio file. The font is 4Dogs. I love the font but alas the apostrophe ends up being a sword. So the apostrophe and s was left off of father's. I don't know why I didn't make the track so that it filled all the way across. Still I think my roommate will like it.
I am working on a couple of other cards and perhaps I can get them posted sometime this week. Thank you for stopping by and do come back.
Happy Frugal crafting till we meet again!
In no time at all you can put together cards if you have paper cast embellishments made. As well as an assortment of card bases and shapes on hand. I posted about making paper cast embellishments here.
Here is a card I made from a soap paper casting. I love this sun and this time I didn't make it as thick as in the past.
Quick and easy to put the card together. Even with doing the sentiment in Studio it took less than ten minutes to put this card together. I did spritz the sun with Perfect Pearls Gold mixed in water ahead of time. The gold flecks don't really show up in the picture. I thought it interesting that the paper castings actually dry quicker than card stock when I spritz them.
Ta da! Here is my second card.
While downloading this week's samples from Dover I saw the black and white flower. I quickly changed the idea of what I was going to do.
Here is a closeup of the flower and you can see the Mandarin orange that I spritzed on the stamp casting as well as the gold on the flower.
If you have ragged edges and don't like them on your stamp casting you are going to want to cover them some how like I did here with grosgrain ribbon. Or trim with a guillotine type paper cutter. Your blade paper trimmer is not going to do the job.
I hope I have inspired you and given you some ideas you can use in your crafting. Thank you for stopping by and do come back. I'm going to be playing with glue paint and posting instructions. Hopefully I can get a card made using what I paint. This can be fun project for the kids to do as well as inexpensive.
Several years ago I used to do paper casting for embellishments on cards. It was a lot of fun to do as well as a great way to use up junk mail. LOL! that was before I had a die cutting machine. While sorting through things I found some of my first embellishments and thought it would be fun to make them again.
Blender.... Preferably one that you pick up at a thrift store,garage sale or can con friends or family to give you. That is unless you don't mind replacing the blade on the blender you have now and getting some extra fiber in your smoothie.
Strainer...I prefer a plastic one as it is easier to clean. If you use a metal one dedicate it to paper making because believe me you are not going to get all the little pieces of paper out of it.
Plastic container....Something big enough to drain the pulp in.
Old towels, tee shirts,small pieces of old blanket, felt,or sponges....Something that will absorb the water. Paper towels can be used but that gets to be expensive unless you are going to recycle them into embellishments.
Today I am going to show you how to do your paper casting using soap molds. If you use cookie cutter molds be sure to seal one end with packing tape so that pulp doesn't ooze out leaving a ragged edge.
O.K. lets get started. First tear your paper in pieces and fill your blender about half way. I also recycled paper casting material that I did not like how the embellishment turned out.
Add warm water. I add two cups. The amount of water is not as critical as when making paper but you do want enough to cover the paper and to allow for the paper absorbing the water before blending.
Blend on low for about 30 seconds and then high for a minute or more. The longer you blend the finer your end product will be. Yes, my blender is sitting on the toilet. I'm trying to potty train it as it has a tendency even with the lid on to poop. Seriously though the kitchen is in use so the bathroom is the next best place as long as you have two. LOL! It is a rainy day or I would do this outside. This can be a messy project so I prefer to do it where I can easily clean up.
The amount of recycled paper casting material was so small that I was surprised that it came out an orange color. If using white paper you can color with food color or ink.
Next is to pour the pulp in a strainer over your container. I had to jury rig this a little bit with the lid of the container so the strainer would stay in place. Just easier for me that way. Especially since you want as much water as possible to drain so it takes a couple of minutes. I did with my hand swish the pulp a few times to open the holes back up so more water would drain. The more water you can drain the less blotting you will have to do.
Have ready your molds. Some people spray their molds with cooking spray. I don't do that with the soap molds and have not had a problem getting my embellishments out. I place them on a large lid turned upside down to contain any mess while I fill them.
Now comes the fun part. Take a small amount of pulp and place in the mold and start patting it into place. Better to start with too little and add more later.
Blot with whatever you are using to remove the water. Here I am using a towel. Blot and tap until you have the thickness you want. If need be you can add more pulp. The pulp will compact as you blot and pat it. The more compacted the more likely your embellishment will stay together. LOL! Wonder how I know that. The more water you can blot up the less likely your embellishment will get moldy on you.
When you are satisfied find a place to place your molds. Preferable in a sunny place. But lacking that you can do it under a lamp like I am doing here.
Yes, poor Cameron has to share the space with my embellishments. But I have them so I can move them if I need or want to use him. When they are dry they can be popped out like soap if they have not already fallen out due to gravity.
While playing I used a rubber stamp as a mold. Because the pulp on it was thinner it is dried. I am pleased with the way it turned out. I will definitely use this stamp and other stamps for paper casting this way.
You finished making your embellishments and now it is time to clean up. Something very important to keep in mind while you clean up is that your mixture acts like concrete when dry. Under no circumstance pour the water in your container down your sink or tub unless you are prepared to pay a plumbing bill. Or clean your blender in the sink for the same reason. You can toss the water down the toilet with no problem as well as water that you have swished around in your blender to pick up the pieces as long as there is not a lot of pulp. After all you flush toilet paper every day. You can dump and rinse everything outside with a hose. Or dump it down a storm grate in the middle of the night while your neighbors are sleeping. O.K. please don't send me hate mail or place hate comments on my blog. I'm just kidding about the last. I would never do anything that has an impact on the environment like that. Especially since the storm drains where I live go to the river. I like to fish too much.
There you have it a fun and frugal way to make embellishments. Oh and if you have kids they can have fun doing this outside this Summer.
Thank you for stopping by and do come back. I will be doing a card with some of the embellishments after I fancy them up with paint,Perfect Pearl, etc.
Until we meet again I wish you Frugal crafting.
No! No! Not postal that way. Although I must confess I was ready to shoot Cameron because he wasn't recognizing the registration marks for a print and cut. Instead I've gone postal creating a card for the Moxie Fab World Postage challenge.
In case you haven't noticed the postage theme is still going strong when it comes to using it in crafting. It seems like every day another company is coming out with postage theme products. Now having said that I don't have any of those products. However that doesn't mean that a project can't have a postage theme. After all with a little bit of research you can come up with all kinds of digital images to use. You can even make a small envelope and card like I did.
Oh, you want to see the card. Just a moment while I put the finishing touches on it. Don't worry you won't have to wait too long because this is the magic of the internet.
The background is a stamp collage that I cropped and resized. The airmail envelope,letter and post card were also resized. As was the pen. Oh and notice the trendy chevrons on the pen how neat is that! (These are all Royalty Free images) Easy Peasy print and cut lol as long as Cameron recognizes the registration marks. The small envelope is actually cut from a recycled envelope. In fact the card is covering the bar code on it. The card is from the scallop label file in Studio library. (lol! yes another free file) Just replicated and welded as well as resized. The front of it is stamped with a background stamp. I did pop dot the envelope on the card as I did not want the pen to be flat.
This was my first attempt at doing a postage card. I'm not sure whether I like it or not but it did encourage me to think outside of the box. As well as practice printing and cutting. I do know that I'll be making more mini envelopes and cards to add to cards. As well as putting together more collages in my cards. I had forgotten how much fun making collages are.
My tip is to use those envelopes you were just going to throw in the trash in your crafting. Hey after all they are free even if bills come in them. LOL!
Thank you for stopping by and do come back. I am off to work on a Father's Day card for my roommate. I hope I can pull it off as it is pretty hard to top the iDad card from last year. Yes a iphone shaped card where the icons opened to reveal secret messages.


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This is actually a great game for kids. It starts off with basic puzzles and then builds complexity with each new level. Basic math, logic, reasoning, and memory skills are tested. The viewing screen is big and easy on the eyes. The math section demands that you have a basic grasp of multiplication and division so that is more appropriate for older kids.