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By Aoife Carberry
It's been a bone of contention among councillors and members of the public since it was introduced in Longford town in 2003, but the benefits of paid parking were discussed at length during last month's meeting of Longford Municipal District
At the meeting five of the six Councillors spoke highly of the system and the effect it has had on the town. The one dissenting voice came from Cllr Mae Sexton who believes that paid parking is having a detrimental effect on the town.
"I'm very, very pro-paid parking," Cllr Gerry Warnock said. "I've seen the benefit in real terms and in financial terms."
These benefits include funding for projects such as the refurbishment of the Market Square, the facilities in the Mall - newly re-named the Albert Reynolds Peace Park - and the Canal Walks. Cllr Warnock even went so far as to credit the proceeds from paid parking with allowing the Council to "remain solvent" during a difficult economic recession.
The meting heard that paid parking allows the council to provide more grants for community groups, while the off-street car parks made use of some previously derelict sites and reduced congestion on the streets.
"There's an awful lot of scaremongering and an awful lot of misinformation," Cllr Warnock explained.
"I will never subscribe to the argument that people are spending money on fuel, driving there and back to Athlone, Mullingar or Liffey Valley, just to avoid putting a euro or two into a parking meter in Longford."
In fact, Cllr Warnock was keen to emphasise the value in Longford's paid parking system. Forty-five minutes of on-street parking can cost as little as twenty cents, while there are numerous all-day car parks that run at a rate of €2 per day, he said.
Acknowledging that the income being generated by paid parking was relatively low at present (the council are predicting that it will provide a surplus of approximately €25,000 this year), Cllr Warnock pointed out that they are repaying loans which allowed them to introduce the regime and provide off-street car-parking. As such, he predicted that the income would only increase as the years go by.
Cathaoirleach of Longford Municipal District, Padraig Loughrey, who is also a Longford town business owner, was another supporter of paid parking.
"I remember a time previous to paid parking being introduced that people could not get into shops," he said. "Paid parking frees traffic up that there can be a constant flow of customers into shops like mine."
Stating that the long stay car parks were of "great value" to the town, Cllr Loughrey reasoned that it's not feasible to abolish the system.
"It's not as if we can go and eliminate paid parking. If we didn't have the income we currently get from parking, other services would be curtailed or eliminated entirely.
"It's the only discretionary income we have and it allowed us to facilitate community grants applications.
"Without paid parking," the Cathaoirleach went on to add, "it's debatable whether we'd be able to provide the services that people expect us to provide."
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I'm currently re-building my altar, and I seem to be at a minor impasse; I'm unable to use real incense due to the size of our apartment (400sqft--one stick would make the whole place smell strongly), but I have seen at temples in the past a sort of LED incense burner; basically a light that looks like a stick of incense.
I can't seem to find one online; does anyone here know what I'm talking about or where I should look?
Metta and Gassho,
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In a world obsessing over side-hustles, one of the most accessible options available to everyone is earning cash from clearing out your wardrobe. While half the battle of the clear-out is deciding to part with the clothes, the next step is deciding what to do with them. Throw in the monetary opportunity and the motivation suddenly presents itself.
So what are your options?
Whether in it for building a long-term side hustle or just looking for a quick injection of cash for holiday spending, these are the best ways to turn old clothes into earning opportunity.
In between documenting the behind-the-scenes of our daily lives, Instagram is increasingly becoming the go-to place for re-selling our pre-loved clothes. Given this isn't exactly what the social media network was designed for, you don't have to deal with the drama of seller admin. Simply take a picture of the item of clothing you're selling, list a few key features (size, brand, price), share with your pre-existing audience and wait for the sales to happen right there in your DMs.
The downside to this is that you'll have to direct payment methods elsewhere as again, the social network wasn't designed to be the next eBay. Although on a small scale this only requires sharing a PayPal link, for example, the Instagram resale model is less sustainable for those planning to make flipping clothes a legitimate side hustle.
Facebook Marketplace
While Instagram is still working on its shift into the eCommerce world, Facebook has already rolled out its version with Facebook Marketplace. Similar to Craigslist and sites like Gumtree, it's easy to use in taking a quick picture of the item you're selling. It's worth noting that Facebook Marketplace isn't limited to clothing and can be used to sell any items.
The update to the app is easier to use than sites like Gumtree as it plays into its strengths of being designed on a social basis and targets those around you, therefore, making it easier to not only make a sale but also to organize a monetary exchange and saves costs on postage.
ASOS Marketplace
For those taking their wardrobe clear out a little more seriously, ASOS Marketplace is the place to take your online selling game to the next level. This option is more appropriate for those with plans to open their own online boutique. With this in mind, the site requires a little more involvement than your average online sale but if you're willing to pay a small monthly fee and find yourself with large volumes of clothes to sell, ASOS Marketplace is worth it for the online traffic, customer type and amount of eyes it will bring to your products. Additionally, the pattern allows you to set up unique discount codes and run offers on your items that otherwise wouldn't be possible on other sites.
Somewhere in between eBay and Instagram, Depop is the creme de la creme of reselling platforms with particular focus on the fashion-forward and vintage kings and queens of the fashion scene. For those that get it right, Depop is a golden commercial opportunity for earning consistent income on the side, killing two birds with one stone and getting rid of clothes you no longer wear at the same time.
It's a site that's turned a one-off clear out into a legitimate business for many. It's a treasure trove for vintage pieces and novelty Instagram fashion hits. So that OTT 80s look you rocked on the 'gram and haven't worn since? Time to earn your keep on Depop.
We couldn't forget to mention to the O.G of resale sites, eBay. With the rise of many niche resale models and the hype around vintage bargain hunting, eBay is your best bet for sell-out viral buys and cult items from the high street. The platform allows you to list 20 items per month for free with a listing fee of 35p per item after that. Once you've sold an item, all you've got to worry about is paying 10% of the final transaction value to eBay and postage pricing and the rest is yours to pocket.


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Twitter is testing an analytics dashboard that will help users, especially corporate users, figure out what's is and isn't working in their usage of the microblogging service.
Mashable first reported the test and published a couple of screenshots (I've reproduced one below). The screenshots show one section for tracking general activity on your account, including how many times you have been mentioned, followed, and un-followed. It also shows which of your messages posted to Twitter seem to have gotten the best response, based on the number of users who marked it as a favorite, retweeted it, and replied to it.
There's a separate page for Promoted Tweets (which is one of the forms of advertising sold by Twitter sells) showing how often the message has seen, clicked on, retweeted, and replied to.
When I asked Twitter about the report, a spokesperson confirmed the test via email:
We gave a very small group of Twitter users access to a simple and straightforward analytics dashboard, as part of an alpha test. This first group of testers includes users who have worked with Twitter and are doing interesting things with their Twitter accounts. We're experimenting with tools like this to give users insight on how to make their Tweets more compelling for Twitter users, and we don't have a timeline for wider distribution.
There's a strong corporate demand for better monitoring and analytics tools, and we want to help developers take advantage of this significant opportunity. For example, it was announced today that we partnered with Gnip, which will sub-license access to public Tweets and give developers an efficient way to access the Twitter stream for analytics purposes.
Back in September, Twitter business development executive Ross Hoffman told an audience of marketers that the company was working on an analytics dashboard developed by the team behind acquired analytics startup Trendly. At the time, we were surprised that Hoffman said the service would be free, but free analytics could be indirectly lucrative for Twitter by helping advertisers track their campaigns.
This is shaping up to be a big news day for the company. There are rumors that Twitter is raising more funding at a $3 billion valuation, and co-founder Ev Williams is scheduled to take the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit later this afternoon.
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Headbangers and high Kultur
A new breed of artists is changing British tastes in German culture
AT FULL pelt, the sound of the German heavy metal group Rammstein is an awe-inspiring din, enhanced by stage pyrotechnics, a lead singer wearing flaming eagles' wings and band members in Aryan blond wigs. The mixture of what one critic called "situationist anthems, German drinking songs and opera," has brought the noisy crew an enthusiastic British following, part of which was recently on display at a gig in Manchester.
British enthusiasm for modern German culture is quietly growing, and not just among headbangers. Hardy perennials, like recitals of Schubert Lieder, German-style Christmas markets in British towns and intermittent performances of Goethe and Schiller plays are now regularly supplemented by avant-garde art, as well as work by challenging composers like Heiner Goebbels.
Cate Blanchett, an actress and director, is about to take to the Barbican stage in "Gross und Klein", a modern surrealist play. Tanztheater Wuppertal, the dance company founded by the late Pina Bausch, will soon begin a lengthy season at Sadler's Wells, while galleries are showing works by artists like Tino Sehgal and Hans-Peter Feldmann. Even German humour, not usually seen as a bankable export, has a following. Henning Wehn, who styles himself as "German comedy ambassador to the UK", tells jokes about mutual stereotypes while wearing a stopwatch on stage to reflect German punctiliousness.
Britons have periodically admired German culture. Thomas Carlyle, a 19th-century historian who inspired Germanophiles of that era, enthused about the country "speaking the same old Saxon tongue and thinking in the same old Saxon spirit with ourselves." War hardened feelings—as, more subtly, did official British resistance to German reunification. But unification eventually brought the countries closer, argues Sabine Hentzsch of the Goethe Institute in London, which is about to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
Much of that has to do with the rise of Berlin as a European cultural centre. Damien Hirst and other figures in the Young British Artists movement spent time in Berlin in the post-unity party atmosphere of the 1990s and still exhibit there. Some artists split their time between the British and German capitals, including Wolfgang Tillmans, a photographer who has cited "the mix of damp carpet and apricot-scented potpourri, Marmite and repressed but omnipresent sexuality" as some of the delightful things about Britain.
Rüdiger Görner, professor of German studies at Queen Mary's college in London, says Germans have become increasingly intrigued by British multiculturalism. As for the British, fashions have simply changed. A generation whose parents laughed awkwardly at John Cleese in "Fawlty Towers," a television comedy, shouting "Don't mention the war!" at bemused German hotel guests is, he suggests, "simply getting bored by clichés."
Although old resentments are periodically revived by football clashes, they are not enough to override the growing affinities between the two countries. Yet there are strict limits to the British love of things German. Many fewer school students are learning the language than did so 10 years ago, meaning fewer have the slightest idea what Rammstein are on about.
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WASHINGTON — Astronomers using the Hubble Space telescope have taken a series of images featuring the fluttering auroras at the north pole of Saturn. The observations were taken in ultraviolet light and the resulting images provide astronomers with the most comprehensive picture so far of Saturn's northern aurora.
In 2017, over a period of seven months, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope took images of auroras above Saturn's north pole region using the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph. The observations were taken before and after the Saturnian northern summer solstice. These conditions provided the best achievable viewing of the northern auroral region for Hubble.
The new observations are detailed in a new study in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.
On Earth, auroras are mainly created by particles originally emitted by the Sun in the form of solar wind. When this stream of electrically charged particles gets close to our planet, it interacts with the magnetic field, which acts as a gigantic shield. While it protects Earth's environment from solar wind particles, it can also trap a small fraction of them. Particles trapped within the magnetosphere — the region of space surrounding Earth in which charged particles are affected by its magnetic field — can be energized and then follow the magnetic field lines down to the magnetic poles. There, they interact with oxygen and nitrogen atoms in the upper layers of the atmosphere, creating the flickering, colorful lights visible in the polar regions here on Earth.
However, these auroras are not unique to Earth. Other planets in our Solar System have been found to have similar auroras. Among them are the four gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Because the atmosphere of each of the four outer planets in the Solar System is – unlike the Earth – dominated by hydrogen, Saturn's auroras can only be seen in ultraviolet wavelengths — a part of the electromagnetic spectrum which can only be studied from space.
Hubble allowed researchers to monitor the behavior of the auroras at Saturn's north pole over an extended period of time. The Hubble observations were coordinated with the "Grand Finale" of the Cassini spacecraft, when the spacecraft simultaneously probed the auroral regions of Saturn. The Hubble data allowed astronomers to learn more about Saturn's magnetosphere, which is the largest of any planet in the Solar System other than Jupiter.
The images show a rich variety of emissions with highly variable localized features. The variability of the auroras is influenced by both the solar wind and the rapid rotation of Saturn, which lasts only about 11 hours. On top of this, the northern aurora displays two distinct peaks in brightness — at dawn and just before midnight. The latter peak, unreported before, seems specific to the interaction of the solar wind with the magnetosphere at Saturn's solstice.
Hubble has studied Saturn's auroras in the past. In 2004, it studied the southern auroras shortly after the southern solstice and in 2009 it took advantage of a rare opportunity to record Saturn when its rings were edge-on. This allowed Hubble to observe both poles and their auroras simultaneously.
This video uses different observations of Saturn: While the observations in the optical, showing the planet itself, were made in 2018, the observations of the auroras were collected in 2017. The video shows how the auroras in Saturn's northern regions vary over time. The variability of the auroras is influenced by both the solar wind and the rapid rotation of Saturn. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA & L. Lamy (Observatoire de Paris)


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"Today in the body of Christ, there are many without pastors; there are many without teachers; and there are very very many without fathers. That's why there are too many frustrated people in the church just pushing and pushing, 247 of every day, because they have no access to a ride. They have not seen the need to connect to the grace for a ride so they begin groaning and pushing while others are riding."
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Thinking of my heart, my Grandfathers face came into my mind. I love him so deeply. He showed me what a Father actually is.
Being adopted at birth, I never questioned who my actual parents were. My Father who raised me loved me with the love he had left in his heart. He did not have the prettiest life and had a lot of damage he needed to work through. He often lies which was something I often had a hard time dealing with, especially growing up. If adults do it, doesn't that make it okay? In fact not. I am the most honest person I know because my father lies so often. My Mother who subsequently left him, projected his lies onto me, so even when I did tell the truth I was lieing.
It felt like there was no winning to this endless circle, but in my heart I always new the truth. This saved me most days.
So when it came to life issues or important topics it's was difficult for my father to listen with his heart. Over the years I have learned to realize, if a heart is not healed it cannot hear. Grandpa always listens with his heart and that's why it's difficult for me to let go.


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Hiking from Cordoba to Granada on The Route of the Caliphate
Andalusia, Córdoba, Granada, Jaén, Spain
Type of Tour
Featured, Hiking through Andalusia, Self-guided
Difficulty Level
8 days and 7 nights
Departure - Destination
Zuheros - Granada
Number of participants
mimium 2 travellers
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"The Route of the Caliphate" is designated Major European Cultural Itinerary. The prestigious Foundation Legado Andalusí in co-operation with Otros Caminos has re-discovered this itinerary and developed it as a historical and cultural experience, connecting the cities of Cordoba and Granada with their world cultural heritages: the stunning "Mezquita" in Cordoba and the marvelous "Alhambra" in Granada.
This walking holiday explores the human and natural landscapes that mark out the famous Route of the Caliphate, between Cordoba and Granada. Once we get to Cordoba, immersing ourselves in its splendid past and its bustling present, we will then travel to the romantic white washed village of Zuheros, in the Subbética Mountains. These mountains (now designated Nature Reserve), reach some 1,500 m above sea level and constitute an impressive limestone range southeast of the city of Cordoba. Since time immemorial they have been home to some of the most beautiful towns and villages in Andalusia, such as Priego de Córdoba, Carcabuey, Cabra, Zuheros and Luque… Age-old olive groves, holm- and gall-oaks grow on the red-coloured hillsides, hiding magical rock formations such as the Cueva de los Murciélagos (Bats' Cave).
We are not limited to this nature reserve and its stately villages, however. We will also walk through the area surrounding a major fortress (Alcalá la Real) and the brief, yet rugged mountains that protect the plain and the Nazrid capital of Granada, heritage of a small, legendary village called Moclín.
Once in Granada itself, if the host of attractions on offer allow you time, you can still discover the secret of Moorish wells and waterways, search out the origins of famous poems in the walls of the Alhambra, take a stroll through the old Moorish neighbourhood, the Albayzín, packed with sounds and aromas, and try some tapas enjoying views out to the Sierra Nevada Mountains, already thinking of coming back soon!


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How can you get to know your siblings in Christ at MPLC? Let me count the ways!
Church Gatherings
Our Sunday AM Coffee Fellowship, fall kickoff picnic, summer fun activities, Lenten and Advent midweek dinners, and other special events are great, casual opportunities to get to know new friends.
Special Interest Activities
"Book in a Bar", Project Night/Day, golf leagues, 5K teams, Women's Retreat, game nights, and other occasional events are a way to join with others who share your interests.
Small Groups
Small groups meet regularly with a small group of members in each other's homes to grow in your relationships with God and each other.
Service, Music Groups, Learning, and Care Ministries
Visit our Learn, Serve, Care and Music pages for more ideas!
From [Christ] the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work."
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Believe it or not heat pumps repair and maintenance Happy Valley, OR is crucial to ensure the best possible performance from your unit. In fact, with diligent care and maintenance on your heat pump, you can ensure it lasts for up to 20-years.
Nevertheless, age still affects everything mercilessly. They might still be running properly. Over time, however, things might start to get a bit trickier.
Signs of your heat pump decaying will pop up unexpectedly. Sometimes, it's worth having them fixed again. However, when you've had them for longer than 10 years you might want to check some professional heat pumps repair and maintenance Happy Valley, OR first.
Do you run maintenance regularly?
A well-maintained heat pump will have a greater advantage and chance of lasting longer than a poorly kept system.
This also means that by the regular scheduling of the service, you will not only guarantee a longer life for your unit but also an energy-efficient environment that won't drain your wallet on a daily basis.
However, if you're dealing with an older pump, heat pumps repair and maintenance Happy Valley, OR might not be as convenient as a replacement.
How is it working?
Regardless of the age, if you have been repairing your pumps quite often recently, and you can't get your unit to work efficiently, it's a sign you should probably bid farewell and get a new one.
Doing this will most likely save you plenty of bucks in the long-run. However, getting a modern unit will also give your home the performance that it needs and deserves.
Are you losing money?
Constantly having to repair the pumps without your system performing as before is a clear sign that something's wrong. You can easily spot the changes if you keep getting higher bills for lower performance.
Keep in mind that the weather conditions can also affect how your whole system works together and therefore how cost-effective the heat pumps repair and maintenance Happy Valley, OR is.
On an average note, it is worth mentioning that though there are some cases where the heat pumps get to last over the 10-year mark in almost perfect shape, it is usually advisable to replace them once they get this old.
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Snooker Nation Championship is digital snooker at is best. The offline tournament spans 6 rounds, competing in the qualifiers through to the grand final held in the Snooker Nation Championship venue, played on meticulously created Championship specification tables. Full details on the latest status of the game, how you can give feedback and report issues can be found at www.snookernationgame.com.
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Christine has a solid background in personal finance as she spent the last eight years working at one of the biggest banks in the US. She managed her own team of financial advisors that helped hundreds of people with their financing needs. Her innate understanding of different financial products and loans helped her move up the ranks quickly after graduating with a degree in Business Administration.
She recognizes that financial products are tools, and that the right tool for one job might be the wrong tool for another job. As a result, she focuses on helping people find the right tool for their specific situation. Christine utilizes all of her experience as a loan officer and bank manager to help her dispense the best possible advice for her readers.
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15 Fixes Ghost Recon Wildlands Needs
Ghost Recon Wildlands is an ambitious game. When it's at its best, it's one of the most fun, cooperative experiences I've had in years, channeling the best bits of Metal Gear Solid V, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, and the legacy of Ghost Recon. However, a lot of elements get in the way of the game being at its best, and many of them seem possibly fixable in an update. Matt Bertz, who reviewed the game, Jeff Marchiafava, and I have collected our grievances here.
Let Players Import Their Own Music
Or at least have music options available. Bolivia is a big place and you spend a fair amount of time driving from mission to mission. It seems really bizarre not to give players an option that isn't Listen To The Annoying DJ And His Bad Music or Drive Silently Through The Land.
Let Players Change The Time Of Day
Night time offers more tactical options, so why not pull a Phantom Pain and let players speed up the clock? Especially if they're playing by themselves and need more of a tactical boost since they're working with wonky A.I. squadmates.
Add A Mute A.I. Squadmate Option
Wildlands has a lot of bad writing. The worst of it is often in the conversations between squadmates, where they discuss the art of torture or make dumb jokes. It's boring and the voice acting for these characters is atrocious. Please let us mute them. Please.
Add A Photo Mode For The Console Versions
Bolivia's vistas are gorgeous. Throw in a photo editor ala The Last Of Us Remastered, Horizon Zero Dawn, and No Man's Sky to let players take advantage of that.
Make The UNIDAD Less Annoying
In Wildlands, the UNIDAD are an army that patrols over Bolivia. They have a system similar to that of the Wanted system in Grand Theft Auto and are relentless. You kill them, they just keep coming with tanks, helicopters, armored infantry. That in itself isn't a problem, but they have a habit of showing up all the time, especially when you're tailing a target or doing a mission where if you're seen, you're immediately hit with a game over screen. It'd be great if Ubisoft could dial back how often you run into them.
Make Conversations Skippable
Failing a mission often means having to listen to an NPC cycle through their bad table-setting dialogue all over again. Just stick a skip button in there.
More Mission Checkpoints
Several missions have multiple steps. Those steps often include driving across regions, which amount to a large amount of time doing nothing. Often, if you're doing a tail-the-target mission or a stealth mission where being spotted ends in failure, getting hit with that game over screen means going back all the way to the first step, which can mean anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes of progress gone. Some more checkpoints to alleviate the annoyance and boredom of having to redo these long sections would be nice.
Make Using The Helicopter Weapons Easier
Most helicopters you can jack come with powerful miniguns capable of laying waste to everyone and everything in front of you – if you can use them. They're actually a pain to aim. It'd be great to have a fix that makes these weapons easier to use.
A.I. Squadmates Who Can Drive
If you're playing solo, you're stuck with squadmates who talk way too much and can't drive, which means you can't sit in the passenger seat and shoot at foes. It's a bummer and makes taking down convoys much harder. Though it's probably unlikely, it'd be great to have an update that adds A.I. drivers.
Tie More Tactical Options To Corpses
If you kill someone in Wildlands, you can't move their corpse or hide it. You just have to wait for it to disappear. This means an enemy can stumble upon it during that time and put the whole camp on alert and there's no option to move it to increase the probability of remaining undetected. Also: removing the corpse disappearance on higher difficulties would probably make the game even more challenging for those who like their tactical games hardcore.
Stop Blocking Fast Traveling
We know Ubisoft doesn't want players to fast travel out of danger, but it is ridiculous that you can get cut off from your player squad by the UNIDAD, then have to hide and wait for minutes on end for their wanted level to dissipate, just to rejoin your friends back at the mission.
Shorten Respawn Times Or Let Players Skip Them Entirely
We understand respawn times are a way to balance encounters and potentially fail a mission. It's still a lousy solution; waiting for a minute when your entire squad is on the other side of a compound or kilometers away is just a boring waste of time. Setting a limited number of respawns during team missions would preserve the challenge, without forcing players to hover over their dead bodies when they know no one is coming to revive them.
Let Players Spawn In Vehicles
If I choose to fast travel to a friend, spawn me in their damn helicopter/car/boat/friggin' gondola. If there's not room, then fine, dump me by the side of the road – but that shouldn't be the default.
Item And Loot Collection Should Count For The Entire Team
In co-op, if a character collects some intel, the whole team gets it. However, if they find a gun, accessory, or resource and collect it, the collection only counts for that player. So what ends up happening is you'll have an entire team take the camp and then have to wait while everyone goes, one by one, to collect those items. It's dumb and taxing and a waste of time.
Add More Gadgets
The drone is incredibly useful, no doubt, but it'd be great to have more gizmos to play with that add tactical options, like an RC car with explosives taped to it or tranquilizer weapons.
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Issue 141
"I'm a Little Too Rebellious for That": A Conversation with Joi T. Arcand and Winona Wheeler
by Joi T. Arcand, Chris Lee, and Winona Wheeler
While doing research to design a catalogue for Kent Monkman's exhibition at the Robert Langen Art Gallery in Waterloo, ON, which was to be typeset in Cree and English, I decided I wanted the typefaces to echo some of the themes of Monkman's work. So, I opted for Cartier, designed by Carl Dair in 1968 and dedicated to the people of Canada on the centenary of Confederation,1 and BJ Cree UNI, designed by Bill Jancewicz in 1994 for the Naskapi Development Corporation.2 I was interested in exploring the common misattribution of Cartier as Canada's first typeface, when it was actually preceded by a Cree typeface by around 120 years.
I was fortunate to come across a text by Winona Wheeler (then Winona Stevenson) called "Calling Badger and the Symbols of the Spirit Language: The Cree Origins of the Syllabic System," which counterposes two origin stories of the Cree syllabary. On the one hand, the syllabary is said to be the invention of an English missionary and linguist named James Evans. However, Cree oral history tells that it was received by an elder named Calling Badger from the Spirit World. Beyond simply supporting the claim that Cree syllabics precede Cartier as this settler-colonial nation's first typeface, Wheeler's text compelled me to wonder about how banal genres of graphic design, like the document, legitimize certain forms of memory over others, and also about how things like typography get wrapped up in the mystification of Canadian settler-colonialism as a benevolent civilizing force, bringing literacy, education and modernization.
When I learned about Joi T. Arcand's work involving Cree syllabics more recently, I found its speculative charge to be provocative. It didn't plead or petition to prove anything—it is simply here, in everyday scenes, in neon signs, in what she calls Cree Comic Sans, as if it had always been. The paradoxically matter-of-fact yet quasi-mythological effect of Arcand's work takes the fallacious colonial narrative of Canada as a benevolent force and uncovers it to be something like the emperor's new clothes, rendering visible the undergarments of the settler-colonial mythology.
I wanted to bring these thinkers and makers into conversation around their respective work and research as it relates to the Cree syllabary's history, fact and myth, in the context of this issue on graphic design. I think that what follows reads as an illuminating critique of coloniality, and the ways in which graphic design might be implicated.
—Chris Lee
CHRIS LEE: Some of the threads that run through both of your practices are: an engagement with myth-making, with history and with historiography. I'm playing with the idea of historiography as a genre of design. Winona, you've thought about the contrast between the kinds of knowledge and history that are sanctioned through institutions like the university, in contrast to oral histories, which have tended not to be validated or sanctioned as forms of knowledge or history by these institutions—until very recently. And then, Joi, I think of what you're doing in your work as also engaging in a kind of myth-making, like in your photo series Here on Future Earth (2009), where we see the Cree syllabary populating signage in everyday scenes. There is a charged uncertainty about whether or not these photographs are documents of the recent past or speculative projections of a near future. So, it really occupies this interesting space.
I am wondering if we can start a conversation thereabouts, and think about both speaking and writing in relation to documents and myths, and also to think about the way the history of Cree syllabary has been told, remembered and passed on.
WINONA WHEELER: Joi, I am fascinated by your work so why don't you start?
JOI T. ARCAND: Well, I am also fascinated by yours, and have cited your work about the Cree syllabary in my own. I come from a fine art and graphic design background, and obviously I am Cree, so all of these interests kind of came together in that project Here on Future Earth. At the time, I was working at the Saskatchewan Indigenous Cultural Centre (SICC), doing layout and design using the Cree language, but also in Dene, Dakota, Nakota, Lakota and Saulteaux. Our clients were mostly First Nations schools that were looking for language teaching materials for people of all ages. It was really tedious work—photocopying, binding educational books—but what I found so fascinating was that I was learning the language by proximity. Knowing that I come from a people whose language was and is passed down orally, I couldn't ignore the fact that I was also picking up the language by looking at it. I was hearing the language when I was seeing it on my computer screen or on paper, so I guess I wanted to look into it further. At the SICC, I had at my disposal all of this information, and it may have been there that I came across Winona's writing. I also just had the privilege of being around fluent speakers in the office. It grounded my sense of why we were doing this work, why it was so important to have these oral languages written.
WW: The first time I saw syllabics, I was really young and they looked like word poetry, and what struck me was that they were not random, they were so—and I'm not an artist, so I don't have the language—but they were very poetic. I thought it was absolutely beautiful just to look at them even though I couldn't read them—the way that they were shaped, the way they partnered with each other, supported each other and operated in family groups of four.
There is this Canadian myth, and it's part of the whole colonial national myth, that a missionary came along and invented syllabics so that he could teach "the natives" how to read and write, and so he could translate the Bible. It just sounded to me like colonial bogus and I wanted to challenge that and know who this guy was, this Reverend James Evans, and where did he get such a beautiful, poetic syllabary?
I just couldn't imagine that an English missionary could come up with something so beautiful, and something that was so reflective of the culture. So, I started to study that. The reality was: he was a missionary for quite a long time in Ontario amongst the Ojibway where he had started to develop a writing system. But it didn't have the same kind of beauty to it; it was more random, it was more alphabetical. And then he arrived in Swampy Cree territory and within two months he had [apparently] created the syllabary, and that to me is just totally unrealistic—he could not even speak the language. And yes, Anishinaabe and Cree are related, but the Swampy Cree dialect is very different. So, I started doing more research on him and of course he had a local interpreter. And so, it seemed to me that he probably got the language from his interpreter and his network. So, I started to pursue that evidence and then discovered that he shot his own interpreter "by mistake." Yeah! This was after there were accusations that he was pursuing his interpreter's wife. And then he was recalled and there were a number of sexual assault charges—not officially but informally laid against him. And I thought: that bugger! So, there's a whole story of that. Anyway, I started asking around about this syllabary, and came across a number of people who had bits and pieces of its origin story. And I thought, "Okay, well I wonder what academics have to say about it too." So, I started searching and researching, and almost every single academic privileges the James Evans myth. But there was this one anthropologist, Verne Dusenberry, who spent time among the Rocky Boy Cree in Montana, and he was the only one that I came across back then who wrote down some of the origin stories passed down in oral history: there was this individual, Calling Badger, who passed away and was taken to the Spirit World where he was given this new language, this new way of communicating called the spirit language. [As it turned out], he had actually been having a vision and came back to this world and he shared it. I find it fascinating that [Dusenberry] didn't pooh-pooh it. The anthropologist said that's their history, that's what they believe, and in their world that's legitimate, and why couldn't it happen? I found that really, really fun. That little article I wrote3 was just a small piece, it was just preliminary, and I did it because I was mad—mad about this very colonial national myth [that syllabary originated from missionary James Evans], and the people who buy into it. Even some of our own people buy into it. There's a larger article that will come out later that will expand on that smaller one.
CL: I want to pick up on the way that you referred to the James Evans myth as a colonial myth—because I feel like for many readers that kind of phrasing might be somewhat surprising.
WW: You know, in settler-colonialism and settler societies, there is this driving need to justify the appropriation, the theft, the displacement of Indigenous peoples. You can't just walk into another people's territory and assume ownership—you have to rationalize it. You dehumanize people so that they are less than you, and if they are less than you, then they don't deserve all of this [gestures her hands to refer to everything around her]. And, in our situation, [the settlers] infantilized us, viewed us as children that needed an education, that needed to be dragged up from the depths of our barbarism through civilization. So, there is that whole settler-colonial narrative that goes on while you are taking our land, our resources, and you have to justify in your own mind that you are superiors, that you are better at doing things than we are, and you see it happening up to today. You got nonaboriginal people who come across as though they believe that they can do something better than we can.
And I think that settler-colonialism does not see Indigenous peoples as having the intellectual capacity to create a written language. Because it needs a whole lot of smarts—and [settlers] didn't think we were smart. So, to actually give credibility to us inventing the system would go against their best interests, because they have to portray us as simple, stupid, backwards and pagan to justify the whole missionary enterprise. And syllabics were popularized specifically for the whole missionary enterprise. So, they took something really beautiful and they used it against us.
CL: Joi, how do you see the contemporary use of the syllabics, both in your artwork, and in the educational context? The story that Winona tells us is one that has a troubling side and an empowering one.
JTA: Well, when Winona was talking about the gifting of the writing system to our people [by way of Calling Badger], in order to ensure that our language carries on… I was getting chills because I was thinking that that moment is now, and we're seeing the resurgence of syllabics everywhere and it's really kind of come to a point where people are starting to recognize it as an Indigenous—a Cree—writing system. That gets me excited because it makes me think about how much our ancestors cared about us, that we would have this tool to use. I appreciate the work of people like Winona and other language people who have been pushing back against that myth, and so I just want to add my voice to that.
I do that through my art, and most of the time people who have no reference point for what syllabics are assume it's foreign because they can't read it. And when they can't understand something, they get really uncomfortable. That discomfort means that it must be foreign, it must not be from here, or for them. I like playing with that for myself as well, because I'm not a Cree speaker, and I'm trying to learn. I'm trying to battle my own feelings around not being able to speak, and I'm like, "If I am uncomfortable, then you should be uncomfortable too." As
settler people, [you should] not have everything just handed to you, without any question or without being challenged in that way, to think about the fact that something that you think is foreign is actually Indigenous.
CL: Yeah, I've noticed in the way that you talk about your work, particularly the work that centres the syllabics, that you talk about that it comes from a place. I also find really strong and assertive the fact that you don't offer translations for your artworks that use the syllabics. It is like, "This is a matter of fact, this is what it is, so deal with it," which I think is really striking and interesting.
JTA: Yeah, people don't like that either. [Laughs].
CL: Winona, I heard you say in a presentation once that, as a historian, you like paper, which I suspect—maybe since I'm not a historian—is perhaps because paper gives your scholarly andacademic claims legitimacy; there is a kind of materiality to it as evidence.
WW: I don't think it has anything to do with creating legitimacy or validation as a scholar—I'm a little too rebellious for that. For me, one of the problems is that I've got a really crappy memory; my memory is like a sieve, and so I have a hard time memorizing. I was raised in a predominantly oral family, but I was raised in a literate society and so my memory capacity is nowhere near the memory capacity of our ancestors, which was so finely tuned to hold memories. They were trained from when they were very small to develop their memories, and we lack that. In this day and age, I find that writing it down allows for easier dissemination; it gets out there faster, and that's really important. I take great lessons from many of the elders whom I have worked with, and my late husband, who said it's not just about writing it down—the whole process of transcribing and putting it down on paper is very complex, and you've got to take so much into consideration, with much respect. You can't just do literal transcriptions and translations because you're missing all the nuances and all the shared cultural repertoire. When you put it down in a form, you go through a long process, especially if you want to be respectful to that which you are doing.
CL: Joi, I wonder if you see the work you've done, particularly the stuff in physical space that has a kind of architectural scale or installation component—the neon signs, the labelling of the steps—as creating evidence? What's the relationship of your work to creating evidence?
JTA: Yeah, when I'm making these neon signs, I think: "what is this activating
and what is this object doing in the world?" And it's doing a few things for me. At first, I was just like, "this would be so cool to see." I just wanted to see it, like, "why can't we see this as urban, Cree people?" And then it does something too for people to see themselves and their language reflected and shining back at them. It instills this pride and recognition. I think one of the most exciting things that I saw was this video of school children who had seen my work at the Winnipeg Art Gallery and I was just, like, "Okay, I must be doing this for a reason," because they were just so excited to see it. So, I think if that's the only thing that it's doing, then I'm fine with that.
But it's also about taking over space, and making ourselves visible in these really institutional spaces, like the National Gallery of Canada, like the Winnipeg Art Gallery—all of these spaces that are also a part of that colonial project, and which hold so much [work by Indigenous artists]. So, I feel like it's just taking a little bit of [space] back, and also sharing the beauty of the language, educating people, having those conversations with viewers that may be encountering it for the first time. [My neon work] is so in-your-face that you can't ignore it, and I think that's part of the reason I use lights and texts—so that it causes you to take a second look. You see neon signs every day, and you see them in English or other languages. You pass by them, and maybe you don't pay attention. But all of a sudden when you can't [ignore them], it jars you a bit to be like, "Oh, what is this saying?" and "Where is it from?" I like that it creates all these questions for people.


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From a circular pedestrian plaza, three curved structures
rise. Each of the three structures is of a different height.
The tallest structure has the smallest footprint, and the
lowest structure has the largest footprint. Ideally, the positive
space consisting of the towers, and the negative space between
and above the towers (up to the height of the tallest structure)
would be equal symbolizing balance.
The plaza would consist of either a blossoming of the street
into the circular pedestrian plaza, or an elevated circular
pedestrian plaza one or more levels above the street. If elevated,
the pedestrian plaza would be of a translucent material and
would be illuminated from below.
The light from the floor of the pedestrian plaza would symbolize
those who went before us and contributed to making the city
a great cultural and economic center. Therefore, those walking
across the plaza, in the evening, would be touched by the
light of those who went before us. One street will pass through
an arch carved into the lowest of the three structures.
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Suit claims Cook County detainees monitored in toilet areas
CHICAGO — A new federal lawsuit accuses the Cook County Sheriff's Office of violating the rights of detainees by monitoring them through video cameras while they use toilets in courthouse holding cells.
The proposed class-action lawsuit filed in Chicago on Wednesday argues the alleged monitoring while detainees await bond hearings violates protections against unconstitutional searches and invasions of privacy. It names Sheriff Tom Dart and Cook County as defendants.
The suit alleges both male and female officers monitor male and female detainees in the bathroom areas of holding cells using hidden cameras.
The Chicago Tribune cites Dart's chief policy officer, Cara Smith, as "vehemently" denying hidden or secret cameras monitor bathroom areas. She said in an email statement there are fixed cameras that help ensure the safety of both detainees and staff.
Information from: Chicago Tribune, http://www.chicagotribune.com


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Monday, 22 Feb 2021
Innovation Short Circuit: Global Innovation, From the Battlefield to Football Field
Feature speaker is Tilman Engel, ISU alum and former NFL executive.
Online: Monday Monologues series
"False Offering and Other Oddities," poems by Rita Mookerjee, assistant teaching professor of women and gender studies. Topics include junk, garbage, witches, weirdos, rocks, and water fowl. Mookerjee's poetry is featured in Juked, Hobart Pulp, New Orleans Review, The Offing, and the Baltimore Review. She is the sex and poetry editor at Honey Literary, assistant poetry editor of Split Lip Magazine, and a poetry staff reader for [PANK].
Wednesday, 24 Feb 2021
Mexican Americans and the Administration of Justice, 1970-Today
U.S. Latino/a Studies Faculty Lectures Series, Spring 2021 This presentation tests that analysis by demarcating Mexican American and police interactions from 1970 to the present day. To do that, Dr. Brian Behnken focus on three examples where interactions between Mexican people and law enforcement resulted in the exposure of the inner workings of the entirety of the criminal justice system.
Thursday, 25 Feb 2021
Virtual Artist's Talk: Carol Faber
Carol Faber, ISU associate professor of graphic design and a participant in the "20 Artists, 20 Parks" exhibition on view at the Sioux City Art Center Jan. 30-May 9, will share her creative process and describe the work she created for the show in a virtual artist's talk. Read more and register online at the link in the description to attend her talk.
Friday, 26 Feb 2021
Innovators Forum: Ramsey Tesdell
A live, moderated conversation with Ramsey Tesdell, executive director of SOWT.com podcast network and founder of 7IBER.com. Registration required.
Innovation Short Circuit: The Biggest Indicator of Business Success
Feature speaker is Bill Gross, founder and CEO of Idealab; moderated by Robert Piconi, CEO of Energy Vault.
Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics: Truth to Power
Congresswoman Katie Porter represents California's 45th Congressional District and is the 2021 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics at ISU. WebEx Link: https://iastate.webex.com/iastate/onstage/g.php?MTID=e8a253ba519be3363ba6da790be03a55b


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Preview: BOOM! Studios "Garfield: Homecoming #2"
Garfield: Homecoming #2
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Synopsis: On the next stop in his cross-country travels, Garfield meets a young bearded hipster who lives in a tiny house and works in an Italian restaurant. Writer Scott Nickel is joined by guest-artists Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb (Adventure Time).
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Looking good Rob. SWMBO has informed me that all activities in the Pirate Cave/Aerodrome come all other eras and theaters is to cease forthwith, well until the room is cleared and the walls skimmed...
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Looking good Rob. SWMBO has informed me that all activities in the Pirate Cave/Aerodrome come all other eras and theaters is to cease forthwith, well until the room is cleared and the walls skimmed...
When England sets her banner forth
And bids her armour shine,
She'll not forget the famous North,
The lads of moor and Tyne;
And when the loving-cup's in hand
And Honour leads the cry,
Hope I haven't spoiled the party as I commented in the thread just now. Cracking read though.
Bloody Hell man you went through hell and back literally. I thought for awhile you were a gonner but you persevered and got through.
REP on its way.
Great write up of a nice little action there Jonas. Nice to see you back behind the wheel.
Nice little action there Andy. As you say a picture paints a thousand words.
Nicely done, inspirational.
Brilliant report of what looked like a very hectic and fraught game.
I would as he's off that ship.
Ref Capn Kiwi....inbox should be free now.
Apologies for not replying but Rob caught the slack for me.
Asking a quesion is not obtuse in the least ask away, we all have at some stage, and still do.
If you read some of last years scenarios & AAR's then you'll get the gist of gaining points etc.
For ships:
1. Each of your ships has a max hull & crew rating.
2. After a completed scenario...
Added my letters of Marque ship to yours and added my fleet.
If and when I ever get round to playing Sails again.
done and dusted. invited your new persona aboard too.
crew 90? does that = 7?
Otherwise sheet amended.
And good ones for the Pacific theatre (which may include land actions)?
Spreadsheet is up.
Please check you have access.
It is up to individual players to keep the game info up to date.
Florrin & Poneys christian name and rank please plus ship detail for the bomb ketch, ie Burden, Hull & Crew please.
Ill try and get one done before I leave for France next Tuesday.
I just need confirmation of email addresses of all players to link in.
I will mak e the spreadsheet open for edit by al players....
Do we want a spreadsheet for results or will players keep a tab themselves?
and I already bought the matchbox toys that are from a shiney glowing things in the sky battles which make up a long series of campaigns that are usually called lots of battles.
Any further updates on the Drome?
I didn't createan account Rob. Just open the document then save it when opened.
Follow the link: https://www.trafalgareditions.com/en...falgar-1805-2/
Look for the line at the top with downloads
Left click for drop down menu and pick Downloads Trafalgar
Scroll down...


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Well, this sounds like an impressively terrible idea for a family film. The title characters – an urbane dog and his perky adopted human son – first appeared as a segment in the 1960s US cartoon series The Rocky and Bulwinkle Show (best known here for inspiring a notorious 2000 film that accelerated Robert De Niro's precipitous decline into Hogwash Gulch).
There's worse news. Apparently the original cartoons were intended as an "educational" diversion. Good news, children. Two characters you've never heard of are set to headline an entertainment that seeks to do you good. Where's everybody gone?
Against the odds, Rob Minkoff, director of The Lion King, has delivered one of the new year's most amusing films. Featuring a script studded with good-bad puns, Mr Peabody & Sherman is energetic, thoughtful and genuinely touching.
In truth, the film is not much more educational than Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure or Back to the Future. But it is nice to welcome a kids' entertainment that features roles for Agamemnon, Leonardo da Vinci and Robespierre. Heck, the film deserves an extra star merely for allowing Mel Brooks to voice Einstein. You don't get that from Pokémon.
As you may have gathered, Mr Peabody & Sherman is a time-travel affair. Mr Peabody, the brightest dog in the world, can cook like Escoffier, play the guitar like Hendrix and philosophise like Wittgenstein. He has also found time to invent the WABAC (pronounced "wayback") machine, which allows journeys to any time in human history.
Mr Peabody's charming son Sherman manages to misuse the device on the very evening that social services are calling round to decide whether a dog really can successfully parent a human boy (a reasonable question, to be fair).
Splendid voice work from the likes of Patrick Warburton, Stanley Tucci and Stephen Colbert accompanies inevitable disturbances in the space-time continuum, which triggers one of the great rallying lines in recent cinema. "We must rewrite history in order to save the universe!" Mr Peabody barks.
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Considering that only five sixths of the city of Bradenton, Fla., is on dry land, perhaps it's no surprise that something fishy is in the air at the Pirates spring camp, but it has nothing to do with the water.
Though it's speculative, there's the scent of a story that maybe, just maybe, one of the Bucs outstanding closer candidates may be on the block, either Joel Hanrahan or Evan Meek.
Hanrahan, 30, 4-1 last year with a 3.62 ERA, six saves and 100 strikeouts in fewer than 70 innings, and Meek, 28, with a 2.14 ERA, four saves and 70 strikeouts in 80 innings, have admitted they both want to save games for Pirates this year, and are willing to compete for the job.
The problem is, according to General Manager Neal Huntington, there will be "no open competition" in spring camp, indicating one of the two already has the job, but he won't say which. Let's repeat that: "no open competition."
So if Huntington won't say whom and won't say why, can it be that either Hanrahan or Meek is on the block? All anyone knows is that the Pirates have one too many closers, and that the rotation needs another starter or two, especially after the Pirates lost out to Kansas City in an attempt to sign former Colorado Rockies starter Jeff Francis. The Pirates are also looking for left-handed bullpen help.
"We continue to monitor the market and we have an open dialogue on multiple fronts," Huntington said in recent published reports. Until he clarifies, fans are left to connect the dots. But a more plausable explanation may be that Huntington simply has yet to make up his mind, but has decided that either one or the other will be the full-time closer, thus no closer committees.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Notice Anything Fishy About Pirates Relief Corps?
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While there's nothing wrong with painting your baby boy's nursery blue, there are plenty of other fresh and unique color palettes to choose from. Dramatic shades of red, yellow, and green make excellent options. Even pastels, like aqua or mint, can be a great fit for your little man's room. If you're looking for something really different, try a dark and moody shade of navy or go bold with black! Need a little push in the non-traditional direction? Check out these creative color palette ideas!
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Mint Green
This popular pastel is not just for girls! Soft, soothing, and inspired by nature, neutral mint is a great choice for your little boy's nursery. Want to give the look a more masculine edge? Pair a pale, minty hue with strong accents like yellow, black, or navy. Rustic textures and industrial accessories also make for a manlier abode.Continue to 2 of 12 below.
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Navy and Yellow
Sunny yellow—traditionally the go-to color for gender-neutral nurseries—gets a macho makeover when paired with a rich shade of navy blue. Fresh white walls and furnishings balance the dramatic accent wall and patterned ceiling, creating a look that's clean and preppy.Continue to 3 of 12 below.
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Navy and Green
Think navy is just for nautical nurseries and prep schools? Think again! Bright green accents give this navy and white nursery a fun modern feel, making it a perfect combo for a contemporary boy's space.Continue to 4 of 12 below.
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Navy and Grey
This chic and modern boy's room features a sophisticated silver-grey palette complimented with strong navy accents. The weight of the dark accent color works against the etherealness of the grey, grounding the look and giving it a more masculine appeal.Continue to 5 of 12 below.
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Red and Grey
Candy-apple red lends boyish charm to this neutral grey nursery and makes a welcome change from the usual pastel pairing. The glossy red finish stands out nicely against the matte grey walls, creating further contrast and adding a rich textural dimension.Continue to 6 of 12 below.
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Red and Aqua
This bright and cheery color combo offers a refreshingly modern take on the classic red and blue boy's room. Rich red accents and accessories pop against the cool blue walls, adding drama and giving baby's development an extra boost.
Are you concerned about overstimulation? The soothing psychological effects of aqua should be more than enough to create balance.Continue to 7 of 12 below.
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Aqua, Yellow, and Orange
A bright and citrusy shade of yellow creates a soft and sunny effect when set against a fresh aqua background. For a look with even more pop, try a bold shade of cheery orange.Continue to 8 of 12 below.
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Teal and Tangerine
If you're going to go blue, go bold! Pops of rich teal and bright tangerine give this traditional blue and white nursery combo a much-needed update, bringing fresh energy to the palette.Continue to 9 of 12 below.
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Teal and Grey
This bold blue nursery palette pairs bright teal with dark grey accents, creating a rich color-saturated space that's perfect for a baby boy. The grey and white chevron motif does an excellent job of breaking up the solid blocks of color.Continue to 10 of 12 below.
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Rustic Brown
Prefer a more neutral palette? Rich, rustic brown is a great choice for a boy's room, especially when paired with strong masculine accent colors like red, orange, and black.Continue to 11 of 12 below.
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Black and White
This graphic nursery space proves that you don't need color to create a truly memorable space. The key? Contrast. White furnishings and bold black-and-white patterns pop off the room's dramatic black accent wall to create plenty of visual interest.Continue to 12 of 12 below.
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Black and Bright
Need a little color in your life? Don't turn your back on black! Black has all the color-boosting properties of white, creating natural contrast and making bold hues look cleaner and brighter.


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Alcoholism is often misunderstood. People are not sure how to define it, so they categorize it with binge drinking and social drinking. But for those who have loved ones who are struggling with alcoholism, the differences are clear.
Drinking is so deeply ingrained in our culture that it's hard to imagine society without it. But people can drink without ever becoming an alcoholic. So it's not the alcohol that's the problem—it's the inability to control drinking habits that is.
That said, we shouldn't be judgmental of those who are suffering from the effects of alcoholism. There are those that really want to change for the better, except they physically can't. On this article we will shed light into alcoholism, and what makes an alcoholic. Understanding their situation is the first step towards helping them gain sobriety. With our help and support, we can allow them to take back their control over their own lives.
What is Alcoholism?
Alcoholism is a disease. It is defined by the habitual intake of alcohol, whether or not the person recognizes the negative effects it has on them. An alcoholic will keep on drinking even if it destroys them. High functioning alcoholics are no different. They will cope with all of life's challenges by drinking.
Some will attempt to drink their problems away, unaware of the bigger problem they are creating in the process. It interferes with their physical and mental health.
Alcoholism's effects go beyond the person's reach. Their family members, their friends, their co-workers, and all of their acquaintances will begin to feel the impact of their drinking habits. It's just like any other addiction. It takes control of your life and interferes with all of your decisions.
It will affect a person's career, their relationships, and their community. And all along the person will think they are only affecting themselves.
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What differentiates an alcoholic from a binge drinker is that they don't know when to stop. They will drink alone, or in the middle of the day. They may even attempt to hide their drinking habits, or get angry when someone comments on it.
In high doses, alcohol can cause loss of consciousness, impaired judgment, loss of coordination, and even death. If a person abuses alcohol for a long time, they will become dependent. Their body will get used to the substance's presence, and they will find it much harder to quit. In fact, quitting abruptly might be too dangerous, because alcohol dependence can cause fatal withdrawal.
How to Help an Alcoholic Loved One
Alcoholism is a disease that needs to be treated properly. It's a tough thing to deal with, but all hope is not lost. For people with alcoholic loved ones, it is important to know the limitations of what they can do. They cannot force a person to get sober—the desire to change must come from within, and loved ones can only support that decision. You cannot blame yourself if the alcoholic doesn't want to change.
But you also shouldn't enable their behavior. It is better to let them deal with the consequences of their actions rather than allowing their bad behavior to continue.
An intervention among family members can help them realize that there is a problem. But if you need to take it a step further, finding a nearby alcohol rehab facility will go a long way.
Medical professionals will be able to detoxify them gradually by slowly lowering their intake and dealing with withdrawal symptoms. This works best when coupled with behavioral therapy and support group programs.
Look for an alcoholism treatment center near you and help your loved one get back to living a sober life.


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The Burekone company was founded in Czech Budejovice. Its founder is František Janeš, whose first project was a replica of the Hummer HX studio from 2008, built on the H3 model. Several copies were created, which until today are traveling on the roads of many countries from Spain to Mongolia. The latest project of the company is Bureko 6×6, which uses components and technical solutions of the Land Rover Discovery. 10 copies are to be made annually, but there are many more orders.
The three-axle Bureko 6×6 with an empty weight of 2.9 tons, has only the front wheels controlled. The drive uses a six-cylinder diesel engine with Land Rover with a capacity of 256 hp and a maximum torque of 600 Nm. It works with an eight-step automaton. From 0 to 100 km / h, it accelerates within 10 seconds and reaches a top speed of 155 km / h.
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The three-axle off-road vehicle is reminiscent of the legendary Hummer. The drive uses a six-cylinder diesel engine with Land Rover with a capacity of 256 hp and a maximum torque of 600 Nm, which allows you to develop a maximum speed of 155 km / h and achieve acceleration from 0 to 100 km / h in 10 seconds.
The vehicle has a hydraulic suspension
The three-axle vehicle has only front torsion wheels.


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Alright, guys! I'm taking a break from the horribly depressing posts I've been known for of late. Don't faint; I know it's a shock.
Well, I need your help. On a few things:
1. The appearance of this little blog:
Right-oh, so you know I can't see? Well – here's a vain question: does my blog look okay? No, seriously. Usually I wouldn't be bothered, but I honestly want to know. Is there anything I can do to make it more… Presentable? Or is it fine as it is? If you guys have any suggestions, leave a comment or email me 🙂
2. Twitter and that
I know some bloggers have Twitter accounts SPECIFICALLY for their blog. Do you think it's worth me creating one? It would be fun for me – and plus, you could follow me. Added bonus – I'm NOT being arrogant! Or self-promoting! PAH no. I'd post life updates, and could actually get involved in the community rather than sitting on my arse all day – oh shit, I'd do that anyway.
But do YOU think I should do it?
3. Writing
I've got a Wattpad account, but I'm scared of posting stories on there. It would mainly be for myself, but if I did write something, would you guys like to read it? Wattpad terrifies me and I'm too scared of how large it is to go reading things like I do on WordPress, which is pretty bad 😦
If anyone could give me advice on these things, that would be amazing!
*Self-assured swagger* Oh, I do love having readers who help me! HEH!
Thanks in advance (I hate it when people put that on emails – what if I DON'T want to help you, huh, you self-absorbed, peacock-esque twatmonger?)
From Elm


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