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Madonna shocked the crowd at Britain's Wireless Festival on Saturday by making a surprise appearance with rap group Migos.
The Vogue singer reportedly arrived at the festival in London's Finsbury Park in a blacked-out Range Rover before watching the trio's set from the side of the stage. She could be seen singing along to their track Open It Up, and took her support one step further by joining them onstage at the end of the set, dressed in a head-to-toe Gucci look, comprised of an off-white suit with red and blue trim and Panama hat.
Her appearance with the Bad and Boujee hitmakers come just weeks after the group filmed the music video for their single Narcos at Madonna's property in Miami, Florida. After they posted a photo of themselves outside the mansion on Instagram, Madonna wrote in the comments, "That's my house in Miami! What are you doing there??" and Quavo replied,"Trappin'".
Wireless Festival took place from Friday to Sunday, with headliners including J. Cole and Stormzy. DJ Khaled was scheduled to headline Sunday but pulled out due to "travel issues" and was replaced by Drake at the last minute.


Sam Pearson is a retired peace officer and minister who serves on the city's planning and zoning commission. He is making his first campaign for the Katy City Council, where he is facing incumbent Durran Dowdle for a Ward B council member seat.
For polling times and places, including absentee voting information, see the city's election page.
1. Why do you want the job?
I have been a public servant most of my employment life. I want to offer my experience to the citizens of Katy.
2. If elected, what would your top three priorities be, and why?
The main priority of the City of Katy is to protect its citizens. With the large growth of commercial, industrial, and residential areas, protection is a main issue. I have seen the faces of victims at building or home fires, flood, auto accidents, and crime scenes. I have seen the hope they have when the first responders arrive. I want to insure the people have the best trained and equipped fire and police departments in the State of Texas. Public safety of the citizens of the City of Katy and their homes is the number one priority.
The second priority is to continue the reduction of taxes. The city has grown in all zoning areas; residential, commercial and industrial. During that growth, the city has been able to reduce the tax burden on its citizens. I will promote increase in tax exemptions for seniors and the disabled. As county appraisals increase, I will also vote for decreasing the tax rate for all citizens. It is essential to continue this reduction, but we must also continue the commercial and industrial growth to reach this goal.
The third is better drainage for the City of Katy. The citizens have had enough problems with the Tax Day Flood and then Harvey. We must work with state, federal and regional authorities to get the water flowing. The City of Katy needs to insure all ditches, detention ponds, underground drainage pipes are kept clean to allow a quicker flow of the water. A close monitoring of new construction and its impact on citizens of the city should be a specific agenda discussed on each request.
3. Would you encourage citizens to vote for or against the bond proposal, and why?
I would encourage the citizens to vote for all the bond proposals. Each one is directed to a specific need for our city. Drainage improvements need to be done as addressed in Proposal A and B. Proposal C is to upgrade and expand the sewer treatment plant. This is a must as the city grows. These bond issues are a start at improving these areas.
4. Is Katy handling growth properly? If yes, why? If no, how would you, if elected, change that?
Growth is good for the city. The main issues concerning growth is its effect on the citizens of the city. There needs to be a balance to any change. Each change is going to have an impact on something or someone. A watchful eye needs to investigate all aspects of proposed changes. The citizens expect the city council to do this for them and not vote simply for the exterior image of an area. True consideration must be given to each area request and time given to investigate the impact on the citizens. My experience is to look, listen, ask questions then investigate all aspects until the truth is found. If good, I will vote yes. If not good, I will vote no.
5. Is there anything else about your candidacy that Katy News readers should know?
Many people in the City of Katy do not know me or my family. Here is a brief background. My family moved to Texas in 1982. We moved to Katy 14 years ago and live in Hunter's Terrace. In Virginia, my wife and I were full time county employees who obtained college Bachelor's Degrees. I was a deputy sheriff with the county. With our new degrees, Texas provided us better economic opportunities than Virginia. I went to work as a high school teacher in the Houston Independent School District and gained a teaching certificate with the State of Texas. Two years later I accepted a job with the Harris County Sheriff's Office and retired from there in 2009. Immediately, I was asked to join the Harris County Attorney's Office as a senior investigator. In both jobs I had the opportunity to investigate the public integrity of public employees. While employed with the sheriff's office, I returned to Sam Houston State University and received a master's degree in criminal justice management. I retired again from Harris County in 2013 to direct a men's ministry called, Just Man Ministry.
A peace officer is always supplementing his pay. In Virginia I worked as a construction worker and gained my real estate agent license. This taught me the ability to read plans and plats. I volunteered as a fireman and coach to many of my son's teams. In Texas I became an adjunct professor with Houston Community College. Of course, there were the many extra jobs, such as sports events, security and traffic direction.
I am committed to my God, my family and the City of Katy.


My hair colour was another issue…..! She kindly asked me if I would have it green for the shoot which I was quite reluctant to do. But in the end I agreed as I new it would work well with her vision. So I guess this is another aspect of creativity to add to my list; I'm a singer, dancer, speaker, blogger and a model. It feels amazing to be able to embrace the different aspects of my creativity. I have accepted that I was created for the arts, I love it more than I can articulate it and refuse to waste one of my talents/gifts. I don't want you to waste anything you have either. What do you enjoy the most? What makes you come alive? Make sure you use that gift not only just for your enjoyment but to help someone else. There is always a greater purpose….


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Wilmette's Robbie Fulks up for first two Grammy Awards on Sunday
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Pioneer Press, February 9, 2017 — When Robbie Fulks began making his 12th studio album, he set a lofty goal for himself. The country-folk singer-songwriter-guitarist, who lives in Wilmette, recalls saying: "It's boring doing the same thing over and over again. So how can we raise the game?" That's when he decided he'd try to win a Grammy. Read the article at Pioneer Press.
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Since medieval times the Plaça Gran (Great Square) has been the heart of the town. The great fire of 1285 caused by the Almogavers during the siege of the crusade troops led by the King of France, marks a before and after in the town.
Until then, the Plaça Gran was just an open space within the walled area, but with the reconstruction of Peralada, in the 14th century, the square acquired significant importance as a public space. Buildings were constructed with arches on the west side, an example of this is the current Town Hall, which despite having undergone alterations, still preserves traces of the Gothic period.


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In this editorial, GRI's director discusses the evidence of design and catastrophe in nature. Corroborated by both observation and revelation, these themes are good foundational points for the study of origins.
A Chemist's Perspective of the Yellowstone Petrified "Forests" by Clyde L. Webster, Jr.
Yellowstone National Park's fossil forests are intriguing for scientists and others curious about the natural world. After conducting a baseline study using samples from dated lava flows in Hawaii, Dr. Webster focused on the multiple ash layers in the Yellowstone Fossil Forest area.


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Georgia judge shoots down Republican effort to restrict operating hours for ballot drop boxes
Republicans trying to ensure the upcoming Senate runoff races in Georgia are free and fair just suffered a devastating loss in court.
According to the Washington Examiner, a judge in Georgia ruled Thursday against a GOP-led push to force ballot drop boxes across the Peach State to close whenever local election offices are closed.
The judge's decision means ballot drop boxes will continue to remain open 24/7, albeit under video surveillance.
The ruling comes ahead of a pair of runoff races that will decide control of the U.S. Senate. Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue will battle it out against Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, respectively, on Jan. 5, according to NBC News.
Changing the rules?
According to the Washington Examiner, the lawsuit was first filed earlier this month by the Georgia Republican Party and Republican National Committee. The GOP argued that since the drop boxes for absentee ballots serve as mere satellites of county election offices, they should be subject to the same operating hours.
However, an attorney for the secretary of state's office countered that the State Election Board had approved a rule change earlier this year that permitted the drop boxes to be available at all times, as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
During the hearing, a representative for the Georgia attorney general's office also accused the GOP of trying to change the rules in the middle of the game.
Pushing back, an attorney for the GOP, Leah Zammit, cited the impending runoff elections as the impetus behind the initial rule change.
"This case is absolutely not about the expansion or dilution of voter rights," Zammit said, according to the Washington Examiner. "This case and this motion is about ensuring that individual counties, 159 within the state of Georgia, do not themselves alter the election rules."
A question of jurisdiction
But at the end of the day, none of that really mattered to Fulton County Superior Court Judge Kimberly Esmond Adams, who dismissed the case on the grounds that, due to the state's sovereign immunity laws that protect state officials from lawsuits, she had no jurisdiction to even hear the case, much less issue a definitive decision on it.
Moving forward, Republicans aren't giving up the fight, however. Atlanta's WSB-TV reported that just one day prior to Adams' ruling, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger called upon the state legislature to limit the use of absentee ballots in future elections by requiring voters to provide a valid reason for voting by mail.
"It makes no sense when we have three weeks of in-person, early voting available," Raffensperger said during a Wednesday committee hearing, according to WSB-TV. "It opens the door to potential illegal voting, especially in light of the federal rules that denies the ability to keep voter registration files clean."
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Ben Marquis is a staff writer for Conservative Institute.


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Home CIPIT Insights Lessons from Nigerian Blogger Linda Ikeji on Plagiarism, Copyright and DMCA Abuse
Lessons from Nigerian Blogger Linda Ikeji on Plagiarism, Copyright and DMCA Abuse
The Linda Ikeji Blog (LIB) commands a great deal of readership and influence in Nigeria with an average of 100 comments per blogpost and over 425,000 followers on twitter. Earlier this month, it was reported that LIB was taken down from the Google-owned "Blogger" platform and later restored by Google. Linda Ikeji disclosed that LIB was taken down following allegations of plagiarism and copyright infringement, presumably under the US Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). However Google has declined to categorically state why the blog was taken down but generally explained that: "We [Google] take violations of policies very seriously as such activities diminish the experience for our users. When we are notified of the existence of content that may violate our Terms of Service, we act quickly to review it and determine whether it actually violates our policies. If we determine that it does, we remove it immediately."
This blogpost considers LIB's recent experience from an intellectual property (IP) perspective and concludes that this case should be an eye-opener to bloggers, especially in Kenya.
As we know plagiarism and copyright infringement are not the same thing. The key distinguishing factor is the use intended. A copyright infringer uses your work in order to derive some commercial benefit. On the other hand, a plagiarizer uses your work in order to assume your identity as the author for purposes of recognition and attribution. Therefore every case of copyright infringement can also be plagiarism but not all cases of plagiarism amount to copyright infringement.
In the case of LIB, Ikeji addresses here the allegations of plagiarism and copyright infringement made against her blog:
"My understanding of plagiarism is when you take someone's work and republish it verbatim as your own work. I don't do that. But if I have ever done that in the past then I apologize. It was an oversight. I do get a lot of original content, way more than any other blogger in this country. Some of the biggest news stories in this country in recent times was broken by LIB. From Goldie's death (God rest her soul) Aluu4, ABSU rape, P-Square saga, Solomon Akiyesi and plenty more. And when I take news from other sources, I always credit them. When I don't give credit is when the news is everywhere so I write it in my own words and make it mine. I don't believe that is a crime. I admit that I have used photos without giving credit. I apologize. That will never happen again. You learn every day. And I have learnt from this."
Here in Kenya, the case of media personality Caroline Mutoko's blatantly plagiarised article has been aptly by one of her own colleagues here. Despite Mutoko's vehement denials, it was evident to most observers at the time that the matter was ripe for both criminal and civil action at the instance of the copyright owner who reportedly confirmed that Mutoko never sought authorisation to use the work. Although the fair dealing provision of the Kenya Copyright Act may serve as a defence in cases of infringement, there remains a compulsory requirement of attribution which reads "subject to acknowledgement of the source".
Still on the issue of copyright, an interesting issue that arose in the LIB story relates to abuse of the DMCA take-down procedures. Ikeji claims that Google restored LIB "in record time" after verifying that the allegations of copyright infringement were "bogus and deliberate sabotage." Generally speaking, bogus copyright and trademark complaints threatens all kinds of creative expression on the Internet. In this connection, many will recall the recent case where Wikimedia Foundation refused to take down that notorious monkey selfie. The monkey selfie claim by Caters News Agency against Wikimedia is considered by some as "dubious" and a DMCA abuse. See our discussion of the monkey selfie dispute here.
In addition to copyright issues, there is also an important trade marks lesson in the LIB story. It was reported that once LIB was taken down by Google, Ikeji was forced to direct her readers to a temporary site: lindaikeji.mobi since "cybersquatters had acquired all her potential domain names" including the domain name: lindaikeji.net which had been registered by one Mukhtar Dan'Iyan through an alias.
Ordinarily one would expect that any blog which is able to get thousands of comments and sell advertising space to companies, such as LIB, would have long taken the necessary steps to protect the LIB name as a trade mark and register several domain names closely related to LIB as a defensive measure against infringers and squatters respectively. However, this appears not to have been the case in the LIB story.
In the final analysis, any serious online content creator must be aware of the boundaries of IP and operate within those boundaries. The role of IP becomes more critical where the online content creator's blog or website is commercial in nature.
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Q: Assert that Optional has certain value I have a Java method that returns an Optional.
I'd like to write an easy-to-read unit test for it that asserts that

*

*the returned Optional has a value (i.e., the Optional is not empty) and that

*the returned value is equal to an expected value.
Let's say my tested method is
Optional<String> testedMethod(){
  return Optional.of("actual value");
}

A: You can also use AssertJ for fluent assertions
@Test
public void testThatOptionalIsNotEmpty() {
    assertThat(testedMethod()).isNotEmpty();
}

@Test
public void testThatOptionalHasValue() {
    assertThat(testedMethod()).hasValue("hello");
}

A: TL;DR the best overall approach was suggested by Ole V. V.:
assertEquals(Optional.of("expected"), opt);

Other alternatives are discussed below.
There are several different ways to do this, depending on your taste for clarity of test results vs. conciseness of test writing. For this answer I'll stick to "stock" Java 8 and JUnit 4 with no additional dependencies.
One way, as suggested in a comment by Ole V.V., is simply to write
assertEquals("expected", opt.get());

This mostly works but if the Optional is empty, then get() will throw NoSuchElementException. This in turn causes JUnit to signal an error instead of a failure, which might not be what you want. It's also not very clear what's going on unless you already know that get() throws NSEE in this case.
An alternative is
assertTrue(opt.isPresent() && "expected".equals(opt.get()));

This also mostly works but it doesn't report the actual value if there's a mismatch, which might make debugging inconvenient.
Another alternative is
assertEquals("expected", opt.orElseThrow(AssertionFailedError::new));

This gives the right failures and reports the actual value when there's a mismatch, but it's not very explicit about why AssertionFailedError is thrown. You might have to stare at it a while until you realize that AFE gets thrown when the Optional is empty.
Still another alternative is
assertEquals("expected", opt.orElseThrow(() -> new AssertionFailedError("empty")));

but this is starting to get verbose.
You could split this into two assertions,
assertTrue(opt.isPresent());
assertEquals("expected", opt.get());

but you had previously objected to this suggestion because of verbosity. This isn't really terribly verbose in my opinion, but it does have some cognitive overhead since there are two separate assertions, and it relies on the second only being checked if the first succeeds. This is not incorrect but it is a bit subtle.
Finally, if you're willing to create a bit of your own infrastructure, you could create a suitably-named subclass of AssertionFailedError and use it like this:
assertEquals("expected", opt.orElseThrow(UnexpectedEmptyOptional::new));

Finally, in another comment, Ole V. V. suggested
assertEquals(Optional.of("correct"), opt);

This works quite well, and in fact this might be the best of all.

A: I use Hamcrest Optional for that:
import static com.github.npathai.hamcrestopt.OptionalMatchers.hasValue;
import org.junit.Test;

public class MyUnitTests {

  @Test
  public void testThatOptionalHasValue(){
    String expectedValue = "actual value";
    assertThat(testedMethod(), hasValue(expectedValue));
  }
}

You can add Hamcrest Optional to your dependencies by including it in your build.gradle:
dependencies {
  testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
  testCompile 'com.github.npathai:hamcrest-optional:1.0'
}

A: Why don't you use isPresent() and get()?

A: The below approach uses the fact that you can specify a default return for an optional. So your test method could be something like this:
@test
public void testThatOptionalHasValue() {
    String expectedValue = "actual value";
    String actualValue = Optional.ofNullable(testedMethod()).orElse("not " + expectedValue);
    assertEquals("The values are not the same", expectedValue, actualValue);
}

This guarentees that if your method returns null, then the result can not be the same as the expected value.

A: I prefer applying .orElse(null) to the returned Optional before asserting it.
The method assertEquals can be used with an Optional containing the expected value  (or assertThat(result).isEqualTo(expected) when using FEST assertions).
But using .orElse has the benefit that the result has the correct type and that allows to do all checks that you might want to do also if the method wasn't an optional:

*

*== operator (or isSame method when using FEST)

*compareTo and methods using compareTo

*startsWith, endsWith, contains, length in case of a String

*...

Using an Optional of the expected value doesn't allow all those things.

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The famed De Halve Maan brewery in Bruges, Belgium has been cranking out tasty drafts for more than five centuries—all from the same historic building. But with its fleet of beer trucks now tying up traffic getting to a new processing plant two miles away, the brewery is taking the only logical course of action: It's installing an underground beer pipe.
The De Halve Maan brewery doesn't just produce award-winning 'Brugse Zot' suds, its 500-year-old brewing facility is a tourist attraction in its own right, pulling in 100,000 visitors annually. So it's not like DHM could very well just pick up and move shop simply to be closer to its modern filtering and bottling plant 3km down the road.
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Energetik steht für:

 Energetik (Philosophie), monistische Lehre von Wilhelm Ostwald
 Energetik Pawlodar, kasachischer Fußballverein
 Energetik-2 Ekibastus, kasachischer Fußballverein

Energetik ist der Name folgender Orte:
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 Energetik (Orenburg), eine ländliche Siedlung in der Oblast Orenburg, Russland
 Energetik (Aqsu), Dorf im Gebiet Almaty, Rajon Aqsu, Kasachstan
 Energetik (Qarassai), Dorf im Gebiet Almaty, Rajon Qarassai, Kasachstan

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 Humanenergetik
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Professor Jon Lawrence
Professor of Modern British History
External engagement and impact
I work on modern British social, cultural and political history and have a special interest in the intersection of class and gender in both popular politics and the wider politics of everyday life. My latest book, Me, Me, Me? The Search for Community in Post-war England was published by the trade arm of Oxford University Press in 2019. Based largely on research conducted during a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, it uses the testimony of ordinary people collected since the 1940s to challenge conventional accounts of the death of community and relentless rise of selfish individualism.
My previous books include Speaking for the People: Party, Language and Popular Politics in England, 1867-1914 (CUP, 1998), Electing Our Masters: the Hustings in British Politics from Hogarth to Blair (OUP, 2009) and the edited collection Party, State and Society: Electoral Behaviour in Britain since 1820 (with Miles Taylor [1997]) which played an important part in defining the so-called 'new political history'. I have previously taught at University College London, the University of Liverpool, Harvard University and the University of Cambridge and been a visiting scholar at Harvard, Monash and the Australian National University. I have supervised more than twenty PhDs to completion on a wide range of topics in modern British history and am keen to hear from new potential graduates to work with me at Exeter.
Read more at https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/history/staff/jlawrence/#COaa3E3gy8IDXhXg.99
Prof. Lawrence works on British social, political and cultural history from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. He has published extensively on political language and the culture of public politics. He published Me, Me, Me? The Search for Community in post-war England with Oxford Univeristy Press in 2019. This work explores the everyday or 'vernacular' politics of self and society in modern Britain. Lawrence has also worked extensively on the world of popular party politics, playing a prominent role in the development of the so-called 'new poiltical history' with its emphasis on the systematic study of political language. See especially Speaking for the People: Party, Language and Popular politics in England, 1867-1914 (CUP, 1998) and Electing Our Masters: the Hustings in British Politics from Hogarth to Blair (OUP, 2009). He is currently a Co-I on the large, interdisciplinary UKRI/AHRC project Living with Machines based at the Turing Institute and British Library which seeks to transform our ability to study the history of modern Britain at scale.
I am interested in supervising research students working on most aspects of British social, political and cultural history since 1860, and have particular interests in the history of class, gender, place and popular politics.
Matt Beebee, 'Deindustrialisation and the 'rise and fall' of the 'traditional working-class' c.1970-1990' [Exeter, 2018]
Emily Pierson-Webber, 'Masculinity and the miners' strike, 1984-85' [Reading, 2018]
Charles Lockwood, 'Conceptions of public opinion and social change in the British New Right, c.1965-1983' [Cambridge, 2016]
Supervised to completion:
Julie-Marie Strange (with Dr Andrew Davies), 'This mortal coil: popular attitudes to death, c.1880-1914' [Liverpool, 2000]
Julie Grier, (with Dr Pat Starkey), 'Children's charities and the welfare state, 1945-1970' [Liverpool, 2000]
Gaynor Williams, 'Women in public life in Liverpool between the wars' [Liverpool, 2000]
Linda Craig (with Dr Chris Lewis), 'Community and identity in Whalley Bridge, 1850-1950' [Liverpool, 2002]
C. Kit Good (with Dr Andrew Davies), 'England Goes to War 1914-15' [Liverpool, 2002]
Ruth Clayton [Windscheffel], (with Prof. Roger Swift, Chester College), 'A history of the working library of William Ewart Gladstone at Hawarden' [Liverpool/Chester, 2003]
Victoria Barbary, ' "From platform to polling booth": political leadership and popular politics in Bury and Bolton, 1868-1906' [Cambridge, 2007]
Laura D. Beers, '"Selling Socialism": Labour, democracy and the mass media, 1900-1939,' (Harvard, 2007 [doctoral advisor]
David Thackeray, 'Popular politics and the making of modern Conservatism, c. 1906-1924' [Cambridge, 2010]
Gary Love, 'Conservatives, National Politics and the Challenge to Democracy in Britain, 1931-37' [Cambridge, 2010]
Geraint Thomas, 'Conservatives and the culture of 'National' government between the wars' [Cambridge, 2010]
Chris Cotton, 'The Labour Party and European Integration, 1961-1983' [Cambridge, 2011]
Christian Schlaepfer, [with Chris Andrew] 'Counter Subversion in Britain c. 1945-1962' [Cambridge, 2013]
Tom Cordiner, 'British attitudes to Israel and Zionism since 1945,' AHRC-funded [Cambridge, 2013]
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, 'Class, community and individualism in English politics and society, 1969-2000' [Cambridge, 2014]
Justin Fantauzzo, 'Experience, Memory, and British Soldiers in the Palestine Campaign of the First World War, 1916-1918' [Cambridge, 2014]
John Barry, 'Overspill and the impact of the town development act, 1945-74' [with Martin Daunton] [Cambridge 2015]
Simon Abernethy, 'Class, commuting and social change in London, 1881-1939' [Cambridge, 2015]
Stuart Middleton, 'Class, culture and the Left, c.1930-70' [Cambridge, 2015]
Alex Campsie, 'The New Left, the New Times, and the re-making of British socialism, 1962-1991' [Cambridge, 2017]
Kieran Heinemann, 'Popular share-owning and processes of "financialization" in post-war Britain' [Cambridge, 2017]
David Cowan, 'The politics of the past in Britain, c.1939-1990' [Cambridge, 2019]
I have appeared in historical documentary programmes on BBC2, Channel 4 and the Parliament Channel, and on a range of BBC radio programmes including The Long View, Westminster Hour and the recent ten part series on Conservatism, Liberalism and Socialism. In June 2014 I wrote and presented a BBC Radio 4 documentary exploring 'The Unmaking of the English Working Class'. I have written on the political and policy implications of my research for Renewal, Juncture, The New Left Project, BBC History Magazine, History Today and History & Policy.
Modules taught
HIH1401 - Approaches to History
HIH1420 - Understanding the Modern World
HIH3056 - Them and Us: Imagining the Social Other in Britain since the 1880s: Sources
HIH3057 - Them and Us: Imagining the Social 'Other' in Britain since the 1880s: Context


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Art & Skull ·
How to draw Skull (Step by Step)
Since antiquity, human beings have always been interested and curious about what death, mortality, represents. Many fantasies about death have emerged and have fuelled the debates of many communities.
This growing interest has led to the discovery of remains of what could be considered art, belonging to antiquity, of human bones, skull representations and the famous skull symbol drawing on walls.
As modern art has developed, however, this interest in the skull and crossbones is still present. Today, you're going to find out how you can draw your own skull and crossbones. And if you're just looking for a good way to decorate your interior, then without delay, go and see our best decorative skulls, like this one.
A) How to Draw a Realistic Skull Head?
1) Begins with an oval for the top of the skull and a rectangular shape for the jaw. Draw them big enough to take up all the space.
2) Adds two small circles for the eyes and a teardrop shape for the nose.
3) Now add a smile under the main oval and a semicircle on each side of the skull to make the ears.
4) Re-draw it. superior jaw as on the example. Round out the cheekbones and bend them upwards towards the top of the skull.
5) Now redraw it. inferior jaw. Adds a curve on the inside of each side to see how far the jaw will meet the teeth. Be careful to keep the sides fairly rough, as bones are never perfectly smooth.
6) Then trace the upper skull. Then, again, make sure you don't make it too smooth because it will never be as realistic as the real bone shapes.
7) Re-draws eye contours to shape the eyes les orbites. Add a small shape inside each orbit to mark the place we're going to make darker later. Come around the nose. The nose has an internal bone to separate the nostrils. Try to follow the example perfectly to help you later.
8) Here's the turn of the teeth. Normally, the upper jaw has 16 teeth. Start with the right side of the upper jaw and then draw the reflection of each tooth on the other side of the upper jaw. Repeat for the lower jaw.
9) Now we'll take care of the details. Add lines to show where we're going to draw the eyebrow arches.
Adds more lines on the inside of the cheekbones to see where they curve inward.
Above and below the teeth, lines are added to show where the teeth have grown, inside the jaw. We advise you not to forget them, they really make a difference. You can even add more lines for more details.
10) All good! Moving on to skull colors. Skull and bones are never really white. In fact, calcium makes the bones slightly yellowish-grey.
11) We advise you to choose an iron grey. A skull is never really white. Add some very dark grey, almost black, inside the nose and in the dark areas of the eye sockets.
12) Adds skull shadow for a little more volume. Make sure you figure out in advance where the light source will shine from to direct the light shadows and reflections.
13) If you followed the steps correctly, after drawing your skull, the end result should look like this:
So are you happy with the result?
B) How to Draw a Pirate Skull Head
At various times and in various places, the skull and crossbones symbol has been associated with several meanings evoking different concepts.
Throughout history as well as popular culture and beliefs, this symbol appeared on a black flag. This flag indicated that the ship waving it was an pirate ship. Then this image was taken up again to be the emblem or the banner of certain fraternities, university movements, sometimes military groups, or even secret societies such as the Skull and Bones Company.
In Spanish-speaking cultures, it is sometimes used to mark the entrance to a cemetery. On a product's packaging, the skull and crossbones symbol means that there is a danger. The product in question can be toxic or even deadly. Therefore, it must be handled with care.
You want to be able to draw a skull with crossbones ? We've prepared a step-by-step method for you to use in your notebook, for example. All you will need is a piece of paper and an object with which you can draw a skull and crossbones worthy of a real Pirate Flag. You can use a marker, pencil, pen or even a marker. We still recommend that you use a pencil for your first few tries so that you can erase and start over the details you've missed.
As you follow this drawing guide, you will notice that each step is
accompanied by an illustration. And in each illustration, each new line that will be drawn during the stage will be blue, while the lines drawn previously will remain black. Make a light sketch first, without pressing hard on the pencil lead, because you will be led to erase some of the first lines, called guide lines, as you complete your drawing.
1) Start by drawing a circle
2) Adds a curved line starting from the inside of the previous circle, extending it to below the circle.
3) Draw a line symmetrical to the previous line on the opposite side to draw the other cheekbone of the skull.
4) Erases the arc between the two curved lines.
5) Draw another curve extending downwards from the middle of the first curve serving as a cheekbone.
6) Again, draw the line symmetrical to the previous line.
7) Draw a line connecting the ends of the two previous lines to make the lower jaw.
8) For draw the teeth, you have to draw a curve in the middle of the lower part of the skull first. That curve should look like a smile.
9) Now draw teeth above the last curved line. For each tooth, draw an upside down U-shaped curve. Repeat this process until eleven teeth are created by overlapping them. The two front teeth, the incisors, should be the largest. The further to the sides, the smaller the teeth become.
10) Still using the "U" shape, draw the lower teeth to mirror the upper teeth.
11) Draw the left eye by sketching the shape of a circle.
12) Then the second circle to do the right eye.
13) Under the two eyes, vulgarly draws an irregular egg shape to represent the nasal cavity.
14) Inside this cavity, draw two curved lines to represent the separation of the nostrils. These lines start from the middle of the top of the cavity and extend on each side of the cavity.
15) The skull's ready. We'll now take care of the cross bones. Draw the bone extending from the upper right side. To begin, draw a large "U"-shaped line upside down. Next, draw another U-shaped line, open to the left. Connect this line to the skull with a slightly curved line.
16) Draw the other end of this os of tibia bottom left. Use two curved lines to form this bone. Each line should be approximately the shape of the top of a question mark.
17) Draw the bone from bottom right using two curves, as before.
18) Now trace the bone on the upper left side. This should be the mirror reflection of the bone on the right side, composed of three U-shaped curves.
19) From now on, you have to darken every eye shape, to have shadow in the eye sockets. Also darken the upper part of the nasal cavity.
20) To finish in beauty, erase the lower central part of the nasal cavity. Taskeleton head is finally ready !
You end up with a real skull and crossbones worthy of the flags biggest pirates. Come find our best flags to decorate your room like a real pirate.
C) 3 Ways to Draw a Skull Step by Step
1) A Realistic Skull
Draw the top half of a circle.
Add two lines, one inside each side of the circle. Start the lines inside the circle and bend them slightly outside the circle.
Extending these two lines, draw two new lines (one on each side) by bringing the angle of the lines downwards and slightly inwards. These lines will form the cheekbones of the skull.
Finish the rounding of the cheekbones by bringing the lines towards the centre and then downwards.
Connects the two sides by a straight, slightly curved line. This will be the bottom of the teeth.
Under the cheekbones, draw a wide "U"-shaped line connecting one cheekbone to the other, going over the lines that were drawn in step 4. This line will form the tops of the teeth.
Between the lines drawn in steps 6 and 7, draw another parallel line. This line will be the middle of the teeth.
Draw several small lines from top to bottom along the centre line to form the teeth. Now your skull is smiling !
Under the cheekbones, next to the lines you drew in step 6, draw two lines (one on each side) that go down and slope inward.
Connect these 2 lines with a new curved line in the shape of an elongated "U". You just made the jaw of your head, it's almost over !
Above the teeth, draw two almost triangular shapes between the cheekbones to make nostrils.
Above the nostrils, make two large circles for draw the orbits of the skull.
2) Drawing a Sugar Skull
Start by drawing a slightly flat circle on the bottom, which almost looks "crushed".
At the bottom of the circle, start inside the circle on one side and draw a graceful "U" shape that goes down and then up inside the circle on the other side. This will be the outline of the teeth.
Between the bottom of the circle and the line you just drew in step 2, draw a parallel line to separate the two rows of teeth.
Draw lines up and down to make teeth.
Draw a line on each side of the mouth parallel to it.
Draw a curve connecting the two lines you just drew in step 5. This line must be parallel to the mouth to form the jaw.
Above the teeth, draw two shapes of water drops to make the nostrils.
Finally draw the two eyes. The skull is now finished !
3) Draw a Mexican Skull
Start drawing a circle, but be careful to leave a wide opening at the bottom.
On either side of the open circle, draw a line that slopes gently down.
Connect the two ends of these lines. This forms the lower jaw line.
Above the line drawn in step 3, a parallel line is drawn above it to represent the middle of the teeth.
At the top of the line drawn in step 4, draw a series of inverted "U" shapes to form the top row of teeth.
On the other side of the middle line, draw another series of "U's" to form the bottom row of teeth.
Above the upper row of teeth, draw two shapes of water drops for the nostrils.
Draw 2 big eyes. It's over! Easy, huh?
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Sears Reports First Quarter 2004 Results
Sears, Roebuck and Co. (NYSE: S) today reported a net loss before the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle of $20 million, or $0.09 per share on an average base of 220.4 million common equivalent shares, for the first quarter ended April 3, 2004, compared with net income of $192 million, or $0.60 per share on an average base of 318.1 million common equivalent shares in the first quarter of 2003. The prior year quarterly results include the results of the domestic Credit and Financial Products and National Tire & Battery businesses divested in the fourth quarter of 2003.
The company's first quarter 2004 results include a previously announced one-time, non-cash, after-tax charge of $839 million, or $3.81 per share, for the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle related to its pension and post-retirement medical benefit plans. Effective Jan. 4, 2004, the company began recognizing experience gains and losses related to its domestic pension and post-retirement plans on a more current basis. The charge represents the recognition of unamortized experience losses at the beginning of 2004 in accordance with the new accounting method. Net loss after the effect of the cumulative effect of this accounting change was $859 million, or $3.90 per share for the first quarter of 2004.
"Overall, the quarter met our expectations with both revenues and earnings within our previously communicated guidance," said Chairman and CEO Alan J. Lacy.
The Domestic segment, which includes all domestic retail formats as well as the company's corporate functions, reported an operating loss of $39 million for the first quarter of 2004, compared with operating income of $299 million in the first quarter of 2003. The prior year results included operating income of $399 million and $6 million, respectively, from the divested domestic Credit and Financial Products and National Tire & Battery businesses.
Merchandise sales and services revenues for the first quarter were $6.8 billion, as compared to $6.7 billion in the prior year period. Prior year revenues include $100 million attributable to the National Tire & Battery business. Increases in several key full-line store home group categories coupled with approximately $33 million earned under the company's long-term alliance with Citigroup contributed to this overall increase. Overall, domestic comparable store sales increased 1.6 percent in the first quarter of 2004. In the home group, strong growth in lawn and garden and tool businesses as well as growth in home electronics were somewhat offset by comparable store sales declines in apparel.
"Our sales performance in the first quarter was mixed," Lacy said. "Our strong assortment and value proposition drove improved home group comparable store sales, while we were disappointed not to fully participate in the industry-wide improvement in apparel sales."
The gross margin rate for the quarter increased to 26.8 percent in the current year from 26.4 percent in the prior year primarily due to the income from revenues earned under the long-term alliance with Citigroup.
Selling and administrative expenses for the first quarter were $1.6 billion, which included a $30 million curtailment gain related to previously announced changes to the company's retiree medical benefits offered to employees under the age of forty. The prior year selling and administrative expenses of $1.8 billion include approximately $240 million related to divested businesses.
Interest of $49 million for the first quarter included $38 million attributable to interest related to the legacy debt of the former Credit and Financial Products business and debt retirement costs.
Sears Canada reported an operating loss of $2 million for the first quarter of 2004, compared with operating income of $10 million in the first quarter of 2003, primarily due to a $12 million charge recorded within selling and administrative expenses in the first quarter of 2004 related to the company's decision to license Sears Canada's Auto Centers to three tire retailers and other restructuring activities.
Revenues for the first quarter increased to $1.0 billion, compared with $843 million in the prior year quarter due to the effects of foreign exchange as well as increased sales across most formats.
The gross margin rate declined to 28.8 percent in the current year quarter from 30.1 percent in the prior year, due to a number of factors including a change in sales mix and increased promotional activity. Selling and administrative expenses as percentage of revenues increased to 28.2 percent in the current year quarter from 27.3 percent.
Share Repurchase Program
During the first quarter of 2004, the company repurchased 18.6 million common shares at a total cost of approximately $852 million, or an average price of $45.69 per share. As of April 3, 2004, the company had remaining authorization to repurchase approximately $726 million of common shares by Dec. 31, 2006, under its existing share repurchase program approved by the Sears board of directors in October 2003. The remaining shares may be purchased in the open market, through self-tender offers or through privately negotiated transactions. Timing will depend on prevailing market conditions, alternative uses of capital and other factors.
As a result of the sale of the domestic Credit and Financial Products business in November 2003 and related liability management actions, the company's domestic term debt position has been reduced to $3.5 billion as of the end of the current fiscal year quarter, down from $23.7 billion at the prior year quarter end and $5.3 billion at year end. The company retired $1.8 billion of domestic term debt in the first quarter of 2004 and expects to retire an additional $800 million by year-end 2004. The company paid $1.3 billion for income taxes in the first quarter of 2004 associated with the sale of its domestic Credit and Financial Products business.
The company anticipates second quarter earnings per share to be between $0.78 and $0.83. The outlook assumes second quarter comparable store sales to be flat or up slightly. For the full year, the company remains on track with its expectation of earnings per share, before the cumulative effect of change in accounting principle, between $3.60 and $3.80. This includes the negative carrying cost of approximately $0.20 to $0.25 per share on the company's remaining legacy debt related to its former Credit and Financial Products business. The second quarter and full year earnings per share exclude any effects that may result from our ongoing efforts to streamline the organization to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
This release contains guidance on second quarter and full-year 2004 revenues and earnings per share and our expectations regarding additional debt retirement. These statements are forward-looking statements based on assumptions about the future that are subject to risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially from the results projected in the forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially include competitive conditions in retail and related services industries; changes in consumer confidence and spending; the success of the full-line store strategy and other strategies; the possibility that the company will identify new business and strategic options for one or more of its business segments, potentially including selective acquisitions, dispositions, restructurings, joint ventures and partnerships; Sears' ability to integrate and operate Lands' End successfully; the successful integration of Sears' retail businesses with Citigroup's operation of the Credit and Financial Products business, which involves significant training and the integration of complex systems and processes; the outcome of pending legal proceedings; anticipated cash flow; social and political conditions such as war, political unrest and terrorism or natural disasters; the possibility of negative investment returns in the company's pension plan; changes in interest rates; volatility in financial markets; changes in the company's debt ratings, credit spreads and cost of funds; the possibility of interruptions in systematically accessing the public debt markets; general economic conditions and normal business uncertainty. In addition, Sears typically earns a disproportionate share of its operating income in the fourth quarter due to seasonal buying patterns, which are difficult to forecast with certainty. The company intends these forward-looking statements to speak only as of the time of this release and does not undertake to update or revise them as more information becomes available.
Sears will webcast its first quarter earnings conference call at 10:30 a.m. EDT/9:30 a.m. CDT today. Investors and the media are invited to listen to the call through the company's website at http://www.sears.com/investors, under "Presentations & Audio Archives." Software necessary to listen to the webcast (Windows Media or Real Player) can be downloaded from the webcast site. Downloading the software may take up to 22 minutes with a 56k modem. A telephone replay of the call will be available beginning at approximately 1:00 p.m. EDT/12:00 noon CDT today. The replay number is 1-800-253-1052, access code: 7239. A replay of the conference call will also be available on the company's website at http://www.sears.com/investors, under "Presentations & Audio Archives."
Sears, Roebuck and Co. is a leading broadline retailer providing merchandise and related services. With revenues in 2003 of $41.1 billion, the company offers its wide range of home merchandise, apparel and automotive products and services through more than 2,300 Sears-branded and affiliated stores in the U.S. and Canada, including approximately 870 full-line stores and 1,100 specialty stores in the U.S. Sears also offers a variety of merchandise and services through sears.com, landsend.com, and specialty catalogs. Sears is the only retailer where consumers can find each of the Kenmore, Craftsman, DieHard and Lands' End brands together - among the most trusted and preferred brands in the U.S. The company is the largest provider of product repair services with more than 14 million service calls made annually.
CONSOLIDATED INCOME
For the 13 Weeks Ended
April 3, 2004 and March 29, 2003
(millions, except earnings per common share)     2004              2003
Merchandise sales and services                $7,703            $7,474
Credit and financial products revenues            91             1,406
Total revenues                              7,794             8,880
Cost of sales, buying and occupancy            5,621             5,474
Selling and administrative                     1,894             2,110
Provision for uncollectible accounts              16               483
Depreciation and amortization                    228               225
Interest, net                                     76               279
Total costs and expenses                    7,835             8,571
Operating (loss)/ income                           (41)              309
Other income, net                                   16                 1
(Loss)/ income before income taxes,
minority interest and cumulative
effect of change in accounting principle          (25)              310
Income tax benefit/(expense)                         9              (115)
Minority interest                                   (4)               (3)
(Loss)/ income before cumulative effect
of change in accounting principle                 (20)              192
Cumulative effect of change in
accounting principle                             (839)                -
NET (LOSS)/ INCOME                              $ (859)           $  192
(LOSS)/ EARNINGS PER COMMON SHARE
(Loss)/ earnings per share before
accounting principle                       $(0.09)           $ 0.60
accounting principle                       $(3.81)           $    -
(Loss)/ earnings per share                  $(3.90)           $ 0.60
Average common equivalent shares
outstanding                                   220.4             318.1
(millions)
April 3,  March 29,  January 3,
2004       2003       2004
Cash and cash equivalents          $ 4,235    $ 3,846    $ 9,057
Domestic credit card receivables         -     29,558          -
Sears Canada credit card
receivables                         1,897      1,719      1,998
Less allowance for
uncollectible accounts               40      1,843         42
Net credit card receivables        1,857     29,434      1,956
Other receivables                      489        716        733
Merchandise inventories, net         5,609      5,730      5,335
Prepaid expenses, deferred
charges and other current assets      774        708        407
Deferred income taxes                  689        790        708
Total current assets              13,653     41,224     18,196
Property and equipment, net            6,603      6,794      6,788
Deferred income taxes                    256        621        378
Goodwill                                 943        942        943
Tradenames and other intangible
assets                                  709        703        710
Other assets                             555      1,124        708
Total assets                     $22,719    $51,408    $27,723
Short-term borrowings              $   864    $ 6,775    $ 1,033
Current portion of long-term
debt and capitalized lease
obligations                         1,531      3,909      2,950
Merchandise payables                 2,864      2,685      3,106
Income taxes payable                   581        555      1,867
Other liabilities                    2,362      3,216      2,950
Unearned revenues                    1,270      1,209      1,244
Other taxes                            485        445        609
Total current liabilities          9,957     18,794     13,759
Long-term debt and capitalized
lease obligations                     4,066     22,021      4,218
Pension and postretirement benefits    1,656      2,414      1,956
Minority interest and other
liabilities                           1,374      1,245      1,389
Total liabilities                 17,053     44,474     21,322
Commitments and Contingent Liabilities
Common shares                            323        323        323
Capital in excess of par value         3,518      3,503      3,519
Retained earnings                     10,716      8,617     11,636
Treasury stock - at cost              (8,759)    (4,458)    (7,945)
Deferred ESOP expense                    (19)       (41)       (26)
Accumulated other comprehensive loss    (113)    (1,010)    (1,106)
Total shareholders' equity         5,666      6,934      6,401
Total liabilities and
shareholders' equity            $22,719    $51,408    $27,723
Total common shares outstanding    212.7      317.1      230.4
Segment Income Statements
For the 13 Weeks Ended April 3, 2004 and March 29, 2003
Domestic       Sears Canada
2004     2003*    2004     2003
Merchandise sales and services        $6,789   $6,707  $  914     $767
Credit and financial products
revenues                                  -    1,330      91       76
Total revenues                         6,789    8,037   1,005      843
Cost of sales, buying and
occupancy                          4,970    4,938     651      536
Selling and administrative          1,611    1,880     283      230
Provision for uncollectible
accounts                               -      471      16       12
Depreciation and amortization         198      198      30       27
Interest, net                          49      251      27       28
Total costs and expenses     6,828    7,738   1,007      833
Operating (loss) income               $  (39)  $  299  $   (2)    $ 10
Foreign exchange rate (quarterly
average)                                              0.7593   0.6578
2004               2003
Merchandise sales and services                  $7,703             $7,474
Credit and financial products revenues              91              1,406
Total revenues                                   7,794              8,880
Cost of sales, buying and occupancy          5,621              5,474
Selling and administrative                   1,894              2,110
Provision for uncollectible accounts            16                483
Depreciation and amortization                  228                225
Interest, net                                   76                279
Total costs and expenses               7,835              8,571
Operating (loss) income                         $  (41)            $  309
Net (loss)/ income before cumulative
effect of change in accounting principle       $  (20)            $  192
accounting principle                           $ (839)            $    -
Net (loss)/ income                              $ (859)            $  192
EPS - Diluted                                   $(3.90)            $ 0.60
Average shares o/s                            220.4              318.1
* Domestic segment detail for the 13 weeks ended March 29, 2003
Retail &    Credit &
Related    Financial   Corporate &   Total
Services   Products      Other      Domestic
Merchandise sales and services  $6,644    $    -        $ 63       $6,707
revenues                            -     1,330           -        1,330
Total revenues                   6,644     1,330          63        8,037
occupancy                     4,914         -          24        4,938
Selling and administrative     1,561       218         101        1,880
accounts                          -       471           -          471
Depreciation and amortization    183         4          11          198
Interest, net                      9       242           -          251
Total costs
and expenses          6,667       935         136        7,738
Operating (loss) income         $  (23)   $  395        $(73)      $  299
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION - INVENTORY, STORE COUNT AND SUMMARY OF
SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
($ in millions, except earnings per share)
Domestic Inventories:
April 3,      March 29,    January 3,
2004          2003          2004
-LIFO        $4,980        $5,170        $4,728
-FIFO        $5,560        $5,784        $5,308
Domestic Retail Stores:
2004           2003           2004
Full-line                   872            870            871
Specialty                 1,103          1,304          1,105
Lands' End                   16             15             16
Total             1,991          2,189          1,992
Summary of Significant Items:
For the 13 Weeks        For the 13 Weeks
Ended April 3, 2004     Ended March 29, 2003
Earnings                 Earnings
Pretax    Per Share     Pretax     Per Share
As Reported                $(25)     $(3.90)       $310        $0.60
Significant items:
Cumulative effect of
change in accounting
for retirement plans        -        3.81           -            -
Curtailment gain on
medical plans             (30)      (0.09)          -            -
Negative carry related
to Credit legacy debt
and related debt
retirement costs           38        0.11           -            -
Proforma effects on the prior
Divested Businesses
As reported               -           -        (405)       (0.80)
Zero-percent financing
costs                    -           -          56         0.12
Proforma revenues earned
under Citigroup
alliance                 -           -          32         0.07
Total divested
businesses               -           -        (317)       (0.61)
Retirement plan accounting
change (1)                  -           -          11         0.02
Adjusted*                  $(17)     $(0.07)       $  4        $0.01
Average common equivalent
shares outstanding                   220.4                    318.1
* The adjustments to pretax earnings and earnings per share to remove
the effects of the change in accounting for retirement plans
and the results of operations of the divested businesses provide a
better presentation of the results of the ongoing operations of
(1) Represents the effect on the 13 weeks ended March 29, 2003
assuming that the change in accounting for retirement plans
occurred at the beginning of fiscal 2003.
CONTACT: Media, Edgar P. McDougal, +1-847-286-9669, or Investor, Scott
A. Bohaboy, +1-847-286-7419, both of Sears, Roebuck and Co.


I'd also like to say thank you to Jessica Nell Graves (graphic designer and blogger behind The Love List) for including me in her newest project: The Love List Library, which is a wonderful compilation of a top-notch group of design bloggers' favorite books, movies and music. This is a great resource if you're looking for gifts for the stylish women in your life -- or even just a little new inspiration for yourself. You can check out my own personal "love list" HERE.
And last, but certainly not least, back in September I did a guest post over at A 'Lil Welsh Rarebit on turning Christy's office into a guest room. Well, a few weeks ago Christy has actually turned one of my mood boards into reality (with a few much needed tweaks to work for "real life") and it looks absolutely fantastic. Please be sure to check out the full reveal HERE.
I'll be back tomorrow with an update on my family room. With the Imperial Trellis pillows finished and coffee and side tables in place, it's come a long way since last fall.
Thanks Averill! I second the sentiment - Odi et Amo is certainly at the top of my list of new favorites!
I can not wait to see your pillows, I would take anything made out of that fabric. Also, do you know the source of the wallpaper in the Sally Steponkus image? It is exactly what I am looking for, actually just spent an hour looking for something like it at various sources. I looked on her website but didn't see anything.
Christy's room turned out great. I'm sure it was fun to see the mood board translated into real life! I'm looking forward to seeing your family room updates too.
Ooh I love your LOVE list! And congrats on the award!
And I'm soooo happy with the results of our room makeover, thanks to you! I would have never found that duvet set or the lamps on my own. And I likely would never have come up with the furniture arrangement either! I assumed I'd have to go with a twin bed/trundle in such a small room. But my parents have already stayed in it, and they love it! MUCHAS GRACIAS!
I just checked out your guest post....how exciting that she is putting it to use....you had so much good info in both options. And, now to check out a couple of new (to me) blogs!
Geez! I just got home, and jumped on the computer. This is a super sweet little surprise on a cold rainy day.
You must be one heck of a lawyer, because the fact that you can whip out one amazing post after another, always leaves me in awe. Thank you so much for always stopping by and bringing me so much daily joy everytime I pop over here!!!
Thanks so much for the award; your blog is sunshine to me, as well :) Feel very honored to be included on your list, and can't wait to check out the others.
BTW, I love that first photo and clipped the same one this morning! That mirror on that wallpaper is unbelievable.
Christy's room is beautiful! Can't wait to see your new pillows either.
I ADORE that wallpaper. I was thinking something similar in a powder room. Thanks for tracking down the source.
How fun to have your inspiration board turned into a real life room!
Thanks again for tracking down the source of the wallpaper, I mentioned it, you and your blog today in my post. If you ever decide to use this paper perhaps we could split the minimum order if we could agree on a color!


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THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN CREATING OF AWARENESS DURING 2015 GENERAL ELECTION IN NIGERIA: A STUDY OF FACEBOOK AND TWITTER
1.7 Brief Methodology
1.8 Literature Review
1.10 Conclusion
2.2.1 Role of Social Media in Democracy
2.2.2 Role of Social Media in Creating Awareness during Election in the USA
2.2.3 Role of Social Media in Creating Awareness during Election in the United Kingdom
2.2.4 Role of Social Media in Creating Awareness in Iran
2.2.5 Role of Social Media in Creating Awareness in Egypt
2.2.6 Role of Social Media in Creating Awareness in Nigerian Election
2.3 Review of Related Theories
2.3.1 Related Theory
2.3.2 The Technological Determinism Theory
2.3.3 Development of the Theory
2.3.4 Basic Assumption of the Theory
Data Presentation analysis and Interpretation
4.2 Data Presentation, Analysis and Interpretation
Summary, Conclusion and Recommendation
The emergence of the Internet as the new mass medium of the 21st century now changes the mass media substantially. Information can be distributed at high speed, low cost, and broad scope and as a result, there is egalitarian access to the production and the consumption of news (Prat and Strömberg, 2011).
The recent election of Muhammadu Buhari as president of Nigeria has been hailed internationally as a historic transfer of power for Africa's most populous nation with social media playing greater role or influenced the fairness of the election. Social media with all their flaws had the power of immediacy. They're also very participatory. In an election where you have citizens who are participating, they were also providing the news and information surrounding the elections. It was an empowerment of people through their votes, and also through their ability to disseminate information. That is not to say that traditional media didn't play a role. But the social media role was central. The world is becoming increasingly connected via the power of the Internet; Facebook launched internet.org an initiative to gain even the most remote parts of society access to the World Wide Web. Political movements have begun to see social media as a major organizing and recruiting tool and the reverse can be said for society. Social media (done right) gives you all this because it's inherently a two-way communication system. Rather than getting brand messages, you get recommendations from friends in the form of re-shares and recommended posts, which de-commercializes the brand message.
Social media is that space, the many tools helping to amplify the voices of average Nigerians, taking ordinary voice sand making them extraordinary by bringing them to homes, offices, and places most of them would have probably never reached under different circumstances. It started out as a playground for mostly young jobless people. Today, it has become the battle ground of what would arguably be the most competitive election in Nigeria's history.
The advent of internet and technology has exposed majority of the global population to different interactive platforms on which different kind of information is exchanged which might significantly have effect on human behavior, decision and judgment (CES,2012). Social media are new information network and information technology using a form of communication utilizing interactive and user-produced content, and interpersonal relationships are created and maintained.
According to Eugene, 2015. The popularity of getting political news from social media platforms is greatly increasing. A 2014 study showed that 62% of web users turn to Facebook to find political news. This social phenomenon allows for political information, true or not, spreading quickly and easily among peer networks. Furthermore, social media sites are now encouraging political involvement by uniting like-minded people, reminding users to vote in elections, and analyzing users" political affiliation data to find cultural similarities and differences. As social media gains more popularity and scope, its impact on voters' political and cultural perceptions cannot be underestimated as social media practically influences the way users interact, communicate and make decisions on social, cultural, and political issues in today's world.
The social media has become a powerful medium which may affect voting behavior because of its potential to provide direct and cheap access to the production and consumption of current information at any part of the world without editorial filtering (Sunstein, 2001). Not only do social media provide information about political affiliations, candidates and their party manifestoes, it also provides a platform through which voters across cultural divides can relate and interact with themselves on issues about these candidates. Social media can help taint the reputation of political figures fairly quickly with information that may or may not be true. Information spreads like wildfire and before a politician can even get an opportunity to address the information, either to confirm, deny, or explain, the public has already formed an opinion about the politician based on that information. However, when conducted on purpose, the spread of information on social media for political means can help campaigns immensely. Open forums online have also been the root of negative and positive effects in the political sphere. Some politicians have made the mistake of using open forums to try and reach a broader audience and thus more potential voters. What they forgot to account for was that the forums would be open to everyone, including those in opposition. Having no control the comments being posted, negative included, has been damaging for some with unfortunate oversight. Additionally, a constraint of social media as a tool for public political discourse is that if oppressive governments recognize the ability social media has to cause change.
Today's social media has made the world a ―global village‖, with the quick transfer of information overriding the challenges of time and distance (Friedman, 2007). Social media has gradually become one of the important means of influencing the society and this influence is based exclusively on its social aspects of interaction and participation. Nearly every political party in the country used social media to campaign and advance its plans, message and manifestos to supporters including advertising, mobilization and organizing in all the states of the federation, and even fundraising. Facebook, YouTube and especially Twitter were used to let voters know how each party or particular candidate felt about important national issues ranging from security to power. Hence social media became powerful enough to influence voter decisions and choices as many voters who had fixed their minds and conscience on voting a particular party or candidate began...


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Maureen from the Sick Kids Friends Foundation popped down to see us last week to finally meet Jack (she met Noah and Mummy up at the hospital the week before while Noah went for his check up), and to drop off a few things.
She came with a present for each of the boys, megablocks for Noah, a rocket game for Toby (which is the biggest hit of all) and Spiderman Walkie Talkies for Jack, she also came with a big box of art supplies to help Jack out with his backlog of pictures.
Thank you so much for Maureen for each one of the boys and us.
She also took away our collection tin we had been taking to school with us, and she confirmed that it contained a massive £220.89. We really don't know how to tell her that we have filled the second one already with the money collected at The Hour and some more donations over the weekend.


Presenting: the cover of The Big Activity Book for Anxious People, coming from Tarcher Perigee in May. I literally could not be more excited for this one to come out, and am already thinking ahead, because it takes six thousand years for books to go to print, so I might as well start percolating on the next one now.
Which brings me to my question for you: What kind of activity book would you like to see next? One for Awesome Women? One for those in need of a Digital Detox? One for The Newly Separated (ahem)? …One I haven't even thought of, but is completely genius and snags you a big old thank you in the book acknowledgements, and also my eternal gratitude?


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Our unique focus on the maximised all round development of our athletes combined with a strong club history of professionalism, cutting edge training programs and close relationships with the worlds best coaches and athletes is the cornerstone of our continued success at all levels of our sport.
TBR: GROM is TBR's entry level ski training program for competent 10 – 13 year old skiers .
TBR: GROM aims to instil the technical skiing skill set younger skiers (aka Groms) require to maximise their future athletic potential.
TBR calls this technical skiing skill set the TBR: PLATFORM.
TBR: GROM is a fun, base technical skills focused program for young skiers who have successfully progressed through the ski school ranks and are ready to learn how to take on all that the hills have to offer. TBR: GROM will expose skiers to the technical cornerstones of all mountain skiing, mogul skiing and freeskiing.
TBR: GROM is designed to foster skiing & acrobatic skills that will enable skiers to move into the more specialised TBR: MOGUL and TBR: FREESKI programs and beyond... The transition from TBR: GROM is entirely the choice of individual skiers and is encouraged to be based on an individual's future aims and skiing goals.
TBR has previously stated the importance of aerial and acrobatic development, both on and off snow. To complement on snow development, TBR: GROM will push skiers to the next level of aerial and acrobatic ability utilising the BULLER AIRZONE ACROBATIC FACILITY at Mt Buller.


Dr. Randy Guliuzza, Dr. Jason Lisle, Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson, Brian Thomas, and Dr. Tim Clarey will present Creation Sunday at Countryside Bible Church in Southlake, TX.
Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson will present Did Dinosaurs Walk with Man? Solving the Riddle of Genesis and Other Mysteries at Grace Memorial Baptist Church in Bedford, VA. Oct 12, 2014 at 6 p.m.