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How have the Packers managed to stay on top?
Keep your eye on Ndamukong Suh on Sunday
LB Clay Matthews
Tom from Waukesha, WI
You said teams at the top have spent some years at the top of the draft acquiring their key players. The Packers have spent the majority of the last decade at the bottom of the first round, yet, they're still a perennial contender. Is this simply because Ted Thompson is that good at what he does?
That's part of it. It also helps that they've transitioned at quarterback from Brett Favre to Aaron Rodgers, and they were lucky to get Rodgers late in the first round. Never underestimate the value of being lucky. The Packers, however, took advantage of being high in the draft a few times in recent years. They were high in the draft in 2006 when they made A.J. Hawk the fifth overall pick, and then used their position in the second round to trade back and pick Greg Jennings. They were high in the draft in 2009 when they made B.J. Raji the ninth overall pick, and then used their position in the second round to trade into the first round and pick Clay Matthews. Ted Thompson is the best draft-day trader I've covered. Everybody needs a little time at the top.
Bob from Annandale, MN
How tough is it to go to Denver and play in the high altitude?
It must be difficult because a lot of attention has been dedicated to it through the years. There was a theory that the altitude didn't get to you until you were in Denver for 24 hours, so teams started flying into Denver late the day before the game, but the league didn't like that – they wanted teams at their destinations early enough the previous day to guard against travel problems. Outside the visitors' locker room door in Denver, positioned so it's the first thing you see when you leave the locker room, the exact altitude of the field is painted on the wall, to remind players of the rigors of playing at a mile high in the air.
Todd from St. Paul, MN
Vic, seriously, what, if anything, can our interior linemen do to stop Detroit's defensive line?
I'm going to assume you won't be satisfied by the answer, "Block them." I'm going to assume you want me to provide some scheme suggestions. OK, here are a few: Run some draws to try and catch them up the field. Get them moving sideways with some stretch plays. Cut-block them to create some hesitation in their charge. Most of all, make them play the run. If you're one-dimensional and they can pin their ears back, it could be a long day.
James from LaPorte, CO
Do college sports make money for universities or lose money?
Football and basketball are money-makers in the big schools. They support the other varsity sports. When it's all said and done, however, even the biggest of the big schools don't make anywhere near what the big research schools make in research grants. That's where the big money is, in academics. Hey, Maryland's and Rutgers' athletic departments are in dire financial straits, and they have company.
Mark from Dodgeville, MI
The Ravens trade for a 26-year-old, quality LT and only have to give up third-day picks. Did the rest of the league, including Ted, miss a prime opportunity to snag Monroe? Even though he will be a free agent after the season, you can never have enough quality OL.
I've been writing it and saying it for years and it never seems to sink in: Picks, not players. It's been that way for all the years I've covered the NFL. Draft picks are treated as pieces of gold. That's not to say trades for players don't work, it's just to say that they are the exception to the rule. Fans always overrate the value of players. Frankly, I think teams need to change their thinking on this subject because the salary cap, in my opinion, is making players more attractive to acquire in trades. Eugene Monroe's proration, for example, stays in Jacksonville, so the Ravens are effectively renting a premium-position player for 12 games. It's like renting a house – no mortgage, no closing costs, insurance costs, taxes, etc. At the end of the season, they can give it up and leave the "house," or try to buy it.
Shon from West Fargo, ND
Please educate me, Vic. It appears some versions of no-huddle offenses in the NFL work, while others don't. Why are Peyton Manning's and Tom Brady's versions so successful, while Chip Kelly's version is easier for a defense to overcome? What's the key difference?
Manning and Brady have better plays.
Bernabe from Monterrey, Mexico
Vic, I was reading an article about Sir Alex Ferguson, one of the greatest managers in football soccer history, and he mentioned exactly what you believe, in the youth movement. It's an interesting interview and he talks about what made him a good manager. Maybe you want to give it a read, because I love both sports and it's amazing how alike they are in several areas, like players, not plays, and replacement, not maintenance.
May I use my hands to turn the pages?
QB Brett Favre
Ben from Hudson, WI
I know you weren't covering the Packers when he was playing, but what is your fondest memory of Brett Favre?
It's probably his first start, which I had the distinction of having covered. He was sensational that day. I also have another fond memory of Favre, but it's not for football. I'm a grass-cutting maniac. I'm obsessed with it. It's been that way since I was a little kid and the neighbor squealed on me to my parents that I was trying to start the lawnmower. Something about lawnmowers excite me. When I walk into a lawn and garden center, I always go right to the lawnmowers. Well, I needed a new lawnmower a few years ago and I saw this advertisement with Favre's picture on it, and above his picture it said, "Live to mow." That went right to my heart and I bought the lawnmower. I guess the old gunslinger and I have something in common. I feel the connection.
Ryan from Fredericton, NB
Vic, another player other than the center can snap the ball? Can any position on the line of scrimmage snap the ball?
Yes. It's a trick play that is easily defeated by calling a timeout. It's a way of creating an unbalanced line without moving the personnel, only the ball as it relates to the personnel, so the defense has to be on its toes. If the defense hesitates, it can get caught with too few defenders to one side of the formation. I've seen it used on the goal line.
Paul from Monroe, MI
I guess I'm one of these people who misconstrued the coin toss, probably because my understanding of the game was shaped largely by TV announcers. I thought it had one moving part: kick or receive. Then the team not winning the coin toss took its turn (to kick or receive) with the second half. But now you say there are multiple moving parts and it is not as clear a choice. OK, what happens at the beginning of the second half? Any more choices?
The choices are the same, except you can't defer your choice. Kick, receive or defend a goal; those are the choices. Paul, don't feel bad. My inbox is jammed with letters such as yours. The coin toss process is one of the most misunderstood aspects of the game of football, and the NFL worsened the situation when it added "defer" to the options.
Jim from Brooklyn, NY
Vic, Mike Pereira said the NFL may adapt a new rule about blood. Last week J.J. Watt cut the upper part of his nose and made quite a scene on TV. I know I should change my culture and embrace change, but as the NFL tries to change its brand, the image of players with blood streaming down their faces will likely become extinct makes me sad. Maybe I watched too many NFL Films as a kid.
We need more rules and less blood.
Ben from New Orleans, LA
Is the Levi Brown trade an example of the Steelers patching with castoffs or clinging or trying to make their old team relevant one more time? That's an awfully expensive castoff.
It's none of that. It's survival. You can't play without a left tackle, at least not without subjecting your quarterback, who is all over your cap, to career-threatening abuse. You owe it to him as an expression of humaneness to provide somebody who might provide even a momentary obstacle to your opponents' blindside pass rush. Ben Roethlisberger was fortunate to have begun his career playing behind a great offensive line, but he's spent the last seven seasons of his career playing behind mush. I've never seen a quarterback take the pounding Roethlisberger has. If he wasn't built like an oak tree, he wouldn't still be playing. You gotta get the big guys early. How many times have I written that? How do you get the big guys early when you're always drafting late?
Michael from Madison, WI
Man, what an edge Coach McCarthy had in Wednesday's press conference.
Mark from Sheboygan Falls, WI
Vic, did you ever get to cover a game at County Stadium, and what did you think of it?
I covered one there in 1975. It was a baseball park. It kind of reminded me of covering a game at Metropolitan Stadium in Minnesota.
Ben from Milwaukee, WI
Vic, overall, I totally agree with your philosophy of staying young, but why don't you think the Packers operate a little more like the Patriots?
Nobody, including the Patriots, want to operate that way. Chuck Noll said "You don't build through the waiver wire," and the Patriots' original dynasty was built through the draft. Years and years of winning and drafting near the bottom of the order and having to reward their core players with bigger contracts have forced the Patriots to do what they're doing, which is to say finding players on the street and in cheap free agency, etc. Bill Belichick does more with less than any coach I have ever known. He's the great patcher. The Packers haven't reached the point, yet, of having to do that, but if they stay at the top of the standings for as long as the Patriots have, the Packers will probably have to do some patching, too. They did a good job of it in 2010.
Ryan from Greenfield, WI
Can you explain the one-point safety? I remember seeing it once in a college game.
It's called a try safety. During a try, the placekick holder fumbles. A defender kicks, bats or muffs the loose ball and it goes out of bounds behind the goal line. Award one point to the offense. Remember, the defense cannot score during a try.
Lions DT Ndamukong Suh
Dennis from Plymouth, MN
Vic, the Lions stunt their defensive tackles. Can this create running lanes between the tackles, potentially allowing for big gains on the ground?
It sure can. Stunting defensive tackles is a scheme based on an old-time defensive strategy known as "cross hands." It was the foundation of George Perles' "stunt 4-3" creation. "Cross hands" is very good at creating penetration and disruption. It can take over a game if the offense can't get those guys blocked, but "cross hands" can also get a defense creased by splitting those tackles and getting a hat on the middle linebacker. That's the problem with "cross hands." Perles remedied that problem by turning one of his defensive tackles sideways over the guard and center. He created a "cross hands" look without the risk of getting creased. The "stunt 4-3" also kept the blockers off the middle linebacker and allowed him to scrape to the ball. The Lions are very active up front and Nick Fairley got a lot of stats against the Packers last year, but Ndamukong Suh is what makes the Lions' "cross hands" version work because Suh holds the point. Watch Suh on Sunday. By the way, don't forget to send your questions to "Ask Vic Halftime" on Sunday, during the first half of the game.
Daniel from Houston, TX
Vic, your explanation of why you would choose to kick at the beginning of each half is not good enough to keep the rule. Let's get rid of it. There's one less rule we have to worry about.
I like the intrigue, especially as it pertains to weather conditions. It's not a difficult rule to understand. Hey, if we can know all the right plays to call, can't we learn what to do on the coin toss?
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Situational awareness: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has moved to end debate on Ric Grenell. He'll almost certainly be confirmed this week as President Trump's ambassador to Germany after months of being stalled in the Senate. More.
President Trump's grand welcome for French President Emmanuel Macron has been eclipsed by news that Veterans Affairs nominee Ronny Jackson now faces a stalled confirmation process.
Sunday: Axios' Jonathan Swan reports that the White House knew about "specific concerns about Jackson's professional conduct in the Navy..."
Tuesday: Jackson's confirmation hearing is postponed.
Trump: "I don't want to put a man through a process like this that's too ugly and too disgusting ... I'd let it be his choice."
The bottom line: Turns out vetting is still important.
What's next: Trump hosts Macron for a state dinner tonight. We'll have pictures and updates here.
North Korea: Trump said Kim Jong-un is "very honorable" and "very open," adding that North Korea wants to hold a meeting "as soon as possible."
Syria: Trump wants U.S. troops "to come home," but "I want [them] to come home with having accomplished what we have to accomplish." Macron has previously tried to convince Trump to keep the U.S. military presence in Syria for a longer period of time.
Trump news: Trump called a query about whether he'd pardon Michael Cohen a "stupid question."
The Dow on Tuesday fell 425 points (1.73%) and the Nasdaq was off 121 points (1.7%). But it could have been worse, as the Dow at one point was down more than 600. Driving factors.
The trio: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase are expected to pick the CEO for their health care partnership within the next two months. More.
Sequoia Capital has officially reversed its decade-plus policy of not allowing U.S. public pensions into its funds.. Details.
Federal agencies have no security requirements for employees' personal social media accounts —leaving the door open to mischief and mayhem should one of those accounts get hacked. Go deeper.
James Comey's book is now dominating the charts after selling more than 600,000 copies in its first week.
The cast of "Homeland" sounded off on "spy camp," their term for visits to D.C. to mind-meld with top intelligence officials and other notable figures, during a panel moderated by Michael Hayden, the AP's Deb Riechmann reports.
Claire Danes: "I guess the challenge of the show is that it is constantly adapting to what's happening in real-time."


The case against lawyer Itumeleng Makhalemele-Maseko, who was accused of killing her businessman husband Caswell Maseko, was withdrawn in the Witbank magistrate's court on Friday.
"The accused was facing one count of murder which happened on September 1 2018 and was out on bail. The withdrawal of charges comes after the death of a state witness in the case," said National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesperson Monica Nyuswa.
"An inquest docket is still to be investigated," Nyuswa said.
"The wife and her friend drove into the complex first and the husband came 20-30 minutes later," the guard said.
A short while later, the wife's friend came to the gate to inform them that the couple was fighting, said the security guard.


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From the front line: How a routine Form 3520 filing can easily go (eye-wateringly expensively) wrong
Monte Silver: TCJA still a major problem, but some progress seen in recent GILTI revisions
President Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act 2017, which took effect on Jan. 1, 2018, has been a huge issue for many Americans who own as little as 10% of a small overseas business. Caught up in a clumsy legislative effort aimed at such large multi-national American companies as Google and Apple, these small business owners are, as has been frequently reported by this media organization and others, being forced to pay a 17.5% transition tax on income from their small business entities that dates back as far as the 1980s.
GILTI tax webinar on Thursday to feature tax lawyer Silver
Monte Silver, a well-known expert on – and critic of – President Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and the so-called GILTI tax it contains, will host a live webinar on that controversial legislation next Thursday.
Proposed IRS tweaks to GILTI regs seen giving break to American taxpayers resident in high-tax countries
Proposed rule changes to the way "foreign income" earned by "Controlled Foreign Corporations" would be taxed by the U.S. would be good news for American taxpayers living in high-tax countries, tax experts have said.
Treasury official reported to hint at plans to address GILTI concerns
The U.S. Department of the Treasury is planning to address a much-criticised aspect of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that currently would see individual American taxpayers facing potentially higher taxes on their overseas income, a report published on Thursday said, citing a Treasury official.
Suit challenging legality of 'Transition Tax' planned, amid reports final draft issued
Sources representing the interests of expatriate American owners of small non-U.S. businesses say they're preparing to go ahead with a lawsuit they say will challenge the applicability to small businesses of a key component of President Trump's December 2017 tax reform legislation, the so-called Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA).
Ever since President Trump unveiled his so-called Tax Cuts and Jobs Act just before Christmas in 2017, tax experts familiar with the complex way American expatriates are taxed have been sounding the alarm about what were initially assumed to be the unintended consequences of that legislation on American small-business owners overseas.
Kevin Brady publishes draft of proposed TCJA corrections, seeks feedback
Outgoing House Ways and Means Committee chairman Kevin Brady yesterday appeared to respond to concerns that President Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act – signed into law in late December 2017 – set the stage for a number of unintended and potentially damaging consequences, with the publication of a discussion draft document that invites public comment on a number of proposed "fixes."
US Congress seeking comments on recent tax reform bill by October 9
A deadline of October 9 has been set for Americans who have been adversely impacted by the 2017 Tax Cuts & Jobs Act to tell Congress of their experiences.
Andersen Tax name has its debut in Kuwait
IRS formally announces it 'will [no longer] challenge' foreign tax credits on two French social services 'contributions'
SEC votes 3 to 1 in favor of 'Regulation Best Interest,' as debate over its merits continues
Now two House Democrats speak out on behalf of expat tax reform
Dems Abroad reported in talks with Virginia Congressman Beyer on expat issues
IRS's Taxpayer Advocate wades into free tax forms issue
From the front line: How a routine Form 3520 filing can easily go (eye-wateringly expensively) wrong – and did
It is perhaps not surprising to hear that non-U.S. (or "foreign") trusts with U.S. owners can be tricky...

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Date of production:Circa 1851 - 1927, probably 2nd half of the 19th century, and possibly the early part of this period (France adopted Diapason Normal, A? 435Hz, in 1859).
Flûte d'amour. Nominal pitch: A.
Trumpet or wide-mouthpipe cornet à pistons. Nominal pitch: B♭.
French flageolet. Nominal pitch: G.
French flageolet. Nominal pitch: A.
Double French flageolet. Nominal pitch: A/F.
English flageolet. Nominal pitch: G (three-finger tonic).
Mouthpiece for tenor trombone or baritone saxhorn.
Tuba. Nominal pitch: C / B♭.
Cornet de poste or cornet simple. Nominal pitch: C etc.
Bass bugle. Nominal pitch: 9-ft B♭.
Mouthpiece for clairon basse (bass bugle).
Tabor pipe. Nominal pitch: D.
Tenor/bass cavalry valve trombone. Nominal pitch: C+G.
Mouthpiece for trompette basse or tenor trombone.
Quinticlave. Nominal pitch: 6½-ft E♭.


Delve deep inside old electronics to explore how electricity and circuits work. Take apart machines to discover the parts that make them work. Use tools like screwdrivers to find springs, buttons, capacitors, LEDs, motors and more! How can these be reused in new creations?
This month we are investigating the pieces and parts of MAKESHOP activities. Come take a closer look into the steps, materials, and techniques used in various projects.


On Monday night, the Farmer and I took Sweet P to a Halloween event at a local church.
"Can he sit up by himself?"
To which the Farmer replied, "SHE can sit up by herself, yes." So he plopped her down on a bale of hay of which she promptly grabbed a handful and stuffed in her mouth.
Why is it that the words never come out fast enough when you're in a situation like that? Here I am as a bystander while the Farmer is sitting next to her and I can't get the words out. But I eventually did and we got the hay out, too. I know babies like putting stuff in their mouths, but ours is sometimes a bit overboard.
Funny costume? Absolutely. But the Farmer said, "Did you see the look on his face? You know he's looking around at all the kids dressed as Transformers and thinking, 'Man, why am wearing this?'"
We wanted to see if it was worth bringing her to again and we probably will. Our one complaint though?
They weren't giving out enough candy to the adults.


Bump In The Night - "I'm never surprised when I awake to find bruises or blood"
I'm 28 and I've had REM Sleep Behavior Disorder since I was a child. I only today realized what the official diagnosis was. Everyone always called it "night terrors" but I knew that wasn't what it was, no matter how much they insisted. It happens to me virtually every night. Most of the time, it's perfectly benign, aside from waking up the next morning feeling tired: I walk around, turn on lights, etc. Basically, I'm always dreaming that I'm doing something purposeful and I "act out" those dreams in the real world.
For instance, I might turn on the lights and check under the bed because I see a dog jump off my bed and scurry beneath (I have no dog). I might have a very detailed conversation in the night. I might insist to my wife that there is a thousand pill bugs rolling across the sheets. But sometimes, these "incidences" aren't so benign. Sometimes, my nightmares become "real" and I go hurtling through my house in the dead of night, slamming into furniture. If I'm lucky, I don't make it out the front door and into the street.
Every few months, I hurt myself while I dream. I've sliced open my heel, almost blinded myself, and almost fallen from a balcony on to hard tile (to name a tiny fraction). I always remember what I dream upon such occasions, so I'm never surprised when I awake to find bruises or blood covering the sheets of my bed.
The worst two incidences occurred when I was in college. The first was during a 2 week backpacking trip in the Rocky Mountains. I darted from my tent (barefoot) and sprinted across jagged rocks and nearly hurtled from a cliff side.
In the other incidence, I dreampt I was being attacked by giant leeches while I slept in my college dorm, so I sprinted from my room and ran through the dormitory hallways, shrieking and kicking the wall as I went (the leeches were attacking my feet, after all). I broke a few bones in my foot, but I'm not sure if it hurt as much as the public ensnarement. I was almost expelled from school because people thought I was taking LSD (I've never used any drugs and never drank alcohol).
Curiously, I've noticed that most people's accounts of this condition involve being completely convinced that what they are dreaming is true, but I have some small refuge of self-awareness and self-control. Maybe that's why I've never actually hurt anyone (yet). I'm a very skeptical and analytical person, so before I do something too dire or drastic in my dreams, some part of me says, "this might be a dream." For instance, I once picked up a vase from my nightstand and was ready to hurl it at my sleeping wife (she was a murderer, in my dreams). But some distant part of my consciousness cautioned me that, if I was just dreaming, I could do something terrible. It was the strangest sort of thought process: measuring whether I was dreaming or awake. Measuring whether I should take the risk of striking my wife or take the risk of being murdered by an intruder.
It's never been easy living with this peculiar disorder, but now there is the additional apprehension of hearing the news that REM Sleep Behavior Disorder might be the harbinger of neurological degeneration.


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This earrings are prettier in person. I like its uniqueness. Thank you for creating such a beautiful piece, Buana.
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Dainty but heavy and very well made. Lovely!
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Missouri lawmaker seeks to make guns as difficult to get as abortions
A Missouri representative proposed a bill that if passed would subject gun buyers to the same restrictions as a woman wanting an abortion, a procedure also protected by the U.S. Constitution.
Democratic state Rep. Stacey Newman, whose district is just outside of St. Louis, pre-filed House Bill 1397 on Tuesday.
The measure would require potential gun buyers to undergo a 72-hour waiting period, find a dealer within 120 miles of their legal residence, talk to a doctor about possible risks and risk factors, and sign a written statement that they understand the "physical, psychological or situational factors" of buying a gun.
Also, the buyer must watch "a 30-minute video on fatal firearm injuries" that has been approved by the state's Department of Public Safety before the purchase.
"If we truly insist that Missouri cares about 'all life', then we must take immediate steps to address our major cities rising rates of gun violence," she said.
Republican state Sen. Brian Munzlinger, a pro-gun lawmaker, told The Columbia Tribune that there is no reason to tie the two issues together.
"It is apples and oranges," he said. "There is no correlation between them."
However, Newman introduced the bill to point out the contradictions by her conservative cohorts who fight to loosen restrictions for one Constitutionally protected right and heavily regulate another.
""Popular proposals among voters, including universal background checks and restricting weapons from abuser and convicted felons, are consistently ignored each session," Newman told St. Louis Magazine. "Since restrictive policies regarding a Constitutionally protected medical procedure are the GOP's legislative priority each year, it makes sense that their same restrictions apply to those who may commit gun violence."
Missouri's legislative session is scheduled to start on Jan. 6, 2016.


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require 'rubygems'
require 'erb'
require 'spec/runner/formatter/html_formatter'

module MerbApprovals
  module RSpecFormatter
    class ApprovalHtmlFormatter < Spec::Runner::Formatter::HtmlFormatter
      def extra_failure_content(failure)
      	if failure.exception.respond_to? :received_filename
          "<iframe src='#{failure.exception.received_filename.gsub(Merb.root, ".")}' width='100%'></iframe>"
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

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We have lots of ideas for unusual Bridal shower favors for your party. But it is worth considering the whole subject of giving favors. Favors are small inexpensive gifts or presents that are given to guests at a Bridal Shower as a thank you for their attendance and also to serve as a souvenir of the occasion. The key word to remember is that favors should be inexpensive! As a nice souvenir of a lovely event it is also nice to put some time and effort into choosing party favors and perhaps considering making your own unique homemade Bridal shower favors. Cheap party favors are more than acceptable - in this instance it really is the thought that counts!
Bridal Shower Favors - Ideas, Hints and Tips!
Top Tips for Bridal Shower Favors!
Before you make any decisions at all regarding favors decide on a theme for your party. It is a really good idea to follow the theme of the party through to the type of favor you give to your guests. If you are planning some party games then add to the fun and have lots of little favors to give out as gifts or prizes!
List of Ideas for Bridal Shower Favors!
As we have already said favors need not be expensive and handmade or homemade favor is more than acceptable at a party.
Ideas for Boxes and Bags!
Once you have decided on the type of favor you want to give your guests think about how you can make them look really attractive - we're talking Favor Boxes and Favor Bags. You can buy boxes or bags but you can also make them yourself. We would recommend making your own bags - they're really easy to make! Bags can be made from any type of material including Cellophane, Metallic, Tissue paper, Organza and Felt. Pretty wrapping paper and stickers can also be used to create bags! Then consider ways of decorating favor bags and favor boxes! Add a souvenir note (made with the same theme as your party invitation) - a lovely personal touch and an immediate way to say "Thank You" to your guests! Add some ribbon or rafia and perhaps some glitter! There are many different types of ribbon, in different widths and colors to give you some great ideas! You can buy curling ribbon, satin ribbon, metallic ribbon and organza ribbon! Beautiful!
Handmade or Homemade Bridal Shower Favors!
In the current economic climate it makes sense to make your own favors - they are cheap and fun to make! You can also ensure that you have fully personalized to suit the bride-to-be. So get creative and make some great homemade favors!
Our selection of Bridal Shower Ideas includes our unique printable Bridal shower invitations. Top ideas for Bridal Shower Favors! Fully personalized and homemade Bridal shower invites and thank you cards are not only easy to make and print with the addition of photos but are also cheap to make! Match their theme to your party favors!


Front of the recipe card for Peco Flake Candy.
There is a notation that the recipe is from Vi Marsh, who at this time I do not know who she is.
There are lots of fun recipes to read in the box this recipe for Peco Flake Candy was with.
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Combine sugar, syrup and water in heavy light colored skillet.
Cook, stirring constantly unstil sugar dissolves.
Cook, stirring occasionaly, to hard crack stage (294 degrees).
Add butter, vanilla & soda.
Stir to blend, stir in coconut & pour onto 2 buttered cookie sheets.
While warm, pull out to desired thinness.
When cold, crack into pieces.
Variation; Use 1 cup of firmly packed brown sugar in place of 1 cup of granulated sugar.


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I found a way to edit the character portraits in Fallout Tactics to where you can replace both male and female portraits used in the game and downloaded portraits. The first step is to copy the 'gui_0.bos' to a subdirectory, and rename the extension *.bos to *.zip. Next, open the 'gui_0.zip' and look for 'CORE_rec_hm*.zar' or 'CORE_rec_hf*.zar'. Extract any or all of the files to Fallout Tactics/Core/Gui/Char. You need to make the Char subfolder since one does not exsist. The final step is to rename any new portrait that you download or look in the 'gui_0.zip' and look for 'CORE_PaladinSolo.zar' and rename it to 'CORE_prefab1.zar' and the next time you load Fallout Tactics and start a new game, the portraits that you renamed will be in the Character Portrait selection. The PaladinSolo portrait will make you character look like the Power Armor in the main menu.
Oh the temptation to make a sarcastic remark.
I'm in a good mood so I'll behave, welcome to the wonderful addictive world of FOT mapping and modding digitalmetal.
Anyone else think it's a little odd having a character portrait showing your character in PA when you've only got leather armour?
I've known how to replace character portraits for some time, but have not felt so inclined to do so. However, it is a plethora of miscellaneous faces that you can use in your campaign so its good info for anyone that didn't already know about it.
I've done this with most of the FOt files so I can edit anything I want. I have deleted a few things though, that I felt were unneeded.
How can I draw a metaphysical portrait of myself? We're talking about philosophy in class, and we have an assignment to draw a metaphysical portrait of ourself, aka draw our soul. It's a project grade, and i'm pretty lost. I can't figure out what exactly i'm supposed to draw. Can anyone give me some hints? Please and thankyou.
Either a spambot written by someone with English as a first language or just a stupid person.
How does a digital camera adjust landscape and portrait pictures? How does a camera know that its taking a portrait or landscape computer? Because, say if you are taking a picture in, no mater how you rotate it, how does the camera know you are taking a portrait picture?


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ISIS are ousted from their 'capital' of Raqqa… as US-led troops raise the flag in infamous public square where the terror group carried out beheadings
ISIS fanatics have fled from Al-Naim Square area of Raqqa after a bloody battle
City centre square was used by the terror group to carry out public executions
Bodies and severed heads would often be left there for days, mounted on posts
US-backed militias in Syria say jihadists' stronghold has finally been liberated
By Julian Robinson for MailOnline
ISIS have been defeated in their 'capital' of Raqqa, with flags raised above the public square where the terror group once carried out its brutal beheadings.
US-backed militias in Syria say the jihadists' stronghold has been liberated after a bloody four-month battle and the city is now being searched for land mines and ISIS sleeper cells.
It represents a major defeat for the collapsing extremist group that had proclaimed Raqqa to be the capital of its so-called 'caliphate'. In Syria, it has been forced back into a strip of the Euphrates valley and surrounding desert.
However, the spokesman for the US-led coalition fighting ISIS in the area could only confirm that about 90 per cent of Raqqa had been retaken with pockets of militants still hidden in the war-torn city.
Colonel Ryan Dillon said that with the fall of the city, militants will be denied a 'well spring' that provided planning and support for terror operations in Syria and Iraq and around the world.
Footage emerged today of SDF fighters raising a flag in Al-Naim (Paradise) Square, which until recently ISIS had been using to carry our horrific executions.
Syrian Democratic Forces launched an operation to retake the last ISIS-held pocket of the city after some 275 militants and their family members surrendered over the weekend. SDF soldiers are pictured this week in Al-Naim square where ISIS once carried out brutal executions
An infamous public square where ISIS militants carried out beheadings has been captured by US-led forces with the terror group fleeing Raqqa. This picture is believed to show a man being executed in the square in 2015
Officials in Syria say they the jihadists' so-called capital has been liberated after a bloody battle to recapture Al-Naim (Paradise) Square. The square is shown this week after the area was liberated
Fanatics forced residents to watch their killings after summoning them on loudspeakers.
Witnesses described how the bodies of those executed would be labelled, each with his or her perceived crime, for the public to see.
The square previously known for its famous ice cream shop was quickly renamed from Paradise to Hell (Jahim) Square.
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A senior Kurdish commander in the city said: 'The group showed off its might in this square. Now it is broken and is chased out of the heart of its alleged capital,' the commander said.
SDF fighters launched an operation to retake the last ISIS-held pocket of the city after some 275 militants and their family members surrendered over the weekend.
Raqqa fell to ISIS in 2014 and became the de facto capital of their self-styled caliphate.
This morning, a commander said the had been liberated and that combing operations are underway to clear the city of land mines and extremist sleeper cells.
Brigadier General Talal Sillo said that there are no longer clashes going on in the city.
Sillo says a formal declaration will follow befitting 'the fall of the capital of terrorism.'
SDF fighters cheered as they installed a flag in the town square that ISIS once used to carry out horrific executions
During their reign of terror, ISIS forced hundreds of residents to watch executions in the square. SDF fighters are pictured raising flags after capturing the area
A CENTURIES-OLD CITY THAT BECAME AN ISIS STRONGHOLD
US-backed militias in Syria have declared victory over ISIS in its capital Raqqa, a milestone in the fight to roll back the 'caliphate' declared in 2014.
Here are some facts about Raqqa:
Raqqa sits on the Euphrates river around 56 miles from the Turkish border in north central Syria.
Sunni militant group ISIS overran Raqqa in January 2014, seizing control from rebel factions opposed to the rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The United States has said ISIS planned and sent teams from Raqqa to carry out attacks on cities including Paris, Brussels and Istanbul.
Sunni militant group ISIS overran Raqqa in January 2014, seizing control from rebel factions opposed to the rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (pictured)
THE ANTI-ISIS OFFENSIVE
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of mostly Kurdish and Arab militias, began to advance towards Raqqa city in November 2016. After encircling the city, they launched the offensive to take it, facing tough resistance.
The United States-led coalition supported the SDF with air strikes and special forces on the ground.
ITS PEOPLE
The battle for Raqqa has taken a severe toll on civilians.
The United Nations said in March the city contained around 200,000 people, just under its pre-war population.
Since late last year, fighting around and in Raqqa has displaced tens of thousands of people. Many have fled the city to camps in surrounding territory now under the control of the SDF and its strongest component, the Kurdish YPG militia.
Civilians who were trapped inside the ISIS enclave in the city endured miserable conditions for months, lacking water, power, food and healthcare. As the SDF captured parts of Raqqa they were mostly been cleared of residents.
Air strikes, fighting and ISIS snipers and mines have killed many hundreds of people.
The United States has said ISIS planned and sent teams from Raqqa to carry out attacks on cities including Paris, Brussels and Istanbul. Militants are pictured in the city in June 2014
The coalition says it is careful to avoid civilian casualties in its bombing runs in Syria and Iraq. But the U.N. human rights office and rights group Amnesty International have raised concerns about reports of high civilian deaths.
ISIS imposed its very strict interpretation of Islamic law on Raqqa's residents. The fighters have carried out public executions, lashings and violent punishments for infringements of their rule.
AFTER THE FIGHTING
The Raqqa campaign has stirred tension between the United States and NATO-ally Turkey. Potential Kurdish influence in the future of the mainly Arab city is sensitive both for some activists from Raqqa and for Turkey.
The YPG has become the main U.S. partner in the fight against Islamic State in northern Syria. Ankara views it as a Syrian extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has waged a three-decade insurgency within Turkey, and fears growing Kurdish power along its border.
The SDF's political allies have set up a Raqqa Civil Council of people from the city, which the SDF has said it will hand control to after Islamic State's defeat. This echoes the pattern in other towns and cities that the SDF captured.
The U.S.-led coalition has helped train a new police force for the city.
Islamic State has made enemies of all sides in the more than six-year Syrian conflict, with separate offensives now trying to clear it from its last foothold in the towns along the Euphrates river in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border.
Besides the U.S.-backed SDF, the Syrian army, with Russian jets and Iran-backed militias, is also waging its own campaign against Islamic State in eastern Syria.
A modern-day provincial transport hub and market town, Raqqa was built by the Abbasid Islamic Caliphate in the eighth century, serving as its capital at one point.
It has been inhabited since antiquity and contains important archaeological and architectural sites. The United Nations has said they have been extensively looted during the war and religious buildings have been damaged.
ISIS militants released a video of them bombing a large part of the Uwais al-Qarani shrine complex in March 2014.
Dozens of militants who refused to surrender had made their last stand in the city's stadium, which had become notorious as a prison and dungeons for the group.
It wasn't immediately clear if the ISIS militants are still holed up inside the stadium.
There were also reports this morning that Kurdish-led forces have captured the city hospital in Raqqa, which served as an ISIS headquarters.
The facility was one of the militants' last holdouts in Raqqa and had doubled as a hospital and an ISIS command center.
Musafa Bali, a spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Forces, says 22 ISIS militants were killed in the advance on the hospital.
It comes as an international charity group revealed tens of thousands of people who fled Raqqa are in bad need of aid and that the 'camps are bursting at the seams.'
Save the Children says some 270,000 people who fled the Raqqa fighting are still in critical need of aid. With the high levels of destruction reported in and around Raqqa, most families have nowhere to return home and are likely to stay in camps for months or years to come.
Sonia Khush, Save the Children's director for Syria, described conditions in the camps where displaced from Raqqa are staying as 'miserable and families do not have enough food, water or medicine.'
Witnesses described how the bodies of those executed would be labelled in the square (pictured), each with his or her perceived crime, for the public to see
Khush said the 'children have suffered for years' and that they 'must not be forgotten once the fighting subsides.'
Meanwhile, Syria's state news agency says government forces have captured several villages in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour from ISIS.
SANA says government troops and their allies liberated the villages of Mouhassan, Bouomar and Bouleil that were once strongholds of the extremist group.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported earlier that government forces captured all areas between the eastern city of Deir el-Zour and the town of Mayadeen to the south.
The Observatory also reported that government forces now control more than 90 per cent of the city of Deir el-Zour, where a major offensive is underway to capture remaining ISIS-held neighborhoods.
FALL OF A CALIPHATE: WHAT NEXT FOR ISIS AFTER RAQQA DEFEAT?
ISIS, responsible for some of the worst atrocities perpetrated against civilians in recent history, appears on the verge of collapse.
After brutalising residents living under its command for more than three years, the militants have now lost their self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa and are battling to hang on to relatively small pockets of territory in Iraq and Syria, besieged by local forces from all sides.
Few, however, expect ISIS to completely go away, or for the bloodshed in the two countries and the region to end quickly.
Here's a look at ISIS, the rise and fall of its 'caliphate' and what to expect next:
A 'CALIPHATE' NO MORE
ISIS, which emerged from the remnants of al-Qaeda in Iraq, began its spread across the Mideast in early 2014, overrunning the Iraqi city of Fallujah and parts of the nearby provincial capital of Ramadi.
In Syria, it seized sole control of the city of Raqqa after driving out rival Syrian rebel factions.
ISIS, responsible for some of the worst atrocities perpetrated against civilians in recent history, appears on the verge of collapse after being defeated in Raqqa. An ISIS militant is pictured on a tank in the Syrian city
In June 2014, ISIS captured Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, from where its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared a self-styled 'caliphate,' a declaration tantamount to an earthquake that would temporarily redraw borders and shake up the entire region.
ISIS promised justice, equality and an Islamic, religious utopia. But over the next few years, it terrorised people living under its control, systematically slaughtering members of Iraq's tiny Yazidi community, kidnapping women and girls as sex slaves, beheading Western journalists and aid workers and destroying some of the Mideast's spectacular archaeological and cultural sites.
ISIS also attracted a motley crew of foreign fighters, mostly marginalised European youths and other foreigners who took up its cause.
But it alienated mainstream Sunni Muslims, who found ISIS' crude interpretation of Islam also spreading in areas far from Syria and Iraq.
Creating a territorial caliphate created a target, and an international anti-ISIS coalition soon took shape.
WHAT'S LEFT
The United States launched its campaign of airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq in August 2014, and a month later in Syria.
In Iraq, it partnered with government forces working with state-sanctioned Shiite-led militias as well as Iraqi Kurdish fighters known as peshmerga.
In Syria, it partnered with local Syrian Kurdish-led fighters, the Syrian Democratic Forces.
Supported by tens of thousands of US-led airstrikes, these forces drove ISIS militants from one stronghold after another over the years.
The biggest blow came in July when Mosul, long regarded as ISIS' administrative capital, was liberated.
In the three years since ISIS began building its 'caliphate,' it has killed thousands of people, displaced millions and worked hard on infusing children with extremist doctrine. Women are pictured fleeing Raqqa last week
In Syria, ISIS appears to be heading for collapse as the US-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, and Syrian government forces, backed by their Russian allies, are attacking them in separate, simultaneous offensives.
A senior SDF commander on Tuesday said his forces liberated Raqqa from ISIS militants and would formally announce victory soon after clearing operations to remove land mines and search for sleeper cells.
Mayadeen, a town in the heart of Syria's Euphrates River Valley near Iraq's border where the militants had been expected to make their last stand, fell to Syrian government troops over the weekend.
In northern Iraq, the jihadis no longer hold any cities or towns after their stronghold of Hawija fell earlier this month. Iraq's army is now gearing up to fight ISIS in its last territory - the sprawling desert Anbar province stretching all the way to the Syrian border. In Syria, ISIS still holds the town of Boukamal near the Iraqi border and scattered pockets of territory in the east.
STAGGERING PRICE
The destruction of ISIS has come at a devastating cost for both Syria and Iraq, and immense suffering for those who endured the militants' brutal reign.
The fighting and airstrikes have pulverized once thriving cities, turning them into tragic vistas of crushed apartment blocks, flattened homes and collapsed roads and bridges. In Ramadi, Mosul and Raqqa, the scope of the damage is staggering.
Two weeks ago, the U.S.-led coalition announced it has returned more than 83 percent of ISIS-held land to local populations since 2014, liberating more than 6 million Syrians and Iraqis in the process.
At least 735 civilians have been unintentionally killed by coalition strikes, although activists and war monitors estimate the toll to be much higher.
The nine-month battle to liberate Mosul resulted in the death of up to 1,500 Iraqi forces.
At least 1,100 SDF fighters were killed in the battles for Syria's Raqqa and Deir el-Zour up until late September, according to the coalition.
In the three years since ISIS began building its 'caliphate,' it has killed thousands of people, displaced millions and worked hard on infusing children with extremist doctrine.
SHIFTING OF SANDS
The rise of ISIS and subsequent wars and alliances to bring about its defeat has worsened political and sectarian fault-lines in Syria and Iraq.
It gave unprecedented clout to Kurdish populations in both countries, unsettling their central governments, as well as Iran and Turkey, both battling Kurdish separatists within their own borders.
Under cover of the fight against ISIS, Iraq's Kurds seized the oil-rich city of Kirkuk in 2014 - a move Baghdad has now reversed, moving into the city, seizing oil fields and other infrastructure in an attempt to curb Kurdish aspirations for independence.
The shifting and chaotic battlefields in Syria's civil war, tensions between Kurds and ethnic Arabs, the presence of Shiite militias and government troops in predominantly Sunni towns and cities vacated by ISIS may lead to more violence.
In many ways, the fight over ISIS spoils and territories is only just beginning.
UNCERTAIN FUTURE
All forces battling ISIS will have to remain vigilant even after they recapture the last militant-held territory. In some ways, they now face an even more daunting challenge.
Hisham al-Hashem, an Iraqi writer and analyst, estimates there remain 8,000 jihadis in Iraq's Anbar who will melt away 'like salt in water' to wait for the right moment to launch their next insurgency or suicide attack.
ISIS affiliates continue to carry out swift attacks in Egypt and Libya, where the group gained a foothold and which could be its preferred theaters of retaliations.
Before it broke away from al-Qaeda and rebranded itself as the Islamic State, al-Qaeda in Iraq waged a years-long insurgency following the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, pushing the country to the brink of civil war.
ISIS execution site in Raqqa is captured by US-led forces


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Hide and/or Seek
by Queen Cabbage
My second album is somewhat of a time capsule. These are the songs I wrote between realizing I needed to get better and doing something about it.
My alcoholism and dependence on other addictive behaviors (weed, sex, etc.) had progressed to a point where they had begun destroying every semblance of a good life I'd managed to build despite them. To preserve any chance I had at living well, I needed to change the way I spent each and every moment of my time. In order to honestly document these in musical form, I stripped away every instrument other than my voice, guitar, laptop, and tape recorder.
If there is anything for you in these songs, you will most likely find it outside of what I have to say about them. All I really have to say is thank you so, so much for listening. So much.
That said, in case it might inform your listening, here's what I have to say:
If it pleases the reader, it may be of interest to read each of these notes while listening to its respective song with lyrics on hand (available on Bandcamp).
"Please (Truth)"
is a dialog in which Truth pleads with me to join it. Truth doesn't care about how good I look; Truth only cares about what impact I have on the people and world around me. If I am to have a chance to live well, I need Truth to be my friend. Luckily, it's always there for me if I seek it and act in harmony with it.
"Lone Red Maple"
with its hidden lyrics and vaguely threatening sounds from nature, represents the power the natural world possesses and how little (read: zero) that power depends on what I think of it. It's both a warning and a beaconing. The trees have power; if I want it to aid me and not destroy me, all I must do is respect them.
"A Mural Hidden"
is sort of a sarcastic representation of the things I used to claim I stood for. I always hated gentrification and pop music. But here I am, a white musician. Who am I to say anything about gentrification if I'm not doing anything to resist it? I don't have to like it, but it's more important to communicate with actual people on an individual basis than it is to speak into the void about issues I don't understand firsthand.
Similarly, who am I to say anything about commercial pop music when I don't know anything about the experience of the people who made it or love to listen to it? No one. This song is a vestige of the misanthropic piss I was writing before (see the first Queen Cabbage LP). Hide the mural. Lose it. I don't want it.
is intended to represent the way my addict brain worked and, in some ways, always will. It cycled through stages of obsession, craving, fleeting satisfaction, emptiness, shame, and more obsession. I fulfilled my human need for social interaction and structure with addictions that were destroying me and everyone around me. Thus, I must lock the doors of the spaces I previously occupied and move forward in honesty and faith.
"Coroner, Discard"
is a relatively straightforward expression of my feelings towards the part of myself that I let thrive in my addictions. Selfish, hopelessly unhealthy, and ugly. In summary, "Note to Self – kill it and get rid of the remains. Make it quick but make it thorough."
"Rinse (Patience)"
seems a bit cryptic, but is rather simple. The listener will hopefully fill in the spaces around its sparse lyrics with details that make sense to their experience, while the message of simplicity and acceptance comes through loud and clear. Of course, I couldn't resist throwing in a bridge about regret and self-hatred, but I don't think keeping that inside would have helped anyone. The more I take the advice I wrote down in this song (given freely by people far wiser than I), the easier living becomes.
"Darling, it's So Late"
continues the same fingerpicking pattern but the lyrics transition from intimacy with self to intimacy with a life partner. I would be lying if I didn't mention that this is somewhat of a personal apology for my emotional distance and frequent absence from relationships during my drinking and drugging career, but in a broader sense, it's an exploration of the details that seem insignificant at the moment but add up to a life-defining partnership. I only have one chance to live; will I come to bed, or will I stay up all night drinking and watching Kitchen Nightmares?
also with hidden lyrics but this time with sounds generated solely from human activity (driving, parking lot, city street, the noisy vent outside my dentist's office), is an exploration of the way I'd treated people while in the thick of my addictions — particularly women. They may inform or contextualize others' experiences or they may not, but they sum up mine in metaphorical terms, which has always helped me digest the scarier parts of my own psyche.
"Fair (Well)"
is a love letter to everyone I hurt who didn't take it very well. I don't blame them. I wish them well. I really do. But at this point, there's nothing I can or should do about it.
"Make a List, Kid"
is a love letter I wrote to myself from rock bottom. The morning after I had a vision of myself dying alone in a ditch with rotten teeth and a bulging belly, I scribbled this desperate plea. I have since made some progress on some of the pleas, and look forward to living each day never forgetting the desperation that fueled this song.
"March (Dark)"
is the solution. In my addictions, I lived without recognizing that everything I needed to be happy was literally springing from the earth. I want nothing more than a vegetable garden, a clean house, and to help others. This song expresses my desire and resolve to build a life around these things. The seasons of the year, like the hours of the day, each contain unique opportunities. I will no longer ignore these. Thank you, Sun.
Thank you, Absence Thereof.
will you? – I did for too long.
will you? – I'll try.
Queen Cabbage
Queen Cabbage, Category: Artist, Albums: Hide and/or Seek, An Idiot, Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing, Singles: Pallid Blue Gown, On the Shortness of Life, On the Shortness of Breath, Top Tracks: Rung for Rung, Are You Happy?, MROD, Zipper, Rolling Storm, Biography: Queen Cabbage was born into the royal family of the Lettuce Kingdom, during the age of delectable and delicate "bibb" lettuce., Monthly Listeners: 31, Where People Listen: New York City, Purchase, The Bronx, Brooklyn, Buffalo
Alternative, Experimental, Indie Folk, Avant-Garde, Blues, Folk, Folk Punk, Folk Rock, Indie, Lo-fi, Noise, Progressive Pop, Punk, Rock, Troubadour
obsessions, truth, addiction, alcoholism
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I had so much fun making the BBQ Grillmaster Apron card, that I thought I would make another one! This one is actually my entry #2 for the My Favorite Things Guest Designer Challenge over at SCS. Read on for entry #1 only with the Fair Warning: It's only CANDY! The winner receives all of the new releases coming out in June before everyone else gets them and gets to contribute to the MFTeasers to give everyone a taste of what's to come! For this one, it's just another cut out apron, sponged and zigzag stitched around the edges. While it is a "working pocket" card, I chose to just put the flowers and bunnies in there instead! My oldest daughter (16), had to dress up at preschool for what they wanted to be when they grew up back when she was 3. She wanted to be a florist, so I made her the cutest little apron with fake flowers and such coming out of the pockets. This card reminds me of it so much! It's going to be a fun Mother's Day card! The bunnies and flowers were all handcut and are not removable, but are only attached at their lowest points for a little 3-D effect. It's just a flat card and you could write on the back and send it that way.
Ok, don't say I didn't warn you---here's my first submission. It's entitled, "Doggy Duty Tool". Yep, I think I'm the only one on the face of the planet to ever embellish a pooper scooper! That's a hard-core crafter for ya! First off---Don't be alarmed! It's just a chocolate covered caramel CANDY (used for effect, you know?)!! I know it's with the new sets, but I just couldn't stop myself when I came up with this idea!! (I told ya'll I was going to Petco today for inspiration!) It's really just a cookie spatula (and will return to being one shortly after I lick the caramel and chocolate off of it)! I got it at Dollar Tree (it's actually not a bad little tool!) and I just added a tag I made to denote it's "purpose". I love the play on words with the "Duty" as well!! teehee!! I'm sorry, I'm a sicko. If you haven't already entered your submission, it's too late this go 'round, but check back next month (June) for the July contest! It's fun!! CLICK HERE to see all the submissions! Wish me luck, as they announce the big winner HERE on Saturday!!
TIP: I actually went to Petco for inspiration! I NEVER go there! Try "seeing" outside the box and look at EVERYTHING and think of the possibilities. You could be hit by the inspiration bug anywhere!! I even wrote ideas on the back of some packaging of an item I was buying at Target!
FABULOUS, Susan!!!! These are amazing, girlie!!! I'm awe struck!
I love it! That is great lookin' dudu.
Super cute apron card. The doggy one had me laughing! Great work on both.
OMGoodness Susan...those apron cards are just the CUTEST THING EVER!!!!!!! Do you still have that apron you made for Shebs? Or a pic? I wanna see, I wanna see!
And you know I LOVE the scooper...ROFL!!!!! I still say you need a picture of you "cleaning" the scooper!
That apron is ADORABLE! You are a genius!
Wowsa!!! These are FABULOUS entries!!! Love them both Susie! The attention to detail and workmanship really shine!
These are the cutest things! I thought your BBQ apron was an ingenious idea, but these may just top it off! Best of luck in the contest - you have my vote! If only I had any influence!! Ha ha! I love visiting your blog every day to see what you've come up with - it's wonderful!
Sus, these aprons are out of this world!!!! I'm so thankful that I FINALLY subscribed to your blog so I get to see all your cool projects right away!
that is friggin hilarious Susie!!!! I LOVE IT!
These are both awesome! I have to say the 2nd one left me with tears rolling down my face. See, when Josh & I were first married, I caught him using my "good" spatula to clean up dog poop and then trying to put it back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAHHHHHHHH!!!!!
cute aprons. let's just say i'm not at all surprised by the scooper. that is one thing i appreciate about you - your ability to "think outside the box"
Okay seriously, now I am happy I didn't enter!! You would have beat the pants off of me!! If you don't get it, we are gonna have to kick some serious booty!! LOVE the poop, I just can't believe you smashed perfectly good candy!!
Your apron cards are the cutest things ever -- that Father's Day card is fabulous!
Congrats on the MFT Guest spot! This Doggie Duty Scooper ROCKS!! Too stinkin' (ha) cute!!
This DoggieDuty Tool is SOOOO funny! Girl, You have MY vote! BTW, Tootsie Rolls would work, too ;>) hee hee.


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The night Genji dies, Hanzo makes a deal with Death. Things get weird after that.
Hana and Bastion are best friends that are living with the Witch of the Wilds as payment for her help. Everything will change when a friend of Angela comes to their house and the Witch decided to do something for Hana's sake, making her the target of many eyes. What will Bastion and Hana do to save their adoptive mother? What adventures they are going to have?
A sprained wrist and nothing to do. Well, not nothing. Mercy may be keeping D.Va from working on her mech and her wrist may be keeping her from video games, but there's nothing keeping her from pestering her teammates!
Ashlyn Elliot, a 25-year-old woman finds herself thrown in jail and accused of being a terrorist after trying to stop a violent riot in her hometown! After causing thousands of dollars in damage she caught the eye of two organizations; Talon and Overwatch! Trying to find herself in her new life, she finds herself in strange company with a tall, lanky, and downright filthy man. Will her life go up in smoke or will her new friend only fan the flames?
The words of a certain British member of Overwatch make Widowmaker question everything: Her job as a Talon assassin, her lack of memories and feelings, her role in this world. The walls around her mind are falling fast, and Talon is in serious trouble. Their creation is coming for them.
Just a few extras in the realm of Hypnagogic, a look into yours and Genji's budding relationship.
Part 3 of If sleep is god, go worship.
The plan makes sense. We have a witch problem; We have a dragon problem. So we sacrifice the witch to the dragon. Two birds with one stone!
Huntress knows she's a mystery to most of her companions in the fight. Hell, she's a mystery to herself half the time. More than a few of her opponents have been mysteries as well, and humans are curious by default–it was only a matter of time before someone started nosing around.
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Amanda Seyfried Helps 'Cosmos' Explore Earth's Autobiography on Sunday
By Tariq Malik 2014-05-03T13:40:52Z
"Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" recounts the creation of the first world ocean seafloor maps by American geologist Marie Tharp (voiced by Amanda Seyfried) during "The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth" on Sunday, May 4, 2014 on Fox.
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The Fox TV series "Cosmos" will send viewers on a trip through space and time to delve into the origins of our home planet Earth on Sunday (May 4), and actress Amanda Seyfried will use her voice to help the show do it.
Sunday's episode of "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" takes a look at the "autobiography" of Earth written in the planet's atoms, oceans and continents, according a Fox description of the episode. Seyfried ("Mamma Mia") will lend her voice to noted American geologist Marie Tharp during one of the episode's animated segments used to reenact great discoveries in science.
"Cosmos" will recount Tharp's creation of "the first true map of Earth's ocean floor, and discovers microscopic life that exists deep beneath the ocean," Fox officials wrote in a description of the episode, which is entitled "The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth." Tharp and her colleague Bruce Heezen, a marine geologist, completed their first maps of the Earth's oceans between the 1950s and 1960s, according to a Library of Congress account. Tharp died in 2006.
The 13-episode "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" is a 21st-century reboot of the classic "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" hosted by famed astronomer Carl Sagan in 1980. The new series debuted on March 9 and is hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and written by Ann Druyan and Steven Soter.
"Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Fox. It is rebroadcast on the National Geographic Channel on Mondays at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Check local listings.
Email Tariq Malik at tmalik@space.com or follow him @tariqjmalik and Google+. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com.
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FORT WORTH — Hundreds of fans crowded into Sundance Square to watch America's best parking lot chefs compete in the Bing National Tailgating Championship.
Or maybe they were just trying to stay warm.
Tailgating contestants started cooking at 5 a.m. Thursday and fans began gathering around 10 a.m. The temperature was 26 degrees at eatin' time.
When the smoke cleared, the Bull's Eye Tailgaters from Houston won the top prize of $15,000 and a gold-colored, fully functional gas barbecue grill.
The event was hosted by New Orleans Saints star Reggie Bush and Joe Cahn, the "Commish" of the Tailgating Institute of America.
The Bull's Eye team won the Houston semifinals back in November. The judges were former Texans lineman Steve McKinney, H-E-B president Scott McClelland and me. Ah, we remember those pork ribs well.
The Houston cookers defeated tailgate teams from Denver, New York, Phoenix, New Orleans and Seattle.
Do they even know what barbecue is in those cities? From now on, the winner of the Houston event should be given the national trophy to save everybody time and trouble.
The Bull's Eye team cooked (take a deep breath) brisket, jalapeño cheddar sausage, bacon-wrapped beef tenderloin, smoked Cajun sausage, beef ribs, pork ribs, Cajun pork tenderloin and chicken. Plus all the fixin's.
"We're a Southern state so we wanted to impress the judges with our volume of beef and other meats," said Jason Saldivar, who founded the Bull's Eye Tailgaters with his brothers Troy and Ray.
"This was definitely the coldest weather we ever cooked in. We were prepared with propane heaters, though. The biggest hurdle we had was timing everything so it would be hot off the grill when we served the judges. That's what we do: timing and execution."


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Michie> > > iterator is much more work.
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A simple module for converting values into expected types.  To-Anything guarantees that you'll get the type you're looking for.  For example` to.integer('X')` returns `0` instead of `NaN`.  This module is not for everybody or for everything, but it's very handy for web applications where you just need a foolproof way to get the values/types that you expect.

## Getting started
```
npm install to-anything
```

## Usage
```
var to = require('to-anything');

// Examples
var name = to.string(' First Last '); // -> 'First Last'; (auto trimming of strings)
var aNumber = to.integer('1'); // -> 1
var aFloat = to.decimal('23.346'); // -> 23.346
var aFloatFromCurrency = to.decimal('$12,345.67'); // -> 12345.67
// Boolean
var aBoolean = to.boolean('1'); // -> true
var aBoolean = to.boolean('true'); // -> true
var aBoolean = to.boolean(1); // -> true
var aBoolean = to.boolean('0'); // -> false
var aBoolean = to.boolean('false'); // -> false
var aBoolean = to.boolean('no'); // -> false
var aBoolean = to.boolean(''); // -> false
// Dates
var aDate = to.date('06/23/2015') // -> Date object
var aDate = to.date('2015-06-23') // -> Date object
var aDate = to.date(1435090371078) // -> Date object
```

# Tests
Mocha tests incuded.


Allright, we all know a bunch of you OS X users got Tiger and went "Yipee!" over the RSS screensavers. Well they are pretty cool, but Apple news gets boring...so why not make your own for your obviously favorite website? With Tiger's Quartz Composer, you can make both standalone RSS applications and Screensavers which ends up being really useful or at least handy if you're an RSS junkie. Let's get going already. All you need are 2 things: A mac running Tiger (decently fast of course) and Xcode developer tools installed.
What this serves as is the starting point for our RSS screen saver. It does the dirty math work for us basically. And when you click it and choose a name to save it as, you�ll see a pretty scrolling Apple RSS screen saver. You will also see the underlying heart of Quartz. It looks like a bunch of squares and cubes hooked together with yellowish hoses. Apple has made it very easy for things to interconnect. You can just drag a hose to an appropriate spot to connect it (it will even light up).
#1 is our starting point. This is the RSS feed location. You�ll want to click on the dot next to URL and a text box should pop up with Apple�s RSS location in there. Let�s enter something like https://www.engadget.com/rss.xml shall we? Good. You�re done step one. Wait a few seconds and sure enough, Engadget�s RSS feeds start popping up instead of Apple�s!
Technically, if you�re really keen on the glowing background and everything, you could just save it and be done with it right now. But that�s no fun. Let�s keep customizing.
#2 is the background. Double click the box and you�ll go further into the composition and you�ll see an all new set of boxes and hoses. If you want to make the background a static color combo, you can remove the hoses from the pink box that says Gradient. Choose your colors with the color wheel and it will remain the same. But what if you want to make the colors/direction/blending change? Easy. Look at that list to the right of all the functions/objects/interpreters etc. Find the one that says LFO. This is going to spit out a ton of random numbers for us thus giving us a dynamic variable (read: always-changing) background. Clicking �Type� allows you to mess around with what kind of mathematics it will use, but what you want to do is click on the dot next to Result. Drag your hose over to a variable on the Gradient. Say, Direction. Voila. Direction now will be a constantly changing thing. Or why not do a color? You can randomly bust out the hot colors like it�s nobody�s business. When done, look at the hierarchy tree above and go back to the root. You�ll be back at our numbered chart section again.
What you�re looking at is an X/Y graph. Thus, X-Position that�s negative goes to the left, positive to the right. With Y-Position, negative is down, positive goes up. Remember math class from middle school? Good. You�re putting it to good use now. Quartz is really scaled so use decimals, not whole numbers. Ex: 0.8339 or -0.52252 instead of 4.5 or 8.5.
#4 applies just the same to #3 except it deals with the floating article content in the background. You can just delete the box entirely if you don�t like it, or you can mess around with it, make it fade in and out and what not. You should have the hang of it by now.
When you�re done your creation, it�s time to save. Save it and quit, open your screen saver preferences and choose the one you just made in Quartz. Tada! Go you.
Now if you wanted to take it a step further (read: people/developers familiar with Xcode, Cocoa, and Interface Builder), you can start a new Cocoa Application in Xcode, edit MainMenu.nib, import the Quartz Preference Pane into IB, load your composition in, add a button or two, edit the menus, save it, and build it, you�d have a standalone RSS application that�s pretty! Also useful if you spend a lot of time waiting for RSS to update! Now get out there and start messing around with Quartz! There�s much more to be created�iTunes plug-ins anyone?


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ŠKODA World
Corporate Life
2019: the year that kick-started the future
A brand new ŠKODA OCTAVIA, an electrified SUPERB iV, an all-electric CITIGOe iV and the ŠKODA KAMIQ urban SUV. In 2019 ŠKODA presented a number of innovations, giving solid form to many dreams and visions.
The greatest sense of expectancy surrounded the fourth-generation ŠKODA OCTAVIA. Even before its official launch it charmed three distinctive and very different artists. The result? Innovative works on canvas, acrylic glass and a tablet screen.
The world premiere of the new generation of the OCTAVIA model took place at the National Gallery in Prague. It is mainly the new model's striking looks that distinguish the new generation from previous ones. It looks a lot more dynamic and self-confident, says ŠKODA brand's head designer Oliver Stefani.
Fully charged SUPERB iV and CITIGOᵉ iV
The ŠKODA brand took decisive steps into the world of eMobility in 2019. The ŠKODA SUPERB iV with a plug-in hybrid drive combines a 1.4 TSI petrol engine with an electric motor. The upshot is an extremely green ride that does not compromise at all on agility.
The ŠKODA brand's first mass-produced all-electric model is the CITIGOᵉ iV.
ŠKODA unveiled some more green alternatives at the Frankfurt motor show: the SCALA G-TEC and KAMIQ G-TEC run on compressed natural gas.
That's not the last of the innovations unveiled in 2019, though. The world got its first look at the ŠKODA KAMIQ urban SUV, and the ŠKODA SUPERB limousine was given a modernising overhaul and welcomed a new family member: an adventurous spirit called the SUPERB SCOUT. The SCALA and KAMIQ models were given a MONTE CARLO design version. And ŠKODA's VISION iV, an all-electric SUV, is a herald of the future.
KLEMENT – a partner for the city
But looking to the future doesn't mean you have to forget your roots. Combining past and future was the inspiration for KLEMENT – the ŠKODA brand concept for a green and modern solution to urban mobility.
So far, what most drivers wonder about when they think about the electric future is how charging instead of filling up will change their lives. That's why Storyboard interviewed ŠKODA strategist Dr Guido Haak, who explained what else eMobility would deliver to drivers: "The first thing you realise when you drive an electric car is how brilliantly dynamic it is."
Laura and her IT
Talking of innovations, a new data centre was recently opened in the middle of the ŠKODA plant in Mladá Boleslav. At its heart is a super-computer that is currently the most powerful business computer in the Czech Republic. Its processing power measures 2 petaFLOPS, in other words 2 quadrillion operations per second.
By the way, do you ever talk to your car? Most likely everyone does, but now your car is going to start talking back. The digital assistant that has started to appear in ŠKODA cars is called Laura. Remember the name - it's going to come in handy soon.
2019 is slowly drawing to a close, just like this look back at the year's milestones covered on ŠKODA Storyboard. So, if you're already packed, set off into 2020, the year when the ŠKODA brand celebrates its 125th birthday. It's going to be quite a ride!
The All-new ŠKODA OCTAVIA Has Arrived!
The Electrified SUPERB iV and CITIGOe iV Are Here
Meet the ŠKODA VISION iV
CITIGOᵉ iV
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St. David's Head is a headland in the northeast of St. David's Island, Bermuda. It is the easternmost point of the territory, and is located in St. George's Parish. Actually two headlands (Great Head and Little Head), it is the site of Great Head Battery, one of the many forts that surround the site of the territory's first settlement in the early 17th century, which is now open to the public as a national monument.

The head overlooks Gunner Bay and the northern entrance to St. George's Harbour.

Landforms of Bermuda
St. David's Island, Bermuda
Headlands of North America

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Two or three fields should be added to the form that would include the "Spamvertised" site links.
Since Spamcop form is broken and no longer 'finds' links in the spam, the reporting is sort of useless. The sender of the email is not helping curb the spam. Follow the money trail to the actual cyber criminals involved.
Serious spam reporters can follow redirects and get the actual sites responsible for the spam. THOSE are the links / URLs / hosts that need to go into the black hole.
To avoid abuse of those fields, perhaps a second level of reporting volunteers who will utilize the "executive" form correctly.
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A member of the Board of Directors of the Company and its predecessors since 1996, Mr. Magraw is a leading expert on international environmental law and policy, as well as on international human rights. He is a Senior Fellow and Professorial Lecturer at the Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and President Emeritus of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL). Mr. Magraw was the President and CEO of CIEL from 2002-2010. Mr. Magraw is chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of International Law's Carta de Foresta Task Force, serves as a consultant to the United Nations, was a member of the U.S. Department of State Study Group on International Business Transactions, and was Chair of the 15,000-member Section of International Law and Practice of the ABA.
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He practiced international law, constitutional law, and bankruptcy law at Covington & Burling in Washington, DC from 1978-1983. Mr. Magraw is a widely-published author in the field of international law and has received many awards. He graduated from Harvard University with High Honors in Economics, where he was student body president, and from the University of California, Berkeley Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. While working as an economist for the Peace Corps in India from 1968 to 1972, Mr. Magraw helped develop and managed the largest and most successful cooperative of its type (wholesale, retail, furniture manufacturing and food processing) in India.


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Kvazigrupa je v matematice taková algebraická struktura s jednou binární operací, která je grupoidem a ve které je navíc možné jednoznačně dělit. Na rozdíl od grupy nemusí být operace asociativní a nemusí existovat neutrální prvek. Kvazigrupa s neutrálním prvkem se nazývá lupa.

Tabulky konečných kvazigrup odpovídají latinským čtvercům.

Formální definice
Kvazigrupa (Q,*) je taková množina Q s binární operací *, že pro každé a a b z Q existují jednoznačně určená x a y z Q, že platí:
 a*x = b ;
 y*a = b .
Jinými slovy: Pro dva prvky a a b, můžeme hodnotu b najít v řádku a a sloupci a tabulky skládání prvků kvazigrupy Q pro operaci *, tzv. Cayleyovy tabulky kvazigrupy.

Jedinečná řešení těchto dvou rovnic jsou x = a\b y = b/a. Operace \ a / se nazývají levé a pravé dělení.

Lupa
Lupa je kvazigrupa, která obsahuje neutrální prvek (identitu). Je-li n neutrálním prvkem kvazigrupy Q, platí:

x * n = x = n * x, pro každé x z Q.

Z toho plyne, že neutrální prvek n je pro každý prvek z Q stejný, a že každý prvek z Q má jedinečný neutrální inverzní prvek zprava a zleva.

Lupa Moufangové splňuje identitu Moufangové:

(x * y) * (z * x) = x * ((y * z) * x).

Příklady
 Každá grupa je lupa, protože platí: a * x = b, právě a pouze tehdy, když x = a−1 * b, a y * a = b právě a pouze tehdy, když y = b * a−1.
 Celá čísla Z s operací odčítání tvoří kvazigrupu.
 Nenulová racionální nebo reálná čísla s operací dělení tvoří kvazigrupu.
 Každá grupa je zároveň kvazigrupa.
 Jakýkoli vektorový prostor nad tělesem s charakteristikou různou od čísla 2 tvoří idempotentní komutativní kvazigrupu s operací x * y = (x + y) / 2.
 Nenulové oktoniony spolu s násobením tvoří neasociativní lupu. Oktoniony jsou speciálním případem lupy, které se říká lupa Moufangové.

Vlastnosti

Kvazigrupy mají vlastnost krácení: Jestliže ab=ac, pak b=c. To vyplývá z jedinečnosti levého dělení ab nebo ac prvkem a. Obdobně ba=ca, pak b=c.

Zobrazení násobení

Definici kvazigrupy Q můžeme upravit na zobrazení levého a pravého násobení L(x), R(x): Q→Q, která jsou definována:

L(x)y=xy, R(x)y=yx

Definice říká, že obě zobrazení jsou bijekcemi množiny Q do sebesama.

Grupoid Q je kvazigrupou právě tehdy, když tato všechna zobrazení, pro každé x ∈ Q, jsou bijektivní.

Inverzní zobrazení pravého a levého dělení jsou potom zapsána:

L(x)−1y=x\y, R(x)−1y=y\x

V tomto zápisu jsou neutrální prvky mezi operacemi násobení a dělení kvazigrupy, kde 1 označuje neutrální prvek zobrazování na Q:

L(x)L(x)−1=1

L(x)−1L(x)=1

R(x)R(x)−1=1

R(x)−1R(x)=1

Latinské čtverce

Je-li Q konečná řádu n, potom Caleyho (multiplikativní) tabulka Q tvoří latinský čtverec n×n tj. čtverec vyplněný čísly z množiny {1,…,n} tak, že v každém řádku a sloupci se žádná dvě čísla neopakují.

Reference

Neasociativní algebra
Algebraické struktury


lol. Cottleville Missouri SALUTE!. Namely "Exit Six Pub and Brewery"! Good for them! Apparently Starbucks as a huge corporation tried to heavy hand them with a cease and desist letter over a similar name of their product. So they replied and sent a check. You gotta read the whole story here and its worth reading! But here are the correspondences between them! Here's to "EXIT SIX" for sticking it to the man! I encourage anyone within a 100 mile radius of them to support them and stop by and do business with them or go by their Facebook page and give them a shout out!