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Sylvina Tilbury, an independence campaigner based in the Highlands who was accused of being a McBot on Twitter, argues that false accusations of this kind are derived from a lack of understanding and empathy with the feeling of alienation and marginalisation those in the grassroots of the independence movement have with the mainstream
IT’S been quite an eventful few days in the Scottish Twitter-sphere. A great deal of heat and not much light has been generated around the research of two self-declared internet experts who claim they have a methodology that can distinguish automated Twitter accounts, so-called “bots”, from real people.
One of those experts decided to test this out in real life by making accusations against a handful of accounts (apparently picked at random) that turned out to belong to real people, people who were understandably rather aggrieved at being singled out in this way and doubly annoyed when the person concerned refused point blank to respond to any requests for explanations, retractions or apologies. I know, I was one of them.
So what happened, and what can we learn from it?
Whether she realised it or not, the researcher at the heart of this storm managed to create an experimental microcosm of the current Scottish political climate. Unfounded accusations were made and the person who made them would not engage with those being accused and could not be reasoned with in any way.
This is essentially the same position that at least half of the Scottish population finds itself in every single day. We are repeatedly told that not only are we too poor to be independent, we are also a crucial part of the pooling and sharing of the UK. That the mismanagement of the UK economy which allocates us a 7.9 per cent deficit proves we are incapable of managing our own affairs.
That not only did we vote No because we were told we would otherwise be out of the EU, we also voted No in the full knowledge that an EU referendum was likely and that a Leave result was highly probable. We are accused day after day of being a blood and soil nationalist movement that wants to isolate itself from the world and hates the English, despite the fact that many of us are either English or married to English people and a large majority voted to Remain in the EU.
Over time this takes its toll, it really does. People become frustrated because they are being lied to, lied about and seem to have no right of reply via mainstream channels. They feel victimised and powerless, and this is not without consequences. The consequence is that the Scottish independence movement has created its own “safe space” on Twitter, an environment which it has achieved mastery over. Powerful use of hashtags, linking of like-minded accounts through following and re-tweeting, all serve to amplify the voices of ordinary people that would otherwise be drowned out by the almost exclusively unionist focus of the mainstream media.
This has apparently baffled some internet “experts” who find it impossible to believe that real people could have beaten the system and achieved so much exposure by themselves. The establishment feels powerless against this, and so the smears and attempts to discredit the independence movement get louder and shriller by the day culminating in the two “McBot” articles that appeared in Tuesday’s Herald (here and here).
That is not the end of the story however. For years, long before the media cottoned onto the new trend of pinning the blame on Russian (or in this case Scottish) bots, the independence movement has struggled to shake off the derogatory label of “Cybernat”. I’m sorry to say that this label is not always undeserved.
Most of the Twitter activity which pro-independence accounts are working hard to debunk en-masse comes from accounts that ‘post and run’, whether that be party accounts, individual politicians or partisan journalists. These accounts either never check their notifications, routinely mute or even block their critics, or are run by people with skin like rhino hide. Ironically they often meet many of the criteria used to identify a Twitter bot. However, the technique which works so well for amplifying the message of a grassroots movement does not translate well when the object of criticism, however justified that criticism might be, is an individual private citizen.
Both the Herald’s chief reporter, David Leask, and the researcher, dr Jennifer Jones, cited the cases of other pro-Indy women who have been the subject of what are commonly known as “pile-ons”, where a large number of people tweet very similar points and criticism in quick succession, some rather aggressively, sometimes going on for days at a time.
The problem is that a Twitter population on high alert, and feeling quite rightly aggrieved by some of the utter bile and garbage that is written about Scottish independence and its supporters every day, has next to no inclination to give the benefit of the doubt before all hell breaks loose. And when the tweet concerned is from an individual who does check their notifications and does care what people think about them, then this starts to feel like a personal attack. In a few regrettable cases the responses do step over the mark into the realms of personal abuse, and as a movement we must be clear that this is never acceptable, whether the abuse happens on the public timeline or, as is often the case, over direct messaging.
People are quite right to point out that such activity does not only affect female tweeters. During the recent furore over the “People’s Vote” rally in Edinburgh, both Rory Bremner and Femi Oluwole were subject to similar aggressive treatment. However, you only need to look at the numerous screenshots that Angela Haggerty has been sharing over the last day or so (mostly from a very different part of the political spectrum) to understand that there is a quite different, much more sinister dimension to many of the abusive tweets and messages sent to women. Neither is this exclusive to Twitter, I don’t even want to imagine the state of the inboxes of high profile female politicians like Nicola Sturgeon and Mhairi Black.
So what does all this mean? Is the online Scottish independence movement a hotbed of abusive individuals and automated “bot” accounts? In both cases the answer is categorically no. The idea that the #DissolveTheUnion hashtag is being used to spread malicious propaganda via automated accounts is patently ridiculous. What the researchers have observed, and this has been proved over the past couple of days as more and more people have adopted the hashtag to poke fun at the research, is a real grassroots movement using the tools at their disposal to amplify their message to great effect. As for the aggressive activity that’s an unfortunate by-product of these online interactions, what we are witnessing here are real human reactions in an online world. People generally don’t take too kindly to being misrepresented, even lied about, with no right of reply.
Yes, we should all try to exercise restraint from behind the keyboard, but don’t ask us to stop being human.
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When ten of Brisbane’s busiest chefs give up a Monday night you know it will probably be for a good cause.
Last night chefs and CEO’s from leading Brisbane businesses worked together to feed 300 less fortunate people in our community. Oz Harvest has been running this event in Sydney for some years but this was the first time in Brisbane and the Royal International Convention Centre on the RNA grounds accommodated everyone in one large space.
The chefs were asked to prepare the same entrée with provided ingredients but could then choose their own main course. For dessert the chefs were provided with a soft individual meringue and could serve that however they liked. Working with each chef was three CEO’s who had the experience of preparing the dinner and serving it to the diners. Chefs had to prepare thirty portions for each course.
Ronni Kahn came up with the inspired idea of rescuing food that would otherwise go into land fill and putting it to good use in meals for the needy. The Brisbane office of Oz Harvest collects food from the southeast corner and delivers it to charity kitchens the same day – food that would otherwise be wasted. Since Oz Harvest began it has delivered in excess of 45 million meals to over 800 charities in Australia.
Oz Harvest CEO Cook Off is a fund raiser for the organization and each CEO is asked to raise money through their participation. Caroline Jones, owner/chef from Three Girls Skipping in Graceville and head chef Ann Gard headed up a team that also included Mark Woolf, CEO Tattersall’s Club, Simon Hancox, Grant Thornton Australia Limited and Geoff Batkin from Wesley Mission. Woolworths generously donated many of the ingredients for the dinner.
The barbecues were fired up and bread was grilled, mushrooms roasted and prime rib fillet steaks were cooked to perfection. The first could was Bruschetta with tomato and basil and another with mushrooms and feta. Caroline’s main course was a hearty steak and vegetables – rib fillet with béarnaise sauce, crusted kipfler potatoes with wilted spinach, chargrilled mushrooms and crisp buttermilk onion rings. As with all of Caroline’s food, the plates were very generous and the diners polished them with relish.
One lovely man brought his beautiful ginger cat to dinner – well behaved and just loved being patted during the evening. Caroline gave a box of biscuits to each of her group of diners to take away and also generously gave a cake to her CEO helpers on the night to share with their staff today.
Dessert had to include a meringue and the Three Girls Skipping version had crushed raspberry cream and fresh raspberries and finished with white chocolate and raspberry bark and rose petals.
State Manager for Oz Harvest in Queensland, Cameron Hickey and his team are to be congratulated for organizing last night. It raised much need funds for the cause and hopefully will encourage more CEO’s to sign up for next year.

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利用抑菌圈测量法和毛细管电泳研究、比较不同细菌对家蝇Musca domestica L．幼虫抗菌蛋白／肽的诱导效应。结果表明，家蝇幼虫受细菌诱导后抗菌活性比对照都有不同程度的增加，同时不同细菌诱导表达样品对于相应的诱导菌均表现很高的抗菌活性。毛细管电泳图谱表明鼠伤寒沙门氏菌Salmonella typhimurium 50013诱导后抗菌蛋白／肽表达强度增加了50倍，其它细菌诱导后抗菌蛋白／肽表达强度增加了1～40倍。与G^＋细菌相比，G^-细菌具有更强的诱导效应。结论：家蝇幼虫对不同的细菌刺激有特异性反应，即不同细菌诱导抗菌蛋白／肽的强度、种类和数量都不一致。
Inducing effects of different bacteria on the antibacterial proteins/peptides in the larvae of housefly were studied by inhibiting zone determination and capillary electrophoresis. The results suggested that the extracts of the housefly larvae induced by bacteria showed the higher antibacterial activity than CK （non-induced）, especially when the respective bacteria was used to induce the larvae. The capillary electrophoresis proteinograms indicated that the expression of antibacterial proteins/peptides was increased by 50 folds when induced by Salmonella typhimurium 50013, while 1 - 40 folds when induced by the other bacteria. The G- bacteria had a greater potential in induction effeciency than G＋ . It comes to the conclusion that the housefly larvae respond specifically to the bacterial induction, and produce antibacterial peptides/ proteins of various amount and kinds when induced by different bacteria.
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It's seem's that GOW III will appear at GDC08 according to gamespot game list
This is for the psp game. It's a mix up and a ploy for Gamespot to get hits back to their site. GOD3 will not be at GDC and if it is, then it's a small teaser trailer that has music and says the name... followed by, of course, coming next year. Gamesblow baby jack... Gamesblow.
Yeah but it specifically says GOW III ? I though that was confirmed to be a PS3 title ?
add in rumor. This may be a farfetchd dream but i would love to see a tech demo for GOW3. Let us see what the graphics capabilities of GOW can do on ps3. I wanna see kratos skirt move with the wind i want to see some rediculously sick animations more enemies on screen and yes i knw they are zombies but i dnt want them to dissapear on me anymore thats so last gen.
Will rule. Dante beware, haha.
I really dont want to see it, if it comes out fall 2009. Too long a wait.
And who will deliver the epic feel? The action that is so packed you stay up late to play it? You better wait for God of War III..there is no other option...lol
Why is GOW2 on there?
exactly! it is obvious that list is bs
The Fall of the Gods
GOW3 RISE OF TITANS
God of War 3: Zeus Gets Pawned
More 3D nipples.
can't wait for this game. i'm actually completing GoW2 right now for the first time and I can't believe the graphics for a PS2 game. incredible. imagine on PS3 hardware.
Yeah, that was my jaw-dropped reaction too, when I played it back in March. Undoubtedly one of the best games I've played. Ever. Next stop: GoW: Chains of Olympus! (That should help tide me down till the PS3 feast.)
i try not to think about GOW3 too much i try to focus on the heavy feast of ps3 games this yr then GOW 3 can be ma dessert. So sweet so tasty :)
omg hope so . kratos rullez wonder if will see his brother in this part??
on the gow2 separate disc they canned him completely along with the whole kratos already knew who his father was and that stupid archaeologist idea. But he does have a chance of fighting hercules since technically that is one of many of his brothers
I'm pretty sure everyone knew this game was in production. But ready to be shown? I doubt it.
Awesome. But yeah if we see it now that's a painful wait until 2009. But it would be good to get it out there as a reason to get PS3.
It wont appear on GDC. On that list is every game that have something with GDC news like that Jaffe interview.
maybe they might mention it and show a teaser or maybe some new tech that they will be using.
Capcom and their last gen looking DMC4 better pray no screenshots or footage of God of War 3 gets out into the public...
Maybe its just me but DMC4 graphics wise didn't impress me much. It didn't have the impact DMC1 had on me when i played it on the PS2. This is just my opinion but i think uncharted still has the best graphics on PS3.
DMC4 was a let down visual-wise, especially when they had so long to develop it. I didnt even bother buying the game as I felt, I had already played better than that on the PS3 ie Uncharted, and Ratchet and Clank
It's not a list of games that will appear on GDC; it just show there's a story relate to GOW3.
How did this get approved?
The agenda-driven editors ignored the reports. Thats how.
But you never know.
Behind closed door tech demo, and even that's dreaming.
No Final Fantasy XIII or Versus XIII!!!! or theyre updating the list :D?
I do hope though that they add in a few new game play elements. Not neccessarily just new combo's, just new stuff. Like the pegasus in part II. I enjoy all the other stuff as a breather from the constant hacking and slashing. The button sequence stuff is great, and I dont want them to get rid of it, I just hope they bring a couple fresh things to the table.
Chains of Olympus will rock...and God of War III will rock even harder!
just put in my preorder for crisis core @ deepdiscount.com for 28 bucks with free shipping. I just hope that GOW: COO will have a good price like that somewhere also. Cannot, repeat, I CANNOT wait for this one to come out.
WOW, I don’t know but $28 seems like a mistake, cause they say you save $1 (they should say you save $11), while all other retailers has it for $40. I already pre-ordered it at amazon.com (with the free pre-order goodies) but if this is true I might just cancel my order and order at deepdiscount.com.
GOW3 at GDC this year. I like most of you would like Sony to make this game as great as they can.
DMC4 was made to run on the PC, 360 and PS3 so obviously the graphics will not be the most amazing thing I've seen in my life. Put God of War 3 on all the platforms and then you won't see it look as great because of the spread resources and working on different platforms.
Would have to be a behind closed doors tech demo or a CG trailer. But if it is something better that would be nice too.
I can't see this happening.
we will get a teaser trailer at most regardless the game will be awesome
if they do announce it then it will probly be just a trailer
Well Sony must have a few surprises up their sleeves for GDC, so, who knows.
I doubt it will be shown at GDC, but one can hope.
This is not going to happen this should be taken down before alot fans get their hearts broken like I did when I thought there was going to be a MGS4 demo ;_;
I hope it's true. If GOW3 is shown at GDC, then all other games will fade under the shadow of might Kratos, the Ghost of Sparta. (Unless Fallout 3 is shown)
But I still think it's early... Maybe around E3 or TGS.
With all of the rumours currently zapping around cyberspace (e.g. GOW3 , Home etc.) I'm actually starting to get REALLY excited :D Let's just hope it's true...
only a few more days till we find out =)
The best someone could hope for from this game in this early stage is a CG trailer at best & expect the same this summer at E3.
It wont be there.
GOW III will be one of if not the best GAMING experience this Generation. I have played GOW2 on PS2 sh*t it looks better and plays better than some of the current Gen games on Xbox,PS3, and 90% of all Wii.....games. Can you imagine GOW III "Hydes and Beyond"........... I am calling it right now if GOW III comes out this year which I doubt..but anything can happen it will be a contender for game of the year along MGS4 RFOM KillZone 2 and maybe GOW2.......
Plus we seen Gow2 towards the end of the PS2 era, which means you were getting the most out of that EMO ENGINE. With this game coming out so early on the PS3, you can only ask urself, what will they have really tapped of it's power? I don't think it will be the best game ever on the PS3, since we will see those in like 4-5 years, but I can see this game being reviewed like DMC4, will it just be and Last-Gen game with a make-over or will it push the genre? I would hope they release it much later...not as in 4 years but like 1 year from now. Plus how did this get approved, at least put rumor or something..
The earliest this will come out is Q1 2009! probably more like Q3 2009 so they will have almost 3 years to understand this system! This is Sony's money maker next to FF, MGS4, GT5, and now RFOM. Imagine this scale of GOW2 with next gen graphics, enhanced gameplay with some kind of sixaxis controls, instead of all button smashing. Increased story line better backdrops, better AI, better physics! This is no DMC4 b.s., GOWIII will be assured AAA status and maybe not revolutionize gaming but for sure show what the PS3 is capable of! Damn now i want Chains of Olympus!
Won't be a demo available.... at most... just a trailer...imo. Will have to check out the first two titles in the series to see what all the hype is.
I don’t think so but maybe a brief teaser will be shown, anyway GOD PSP, should keep me satisfied for now, March 4 cant get any sooner.
assassins creed, uncharted, didnt both of these have footage in 06 if not earlier? also, tekken 6, that jin kazama render i dont think some form of trailer is unlikely at all
no one is truly expecting a tech demo or anything like that but they might have some rough draft images or some cgi of some opening or cut scenes possibly in the game. Even if they give me a teaser trailer its better then teasing me by announcing it but showing nothing!
I hope it's true.
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I've seen God of War Chains of Olympus being mistakenly called God of War III. I highly doubt Sony is ready to show the real PS3 title anytime soon.
> any surprise that might be coming from the 360 camp. Period.
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The United States on Tuesday imposed fresh sanctions on a network of companies and people in Iran, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates it said was transferring billions of dollars and euros to Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards.
The U.S. Treasury said it was blacklisting 25 people and entities, including front companies based in the three countries, associated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and the Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics, or MODAFL.
The targeted institutions include banks and other financial institutions, including Ansar Bank, Atlas Exchange, Iranian Atlas Company.
"We are targeting a vast network of front companies and individuals located in Iran, Turkey, and the UAE to disrupt a scheme the Iranian regime has used to illicitly move more than a billion dollars in funds," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement.
Mnuchin said the IRGC and MODAFL continued to try to evade sanctions to help Iran's government fund terrorism and destabilize the Middle East.
Washington reimposed sanctions against Iran after President Donald Trump withdrew from a 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and six world powers, and moved to isolate Tehran. It has also imposed a string of new sanctions, including against the IRGC and its external arm, Quds Force, to choke off funding for its overseas operations.
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This morning I woke up and started my usual daily routine of iced coffee and sitting down to catch up on any news. Only this time when I logged on I had several messages pop up on LinkedIn from former coworkers saying congrats on your work anniversary. Huh?
After a brief bit of confusion I realized that it is indeed the one year anniversary of our business. Where did time go? It’s hard to believe it’s already been a year. So much has happened and changed during the past year it’s not surprising that the date slipped my mind.
Looking back it was the best move I ever made. While the money isn’t up to what my corporate job was paying me I am more wealthy in other ways. I spend a lot more time with my family, the stress level is at or near zero most of the time and the flexibility to live a happier life is priceless. I mean we just returned from a month long road trip and drove our son to college thousands of miles away! That would have never been possible if I was still at a corporate job.
Of course there are always trade offs when choosing to venture out on your own. Taking a month off means you don’t get paid. There is no vacation time accrued for self employed people. You are solely responsible for everything that goes on with your business and your schedule. If you run out of supplies that’s on you. If you double book clients, your fault. You are the top of the chain and it’s all your responsibility to manage.
In the end it’s all a matter of your ability to balance work and life. I always had the desire to run my own business but I never knew what that business was going to be. We spent years kicking around ideas for start ups and looking into buying established companies but nothing ever panned out. Only after giving up and just deciding to work a regular 9-5 job did we finally stumble upon something that we could make profitable and have a balanced life. It has been the perfect fit for us and the life path we are working to achieve.
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By Ernest Bazanye
DEWINTON Road is strewn with eating options. All along the this strip of tarmac are places to grab a snack, a bit of cake, a sausage, a bar of chocolate if you count the supermarkets and also, now, if you stop a little way up the western end, you can have your choice of southern or northern Indian cuisine at Masala Chaat House.
It is a small-ish room, you notice once you walk in, but they make good use of the space they have by arranging a set of comfy chairs around plenty of tables neatly laid with green tablecloths.
There is a lot of green in the room: The green plants, the green on the walls, it all makes the place look leafy and lush and redolent of deep, fertile jungles.
The menu draws dishes from both ends of the subcontinent. The north Indian food is a bit spicier than the meals from the south, but both sides have sundry meats and vegetarian dishes.
The manager, Yusuf Bakiti, who had invited us to visit Masala Chaat House started us off with an appetizer made of lentils called Popadom.
It is a crunchy flat slab, something like a large round crisp, with a few shards of onion scattered over it. It is served with sauces, but can be munched on dry.
After that we had our main course, which was chicken curry, with butter nan and biryani rice.
The rice was an elaborate dish. It came with a sauce which turned out to be yoghurt with onions and dani leaves sprinkled in it.
There were nuts and other herbs that came with the rice and the pleasant surprise of a piece of chicken right at the heart of the mound.
The nan was puffy and pleasant and the curry was â€” Ooooh! â€” rich and spicy and hot! I think I caught Yusuf suppressing a grin when he saw how it was scorching through my belly.
Masala Chaat house closes late. Around 10:00pm, so you can also drop by for a beer with a late dinner when you are that side of town.


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This implies that he will receive a 20% cut of any Kenyan transactions. If Uhuru Kenyatta’s political fortunes alter, we’ll keep you informed. Even still, the likelihood of that happening is extremely unlikely. On October 26, 1961, he was born in Nairobi, the nation’s capital. The international court of justice is also hearing evidence against him. He and his family are involved in nearly every major industry.
In 2013, Uhuru Kenyatta was elected as the 4th and current president of Kenya under The National Alliance , which was part of theJubilee Alliancewith his running mate William Ruto’s United Republican Party . His net worth is estimated at more than KSh 20 billion even though some of his assets are not known to the public. He is one of the politicians who fought for multi-party democracy in the country during the KANU regime. The 46-year-old’s net worth is estimated at more than KSh 20 billion.
Kenya’s wealth is becoming increasingly concentrated in the hands of Asians, although some industrialists are breaking into the ranks of the super-rich. Uhuru Kenyatta earns an estimated salary of $35 Million per Year. The opposition says that he gets benefits from every deal, Which is there to be done in Kenya. The opposition will also tell you that he is known as Mr. Twenty percent. We will update you if the political fortunes of Uhuru Kenyatta change. Kenya is the largest economy in the East African Community, the 3rd largest economy in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a gross domestic product of US$120.87 billion as of 2020 up from US$70.539 billion in 2017.
The most well-liked President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, has an estimated net worth of about $500 million, according to a number of web resources . Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta was born on 26th October 1961, in Nairobi, Kenya Colony, and is the 4th President of Kenya, a position he has held since 2013. Have you ever wondered how rich Uhuru Kenyatta is as of early 2017? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Uhuru`s net worth is as high as $500 million, earned through his successful political career.
He is still one of Kenya’s wealthiest individuals and is well-known throughout Africa. The MOI family is the wealthiest in Kenya and East Africa, with enterprises such as the Standard Group, which owns Kenya Television Network, Vybez radio, Standard News Paper, Radio Maisha, and Spice FM. Manu Chandaria is one of Kenya’s wealthiest persons, having over 1.7 billion dollars. We produced a list of Kenya’s top ten wealthiest men and a brief description of their sources of income due to popular demand. It was based on data from Wealth-X, an international organization that keeps track of the world’s wealthiest people’s financial records. Mahendra Rambhai Patel, whose family owns Ramco Group, was ranked fifth with a Ksh.48.7 billion ($430 million) fortune.
Believe it or not, the Moi’s are the engineers in the duty-free firm, the Tobacco Farm in Malawi, Chester House, and Safaricom. According to several reports, Moi’s own Asian Roses, Mugoya Construction, Equity Stock Brokers, First Force Security Services, regent management, Giro Bank, Taurino Enterprises, and Safariland club are among the companies involved. He is also the first person from Western Province to be elected president since independence. After St. Mary’s school, Uhuru went on to study economics, political science and government at Amherst College in the United States. Uhuru is the son of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya’s founding father and the first president of the republic of Kenya.
Citing what he deemed irregularities with the election, he filed a challenge to the results with Kenya’s Supreme Court. The court later upheld the election results, and Odinga conceded. Meanwhile, the International Criminal Court had started an investigation into the violence that followed the December 2007 polls. In late 2010 Kenyatta was named by the ICC as being one of six suspects thought to be most responsible for instigating the postelection violence; he immediately disputed the allegations and proclaimed his innocence. In January 2012 the ICC announced that four of the six suspects, including Kenyatta, would face trial. They were charged with committing crimes against humanity; the charges included allegations that Kenyatta had helped mobilize and fund the Mungiki, a Kikuyu criminal gang, in the group’s attacks on Odinga’s supporters in the aftermath of the disputed election.
As was the case with the August election, the validity of the October poll was challenged, though this time NASA was not one of the parties that filed petitions with the Supreme Court. The court dismissed can you play vanguard zombies split screen the challenges and upheld Kenyatta’s victory, paving the way for him to be sworn in for his second term on November 28, 2017. As the October 26 poll date grew closer, tensions rose in the country.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the British colonial government and the World Bank funded a settlement transfer fund scheme that allowed government officials and wealthy Kenyans to buy land from the British at rock-bottom prices. Uhuru Kenyatta, in full Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, , Kenyan businessman and politician who held several government posts before serving as president of Kenya from 2013 to 2022. Kenyans complain that Daniel Moi’s enormous riches may have come from plundered money because he was decried for his authoritarian rule while he was president of that country. S.K Macharia also has other investments in Banking, Real Estate and Agriculture, and he currently ranks as one of the Richest Men in Kenya with a networth of $400 Million.
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The number of eggs available to every woman is already fixed at birth, since no new eggs are developed over the course of a woman’s life. With age, this reserve of eggs shrinks.
This means that as a woman ages, two problems arise in terms of her fertility:
1. The older a woman is, the fewer eggs are available for successful ovulation. This reduces the chances of fertilisation.
2. Age also affects the quality of the eggs. As a rule of thumb, from around age 35, the likelihood of abnormalities, complications in pregnancy and miscarriages increases and the chances of becoming pregnant are reduced. This development actually starts before a woman turns 35, although the risk of adverse effects is significantly lower in younger women.
Egg freezing can increase the chances of pregnancy at a later date by retrieving healthy eggs as early as possible and storing them.
Egg freezing can be broken down into three major stages:
If a woman opts for egg freezing, the first step is to retrieve as many eggs as possible. To do this, hormone treatment is usually performed to stimulate egg maturation. Regular ultrasound scans allow for accurate observation of the state of maturity of the egg follicles. At an appropriate time, the eggs are then removed vaginally using a thin needle under local anaesthesia. The woman does not need to worry about her natural reserve of eggs being reduced by this removal of multiple eggs. Each month, a certain number of eggs becomes ‘receptive’ to stimulation. Whilst in the natural cycle a single follicle would prevail against the other follicles and the other eggs in this cycle would be lost, stimulation accesses this monthly pool of eggs that would otherwise be lost.
The retrieved eggs are frozen at -196 °C and can be safely stored for decades in this state. The more eggs are stored, the greater the chance of having children at a later date. The most reliable studies at the moment work on the basis of a 40% chance of a subsequent live birth for 10 stored eggs, 60% for 12 eggs and 90% for 20 eggs, if the eggs were retrieved at the optimal stage of life (i.e. when the woman was younger than 30).
If the couple are unable to have children by natural means later, they can fall back on the cryopreserved eggs. These are fertilised outside the body (in vitro fertilisation) using the partner’s sperm (or sperm from a sperm donor) and and afterwards the embryos are transferred into the uterus.
As the chances of natural pregnancy start decreasing from the age of 30, it is best to perform egg freezing as early as possible. The most reliable studies at the moment work on the basis of a 40% chance of a subsequent live birth for 10 stored eggs, 60% for 12 eggs and 90% for 20 eggs, if the eggs were retrieved at the optimal stage of life (i.e. when the woman was younger than 30).
Egg freezing does increase the likelihood of pregnancy at a later date, but cannot guarantee it. Thus, to further increase the chances, several eggs are usually frozen and stored. The older a woman is at the time of egg freezing, the lower the probability of a later pregnancy, since the egg quality is already impaired. As many eggs as possible should be retrieved, which can be difficult in this situation, since the egg reserve is often already reduced. Under certain circumstances, several hormone stimulations and egg retrievals may therefore be required.
Studies show that children conceived from frozen eggs are at a risk level comparable to that of children conceived during normal IVF/ICSI cycles. The hormone treatment required for egg freezing generally entails mild physical stress for women. These days, hyperstimulation rarely occurs any more thanks to the improved stimulation protocols. Individual consultation is part of the treatment.

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Glass Gems with Alcohol Ink and Enamel Paint
I was at Walmart the other day picking up some essentials and noticed that they started selling giant clear flat glass gems in the floral section. This was exciting for me since Dollar Tree had changed their one inch clear gems so they were iridescent (which sounds cool, but ends up obscuring the ink). Also, these gems were bigger, some near an inch and a half in size, which make for excellent pendants.
So I bought 3 bags of them (at 97 cents each). These flat marbles are made to be used in vases or jars as decorations, they are not designed to be crystal clear and many of them have fuzzy caterpillar like flaws in them. Some are chipped. And nearly all of them were dusty/cloudy.
So my first step was to clean them and sort them based on their clarity/flaws. I used a paper towel wetted with rubbing alcohol to clean them and sorted them into clear, barely flawed, and very flawed (left to right) piles. I put the very flawed ones aside to use for something else.
Another new and exciting development is that I finally saw a Tim Holtz applicator (the official applicator sold by the folks who make the Ranger alcohol inks) on sale on Amazon for a good price and broke down and bought one. I usually use my homemade applicator. It is well loved and well inked at this point, so I was really interested to see if there was much of a difference between the two.
So I started out with my old trusty stamper and a few shades of green ink. I put four or 5 drops of ink on the applicator, which was enough to get a good base color on four gems. I stamped each one several times until I started to see the ink separate just a bit and create little ring patterns.
I then proceeded to add colors. I ended up with three different sets of base colors: green, green-blue, and blue. Then I used the new stamper to add accent colors--two drops of ink at a time--to each gem. The store bought applicator itself was pretty much the same as my homemade version (aside from the handle). The felt was a little better quality then the kind I buy in the kids crafting section and cut up. It left fewer strands of acrylic on the ink in the stamping process, so I might shell out for the pre-cut felt the next time I see it on sale as it should fit on both applicators. But overall, I saw no significant difference between my little homemade stamper and the store bought one.
After I was satisfied with my color combinations (which took about 4 pieces of felt each with 3 different colors of ink on them each stamped several times), I set the gems aside to dry for a bit.
And then I decided to try out another new supply in my craft cabinet: enamel craft paint. Folk Art and Americana both sell versions of this special craft paint designed for painting on glass. It's supposed to be dishwasher safe after baked in the oven or allowed to cure for a month. I didn't need the paint to be washable, just to stay on the gems and provide contrast, so I didn't bake it.
This isn't the first time I had tried backing alcohol ink decorated glass gems with white paint. The first time, I used white spray paint. The gems had great contrast, but the process was fussy. It required that I tape all of the edges with painters tape and spray several coats and then the glue on bails didn't stay on as well as usual. So I was looking for a simpler process.
The paint was particularly thick (I bought the wicker white Folk Art variety from Walmart), and it spread on kind of sticky until I thinned it a bit by wetting my paint brush, but by that point I had already put a gloppy coat on. And the ink had already bled into the paint. I applied a couple more coats to get a more finished product, but the result ended up a bit muddled. Even after a few coats, the ink still seemed to bleed through the layers (as seen above).
The colors didn't come out any where near as crisp as they did with the spray paint version. I'll probably give it another whirl where I let the ink dry for a day or two before painting. Or maybe I can try a coat of mod podge or spray sealer to seal it before painting on the white paint, but at any rate, it's a bit of a work in progress.
I did find that the gems from Walmart are nice and clear after cleaned and that my old trusty homemade stamper works just as well as the store bought version. I also determined that painting the backs by hand with a brush is an easier process--even if it takes a few coats--but as is, the finished product doesn't come out as clearly as spray paint.

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I came up with a great way to spruce up old photo albums! I took the photo album and used old tissue paper and regular craft glue and applied glue with my finger and put tissue paper over it in different designs.
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The San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration and Parade is one of the largest gatherings of LGBT people and allies in the nation. This is the official San Francisco Pride Event Page. Use this page to invite your Facebook friends!
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'Arsenal would win the league if they had me up front today': 40 years after he was a Highbury hero, Malcolm Macdonald is still shooting on sight
- Malcolm Macdonald believes Arsenal need a striker like him in his prime
- The brash and fearless centre-forward scored 270 goals in his career
- He was bought by Arsenal 40 years ago and they could do with him again
- 'Mal of the Magpies' recalls his fairytale debut for Newcastle United
- Macdonald tells Sportsmail of his most iconic moment in FA Cup history
- He was appalled at the way the FA treated Sir Alf Ramsey in 1974
Malcolm Macdonald's left palm slaps down across his right as he brings to life one of his 270 career goals. The sound replicates the most thunderous connection he ever made.
His knees may be scarred, his legs buckled and as bandy as a Spaghetti Western cowboy, yet still he kicks, heads and punches his way through memory of those goals.
Forty years ago this summer, Arsenal broke the British transfer record when they paid £333,333 (and 34p) for England's brash and fearless centre-forward, who had been the First Division's top scorer with Newcastle United.
Former Arsenal hitman Malcolm Macdonald believes they could do with a striker like him
Forty years ago this summer, Arsenal broke the British transfer record to buy Macdonald
The passage of time has done little to fade the conviction of a man who was fast enough to be an Olympic sprinter having clocked 10.4 seconds over 100m on the TV show Superstars in 1975. When reminded of the anniversary of his arrival at Highbury, Macdonald, ever the predator, pounces.
'Arsenal would win the Premier League if they signed me now, without a shadow of a doubt,' says one of the Seventies' most colourful characters; good looking, flash car, flares and sideburns.
'What their players forget is to shoot. They don't even know what a chance is any more, they don't recognise a scoring opportunity. They are trained to pass.
'I wrote a book about goalscoring — Never Afraid To Miss — and Arsenal will never win the league without a striker who isn't scared to p*** people off by having a go.'
Macdonald's own selfish streak brought him 57 goals in two years for the Gunners before a knee injury forced his retirement aged 29.
Indeed, during an afternoon in his company on the sun-drenched Northumberland coastline he now calls home, conversation is shaped by goals and the tales around them.
The striker scored a remarkable 57 goals in two years for Arsenal before an early retirement
Macdonald's presence attracts the eyes and ears of others in this quaint, seafront pub. One, a cyclist who has stopped for a pint (and ends up having several), tells Macdonald: 'My first match with my dad was your home debut for Newcastle. I don't think I've been to a better game since.'
Supermac was a superstar, and that August afternoon in 1971 is the stuff of legend. The cyclist chains his bike, he isn't going anywhere.
'I USED to do a fair bit for the Roy of the Rovers comic,' says Macdonald, now 66, a father of seven and married to Carol, the ex-wife of AC/DC singer Brian Johnson.
'They were always struggling to find storylines and didn't want to copy real life. But not even they could have written my home debut for Newcastle.'
Macdonald (right) speaks to Sportsmail's Craig Hope at a pub near his Northumberland home
Our reporter meets the Newcastle and Arsenal legend on the Northumberland coastline
Macdonald was a 21-year-old Londoner raised in the shadows of Craven Cottage and first signed for Bobby Robson's Fulham. He arrived on Tyneside that summer for £185,000 from Luton Town, a fee inflated by a hat-trick in his final game at Kenilworth Road.
'You're the little b*****d who's just cost me an extra £35,000' was how Newcastle boss Joe Harvey welcomed him.
Macdonald pulled into St James' Park in a Rolls Royce and immediately told reporters he would score 30 goals that season. The Daily Mail ran the headline 'Supermouth!'
Supermouth, however, had something worth shouting about. Liverpool were leading 1-0 through Emlyn Hughes when Kevin Keegan conceded a penalty and Newcastle's new No 9 grabbed the ball and stuck it in the stanchion, no less, of the Gallowgate End goal.
Macdonald (left) smiles for a photo while he sits alongside Frank Stapleton at Arsenal in 1977
Liverpool then missed a penalty and, within seconds, the ball was at Macdonald's feet, 20 yards out.
'I spun away from the defender in a flash and cracked this unstoppable shot — whoosh —straight into the top corner,' he roars, and with that there is the slap of his hands.
'The noise of the Geordie crowd was the most incredible thing I'd ever heard, but what followed blew me away.
'The whole ground started singing a song from the hit musical at the time, Jesus Christ Superstar, but they'd changed the words — "Supermac, superstar, how many goals have you scored so far?". Wow. That was it for me, Supermac was born.'
The now 66-year-old fondly describes the Newcastle chant which cemented his nickname
But Macdonald wasn't finished and he fired his hat-trick goal in the second half. Then came the sketch straight from the comic book, the bloodied and concussed hero carried from the field after losing his front four teeth chasing a fourth goal.
'Ray Clemence never scuffed a goal-kick, he was the sweetest kicker around,' starts Macdonald, having ran his tongue across his denture as the memory stirs.
'Anyway, he duffs one straight to my feet and I get after it as it bounces up. I remain convinced he knew exactly what he was doing and was p****d off I'd scored three past him — he wanted revenge.
'I scampered through and lobbed it over him. In that split-second I looked at Clemence and he was staring straight at me, not the ball. Bang. His full body weight into my face.'
When Macdonald signed for Newcastle, he told reporters he would score 30 goals that season
Newcastle won 3-2 but Macdonald only stirred after full-time. He was on the physio's bed. Concerned team-mate Frank Clark was keeping vigil.
Macdonald continues: 'The thing was, before a game I would pop on those beds and have a kip for five minutes. So when I came round I assumed we hadn't kicked off.
'I looked at Frank and said, "I've just had the most peculiar dream".
'He said, 'It was no f****** dream pal, I can tell you that'.'
Forget Roy of the Rovers, Mal of the Magpies was the talk of the Toon.
Macdonald scores for Newcastle against Burnley in the 1973-74 FA Cup semi-final
'I CANNOT understand any striker who would give up a scoring opportunity to win a foul,' announces Macdonald. It is March 30, 1974 and Newcastle and Burnley are goalless after an hour in the FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough.
'They'd p***** all over us,' he says. 'Honestly, all we could do was attack from deep in our own half.'
What followed was one of the most iconic moments in FA Cup history.
Macdonald recalls: 'Terry Hibbitt played this beautiful ball from the edge of our box. The centre-half, Colin Waldron, has misread it, but I haven't.
Macdonald was a ferocious goalscorer and he insists players are trained to pass nowadays
'All of a sudden he's backpedalling and I'm away. As I go he's literally jumped on my back and has his arms around my neck, hanging off me.'
Brian Moore's frenzied commentary is spine-tingling to this day. 'Macdonald is away… Waldron is pulling him down… Still Macdonald… Straight at the goalkeeper… Still Macdonald… And he's scored… Supermac has scored!'.
'At no point did I think of going down, no way, there was a goal at stake,' says Macdonald, who scored a second on the break to seal a 2-0 win. 'After the game I spoke to the referee, Gordon Hill, "I cannot thank you enough. That was brilliant refereeing not to blow for a foul. You were very brave". In those days, you see, you couldn't call play back. He said, "I get to know the players and I knew you would stay on your feet and try to score. But thank **** you stuck it in, otherwise I was going to look like a right idiot!".'
But it was Macdonald and his team-mates left looking stupid after a 3-0 defeat by Liverpool at Wembley.
He admits: 'We were awful. The only good thing were our black-and-white dog-tooth jackets!'.
The England international played for Fulham, Newcastle and Arsenal among others
THE TOP goalscorer in the First Division walked into the West Park Lodge Hotel in Barnet to report for England duty. 'Afternoon boss, no injuries from yesterday,' he said.
'I don't want you here,' came the reply. 'As far as I'm concerned, you've been foisted upon me by the press. If you don't score I'll never pick you again.'
Don Revie did not like Malcolm Macdonald. The feeling was mutual.
'He never told me why,' says Macdonald, who learned not to suffer fools after his father died on Christmas Day when he was 16 and, as the oldest of four brothers, he was left to support the family alongside his mother.
'All I can assume is that I always scored against his great Leeds side. I used to tell the press I would do so and when I did it wound them right up.'
Revie was appointed when Sir Alf Ramsey was sacked in 1974. World Cup winner Ramsey had given Macdonald his debut after scoring 30 goals in his first season at Newcastle, just as he had promised those reporters.
Supermac admits that his England record of six goals in 14 matches has left him 'unfulfilled'
'I started Alf's final game in Portugal, a goalless draw. I wish I could have scored, it might have saved him and it would have changed my England career,' says Macdonald, who admits his six goals from 14 caps left him 'unfulfilled'.
'I thought it was appalling the way the FA treated Alf. Then they bring in Revie… dear me. His opponent dossiers, what a load of s***!'
Macdonald now had 90 minutes to save his England career, against world champions West Germany at Wembley.
He had his chance when getting the better of their captain Franz Beckenbauer.
'I was in on goal and he rugby tackled me!' says Macdonald. 'I was so angry I wanted to punch him.'
Macdonald, though, was soon punching the air when he lost Beckenbauer to connect with Alan Ball's cross and headed past Sepp Maier. It was his first goal for England, they had won 2-0 and Revie could not bring himself to shake hands with England's new idol. Macdonald was in the mood for celebrating.
Sir Alf Ramsay gave Macdonald his England debut after he scored 30 goals in a season
He remembers: 'As we walked off, Bally went round the Germans and said we were going to La Valbonne club off Regent Street.
'They respected Bally because of the World Cup and held him in the highest regard — they all turned up.
'Us England lads gave Bally £50 each to cover the bill — the Germans were our guests.
'It was amazing, sitting with Berti Vogts, Maier, Beckenbauer and Bally, listening to them relive 1966, when I'd been a fan in the stands.
'There was champagne flowing until after 3am. We all finished up the very best of mates — and I didn't dare mention that rugby tackle!'
ONE MONTH on, the top goalscorer in the First Division walked into the West Park Lodge Hotel to report for England duty.
'Afternoon boss, no injuries from yesterday,' he said.
'I still don't want you here,' came the reply. 'If you don't score I'll never pick you again.' Forty-one years later, Macdonald laughs, for he knows where this story leads.
Macdonald was one of the 70s' most colourful characters; good looking, flash car, sideburns
England were playing Cyprus in a Euro 76 qualifier at Wembley.
'I didn't tell anyone what Revie said before Germany,' says Macdonald. 'But this time I thought, "I'm not keeping silent", so I told Bally. He said, "That's outrageous, leave it with me".'
Before the game, Ball gathered together Alan Hudson, Mick Channon and Macdonald. The captain, who also disliked Revie, had been into the record books. He announced to his trio of would-be conspirators that tonight they would help Macdonald set a new scoring record for England. The previous best was Willie Hall's five against Northern Ireland in 1938.
'What a lucky fella I was, I had these three great players in my corner,' says Macdonald.
'For my first I pushed big Dave Watson out the way and headed it in — I wasn't letting anybody stop me.
'Bally came up, "Only another five to go". It was the same after every goal.'
After his hat-trick, Kevin Keegan pleaded with Macdonald to stop being greedy. '**** off and make your own goals,' Macdonald shot back.
In 1975, Macdonald managed to score five goals against Cyprus, with a sixth disallowed
Two more followed as he set a post-war record which stands today. A sixth was disallowed amid a dubious offside decision.
Macdonald smiles as he adds: 'As I was walking off, the scoreboard flashed and suddenly read: SUPERMAC 5 CYPRUS 0.
'My first visit to Wembley was aged 16 for England's 0-0 with Uruguay in the World Cup. I'd stood among 100,000 fans and knew how every one of those felt about England.
'I looked at that scoreboard and thought, "This is it, all your boyhood dreams coming true".
'But then a lightning bolt of reality struck me and I looked around and thought, "Where are you, you b******? Read that and weep!".'
Macdonald tells Sportsmail that Brian Clough wanted to sign him at Nottingham Forest
BRIAN CLOUGH did not like Don Revie, of that we can be sure. He liked Malcolm Macdonald.
'I played in a testimonial at Nottingham Forest and got an invite into Cloughie's manager's office afterwards,' recalls Macdonald, then at Newcastle and the season before his transfer to Arsenal.
'He told me, "Time for a move, young man, time for a move". He was making a play for me, no doubt about it.
'It had been a one-off comment in a room full of people, but I was in awe. There was later an unofficial approach but I did not want to drop to the Second Division.
'In 1979 I watched Forest beat Malmo in the European Cup final from a hotel room in Sweden as I battled to save my career with my knee in ruins. I thought, "I could have been there".
Macdonald wheels away in celebration after scoring one of his five goals against Cyprus
'Cloughie told me years later he had £2,500-a-week set aside for me — I went to Arsenal on £500!
'I would have loved to play for him, loved to. I was always left with the impression he saw himself in me.
'Like me, he was a goalscorer and finished early through injury. I had a brash attitude, too, having that gave us an edge.
'But mine was for one reason only — to score goals.'
And that Supermac certainly did.
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Whitewater Mill LLC announced plans today to establish a wheat processing facility here as a joint venture between Siemer Milling Company and Hy. Nagel & Son, creating up to 35 new jobs by 2016.
National non-profit Homes for Our Troops is seeking people to help with landscaping at the new home being donated to Army Specialist Brett Bondurant, of Lawrenceburg.
A company is having a hiring fair for warehouse jobs Thursday, October 24.
The tri-state gambling market is getting more crowded by the month it seems.
If you’d rather work in the snow than an office or warehouse this winter, you’re in luck.
He ran for governor of Indiana last year and was thinking of another run in 2016, but John Gregg said Wednesday he will not run again.
A serious crash occurred early Wednesday morning in Boone County.
The Three Rivers Local School District will host a meeting Wednesday evening to educate voters on a proposed levy.
There is a lawsuit between the Democrat Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction and the largely Republican-appointed Indiana Board of Education.
A member of the South Dearborn Community Schools Board of Trustees has resigned.


Senator Bassey Otu has won the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary by a landslide in Cross River State.
The result was announced by the Chairman of the primary election panel, Mohammed Makolo late Thursday night at the UJ Esuene Stadium where the governorship primary election took place.
He defeated two other aspirants by a wide margin of 811 votes. Senator John Owan-Enoh came second with 84 votes while Chris Agara scored 63 votes.
Senator Otu in his acceptance speech commended the leadership style of Governor Ben Ayade and his industrialisation drive saying, “We will continue where you will stop.”
He appreciated the delegates for not receiving a dime from him, saying “Today signals the birth of a project that will signal taking Cross River State to the next level.”
While thanking the aspirants for stepping down for him, he said, “This day would not have been completed without the aspirants. I hold the mandate in trust for all of you.”
Otu also commended the chairman of the party, Alphonsus Eba “for producing the next governor of the state.”


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|The Glitz has faded...another time?!?|
Before my Michael Miller challenge fabric bundle arrived, I had a vision for what kind of quilt I wanted to create and sketched out a rough design. I picked up a selection of Cotton Couture solids and that is where the story pretty much ends. When it came time to finalizing the design and construction--I kept striking out, and so I will not be entering anything this year.
Meanwhile, my Mini 45-degree triangle template just sat and sat with no real ideas for a quilt design. I brainstormed a variety of triangle and diamond quilts but none piqued my interest. And so it sat and sat until an arrow pointed the way to the other side of a rainbow! Yes, I opted to create a color wheel quilt featuring 12 arrows representing each of the primary, secondary and tertiary colors! The triangle template was perfect for creating my arrow heads. For the fletching (aka feathers), I found a range of chevron prints in my stash and filled in missing gaps with a quick trip to Beverly's! Matching Kona solid 5" charms were selected to match the chevrons and a solid grey Kona was used to create bias tape. A black and white chevron/zebra print was used to create my applique heart center!
|Creation of my Color Wheel of Arrows|
|Brainstorm for Quilting Designs using Photoshop Elements|
Each ring was taped off, stitched with a second stitch line about 1/4" away. A different free motion filler was used to fill in each ring. The first few rings went super quick, but the free motion feather took almost half a day given all the extra details.
|FMQ Fills (center out): Escargot, Flames, Modified Spirals and Feathers|
In case you hadn't noticed, I am very resistant to marking my quilt tops for fear the marks won't come out (I've read and seen too many marking horror stories!!) Once again, blue painter's tape to the rescue!! I used small pieces that were marked with up and down arrows to use as guides for even spacing of my hills and valleys for the spine. They served as little road signs as my walking foot navigated its lap along the final border!
|Blue tape guides|
As this quilt was made for QuiltCon 2016, I really needed quality photos for the online entry. I typically wake up early and go outside to capture the morning light. Yet, it kept casting a slightly blue tint to all my pictures and it was difficult to capture the texture of all my quilting. So I tried hanging it in our bedroom where you could really see all the quilting, but as the wire is not totally parallel, it kept resulting in distorted edges!! I was about to give up when I looked down and saw Panda watching from the floor. I tried laying out the quilt on the floor and finally managed to get a picture that was square and truly showed off all my quilting!!
|Photography Blues and Skews!!|
Of course, a large chevron print was used for the quilt back, and I used more of the zebra print for the quilt sleeve!
|Chevron Backing and Panda serving as inspiration for the heart center/sleeve and directing the photo shoot!|
|"Always Follow Your Heart," 40"x40"|


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Nine years after asking “Whatever happened to Comp Shop?”, I now have the answer.
For those who don’t know, Comp Shop was the ground-breaking computer shop, first in New Barnet and then later also on Tottenham Court Road, that played a major part in the early days of UK microcomputing through its production and sale of the “UK 101” – which was probably the most popular hobbyist computer in Britain before Sinclair came along with the ZX80 and ZX81.
My brother and I used to spend a lot (too much) after school time in the New Barnet shop where William (Bill) Wood, the ever-present chief engineer was seemingly happy to let us look at – and even use – the Apple IIs, Commodores and other machines that were much more powerful than our own ZX80. (We did occasionally buy stuff too, but very much at the book and cassette end of the market.)
Comp Shop was a retailer run by people who knew about computers – the difference between it and some subsequent retailers is enormous, but it seemed to disappear just as the market was going into overdrive.
William has now been in touch to say that he and Chris Cary – who had founded the business but more recently left the day-to-day running (successfully) in William’s hands (Cary had his fingers in many pies and as ‘Spangles Muldoon’ remains a legendary figure in radio) – had a catastrophic falling out (repaired in later years) that saw the business closed more or less immediately.
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the Frederick County Commissioners believe
unfunded road projects don’t belong on
planning documents for future road
improvements, the Maryland State Highway
Administration doesn’t agree with them.
everyone adopted a mindset of ‘If it’s not
funded, it’s not on a planning document,’ we
wouldn’t have a Highway Needs Inventory,” said
Dave Coyne, district engineer with the SHA. He
spoke to members of Thurmont’s Economic
Development Commission on March 19.
Needs Inventory is the state’s long-range
unfunded road improvement plan. It contains
many projects for Frederick County that have
no funding but are needed or will be needed.
need to look forward and decide where the
needs will be,” Coyne said.
This is the
opposite of the position the county
commissioners have taken, deciding to remove
anything from the Thurmont Regional Plan that
isn’t funded, including an Emmitsburg bypass
and a Thurmont Industrial Parkway.
gaining state funding for a project requires
that it be on the county’s priority list.
with your elected officials to make it a
priority to make it a major project,” Coyne
out that even if the county places a project
on its priority list, it isn’t guaranteed
priority list always far exceeds the money
available,” Coyne said.
One of the
reasons for this funding disparity is that the
state is concentrating more money on
preserving its existing road infrastructure
rather than building new roads.
The projects that do get funding are put on
the Consolidated Transportation Plan, a
six-year capital plan that can be found on the
Concannon with SHA also noted that U.S. Route
15 hadn’t been studied north of Biggs Ford
Road for additional interchanges. Because of
that, there are no plans presently to close
the at-grade access points on the highway.