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Carlton Comprehensive High School graduate Tereza Alfonse (right) gets a hug during graduation ceremonies at the Art Hauser Centre on Thursday. -- Jason Kerr/Daily Herald

For the Carlton Comprehensive High School Graduating Class of 2018, life will never be the same.

Roughly 350 students crossed the stage to receive their diploma during Thursday’s ceremony at the Art Hauser Centre. For the teacher responsible for handing out every diploma, principal Dawn Kilmer, the event marked the end of an era and the begging of another for a grad class filled with promise.

“Each of their stories are just so remarkable,” a beaming Kilmer said following Thursday’s ceremony. “It just shows people how resilient these kids are, how beautiful these kids are (and) how kind. The world is in good hands.”

New beginnings were a common theme during Thursday’s ceremony. Guest speaker Michelle Zatlyn, a Carlton alumnus and co-founder and COO of the web performance and security company Cloudflare, encouraged students be curious, be willing to learn, and be willing to step out of their comfort zone. You’re entering a new ear, she explained, and it’s one filled with potential.

“Some of you loved high school and some of you didn’t, but guess what? A new chapter is beginning for each of you,” Zatlyn said during her speech. “You get to decide which parts of you you bring to the next chapter. You have the opportunity to decide who you are going to be.”

Kilmer took a similar line of thought in her own speech, encouraging the Glass of 2018 to be fearless as they stepped out into the world. However, she also reminded them that they’d always have a place back in Prince Albert.

“Once a Crusader, always a Crusader,” she said at the end of her address to the class.

Kilmer added that the Class of 2018 was well known for its ability to embrace and appreciate those around them. She’s confident those skills will take them far, and hopes being at Carlton encouraged them to keep pushing and trying new things.

“They can do anything,” Kilmer said. “They’ve had practice at being uncomfortable and it’s okay to be uncomfortable. They can do anything, and that’s what I hope they take away.”


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FRANCIS (FRANK) JOHN ESSLEMONT PURDIE B.Sc., M.D., F.R.C.S.C. Francis (Frank) John Esslemont Purdie died peacefully at Brandon, MB, December 26, 2013. Born May 26, 1920 at Griswold, MB, Frank was the son of Frank Kidd Purdie and Jean Ann Esslemont. Frank was predeceased by his wife of 57 years, Gwyneth (Jonesy) Helen Campbell Purdie (nee Jones), his brother, Jack Edmison Purdie, and sister-in-law Margaret Purdie. He is survived by his children: Dr. Frank Roy Jones Purdie (Joanne), Jane Anne Gwyneth Purdie Q.C. (James Spears), and Betty Purdie Talley (Hersh), his grandchildren: Amy Purdie (Richard White), Blair Talley (Amanda), Gwyneth Talley, and step-grandchildren Craig Casner, Nicholas and Matthew Spears; his great-grandchildren: Annaleis and Liam Talley; his niece, Ann Farguson and family, his sisters-in-law Anne Hume and family, and Anne Jones and family, and the nieces and nephews on the Jones side of the family; his close friends Dr. Bob Myers and Joan, his good neighbours Morley and Ruth McKay and his much-appreciated friend Jessie McPherson. Frank Purdie grew up in Griswold, MB, the son of a country doctor and nurse, who enjoyed the respect of generations of patients and community members. In Griswold's three-room schoolhouse he attained Grade 11 by the age of 15, and during 1935 / 1936 he took Grade 12 at Brandon Collegiate Institute while living with his Esslemont grandparents. He continued studies at the University of Manitoba, graduating with a B.Sc. in 1939 and M.D. in 1944. As a medical officer during the Second World War he was at Camp Borden, ON when he met his wife, Lt. Gwyneth (Jonesy) Jones, an army nursing sister from Toronto. They married in September 1945 and upon his discharge as a Major, they lived in Winnipeg while he took part of an orthopedic residency. In 1947, they moved to Brandon where Frank practised with Doctors Evans, Matheson, Hirsch and Duggan. In 1962, Doctors Purdie, Evans, Matheson, Hirsch, Findlay, Myers and Elliott founded the Brandon Clinic. The Brandon Clinic has operated for more than 50 years carrying on a tradition of full-service medicine. Frank did post-graduate studies and qualified as a general surgeon in 1964, practising at the Brandon Clinic until he formally retired in 1979 and took three locum positions in New Zealand before travelling home via Australia, South Africa and Scotland. With Jonesy, he travelled to every continent including Antarctica. A six-month round the world backpacking trip in 1983 / 1984 was their longest. Between trips, Frank worked as a G.P. and general surgeon at the Brandon Clinic, consulting surgeon for Souris, administrator of a rural hospital in Eastern Manitoba and assisted at operations at the Brandon General Hospital until 2003. Frank served his patients, the medical profession, and his community - following his father's footsteps, he became President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba 1967 / 1968 and after many years of service on several committees and chairing many discipline inquiries, received the highest honour of a life membership in the College. He was an army medical officer of the 26th Field Regiment from 1948 to 1963. He was President of the Brandon and District Medical Association, President of the Brandon General Hospital Medical Staff and Chief of the Surgical Section. 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When you (student), were younger, did you ever wonder what your mum (teacher), was putting in the gravy to make it thicken?   Did you ever see the mixture go from quite weak to quite strong? And when you poured out the gravy, did you notice what a fantastic difference it made to the meal?  Did anybody come back for more, just add that little bit of something?

Look at the image above.  Does it remind you of anything?  To me, this is what content looks like before we decide what we are going to write about, and if we are not careful, this is what is going to be put into your next post and whoever views it is going to take one taste and decide it’s not the bowl they want to eat out of, a little like Goldilocks, but with a thesaurus in her hand.

Now going back to the gravy.  The difference between creating the gravy mixture with the correct amount of cornflour (grammar, spelling, comprehension, literature, language, punctuation, style, flow), is that to make the gravy look and taste good it needs to have the right mixture and consistency.  This is done by years of learning how to blend just enough of the cornflour.  Too little and it washes away the food, too much, and it comes out as a blob and just sits on your plate.

We should all have taken notice of how the teacher creates the gravy, and as the student, we should have taken notes on how to get the right blend.  It’s not all over of course, there are plenty of mealtimes left.  We just need to go away, try blending, learn more about the ingredients, re-blend and then re-taste.  So before we serve our next gravy dish, we are confident that what is poured out of the gravy jug is going to make the starving hoards lick out the jug.

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  1. Great point. Writing content can be hard, and most people have the wrong mindset when it comes to writing. But the fact is, you don’t need to be a skilled writer. It is all about redoing it until we get better at something. Hard work and patience…

    1. Hi Srjdan. Thanks for taking the time to read and comment. It is important that we learn how to write and more important what we write and the way we write. If we want to have a successful business we need to communicate the right way, and that’s fundamentally important or the reader will just click-away. Dave

  2. Thanks for the great post. Writing content is not as easy as most say it is, it needs someone to look deeper and also in a bird eye view. We need to pass the message to others in a meaningful way. Thanks again for the information.

    1. Hi Lucky.Thanks for reading and replying to my post. I think that we should adopt the stance of doing things in the right way and creating good content is the minimum requirement.

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Perfect Pairing – is Bicycling

Tomorrow is my husband’s birthday, and he loves to bicycle. So I thought I’d share two picture books featuring children who also love to cycle.

In a Cloud of Dust

Author: Alma Fullerton

Illustrator: Brian Deines

Publisher/Date: Pajama Press/2015

Ages: 4-8

Themes: bicycles, diversity, education, disappointment, compassion

Short Synopsis (from Goodreads):

In a Tanzanian village school, Anna struggles to keep up. Her walk home takes so long that when she arrives, it is too dark to do her homework. Working through the lunch hour instead, she doesn’t see the truck from the bicycle library pull into the schoolyard. By the time she gets out there, the bikes are all gone. Anna hides her disappointment, happy to help her friends learn to balance and steer. She doesn’t know a compassionate friend will offer her a clever solution—and the chance to raise her own cloud of dust. Brought to life by Brian Deines’ vivid oil paintings, Alma Fullerton’s simple, expressive prose captures the joy of feeling the wind on your face for the first time. Inspired by organizations like The Village Bicycle Project that have opened bicycle libraries all across Africa, In a Cloud of Dust is an uplifting example of how a simple opportunity can make a dramatic change in a child’s life.

Read my review.

The Patchwork Bike

Author: Maxine Beneba Clarke

Illustrator: Van T. Rudd

Publisher/Date: Candlewick Press/2018 (first published in Australia by Hachette Australia/2016)

Ages: 6-9

Themes: bicycle, resourcefulness, play, poverty, imagination, North Africa, multicultural

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What’s the best fun in the whole village? Riding the patchwork bike we made! A joyous picture book for children by award-winning author Maxine Beneba Clarke.

When you live in a village at the edge of the No-Go Desert, you need to make your own fun. That’s when you and your brothers get inventive and build a bike from scratch, using everyday items like an old milk pot (maybe mum is still using it, maybe not) and a used flour sack. You can even make a numberplate from bark, if you want. The end result is a spectacular bike, perfect for going bumpity-bump over sandhills, past your fed-up mum and right through your mud-for-walls home.

A delightful story from multi-award-winning author Maxine Beneba Clarke, beautifully illustrated by street artist Van T Rudd.

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I paired these books because they feature bicycles and children, and, in both cases, economic hardship necessitates the use of either a homemade or donated bicycle. While the focus of In a Cloud of Dust is riding bikes to and from a rural school, the children in A Patchwork Bike use their creation to explore and have fun. In both books, I think readers learn the importance and joy of bicycles, even if they aren’t shiny and new.

Perfect Picture Book Friday – The Patchwork Bike

I thought I’d celebrate the first day of March optimistically, as it’s the month when spring arrives in the northern hemisphere, and cyclists tune up their bikes in anticipation of the return (hopefully) of warmer weather. I hope you’re all able to hit the roads on your favorite two or three wheelers soon!

Title: The Patchwork Bike

Written By: Maxine Beneba Clarke

Illustrated By: Van Than Rudd

Publisher/Date: Candlewick Press/2018 (first published in Australia by Hachette Australia/2016)

Suitable for Ages: 6-9

Themes/Topics: bicycle; resourcefulness; play; poverty; imagination; North Africa; multicultural

This is the village where we live inside our mud-for-walls home.

These are my crazy brothers, and this is our fed-up mum.

Brief Synopsis: The young narrator and her brothers in an unnamed village near a desert create a bike out of used items and take readers on a joy-filled journey.

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Why I Like this Book:

With its sparse text and roll-off-your-tongue language, The Patchwork Bike is a joy-filled read-aloud that will have kids wanting to build their own patchwork bike. The bike’s handlebar branches “shicketty shake” and “wood-cut wheels” “winketty wonk” when the children ride it. Who wouldn’t want to “bumpety bump” through the village under the “stretching-out sky”?

But along with this joy and exuberance, astute children and adults will notice that these children live in a “mud-for-walls home” and have a “fed-up mum”, perhaps because the kids use “Mum’s milk pot” (her only milk pot?) for a bell. And they make their bike not out of a purchased kit but from what most of us would term trash. I think the inclusion of these signs of poverty adds a rich layer to this story that makes this a perfect book for classroom or home discussion.

Van Than Rudd’s expressive acrylic illustrations on recycled cardboard add so many details to the text including picturing dark-skinned Mum with a head covering and robe, indicative of clothing from North Africa, including the initials BLM on the bike’s license plate in reference to the Black Lives Matter movement, and an image of the boys standing on an abandoned police car. Pointing out these details to children provides, in my opinion, a wonderful discussion opportunity. As Rudd relates in “A Note About the Illustrations”, “[t]o me, the kids painting ‘BLM’ on a bark license plate was their way of showing pride in what they had created out of limited resources and also linking themselves to a long history of rebellion.”

A Note about Craft:

In sparse, poetic text, author Beneba Clarke transports readers to an unnamed, probably North African village and describes the building of a bicycle out of used materials. Interestingly, she doesn’t mention anything that indicates a geographical region, except the existence of a “no-go desert”, nor that identifies the family as being from a particular race or religion. Instead, these details are left to the illustrator, Rudd, who brings this story to life.

In an “Author’s Note”, Beneba Clarke relates that she included a child with a bike made from scrap pieces in a short story for adults. The image of that child and the experience of bike riding stayed with her and formed the basis of The Patchwork Bike. What characters or situations can you pull from existing manuscripts and repurpose into a new story?

Per Candlewick’s website, Beneba Clarke is “an Australian writer and slam poet champion of Afro-Caribbean descent”. For more information about Beneba Clarke, see a recent Picture Book Author feature in The Brown Bookshelf. This is her first picture book.

Also from Candlewick’s website, Rudd “is an Australian street artist and activist”. This is his first picture book. Read an interview with Rudd at Let’s Talk Picture Books.

This Perfect Picture Book entry is being added to Susanna Hill’s Perfect Picture Book list. Check out the other great picture books featured there!


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_MG_2949-West Fork's Colorful Contours

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Dmitry Zamorin12-Mar-2009 07:06
Beautiful and mysterious compound of water and stone!
Guest 27-Apr-2008 10:54
clever use of the reflection in your composition.
Gordon W23-Apr-2008 10:23
Beautiful natural abstract, Fred! Looks like you must have gotten your feet wet. :)
Guest 22-Apr-2008 06:56
Vibrant colors and nice lines. Great compo, Fred. ~V~
Jonathan Popp21-Apr-2008 11:55
Very nice reflection shot. Nice natural lighting.
Zane Paxton21-Apr-2008 05:49
Nice image Fred! I like the visual play both ways; the rock and the water both look like a reflection.
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Claude Martin20-Apr-2008 07:30
This looks almost abstract and is absolutely beautiful!
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One quickly forgets about the initially released reference GPUs once the cards with custom coolers, capacitors and PCBs arrive on the market all cool and factory overclocked.  Usually the original GPU and card designer, in this case AMD, licenses theit top tier partners, like MSI , Gigabyte or Sapphire, to sell cards following a design that AMD provides along with the license to design and sell the cards.  As SemiAccurate points out, this has lead to a market where the only unique feature they can add is usually armed and wearing a bikini.  After the card has been on the market for a while, then AMD allows non-reference designs to appear for some cards from some manufacturers.

Not so with one of the four lineups of GPUs soon to arrive on the market, AMD will be freeing us from the tyranny of Ruby in different outfits and allow their partners to modify the Tahiti Pro cards from the get go.  Expect to see a large difference in the appearance and specifications of AMD’s new high end series of cards.  That is the only one of the four to get this treatment, Tahiti, Pitcairn and Pitcairn XT cards will still come out only as copies of the reference card design.  This may change over time but for now the idea of custom cooler, power distribution and PCB design is something to look forward to in the coming years.

"Back to the new news, and it concerns the Tahiti Pro card. Word has reached SemiAccurate that Tahiti Pro will be unconstrained to the normal reference designs. If you recall, most GPU manufacturers will force AIBs to make cards based on the reference design for the first 3 months or so, and there are a variety of very good business reasons to do this.

Unfortunately, it leads to a problem where the reviews all are the same, mainly because all the cards are the same. The main difference between manufacturers comes down to what color the AIB decides to put on the chrome bikini of the girl with the big sword riding the mythical beast just below their logo. We are partial to Hafnium bikini’s on women riding giant Were-moles around here. Luckily, Tahiti Pro changes this."

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Beautiful picnic areas at George Rogers ParkWhat’s to Love: George Rogers Park is located on the south side of downtown Lake Oswego. If you live in Portland, it’s worth the drive. This is definitely a “destination park” featuring hiking and biking trails, an easy-to-find Letterbox, an interesting historical past, a decent beach, tennis courts, big baseball field, and some of the nicest picnic benches and grills you’ll find in a park setting.

Beach Access at George Rogers ParkDid I forget to mention? George Rogers Park has an outdoor play structure that is certainly above average. It’s almost like a minature version of the Rose Garden Children’s Park. It has bridges, planks, steps, dips, dives and tube slides! There are some nice swings as well. In addition, near the play structure is an outdoor sculpture that looks like a big dinosaur pelvis. Your child will have fun climbing in and out of all the tunnels and holes.

Iron Smelter at George Rogers ParkAs of now, the main biking path was closed due to a mudslide. Hopefully, that will get cleaned-up pretty soon. We went to George Rogers to look for the Letterbox, but we stayed for quite awhile. My son was having such a great time on the playground. Because the picnic area is so nice (and has outdoor grills!!!), we will come back soon for a BBQ.

Hiking trail at George Rogers ParkCaveats: Approaching from the north (downtown Lake Oswego), you cannot turn left into the park, which is pretty much the only downer about this place.

Covered picnic area at George Rogers ParkWebsite: Lake Oswego Parks and Recreation

Distance from Portland: Within 10 miles of downtown Portland

Recommended Ages: Great park for the whole family

Parental Stress Factor: George Rogers has the feel of a neighborhood park. The play structure is actually across the street from some houses. It’s very relaxing.

Physical Difficulty: Some of the trails are accessible here. Overall, the hiking trails are easy.

Family Fun Factor: Parks can be hit-or-miss, but this park has so much to offer. I’m giving it a rating of Medium – High. If your family is active and enjoys picnics or BBQ-ing, you’ll have a blast at George Rogers Park.

Pet Friendly: Dogs on leashes

Weather Considerations: The paved pathways and historical significance (old iron smelter on premises) offer something for those rainy days.

Play Structure George Rogers ParkInsider Info: George Rogers appears to have some interesting mountain biking opportunities. I don’t know if this is a sanctioned activity, but it does have a review on a mountain biking website.

Surprisingly, Lake Oswego doesn’t have a lot of quality food options. My favorite place to get a nice, gourmet-quality sandwich is Port City Pasta. It’s a little Italian Grocery store in the strip mall (east-side) just north of the park entrance. It’s definitely worth a stop. I still have dreams about their SW turkey sandwich. If your family likes Mexican food, stop by El Ranchito – it’s pretty good, and they’re very friendly.

Fun climbing sculpture George Rogers ParkFamily Tips: Seriously, the quality and cleanliness of the picnic areas and outdoor grills cannot be stressed enough. It’s almost impossible to find outdoor grills at Portland Parks. If you want to grill in a Portland Park, you’ll almost always have to bring your own grill. There is access to the Willamette River here, and your kids will have some fun playing on the beach. Jogging strollers and/or backpacks are both a good idea here. The trails are short enough for most young kids to go without.

Sandbox with plenty of toys!!! George Rogers ParkI almost forgot to mention the killer sandbox!!! This is such a nice space for kids to cut loose a bit. The best part – it’s stocked with all kinds of toys, trucks, front-loaders, bulldozers, backhoes, etc.

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Where have I been? Check out the date people; 1977, yes, this year I will be turning 40. The closer I get to this milestone in my life the happier I feel about the person I am becoming and the journey I have had so far.

Peckskitchen began as a bit of fun and a visual record on Instagram to remember my experiments in the kitchen. It soon became much more. I joined a community of like minded individuals who love to share ideas, recipes and, best of all, positively encourage a healthier lifestyle. I have always been a keen cook and nothing makes me happier than being in the kitchen making delicious food for family and friends and now my food has gathered an even wider audience.

Peckskitchen is much more than food, yes, it sparked a whole host of other healthy choices in my life. I not only eat a healthier and more nutritious diet but I now practice yoga and I am a regular runner… (this deserves a blog of its own!)

As a family we moved to Kenya in 2013. Our move inspired a new way of cooking and a different outlook to the way we shopped. I try to support local growers and produce wherever possible, there are many imported luxuries in Nairobi, but these come at a premium. Buying local produce gives back to the community and has less impact on the environment. Next time you are in a supermarket see how many of your ‘fresh’ fruit and veg comes from Kenya.

Generally we were a healthy family  with a  love for the outdoors but personally I have always carried a few extra kilos and, although loving the beach, mountains, rivers… I didn’t have a weekly exercise routine, in fact, I hardly did any exercise to note!

So what has changed? I had become complacent of feeling lethargic in the afternoons, feeling the need to consume sugary snacks to perk me up, feeling bloated and shattered in the evening. When speaking to others about this it seemed normal to feel this way as they all experienced the same, so life carried on. NO… lets fix it, lets make it right!

I came across Sarah Wilson through social media. Her findings on sugar and the effects on our bodies resonated with the way I was feeling. I was dependent on sugar and I had never seen it as the enemy. I was always led to believe by the mass corporate health gurus that fat was evil and sugar was never even considered…unless you were at the dentist.

I started a gentle experiment by removing sugar (refined sugar) from our diets, including our children’s. After school snacks became less about Nutella and more about wholesome foods. I made their favorite banana bread using dates and they didn’t notice the difference, but I noticed a difference in their energy levels.  Soon Team Peck were embracing nourishing and exciting new dishes using real food without any nasties. We started to grow our own veggies and keeping chickens for fresh daily eggs.

Our happy eggs!

Roll on 4 years and the change has been tremendous. 10 kilos lighter was a bonus, but the best results are my increased fitness and energy levels. I regularly exercise and it has become a daily routine. We are all creatures of habit, so once it becomes a routine it seems like you are missing out on something if you don’t do it. I was able to climb mount Kenya (16,335 feet summit) last year without any real training, just my daily yoga and running meant I could plod on and reach the summit with a smile on my face!

This is what my blog will be about, everything you see is real; real food from our family kitchen, good for you recipes, new food discoveries from Kenya and beyond, family travels, having a positive outlook and general well-being ramblings.

If I can do it, anyone can. Be better to feel better!

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  1. Taps says:

    Great stuff Marina, love the introduction and looking forward to some lovely lazy weekends enjoying the fruits of your special touch in the kitchen, cant wait for the recipes. x

  2. Stunning format and content love it gorgeous!

  3. Annie Barden says:

    Yep…’re on it Buddy. Looks fab.Very professional. So….do I go walking or eat a chocolate bar? 😊😆xxxx

  4. Northern uproar says:

    Yay! Blog-on dude 👍🏽 Love your intro, so motivating and real. Looking forward to some yummy recipes. Just found coconut flour in Mombasa Dough-muffs hear we come 😀💃🏻

  5. Deepali says:

    I love it!! Inspirational and fun all rolled into one sugar-free yummy mummy! Recipes look easy enough. I’m a fan already!

  6. Anisa says:

    Go Mama Peck!! Looking forward to the food tasting in your garden!

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  wp_enqueue_script( 'comment-reply' );
add_action('wp_print_scripts', 'theme_queue_js');

The call is added to the wp_print_scripts action as is_singular and comments_open are unknown during the init action.

Note: I’ve written a plugin to make the comment-reply JavaScript unobtrusive, it’s call Rapid Comment Reply.

By Peter Wilson

Peter has worked on the web for twenty years on everything from table based layouts in the 90s to enterprise grade CMS development. Peter’s a big fan of musical theatre and often encourages his industry colleagues to join him for a show or two in New York or in the West End.

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  1. Hi Peter,

    Thanks a lot for your tips. I just started using WordPress for my own site and I’m glad that there is useful information like yours out there.

    Bye, Christine (aks @stinie)

  2. This is really helpful, but when i while my source on browser with firebug it will not show up until i remove “(get_option(‘thread_comments’) == 1)” statement.

    I am using it without “(get_option(‘thread_comments’) == 1)” statement and it’s working for

    1. The (get_option(‘thread_comments’) == 1) tests if the enable threaded comments checkbox in discussion settings is on. In the situation you describe, it’s likely threaded comments are disabled (or WordPress erroneously thinks they are).

      Without threaded comments enabled comment-reply.js is not required.

    1. Without the JavaScript, a reload is required when a visitor clicks an earlier comment’s reply link. By including the JavaScript, no reload is required.

  3. Instead of:

    if ( is_singular()

    one should use:

    if ( is_single()

    otherwise the script will be called on all pages, which defeats the purpose. Took me a while to figure this out, but better late than never.

    1. I’ve used if_singular as WordPress allows comments on the default page & post content types. They are also permitted on custom content types.

      Using if_single will not insert the script on pages with comments enabled.

      I’ve seen themes disable comments for pages by leaving out the call to comments_template() in the page template. In addition a filter should be set up to indicate comments are closed to the WordPress code base:

      function noPgComments($open,$post_id) {
        if (get_post_type($post_id) == 'page') {
          $open = false;
        return $open;
      add_filter( 'comments_open', 'noPgComments', 10, 2 );
  4. This looks so easy….if you’re using the basic themes..
    I am using Theron Lite theme to be specific, and I don’t really have a clue on where to start.
    Is anyone in the mood of helping? :)

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Review: The Secret War with Iran–The 30-Year Clandestine Struggle Against the World’s Most Dangerous Terrorist Power

3 Star, Country/Regional, Threats (Emerging & Perennial), War & Face of Battle

Secret WarFour on one side as useful propaganda, three in larger context, September 27, 2008

Ronen Bergman Ph.D.

I was torn between three stars (the book is terribly flawed in the larger scheme of things) and four stars for the very interesting and well-presented details that while they are strictly from an Israeli perspective and the book is almost certainly an Israeli propaganda operation against the US public in general and US Congress and generals more specificially, are in and of themselves correct.

The author focuses exclusively on painting the Iranians in the worst possible light, while ignoring the Saudi Arabian and Egyptian misdeeds, and never mentioning the 42 of the 44 dictators that the US Government regards as its best pals because they pretend to support the Global War on Terror (GWOT) which is the ninth high level threat to mankind.

I settled for three because this book is completely out of context, grossly exaggerates the Iranian threat, and fails to demonstrate any semblance of the relative costs and benefits of waging peace. Just prior to sitting down with this book for a few hours I read a much shorter monograph (free online), “U.S. Counterterrorism in Sub-Saharan Africa: Understanding Costs, Cultures, and Conflicts” by Donovan C. Chau. His top-level premises are instructive, and condemn the book on Iran to three stars: Dr. Chau suggests that our three priorities for defeating sub-saharan terrorism must be:

1. Seizing and holding the moral high ground

2. Winning the stuggle for perceived legitimacy

3. Pursuing restrained counterterrorism responses

I will not belabor the point further–it is flat out NUTS for the USA to be spending $60 billion a year on the 4% it can steal with largely worthless technology and largely incompetent human spies; and $600-900 billion a year on a heavy metal military that is next to useless in 90% of the situations we face into the future.

Israel, the US neocons that were party to the 935 lies that led America to war in Iraq, now an occupation, and both of the political parties in the USA that share the spoils while looting the US taxpayers, have become cancers on humanity. In no way does this condone terrorism or excuse the terrible depravity and dereliction of the Arab regimes, but in the larger context, I see very clearly that the US and Israel are pursuing their own terrorist tactics “in our name,” while completely abandoning the much more sensible and much more likely to succeed grand strategy (neither country has a strategy, only campaigns of tactics) of striving for a prosperous world at peace.

For the single stupidest book ever created by US Generals that totally agrees with this book:
Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror

For additional information helpful to those who wish to be fully informed and not be held hostage to one point of view:
A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility–Report of the Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change [this book is free online search for title]
Election 2008: Lipstick on the Pig (Substance of Governance; Legitimate Grievances; Candidates on the Issues; Balanced Budget 101; Call to Arms: Fund We Not Them; Annotated Bibliography) [This book is free online search for title.]
The Search for Security: A U.S. Grand Strategy for the Twenty-First Century
The Lessons of History
Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, from Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage)
The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude

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January – February London Coffee News

A lot is happening and a lot is planned soon. Openings: Silhouette – second cafe for Lee and Syirin – I’m excited to get there (near London Fields) Workshop Barrett Street – a new space in Marylebone that has a unique design and unexpectedly great coffee Too Many Cooks Square Mile in SE1! Well, we […]

Speciality Coffee Map London – 2nd Edition

Ok, it hit the streets, shops and cafes in July but you might have missed it. Derek Lamberton of Blue Crow Media released the second edition of his print London  Coffee Map. For this edition, Derek wanted a collaborative approach so enlisted Chloe Callow, Lee Gaze (coffee maniac and guitarist) and myself to pool out […]

2012-3 London Independent Coffee Christmas & New Year Openings

I’ve organised this by sections: click on the areas to go straight there. I particularly recommend Prufrock, Kaffeine, Rapha Cycle Club and Dunne Frankowski. West End North, Central and City East South and West My coffee map West End Tapped and Packed http://www.tapcoffee.co.uk/ 20 Rathbone Place 114 Tottenham Court Road 193 Wardour St closing the 24th 25th 26th 31st & […]


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This single-set performance was part of the 12th annual Bridge School benefit that also included R.E.M., Neil Young, and Barenaked Ladies. This was an acoustic performance, with a unique stage setup that had Fish stage right, with Page on the far left. Hello My Baby was performed with the band facing toward the Bridge School children, who were on a raised platform at the back of the stage. The Old Home Place was performed in the bluegrass setup of 1994, with Mike on banjo and Page on acoustic bass. Sad Lisa featured Sarah McLachlan on guitar and vocals, while Four Strong Winds and I Shall Be Released featured McLachlan and Neil Young on guitar and vocals, as well as Barenaked Ladies’ Kevin Hearn on accordion; all three songs were Phish debuts.
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Review by phishfillet

phishfillet This is a great performance! I know Trey likes to shred, but I am surprised they had not found more chances for acoustic performances in years past, they obviously all have the talent to excel in this format as well as anyone. Short show by their standards, so on with a review:
Hello My Baby sounded as good as it gets, done facing the kids was a nice touch from the boys. Billy gets the instruments warmed up, followed by a really great version of Piper! That was a surprise giving the setting. Roggae and Loving Cup were both nicely done, and Albuquerque maybe the one obvious choice with Neil Young in the house. Next one of my favorite versions of The Old Home Place, featuring Mike on banjo and Page on acoustic base, killin it! Guyute was brilliantly done! Trey shines here, no surprise. Acoustic Guyute, so nice! A nice Brian And Robert before finishing up the set with three Phish debuts. Sad Lisa was just ok, Sara can sing, just not a fan. Four Strong Winds was better with the addition of Neil and the accordion, but I Shall Be Released was the winner of the three debuts! For me nothing will top a JGB version of this song, but this one was still very good! Again, Neil and Kevin are a great fit here.

There is something about these Bridge School shows, don’t know if it’s a West Coast vibe thing or Neil’s influence, but they are always really laid back and mellow. I have heard all the sets Pearl Jam has done in years past and they are pretty mellow, even for acoustic performance standards. Great show! Get it, perfect vibe for a cold rainy day like today. At ease.
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Review by Xpanding_Man

Xpanding_Man This is one of my favorite videos on YouTube. The joy they try to bring to those kids in the opening segment....if you're a parent, you understand. Follow that with some just gorgeous, delicate, soulful phish standards, and I'm out to lunch everytime. The acoustic treatment shows that these songs are more than just gimicks for a rock band with a great lighting rig; some of Trey's compositions are timeless gems, and you really get to hear them in all of their stripped-down glory on this video (and the night before). Balance out your top 10 with one of the very few acoustic performances of their career, and at the height of their powers taboot! To quote the MC from the dream sequence in Tenacious D's movie, "I fucking love this band! They are the best band ever, PERIOD!" :) Enjoy
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Review by HHCCCCAA

HHCCCCAA I really love this cover of Dylan's "I Shall Be Released", which was of course famously covered by The Band with Richard Manuel on vocals. R.I.P. Richard Manuel. A beautiful tune amd Manuel really made it his own. Anyhoot, in this version I love the diversity in vocals. I was surprised to hear that Page didn't try to hit the consistent highs that Manuel made notable, Page instead leave the highs to Neil in the second verse. Sarah McLachlan's voice is BEAUTIFUL in the background of the chorus, and I need not say more about Neil but this: if you've loved his music like I and so many others have, you just know what his voice can do. Trey's voice is obviously not nearly as good as Neil's or Sarah's but I thought he held his own pretty well with his verse. I thought Trey infused some real raw emotion on to those few lines ... How could he NOT on stage with The Legend Young???? I liked Trey's crack at the mic better than Page's for surely. Just a great cover, IMHO, and a properly and honorably respectful ode to The Band. If you've never heard the "original cover" (lol), go check it out RIGHT NOW. ("I Shall Be Released" by The Band; Written by Bob Dylan)
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Seaside themed cutouts create a nostalgic photo opportunity

Seaside face in the hole boards

The seaside is the home of the photo cutout, or peep boards. Since the early 50’s face-in-the-hole boards have been a prominent form of entertainment at our seaside towns. More people than ever are spending their summer holidays in the UK this year for obvious reasons, and with this warm weather, trips to the coast are on the agenda for the 2020 staycation. (Although we advise steering clear of the busy hotspots, don’t want to end up on the 10 o’clock news!). So before the thunderstorms hit, let’s revisit to some of the seaside themed face-in-the-hole boards we have produced for a range of clients.

Seaview Beach Café

Situated directly on the seafront of West Runton beach, Seaview Beach Café wanted to create a memorable photo opportunity for beachgoers. This face-in-the-hole board has a fun design, fully branded with the café logo and hashtag. Easily moveable, the peep board can be positioned outside in low winds or within the café itself.

West Runton Beach Cafe seaside photo cutout board

Professor Shambles

A classic Punch and Judy board for children’s entertainer Professor Shambles. This is one of our stock seaside boards with the customer’s name, tagline and phone number added. Easy to transport, Professor Shambles can assemble the board at each party location. Face holes are positioned at an ideal height for children so party-goers return home with a fun, branded photo to remember the event.

Children's entertainer Punch and Judy photo cutout board

Berties Fish and Chip restaurant

Edinburgh’s “Place To Be” for the best fish and chips, chose to tap into the nostalgia of fish and chips at the seaside. Berties Fish and Chips brought the seaside to Edinburgh with a ‘Thin Tim and Big Bertha’ photo cutout board. The board captures the traditional humour of the peep board and engages with customers and passersby of the restaurant.

Bertie's Fish and Chips - Edinburgh - Thin Tim and Big Bertha seaside photo cutout

Blue Flag England

Keep Britain Tidy commissioned some Blue Flag boards to promote clean beaches and those awarded with a #BestBeaches award. Custom designed seaside themed cutouts are an engaging way to generate awareness of the clean beaches campaign. Here’s one of the Blue Flag boards in action:

Blue Flag clean beach seaside award cutout

Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust

Sailing superstar Ellen MacArthur’s charity helps children and young people regain their confidence after cancer. This fun interactive board is used at their live events to promote the charity’s message with its Twitter, Facebook and Instagram handles.

Dolphin Octopus animals

For Fish’s Sake London is a campaign by environmental charity Hubbub. The message is clear: don’t drop litter in London where it can end up in the Thames, because it really gives aquatic life there a hard time. These underwater-themed cutout boards have been used down by the river to promote awareness.

Public awareness campaign board: For Fish's Sake London

Peter James book launch

When bestselling novelist Peter James launched his Roy Grace novel, Need You Dead, in Brighton, his publicist commissioned this cops and robber’s themed photo board. The board was used as a photo opportunity for fans at a book signing as they waited for his autograph.

Being by the seaside, a fun face-in-the-hole board was a fitting tribute to the location and the cops and robbers theme lent itself perfectly to the crime genre of the novel.

Peter-James_seaside cutout for book signing

Photo Cutouts’ seaside themed boards

At Photo Cutouts we have a range of seaside themed boards that are available to hire or to buy. Our designs can be customised with your own logo and hashtags if you wish. Alternatively, you can brief our designers with what you are looking for. We will then sketch out the image for you to feedback and add some colour to create your own custom-designed face-in-the-hole board.

TOWIE's Shelby and Sam in seaside photo cutout board
Seaside photo cutout featured on TOWIE

Covid safe

We can work with you to help you to come up with a Covid safe solution so the fun of face-in-the-hole boards can still be enjoyed. Whether that might be having a series of single hole boards spaced out 2m apart, or a larger board with 1m+ distance between face holes, or providing sanitising solutions, get in touch to discuss the requirements of your event or venue.

Get in touch

Photo Cutouts produce a range of customisable large format print options and event entertainment. We aim to create fun and engaging photo opportunities. Get in touch and our design team will work with you to come up with the best solutions for your next event.

Tel: 01284 848330

5 examples of public awareness campaigns with photo cutout boards

Getting people into awareness campaigns – literally!

Many of public awareness campaigns by causes, nonprofits and social enterprises have used our photo cutout boards. They make a great engagement tool to educate their audiences and help keep their campaign messages top of mind. The boards help to create a focus for people to interact with as well as a photo opportunity, and with the campaign’s message and hashtag splashed all over the board, well … photos get shared, and that amplifies the message across social.
Here are five examples of the public awareness campaign boards we have supplied.

For Fish’s Sake London is a campaign by environmental charity Hubbub. The message is clear: don’t drop litter in London where it can end up in the Thames, because it really gives aquatic life there a hard time. These boards have been used down by the river to promote awareness.

Public awareness campaign board: For Fish's Sake London

2. #Beesneeds

This was just last week. #BeesNeeds is a campaign by DEFRA and the Bumblebee Conservation Trust to promote awareness of bees and other pollinators. London’s Carnaby Street was renamed Carnabee Street for a week and our board was part of the campaign.

Public awareness campaign marketing

3. Affinity Water

Okay, this one was last November, but we’ve included it because we liked it! Here’s a slightly grainy shot from Twitter – but you can see people having fun with the board! The campaign message? Save water.

awareness campaign marketing

4. Keep Britain Tidy

This one needs no introduction. These boards are used extensively in campaigns around the UK. The message: be a litter hero. Be like Trash Girl.

awareness campaign marketing uk

5. Green Flag Wales

On a related note, here’s our board for Green Flag Wales, aiming to change perceptions about green spaces. The board is pictured with some of the campaign team.

Public awareness marketing

Are you involved in a charity or social enterprise? Would you like to raise awareness of your cause with a photo cutout board? Call us today on 01284 848330 or email to talk about getting a board made.

Photo Wall: the ultimate face in hole board

Take things to a ‘hole’ new level!

hire photo wall photowall

An extension of the face-in-hole concept, our Photo Wall is the perfect tool to create unforgettable photos at weddings, significant birthday parties and family gatherings. It creates a warm and cosy atmosphere by mimicking a vintage living room, complete with picture frames to allow guests to peer down from the wall as if they were paintings or old photographs!

For some reason it’s really, really funny to see your friends and relatives goofing about in picture frames, and the photos and videos you get are usually hilarious. The Photo Wall comes alive and it’s like something out of an old movie. We recommend a video or photo filter that makes the shots look grainy, like 1980’s VHS or 8mm film camera. Add a vintage soundtrack and you’ve got a classic film that family and guests can all enjoy!

To enhance the vintage living room feel, the Photo Wall comes with a set of vintage props: a mini chaise longue and some old distressed leather suitcases containing a variety of props like hats, glasses and handheld novelties for guests to improvise with.

The Wall comes with some actual pictures on frames (smaller than the ones your guests appear in), but you can replace them with real family photos of your own if you like. We’ve seen families and wedding guests screaming with laughter in the Photo Wall as they make up their own hi-jinks to amuse each other!

Here’s another photo of the Photo Wall in use, this time with our hand-held speech bubbles that offer another layer of visual fun to still photos. They can be wipe-clean if requested, so that your guests can write their own messages on them. We bundle them in with the Photo Wall for free so you can have maximum fun!

photo wall with speech bubbles

Available to hire from – just drop us an email or give us a call on 08450 570321

Visit our Our Photo Wall page

Exclusive Rio Olympics board: we’ll make you one in world record time!

Olympics board available by special order when you follow this link.

Olympics, Olympic Games 2016, Mo Farah, Usain Bolt, face in hole board

The 2016 Olympic Games are pretty much upon us, but there’s still time to get our colourful and hilarious Rio Photo Cutout Board. Order one today for your event, party, awards ceremony, business promotion, corporate party, sports event, school fete or other Summer happening, and we’ll spin you one up and ship it out to you faster than Usain Bolt.

It was an interesting process making this board, because we couldn’t use any insignia of the IOC or things like the Olympic rings, Olympic flame, etc. which are copyrighted. But we’ve come up with a board that gets across the atmosphere of the games and includes cartoon versions of some famous athletes.

You can see some of the design process when you compare this initial sketch with the finished board. They are actually quite similar because we liked our artist’s original idea, but then we asked her to tweak a few things to get it just right.

2016 Olympics, design, sketch, photo cutout board, face in hole board, usain bolt, mo farah

If you want the board for a business promotion, we can add your company branding to the board: hashtags, web addresses, social media profiles, logos, or other branding and social links. This creates a marketing opportunity that we have seen work time and time again for our customers. Photos of the board that people share will bear your insignia, spreading the word about your brand across social media.

School fetes: it’s got to be worth having this board just to see your headmaster do the Mobot or the Lightning Bolt and then get soaked with wet sponges or splurged with custard pies! The board is printed on waterproof, wipe-clean vinyl bonded to light, waterproof Foamex and cannot be damaged by getting wet.

Here’s the link again to order your Rio Olympics Photo Cutout Board:

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Date with Lorelei = photo overload

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For ages and ages we have wanted to take Lorelei to the creek to play...
this afternoon we met our daughter in Bainbridge, put the car seat in our Rav4 and transferred the things they brought...we think it was a big hit....she waded with her mommy and papaw
she threw rocks and splashed.....
she played with her buckets
and sprinkling can
and had the best time.
I bet we will be doing this again...but I hope we can go when it is cooler. There were places to get in the shade but if not in the shade it was just too hot for me.


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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

First of all....

First of all, I wondered is blogger slow for any of the rest of you?  Here the past few days, sometimes when I click to comment, I will have to wait and wait.  Sometimes, I have to click two or three times for it to ever pop up.  And each time I wait a bit...not like I click and click and click.  I click and wait...finally will 'x' out of it, then click again and wait and wait.

Then there is the issue of it taking forever for the editor to load.  Maybe not forever, but it is slow.  I have not seen anyone mention this lately, so I wondered if I was the only person having these issues.  I did see others having issues a while back, but I did not have any to speak of at that time.
One of my day lilies.  I remember I used to not care for these at all, and now I just love them.  They come in such a variety of colors.  I think I need to separate some of mine.  It is just a matter of looking up when is the best time.

I am sitting here watching the birds...they are after the sunflowers now.  I am wondering if the seed are any good cause they are not after them as they normally are.  One year I raised some of the big headed sunflowers, and the seeds did not have anything in them.  I did not plant these, they grew from the seeds the birds dropped.

I am running late with this.  Running late this morn.  I need to get off here and get ready for this day.  It looks like rain, so I won't be hanging out any clothes.  I guess I will be forced to sew, which is what I did a lot of the time yesterday.