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In the wake of a duck.

If you are a duck connoisseur or if you hate Portland, I’ll probably offend you with this post.  You could instead read my cat porn blog, that way we avoid this whole potential conflict all together.

So this all started Saturday when a friend asked me to take some photos of Portland for an amazing 3 day wine tasting event this November that benefits the Northwest Sarcoma Foundation.  And for those of you who have given me any love over my blog writing years, you KNOW i hate cancer like a motherfucker, so naturally I said yes.

So in my head i’m all, “wow, cool… i am going to shoot the big reindeer sign and the bridges on the river and some weird people! I’ve got this Portland photo shoot NAILED!”

then this happened:

If you scrolled over this photo without reading the fine print on the poster, you have missed the BEST SIGN IN THE UNIVERSE.

and i’m like, “move over, reindeer sign, we’ve got new plans.”

So i’d like to share with you, if you’re still with me and not over on my other blog watching my cat lick herself, my version of what I found interesting and meaningful on a 3 mile jaunt with my family around Portland on Saturday.

The church on Alder.

We started at Cheryl’s on 12th (important to be well fed before walking), and this was the view from our outside table.  It’s significant that i shot this, because I love this church. It is my proverbial True North, though not in a religious sense (c’mon guys, it’s ME, here), but in a “where the crap is that bridge that takes me over the river?” sense.  If it weren’t for this church, I would NEVER know which street is Alder, which is the main road I take to cross the bridge to Yoga, or to get me to my naturopath.

Both activities, as a Portlandian, you just DO.

So we began walking down near the Waterfront where we used to live, and ran into this guy.  He’s kind of famous.

Murphy the potential Police Horse that was found on Craigslist and had no chance in hell of making it as a Police Horse but he defied all odds and did.

I’m pretty sure “Police Horse” is the completely wrong term for those awesome horses that roam our streets.  All i know is that every Sunday morning i begin my day with coffee and The Oregonian, and i’ve followed the plight of this goddamn horse since the story began, and when we walked by him, I felt like a 12 year old seeing Liam or one of the other boys with perfect hair from One Direction… i’m a big fan of this horse.  Sadly, all he wanted was food and despite every attempt of me shoving his headshot in his face, he refused to sign my photo.  something, he said, about opposable thumbs.  Whatever, Murph.

Murphy’s colleagues (or whatever you call the horses with whom you work).

I’ve said it before and i’ll say it again (ok, that’s not true, i’ve never actually said this, but it IS true…), i’ll pay whatever tax dollars it takes to keep these beauties on the streets of Portland.  Once we lose the horses, all we have is…cars. So we continued walking along the riverfront and it is… special. I kid you not, we ran smack into a couple of ducks having a SUPER intense flirting session:

a couple of ducks having a super intense flirting session

I’m not really sure the sex of these ducks.  My husband thought they were both female because they both had such cool markings, and  his theory goes, “the chick ducks are always beautiful, the boy ducks have no color.”

So then I was thinking how completely awesome this would be if these were two chick ducks flirting with each other (this is the part where, if you are a duck connoisseur, you are probably thinking i’m the dumbest human on the planet).  I mean, either way, either sex, same or different, these two ducks have chemistry.  And the one on the left is TOTALLY having duck sex with the one on the right tonight. (how ducks have sex i have NO clue, i’d love some help here).

So anyway after we left Sasha and Kris (we needed neutral names for them. I mean, we just didn’t know…), we kind of decided to look up and see what was happening on the river.  There were a lot of barges.

a barge. wait… this is a barge, right? is there better term for exactly what this is? I AM NOT UP ON MY BARGE KNOWLEDGE, PEOPLE!

a tugboat pushing (not tugging) a smaller barge in front of a bigger barge. it’s not fast action stuff, by any stretch.

So after the cool barges, I thought i should probably take a couple photos of the bridges, being all famous and stuff in Portland, but it just didn’t work for me.  So we went under the bridges, and i got a few cool shots, this one in particular i sort of loved:

and another one, which happens to be the one my friend has chosen for her wine event:

We kept walking, the ducks kept following, and finally we ended our jaunt along the riverside…

…and landed at the uber famous Saturday Market. Now every Portland guide will reference this, as it should.  There is a lot of really cool shit you can buy at the Saturday Market, not the least of which is some extraordinary additions to your wardrobe. More specifically:

one of eight hundred stands… c’mon, it’s Portland.

tie-dye is a wonderful option for cute kids. And the henna stand and dog butt are Saturday Market “must haves.”

oh, and the t-shirt stands are fabulous.

a great alternative solution to “my parents when to Portland and all they got me…”

So we finished our walk, full of totally cool cats, flirting ducks, mounted police horses (ok, i looked up the term on the internets by the time i got here), barges, bridges, and the finest wardrobe choices PDX had to offer.

Here are a few more I took:

we'll call him Louis.

we’ll call him Louis.

I think we should turn these negatives into positives. Yes, you are welcome to carry your skateboard instead of riding it, lest people judge you as hoodlums vs. athletes. Yes, you may carry your cigarettes in your pocket and THANK YOU for not lighting up and killing people with your second hand smoke!!!

I just liked this.

I just liked this.

The line at Voodoo donuts for a penis shaped something or rather or bacon covered awesomeness.

The line at Voodoo donuts for a penis shaped something or rather or bacon covered awesomeness.

ok, ok.  fuck it.  I had to do the sign.

ok, ok. fuck it. I had to do the sign.

Yet as I got home and looked through the hundreds of photos i took that day, my mind kept going back to one of them.

It was, yes, a duck.

And this duck was just swimming along, minding his own goddamn business, paddling along by himself.

i couldn’t scratch the image from my mind.  The ripples it was creating, i could imagine them hitting the shore, and in an immeasurable way eroding the shoreline, which in turn would lead to an entirely different Portland millions of years from now.

It’s ripple effect was real, yet it just didn’t know it.

But we do.

We create ripples every day.

By every action we make and inaction we choose not to.

And the downstream effect of both can have either beautiful or catastrophic consequences.

So i finished the walk thinking… What if, with every decision we made each day, we were acutely aware of the ripple it created.

wouldn’t that be something.

Peace, AC.

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Recipe for disaster!

Today, the members of Alberta’s Samson Indian Reserve are voting on a referendum that would allow the Chief and council to have residents of the reserve ejected if presented with a petition signed by 25 residents. It is understandable how people in Hobbema are getting desperate. The reserve is a virtual war zone with violent crime levels that rival any major city and conditions continue to get worse. Gang violence has been exploding and shootings have become rampant. Make no mistake though, empowering the Chief and council to eject people from the reserve is not the solution!

 Here is a link to the proposed bylaw that members are voting on today.

 For some background, the Samson is one of four bands that make up the reserves surrounding Hobbema. Infighting and corruption have led to many reserves such as this and the Stoney for example to keep splitting into more reserves within reserves. The fighting, waste and duplication of services caused by this trend is fodder for a whole different posting.

 The Hobbema reserves are likely the richest in all of Canada having received hundreds of millions of dollars in energy revenues on top of typical federal transfers. The affluence considered to be largely at the root of many of the reserves social problems according to one councilor here.  I don’t doubt that Saddleback is right on many counts. Poverty however tends to lead to crime and social problems just as effectively as prosperity. The problem as usual comes down to the utter failure of the entire Indian reserve concept.

 The Samson reserve also holds a strong reputation for corruption on the part of their band leadership. Jean Allard documented it very well on page 144 here. People lived in poverty while the band leadership pulled in 6 figure salaries and more. This is unfortunately common on many reserves. Much more recently questions were asked about the disposition of funds to that reserve (with few answers).

 The concept of self-government was a well meaning but terribly naive concept that has only led to the fast evolution of corrupt fiefdoms across Canada. There are certainly are some band councils that have only the well being of their members in mind with their actions. Many more reserves however have had the bandits rise quickly to the top forming small local dictatorships where band resources get directed to the connected while others live in abject poverty. Tales of intimidation and electoral rigging in band elections are unfortunately common.

 In light of this, it is very clear that the last thing that the Samson reserve (or any other reserve for that matter) should do is empower their Chief and council to eject members from the reserve.

 I strongly suggest that people read the proposed bylaw in detail and see how terribly flawed this document is.

 With an extremely low bar, a petition of only 25 people is all that is required to start the ejection process. That is a very small number for a council to round up should they want to. This allows people to petition based on any sort of whim as well. Anybody who has spent time on reserves knows that they are unfortunately hotbeds of gossip and internal squabbling. It is very easy to see how mobs will begin targeting people they suspect with petitions based on little to no evidence of wrongdoing. All of the final say is based on the opinion of 2/3 of council.

 There are some conditions in petitioning that appear to set a fair bar in expecting some proof of criminal activity in order to start the process. Unfortunately the statement below allows for easy abuse.

“(d) there are reasonable grounds to believe that the presence of the person on the reserve presents or would present a danger to the health or safety of the community.”

 The term “reasonable grounds” is a very subjective term. The bylaw calls for the appointment of a “Registrar of Residents” and a “Residency Tribunal” of three people to oversee the system.

 Outcomes determined by the aforementioned appointees will be presented to the Chief and Council for consideration when a person is being considered for eviction from the reserve.

 The bottom line is that the entire authority to evict residents lands directly on the Chief and Council. They will appoint everybody else in the process and only need a 2/3 vote to evict.

 Should as many as 2/3 of the council happen to be a little corrupt, look at how grossly empowered they are now. People can be targeted in areas that did not vote for them in the last election. People who speak up can be evicted. People can be evicted on a whim to make room for friends to move into the residences. As with so many bylaws on reserves, there is simply no means of oversight or control to keep the law from being abused by those in authority.

 Children as young as 13 years of age can be evicted on a whim by the Chief and Council under this law. That very well could be an effective way to get rid of an entire family as many mothers would of course go with their children.

 There are some huge issues facing Hobbema and reserves all over Canada. Further empowering band councils like this is not the solution. All this is doing is risking a small scale civil war on the reserve.

 I do hope that the residents are wise enough to reject this concept in today’s vote. The citizens are frightened and desperate however and I fear that they may vote in favor of this without realizing the potential consequences.

Think of it this way, would you like to see Calgary’s city council empowered to fully eject you from the city with no compensation based only on the opinion of 2/3 of them? I know that I haven’t exactly endeared myself with Calgary’s council and I bet at least 25 people would have been more than happy to petition for my removal. Why is such a scenario out of consideration for the rest of us but may be acceptable on reserves? We can’t accept this for anybody. I hope that courts or somebody somehow intervenes before this disaster gets too far should residents choose this path.

 I pray to FSM every day to see a light at the end of the tunnel for the natives on reserves in Canada. Sadly the light appears to be traveling in the opposite direction and things just keep getting worse.

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Traditionally, InterCHARM represents the vast number of new products, services and technologies for Russian industry. Is one of the reasons why the show is visited by thousands of professionals and business people annually. In 2014, exhibitor list of InterCHARM includes more than 200 companies which have their debut at the show with innovative ideas, products, services, and special offers for Russian market. InterCHARM is proud to represent new companies which can be found at Crocus Expo during InterCHARM’ days on 22-25 October, 2014.


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Created a PDF out of the list found on Isles of the Dead page

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This exercise becomes a foundation of our management plans based upon the realization that empowering patients is the most effective way to promote optimal outcomes.  Evidence has shown that incorporation of a patient-centered self-care routine in conjunction with the myriad of other treatment interventions used at Countryside Chiropractic will result in expedited improvement with more lasting effects.

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Health and labour rights of migrant domestic workers, “at risk” with the COVID-19 outbreak

HK government should ensure comprehensive protection for all

The COVID-19 outbreak and the consequent actions by the Hong Kong government have put migrant domestic workers “at risk” due to lack of provision or access to protection, overwork and stress, and discriminatory policies including the mandatory live-in requirement.

(See attached Results of Online Survey on the Situation of Migrant Domestic Workers during COVID-19 outbreak)

Lack of provision and access to masks and sanitisers by a significant number of MDWs means many are left unprotected from the virus. As shown by the findings of the survey, over half of MDWs are vulnerable to COVID-19 due to total absence or very limited access to personal protective equipment that can minimize the risk of infection.

Financial assistance to help cope with additional expenses is also denied to MDWs. The announced cash assistance that can help Hong Kong residents excludes MDWs who have to continue to get from their meagre salary the extra expenses for masks, alcohol, sanitizers, and even supplements that can boost a person’s immune system.

The changes in the working and living condition of MDWs are also notable. The prevalence of stress among MDWs due to overworking, the added financial burden, lack of rest and sleep and the prolonged isolation from our community and family actually makes MDWs more vulnerable to various ailments. Discriminatory and exclusionary government policies such as the “mandatory live-in arrangements” for MDWs coupled with the social distancing policy make the situation all the more unbearable physically and mentally for the sector.

During the COVID-19 outbreak, labour rights violations are prevalent. The most common forms are the deprivation of weekly statutory rest day, the over-exposure to harmful chemical cleaning agents and the lack of access to redress and grievance mechanisms.

Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, policies and preventive actions by the Hong Kong government exclude household carers who are members of hundreds of thousands of households and a significant community in Hong Kong. The very nature of our work– working where we live – already makes us share the risk as the rest of the Hong Kong households.

In this time of the COVID-19, the vulnerability of MDWs require that protection of their health and rights be one of the major concerns. However, instead of concrete actions to help protect MDW as part of the all households, the government’s policies seem to be more directed on how to prevent MDWs to become vectors of the virus.

The current situation further exposes and magnifies the problems of MDWs arising from government policies especially in terms of wages, working hours, accommodation and other labour rights.

In the absence of a comprehensive policy to address the socio-economic, political, public health and cultural impacts of the COVID-19, the Hong Kong government practically passed the responsibility to private households and individuals to manage the virus risks. If public policies are made, they exclude migrant domestic workers that further render us invisible and vulnerable.

Ironically, if MDWs are left vulnerable, then households are also vulnerable. The government must embrace the belief that Hong Kong’s survival depends on the survival of all. No one should be left unprotected and uncared for.

Thus, we put forward the following demands to the HKSAR government to:

1.    Ensure a better and more comprehensive social, economic and public health policy to address the COVID-19 and include MDWs in national safety preventive and protection programs. The government should pro-actively support Hong Kong households and include MDWs and others in the care sector.

1.    保證一個更好及涵蓋性較高的社會、經濟和公共衛生政策，以回應19年冠狀病毒疫情，及將移工包括入香港社會的預防及及防護計劃之中。政府應該積極地支持香港所有家庭中的照顧者，包括移工。

2.    Include migrant domestic workers in the proposed financial assistance scheme by the HKSAR government to cope with the impacts of COVID-19.

2.  特區政府應在為處理19年冠狀病毒疫情而設的抗疫財政支援計劃中，包括移工。

3.    Conduct widespread information to households employing MDWs on their responsibilities to include them in the adequate provision of protective materials.

3.   提供足夠廣傳的資訊給有聘請移工的家庭，告知其作為僱主的責任，是須為員工提供適切的防護物資。

4.    Ensure that MDWs have access and correct information on COVID-19 especially         those involving MDWs.

4.  保證移工可以接觸到正確的冠狀病毒相關資訊，特別是與移工相關的資訊。

5.    Curb overpricing and ensure adequate supply of affordable protective materials for all.

5.  為全港人民提保足夠及可負擔的防疫物資貨源，以及壓止防疫物資的價格飛漲。

6.    Withdraw the discriminatory advisory of the Labour Department “suggesting” MDWs to stay in their workplace during rest days

6.   收回勞工署呼籲移工於休息日留在僱主家中的「建議」。

7.    Abolish discriminatory restrictions like the “Two- Week Rule” and make the “Live-In Policy” optional to lessen the vulnerability of MDWs and improve our living and working condition.

7.  廢除歧視性的限制，例如兩星期逗留規例，又例如可以將必須與僱主同住的政策鬆綁，讓僱主與移工自己商討。如此，則可以減低移工的易受傷害程度，以及改進移工的生活和工作條件。

Let us all FIGHT C.O.V.I.D.! – Coronavirus | Overwork | Vulnerability | Inequality | Discrimination

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Bouteflika should repeal decree limiting free expression

March 22, 2006

His Excellency Abdelaziz Bouteflika
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Washington, DC 20008

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Your Excellency:

I am writing to strongly protest Your Excellency’s recent promulgation of a draconian decree further restricting freedom of expression, including sharp new limits on discussion of the conflict that ravaged Algeria in the 1990s.

On February 27, Your Excellency had your Cabinet approve a decree which granted immunity from prosecution to the perpetrators of the violence that split the country for nearly a decade. The decree denies the victims’ families and the media the right to further investigate the crimes and serious human rights abuses that took place, including the “disappearance” and killing of thousands of people, among them journalists.

This is a blatant attempt to prevent the legitimate researching and writing of history. We at CPJ, an organization that defends freedom of the press worldwide, are also alarmed that such a blanket ban would prevent investigation of the murders of dozens of journalists and the disappearance of at least two journalists during the war.

Djameleddine Fahassi and Aziz Bouabdellah, who disappeared in 1995 and 1997 respectively, are widely believed to have been abducted by members of the security forces. CPJ has closely followed developments in these two cases both before and after its fact-finding mission to Algeria in 1998. At least 58 other reporters and editors were killed by armed groups or unknown assailants between 1993 and 1996.

The decree threatens to punish by three to five years in prison and a heavy fine “anyone who by speech, writing, or any other act, uses or exploits the wounds of the National Tragedy to harm the institutions of the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, to weaken the state, or to undermine the good reputation of its agents who honorably served it, or to tarnish the image of Algeria internationally.”

The provisions of this decree are so sweeping that they amount to censorship and an attempt to control the writing of history.

This new legislation is all the more disturbing because it coincides with an escalation in the prosecution of individual journalists for their legitimate work. The confirmation on March 7 by an appeals court in Algiers of a six-month prison sentence handed down to Hakim Laalam of the daily Le Soir d’Algérie for allegedly defaming Your Excellency is one such case. Laalam was accused under a statute outlawing the causing of offense to the president because of an August 2003 column he wrote titled “The Spanking.”

Kamel Bousaad, editor of the pro-Islamist weekly Errissala, was arrested on February 8 and Berkane Bouderbala, managing editor of the weekly Essafir, was arrested on February 11, after their newspapers published controversial Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. The editors face charges under Article 144 of the penal code for insulting the Prophet and denigrating Islam. If convicted they face imprisonment of up to five years and heavy fines. Also on February 11, cartoonist Ali Dilem was sentenced to one year in prison for alleged defamation in a series of cartoons which criticized your administration.

Although none of these journalists has yet served a prison term Bachir Larabi of the independent daily El-Khabar has been jailed. He was arrested on January 21 at his home in the southwestern town of El-Bayadh and jailed the following day after being convicted of defaming the mayor of Na’ama district and sentenced to one month in prison.

In addition, CPJ remains deeply concerned about the criminal conviction of Algerian journalist Mohamed Benchicou, publisher of the now-defunct Algiers daily Le Matin, who has been serving a two-year sentence since June 2004 on charges of violating currency laws. We believe the charges were brought in retaliation for Le Matin‘s criticism of Your Excellency and powerful ministers. Benchicou is appealing at least three other convictions on defamation charges brought by the authorities.

The use of spurious criminal defamation suits and the imprisonment of journalists for their work bring Algeria closer to those autocratic regimes around the world that persecute independent journalists and turn their back on international standards of press freedom and due process.

CPJ calls on Your Excellency to revoke the February 27 decree and ensure a swift end to this unacceptable cycle of imprisonment and harassment of Algerian journalists who have already paid a heavy price for doing their job during the past 15 years. We also urge prompt action to bring Algerian legislation into conformity with international standards of freedom of expression and to allow the establishment of independent investigations into the “disappearance” of Fahassi and Bouabdellah, and the deaths and murders of 58 journalists between 1993 and 1996.

Thank you for your attention to these urgent matters. We look forward to your reply.

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TShirt Pillow

For this project you can use old t-shirts that are in good condition that you may have outgrown or accidentally shrunk in the wash. Or perhaps its a t-shirt of a loved one who is away or departed.

TShirt Pillow

What you need

Old T-shirt
Needle and thread or craft glue

If you are making this project in a large group you can obtain the t-shirts from your local thrift shop.

Start by laying out the shirt flat on a table. You can either sew the edges or glue them the choice is yours. Stitching will be more durable but for kids or a quick craft you can just glue the seams.

Glue or stitch the bottom of the shirt and the arm holes closed. Leave the neck area open for the filling.

A soft fiber fill stuffing will work well, but you can use other items such as beans, foam chunks or old rags.

Gently fill the shirt until it is nice and plump looking, then either glue or sew the neck hole closed with small stitches.

For a fun effect add some badges to the t-shirt pillow.

  1. gonna try this one..it looks cute 😀

  2. Love this! 🙂 im redecorating my room and need some cute, cheap ideas. This is a a great project when you dont have the money to buy brand new things. SCORE!

  3. be care ful needles are sharp :[

  4. i also used shredded old shirts for filling its just as soft =]

    5 i â™¥ this idea =]

  5. 5 stars its so cute!!

  6. That’s cute! I love it! Great of airplanes! :p

  7. This is a Great project and my kids love it.

  8. Good

  9. kool! Now when my doctow who shirt doesnt fit me i will know what to do!!!!!!!!!

  10. i made one out of pants with owls on them. they are baby blue pants with purple and blue owls on them. soooooo cute

  11. good

  12. totally wicked XD

  13. this is my new fav website!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

  14. so cool! i have way too many shirts that are too small for me so this project is perfect! 🙂

  15. I’m am13 and me and my gramma are probab;y going to do this today with a t-shirt that my friend outgrew and gave to me. it is a TEAM EDWARD t-shirt, goota love team edward, and the shirt doesn’t fit me so im gonna recycle it but instead im gonna cut the arms off first……

  16. I had an old beatles tshirt that hasnt fit me for years. so im glad i could finnaly use it.

  17. jennifer_yang007 says

    Loved the idea! I was searching for a project that can be done by our mental patients this is perfect!

  18. neat! (and quite tidywhen making)

  19. OMG! I was completely stumped on what to get my friend 4 her b-day! I’ll totally make her this! She loves anything plushie!

  20. great feeling

  21. it’s a really good idea. all the materials are in the house. it looks really cute and your using recycled stuff.

  22. very fun! my daughter had some old sport shirts which i made into pilows for her! then after her season i collected all her teammates jersey and made them into pillows for them after everyone signed them!

  23. crafty_cat says

    Awesome Idea!!! I love it! my t-shirt says “My cat walks all over me” on it and there is paw prints all over it too 🙂

  24. if you have a old t shirt you don’t have to throw it away

  25. cute!

  26. this is sooooooooo cute!!!!! 😛

  27. funny

  28. i like to cut the sleeves off before i sew so it is more of a pillow shape

  29. I will deffinatly do this and the t-shirt bag. lol.

  30. I have been decorating T-shirts with computer transfers. Some of them have not transfered well and I was wondering what to do with them. This may be the answer especially if I can add a badge or something over the trasfer that didn’t come out. Thanks

  31. Awesome idea! I’m 13 and i like to teach my little sisters crafts and such so this will be really fun for them.

  32. What a delightful idea! So easy and fun for the kids.

  33. I will deffinatly do this and the t-shirt bag. lol.

  34. omg this is tre cute!

  35. Rockingwen says

    I did the same thing even thought I am 11

  36. Very cool looking

  38. So cute. I think i may have to make some out of t-shirts my little sister has outgrown. They will look adorable at the bottom of my bed.

  39. I have done this before, My daughter had a tshirt that was made for the relay for Life, it was air brushed, “in Honor of Honey and Pa” (these are her grandparents) After her pa passed, and she outgrew the shirt it was VERY comforting to her to snuggle it.

  40. cool

  41. christmasbaby1218 says

    I’m making these also for christmas presents ! I also made one out of my daughter’s onies it was a little more diffcult but it still was easy and fun!

  42. im think of making this for my friends for christmas or just using some of my old tee shirts for my slef

  43. Im 12. what if you make pillows out of skirts. If u make the tshirt 2, then you can have a matching outfit:)

  44. Im 12. gonna make this w/ my friends. I bet even cool kids won’t laugh at me because these pillows are too cool:>

  45. christmasbaby1218 says

    These are so easy to make! I’m going to make them for the kids in my son’s preschool class w/there names on them !

  46. cute idea I am going to let my grandson design his own for his room he is 4 and I think this is something he would love thank you!!

  47. I like it! I would be so cool if it was one of those shirts with a tie on it! Anyways its a good idea. 🙂

  48. craftykid101 says

    I am just redoing my room and I think I found the righ pillow cases

  49. i think thiscraft is cute but is a wast of time for me to make because its not like i am ever going to use it so yah

  50. I used a sport shirt and made it a great gift for my uncle

  51. I have a sweatshirt that we had made for my mother before she died. It has pictures of her grandchildren on it. I was not sure what to do with it. Now I do! thanks

  52. Very cute-so nice to do with kids!

  53. Jeanette1234 says

    im always looking for ideas for the kids to do.

  55. This is so cool and it seems very easy! Great room decor…

  56. this craft is of the hook

  58. A child’s t-shirt with a trendy or latest comic design would be a good idea, too.Good for men or boys!

  59. ive seen this in a car last week…they did it using a baby’s football t-shrt…i’m a buy a couple now!

  60. Neat Idea and this brings another idea to mind. Does anyone have any info on making quilts out of tshirts. I would like to make one for each of my children using old tshirts from their sports teams,etc. Could even make pillows to match the quilts. :o)

  61. This sounds like a GREAT idea for my girls’ dance recital t-shirts that they have outgrown. Also, it sounds GREAT for my husband for his birthday or for Father’s Day! debsbigheart

  62. I love this pillow!!!!!!!!!!!!! Totally retro!I think it would look really cute if u used a tie died T-shirt! Lol! 😀

  63. Love the idea! This site has great projects and lvoe all of them!!!

  64. it is so cute and it is easy 🙂

  65. original but simple

  66. What a fantastic idea!!!!!

  67. I use football/baseball team sweatshirts to make these pillows and it is a great gift for men for Father’s Day, Birthday or Christmas for the den obviously.

  68. Its like so darn cool!!!

  69. OK

  70. I think it’s a cute idea for children or anyone else. Some people don’t appreciate what others do! I hate remarks like the ones i’ve read!!

  71. looks really,really cute!! I would totally make one. They are like the BOMB! SWEET!

  72. cute!

  73. Creative and very “green”. Good way to recycle. Im making them for my 4 boys out of too small shirts they got for free as souviners at an amusement park. Love it!

  74. sooooo cute ^___^

  75. I LOVE IT! I’m making a reading corner for my kids and these are going to fit perfectly! I’m going to make some of all shapes and colors!

  76. I love pillows and I have been wrestling with this idea for along time glad someone else agrees…..i love making pillows…to add spark put some patches or something on them

  77. Kinda cute, but no thanks.

  78. Kinda cute, but no thanks.

  79. hotness.

  80. this is a quick and easy christmas for my grandsons for memory pillow of their Papa that passed away this March thanx for sharing

  81. I love this idea. If we just cut out squares it’d just be a regular pillow, and no fun at all. I think it would be cool to get a HUGE shirt on sale or something, and make it into a large, comfy pillow…well, maybe not lol. Not sure it’d fit in anywhere.

  82. I think that’s a wonderful Ideal you are very creative, I would have never thought to do something like that, I am going to make some for my room and for my family and friends gifts. Thankyou please send some more ideals.

  83. reuse tshirts we love but cant bear to part with. Can sew it to fit cushions instead of stuffing cotton in 🙂

  84. What a fantastic idea. Everytime my boys are in a school musical or function we have to buy a shirt…. Now I know what do do with them when they get too small!!!

  85. practical idea to make use of an old tee.

  86. Nice idea to reuse old t-shirts, but I think it would be cool to cut out the sleeves so that you can have the essential design, logo or colors of the shirt but have a regular pillow. Love the ideas–keep ’em coming!

  87. I just Made one from a long-sleeved Shirt; cozy!!!!!!!!!!!Love this Pillow xxhorselover

  88. My girls love their T Shirt pillows. They love taking them on overnight trips.

  89. Its simple, and easy ill do this one when i out grow my next fav tee! love it

  90. Hi, I’ve done these pillows, only I put the sleeves inside and they become part of the filling. My pets have 2 each so while one is used, the other one is washed or aired.I have some which I use as cushions when having a beach bbq.So comfy and cheap.

  91. Really cute. Just make sure you wash the T-shirt first! :):):)

  92. Great craft project for my little girl’s first sleepover friends! Except for them, I had them bring plain shirts to “decorate” before the stuffing! Then they got to sleep on them! Such a hit for little girls!

  93. This idea rocks!and its fun

  95. wolfdance says

    it makes me feel comfy and warm since it gives you that feeling of pride after you made it!!!

  96. This is an awesome Idea! I love it! It’s a good way to getrid of an old t-shirt! This would be great for long car rides!

  97. It is so inexpensive and easy to do!! I LOVE it!! A great way to reuse a t-shirt that you have outgrown but still love.

  98. “yall stole my idea?”This is an older project, this person has taken the time to make it avaible with thier own personnel twist.VERY well done.And i cant remember the last time my tshirt licked my face,or peed on my carpet so no its not like a stuffed dog

  99. I think this is a great idea. I have made pillows and purses out of old sweaters and sweatshirts. I buy them when my senior Center Thrift store has them on sale for 25 cents. I cut the arms off sew them up and buy pillows from Wall Mart.

  100. I think it look’s kinda cool

  101. I think that this is a really cool craft idea for people who are just learning to sew.

  102. I think all of you people who post nasty comments on projects need to take a lesson from Thumper in “Bambi”, “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.”

  103. I got this idea 30 years ago to recycle old shirts!

  104. I agree I have one favorite shirt that matches the color of my room but the shirts to small, it goes great and its funky looking! love the idea!

  105. I made it for my moms friends b-day, she loves it

  106. I have so many t-shirts I want to keep but are too small! I think it’s great!

  107. chinchilla_chilieboy says

    hug it and i will hug u back!!!!i love it love josie

  108. chinchilla_chilieboy says

    then u need to learn how to get down with your crafty self!!!this is an awesone way to use old tee’s…if u wanted to, u could use it as a memorial 4 someone wit a fav shirt who dies…use a long sleeve shirt and u can use it as a snuggler….just hug it

  109. chinchilla_chilieboy says

    this is a great idea!! i love pillows!!!and how is this like having a stuffed dog on ur bed?!?!?!?i mean seriously!!!get a grip!!!its not like a pillow out of a thong or sumthin like that!!this is really cute!!!!i love this idea and if u dont like it u

  110. 🙂 2 thumbs up

  111. doesn’t matter if it’s like a stuffed dog, there sick

  112. NOT retarded, sick!

  113. I woder if you could use pants instead

  114. very creative, i’m doing it now… FUN

  115. oh cool!
    i’ve bin looking for summat for my mums b-day nxt week
    and i can’t find anything so i’m going to make one of thees but i need summat else can anyone email me at amywhinham@yahoo.co.uk
    telling me sum good websites?

  116. omg – what a good idea!!and it looks totally awsome without spending any money on fabrics or anything!

  117. an excellent recycle project and mothers will love it as much as the children

  118. GreenMonkey11 says

    its pretty good- i love pillows. i just think it’s kinda weird. although i like it. confusing. lol

  119. i thank it looks a hell of alot better when yall sew the sleeves so it’s a square.

  120. i thank its a funny idea of having a stuffed shirt on your bed then you can have all different kinds of different pillows on your bed.

  121. these make really great gifts for people going away to college or moving away. use a shirt that would remind them of you or somewhere you’ve been or something you’ve done together and when they miss you its like a piece of you is there

  122. I embroidered my friends’ names on the t-shirt and gave them for their birthday. That is a good idea about the baby shirts. I’ll have to do that next year!

  123. I made these for my friends for Christmas one year out of cute baby t-shirts. Guess who is now known as the best gift giver in my high school?

  124. that is so freakin’ awesome

  125. these are not mentally retarded

    they are really great and it is better than throwing it away

    i love my t-shirt pillow

  126. these are really great and comfortable

  127. It looks cool!

  128. can I wear it? :/

  129. Why not just cut a square out of the t-shirt and make a square pillow. More practical, really.

  130. absolutley darling!

  131. I think it’s a great idea, cause it is useful and very very cheap. ***** – Five Star

  132. neat idea for use of old t-shirts

  133. i vdon’t really have an opinion on this, but i just think that those who think this craf tis retarded can think that; but some people like it, so don’t go crashing them! people have different opinions.

  134. Use Vintage shirts for a cool vintage look

  135. LAME! very lame

  136. Teenagers can do this. Time to get a cool t-shirt at the thrift store.

  138. its something i have been wanting to try im glad someone else does too

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Australia BeerAlcoholics could end up in jail in Australia under new measures that experts warn will criminalise alcohol dependency.

The Northern Territory yesterday unveiled the country’s toughest police powers to target problem drinking, under which officers will be able to ban anyone charged with a serious alcohol-related offence from owning or consuming grog, or entering a licensed premises.

Those who continue to do so could face six months behind bars.

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The objective of the study was to investigate the validity of 3-D-accelerometry-based Berg balance scale (BBS) score estimation. In particular, acceleration patterns of BBS tasks and gait were the targets of analysis. Accelerations of the lower back were measured during execution of the BBS test and corridor walking for 54 subjects, consisting of neurological patients, older adults, and healthy young persons. The BBS score was estimated from one to three BBS tasks and from gait-related data, separately, through assessment of the similarity of acceleration patterns between subjects. The work also validated both approaches' ability to classify subjects into high- and low-fall-risk groups. The gait-based method yielded the best BBS score estimates and the most accurate BBS-task-based estimates were produced with the stand to sit, reaching, and picking object tasks. The proposed gait-based method can identify subjects with high or low risk of falling with an accuracy of 77.8% and 96.6%, respectively, and the BBS-task based method with corresponding accuracy of 89.5% and 62.1%.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1114-1121
JournalIEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Issue number4
Publication statusPublished - 2014
MoE publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

  • Berg balance scale
  • fall-risk assessment
  • gait analysis
  • biomedical measurements
  • accelerometers

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January 18, 2019

Placing IDPs on the Map in Ethiopia and Beyond

Written by Angela Wells, IOM Public Information Officer for the Department of Operations and Emergencies

This article originally appeared on Medium. Reposted with permission.

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An internally displaced woman carries a baby on her back at the Airstrip Area Displacement Site in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Photo credit: IOM 2017 / Rikka Tupaz

Addis Ababa — Climate change combined with conflict has resulted in a significant increase in the number of internally displaced people (IDPs) in Ethiopia in recent years.

“Ethiopia is one of the countries experiencing large numbers of internal displacement — 2.6 per cent of its population,” said Mitiku Kassa, Commissioner of the National Disaster Risk Management Commission of Ethiopia, during the 109th Session of International Organization for Migration (IOM) Council in late November.

To address this phenomenon, the Ethiopian government is taking an active role to develop strategies that assist not only its 2.8 million displaced citizens, but also drive long-term sustainable solutions for the 40 million people internally displaced from conflict in the world.

“We only managed to escape with our lives — we did not carry anything with us, only our children, but I know there are people here who have it worse than us,” said Samir*, a 22-year woman who was one of the nearly one million people displaced from communal violence in Gedeo-Guji zones in March 2018.

Samir fled with her husband, seven children and extended family members. Her family has found shelter in an unfinished building. Today, over 45 per cent of Ethiopia’s displaced populations stay in local communities, rented accommodation or with relatives, while 42 per cent live in camps.

The International Organization for Migration, IOM, provides lifesaving support and supports IDPs to begin their lives again with dignity. But creating circumstances where they can truly thrive, find new work opportunities, and access land, education and other services remains a challenge for humanitarians and governments alike.

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Internally displaced populations receive humanitarian assistance in Gedeo Zone after inter-communal violence in Gedeo-Guji zones displaced one million people in March 2018. Photo credit: IOM 2018 / Olivia Headon

IOM, along with governments and international organizations, promotes three durable solutions for displaced populations: integration in areas where they settle, relocation to a third location, or, ideally, return home after the crises they fled are resolved.

“The scale and complexity of internal displacement in Ethiopia require durable solutions. Cooperation among humanitarian and development actors is crucial so we can go beyond care and maintenance to address root causes and build resilience, allowing IDPs to build back better,” said Ato Tadesse, the Chairperson of the Federal Durable Solutions Working Group for IDPs.

The responsibility for caring for displaced citizens falls first and foremost in the hands of national governments; humanitarians endeavor to support and enhance these efforts. In Ethiopia, IOM has been an active leader in the cluster system — coordinating shelter site management, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and health efforts of humanitarian actors.

Since 2012, IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) has recorded occurrences and causes of displacement in Ethiopia, sharing data with governments and humanitarian agencies to allow for more impactful assistance.

“Collecting comprehensive data on drivers, trends, whereabouts and specific needs of IDPs has been a gap IOM has been filling for five years now.

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An Ethiopian woman who was displaced by seasonal floodings from her village near Kalafo in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Photo: IOM 2018 / Muse Mohammed

The DTM put these communities on the map in Ethiopia and raised awareness about displacement trends among actors, paving the way for a more targeted and coordinated response,” said Behigu Habte, IOM Ethiopia Emergency and Post Crisis Officer.

The information sharing mechanism became the impetus for a more holistic strategy for durable solutions, now being rolled out across the country.

In the Somali region in eastern Ethiopia, where inter-communal conflict has internally displaced more than one million people as of August 2018, the regional government planted the seeds for what has become a national strategy for internal displacement.

Beginning in 2017, regional leaders across the country engaged in participatory consultations with displaced populations to gather and address the concerns of IDPs, including insecurity, lost property and a lack of livelihood opportunities.

When devising the strategy, the Somali regional government also incorporated guiding principles outlined in international instruments for protecting, assisting and resolving displacement situations, and budgeted resources to help resolve displacement conditions.

In Somali and Oromia regions, local governments have already undertaken initiatives to relocate IDPs to new areas and provide livestock, land, farming tools and seeds to returnees who opt for agriculture-based livelihood. In areas of return, shelter, WASH facilities and irrigation infrastructure have been constructed.

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A member of the displaced community works at the construction of a communal shelter in the West Guji Zone. Photo: IOM 2018 / Olivia Headon

A member of the displaced community works at the construction of a communal shelter in the West Guji Zone. Photo: IOM 2018 / Olivia Headon
After a successful pilot phase, plans are now underway to replicate the initiative across the country. In October, the National Disaster Risk Management Commission established the National Durable Solutions Working Group, co-chaired by IOM and UN Resident Coordinator’s Office, to coordinate the implementation of this strategy.

The national group will use the lessons learned from this initiative to develop a national policy pursuing a “progressive resolution of displacement.” The initiative ensures IDPs can freely choose where they live, access the justice system, integrate in their new communities and eventually return to their areas of origin to rebuild their lives.

“The Government of Ethiopia reaffirms its commitment to a new way of working to better support its displaced citizens through establishing a national-level Resilience and Solutions Working Group for IDPs under multi-sectoral platform of the Disaster Risk Management Technical Working Group,” added Mr. Tadesse.

These efforts reinforce existing instruments that address internal displacement regionally and internationally, such as the Kampala Convention, signed by 40 African states in 2009, and the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, launched in 1998.

This year’s 20th anniversary of the Guiding Principles presents states with new opportunities to affirm their commitments to protecting IDPs and resolving protracted displacement crises.

IOM contributes guidance, based on lessons learned from global internal displacement contexts, to national initiatives in Ethiopia and beyond. As part of its efforts, the Organization has developed institutional policies and frameworks such as Migration Crisis Operational Framework (MCOF) and Progressive Resolution of Displacement Situations (PRDS) to equip members states to better manage forced displacement crises.

This article was written by Angela Wells, IOM Public Information Officer for the Department of Operations and Emergencies.

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Voice social media app by, the firm behind EOS, on 1st June 2019 announced that it is introducing a blockchain-based social media, Voice, that will bring alignment and transparency to social media users. This was made open at the company’s June 1 event at the DC Armory in Washington, DC. which drew about 300 attendees who included industry influencers, developers, investors, media and members of the community. claimed that “Social media is fundamentally broken and is in need of a complete overhaul.” Noting that Voice will be launched on EOS public blockchain and therefore is a more transparent social media platform for the world. And hence, the value of good content gets circulated right back into sustaining the community, not corporate bottom lines as it will return to users. Voice is then meant to cultivate creation, sharing, discovery, and promotion of contents by real users, not bots and fake accounts just like on Facebook or Twitter and users will directly benefit from their ideas and engagement on the platform.
Voice will be on the public blockchain of EOS and it will allow for alignment and transparency – no hidden algorithms nor invisible interests.
Brendan Blumer, CEO of, who opened the company’s June 1 event at the DC Armory in Washington, D.C. with the announcement of Voice said that “the truth is, current social media platforms are designed to use their users.” However, pertaining to Voice, he said, “just look at the business model. Our content. Our data. Our attention. These are all incredibly valuable things. But right now, it’s the platform, not the user, that reaps the reward. By design, they run by auctioning our information to advertisers, pocketing the profit, and flooding our feeds with hidden agendas dictated by the highest bidder. Voice changes that.”

Is Capable of this Social Media Revolution? is well positioned to lead this social media revolution because its first product, EOSIO, was a global initiative to build a more scalable, secure and flexible blockchain framework that enable people to reimagine, rebuild and restore trust in the systems enterprises. Its success with EOS has led to it offering early backers a huge returns for their investment. And notably, the numerous networks built on the EOSIO software are consistently the most used public blockchain platforms in the world, accounting for upwards of 70% of all blockchain activity. For example, Everipedia and Galaxy Digital LP are such networks that utilized EOSIO network. Security, privacy and ease-of-use will always be critical in’s projects.

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I need to verify some assertions about the minimalist Turing-complete language Jot.

Many of the assertions I want to investigate are semi-deciable (co-recursively enumerable). So far it's been fairly straightforward to literally enumerate every Jot program via its Goedel number and testing the assertion's complement by running a Jot program with a given space/time bound.

This works great for small programs (< ~40 bits) and has allowed me to find the shortest known representations of several standard simple functions from lambda calculus.

SUCC = J(18400)
CHURCH_0 = J(154)
CHURCH_1 = J(0)
CHURCH_2 = J(588826)
IS_ZERO = J(5)
MUL = J(280)
EXP = J(18108)
S = J(8)
K = J(4)
AND_2 = J(16)
AND_3 = J(139248)
OR_2 = J(9050)

However, this is particularly inefficient for larger functions and I'd like to speed up searches using a SAT solver. To do this requires unrolling the recursion of a Jot program J(n) to a predefined hard cut-off depth as a boolean formula.

Technically the formula isn't of polynomial length, but is still practically useful due to the small constants in program length and an already known existing polynomial number of beta reductions in an equivalent (but verbose) implementation of the target J(n).

I'm used to encoding problems in SAT formulae, however the new issue for me is understanding how to encode closures (nested functions) in an efficient manner.

None of the standard tools for bounded model checking that I know of allow nested anonymous functions, so I haven't been able to study any existing encoding methods. I would greatly appreciate any hints about how to encode these closures.

Here's the Jot interpreter written in Python which I'm trying to unroll into a boolean formula:

def S(x): return lambda y: lambda z: x(z)(y(z))
def K(x): return lambda y: x
def X(x): return x(S)(K)
def B(x): return lambda y: lambda z: x(y(z))
def I(x): return x
def J(n): return (B if n & 1 else X)(J(n >> 1)) if n else I

It's important to remember that SAT can only encode problems that are in $NP$, unless you use more than polynomial-length formulas. I'm not 100% sure, but I'm doubting your problem is in $NP$.

Consider the following function:

$F = \lambda x\ y \ldotp x x (\lambda y . y y)$

Now consider evaluating $F F (\lambda z \ldotp z)$.

This clearly runs forever, but we can also see that the argument given as $y$ will grow exponentially with the number of $\beta$ reductions you do.

Now, some things that aren't clear from the question:

non-deterministically represented candidate program

What does this mean? Is the program non-deterministic? Or its representation? What even is a non-deterministic representation?

static once created and have a small number of predefined variables within each combinator

Again, what does this mean? My example doesn't seem to fit this, but if whatever you're dealing with us Turing Complete, my gut says your problem is likely to be $EXPTIME$-hard.

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