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Hobo Engineering of the Day

Introducing the world's least versatile camera. The slogan says it all: "we can't all be heroes."




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Men At Play

Oh, did you think we were going to eat it? Haven't you heard, wasting food is the manliest game! ~Not-So-Handy Andy





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One Day




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Happy National Pet Day!




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Sally Forth Week: Say Hello to the Folks




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Sally Forth Sunday: Did Ted Already Know? (No.)

Note: Written and illustrated months before, well, everything happened.




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May the Fourth Be With You




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Mad Max My Darkest Days Come Undone

One of the people that I'm subscribed to on YouTube a while back did a tribute video to this song by My Darkest Days to the new Robin Hood movie starring Russell Crowe. I thought this song would be a perfect match to the Mad Max trilogy




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Doomsday Meat Sandwich

What do you get when you mix The Road Warrior, Escape From New York, plus a handful of other related movies.......you get Doomsday. The cannibal scenes in this movie inspired me to do a fan tribute video to Gwar's Meat Sandwich




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3 ways to boost your wifi for free

Having a wireless connection can be a great thing to have: you have fewer wires spilling all over the place for you to trip over, or for your dog to chew on when you're not looking. And it allows you to set up your computer anywhere instead of having it fixed close your phone cable outlet




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20 Ways You Can Increase Your Website Traffic

When it comes to ways you can increase traffic to your website there are dozens if not hundreds of ways to get more traffic. Depending on your website, the content or products you’re trying to get viewed, and the amount of time you can invest each day on your site, not all of those hundreds or ways are going to be as effective. You also want to avoid anything that could be considered “Black Hat SEO” as these types of tricks to increase your traffic may work in the short term, but get your website kicked out of search engine rankings.




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How To Autoplay Videos And Why You Don't Want To

How to get your YouTube videos to auto play on your website Depending on your site having your videos auto play can help your site stand out. When it comes to embedding your videos from YouTube however there’s no feature to set up your video to auto play. It’s important to remember before you enable auto play on your videos that doing so can actually harm your site. Many people don’t like videos or music playing as soon as they open a page, especially if there’s no way to turn it off that’s easy to spot. Look at your site to see if this is something that you want to do.




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How Does Three Way Linking Work And Is It Bad For Your Site

If you’ve had a website or blog for some time you know that in order to rank well in search engines your site needs quality one way back links pointing to it. Most of us know about link exchanges, link farms, reciprocal links and so on. While some of these are good and others you should avoid (link farms for example) one you might not have heard of is 3 way linking.




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8 Ways To Promote Your Facebook Fan Page

Just because you created a page on Facebook doesn’t mean it’s going to start magically bringing people to your site. In order for it to be effective you have to promote your page like you would your website. Here is a list of a few things you can do to get your page noticed.




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7 Ways To Get More Traffic From Stumbleupon

In my opinion Stumbleupon is one of the best ways to get more traffic to your to your site, especially if it’s brand new and your looking to get noticed quickly. If you’re not familiar with Stumbleupon it’s a web based service that allows you to discover websites, blogs, and videos without having to use traditional methods such as Google. Instead you can choose what topics you want to look for, click stumble and your randomly shown sites that meet your search criteria, if you like it you can give it a “thumbs up”. What makes this so appealing to site owners is that the more thumbs up your site gets the more times it’ll appear when that topic is searched.




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Should You Stay Or Should You Go - Bugging In Vs Bugging Out

To bug in or to bug out that is the question. Nobody can argue that being prepared in case of an emergency or disaster is a bad thing. If your like myself and live in an area that’s prone to natural disasters (in my case earthquakes) you would be very stupid not to have some level of preparation. For many this means having a bug out bag packed with all the survival goodies one could ever want and ready to go at all times. Again I think it’s a very smart idea and I have one myself. But just because you have a bug out bag, doesn’t mean bugging out is your only option when the SHTF...............




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8 Ways You Can Speed Up Internet Explorer

Nobody likes a slow internet browser; frankly it’s a royal pain in the ass. We have better things to do then sitting around waiting for a page to load only to stair at a blank page. When it comes to slow internet browsers Internet Explorer has a history of being slow and clunky even with the best connection possible. Even their latest update Internet Explorer 9 is still much slower then browsers like Google Chrome or Firefox............




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20 Different Ways To Make Money Online

Making money online, it seems every day more people are looking ways to make money online either to boost their income as a secondary source of income, or as a full time job. But if you’re relatively new to this how do you make money online? I put together a list of 20 different ways you can make money on the internet. I’ve broken these down into two groups, ways you can make money without a website or blog, and ways you can with a website. These ideas aren’t listed in any order of importance as some of them will work better for you then others.




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10 Ways To Speed Up Your Internet

Having a slow internet connection is a pain in the ass. I hate waiting for pages that seem to take forever to load, videos that constantly buffer, and browsers that fail because it takes too long to open a web page. It’s frustrating and I have better things to do just like you, then sitting around losing my mind because my internet speed is slower then the second coming of Christ. So I put together a list of 10 things you can do to speed up your internet...............




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3 Ways To Add Value To Your Content And Be Google Panda's Buddy

The recent Google Panda update was like a slap in the face for many website owners. Many became complacent thanks in part to link farms, article spinning or other forms of mass publishing a truck load of content at once. Because the Panda update recognized a lot of these as spam or lower quality content many sites were hit hard. Some losing more then 50% of their traffic overnight regardless if the site was legit or not..................




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How Poor Bounce Rate Affects Your Sites Ranking And 10 Ways To Fix It

If you use some type of analytics to monitor your websites performance you’ve probably seen its bounce rate. So what is bounce rate exactly? It can be defined in a couple of different ways; it can either be an indicator to the number of visitors who view only one page of your site and leave. Or the number of visitors who leave your site after a short amount of time (usually only a couple of seconds)............




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5 Ways To Make A Fire In An Emergency Without Matches

Knowing how to start a fire without matches is an important skill you need to know. Personally I recommend you never venture into the woods be it a camping or hiking trip without a means to start a fire, such as a magnesium fire starter, or wind and waterproof matches. That being said, in a disaster or emergency situation you might not have access to those emergency supplies you have stored in your bug out bag or emergency survival kit.......................




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Yahoo Answers 3 Reasons Why Its Good & 4 Ways To Help Get Traffic From It

So you have a website, or a blog that you want to rank well in search results. One place that you can easily get back links from, build your sites online presence, and get found in search results is Yahoo Answers. If you’re stuck with other SEO building strategies or looking to diversify your back links this is a good place to start..............







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Dodging the flu shot doesn't make you an anti-vaxxer, says union - The Age

  1. Dodging the flu shot doesn't make you an anti-vaxxer, says union  The Age
  2. Shop owners in virus-free towns plead to reopen  The Age
  3. UFC 249 preview - Ferguson v Gaethje, Cejudo v Cruz and…  BT Sport
  4. Why the best team won't win in a year that will be mental as anything  Sydney Morning Herald
  5. Wellbeing hit: modelling reveals huge cost of school closures  Sydney Morning Herald
  6. View Full coverage on Google News






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Coronavirus restrictions to lift in NSW from Friday, but will not be following all National Cabinet measures - ABC News

  1. Coronavirus restrictions to lift in NSW from Friday, but will not be following all National Cabinet measures  ABC News
  2. Berejiklian's roadmap to freedom in NSW  Sydney Morning Herald
  3. Mother's Day state by state: What can and can't you do?  The Canberra Times
  4. Permission to mingle: NSW will ease lockdown laws on Friday  Daily Telegraph
  5. NSW to ease lockdown restrictions from Friday  The Age
  6. View Full coverage on Google News




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Biting passengers on flight is no reason for cash compensation delay: EU court adviser

Air travelers cannot receive cash compensation if their flight is delayed by a passenger biting others and assaulting crew members, an adviser at the Court of Justice of the European Union said on Thursday.




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Five-year-old stopped on U.S. highway wanted to buy Lamborghini, police say

A trooper stopping a car with a suspected "impaired driver" on a U.S. highway on Monday was bemused to find a 5-year-old in the driver's seat, the Utah Highway Patrol tweeted.




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How to Iron Everyday Usable Embroidered Goods

You can iron your embroidery. I do it all the time! But I hear from a lot of people who …






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Tearjerker of the Day: Faithful Service Dog Walks in Deceased Owner's Place During Graduation

Josh Kelly suffered from epilepsy, a brain disorder that forced him to drop out of high school nine days before graduation. For nearly a decade, Kelly attended Idaho State University working toward a degree in geology, with his service dog, a black pit bull named Cletus, by his side. The pair would dutifully walk two miles both ways to catch the bus to campus.

Unfortunately, Kelly passed away in February just two classes shy of his degree. Nonetheless, ISU granted him a posthumous degree on May 10. In the young man's place, Kelly's tearful father, Terrell, walked across the stage with Cletus by his side and accepted the diploma.




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This Playhouse Was 3D-Printed From Concrete!

Designer Andrey Rudenko was able to use a 3D concrete printer to make layer after layer of this little castle. His next goal? A complete two-story house.




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Coolest Cosplayer in the World Dresses as Iron Man, Visits a Children's Hospital








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12 Inexpensive and Thoughtful Mother’s Day Gifts

Mother’s Day is coming up this weekend and, for a lot of us, it’s an event that won’t be like normal. The possibility of many Mother’s Day traditions, like a nice dinner at a restaurant, isn’t even possible in many areas, and social distancing closes the door on many ideas, whether it’s enforced in your area or not. So, what options are there for Mother’s Day that don’t involve just ordering a gift online somewhere and having it shipped to […]

The post 12 Inexpensive and Thoughtful Mother’s Day Gifts appeared first on The Simple Dollar.




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What to Do With Your Extra Cash From Staying at Home

One positive side effect of this period of social distancing is that, over the past two months or so, many people who have found themselves working from home and unable to go out — teachers, computer programmers, professors, accountants, office workers, engineers, managers and many others — have found themselves saving a ton of money. I’ve had several friends express quite a bit of pleasure at the amount of money building up in their checking accounts since they can’t go […]

The post What to Do With Your Extra Cash From Staying at Home appeared first on The Simple Dollar.




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My Go-To Mother’s Day Gift Keeps My Mom and I Connected, Even Though We Don’t Live Close By

It's also perfect for last-minute gifting. READ MORE...




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Done With Sitting on Your Kitchen Chair All Day? Check Out Joss & Main’s Office Chair Sale

Say goodbye to your uncomfortable wooden chair for good. READ MORE...




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10 Home Decor Trends You May Regret in 5 Years, According to Designers

If you're more timeless than trendy, don't go all in on these decorating ideas and materials. READ MORE...




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Social work student and service user role play sessions

This is one of seven stories, showcasing what service user and carer (SUAC) involvement in social work education looks like, what makes it work and what benefits it brings. It has a significant role to play in shaping the next generation of practitioners.

SUAC involvement in social work education has been mandatory for 15 years now, so there is a lot of learning to share with others who can learn from this - transferrable to educators and practitioners working across public services, and relevant to policy-makers committed to mainstreaming person-centred – or person-led – approaches based on real partnership working between those who use and those who deliver services.

Summary
This story is based around role play sessions that are held between social work students at the University of Strathclyde and members of the service user and carer group. The role play is part of an exercise called Fitness to Practise, so students have to take part in a role play before they go out on placement (this is done with second year undergraduate students on the BA course as well as first year students on the Masters course). Previously these sessions were carried out solely between students, but that didn't seem to be working, with it being much harder for students to imagine each other as service users and to use that experience to inform their future work.




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Freshly Squeezed: Kathryn Lindsay

Michelle Drumm interviews Kathryn Lindsay, who is the Director of Children, Families and Justice / Chief Social Work Officer for Angus Council. She is also the President of Social Work Scotland.

Since qualifying as a social worker in 2000, Kathryn worked as a practitioner across Angus and Dundee City Council justice services and in residential services at Rossie Young People’s Trust. She held senior posts in Dundee City and Angus Council in both Children’s and Justice Services before becoming Chief Social Work Officer in 2016. Kathryn has experience leading services that serve more than one local authority area and has an interest in collaborative service design.

She has a longstanding commitment to post qualifying learning, most recently achieving the Chief Social Work Officer Post Graduate Diploma at Glasgow Caledonian University. She has Masters in both practice and leadership based subjects and a particular interest in developing the workforce, promoting relationship-based practice and public protection.

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Music Credit: Make your dream a reality by Scott Holmes.