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It gives it a nice effect, even if it's not fully spread out, so that it lays completely flat, and the tissue paper, will also be a fun activity for the kids, that can give them more time to glue and paste. Make sure that you take pieces, and cover up all of the spaces. The wagon can be used to actually play with, because it does move, or it could just be used as a decoration to put things inside, and to be left, into a child's room. I've seen people even use this type of project to put plants and things inside, and in a playroom or a kid's room, so there's a lot of things you can do. It's a really nice project, and gives a lot of room for creativity, as you can decorate it, and cover it in any way you want, so now I've showed you how to cover the handle, and finish the project for the wagon. Nike Air Foamposite One,Sometimes drastic tactics are needed when unemployed some are good, some are not so goodSome tactics work, and other tactics don't work. That's the nature of looking for work . looking for a job . looking for a way to create an income. As someone who has been unemployed many, many times since getting out of college (and even before getting out of college), I've learned not to freak out every time a job goes down the crapper. There were a few times where my being "let go" was my own fault and stupidity. But most of the time, like during the dot com boom and bust and a few of the nasty recessions (1981, 1993, 2001, 2008, and so on), I was just caught in the massive layoffs like everyone else all of us taking our boxes containing our few items of personality out to our cars in the parking lot. Anyway, it's important to keep up your morale while you are looking for your next gig and the movies I've included here may help you with those stressful times. Some are funny, some are sad . lots of drama. and maybe some ideas on alternate ways of creating income while looking for a job. Likewise, the narrative is original and based on my experiences. Your mileage may vary. Sometimes it has to be mom who brings home the baconWhen my wife and I saw this movie at the theater for the first time in 1983, we had both gone through some major changes in employment. While in high school and then in college, I had been a rental car agent, a hotel tourist photographer, a magazine phototechnician, an airline employee, a research aide at an agricultural research station, a research aide at a university marine laboratory, and an English grammar and composition teacher at a parochial school. Then I became a public school science teacher. My wife had been a hostess at an upscale hotel restaurant, a substitute teacher, and a regular teacher at a public high school. Then, after only a few years as teachers, she and I both got laid off (actually fired, because we had the gall to participate in a union "labor action" [also known as a "strike"] by not walking across the picket lines). When we saw this movie, we laughed so much at many of the scenes because we could relate!Mr. MomI like Michael Keaton's easy going humor and sensitivity with his acting and Terri Garr is also a master at acting. This movie had my wife and I laughing until tears came to our eyes. The situation they were in was so easy to relate to because we had gone through similar struggles on the job market such as layoffs, major job changes, and the frustration of not finding jobs. If you want a good laugh, you'll love this movie! Sometimes work makes one do crazy things . and sometimes the lack of work makes one do crazy things. Finding creative ways to handle unemployment . finding ways to find new employment whether as a "job" or as a form of self employment sometimes is a struggle. But the movies presented in this Squidoo lens may give you ideas (don't do the crazy stuff or the nasty stuff . and how folks have coped with the economic distress this situation causes. Some of these methods of "coping" are not advisable, some of the methods are somewhat clever, and some of these methods are out of this world. In any case, these movies can give you some moments of laughter while you think of more "legitimate" ways to create an income! A remake of a classic this flick will give you some belly laughs!In the era of the Enron and WorldCom spectacles and the other shenanigans of the dot com meltdown years, this movie brought to light many of the emotions that the rising middle class goes through when they are hit with the stress and turmoil that a job loss even multiple job losses can cause. Fun with Dick and JaneThere are so many scenes in this flick that my wife and I could relate to. The side jobs, the trying out for new fields never explored, the misunderstandings that occur during job loss, and how spouses and partners must hold together during these hard times. My wife and I laughed throughout this movie some of the scenes are ridiculous, but at the same time, we can imagine ourselves giving them a shot. Uh, don't try the illegal stuff, it will get you in serious trouble. A seriously fun flick! More Drama (with a little comedy thrown in for good measure) . Unemployment goes through all the emotions!NOTE: Squidoo allows no more than 5 items in this kind of module. So, if you want to see a whole lot more goodies, you will have to click on one of those listed below, then always check out the suggested related items that will be listed at the bottom of the screen or let Amazon provide you with a huge list of goodies when you type in your keyword on their site. Also, we lensmasters are now limited to no more than 20 total Amazon links in a lens . This movie shows unemployment from the other side of the HR desk . from the viewpoint of those DOING THE FIRING (or termination, or downsizing, or whatever the politically correct term is for the moment). George Clooney's character looks at it like it's only a job to "let folks go" . and he gets a new partner who tries to get into the same mindset. As one who's been "let go" a bunch of times, I can relate to those on the receiving end of these events. A movie that might help you to understand the emotions that your spouse is going through when they get the boot or get canned or, more nicely, "laid off". Company MenAs some reviewers have said, this is more of a sobering movie rather than a depressing one. (Although I was sort of depressed after watching it . but at the same time, I realized the reality lessons it was trying to impart.) The movie shows a bunch of up and coming executives for a large conglomerate company who, when the company faces tough economic times, are laid off. The workers didn't save for a rainy day as they should have and their layoff packages don't last as long as would have been nice. Some are forced to move back to their parents' homes and sell most of their possessions. All have to consider jobs that are way below their education and experience levels (and even in different fields). The movie does have a decent sort of ending that is somewhat satisfying, but that still leaves a sobering lesson for all of us. National Security (Special Edition)A wild comedy (with some politically incorrect overtones that are okay because they are done by a person of the correct persuasioon). One guy gets booted out of the police academy because of his attitude (although he claims it was because of his race) . the other guy gets canned from the police force because he's been incorrectly accused of beating the other guy. Not only that, but he must serve time in prison.
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Prior to Elle at the We Bought a Zoo red carpet, Olivia Wilde, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Cate Blanchett have already worn looks from the Louis Vuitton Spring 2012 collection. On Elle, the white, cut out dress looked youthful and magical. The silver shoes, also Louis Vuitton, seemed a bit too hard, especially with the softness of the dress. Nike Air Foamposite One Last week a friend and vastly superior journalist, like me a cricket tragic since boyhood, made a depressing confession. County cricket had never interested him less, had never held such a tenuous grip on his heartstrings. I found it sobering and sad, and horribly hard to dispute. The conversation came back to me on Monday, the day the English county season began, unthinkably, in March. True, it was a surreal overture: the stage was Abu Dhabi rather than Abergavenny, the ball less a new cherry than a slab of bubblegum, the floodlights a gleaming symbol of the future. But still. Normal(ish) service had resumed. Yes, the sense of distance, of dislocation, felt considerably more than the 3400 miles separating Lord's from the Sheikh Zayed Stadium. Yet somehow, in bringing a symbolic end to a winter of deep national discontent and far too much snow, in filling the mind's eye with green tinted images of men seeking runs and wickets and everyday glory, of moist mornings at Worcester, cider tinted afternoons at Taunton, fish and chippy evenings at Scarborough and sea misted nights at Hove, it was hard not to convince oneself that here, at last, was a small reason to be cheerful. The heart, though, does not leap as once it did. For all the rich promise of youth, most readily apparent in Middlesex's cloud bumping Steven Finn and Leicestershire's diminutive Jimmy Taylor, the future is cloudy at best. Several clubs are deep in the red, yet they are far from alone in dreading the prospect of losing a projected 135m should Ashes Tests return to terrestrial transmission to whatever extent that loss might be absorbed by returning the well meaning but bloated ranks employed by the England and Wales Cricket Board to the confines of appropriateness. For newspaper readers whose first port of call each morning is the county reports, our fix has been doubly blighted, by declining editorial budgets and the tyranny of football, especially in a World Cup year. With editors paring coverage of non international matches back to minimalist proportions, the slack is being picked up by websites, but only to a small, tantalising and ultimately unsatisfactory extent. English summers, whose pulse once beat to the gently seductive rhythm of those episodic match bulletins, will never be quite the same again. Continuity, moreover, is a distant memory, sacrificed on the altar of progress. Every year brings change, much of it innovative and sound, too much a waste of time, money and/or thought. To go with bonuses for supplying players to the national team, there are now incentives for counties to field younger homegrown players, the clear intention to dilute the influence of South Africa's economic migrants but a decision with which the Professional Cricketers Association took vehement issue because of its inherent ageism. Appreciably more welcome is the two innings, 40 overs per side experiment to be conducted among county 2nd XIs. Here lies the link between Twenty20 and Tests; here lies the future. More troubling is the latest blue sky thinking by the ECB. Moves are afoot to reconstitute the County Championship, to dismantle the two tier format introduced in 2000 and introduce conferences a la Major League Baseball, the NBA and the NFL. This was first proposed, to widespread ridicule, by Lord MacLaurin's radical 1997 blueprint, "Raising the Standard" the same document that recommended a 20 over competition to similar derision. In theory this is to be applauded, especially if, supplemented by playoffs, this results in every side once again having the chance to win the Championship. However, the apparent means by which this is to be organised inspires scant faith that those responsible have their sights trained far beyond their own heavy breathing nostrils. The proposal reportedly on the table is that the three six county zones be rearranged every season, by random draw, tossed into the air like so much confetti. One could mount a more robust defence on behalf of Nike sweatshops. But perhaps sympathy is in order, or at least compassion. Finances are straitened, prospects uncertain. Is the recession history or is it simply having forty winks before turning into a full blown depression? Above all, what of the shadow cast by the breakneck pace of change in India? This is no time for the lily livered, but nor is it a time for hotheads. TO THOSE RUNNING COUNTY CRICKET, Lalit Modi's latest gauntlet, the schedule for the 2010 Champions League, is the biggest, prickliest, most provocative this prolific flinger has yet flung down. By setting up a clash with the last fortnight of the county season, and the entire ODI series against Pakistan, he gave Giles Clarke and his flexible and pragmatic but increasingly irritated team two choices: make the necessary changes or confront the sobering reality that, quite frankly my dear, I don't give a damn about your players (and don't get me started on those pesky Pakistanis). For Modi to chuck an as yet unscheduled ODI series against Australia in early October into the mix, as justification for the September 10 kick off, was either a slip of the tongue or having wisely worked out that nobody can keep up with the Future Tours Program the height of ingenuousness. Of course, it could all simply be another case of smirking brinkmanship, another chance to rub Pommy noses in the new world order. Clarke and company may not like the smell but deep down, in the heart of their wallets, they know this is a bullet that must be bitten. Having already brought forward the start of the season, the ECB has thus far refused point blank to make the additional "minor adjustments" Modi coyly called for. Michael Vaughan upbraided his former employers for being "arrogant and stubborn" towards Indian cricket in general, and Modi and the BCCI in particular. He is quite right, too, but this was not a case in point. Where the ECB goes from here is anyone's guess. Stick to their guns, to refuse to be dictated to by outsiders who are at once rivals and colleagues (in strictly theoretical ICC terms that is)? That would be brave, divisive, and given those gusts of change, somewhat foolhardy. To deprive the counties of a chance to earn a share of that Champions League booty would verge on, if not plunge headlong into, the unconstitutional. This is not a straightforward dilemma by any means. Yet for all Modi's insistence that second string teams are unacceptable, the make up of a Twenty20 XI often bears scant relation to a Championship XI, littered as the former tends to be with the young and the lithe. In any event, should either or both county qualifiers reach the last two Championship fixtures with nothing to play for, you can bet your life they'd field a batch of reserves and dispatch their limited overs experts to the Champions League. Even if they are in the running for the Championship or promotion, the lure of the more lucrative event is unlikely to be resisted. It is the broader canvas, though, that needs addressing. The ever rising number of Twenty20 games has left the county fixture list dangerously overweight. Yet again. Simon Wilde calculated in the Sunday Times that this season's nipped and tucked schedule now lacking the Friends Provident Trophy, the lone 50 over competition, and featuring a new 40 over league amounts to a maximum of 96 days' play, just two fewer than in 1998, when the Benson Hedges Cup was ditched to ease the workload. Given that the players now have to flit between three as opposed to merely two distinct formats, it does not seem unreasonable to suggest that their burden has never been heavier. THERE WILL BE BLOOD. No less inevitably, the next target for cuts will be the four day Championship, the least popular format and the only one that stands between county cricket and limited overs hell. Cutting the number of counties, or merging them on a regional basis, remains both the most sensible and the most highly charged option, rendering it a non starter (though for how long is anyone's guess). Tradition runs deep in these parts. County cricket draws bigger crowds, attracts hardier loyalties, than domestic competitions elsewhere. There is, moreover, an attractive compromise. Converting the Championship into conferences is a bright idea whose time has come, but it should be regional, to save on motorway miles and stress. Deciding which club belongs where is not without its problems, which may explain why a constantly revolving distribution is attracting favour. The trick is not to be too specific. A North and Midlands Division could comprise Derbyshire, Durham, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Yorkshire; a Mid Western Division might logically consist of Glamorgan, Gloucestershire, Nottinghamshire, Somerset, Warwickshire and Worcestershire, leaving Essex, Hampshire, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex to form the London and South Division. Home and away fixtures against each conference rival, with semi finals and final to follow, would trim the number of days' play from 64 to a maximum of 48 leaner, fitter and less likely to sap energies and appetites. No domestic team elsewhere, no island, state, province or provincial franchise, plays more than 44. Besides, it's not as if having 50% more matches than the opposition has ever been a guarantee of Test prosperity. Would this reformation help us greet future seasons with a greater sense of anticipation? Why not? If players are fresher, benefits accrue to spectacle and spectators. Would a slimmer county itinerary enhance its scarcity value and box office appeal? Quite possibly. Would a slimmer county itinerary contribute to a smaller carbon footprint and a greener and more realistic global programme? It couldn't hurt. There are some bitter pills out there. This is one that must be swallowed. AkkithehardcoreRCBfan, England invented top class one day cricket with the Gillette Cup in 1963 and the Twenty20 Cup in 2003. Remind me, what form of cricket originated in India? What India has done brilliantly is to market the T20 game. A three conference Championship (sic) is a rotten idea even fewer people would watch it. We have to increase the attraction and competitiveness either by reducing the number of competitions or the number of teams either would reduce the number of matches and rationalise when they are played, in blocks with more intervening preparation time instead of mixing up the various formats so no one has time to draw breath. To me (and I'm a traditionalist) the logical solution is to cut the number of teams to, say, 12, by amalgamation or from scratch franchise formation. But vested interests on the ECB will prevent this until counties start going to the wall. By all means cut down on the number of four day county games, whether its by a conference or three divisions ( I think amalgamating counties would destroy any remaining interest in the 4 day format, though it could well work in 20/20 as it would bring in a new audience)Can we have our England test players actually playing in the County Championship? It's crazy that only by attending a test match could youngsters be certain of seeing, for instance, Kevin Pietersen over the last few seasons. Also I'd hope for fewer games in windy cold April or late September and can't we have some games that START at the weekend, rather than make do with the "fag end" of a match on Saturday. Whatever may be the facts. The real thing is that ICC is just a Dummy and so as other Boards in front of INDIA! I'm not trying to show the power of BCCI. It's Just that Other Boards are just incapable of creating Innovative things!!!! Poor People they don't have same MARKET which BCCI has got in INDIA. You guys must be thinking BCCI means Board for Cricket Control in India. Apart from this you just reverse (BCCI) it will be ICCB. that means INTERNATIONAL CRICKET COUNCIL operated out of BOMBAY (MUMBAI) yorvik just because this particular suggestion is about as useful as a chocolate teapot, doesn't mean that there aren't sensible improvements that could be made to make CC games better attended, higher intensity and higher quality (the three things go hand in hand). Look at the Test match crowds and you see that there is clearly an appetite for watching 1st class cricket in this country, it's just that the CC as it stands is so arcane, poorly run, and poorly promoted that it holds little interest even for the serious cricket fan. Clearly the CC games need to be held Thursday Monday, every 2nd weekend so people can actually attend them, with 50 over matches on the weekends between, and the T20 games on weekday evenings. Might sound draconian to those who do not attend but, why not leave the amount of games and format as it is? Would those who do not attend be more likely to do so if we had three league's of six? What is needed is a day of the week when a first class match starts. There is no way to capture the potential occassional watcher if even the avid supporters are unsure as to when a game begins.
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