Recycled Art Ideas For Kids: Ladybug's Family From Plastic Bottles

Here are some great ideas for recycled art.
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Oven Barbecued Spareribs

4 lb	spareribs	1.8 kg
1 tsp	salt	5 ml
½ cup	Chopped onion	125 ml
2 cloves	Garlic, crushed	2 cloves
1 cup	ketchup	250 ml
½  cup	Chili sauce	125 ml
2 tbsp	Vinegar	30 ml
1 ttbsp	Prepared mustard	15 ml
½ tsp	pepper	2 ml
2 tbsp	Steak sauce	30 ml
½ cup	Liquid honey	Instructions

Cut spareribs into serving sizes. Put in large saucepan. Add 1 tsp salt and enough boiling boiling water to cover. Bring to a boil, turn down heat, cover and simmer 30 minutes.

Combine all remaining ingredients in a saucepan.Bring to a boil, turn down down heat and simmer 30 minutes.

Heat oven to 400 °F (205°C).

Lift spareribs out of cooking water and put them into a large sallow roasting pan in a single layer. Pour the honey mixture overall.

Bake about 45 minutes or until ribs are very tender . Base often with the honey mixture and turn ribs occasionally.

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Shut-Ins: Britain's Fattest People, Review: A Touching Story

Aftab tries to lose weight on Channel 4's 'The Shut-Ins: Britain's Fattest People' Photo: Channel 4
Successful in its outcome was Shut-Ins: Britain’s Fattest People (Channel 4), a poignant study of the lives of two morbidly obese people attempting to transform their lives. It opened with a startling statistic: there may be as many as 50,000 people eating themselves to death in their homes.

Sharon Hill, 33, and Aftab Ali, 31, are in this category. Hill’s story was heartbreaking – she went on her first diet aged eight, met husband Andrew in an internet chat room for admirers of big women, and now weighs over 46 stone. “About four years ago I walked to the Co-op and back,” she sighed. “Some days I hurt so much, all I want to do is cry.” Ali’s, too, was incredibly sad: at 39 stone, he spends his days and nights in an armchair, cared for by his 21-year-old wife, Millie. “I don’t know much about what’s happening out there,” he said, gazing wistfully out the window.

The purpose of the programme wasn’t entirely clear – but it seemed that, in return for letting cameras into their lives, Hill and Ali were offered transformative treatment. Hill had bariatric surgery (which resulted in her losing a quarter of her body weight) and Ali got counselling and a personal trainer (helping him lose six stone).

The show started as a documentary about obesity but ended as a touching story about love, relationships and identity. There were enough grim clips of binge-eating to remind us of the root message (ie food does not make you happy), but more interesting were Hill’s relationship with her husband’s daughter, desperate for her to lose weight, Millie’s journey as a dutiful wife, and both couples taking tentative steps towards recapturing romance. The final scene, showing the empty chairs where they once sat, helpless and unable to stand, was a striking, fitting conclusion.

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Blogging

A blog (a truncation of the expression web log) is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the most recent post appears first). Until 2009 blogs were usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often covered a single subject. More recently "multi-author blogs" (MABs) have developed, with posts written by large numbers of authors and professionally edited. MABs from newspapers, other media outlets, universities, think tanks, advocacy groups and similar institutions account for an increasing quantity of blog traffic. The rise of Twitter and other "microblogging" systems helps integrate MABs and single-author blogs into societal newstreams. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

The emergence and growth of blogs in the late 1990s coincided with the advent of web publishing tools that facilitated the posting of content by non-technical users. (Previously, a knowledge of such technologies as HTML and FTP had been required to publish content on the Web.)

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Photo Paper Development

The processing of photographic developer is one or more chemicals that convert the latent to a visible image, developing agents achieve the conversion by reducing the silver halides into silver metal. The conversion occurs within gelatin matrix; the special feature is that the developer only acts those particles of silver halides that are exposed to light.

The time over which development takes place and the type of developer affect the relationship between the density of silver in the developed image and the quantity of light.
 Here are some hints of how it is done:

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DIY: Fall Leaves Decoration

If you enjoy collecting fall leaves, here's how you can transform them into an artwork that will decorate your home.

You’ll need:Yellow fall leaves (different sizes)Strong liquid glueWhite background (cardboard or wooden board coated with white paper)Thick brushGold paint or spray paintColorless varnish for furniture or other surfaces (to make the leaves shine and last longer)

You will need to collect leaves from two different trees, for example large maple tree leaves and some smaller ones. First let the leaves dry, putting them between the pages of a book or a notebook. Then coat each leaf with a layer of varnish using a brush. Paint the smaller leaves golden. Let the coated leaves dry well. Make a plan how to arrange the leaves on the background (note that you need to leave a little space at the top, as shown in the picture). Glue the leaves carefully. If some of the leaves are out of the bounds at the base, gently cut the ends.

Glue the golden leaves over the other leaves. Finally, write something on the white space such as “fall”.

Your fall DIY project is completed. You can place it in the living room and enjoy the warm artwork that you made yourself.

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Social Media Ablaze With Apocalyptic Images Of Historic Downtown Los Angeles Fire

LOS ANGELES, California -- Social media is ablaze with images from a historic conflagration that wiped out a developing, wood-based mixed commercial and residential structure. The fire forced the closure of the 101 Freeway in both directions.

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