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Shiny discks

Several sizes of button and coin cell with 2 9v batteries were added as a size comparison. Enlarge to see the button and coin cells’ size code markings.

I've done this picture!--Wipsenade (talk) 03:01, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Good picture, mate!--82.18.196.73 (talk) 11:40, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Sinny disks!--Reatostly (talk) 09:06, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

A hoax on Gypsy tops and Peasant blouses?

Gypsy tops

Actress Carine Quadros in a cropped gypsy top, during 2006.

Dancers at America's Snoqualmie Moondance festival in 1992. The woman on the right wares a form of Gypsy top and a long, floral skirt. The skirt would become more popular with younger women and teens in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The top would become popular from about 1998 to 2002 with teens and older girls.

Gypsy tops are another feminine variety of T-shirt. In general a Gypsy top is white, have short puffed sleeves that are gathered in at the shoulder and bottom, (balloon sleeves), a low-cut boat necked, décolleté or scoop necked neckline, full or cropped-off loose fitting bodice and for the most part have either lacy, frilly or embroidered decorations on the neckline, hems and cuffs since the 1970's. Layla and Flora wore such tops in the Winx Club's 2006 series. There are now other more revealing, knitted, or ¾ length sleeved versions to.

Their origins

The Gypsy top was derived from the short sleeved tops traditionally worn by Gypsies in Eastern and Central Europe. As a modern fashion article, Gypsy tops and peasant blouses first occurred in the USA in the 1930's as the original Eastern European styled peasant blouses had first appeared in the USA during 1936. They had embodied patterns, puff sleeves of various length and the fabric was in various colours on most 'Slavic styled' peasant blouses.

By the 1940's the shortages caused by World War 2 had caused them to become more of a pretty looking up-market, embroidered, T-shirt than anything else. During the 1940's the Americans created the 'Spanish style' or 'Gypsy style' blouse. The item was basically a puff sleeved white t-shirt with a gathered neckline that was worn under either a drab coloured Bolero jacket, boleroise waistcoat or bolero shrug jumper and along with a long, coloured flamenco skirt.

1950-1998

1952 saw the modern, white, off the solder décolleté neckline and short (ballooned) puffed sleeved style come in to being in the USA. Both the coloured fabric and long sleeved versions were still going around at this time, while the posh t-shirt continued on during the decade. The neckline became smocked and or frilly in the 1980's, with knitted versions having Crochet work collars in the 1990's.

They were both still liked in U.S to a degree in the early 1970's and early 1980's . When they permanently took on their present short sleeved, smocked and crocheted form and started to spread to the British Isles, Ireland, France and Switzerland as a passing fashion article the early to mid 1980's. They then became briefly popular with some UK teens in the mid 1980's. Popularity declined the U.S. and the British Isles up to the late 1990's.

The comeback

Gypsy tops were also briefly popular in the UK, France and Ireland from about 1998 to 2002. They briefly caught on in parts of the USA, Italy, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina during the mid-2000s. Layla and Flora wore them in the show's 2006 series . They have been generally out of fashion since then. The mid 2000's some have become more revealing around the chest like this one worn by America’s Christina Aguilera in 2007 , while others types are now also being knitted with Crochet work collars or ¾ length sleeved in the UK and Ireland as of the late 2000s. They still occurred as children's ware in 2010. As of 2011 they became children's ware and the term was used for any fashionably styled teenage or young adult t-Shirt or blouse, including the genuine article. `

Peasant blouses

Their origins

As a modern fashion article, Gypsy tops and peasant blouses first occurred in the USA in the 1930's as the original Eastern European styled peasant blouses had first appeared in the USA during 1936. They had embodied patterns, puff sleeves of various length and the fabric was in various colours on most 'Slavic styled' peasant blouses. By the 1940's the shortages caused by World War 2 had caused them to become more of a pretty looking up-market, embroidered, blouse than anything else. A similar ‘Russian style blouse’ with embroidered geometric patterns a similar designed garment only occurred in in America during the 1930’s .

1950-1998

The modern idea of the 'peasant blouse' styled tops, were those mostly worn during and occasional before the 1960's. They had a squire neckline, gathered or scooped neckline and long puffed sleeves that were gathered in at the shoulder and wrist, baggy sleeves or flared sleeves that were wider at the wrist than at the armpit, like those traditionally worn by the people of Eastern European. They mostly became fashionable with the hippie movement in North America during the 1960's, up until 1969.

They were still fashionable to a degree in the U.S. during the early (1970)s and late (1977) 1970's. The remained in use until the mid 1980's. They were briefly trendy in Ireland and Australia during the mid 1970s. The UK, Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland and Germany took them up in the mid 1970's and dropped them during the early 1980'.

By 1978 a 'Bavarian style' type of blouse had also emerged in the USA. It consisted of a plain white blouse with a gathered necked with ties and long puffed sleeved worn with a dark coloured corselet and skirt, which has now largely gone goth.

The comeback

The 'Bavarian style blouse', corselet and skirt set took off with some teenage girls in the late 1990’s and went goth in the mid 2000's , and has gon goth.

Trinidad ant Tobago tried out the Slavic peasant blouses in the in the early 1990's. Peasant blouses were the in thing with peater pan cloars in Mexico in 1995-2000, V-necks for Ecuador in 2005-2009 and with scoop necks for Ecuador and Bolivia in 2008. Colombia, Peru and Venezuela had some in the late 2000's. They still occurred as children's ware in 2010 and 2011. As of 2011 they became children's ware and the term was used for any fashionably styled teenage or young adult t-Shirt or blouse. `

The hybrid

A white, flair sleeved, baggy, square necked and lace trimmed hybrid garment style occurred in the USA from the late 1970’s to the mid 1980’s and in the UK, France, Australia, Canada and Ireland in the late 1970’s mid 1980’s.

Started on.--Wipsenade (talk) 15:45, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

Up dated on.--Wipsenade (talk) 17:00, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Chimed on. Wipsenade (talk) 16:09, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Completed on.Wipsenade (talk) 03:35, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

:-)

Hiya and a big :-) ! --86.24.22.163 (talk) 10:31, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

November 2010 windstorm map.

It shows the victim nations of the windstorms, snow and floods caused by storms Becky and Carmen.

Vollar!--Wipsenade (talk) 04:44, 18 November 2010 (UTC) Updated!--86.29.78.240 (talk) 17:52, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

The European winter 2010 cold weather fatalities map

Chime?--Wipsenade (talk) 16:05, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

It shows number of fatalities in the British Isles caused by the events in question (Windstorm Carmen (storm) windstorm Becky and the November/December blizzards of 2010) from November 8th to December 31th. See file page for map key.

Snow Joke!

{{ The UK suffered major road grit and road salt shortages in places for the 3rd year running and to the worst degree yet!--Wipsenade (talk) 16:16, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

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It has not been yet.--Snow storm in Eastern Asia (talk) 16:48, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Thailand floods of late 2010 same subject as 2010 Thai floods

It would seem that you have written the article Thailand floods of late 2010 (d.d. 14 November) on the same subject as already appears in 2010 Thai floods. The latter had been started on 2 November. It would seem best to merge the two. - Takeaway (talk) 13:45, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

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File:The European winter cold snap of 2010-2011 deaths.png

Just a quick note to let you know I removed the speedy deletion tag from this image. The tag said the image should be deleted in favour of "File:The British Isles winter weather event deaths of 2010..png" but this file does not exist, even after correcting ..png to .png, on en.wiki or on commons.

Cheers,

Thparkth (talk) 15:14, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

It has now been made.--Wipsenade (talk) 16:54, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

File:The British Isles winter weather event deaths of 2010.png--Wipsenade (talk) 17:59, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

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Tallulah The Monkey

Tallulah The Monkey is a character from the movie Barbie as the Island Princess She is the adored pet of the queen. Her voice is that of Betsy Malone.

Character development

Tallulah the Monkey is introduced as a somewhat pompous, spoilt pet of Queen Daniella. After her cataclysmic meeting with Ro/Rosella her ability to empathise is developed and she ends the movie as a pivotal and crucially important heroine.

SCAMPER (brainstorming)

SCAMPER is a Brainstorming technique that uses a set of directed questions which you answer about your Probortunity in order to come up with new ideas. The stimulus comes from forcing yourself to answer questions which you would not normally pose. The questions direct you to thinking about a Probortunity in ways which typically come up with new ideas.

SCAMPER is an acronym which stands for questions relating to the following:-

S - Substitute/Simplify Think about substituting part of your product/process for something else. By looking for something to substitute you can often come up with new ideas. Typical questions: What can I substitute to make an improvement? What if I swap this for that and see what happens? How can I substitute the place, time, materials or people?

C - Combine Think about combining two or more parts of your problem to achieve a different product/process or to enhance synergy. Typical questions: What materials, features, processes, people, products or components can I combine? Where can I build synergy?

A - Adapt Think about which parts of the product/process could be adapted to remove the problem or think how you could change the nature of the product/process. Typical questions: What part of the product could I change? And in exchange for what? What if I were to change the characteristics of a component?

M - Modify/distort Think about changing part or all of the current situation, or to distort it in an unusual way. By forcing yourself to come up with new ways of working, you are often prompted into an alternative product/process. Typical questions: What happens if I warp or exaggerate a feature or component? What will happen if I modify the process in some way?

P - Put to other Purposes Think of how you might be able to put your current solution/ product/process to other purposes, or think of what you could reuse from somewhere else in order to solve your own problem. You might think of another way of solving your own problem or finding another market for your product. Typical questions: What other market could I use this product in? Who or what else might be able to use it?

E - Eliminate Think of what might happen if you eliminated various parts of the product/process/problem and consider what you might do in that situation. This often leads you to consider different ways of tackling the problem. Typical questions: What would happen if I removed a component or part of it? How else would I achieve the solution without the normal way of doing it?

R - Rearrange/Reverse Think of what you would do if part of your problem/product/process worked in reverse or done in a different order. What would you do if you had to do it in reverse? You can use this to see your problem from different angles and come up with new ideas. Typical questions: What if I did it the other way round? What if I reverse the order it is done or the way it is used? How would I achieve the opposite effect?

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In essence you should ask yourself questions relating to each of the SCAMPER words to come up with new ideas. Spend some time developing questions which challenge your current way of thinking.

NB. It is acknowledged that not all of the questions will fit in with every scenario, but you will need to extract the meaning of each question and develop your own which is directly relevant to your situation. It is the principle behind the question that you should apply to your own Probortunity, not just the immediate question asked.

External links

http://creatingminds.org/tools/scamper.htm http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newCT_02.htm http://litemind.com/scamper/ http://www.mycoted.com/SCAMPER http://people.bethel.edu/~shenkel/PhysicalActivities/CreativeMovement/CreativeThinking/Scamper.html http://www.idspace-project.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=67&Itemid=53 http://library.thinkquest.org/J002783/scamper.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yM9DrSpBIE