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Playing cards featuring famous Welsh political figures celebrate country's ...

01.01.70

“How accustomed would it be to be placed into one of the main suits like everybody else? I would much rather be a redeem thinker and a card which can be used to great impact. I will be buying more than one set and shall send them to a few people in civil life who I think need a bit of a hint about ratiocinative outside the box. I can’t tell you who they are yet as it is going to be a stupefaction for them!”

The cards have been produced by South Wales-based staunch Protest and Survive, which specialises in political collectables.

Professor Russell Deacon, who commissioned the cards, said: “These cards have a civil story behind everyone on there, all are politicians that have succeeded in one way or another in Welsh, British or cosmopolitan politics.

“Many of the Welsh politicians in this pack pretend some of the famous political names in British description and I think people who buy them may be surprised to realise that some of these in and famous names were also Welsh politicians.

Source: WalesOnline

Burlingame mom's 'Crunch a Color' game puts health and fun on the dinner table

01.01.70

It was a predilection for noodles that launched Jennifer Tyler Lee's general new mealtime game. Like so many other parents, Lee figured her household had avoided picky eater syndrome when her toddler, Catherine, eagerly devoured whole grains, proteins, fruits and vegetables of every systematize.

"I was so proud," the Burlingame stay-at-home mom says, with a rueful guffaw. "I'm such a great parent!"

You can guess what came next.

"By the yet she was 5," Lee says, "her palate had narrowed to pasta and peas."

So last summer, Lee began fooling around with a homegrown unflinching at the kitchen table. There was no grand scheme, no feel mortified-business dream, just potato points, rutabaga multipliers and agency-drawn playing cards. Soon both Lee children -- Catherine, now 7, and James, 5 -- were wildly sampling beets and rainbow chard, adding up totals and declaring themselves nutrition winners.

Now, the Lee blood's card game has garnered national notice. Crunch a Color made the prestigious list of Dr. Toy's 100 Finery Children's Products of 2011, and celebrity chef and grammar lunch crusader Jamie Oliver touts it on his Comestibles Revolution website.

Source: San Jose Mercury News