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This set of cards was created as a publication to highlight how gambling addiction changes lives.

The cards are sequenced in order to tell the tales.

In order to navigate the publication you’ll need to have the deck facing up, then take the top card, flip it over and place it on the left. You’ll see that the cards correlate with eachother and the set works like pages from a book.

How Broke was I? http://www.gamblersanonymous.ie/stories/ personal_stories.php Lotto Meltdown http://www.thefix.com/content/scratch-cardgambling-addiction7901?page=all Right Direction http://www.gamblersanonymous.ie/stories/ personal_stories.php Poker Problems http://www.themorningnews.org/article/thehigh-is-always-the-pain-and-the-pain-isalways-the-high

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This publication was created to inform those who are unaware of the severe effects gambling addiction can have on a persons life. If you feel that somebody you know may be addicted to gambling, or you’re becoming aware of your own addiction, please do not hesitate to contact Gamblers Anonymous through their website: http://www.gamblersanonymous.org.uk/

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Hello, my name is John and I am a compulsive gambler.

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The only gambling in my house growing up was Cheltenham once a year. We would put all the names of the horses running in a hat and each of use would pull out the name of a horse and my Dad would put down a bet for us. All through my early 20’s I did occasionally go into bookies and bet on the odd horse/but to be honest gambling didn’t really interest me at that stage of my life.

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My first serious bet was the world cup I would have been about 26 at the time. I had placed this bet online with my credit card. I bet on a correct score and it won. I and two of my friends started to gamble on football every weekend from then on.

I wanted to feel part of the crowd. In the beginning between my share dealing and my online football betting I did very well for the first six weeks , however the amounts started to get larger and I was finding that all my savings was going to paying off credit card debt. I was also starting to take out loans to finance my gambling.

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I can remember the first time I went into a Casino; I was with Don and my girlfriend at the time Debs.

I remember the feeling of being alive and the rush of Blackjack. Even 30 seconds there would be a rush of adrenaline and I was placing larger and larger bets on each hand. I am addicted to everything about Casinos but especially the buzz of winning. Blackjack for me is a very hard and fast game custom designed for an addict like me.

Winning in a Casino give me a feel of self worth, when I won I feel I was of value to the world.

This is something I did not feel in life or growing up.

I remember thinking at the time “where have you been all my life?” From the first moment I walked in a Casino I was totally addicted. It fed into every insecurity I had as a person. Here was a place I did not feel lonely and it made me feel good inside.

Here was a place that took away my worries.

Here was a place that I did not need to feel.

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During my weekend online football gambling sessions with my friends in Meath I used to go into the Casino on the Sunday on the way home.

I can often remember losing large amounts and not going near a Casino for months at a time.

At that stage of my life ever spare bit of cash was being used to finance my gambling. I never went away for any weekends with any of my girlfriends.

I had a problem with gambling but I did not recognize it at the time.

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I remember meeting Susan in one of the local bars and falling hopelessly in love with her. She was my world and I would have done anything for her.

When she walked out my life my gambling totally took over. I hit the casinos very hard.

I remember sitting at a blackjack table hating myself and the world around me. How could there be a god? I would run back and fore to the cash desk taking more out on my Laser card. If it was not the Casinos in Dublin it would be the ones in London or Bolton. I often went down a large amount within a very short period of time.

I also started gambling on the online Casino web sites. I would often gamble on the online Casinos all night long and lose large amounts of money.

Things took a downward turn in Boston when I discovered scratch tickets. Just the mention of them has “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” lumbering through my head. More than 150 million of these toxic enticements are sold every day in the United States—that’s one for every other citizen. That’s how I assimilated. You’d see me on the buses, nicking away at an Instant Millions, or in the barrooms, my nose pressed into a Set for Life. One card at a time, it drained my bank account.

I was totally out of control. I continued to gamble and my rock bottom started to get lower and lower.

I lost respect for myself and would often gamble right down to my last Euro. I was finding it impossible to stay out of Casinos. I couldn’t go into town for a drink without ending up in a Casino.

I remember waking one morning after a serious gambling binge at a Casino and thinking “this is not normal - you have a serious problem.” I made a call to Gamblers Anonymous and had my first meeting.

I wrecked my marriage and alienated my friends.

I had landlords frothing on my doorstep, bosses asking where the hell I’d been all afternoon, when the truth was too humiliating to relate: I was sitting on a stoop, or at a cafe, scratching at rolls of cards for hours at a time. So I’d stop playing. I was always stopping. There were times when I’d spend entire weeks forgoing the opportunity to become a wealthy man.

From the first moment I walked into a GA room and starting hearing everybody’s stories I did not feel alone for the first time in my life. I could relate to everybody in the room. I remember saying to myself in my mind as I heard each story - “that’s me”. I had to make a real effort to stop gambling.

I got rid of my laser and credit cards. I have an ATM card with a very low limit on it. I never carry large amounts of cash. I don’t look at any gambling on television or go near any gambling establishment.

I go to as many meetings per week as I can (at least 3). My gambling was 100% so my recover needs to be the same if I am to arrest this addiction. Each morning as I wake I say the same thing to myself: “No matter what happens today I will not gamble.”

Things improved when I moved to Dubai, in 2004.

Here, gambling is prohibited, and for six years I only ever played when I went abroad, mostly in casinos. I had some great nights and some horrible nights, but they were only nights. For the most part, I’d learned to live without the tingle of possibility. It was boring. Then, in 2010, I moved to Spain, and discovered the fruit machines all over again. A year later I was back in England, living with my sister, scrabbling to make a living, mainlining Rainbow Riches and Reel King.

I speak to GA members every day on the phone. I also now have a sponsor who as times drives me up the walls! He keeps telling me “that’s my job!”, but is a huge support and keeps me on the straight and narrow.

A dopamine junkie. Chemical infusions aside, I still cling to the idea that has to be some level of reasoning in all this, and here, once again, I return to the principle that led me to invest in Lucky Bags. It goes something like this: You have a little cash in your pocket, enough to buy a pack of smokes, a sandwich, and a beer.

This is your immediate future, and it is fixed.

Put that money into a fruit machine, and instantly new horizons open. Invest in a top-of-the-line scratchie, and there’s a blossoming of possibility houses, cars, holidays.

To complicate matters, I have a problem distinguishing chance from luck. Every time I miss the bus, I suspect that the cosmos is involved. This metaphysical grudge, I think, just feeds the gambling bug. As Dostoyevsky’s Gambler put it, in the midst of a horrible losing streak: “A strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire to challenge it, to put out my tongue at it.” And fate responded by bopping the guy in the face: “I walked away from the table as though I were stunned. I couldn’t even grasp what had happened to me.”

So the Gambler plays the role of tragic hero, brought down by his willingness to butt heads with fortune. What courage! What folly! It’s not quite the same, is it, when you’re debating whether your last two dollars should be spent on a carton of milk or a couple of spins on Cops ‘N’ Robbers. I wish I could go to Monte Carlo and bet the farm on an ill-fated straight flush. But, the truth is,

So I’m reduced to bankrupting myself bit by bit. It’s embarrassing.When you think about stopping for good, you imagine a watershed, the judge banging his gavel; the straight-backed chair teetering beneath your feet. This is harder to achieve when ruin comes in increments, when you stumble-bump your way to the bottom.

I had a run-in with an editor and former friend the other day, a guy who had promised work and then failed to deliver. “Did we owe you something?” he wrote after I bemoaned his lack of consideration. “Was it us sitting on our arses all day playing fruities?”

That’s low, but is it low enough? What about the lying? The begging and bartering? What about going into your local shop to ask for a pack of smokes on spec and being turned away? Or watching your three-year-old daughter eat the last of the fish fingers and hoping she leaves a little for you? Every indignity and deprivation leads to a promise: This is the end! You will stop. You’ll get better.

You will get back on your feet again.

I L LU S T R AT I V E R E F E R E N C E S S U C H AS THE INSIDE OF THE DIAMOND EMPTYING OUT AS THE DECK My name is Paul, I am a compulsive gambler, and I am in recovery from my addiction for over two years. My last bet was in December 2009.

I never liked sports; I never had an interest in sport not evening when I was growing up. I liked playing cards, I remember watching the bigger lads play them, so as I got older I was very much attracted to playing poker with the lads I went around it we played on the street, small stakes but there was something very exciting in it for me, having the better hand and the thrill of pulling in the pot, the whole sitting on the ground using someone’s jacket as the table for the coins. I got a thrill from pulling in the better hand, and reaching over and pulling in the winnings. I was 15 and started playing poker machines; I would go in to the snooker hall next door to where I worked.

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At first I was playing them for small amounts of time, going in the odd half hour and trying my luck. The lads I worked with would be playing snooker or pool on their breaks but I seemed to be getting more and more attracted to the machines. They were in a dark corner of the hall 4 or 5 of them lighting up, making noises that came with having to go high or low on the outcome of the card it would give after getting a winning hand, and trying to keep this going across the screen. It soon went from the odd time to every day and came to a stage pretty quickly if I hadn’t the money to play I would find myself sitting there looking at others playing the machines, it was the nearest thing to playing myself I suppose. So looking back at this now as I am writing, I can see the addiction taking hold.

The mates I had would be heading off at the weekends down to Tipperary for a laugh and camping, I seemed not to be able to go with them on some of these trips, and I would have to tell them I had no money, which was mostly true after been playing the machines.

My wages and tips would have been gone and I was starting to let people feel sorry for me, letting them chip in for me so I could go. I was starting to put on the poor face quite a lot.

I had started taking amounts of money from the job, convincing the barman I’d giving him a twenty instead of a ten, not having the full money for my gran who’d I lived with, borrowing from other mates not paying them back when I promised, playing one off against, I will fix you up next week, all that sort of thing. This became a normal way of behaviour for me.

I had the chance to head to London to work at 17, the boss who’d I’d been working for his pub went into receivership and he asked me and another chap would we go and work in a pub he was going to open so off we went. This was to be a good chance of doing well we were to live in everything was paid and we got a wage in sterling on top of this. I hadn’t seen a poker machine over there, but what was there was fruit machines every pub had one and our place had one also.

It wasn’t long for me until my same behaviour started up again putting my wages into these machines. Nudges lights spinning wheels buttons everywhere, I would play them in all the different pubs on my breaks and on my days off.

I started borrowing again, taking loans from the till with the intention of putting it back on pay day. I got into the cycle of borrowing on my pay day this was the way I fed the addiction and covering up the money I had started taking from the till. Not ringing up the money for drinks and pocketing the amounts. I always had a way of making things balance I had to become clever and devious to keep me able to gamble. The pub wasn’t working out for the boss he gave it back to the Brewery and headed back to Ireland, My friend and I stayed and got work in various pubs. By this time the lying started to escalate.

I went to the police and tried to convince them I had been mugged by a couple of black guys, I thought this would sound more convincing for my friend who I was ashamed to face because the real story was I was after losing money that was for him. He had previously mentioned about my gambling, and how he seen it affecting me.

He had got me a job and was after looking after me with money.

The girl I was with at the time had lived in London for quite a few years she had enough of the place, I am sure she had enough of the sometimes fights and arguments.

We were on the boat on our way to starting our new life, my girlfriend had fell asleep and when she woke I had to turn around and tell her I had lost the money on the pontoon table on the boat I felt disgusted with myself and cried and she let me have it what she thought of me for doing this.

I never even fully thought of the consequence doing this on her and having to arrive home at her parents stone broke, and to have to make up lies to her parents about having nothing returning home. I got a job with a builder and she got work as well, we had got a little flat together and things were going just about ok.

I never really settled in, Clare, she was meeting old friends she grew up with and I was out socializing with her mother more.

I started to get jealous of her meeting her old mates and became insecure in the relationship, I would pick fights with her blazing arguments, which in the middle of I would head out to gamble, and later when I got home I would make her feel she was at fault for starting the fights, and for making me leave London to come to this stupid place.

I broke up the relationship and ran off back to Dublin and ended up back playing the same

poker machines. I started a job fixing tyres for month or so then got in with a builder who’d came into get a wheel barrow punter fixed I went to work for him and settled back in with the gran I’d lived with years previous. I had started getting involved with bookie shops and was betting on horses and greyhounds. It was the same excuses when it came to handing a few bob up to the gran, didn’t get a full weeks wage, or one of the lads was in a bit of trouble, I will give you double next week, it was always some excuse. I was spending more time in the bookies and the gambling got faster and the bets got larger, mixing horses with dogs, and doubles with golfers and football teams.

Pain in poker comes in many forms. There is the loss you feel about living off of the dregs of a societal illness. There is the gambler’s moment of clarity when you realize you have become just like the old, sad men that you ridiculed in your younger, luckier days. There is the tedium of sitting at a filthy felt table for hours, sometimes days, feigning a studied intensity. over explaining to a loved one exactly how you lost $30,000 in the course of a weekend.

There is searing unease that comes from watching that same loved one twist uncomfortably whenever you give them a gift bought with the spoils of gambling. But none

If I went out for a drink with mates I couldn’t sit and have a chat or a laugh, my mind would be on a bet I had going or my full attention was taken to looking up at the television where I’d have a horse in a race. If I’d say I am just heading down to do a horse back in a minute I’d truly believe at that time I would be only gone for a moment. An hour or two could pass with no regard for the person whose company you are supposed to be in leaving them sitting there.

I am sure people could see how it was affecting me; I could but didn’t want to see it or do anything about it.

If I got big wins which I did often I would feel all powerful and pretend I had this thing under control, I would lead people to believe I was doing great, all smiles and happy on the outside a great guy. When inside I was all over the place in my head the addiction was dominating my thinking, and I would be plotting hours of gambling even how I’d gamble the next day or couldn’t wait to get out of people’s company so I could sneak off, I was not having much contact with members of my family. Gambling seemed to be taking over my whole life, and I became less interested in people and all energy seemed to be directed at the gambling.

I started in a permanent job, which I am still in today. I got on well in it working with many other lads, had met a new girl and things were going well enough I really enjoyed the work and was managing to keep the gambling under control for the moment, maybe it was the feeling of happiness with the new girlfriend and the fact we were going to have a child together.

I wasn’t isolating as much and was starting to go out after work with some of the lads in the job, It seemed I was only going to the bookies at the weekend, a lot of new work had started in the job and it meant I had to go working all over Ireland, some of the lads were playing cards at lunch times and after work in the hotel we were staying in.

patterning is the only thing taking attention away from his Dolce & Gabbana sunglasses and the poor, doting, usually underage girlfriend who sits behind his right shoulder, awash in the illusion that her boyfriend is Paul Newman from The Hustler—well, win $5,000 off a guy like that and you stop worrying about ethics and your misspent youth.

The real pain of poker, the only chronic, threatening pain, comes from the daily loss of livelihood—how a player views himself in the face of losing. Pain tolerance, then, is not measured in how well the player can take a bad beat or how long he can sit at a table without questioning what the fuck has happened.

Rather, it is how the player handles an inevitable losing streak and the extent to which he will allow losing to affect his idea of himself.

After a month straight of losses, a player can become convinced that losing is his role.

Going broke becomes his thing to do, his inevitable outcome. The fog of losing, which feels like a seething, dirty steam in the veins, seeps into everything.

That is the pain of poker that must be endured and held at arm’s length: the pain that causes you to turn your vision of doom into a fate-bound story, as tragic as fiction.

Six months after that morning in the Mercedes-Benz, I was sitting in the driver’s seat of my Subaru Outback, in a massive parking lot in Commerce, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles known for the blasts of dust that terrorize its inhabitants. Twelve thousand dollars lay wadded up in the glove compartment. I was trying to decide if I had what it took to drive home. To help delay a decision, I remember turning the radio to a Dodgers game. I don’t know how long I sat there listening to Vin Scully sing his nasally

I quickly got involved in the poker, and 7 card stud games, I had always fancied myself as a card player as I loved it when I was younger, Everyone seemed to have money, we were getting well paid for the job we were doing, and expense money for staying away. The card games started to get into hugestakes pretty quickly and I often lost big but there was always enough money floating to touch someone up until pay day. I’d started getting credit cards and pretty soon was using two of them at the same time.

I had no regard for money it was easy to come by and I was after joining the credit union in the previous year and was after been in and out a couple of times for loans for different things which mostly were really gambling related. I was spending more time away even when I didn’t have to, making excuses to the girlfriend that they needed me to be there, or other lads were on holidays this gave me ample time and the freedom for getting stuck into the betting shops and the large and lavish lifestyle that I was being accustomed to while working away.

Playing cards most nights, gambling in the betting shops during the day, drinking and totally losing the run of myself. I had started fighting with the girlfriend when she was down visiting, I was trying to keep the life I was living secret and pretending to her I was in bed most nights early, these fights did carry on when I was back home I didn’t like been questioned about what I was doing or been challenged or accused I just couldn’t be truthful to her.

died, I was starting to lose total control gambling every day, all the borrowing and juggling and constant tension was getting too much to handle all the plotting and scheming I had a lot of people in my head, who I’d pay this week, leave him till next week, if I give him half I’d a lot of people on the go borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. It became a chore to take my son out I’d promise him the park or the pictures, a lot of the time he got neither as it was the bookies always first. I remember being delighted when he’d ring and say his football was called off, that would mean I could spend the day gambling I had became so selfish he used to say dad are we getting out of here I’d let him write out bets and put them on for him.

Give him money in the bookies to keep him from wanting to leave. Try to convince him that it was ok and letting him get to look at races depriving him from things he would have liked to do for his time with me. I started getting very sick in my head constantly obsessing uncontrollably about gambling. Changing the outcome of races I would have lost on that day, rerunning them over in my head, placing bets while I was in bed body asleep but the mind was racing.

My work was suffering I wasn’t doing what I was supposed to, letting others carry the load my concentration was a thing of the past.

I was feeling so hopeless and empty inside the addiction had total control of me.

My appearance had changed I was living with this constant tension and pressure. I was so deluded this thing was much more powerful than I was and it was destroying me.

It had brought me to my knees very near death or one step away from insanity. This was the

I had intended to marry his mammy we were in love but through all the fighting and blaming, me been away and the controlling nature that I held over her along with the jealousy and bitterness that had grown on both sides we grew apart. We finished working away and I continued to gamble more and more back home I was becoming more devious and self centred not showing concern for the way my behaviour was affecting my family, coming in and out of their lives only when I needed something from them, clothes washed, money for food or a loan. I couldn’t show interest in them or truly give of myself as a brother, I had become more irresponsible missing out with payments on the cards, and other loans I had accumulated with other institutions, not opening the bills, what was the point I wasn’t going to pay them, the gambling always came first. I was playing 3 card brag, but the roulette was the fastest and biggest thrill that’s what I done most of the gambling coming towards the later stage of the addiction. I had been living alone the gran had

first time I ever really wanted help with this progressive illness. I picked up the phone and asked for help. I started going to gamblers anonymous. My first meeting I went to I was all over the place, I was worn out couldn’t really lift my head felt very afraid and mixed up.

I had spoke with a member beforehand he was very nice and assured me I would be ok.

I took a seat in the room and the meeting started there was a man speaking about his gambling and he spoke with calmness and seemed confident and was able to speak about where gambling brought him in his past, and about how much his life had improved since attending GA meetings. Other members all spoke and could all identify with each other they all seemed calm and happy, I left it last to speak and when I did I don’t know what words came out of my mouth.

But I am so glad I did, people came up to me after the meeting and were so friendly and called me by name and said things will start getting better from now on and well done you in the right place.

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Under threat of crippling trade sanctions by Russia, Ukraine announced Thursday that it had suspended its plans to sign far-reaching political and trade agreements with the European Union and said it would instead pursue new partnerships with a competing trade bloc of former Soviet states.

The decision largely scuttles what had been the European Union’s most important foreign policy initiative: an ambitious effort to draw in former Soviet republics and lock them on a trajectory of changes based on Western political and economic sensibilities. The project, called the Eastern Partnership program, began more than four years ago.

Ukraine’s decision not to sign the agreements at a major conference next week in Vilnius, Lithuania, is a victory for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

He had maneuvered forcefully to derail the plans, which he regarded as a serious threat, an economic version of the West’s effort to build military power by expanding NATO eastward. In September, similar pressure by Russia forced Armenia to abandon its talks with the Europeans.

European leaders reacted with fury and regret, directed at Kiev and Moscow.

“This is a disappointment not just for the E.U. but, we believe, for the people of Ukraine,” Catherine Ashton, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, said in a statement. Calling the pact that Ukraine was walking away from “the most ambitious agreement the E.U. has ever offered to a partner country,” Ms. Ashton suggested the country would suffer financially.

“It would have provided a unique opportunity to reverse the recent discouraging trend of decreasing foreign investment,” she said, “and would have given momentum” to negotiations for more financial aid from the International Monetary Fund. Ukraine faces a growing economic crisis, and it is widely expected to need a major aid package soon.

Others were more pointed in blaming Russia. “Ukraine government suddenly bows deeply to the Kremlin,” the Swedish foreign minister, Carl Bildt, wrote on Twitter. “Politics of brutal pressure evidently works.”

In Brussels, Stefan Fule, the European Commission’s senior official responsible for relations with neighboring countries, canceled a trip to Ukraine that he had announced just hours earlier, suggesting that officials saw little hope in reversing the decision. “Hard to overlook in reasoning for today’s decision impact of #Russia’s recent unjustified economic & trade measures,” he wrote on Twitter.

At virtually the same time, President Viktor F. Yanukovich, who was on a visit to Vienna, issued a statement saying, “Ukraine has been and will continue to pursue the path to European integration.”

In a move emblematic of Ukraine’s often inscrutable politics, Mr. Yanukovich barely acknowledged the developments in Kiev and, responding to a reporter’s question about the pacts with Europe, said, “Of course, there are difficulties on the path.”

Because Mr. Yanukovich was supposed to sign the accords in Vilnius, some officials seemed to hold out the faint possibility he might find a way to resurrect the agreements. Those hopes seemed to fade Thursday night as the reactions in Europe grew angrier, and Russia said it would gladly join in negotiations if the accords were postponed.

RIOT POLICE IN THE UKRANIAN CAPITAL KIEV HAVE FORCEFULLY DISPERSED H U N D R E D S O F P R OT E ST E R S, B E AT I N G S O M E W I T H T R U N C H E O N S

The decree by the cabinet of ministers followed the Ukrainian Parliament’s overwhelming rejection of legislation that would have freed the country’s jailed former prime minister, Yulia V. Tymoshenko, and allowed her to seek treatment in Germany for back problems. Ms. Tymoshenko is a bitter political rival of Mr. Yanukovich’s.

Protest organiser Sergei Milnichenko said tear gas had also been used

The West has long criticized the conviction of Ms. Tymoshenko on abuse of authority charges and her seven-year prison sentence, saying they were a politically motivated effort to sideline her. Her release was widely viewed as a condition of signing the agreements, although the European Union never officially declared it to be a requirement.

UNCONFIRMED REPORTS SAID A NUMBER OF PEOPLE HAD BEEN HURT

The Parliament, which is controlled by Mr. Yanukovich’s Party of Regions, defeated six different bills related to the treatment of prisoners that were intended to address Ms. Tymoshenko’s case.

More than 1,000 people, most of them students, w e r e i n t h e s q ua r e w h e n po l i c e m ov e d i n

Opposition leaders in Parliament, including members of Ms. Tymoshenko’s Fatherland party and leaders of the nationalist Svoboda party, accused Mr. Yanukovich of torpedoing Ukraine’s chances for integration with Western Europe.

“President Yanukovich is personally stopping Ukraine’s movement to Europe,” said Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk, a former minister of economy and foreign minister, who is the leader of the Fatherland party in Parliament.

“It was horrible. We were holding a peaceful d e m o n s t r at i o n a n d t h e y at tac k e d u s ”

Ukraine’s announcement came in the form of a decree issued by the cabinet of ministers ordering the government “to suspend” preparations for concluding the agreements with Europe and instead begin planning for new negotiations with the European Union and Russia.

“They threw us away like garbage” W itnesses said ambulances were on the scene and some demonstrators were seen bleeding from their heads and arms.

By morning, police had surrounded the square and barely any protesters remained

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Several hundred have now gathered at St Michael’s Cathedral in the capital, contemplating their next move.

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Reuters news agency said the injured included one of its cameramen and a photographer, who was left bloodied by blows to the head

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BLUE AND YELLOW FOUND IN THE UKRAINIAN FLAG. Ukraine’s ‘Euromaidan’ protests have now been going on for almost two months, since the original ‘Black Thursday’ on 21st November, when the government decided to suspend negotiations with the EU. The authorities have now chosen another Thursday, 16th January, to try and bring them to an end, not (yet) with the physical force that has failed in the past, but with a new law banning more or less everything.

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In farcical scenes in parliament, the bill was rammed through with ‘235’ votes in favour. Except there was no real voting. Normal voting procedures were disrupted; on several votes the tellers counted ‘235’ votes in a show of hands in just five seconds.

Below are just some of the things the government has banned. Basically, with no logic or attempt at credibility, they have attempted to criminalise everything the opposition has been doing in the last two months.

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NO TENTS/SOUNDSYSTEMS

NO GROUPS OF 5 CARS

NO HARDHATS

NO SLANDER

Ukraine has copied the Russian law requiring NGOs that receive money from abroad to register as ‘foreign agents’ Also illegal is taking part in peaceful protests while wearing a hard hat, any uniform or carrying some type of flame As is setting up tents, a stage, or even a sound system, without the permission of the police – which is basically the modus operandi of the Maidan Driving in an organised group of more than five cars – this is because of ‘Automaidan’, the attempt to descend on government ministers’ houses in convoys of cars.

Blocking the access to someone’s residence Slander Group disturbance of peace Organisisng mass disruptions or protests Collecting information about judges – i.e. exposing corruption The ‘government’ [exact agency not defined] can decide to ‘prohibit access’ to the internet MPs can be stripped of immunity immediately, without due process Denying crimes of fascism, or fascist accomplices is a crime – this presumably means celebrating war-time Ukrainian nationalists, as is the wont of the right-wing ‘Freedom’ Party

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200,00 gather in central Kiev to protest the new anti-protest laws. Many protesters ignored the care concealment ban by wearing party masks, while others wore hard hats and gas masks. Clashes began as thousands descended upon parliament via Hrushevskoho Street, and were met Tensions eventually developed, and the sides exchanged projectiles as protesters attacked the police barricade armed with sticks, pipes, helmets, and gas masks. They were met with stun and smoke grenades.by police cordons, and a blockade of military cars, mini-vans and buses. Opposition leader Vitali Klitschko (who attempted to bring calm) was sprayed with a fire extinguisher by a protester from the crowd, and shouted down as a traitor. Following this, live TV pictures showed protesters attempting to overturn a bus used by police, which was later set on fire. At least three buses were overtaken by rioters.

Water cannons used to douse the flames were also directed at protesters; an illegal use of force due to freezing temperatures. Later, rubber bullets were used against protesters as more police vehicles were set ablaze. Up to 10,000 rioters remained near the Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium by 10 p.m. as rioting and clashes continued with smoke filling the air from the burning vehicles. The entire line of police buses used in the blockade was set on fire, and as midnight approached, nearly everything in the square by the Dynamo Stadium was burning. Commenting on the situation, opposition MP Lesya Orobets stated, “War has finally started, laws don’t apply anymore.”

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Clashes continued into the second day, with thousands remaining on Hrushevskoho Street, continuing to exchange explosives and rocks with police. Of the 5,000 protesters present in the conflict area at the gates of the Dynamo Stadium near Mariinsky Park, 200 were seen engaging the 500 riot police without stopping by the afternoon. Berkut riot police were filmed

by Radio Liberty throwing rocks at protesters while making obscene gestures towards them. Later in the day, a group of protesters assembled an 8-foot high trebuchet to hurl rocks and other projectiles at police ranks. In retaliation, police lobbed flash grenades, rocks, and Molotov cocktails at protesters.

Police snipers scattered over the rooftops in the area but were exposed with fireworks and lasers

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In the twilight hours of 21 January, after the anti-protest laws had taken legal effect, President Yanukovych ordered a ‘bloody crackdown’, with police warning over loudspeakers that they may use weapons. Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko signed an executive order authorizing the use of physical force, special devices, and firearms.

Hundreds of armed “titushky” were reported by eyewitnesses in the vicinity, attacking protesters and passers-by, as well as smashing vehicles. Soon thereafter, they occupied many of the streets of downtown Kiev.

Activists detained some of the“titushky” in downtown Kiev who admitted they were promised a payment of UAH 220 ($27) to vandalize the city. A number of the titushky, who were apprehended by the protestors, were joined by political opposition leaders and brought to the opposition’s headquarters at the Trades Union Building. They were questioned on live television, confessing their actions and job for the government to incite violence and anarchy.

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22.01.14

At 6 a.m. local time on Unity Day, police shot and killed 2 protesters with live ammunition. Following news of the deaths, protesters retreated and dispersed from the vicinity of Dynamo Stadium. This allowed police to advance and retake the area for a brief period, before being pushed back once more by protesters.

In response to the escalating violence, police were permitted by the government to increase measures in stopping the riots and protests. Police were now able to block roads to restrict access to the city, and allowed the use of water cannons against rioters regardless of air temperature (−10 C at the time of the announcement).

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Fire from the conflict zone spread and a shop was burned down on the first floor of the seven-story building, 40 square meters in area. Euromaidan activists documented police brutality with instances of sadism on multiple occasions from Berkut and servicemen of the Internal Troops of Ukraine, wherein officers assaulted activists and even random people and would humiliate them using excessive foul language, and force them to undress naked. BBC News interviewed another protester who was photographing the Hrushevskoho Street riots, and then beaten and stabbed by police. On 23 January reports surfaced that riot police were engaging in the use of improvised grenades, taping nails and other shrapnel to conventional stun grenades. On 23 January 2014, Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine officially apologized for the “unacceptable actions of people in police uniform” who are in the scandalous video filming a naked detainee. Following peace talks with president Yanukovych, opposition leaders Klitschko and Tyahnybok addressed the crowd on Hrushevskoho Street to announce a proposed truce with the government in exchange for the release of all arrested or detained protesters. The news was poorly received with the crowd, who booed the leaders. Tyahnybok warned that the president stated his intentions to arrest 1,000 activists over the coming five days. Klitschko then called for a national strike, stating he was ready to sacrifice himself.

A vote was then held with the crowd which resulted in cutting off talks with Yanukovych and enlarging the area of Euromaidan in Kiev to include Hrushevskoho Street.

Ukrainian protesters have evacuated Kiev city hall and reopened barricaded roads to traffic as part of an amnesty deal with the government that could finally defuse tensions on the city’s streets.

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“This morning all the formal conditions for the law on exempting from criminal responsibility participants of mass protests in January and February have been met, “ Arsen Avakov, an MP from the opposition Fatherland party wrote in a blog post on Sunday morning.

Over night, clashes flared at times but both sides held their positions and by 5 a.m. a temporary truce was made, and by morning the scene was relatively calm. However, the truce did not last long and by 10:30 a.m. fighting broke out. Fires from burning tires stretched 70 meters across the street, and flames 5 meters high divided the sides. Berkut police were reported to be firing on protesters once again blindly through the smoke, and using search lights to peer through.

Closing in on midnight, word spread that Internal Troops were occupying nearby Ukrainian House, strategically between Maidan and the Hrushevskoho barricades, and that they intended to flank their position. Protesters launched a pre-emptive strike on the building, in order to wrest control of the position.

The strike saw protesters storm the building, smashing windows, and lighting parts of the premises on fire.Protesters outside created a corridor for police to evacuate the building on their own volition, and the stand-off lasted for 6 hours until finally police surrendered the building after a peace was brokered

by Vitali Klitschko.Anti-government protesters who occupied the building claim to have discovered spent cartridges on the roof, and alleged that police who occupied the building until this morning might have used the rooftop to shoot on demonstrators on 22 January.

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On 28 January, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov turned in his resignation to President Viktor Yanukovych, hours before a vote of confidence could have removed Azarov from power. The resignation also removes Azarov’s entire administration from power, which President Yanukovych confirmed by signing a decree dismissing the rest of Azarov’s cabinet. However, Azarov and his government will remain in their offices until a new election can be held.

Pro-government lawmakers joined with the opposition in Parliament to repeal 9 of the 11 anti-protest laws, which had triggered the violence. Yanukovych also proposed offering amnesty to the protesters if they abandoned their positions and dispersed. In addition, he promised the formation of a committee which would propose revisions to the Ukrainian constitution that would weaken the powers of the president. Most spectators did not expect these concessions to be sufficient to satisfy protesters, many of whom are still demanding Yanukovych’s resignation.

But in a surprise move, protesters said they had also evacuated several key government buildings that they have held since protests began in December, in what they called a “gesture of good will”.

Protesters tossed firebombs and advanced upon police lines Thursday in Ukraine’s embattled capital. Government snipers shot back, killing at least 70 people and wounding hundreds of others, according to a protest doctor.

The Kremlin issued a statement with Putin blaming radical protesters and voicing “extreme concern about the escalation of armed confrontation in Ukraine.”

Video footage on Ukrainian television showed shocking scenes Thursday of protesters being cut down by gunfire, lying on the pavement as comrades rushed to their aid. Trying to protect themselves with shields, teams of protesters carried bodies away on sheets of plastic or planks of wood.

The Russian leader called for an immediate end to bloodshed and for steps “to stabilize the situation and stop extremist and terrorist actions.” He also sent former Russian ombudsman Vladimir Lukin to Ukraine to act as a mediator.

“The price of freedom is too high but Ukrainians are paying it,” said Viktor Danilyuk, a 30-year-old protester. “We have no choice, the government isn’t hearing us.”

Although the first weeks of the protests were determinedly peaceful, radical elements have become more influential as impatience with the lack of progress grows. In their battles Thursday, those hard-hatted protesters with bats and other makeshift weapons regained some of the territory on the Maidan’s fringes that police had seized earlier in the week.

Protesters were also seen leading policemen with their hands held high around the sprawling protest camp in central Kiev. Ukraine’s Interior ministry says 67 police were captured in all. An opposition lawmaker said they were being held in Kiev’s occupied city hall.

However, protest leaders have warned that they will reoccupy buildings and close streets again if the government does not keep its side of the bargain and drop some 2000 criminal charges filed against the released prisoners and others being held under house arrest.

President Viktor Yanukovych and the opposition protesters who are demanding his resignation are locked in an epic battle over the identity of Ukraine, a nation of 46 million that has divided loyalties between Russia and the West. Parts of the country – mostly in its western cities – are in open revolt against Yanukovych’s central government, while many in eastern Ukraine back the president and favor strong ties with Russia, their former Soviet ruler.

“Authorities should be aware that if they fail to meet the requirements of the [amnesty] law immediately, the headquarters of the national resistance reserves the right to return to what ever form of protest and reaction we consider appropriate,” he added.

Protesters across the country are also upset over corruption in Ukraine, the lack of democratic rights and the country’s ailing economy, which just barely avoided bankruptcy with a $15 billion loan from Russia.

Protesters converted the building’s grand central hall into a medical facility and command centre, and it became a key symbol of resistance after protesters saw off a police attempt to retake the building on December 11.

At least 101 people have died this week in the clashes in Kiev, according to protesters and Ukrainian authorities, a sharp reversal in three months of mostly peaceful protests. Now neither side appears willing to compromise or in control of the streets. The opposition is insisting on Yanukovych’s resignation and an early election while the embattled president is apparently prepared to fight until the end.

Reports from the scene described protesters relocating equipment and supplies before launching a cleanup of the building on Sunday morning.

Photographs released by the EuroMaidan press service early on Sunday afternoon showed the main hall of Kiev’s city administration looking pristine after being evacuated and cleaned up.

Thursday was the deadliest day yet at the sprawling protest camp on Kiev’s Independence Square, also called the Maidan. Snipers were seen shooting at protesters there – and video footage showed at least one sniper wearing a Ukraine riot police uniform.

Earlier Viktor Pshonka, Ukraine’s prosecutor general, promised to close all criminal cases against EuroMaidan activists by March 18 if they kept their part of the bargain by Monday.

One of the wounded, volunteer medic Olesya Zhukovskaya, sent out a brief Twitter message – “I’m dying” – after being shot in the neck. Dr. Oleh Musiy, the medical coordinator for the protesters, said she was in serious condition after being operated on.

The move has apparently been endorsed by all the key players in the disparate opposition movement, including Pravy Sektor, the radical right-wing group that played a key part in the fighting on Grushevskogo in January.

Musiy, the protest doctor, told the AP that at least 70 protesters were killed Thursday and more than 500 were wounded in the clashes – and that the death toll could well rise further.

However, it was met by derision by some activists who have manned barricades for weeks in the expectation of a police attack.

In addition, three policemen were killed Thursday and 28 suffered gunshot wounds, Interior Ministry spokesman Serhiy Burlakov told the AP.

Tires were burnt on the barricades for the first time in weeks after the deal was announced on Friday, apparently set alight by disgruntled protesters.

There was no way to immediately verify any of the death tolls. Earlier in the day, an Associated Press reporter saw the bodies of 21 protesters laid out near Kiev’s protest camp.

“The opposition has capitulated. There will be a new waves of repression against opposition activists,” one disgruntled commenter wrote under Mr Avakov’s announcement.

In Brussels, the 28-nation European Union decided in an emergency meeting Thursday to impose sanctions against those behind the violence in Ukraine, including a travel ban and an asset freeze against some officials.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and President Barack Obama about the crisis in Ukraine on Thursday evening. She briefed them about the trip of the three EU foreign ministers to Kiev, and all three leaders agreed that a political solution needs to be found as soon as possible to prevent further bloodshed.

Saying the U.S. was outraged by the violence, Obama urged Yanukovych in a statement to withdraw his forces from downtown Kiev immediately. He also said Ukraine should respect the right of protest and that protesters must be peaceful.

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Ukraine’s beleaguered President Viktor Yanukovych fled Kiev Saturday as protestors took full control of Ukraine’s capital, signaling a dramatic turn in the three-month crisis just hours after the signing of an European Unionsponsored peace deal.

As police abandoned their posts across the capital, the opposition established control over key intersections and captured the presidential palace, setting up a perimeter around Yanukovych’s former residence, reports the Associated Press. Ukraine’s parliament passed a resolution stating Yanukovych “is removing himself [from power] because he is not fulfilling his obligations,” and voted to hold early presidential elections on May 25.

Yanukovych fled to the eastern city of Kharkiv where he traditionally has a more solid base of support, and announced on television he would not resign.

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Reopening blocked streets was a key condition of an amnesty law passed by the Ukrainian government at the end of January. The law led to the release of 236 arrested protesters last week.

“To those crying ‘capitulation’ – how long to think it would take us to restore the status quo if the authorities attempt to stymie the process of releasing our comrades? That’s right, 30 minutes,” he wrote.

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The move effectively brings to an end a month-long stand-off between police and protesters.

Leaders have done their best to play down such criticism however, insisting that they retain both the will and the means to return to the offensive if necessary.

Police fired rubber rounds against journalists and cameramen that were present, and continued to throw molotov cocktails at protesters. Eyewitnesses said police were firing indiscriminately with rubber and regular bullets into the crowd periodically throughout the day, striking an unknown number of people. Hundreds were injured, and significant damage was done to cars on the scene that were set ablaze as in previous days. Journalists found numerous ammunition shells on the ground. Police and medics confirmed live rounds were used in the shooting deaths of two protesters earlier in the day.

The prime minister denied that the police carried live ammunition.

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70 Protesters killed, 500 wounded in Kiev

Opposition leaders partially dismantled vast barricades on Grushevskogo Street and several other roads in central Kiev to allow road traffic to pass on Sunday morning.

“I am not leaving the country for anywhere. I do not intend to resign. I am the legitimately elected president,” Yanukovych said, in a televised speech.

Thousands of anti-Yanukovych protestors took to streets in Kharkiv, chanting “Ukraine is not Russia!”

In Kiev, the parliament also voted to release opposition leader and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko from jail, where she had been serving a bitterly contested sentence for abuse of power. Tymoshenko emerged from a prison hospital where she had been treated for a back injury to cheers from supporters.

Russia, the president’s staunchest ally, condemned the opposition’s moves.

“The opposition has not only failed to meet a single one of its obligations, but is also pushing new demands, submitting itself to armed extremists and looters whose actions pose a direct threat to the sovereignty and constitutional order of Ukraine,” said a statement from the Russian foreign ministry.

After fears during this week’s violence that Yanukovych would call a state of emergency and mobilize the military against anti-government protestors, the Army announced Saturday “it will in no way become involved in the political conflict,” according to the Agence France-Presse. Police said earlier that they were “at the service of the people” and “completely shares its aspirations for rapid changes.”

As part of the Western-brokered agreement some opposition leaders signed Friday, elections in Ukraine would be moved up from March 2015 to December 2014 at the latest, but many protestors said they wanted nothing short of Yanukovych’s immediate resignation.

The agreement arose out of the worst violence in Ukraine’s post-Soviet history, when over a hundred died in Kiev’s streets in pitched battles between protestors and police.

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One camp commander, Oleh Mykhnyuk, told the AP that protesters threw firebombs at riot police on the square overnight. As the sun rose, police pulled back, protesters followed them and police then began shooting at them, he said.

The Interior Ministry warned Kiev residents to stay indoors Thursday because of the “armed and aggressive mood of the people.”

Yanukovych claimed Thursday that police were not armed and “all measures to stop bloodshed and confrontation are being taken.” But the Interior Ministry later contradicted that, saying law enforcers were armed as part of an “anti-terrorist” operation.

Some signs emerged that Yanukovych is losing loyalists. The chief of Kiev’s city administration, Volodymyr Makeyenko, announced Thursday he was leaving Yanukovych’s Party of Regions.

“We must be guided only by the interests of the people, this is our only chance to save people’s lives,” he said, adding he would continue to fulfill his duties as long as he had the people’s trust.

Another influential member of the ruling party, Serhiy Tyhipko, said both Yanukovych and opposition leaders had “completely lost control of the situation.”

“Their inaction is leading to the strengthening of opposition and human victims,” the Interfax news agency reported.

The parliament building was evacuated Thursday because of fears that protesters would storm it, as were the government office in Kiev and the Foreign Ministry buildings. But parliament convened in the afternoon, with some pro-government lawmakers heeding the opposition’s call to work out a solution to the political stalemate.

As the violence exploded Thursday morning and heavy smoke from burning barricades at the encampment belched into the sky, the foreign ministers of three EU countries – France, Germany and Poland – met with Yanukovych for five hours after speaking with the opposition leaders. The EU ministers then returned to speak again with opposition leaders.

Prior to the clashes Thursday, the Ukrainian Health Ministry said 28 people have died and 287 have been hospitalized this week. But protesters who have set up a medical facility in a downtown cathedral so that wounded colleagues would not be snatched away by police say the number of wounded is significantly higher – possibly double or triple that.

The Caritas Ukraine aid group said many of the wounded will need long-term care, including prosthetics.

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I MADE A POINT OF SHOWING A VA R I E T Y O F P R O J E C T S T H AT FOCUSED ON DIFFERENT AREAS OF MY S K I L L S E T. I T O O K T H E P H O T O G R A P H I N THE BACKGROUND OF THE COVER AND C R E AT E D T H E M A I N T I T L E T E X T BY HAND

HELLO PEOPLE SOLUTIONS BRANDING

CONCEPTS HELLO PEOPLE SOLUTIONS ARE A NEW H R C O N S U LT A N C Y T H A T C O N T A C T E D MY PREVIOUS PLACE OF WORK LOOKING FOR US TO SET UP THEIR B R A N D A S T H E Y P R E V I O U S LY H A D NOTHING IN PLACE. THEIR INITIAL R E Q U E S T W A S T O C R E AT E S O M E T H I N G BASED AROUND THE ICON IN THE T H I R D C O N C E P T. H O W E V E R I F E LT T H A T T H E B R A N D COULD BENEFIT FROM SOMETHING A B I T L E S S C O R P O R AT E A N D O R D I N A R Y AND FOUND THE FINAL DESIGN TO BE M O R E U N I Q U E A N D E Y E - C AT C H I N G

FINAL DESIGN

SIM RANGER BRANDING

AT M Y L A S T P L A C E O F W O R K W E W E R E

CONCEPTS

C O N TA C T E D B Y A N E W C O M PA N Y CALLED SIM RANGER. SIM RANGER IS A P R O D U C T T H AT U T I L I Z E S S I M C A R D T E C H N O LO G Y T O T R A N S M I T D ATA FROM HARD TO REACH AREAS TO A L LO W C O M PA N I E S T O AV O I D S E N D I N G PEOPLE TO THE TOPS OF PEAKS AND D A M S T O TA K E D ATA R E A D I N G S . T H E Y W A N T E D A B R A N D C R E AT I N G T H AT SHOWCASED THE PRODUCTS SELLING POINTS, SO I FOCUSED MY DESIGNS ON THE SIM CARD SHAPE AND SHOWING D ATA B E I N G T R A N S M I T T E D. T H E CHOSEN DESIGN WAS PICKED FOR IT’S BOLDNESS WHICH ALLOWED IT T O B E E A S I LY R E C O G N I Z E D A T A N Y S I Z E . I A L S O C R E AT E D D I F F E R E N T C O LO U R WAYS F O R D I F F E R E NT S E CTO R S

FINAL DESIGN

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H A N D - L E T T E R I N G , I L LU S T R AT I O N

FOR A UNIVERSITY PROJECT WE WERE TA S K E D W IT H P O RT R AY I N G TA B O O S I N A U N I Q U E W A Y. A F T E R P L A Y I N G W I T H A F E W I D E A S I D R E W I N S P I R AT I O N FROM ART DECO TRAVEL POSTERS A N D C R E AT E D A M O D E R N S P I N O N THOSE. THE DESIGNS FOCUSED O N T H E C U R R E N T T R E N D O F F L AT S I M P L I S T I C I L LU S T R AT I O N , A N D I C R E AT E D T H E TA B O O T E X T BY H A N D, P A R T LY I N S P I R E D B Y T H E P R E V I O U S LY M E N T I O N E D T R AV E L P O S T E R S . R AT H E R THAN GLAMORIZING A NICE ASPECT OF A COUNTRY I RESEARCHED UNIQUE TA B O O S T H AT A R E C O U N T R Y S P E C I F I C

in beech grove, indiana it's illegal to eat watermelon in public parks

in jamaica it's believed that drinking milk from a baby bottle will turn the child into an a drunkard

in nigeria it's believed that a child who eats eggs will turn into a thief

AND HIGHLIGHTED THESE UNIQUE TABOOS.

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WINDOW WAREHOUSE WEB DESIGN

W I N D O W W A R E H O U S E H A D R E C E N T LY HAD A WORDPRESS BASED WEBSITE C R E AT E D F O R T H E M , B U T T H AT W E B S I T E S I M P LY F O L L O W E D A N E X I S T I N G T E M P L AT E A N D D I D N ’ T S H O W C A S E T H E C O M PA N Y A N D T H E I R SKILLSE T SUCH AS THEIR EXPERTISE I N FA B R I C AT I O N . S O M Y F I R S T T A K E ON THEIR WEBSITE KEPT IT SIMPLE AND FOCUSED ON MAKING THEIR KEY MESSAGES THE FIRST THING T H AT Y O U S E E , B E F O R E G O I N G I N T O M O R E D E TA I L S O N T H E H O M E PA G E , WHILST STILL KEEPING IT SIMPLE AND STICKING TO USING THEIR EXISTING B R A N D I N G A N D C O R P O R AT E C O LO U R S

WINDOW WAREHOUSE WEB DESIGN

A S W E L L A S C R E AT I N G A C O N C E P T T H AT K E P T I T S I M P L E I A L S O S H O W E D T H E M A C O N C E P T T H AT F O C U S E D MUCH MORE ON IMAGERY AND USING THE ANGLES FROM THEIR LOGO AND TAKING A MORE MODERN TAKE ON THEIR EXISTING WEBSITE AND BRANDING

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