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I ventured into using waxed canvas recently. I've seen various bags on Instagram made with waxed canvas and have been meaning to try it out. In fact I purchased a swatch kit about two years ago from an Etsy shop, and it's taken me this long to finally commit and try it out.
The main project that started all of this was a new camera bag. I wanted a purse-like camera bag that wasn't obviously a camera bag. I wanted it just big enough to hold my camera and perhaps one additional lens. I opted to buy an insert from Amazon that would be transferable between purses, but I also wanted one tailored more toward ease of carrying. A messenger bag is perfect.
I started with my old Messenger Bag Tutorial from a few years back. I changed it up quite a bit as I wanted a contrasting base and wanted to change up the exterior pockets. I was no longer in love with how I designed them initially.
I made them higher than in the original design. Rather than adding piping, I simply rolled the lining to lay slightly higher than the exterior fabric before top-stitching. It saved so much time, but still has the appearance and contrast detail of piping.
The more you work with the waxed canvas, the more distressed it looks. This was exactly what I was going for with this bag.
The one thing I regret with this bag was the pockets. Because I made this bag with the intent of using the camera insert, I skimped a bit on pockets. I also didn't include a zipper pocket. I changed that on the next two bags I've made using this same design.
Here it is with the camera insert. It slips in easily with a few extra inches on the side for my wallet and other necessities.
When I placed my fabric order for my first bag, I didn't plan well on how much fabric I needed and ordered too much. What's a girl to do with too much fabric...well, make another bag of course! This bag is essentially just a very large pouch with handles. I used similar dimensions to a Trader Joes bag, but with a zipper across the top.
I also tried leather handles with rivets for the first time. I love, love, love the look of leather handles!
I opted not to put any pockets on this bag. It's meant to be a simple tote to keep in the car for library runs, or a small trip to the store.
And then I received another custom order. I think this one is my favorite of the three!
A few weeks ago I wanted to start something new. I pulled out piles of fabric, put my design wall back up and started experimenting. I came up with this block which is similar to a geometric design I saw elsewhere. I used the Quick Curve Ruler to design and cut these blocks. I'm undecided as to how big it will be or if I'll incorporate any additional colors . We'll see where it goes!
Is there one particular line of fabric that you have always adored? For me it was Katie Jump Rope. Unfortunately, it came out about a year before I started quilting. I was able to get my hands a few prints before it was entirely gone, but I have never been willing to pay the exorbitant mark ups. I would use the few pieces I have sparingly, scattered through various projects, but always horded them a bit.
When it was announced that there were be a Katie Jump Rope reprint, I was instantly on board. Although, when I actually had the chance to buy it I wasn't sure I was still in love with it. Do you ever have that experience--you desperately want something until you can have it, and then you aren't so sure? Considering I haven't been sewing nearly as much lately, I really thought this purchase through. Do I really want it? I asked myself this question so many times. I have tried to be much less frivolous with my fabric purchases--only buying something if I have a specific need for a project.
When Pink Castle Fabrics had 20% everything the weekend after Thanksgiving, I decided to splurge. I've liked this line for eight years and have loved pretty much every project I've ever seen made with it.
It arrived today! It's really pretty. I'm glad I splurged.
The only thing I'm sad about is the fact that they took away some of the really great colored prints prints. I think the reprint is a bit too heavy on the brown. I intended to make a quilt with only the KJR prints, but I'll likely incorporate some other DS prints into the mix to add more color. I feel like it especially needs more red and orange.
I still have about a FQ of this print from the original line which will certainly work it's way into my quilt. This was one of my absolute favorite red prints ever. I'm sad this one didn't make the cut for the reprint.
I've missed sewing, and it's fun to be back with a project! I've decided to make this lovely stack of fabrics into a quilt using the Shimmer pattern by Cluck Cluck Sew. I think it will be the perfect compliment for these prints!
Every once in a while I crave the precision of paper piecing. It's fun to work on a project like this (at least for a little while). I felt this way a while back and started a new project. I had a bin full of scraps from a previous project that needed used.
I opted for a pattern that has been floating around Instagram a bit. This is a variation on Grandma's Surprise from Then and Now Quilts by Joyce Giezler. This little guy is just 18" finished. I recently completed the quilting and am currently considering a binding. I'll likely go with navy to frame it.
Mini quilts are a great way to try out a new technique or get something out of your system. I personally wouldn't ever want to paper piece an entire quilt, but I love it for small projects. It would never finish a whole paper-pieced quilt. This mini alone took me a couple months to actually complete. Now that I've done a little paper piecing, I'm ready to get back into a project that's more satisfying for me and a little less rigid.
Just a few new pouches!
I made these framed clutches using Diane Stanley's (random thoughts...do or di) pattern. I went a little light on the interfacing. Next time I'll certainly use something with more body.
These are both made with velveteen from Anna Maria Horner. It is perfect for these clutches.
I've been itching to use some of my selvages I've been saving for years. I finally pulled out some of my Cotton & Steel pieces and made this wide open pouch.
I sewed the selvages to cotton duck. The base is navy linen with some metallic accent stitching.
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1 bn acres of unused agricultural land world wide could produce biofuels, according to the Stanford News Service in a piece called Feeding and fuelling the future: the bioenergy potential of reviving abandoned agricultural land (http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/july9/biofuel-070908.html).
The authors estimate that this is about a quarter of the total agricultural land in use. Land is abandoned for a number of reasons, but plants could fix nitrogen and carbon to help them recover as well as provide biofuels.
This is a great subject to discuss,i was chatting to our local labour rep last week, and we were trying to figure out how we could contibute to put the unemployed to work, i mentioned to him obout abandoned land in and oround our area, and he came back to me and said that he found 50 hectares of land that was in a deceased estate, and due to the estate bieng insolvent, it was handed to the local city councill, we then approached them and we were given the land on a 99 year lease for a few pennys per month, we have since formed a joint venture and will be planting Sunflower, to convert to bio fuel, and we will be employing approx 150 people to work the land, i think this is a great idea, and once we get it up and running, we would like to expand to other cities and towns.

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There is renewed interest in the debate on multiculturalism & whether it’s truly possible for society to be secular. Many have stated that it is a failure & the recent attacks in France have only charged the debate further.
The dangerous & disturbing trend is how those who oppose it are resorting to violence. Whether it be far right groups in Europe or marginalized minorities in western & developing countries.


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After reading the book by Dr. Becky Bailey this summer, I began the first leg of my CD journey this school year. I was totally absorbed by the book all summer long and it was really an "awakening" for me. So, if you haven't read this book, I highly recommend that you do...and soon! It really is "Discipline for the 21st Century." The book really caused me to reflect on how I respond to "behavior problems" in my classroom and to think about more brain friendly ways to help students to successfully cope with the daily stresses of life, so that they can move on to accomplishing greatness in the classroom.
I was thrilled to find out that Dr. Bailey has also come out with a "sequel" to the original book that has more of the "nuts and bolts" of how to implement CD in your classroom...right now!
Most of you are probably familiar with the ideas in the book, so I really wanted to talk today about some of the little ways I have begun to use CD in my third grade class this year.
The first week of school we all made "mini-me" necklaces.
We put these on each morning as we come into the classroom. As we gather for our morning meeting, students place their necklace into our Safekeeper Box.
If any students are absent, we hang their necklace on the Friends and Family Tree and together we wish them well. I then "tuck everyone in" and close the lid on the box and proclaim, "My job is to keep you safe, and your job is"....and they then chime in "to help keep it safe!!!" Wash, rinse and repeat every morning!!
This is a quiet place in the classroom where any student can go when they need a place to calm down and gather their thoughts. I simply used a privacy screen and placed it on a table in the back of the room. On it I have displayed picture cards for some of the CD strategies that are taught early in the school year, such as S.T.A.R. breathing and other relaxation techniques (the balloon, the pretzel). I also have the VERY IMPORTANT "Cranky Cream", which is just hand lotion. My kiddos LOVE this. Honestly, they use it all the time...not just when they are cranky. I like that our Safe Place is portable and can be moved to different locations as needed.
I have a job for every student and we change them out every week. In addition to the usual jobs you might find in a third grade, we've added the Healthcare Worker (retrieves band-aids and takes sick friends to the office), Heartcare Worker (cheers up a student who needs cheering up), We Care Chairman (in charge of making cards for celebrations and special events such as birthdays, sick/absent students, or a student who is leaving us), and The Noticer (he/she is on the look-out for random acts of kindness and adds a bead to a jar every time they "notice"), and The Greeter (gives friendly greetings to students as they enter the classroom in the morning and greets visitors).
I am loving Conscious Discipline so far and I know my students really appreciate having a calm, and composed teacher (who takes a lot of deep breaths throughout the day). I also have every hair on my head still intact....very impressive for November, I think!!
What are your favorite Conscious Discipline ideas???
OMGoodness Kathy! I am a HUGE CD fan and have blogged about it since I first started my blog. It is amazing! I love the CD School Family jobs. My favorites are the Cheerleader, the Kindness Recorder, and the Greeter.
One of the most amazing parts of CD is how it teaches children to use their big voice and stops tattling. My kiddos are excellent at noticing and we have even tied in Bucket Filling up having a School Family bucket that we fill with helpful hearts (heart beads). My kiddos will go to each other and say "I am going to add you a helpful heart for ___________________." And the child that is having the heart added for them says "Thank you for noticing that." It is so sweet and it gives them the ownership of recognizing and celebrating the helpful and kind acts of others. At the end of the year, everyone makes a helpful heart bracelet to remind them to always be helpful and kind even when they are no longer with this school family.
My favorite thing about CD is how much it has changed and helped me. Knowing that I cannot change anybody but myself and that I need to be the person I want others to become is so powerful. I have been using CD for almost 6 years now. I have moved away from judging and say "I like the way...." to "I notice that .....".
YOU have actually been so helpful already. I have read many of your past posts and they were SO helpful in getting me started!! Thank you for your thoughts today!!
Hi Kathy- I'm your newest follower! Thanks so much for stopping by our new blog. I love your safe place/family tree spot in your classroom- what a great idea!
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After Chernobyl, the German town of Schönau didn’t want to get its energy from nuclear power. So its citizens turned the town into an energy producer via solar panels and other green carbon neutral sources. Watch the short film by Journeyman Films. Sadly the German government has cut subsidies to the renewable energy industry, saying it’s not sustainable economically.
Antique kitchen door in German chalet, part of the set of UK film “Chalet Girl” starring Felicity Jones and Bill Nighy. Fluff film, but great set. Is this a common door design in the alps? I like it despite or perhaps because of its excess, both in aesthetic and the amount of wood used.
Wish Werner Herzog would come by the studio and narrate our work in that soft, brutal, matter-of-fact German tone. Instead I just re-read the imaginary Herzog diary, below, to wallow in Herzog postmortemese.
This morning Sarah said “Dear Diary: I am making a bag out of a trench coat.
Fantastic 1970s geometric supergraphic textile by German designer Elsbeth Kupferoth, who deserves to be much better known. Interesting short essay on her work and more photos at The Textile Blog. Her unusual colour schemes make these designs much less dated than the more common 70s combinations.

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Discussion in 'Asia' started by Nikrayster, Apr 24, 2018.
yeahhh if i know im here late , w t f are the asian brethren????? OI???? Japan? Korea? Indonesia? Malaysia???
Nowadays , ( as a byproduct of thosedays ) , INDONESIA's scene seems to be alive and kicking back hard . Good bands - Damn theres a lot of strong punkrock bands from Indonesia!!! LOVE IT!!! Suicide sinatra , marjinal , the dissland , s.i.d and many more.
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Robert DiYanni is Professor of English at Pace University, Pleasantville, New York, where he teaches courses in literature, writing, and humanities. He has also taught at Queens College of the City University of New York, at New York University in the Graduate Rhetoric Program, and most recently in the Expository Writing Program at Harvard University. He received his B.A. from Rutgers University (1968) and his Ph.D. from the City University of New York (1976).Robert DiYanni has written articles and reviews on various aspects of literature, composition, and pedagogy. His books include Literature: Reading, Fiction, Poetry, Drama and the Essay; The McGraw-Hill Book of Poetry; Women's Voices; Like Season'd Timber: New Essays on George Herbert; and Modern American Poets: Their Voices and Visions (a text to accompany the Annenberg-funded telecourse, Voices and Visions). With Kraft Rompf, he edited The McGraw-Hill Book of Poetry, (1993) and The McGraw-Hill Book of Fiction (1995). With Pat Hoy, he edited Encounters: Readings for Inquiry and Argument (1997).DiYanni, Robert is the author of 'Literature Reading Fiction Poetry and Drama', published 2006 under ISBN 9780073252124 and ISBN 0073252123.
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New Queer improv? I’m in!
This 40 minute avant-jazz freak out ain’t for the faint hearted. It’s restless and abrasive, and even its quietest moments are angry as hell, which is perfectly justified against an opening monologue warning that homosexuals will destroy the fabric of society. The Hole was released pre-Trump, but listening to it now this piece of 1950s propaganda supporting a white, Christian, heterosexual patriarchy strikes home harder than ever. Its fear mongering message could be applied to any group bearing the label of ‘Other’ – black, muslim, female, the list goes on….
Perhaps my favourite thing about The Hole is that you rarely hear such abrasive, experimental music being made by Queer artists. The scrunching sax, collapsing drum kit and junkyard rubble are a far cry from the spandex and mirrorball cheese of most ‘gay’ music. There is absolutely nothing Camp about The Ghost, nothing sexual either. Even Harsh Wall Noise artist Richard Ramirez, perhaps The Ghost’s closest sonic relative, cultivates a Tom of Finland aesthetic drenched in cheap thrills.
I realise I’ve done little to describe the actual sound of this tape, and to be honest I’m not sure sound is the main point of this release, but as a sonic reference point The Hole calls to mind Sun Ra’s wildest freak outs minus the funk. I’m reminded of the Art Ensemble of Chicago as well, but way, way heavier. The muscular Saxophone work of Mats Gustafsson is also present, without his sense of groove. The Ghost combine all of these references into violent cauldron of political revolt. And their protest is absolutely thrilling to listen to.


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Chef Rob is the anti-celebrity chef. He is crass, offensive, and doesn’t wear starched white jackets or fancy hats. He is, however, a stellar chef with an infectious passion for food of every kind. His passion and adventurous spirit are what have created a strong following for Chef Rob, and he has probably turned more people onto the appreciation for good cuisine, more so than any five-star, fancy-hat chef out there.
Chef Rob was born Dec. 14, 1972 in Corpus Christi, Texas. Chef Rob started his culinary career at age 10 in his mother’s kitchen. He then continued his training in various local restaurants of South Texas. In 1996, he opened All-Star Catering Co., which took him to new and higher levels of cooking. He had the opportunity to work with stars such as Willie Nelson, Jessica Simpson, Kenny Rogers, Pantera, and over 200 other entertainers throughout the U.S. and abroad.
From 2008 to present, Chef Rob has been the man behind the scenes for several well-known establishments in Corpus Christi, having created awesome food menus and running successful kitchens.
mesquite smoked salmon, cream cheese, dill, green onion, red bell pepper- served cold, with caper berries and crostini chips.
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PERMISSION TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in newsletters and on web sites provided attribution is provided to the author, and it appears with the included copyright, resource box and live web site link. Email notice of intent to publish is appreciated but not required: mail to: brent@actionleadership.com Word count: 812 Summary: Both leaders and sales people will be more effective when they realize the differences between leadership and sales. You've heard something like this before: "He's not a leader, he's a salesman." Or: "She was trying to motivate me but gave me a sales pitch instead!" Being a sales person can provide a poor foundation for leadership. Because leading and selling, though they share certain qualities, are different activities.
Most people go along in their jobs and careers without thinking through those differences and thus mix up the two in self-defeating ways. I've seen good sales people fail when moved into leadership positions; and conversely, good leaders fail when they become sales people or use certain sales techniques to lead. In both cases, they misunderstood the differences or missed them altogether and so couldn't align their words and actions to take advantage of those differences. You can manifestly improve your leadership and sales skills by understanding what such differences are. Clearly, on the surface, both sales and leadership focus on ways to influence people to take action.
Both sales people and leaders must be knowledgeable, skillful, enthusiastic, and convincing. However, when we drill down into the functions of the relationships involved in selling and leading -- getting customers to purchase products or services as opposed to getting people to achieve organizational results -- the differences emerge. Here are three defining differences between sales and leadership that can help you both as a sales person and a leader. Note the differences are variations on a single, decisive theme. (1) Sales people must satisfy customers. Leaders often have to dissatisfy the people. People in most organizations are in thrall to a powerful force, the status quo. The status quo is simply the existing state of an organization. You might ask, "What's wrong with the existing state of an organization?" My response is, "A great deal." In fact, the status quo of any organization is almost always wrong.
The trouble with the status quo isn't that it gets poor results. After all, if you know you're getting poor results, you can do something about it. You can start taking steps to turn them into good results. The trouble with the status quo is that it gets mediocre results but represents them as good results. And poor results are less harmful to an organization than mediocre results misrepresented as good results. Leadership is not about maintaining the status quo (as management does), it's about transforming the status quo to achieve big increases in results. Such transformation cannot be accomplished unless and until people are infused with a powerful dissatisfaction with the way things are. Sales people want customers to like them; but leaders may have to get some people angry with them and what they are challenging them to do. (If they don't have some of the people angry with them, those leaders might not be challenging all the people enough. Though watch out when you have ALL of the people angry with you.
) (2) Sales people get people to do what they want to do. Leaders aim to get people to do what they may not want to do and be ardently committed to doing it. Having people get out of the status quo to achieve great results means challenging them to be uncomfortable, do things in new ways, learn new skills, and take on perplexing tasks. Good leaders live by the rule that it is better to do the new, right things in the temporarily wrong ways than to do the old wrong things in the right ways. (3) Sales people must counteract bad feelings on the part of customers. Leaders may have to live with and even accept bad feelings on the part of the people while getting them to move toward their organization's greater goal. When you lead people to go to the metaphorical mountain, for instance, many of them will want to go to the nearby hill or to stay where they are. Standing pat is more comfortable and less risky than going to the mountain. But the organization badly needs them to move to the mountain. That's where leadership comes in.
In sales, you hop on people's disapproval right away and try to mitigate or eliminate it. However, in leadership getting people to change from standing pat to being the cause leaders of going-forth can involve having to temporarily put up with their initial misgivings or even their outright defiance. A CEO told me, "The hardest thing I've had to learn as a leader is grace under pressure. How to keep focused on our company's objectives while weathering the criticisms from the inevitable naysayers." Keep in mind that despite their differences, sales and leadership share useful similarities. Many sales techniques, especially with the art of persuasion, can be effectively used in leadership. Conversely, many leadership methodologies can be used in sales. My article on "Stepping Up Sales Results Using A Leadership Process" shows how. htttp://www.


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Image thinning is a signal transformation that converts a thick digital image into a thin digital image or obtains its skeleton form. The skeleton expresses the structural connectivites of the main component of a object and is one pixel in width. Skeletonization reduces the original image into a more compact representation. A basic method of skeletonization is thinning. In this paper image thinning operation has been implemented on a binary image of 128 x 128 pixels using Zhang Suen’s thinning algorithm. The proposed work is designed using MATLAB 7.12 and also synthesized by mapping on Virtex 5 in Xilinx ISE for understanding the hardware complexity. Simulation results are obtained in terms of waveforms in ISim Xilinx ISE Simulator and the output text file of the hardware system is converted to an image format using MATLAB. Performance measurement is carried out between Zhang – Suen’s thinning algorithm and MATLAB command for image thinning in terms of Thinning Rate (TR).
Keywords: Image thinning, skeletonization, Zhang – suen’s algorithm, digital image processing, Verilog, MATLAB, Hardware Description Language (HDL), iteration.

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I’ve had a wonderful last few months in the writing world, yet, I want to showcase the behind the scenes struggles. Why? Because so often authors see the good news of others and develop a pain in their heart that it was not them getting to share good news. For this reason, I think it’s important to breakdown what happens before the contract.
In the last two months I have announced signing a contract for my picture book Winston Versus the Snow and my sweet romance novel Grounded in January, both coming out in 2019 from Brother Mockingbird Publishing. AND….my signed acquisitions letter for my Inuit picture book Nanook and the Pizza (coming 2020 from Audrey Press).
25 rejections, not bad considering my first picture book Nonnie and I was rejected over 50 times.
The story was originally titled Winston Hates the Snow, but at a writer’s conference I decided after a panel speaker’s advice to change the word hate. It also went under a major revision prior to the final submission.
1 revision request – which turned into the acquisitions letter afterwords.
Submissions started in February of 2017, with one major rewrite prior to the revision request.
Yep, that story ends there for this one.
This shows you the more you write and read, the better your writing becomes. The more you focus on craft, the better your writing gets.
Please join me over on WOW! WOMEN ON WRITING, where I’m Friday’s Speak Out guest blogger and throw out some wild & crazy ideas for women writers.


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i picked up a dm3058 didn't realise the software was additional and i didn't even get to try it since i couldn't find the trial that is shown. so i started to hobble together my own one.
tested on windows 7 x64 with NI Visa, this is still a proof of concept just to see how funky this is since all the other NI VISA software i've used is equally bad, and this is an hour of work, so don't expect a lot. uses rigol mode, lots left to do etc,. ranging mostly works, auto works, sensor no, measure.math/trig/help/save/utility no .... searches for 0x1AB1::0x09C4 device.
and crap yes i already forgot something, uses this http://www.dafont.com/alarm-clock.font font..
I'm a user and have no clue about coding, but I like to thank you already for your efforts. I am also looking for affordable and useful software for my DMM and did not find anything.
Especially for logging purposes of long-term measurements I found nothing except the very limited Excel file on the Rigol website..

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RE/MAX leads the way in real estate and fundraising for Children's Miracle Network! We've raised more than $56 million in Canada, bringing the international total to $138 million!
Children's Miracle Network and their member hospitals appreciate all the wonderful fundraising that RE/MAX has achieved: Helping more than 2.6 million children receive quality care from children's hospitals across Canada each year.
The RE/MAX Miracle Home Program allows our real estate professionals the opportunity to make a donation to Children's Miracle Network from each transaction they complete.
We are proud of our long-term partnership with Children's Miracle Network. RE/MAX has designated August of each year to be the RE/MAX Month of Miracles. During the Month of Miracles, consumers and agents alike will become familiar with the community contributions that RE/MAX makes through the Miracle Home Program.
By choosing a RE/MAX agent who is part of the Miracle Home Program, you are helping make miracles happen in the lives of children.

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Congratulations to all SVYL players who have made the Honor Roll so far this year and to those who recently competed in and qualified for the Regional and State Science Fair competitions!
Best wishes and a speedy recovery to SVYL players Joe Constantino and David Alexander.
Brine National Classic - Congratulations to SVYL 8th graders Bryce Robertson & Jakob Villasista from Handley/Winchester Vipers. Both players were selected to play in the Pride of Virginia (2021) tournament with a shot at representing the State of Virginia at the Brine National Tournament in Richmond later this summer.
It’s a bird…its a plane…no its our former SVYL President’s new drone capturing SVYL game action from the sky!


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On Fri. 14th. Nov. Lauren and I packed all our earthly belongings into the E20 van. We parked it at Phillip and Dorothy Sgroi’s house. It is safely under roof and tarp. Phillip will de-register it for us.
Barry and Trish Tiffen drove us to Wagga’s air port where we boarded a 6:45pm domestic to Sydney. Arriving an hour later gave us just enough time to get through customs to board at 9:40pm. for 10pm. take off. Four hours saw us in Perth where we waited an hour until leaving Australia at around 3am. N.S.W. time. While we were in Perth I bought a discman/radio duty free and Lauren had purchased a cam-era earlier on in the day.
Perth to Johannesburg took just over 10 hours landing at what should have been 1pm. but it was 5. in the morning! Withdrawing local currency was no problem with visa card. 30 Australian cents bought 1 South African rand. We found hostel accommodation for R35 per night. Everything else was marginally cheaper than in Aust. except taxi’s which are a ripoff. Watch out if you don’t have the right money be-cause they hate to give change.
Lauren and I made friends with a Korean man about my age called Han. who had come in on our flight and stayed at our hostel. On Sunday the three of us booked in for a tour of the lion and rhino park. This we shared with a gang of American hell’s angels who passed around a strange smelling cigarette. Naturally I declined their invitation. The game park was good many species to be seen and photographed at relatively close distances. Our tour guide, an Afrikaans man, loved his country. No-one was in a hurry so he drove us through Jo-hannesburg city. He gave us an extensive social and political history of his land starting in the 1600’s to present day.
I was really enriched by this I now understand that the major-ity of the Afrikaans did not dislike or discriminate against the Africans on the basis of colour it was because they were frightened of communism because they had money and the black man did not. The Afrikaans were only ten percent of the population and apartheid took the vote away from the Africans who were poor, and communism appealed to them.
enforcing order. All the business people have moved out of the city to new centers in the suburbs, resulting in many cen-tral business districts. Johannesburg is enormous: seven mil-lion people.
On Monday we traveled about two hours through the country to Sun City; an enormous complex of hotels, entertainment features and a casino. Sun City’s main attraction was like an amusement park, based on the theme of a “lost city” in the African wilds. Hence, the developer of this complex built enormous structures posing as ruined royal palaces and tem-ples. Sun City’s main attraction for us was not the casino, no we had already had enough bad luck with thee Jo’burg taxi drivers. The “Valley of the Waves” was a large area with many water slides, a wave pool, moving rivers, waterfalls, etc. We bought Lauren a swimsuit there so she could join me on the rides. Some of the slides were so fast and pretty scary; some went into the mountain side and the slide was pitch black until you shot out the other end into the pool.. The rides had names like Viper and Scorpion.
That was Monday, Tuesday morning we flew to Abidjan via Accra. I have been listening to Lauren’s descriptions of West Africa for the last year and a half, I’ve seen many photos and I’ve read books. Nothing can prepare you for the reality. This is a foreign land. I am in shock. Pleasant and exiting but so incredibly different.
Andy and Carla are here as well. Andy and I get along very well, and we will be traveling to neighboring Ghana next week after Lauren and I visit Bouake where her school is. The weather is not hot— I would call it very warm. It is how-ever more humid than I have ever experienced. I liken it to a moderate sauna which continues day and night. Clothes are worn only for decency.
My wife told me that she could speak basic French. She is very modest. The woman that I married walks calmly through the busy market place whilst being harassed by many large African men then ever so graciously succeeds in reduc-ing his price by more than half. We purchased three pairs of shorts and a t-shirt for about $16.
The Bissetts are very hospitable to us, we sleep in a large tiled room with adjacent bathroom meals are served when-ever we request. John-Baptiste is a restaurant quality chef and the food is delectable. You have never tasted bread. Bread is French baguette that is delivered hot at 6am. love this place, I’m picking up the language. The Lord is an incredible designer.

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Often I find myself being disappointed when visiting exhibitions that have topics I know about. No doubt this is because I have built a certain expectation in my head and can then easily assess if the exhibition lives up to it. Such was the case with the Cézanne exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum last year. However, when I know nothing at all about a topic, I usually enjoy the discovery and this didn’t fail with the Mechanical Music Museum in Northleach.
I wasn’t too sure what I was going to find there and my expectation was to see a collection of old music boxes piled high in an old fashioned décor. The old fashioned décor is there all right but the music boxes, pianos that play themselves, barrel organs and mechanical music novelties are far from gathering the dust. They are in fact played by a guide and it is possible to join the tour at any time, leaving when you are back to the first instrument they played.
The moment you hear the first instrument, you are hooked and want to stay to listen to them all. I have two vivid memories of the museum, which I visited a few month ago. The first is the piano that plays by itself recordings on request (we were offered a selection of Chopin, Rachmaninov and Strauss among others). What we heard next is the score as it was played a hundred years ago by the recording pianist. The enchanting music and the keys moving by themselves offer a captivating experience, part charming, part spooky. The second memory is of a musical chair for children. A child in the audience was asked to sit on that chair and his weight activated a lovely melody.
The website is right in referring to their museum as a living museum. On top of the very first disc recordings and piano symphonies, it is bursting with chimes, ding a lings, rings, peals and clangs, all arranged in the right order to make music. This place was one of the best surprises of my winter in the Cotswolds. I entered the museum a serious adult with too much stress in her life and exited filled with child-like amazement and a twinkle in my ears.
Lovely to read about your visit yo this museum. We visited it about 10 years ago.


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Roseanne was — and remains — a brilliant media strategist. In addition to the role she played on her show, she fostered a public persona that sometimes, quite deliberately, left her looking as though she were the sole survivor of a very bad train wreck. And the American people loved her for it.
For close to a decade, Roseanne was fine fodder for the tabloids as well. They endlessly detailed her personal foibles, multiple marriages, family crises, and fractious relationships with co-workers and network executives. Viewers and readers hung on every word, both in print and on screen.
Supporters of the president point to the current state of the economy: significant reductions in taxes, a jump in the stock market, and the prospect of a resurgent pro-business environment — in part, through massive deregulation and punishing tariffs. In exchange, we’ve been saddled with a deficit of approximately $1.5 trillion. As for middle-class tax breaks, most of them will expire in 2025.
Not too much of a concern for Roseanne Barr, however. That same Republican tax legislation assures her of personally faring quite nicely. Realistically, she didn’t have to come out of retirement for the money. She came back because she missed us. Then again, Roseanne never really went away.
There was her turn as the moderately successful host of a television talk show. Her 2012 run for the Green Party presidential nomination. Her eventual campaign as the Peace and Freedom Party candidate. The documentary about her presidential bid. Her reality show. The NBC sitcom pilot that was never picked up. And now, "Roseanne: The Reboot."
Screen superstardom was never enough for Roseanne, though, nor will it ever be. And that’s just fine. As is her decision — calculated or not — to embrace the man who will make America great again. And while her somewhat skewed ideology may make for good ratings, it is potentially harmful to her and those whom she has chosen to target.
But, hey, let Roseanne be Roseanne. She’s not the president. She’s a comedian. It’s all just an act. Right? She’s messing with us, telling jokes funny enough to make network executives squirm in their seats — which may possibly have led to the sudden disappearance of her ill-advised tweets. Better those than a sitcom destined to rake in huge profits. Now, that’s show biz.


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At Yale Creek we offer complete snow removal services. This includes snow plowing, shoveling, salting and removing ice if needed. Boasting snow plow equipment that is suitable for residential and commercial use, we are able to get the job done. The equipment includes pickup trucks, skid loaders, snow blowers and the old fashioned reliable shovels. If Eden Prairie has an extra large snowfall, we always have the ability to call in heavy machinery.
We are a locally owned and family operated company, so we understand the importance of working within your budget. Pricing depends on a number of factors, such as the size of your property and frequency, and we will do our best to work with you to find a solution that fits your needs.
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It is amazing that your ministry devotes so much to exclusion.
We are very aware that our views are not popular, but much of what Jesus claimed and said wasn’t popular either. And what we believe and teach is based on what He said. Such as “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except by Me.” That’s about as exclusivistic as anyone can get.
Yet, He also said that after He was crucified, He’d come back to life three days later, and He did. So that’s a pretty convincing argument for believing that what He said was true. About God, about the nature of man, about heaven and hell, about other religions, about sexuality, about philosophy, about ethics. . . the whole ball of wax.
"Your Bethlehem Star Article is Wrong"


text: British writer of detective and historical fiction, of Irish descent, born in Edinburgh, educated at Stonyhurst and the University of Edinburgh, where he studied medicine. After a brief and unsatisfactory medical partnership with a friend in Plymouth—The Stark–Munro Letters (1895) gives a fictionalized account of the episode—he practised in Southsea from 1882 to 1890, and later served as an army physician during the Boer War, writing a history of the campaign (The Great Boer War, 1900) and an influential pamphlet ‘The War in South Africa’, which was much translated. He married Louise Hawkins (d. 1906) in 1885, and Jean Leckie, who survived him, in 1907. In the novel A Study in Scarlet (1888) he introduced the private detective Sherlock Holmes and his impercipient friend Dr Watson, the narrator in most of the stories, and with whom he resides at 221B Baker Street; the other Sherlock Holmes novels are The Sign of Four (1890), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), and The Valley of Fear (1914). Doyle's immense popularity, however, stemmed from the Sherlock Holmes short stories, published mainly in the Strand Magazine, where the first, ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’, appeared in 1891. Tiring of the character, he wrote of Holmes's death in ‘The Final Problem’ (1893), but vehement public protest forced a resurrection in ‘The Empty House’ (1903). The stories are collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892), The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894), The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905), His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes (1917), and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927). Undoubtedly the best-known and perhaps, too, the best of all fictional detectives, whose influence on later writers is demonstrated by such figures as Freeman's Dr Thorndyke, or Christie's Poirot, Holmes owes something to his predecessors, Poe's Dupin and Emile Gaboriau's Lecoq, while his deductive method is partly borrowed from Doyle's teacher at Edinburgh, Dr Joseph Bell. There are over a hundred Sherlock Holmes films, the best-known being those of the 1940s with Basil Rathbone as the detective, a number of plays, two written by Doyle himself, and many radio and television adaptations. Doyle however, set greater store by his historical fiction, which combines exciting adventure with carefully researched detail. The best works are The White Company (1891) and its successor, Sir Nigel (1906), set in the fourteenth century; Rodney Stone (1896), with a Regency prize-fighting background; and the light-hearted stories of a cavalry officer in Napoleon's army, The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (1896). Also worthy of mention is The Lost World (1912), the first of a series of stories dominated by Professor Challenger. Doyle wrote many books on public themes, including a long history of the Flanders campaign in the First World War (6 volumes, 1916–19). His one-act play Waterloo provided Sir Henry Irving in 1894 with one of his most successful parts. In 1926 he published his History of Spiritualism, one of many books he wrote on the subject, in which he was greatly interested. His efforts to right miscarriages of justice resulted in the release of George Edalji in 1906 and of Oscar Slater in 1927, both wrongfully imprisoned. He published accounts of both cases. See lives by H. Pearson (1943), J. D. Carr (1949), and J. Symons (1979); and H. Keating, Sherlock Holmes: The Man and His World (1979).


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Magician Business Cards - How to make your business card lead to gigs!
Magician Business Cards – How to make your business card lead to gigs!
How to make your business card lead to gigs!
If you have been doing magic for some time you’ve probably already been asked for your business card. If not, you will. And when it happens you want to be prepared!
There are countless designs and creative ideas that you can put on your card, but at the end of the day, the most sole purpose of the card is to give a potential client your contact information so they can get in touch with you for a magic booking.
Your business card is the representation of you and what you do, so the most basic piece of information you need to have on the card is your name and occupation. If you specialize in a particular area of magic it is a good idea to mention it on your card. When you meet a potential client that’s looking for a magician for a wedding, a business card that says “Wedding Magician” will build a lot more trust and confidence than the one that plainly says “Magician”.
If you work in different areas of magic, you could take it a step further and print smaller runs of cards for each area. Potential clients in those areas will feel more comfortable hiring you because of the feeling that you are specialized in their desired area.
Calling is the quickest way for prospective clients to contact you and discuss any questions about hiring you. It helps to have a simple number that’s easy to memorize, but that is definitely not a must.
* Tip: Want to have a separate number to use for work, but don’t want to pay for another SIM card/phone plan? Google Voice provides free phone numbers that you can forward to your current phone or send straight to voicemail so you can call your clients back later.
Your e-mail address can come in handy at times when you are a too busy to take calls throughout the day. Ask your potential clients to email you their information and get back to them as soon as you have a chance. Ideally, you want your contact email to have your own domain in it. A magician that has an email like simon185@yahoo.com is not going look as professional as someone who has his own domain, for example: contact@simonmagic.com. If you don’t have your own domain yet, Gmail is a good alternative, since it’s a well-known and completely free email provider.
A picture can convey a lot about who you are and what you do; it also helps the client know what to expect when they are booking you. The other advantage of having a picture on your card arises at corporate events with hundreds of guests. By the end of the event it can be hard for the guests to remember everyone they have met. A picture helps remind them who you are.
In addition, when your card gets passed around to friends and colleagues, they will take note that the performer looks clean and professional, which increases the chances of them hiring you.
As good as your first impression might have been, people will probably want to do some more research before they make up their minds. Putting a link to your website – especially if your site includes videos of you performing and past clients’ testimonials – may set your potential client’s mind at ease and help close the deal.
If you have your own logo, it is a good idea to put it on your card. A logo on your card builds your authority, and helps further sell the idea that you are indeed a real company. A logo is NOT one of the essential things you need to have, but it can certainly make you look more professional in the eyes of your clients.
There are thousands of fonts available online, starting from the ones that replicate a typewriter, to extra fancy calligraphy. It can be very tempting to add a bit of elegance by using one of those stylish fonts with big curls. However, it is important to remember that the information on your card needs to be easily read. Experiment with different fonts, but if you feel like a potential client could have even the slightest trouble reading your font, be sure to choose another.
90% of business cards get thrown away, so it’s important to stand out from the rest and create a card that people want to keep. Don’t forget – a magician is an artist, so it makes sense to add some creativity to your card. If you turn your card into a piece of art that you hand out to people, it will make a much bigger impression on your clients, and they’ll be more likely to keep it.
If you decide to create a card similar to those above, you will want to be more thoughtful about who you hand it out to, as giving a card to every person you meet can be expensive. However, when you meet a prospective client that you need to make an impression on, handing out a novelty card could make the difference between whether they book you, or not.
Creating an astonishing moment of magic using your card is another reason people will want to keep it. This is a much less expensive option compared to Novelty Cards but can still have a tremendous impact on your client. The easiest way to accomplish this is leaving the back of your business card blank. This allows for an extensive list of tricks to be done with it from the numerous amount of marketed tricks out there – to simply using the back of your card as a billet or surface to use for your ‘mental predictions’.
Another idea would be printing a playing card on the back of your business card, so you could force it on the spectator and reveal it printed there. Or you could take it a step further by designing an interactive trick to put on the back of your card that you could to teach to your clients – one they could show to their own friends later. The possibilities are limitless – as long as you create a memorable moment with your card that will inspire your spectators to keep it!
Just look around, you will see that nowadays QR codes are pretty much everywhere and it would be hard to find a smartphone that doesn’t have a QR scanner in it. A QR code is essentially a barcode, which upon scanning can do a number of things (including opening up a website, video or a page).
What this enables you to do is have a QR code generated for your website and put it on the back of your card, so when a potential client scans it with their phone – your website pops up!
Approaching this utility from a different point of view, you could link your QR code to a video with your prediction and then incorporate it into one of your tricks.
This is probably as close to real magic as it gets. This technology is just making its way into pop culture so now is a great time to make the most out of it. For a certain price a company can develop a 3D hologram that anyone can see and interact with if they look at your business card through a special app. You can find more info and examples here.
Since augmented reality is not commonly used in business cards, by making such card you will automatically stand out from the rest and your clients will surely want to keep such a novelty to show it around.
Most printing companies offer small runs of 100 or even 50 business cards for a relatively small price. This is a perfect opportunity for you to experiment with different designs and finishes, since you won’t have to throw out hundreds of business cards if you don’t like the final result.
Access “Business Card Bombshells” right now in the Back Room!
When you are making your first business card, start by testing small runs of cards until you find the design and the finish that you love.
Special thanks to Alex Sladman for writing this great article! Alex is a a Conjuror Community Member and passionate, talented close-up magician.


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Hyatt Regency St Louis at the Arch!
NARHC Institutes are put on by the only national association dedicated strictly to Rural Health Clinics (RHCs). A wide range of rural health professionals will be in attendance including CEOs, CFOs, Physicians, PAs, NPs, Clinic Managers, Billers & Coders.
Earn Continuing Education Credits: TBD CME from AAFP (for MDs, PAs, NPs) and TBD CEUs from AAPC (for coders), and NEW... ARCHPC (for coders).
Additionally, we are now offering an online course, the Certified Rural Health Clinic Professional (CRHCP), with the final exam live at the conclusion of the NARHC Institute. This course is a separate registration fee. If you want to attend both the conference and the course, you will be required to pay both registration fees. For more information on the CRHCP course Click Here.
Member Rates: Save $100-$125 per person on registration by being a NARHC member! If you are interested in becoming a member Click Here for the membership application. Unsure if you're a member? Call us and we'll be happy to check your organization's status for you (866-306-1961 x1).
Room Rates: Under the the room block National Association of Rural Health Clinic, room rates begin at $159/night. This rate is not guaranteed through 3rd party online booking services.
Reservations: Book your room at https://www.hyatt.com/en-US/group-booking/STLRS/G-NARH, or by calling 888-421-1442, and reference the National Association of Rural Health Clinic to receive the group rate. Make reservations early as possible. The block will close September 14th, 2019, or when full, whichever comes first.
A Scheduled Shared Ride is the most AFFORDABLE option – one-way rates (shared ride $25 ($22.50 if booked round trip). Shared Ride reservations (required at least 24 hours in advance): https://www.besttransportation.com/airport-transportaion, email reservations@besttransportation.com, or call 866-272-1200.
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Event App: If registered for the event you will receive an email with your login information to our Event App, beginning September 16th. Read and follow the instructions (before October 1st) within the email and you could win a $50 gift card! For those who haven't attended a NARHC conference and used our app previously, this is a vital piece that will enhance your experience at our conference. It will also allow you to have the chance to be entered into the Prize drawings happening on day 2 of the conference!
Cancellation Policy: Registration fees are not transferable to other events in lieu of a refund. A substitute attendee is allowed if we are notified in advance. All cancellations will incur a $25 per person administration fee.
NARHC hosts conferences in March and October of every year throughout the United States. Conferences are 2½ days in length and participants can earn CEU/CME credits. Exhibitors display the first 2 days.
All Sponsorships include the exhibitors table package.
Exhibitors $1,000 6’ Draped Table, 2 Chairs (Member) or 1 Chair (NonMember), Food/Beverage, Conf. Registration, Internet, Electricity & Participant List. Table location is determined on exhibitor level and order payment was received.
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Payment & Art Deadline: August 31, 2019. If same ad or logo as before, no need to resubmit. Just let us know! Gold Sponsors: Email your ad in EPS/vector format, max. size 600 KB, approximately 2560 x 200 pixels (banner shaped) by August 31st. If you miss the deadline, we can’t guarantee your ad or information will be on the app!
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Genuine Epson ink cartridges for Discproducer DVD/CD publisher and autoprinter. Cartridges come in cyan, magenta, yellow, black, light cyan, and light magenta.
Count on Epson ink cartridges for the most professional looking results from your Discproducer CD/DVD disc printer. These Genuine Epson inkjet cartridges are compatible with all Discproducer models including the Publisher (PP-100), Autoprinter (PP-100AP), Publisher Network Edition (PP-100N), and Publisher Network Edition with Security (PP-100N Security). Choose from cyan, magenta, yellow, black, light cyan, and light magenta.
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In 2016, number of researchers in R&D for Germany was 4,893.2 per million people. Between 1997 and 2016, number of researchers in R&D of Germany grew substantially from 2,893.2 to 4,893.2 per million people rising at an increasing annual rate that reached a maximum of 9.95 % in 2015 and then decreased to 3.05 % in 2016.
What is number of researchers in R&D?
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Outside the holiday periods the Werkplaats is open on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9:00- 17:00 (reservations by phone/email in advance). Other days and openings times are available by appointment.
or in one of the car parks listed below.
• This turns into the Lutherse Burgwal, the car park is on the left.


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Although leopard print will always be classic, now has never been a better time to buy as animal prints are huge this season. Cut in an oversized boxy shape that’s emphasized by dropped shoulders, the Rita is the perfect cover-up for the girl that likes to stand out!
The relaxed shape looks really cool over knitwear or dress it up with a printed slip dress.
Fold the collar and lapels up to create a warm funnel neckline on brisk days.


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LAS VEGAS — Frank Adonis, an actor best known for his roles in Martin Scorsese films including “Goodfellas,” “Raging Bull” and “Casino,” has died. He was 83.
His wife, Denise, told TMZ and Fox News that he died Wednesday in Las Vegas after several years of illness, mostly from kidney problems. She said he’d been on dialysis and was on a ventilator for nine days but they waited until after Christmas to take him off it.
He’s survived by his wife and their two children, and another daughter from an earlier marriage.


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Origin: Cuban American artist & writer Ulises Fariñas got his big break when he was hired by IDW to draw their Judge Dredd Mega-City Two in 2014. He got to write, as well as draw, the follow-up series, Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero, in 2016. Fariñas has been very active working with other comic book creators on various anthology projects, such as GAMMA, Amazing Forest, and the recently launched publishing imprint Buño. He attended the New York’s School of Visual Arts, before beginning his professional career.
Credits: Act-i-vate web comics, Catalyst Comix, GI Joe, Motro, Transformers, and many more!
the details gives me anxiety as a beginner.


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For young people, an apprenticeship and a blended degree mark the start of a new stage in life, when they make the transition from school to gainful activity. And so it was for the 24 apprentices and blended degree students who arrived at the Rutronik conference room in Ispringen on Friday, September 1, full of anticipation for the next three years. Twenty four individuals who are a part of the whole that is Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente GmbH.
Rutronik offers these young people the opportunity to achieve new goals and to master new challenges. As a new apprentice at Rutronik, I also took part in the introductory week and would like to report my impressions of the event.
The first week was packed with highlights from all areas of the company. We started by getting to know the company and the other apprentices during an introductory meeting. This broke the ice and was followed directly by the tour of the company. Quality management and occupational safety were the first aspects that we examined here. Rules and regulations as well as fixed routines form an integral part of our working day, and for this reason they were explained to us in detail during the introductory training.
Another element was the topic of “business etiquette“, which is so important during everyday working life. This involved learning the correct way to deal with colleagues and business partners. All of us were expected to work as a team and to cooperate actively, which in turn enabled us to provide our own input to the training. In addition to these topics, we addressed different forms of communication, structured working, and soft skills.
At the end of the introductory week, yet another highlight awaited: a two-day trip to Bad Herrenalb – very relaxed and away from the company. These days offered us further exciting impressions, initial experiences of team work, and perspectives of what to expect during the next few months. The most exciting team task involved designing and constructing a protective mechanism from paper and Sellotape to prevent an egg thrown out of the window from breaking on the ground. A one-hour, energy-sapping negotiation involving a pen, paper and a sharpener as part of a simulation game and a daring hike along a river bed kept everyone in good spirits. The day ended with a communal evening meal in a relaxed atmosphere that allowed everyone to get to know one another better.
After this introductory week, each individual was ready to show up and take his or her place in the respective departments. The foundation for a successful start to the apprenticeship and the degree was laid and we would like to finish by thanking the entire team led by Julia Kolem and Lena Schmid.

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05446756 is referenced by 307 patents and cites 20 patents.
A cellular communications system is provided having both surface and satellite nodes which are fully integrated for providing service over large areas. A spread spectrum system is used with code division multiple access (CDMA) employing forward error correction coding (FECC) to enhance the effective gain and selectivity of the system. Two-way adaptive power control and signal quality monitoring and power control responsive thereto are provided for controlling the power output levels of transmitters to the minimum necessary for satisfactory communications. Each transmission includes a code representative of the transmitter output power level. Receivers compare this code to the received signal strength and adjust their associated transmitter power output level accordingly. Bit error rate and SNR are monitored by receivers to develop a measure of signal quality. A signal quality code is transmitted to remote units and transmission output power level is adjusted in response. Timing signals are provided by one or more nodes to obtain user position information.


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Pocket Casts is an excellent podcasts application for your iPhone or iPad. If you want to listen and manage audio and/or video podcasts then I highly recommend checking out Pocket Casts.
One thing I forgot to mention in the video, the only negative thing I have to say about Pocket Casts is that the app does not offer Apple Watch support and that is something I find myself using on a regular basis when I am listening to podcast in Overcast.


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Can you smell the mossy world machine?
as he cranked up his jaw and turned off his ear.
that flower box window with the three sides of glass?
as it is I'm late and not in need of a view.
like a bird perched at the window sill.
my little hen to persist with this mentality."
"Living in the shadow of my other."
Sledgehammer, Saw - hacked away at the wall.
Break the Seal of your conventionality..."
to attack it from the other side.
to see what was goin' on.
"have you gone and lost your head?"
now go and find me that window frame.
we've got alot to do.
You can help or get out of my way..."
her flower box window was installed after all.
Please raise your glass. Season's come again.
Shins, oh so thin. Should you not feel a part of anything?
Are these not the colorful lives we intended them to be?
we really need to drink from your wine.
(might I bring a few of mine?).
unlock your books for a change.
Mulberry Row scars still remain.
Bones are everywhere, aren't they?
Our families spring from their graves.
(while music's playing by the garden's edge).
can flowers blooms from this vintage?
we glance around community of our own.
Quiet valley drips with hints of laughter.
Mr. Jefferson, can we slip these bones?
And bones are everywhere, aren't they?
What do you think they'd see through those trees?
"Resurrected Spirits Dancing," you don't say!?
(The minstrel's new arrangement of History).
We danced and drank the sun!
It over flowed and washed the past away.
we're all looking for the garden. So much to maintain.
Bones are everywhere aren't they?
Ghosty spirits dash right past me.
Finding hidden spaces, favored places.
Families disperse to there graves.
Bones are here to stay aren't they?
We cultivate the bones that we're of.
would you say I've had enough?
Why do I pull it away from me?
Where, oh, where is that little child that used to play?
I would give anything to visit History.
What's best to show? Testline. Treasure trove.
To the docks, gone away, gone away..."
Ship to sea, gone away, gone away..."
Everything Changes. Everything Comes And Goes.
To the world, gone away, gone away..."
I really like you. Can we play tomorrow?


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When I switched to using a 5K Retina iMac everyday, I thought, “Yeah, the display is nice, but really, what’s the big deal?” After a long period on the 5K Retina iMac, I switched back to using a laptop with a standard display, and I finally realized what the big deal was all about. With the Retina 5K iMac, the crispness and clarity was much more immediately noticeable to me, perhaps because I’m much more attuned to using a Retina display, or because the size of the screen and the 5K resolution makes a bigger impression.
Do you own a 5K Retina iMac and want to play Blu-ray discs right there on your screen? The good news is that it is possible even though Apple doesn’t support the format.
Mac doesn't support Blu-ray natively so the first thing you’ll need is an external Blu-ray drive. There are several available including models from Buffalo, Samsung, LG, ASUS and Sony.
The one is install a 3rd party software like Macgo Mac Blu-ray Player or Aurora Blu-Ray Player, so you can play the 4K Blu-ray on this 5K Retina display immediately.
The other is install a 3rd party software like Brorsoft Blu-ray Ripper for Mac, to rip the 4K Blu-ray to Mac compatible MP4, MOV or MOV format, so that you can watch the ripped digital Blu-ray movies on 5K Retina iMac or other Apple devices without original physical disc and Blu-ray drive no longer.
If you choose the first method, just download the Blu-ray player online, install and open the 3rd party Blu-ray player, drag & drop the Blu-ray movie icon to Blu-ray player Windows, then follow the simple guide to watch (4K) Blu-ray on this 5K Retina display immediately. If you choose the second method, just follow the guide below to rip your (4K) Blu-ray to Mac compatible digital format without quality loss.
Click the disc-like button to load your (4K) Blu-ray files. The Blu-ray titles and chapters will be listed on the program within a few seconds.
Note: Before loading Blu-ray content, a BD drive is needed and pls keep networked.
Press on “Format” button to open the drop-down list. Then choose MP4, MOV or M4V format from "Common Video" or "HD Video" cateloage.
Here you can also choose the output format according to the ultimate usage.
If you stream the Blu-ray and DVD rips on TV, you can choose “TVS” profile.
If you want to transfer Blu-ray and DVD to iPhone, iPad, you can select the target format in “iPhone”/”iPad” profile.
If you just want to put the Blu-ray and DVD rips to Home Network, NAS and some other centralized location, you can simply choose MP4 in “Common Video” and “HD Video”.
Click “Settings” icon to adjust the Blu-ray movie resolution, for keeping the origianl 4K resolution of your 4K Blu-ray, please select the "original" drop-down option from "Size(pix)" catalogy. In this way the output Blu-ray movie will reserve the 4K resolution.
You can adjust the video, audio parameters bitare, frame rate, sample rate, audio channel, etc. Plus, you can click “Edit” button to do some editing work cropping, trimming, settings effect, adding subtitles.
Click the “Convert” icon, the conversion will start immediately.
You can follow the converting process in the “Conversion” interface.
When the conversion finished, you can get Mac compatible Blu-ray movies via clicking on “Open” button effortlessly. Just enjoy the (4K) Blu-ray on your 5K Retina iMac.


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This useful 5 piece Scanpan Classic non-stick cookware set has 3 basic pans plus 2 lids to get even the most reluctant cooks off on the right foot! With a 9.5 inch fry pan, a 2 quart sauce pot and a 4 quart dutch oven, it's amazing how many different dishes you can create. Each environmentally-friendly Scanpan non-stick pot or pan is made in Denmark from 100% recycled aluminum and is PFOA free.
Made in Denmark from 100% recycled aluminum.
The fry pan measures 9.5 inches in diameter and 1.5 inches tall. With handle, fry pan measures 16 inches long. The 4 quart dutch oven measures 9-1/4 inches x 5 inches. The sauce pot has a capacity of 3 quarts and measures 5.5 inches high w/lid. With handles, it measures 15 inches wide.


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The Bears Pit: JA2 Solutions. Tips. Spoilers! » Where could I find Patusco's JA2 Strategy Guide Version 1.3???
Home » SIRTECH CLASSICS » Jagged Alliance 2 » JA2 Solutions. Tips. Spoilers! » Where could I find Patusco's JA2 Strategy Guide Version 1.3???
The file download at http://www.strategyplanet.com/jaggedalliance/ via File Planet doesn't work any more.
Where could I find this guide?
Ok, now I'm feeling dumb. If I click on 'download' it redirects me on http://www.fileplanet.com/ and from here I can't find the Patusco's guide (in the JA2 file section there are only patches or demos).
I'll be glad if you tell me how to do or sent me the txt or pdf version (the important thing is that is the last, the 1.3)!
PS: It is so clear that I'm Italian?
Sorry, I thought you could attach it to the post in the forum.
Send me the PDF version (or txt or Doc) at matteo.dt@gmail.com.
Thank you and sorry for the delay in the answer, I was wery busy at work.
Todanerd - thank you very much for the email. Nice to have this Guide to read again!
Thanks a bunch Dave. It appears other files across the internet are no longer free anymore from fileplanet.
I too need some help. Sold my home 6 months ago and bought a new one. I have spent weeks trying to reorganize my collection of board games, painted miniatures and computer games. I have also spent my few "free hours" playing Civ IV as I just retired after 30 years in corporate security for a large bank.
I am now ready to return to the JA2 world but have hit a brick wall. I have the original JA2 and upgraded to 1.06, plus I have UB and Wildfire plus a dozen mods created by the community here but they are scattered over 2 tabletop computers and several CD's. I cannot locate my copy of Patusco's great guide nor can I find my instructions for using the cheat that allows you to convert in-game items to other in-game items. I know about the 'GABBI' cheat codes but don't use them but my notes on the cheat that allows me to change my useless items to ammo, armor, better firearms, etc appear to have gone astray. Many, many of the previous web sites that held this info are no longer up and I'd like to get back to UB, Wildfire and try this new one (now that there is an English translator patch) so any help would be appreciated.
Thank you Humphrey. I just got Patusco's guide without any trouble from your suggestion. Now if I can just rediscover that cheat for morphing items into other items.
Never mind! Found what I was looking for. Now I have to decide if I want to resume Urban Chaos or Wildfire.
Can someone send the guide in either format to my E-mail. I'm not paying to register with fileplanet. The interweb is getting to be a bigger rip-off than the movie theaters.
Of course I can send to you, I have the .doc and .txt versions in a zip file... I downloaded from somewhere but I can't remember... Anyways, just post your e-mail (or send me a Private Message with your e-mail to me) and I'll send it to you.
I have the file in a pdf format. I have the upload link right down there.
However, if you prefer it to be emailed, then you could send me a private message.
Hey, I can't seem to get that ifpost link working - would someone be able to email it to ptizzle.ausgn@gmail.com? Would really appreciate it.
Next Topic: Mixing RDX crystals?

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Police numbers in the capital could fall to their lowest in 15 years if the Government do not “urgently” provide more funding, the Mayor of London has warned.
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, today warned the number of police officers in London could fall below 26,800 if the Government does not provide more funding to the Metropolitan Police.
Mr Khan will meet with Home Secretary Sajid Javid on Tuesday to discuss police funding from the Government, which is expected to be announced soon.
He said: “The causes of violent crime are extremely complex, but there is no doubt it has been made far worse by huge government cuts to the police and youth services.
“Even the Home Secretary has finally admitted that the Met won’t be able to tackle violent crime without more funding from the government.
“Now we urgently need to see action to avoid officer numbers falling even further.
The Mayor’s Office for Police and Crime (MOPAC) estimated the Metropolitan Police is required to make a further £355 million in savings by 2022.
But MOPAC has said this means this could result in police numbers falling to 26,800 – the lowest number since 2002.
The Government provides 76 per cent of police funding in the capital. The Metropolitan Police funding has been cut by over £850 million since 2010.
Figures released earlier this year by City Hall revealed the number of police officers in London had fallen to 3.3 per 1,000 people, with the number of police dropping below 30,000 for the first time in a decade.

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I do not believe that Mel Brooks, in his first feature film, Twelve Chairs, originally coined the phrase, “[h]ope for the best, expect the worst.” As a self-professed political junkie, and as the former co-lead regional elections counsel for the Obama-Biden Campaign (2008, 2012) throughout Central Florida, I feel as if (1) the quote is apt to what very likely will occur tomorrow evening; and (2) that I must issue, at least, brief comment.
First, it appears that a Republican takeover of the U.S. Senate is — at least according to the often over-glamorized ‘pundits’ likely. If so, then expect two years of nothing happening in the United States — something that could well set back both the reforming of the judicial ranks, as well as the overall U.S. and, hence, global economy. I feel little sense of relief from being now-situated in Canada, as I still deeply care for what happens in the United States, and to its people. Tomorrow’s elections will likely stand as another example of a nation in chaos, with the insane running the asylum. Folks, this ain’t your granddad’s Republican Party; this is not the party of Earl Warren, Dwight Eisenhower — not that of Richard Nixon (no great peach, himself) — not even the party of Barry Goldwater or Ronald Reagan.
Rather, it is a party controlled by two distinctive elements — a toxic combination that seems to prevail, especially in midterm elections: (a) the corporate core of the Republican Party, typified by the likes of the Koch Brothers and Sheldon Adelson, who possess a seemingly nihilistic perspective keen on the destruction of the New Deal and Great Society reforms, and the reintroduction of the Gilded Age; and (b) an overzealous, extremist minority of voters driven by a misguided, Ayn Rand-inspired, simplistic ideology of ‘government bad, private sector good.’ Sadly, from evidence gathered over the past few years, it seems evident that the latter is being funded by the former. To this U.S. expatriate, this is a scary combination — made only scarier through the constitutionally-suspect opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court, beginning with Citizens United and culminating in last April’s opinion in McCutcheon, dismantling campaign finance regulations, and allowing for unlimited donations to political campaigns. The power of money now dominates in U.S. elections — each election that passes brings news of how this influence continues to work its way down — from federal, to state, to local races.
Also, please keep in mind the questionable nature of the devices used to cast ballots, and the vigilance necessary to ensuring accurate results. Believe it or not, even though I have never gotten over Florida in 2000, and Bush v. Gore, I would give virtually anything for the beauty of a paper counted, butterfly ballot, rather than the suspect nature of touchscreen or optical-scan voting methods. Rather than building a voting device like an ATM machine, companies like ES&S build the voting devices — hardware and software — like the computer equivalent of the paper bag. Studies that have been issued over the years, including from independent sources at Stanford University, Princeton University and Johns Hopkins University, have revealed the serious security flaws in such devices. Already, specifically with digital, touchscreen voting, we are hearing complaints out of Arkansas and Illinois of ‘vote flipping’ by these devices during the early voting process. I cannot rationally fathom why policymakers on both sides fail to take any serious steps to curing these repeated issues. Again, we are left to rely upon the focus, approach, vigilance, vocalization skills of election protection lawyers and citizens. Will it be enough?
In the end, will Tuesday evening prove another tragedy to ‘good governance?’ Ultimately, each major political party will need to grapple with its collective soul. Until that time, American democracy and the long-term fate — economic and otherwise — of the bulk of U.S. citizens will continue to blow in the wind.
My pontification ends here ….
Excellent analysis. It breaks my heart that democracy is limited in the U S because of money. We will know soon.
Well, the worst …. Indeed, some of the results these morning are completely beyond reality. Yes, I am happy to be in Canada, but deeply concerned for my land of origin.


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Australia's climate is changing. Water shortage is chronic and irreversible, temperatures are rising, extreme weather events are more frequent, species are dying on land and at sea.
The world's scientists agree that to avoid the worst environmental damage we must cut at least 60 per cent of global emissions by 2050. Instead, Australia is on track to Increase emissions by 70 per cent over this period. Why Is the Howard government acting so conspicuously against the world's Interests, and against Australia's own future?
In this damning account, Liberal Party member, lobbyist and former Howard-government advisor Guy Pearse takes us behind the rhetoric he once helped write. He reveals that the government has no plans whatsoever to reduce Australia's emissions, and explains why this is bad for Australia's economy. He exposes a prime minister wilfully blind to Australia's real Interests - a man who has allowed climate change policy to be dictated by a small group of Australia's biggest polluters and the lobbyists they fund.

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"The subject of my work could be thought of as dissolution, or more precisely the fetishization of dissolution within Modernity."
A wide range of pictorial references interact in Peter Peri’s work : geometric Modernism, Russian Avant Garde as well as literary and popular science-fiction find echoes in his hybrid two- and three- dimensional compositions. His early painting surfaces could evoke a certain reality of the architectural or engineered surfaces of the external world while, according to Neal Brown, the ones he creates nowadays come closer to those of a graffiti artist. Peri's works produce a specific sense of space and rigor, coupled with pared-down lines and shapes conjoined together, endowing his precise geometric constructions with life and vibrancy.


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