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Pete Pistone distributes this week’s checkered and black flags following the weekend of racing at Michigan International Speedway and Mid-Ohio.
The career season continued for Harvick with victory number seven of the year at Michigan and he did it in dominating fashion leading 108 laps and tying Bill Elliott on the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series all-time win list at number 17.
He hadn’t posted a top-five since his season-opening Daytona 500 win until Sunday when Dillon’s fourth-place finish ended that drought. Even more impressive was Dillon was able to notch the finish despite a tire problem in the closing laps.
It’s been a bit of a struggle in recent weeks for the Penske group but things were much better in Michigan. All three drivers finished in the top 10 led by Brad Keselowski’s second-place performance with Ryan Blaney fifth and Joey Logano 10th.
Not even the most optimistic fans of Moffitt or Hattori Racing Enterprises could have predicted the season the No. 16 Camping World Truck Series team is having this season. Moffitt edged Johnny Sauter Saturday in Michigan for a thrilling win to put victory number four on the board.
After spending what seemed like half the race off course Allgaier was able to run down and then pass Austin Cindric in the closing laps to win Saturday’s Xfinity Series race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. It capped off another thrilling day of racing for NASCAR’s number two division at the twisting road circuit.
This might be the only time in like two years the 78 team is on the receiving end of a black flag. But the decision to keep Truex Jr. out and run out of fuel at the end of Stage 1 was curious and led to a series of issues that added up to Truex Jr. being credited with a 14th-place finish.
It looked like a day of at least some progress for Johnson and the Hendrick Motorsports No. 48 team. But a loose wheel in the closing laps put an end to those optimistic hopes and Johnson left Michigan with a disappointing 28th-place performance.
Larson didn’t look like anything remotely close to a driver that has won three of the last four Michigan Cup races. He qualified 17th and finished in the same spot in a very mediocre and puzzling performance.
Maybe not a black flag for Dillon, who was the unfortunate victim of the incident that sent him into the Turn 3 wall after running over what appeared to be a back-up battery on track, but for whatever driver’s car it came from. It’s hard to fathom something like that happening and certainly there should be some repercussion once NASCAR uncovers the culprit.
The ridiculous territorialism of the racing world reached a new level when Kyle Larson announced he was imposing a gag order on himself to not talk about his sprint car racing affection “before I make everybody at NASCAR mad or some of my fans mad.” Rather than embracing all of motorsports and the community in return lifting the entire sport, for some reason many choose to split and fragment the racing world. It’s a short sighted and dangerous view that many fans, industry people and even media members need to stop immediately.
The opinions expressed here are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the positions of the Motor Racing Network.


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This Saturday will be another session of our Biblical Counseling Class that we offer since a couple of month. The topic this time is “Peacemaking” and we would like to open this session for everybody that is interested. The training is taking place this Saturday, 9th of February from 10:00 AM till about 4:00 PM. Childcare up to the age of 10 is provided, Lunch must be taken care of by themselves.
Everybody who is interested in coming shall please contact Christian Kreihsler so he can arrange for the material needed. Also, he would have to know how many kids are dropped off at childcare. Please contact Christian K. by e-mail „biblical-counseling@ibcd.de“ or a message to +49 177 3231915.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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"Comets are like cats. They have tails, and they do precisely what they want."
"The history of cosmology is not the easy story of the rejection of absurd ideas in favour of what (perhaps after a little thought) is seen to be patently true, but the heroic saga of the hard-won rejection of the patently true in favour of the absurd."
Ever since childhood I've been interested in the interaction of the history of astronomy with archaeology and mythology. I remain intrigued by the possibility that small solar-system bodies like comets, asteroids, and meteoroids have played a significant role in shaping the destiny of proto-historic and historic peoples all over all the world. In my youth in the 1960s I devoured the works of authors such as Hans Bellamy, Immanuel Velikovsky, Comyns Beaumont, and Ignatius Donnelly, each of whom suggested that mythology encoded catastrophic astronomical events resulting from decaying moons, wildly careening planets, or asteroidal and cometary impacts.
As I grew older and learned more about astronomy and physics, I realized the untenability of the physical scenarios embraced by these authors. Yet I could not shake the idea that the mythology, religion, and ritual of different people all over the world stemmed at least in part from astronomical causes, including catastrophic impacts.
The evidence for such impact events throughout the solar system is undeniable. We need only look to the surface of our Moon to see a myriad of craters left by impacting objects. But the Moon is not alone. During the past three decades, pictures sent back from space probes demonstrate that nearly every solid body in our Solar System exhibits craters. Planets like Mercury, Venus, and Mars; the moons of the giant outer planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; and even asteroids like Toutatis and Vesta -- all show the scars left by impacts. Geologically active bodies like Jupiter's moon Io show few craters, while geologically inactive bodies like the Earth's moon are covered with craters.
The Earth also bears impact scars. At present scientists have identified nearly two hundred terrestrial impact craters. Three to four more craters are located each year. Most of these have only been discovered since 1950. Fewer visible craters appears on the Earth's surface as compared with most other solar system bodies because the Earth is so active geologically.
The heaviest bombardment of the Earth and Moon occurred early in the history of the solar system, prior to 3.2 billion years ago. (I always use billion in the sense of thousand million.) The impact flux has greatly decreased since that time, but asteroids and comets still strike the Earth on a regular basis. By counting the craters on the Moon, whose geologically inactive surface retains a complete record of bombardments over the past few billion years, we can determine the size and frequency of impacts over the long term. We can also use estimates of the total population of near-Earth asteroids and comets ("near-Earth objects" or "NEOs" for short) derived from search and rediscovery programs for near-Earth objects. What these tell us is that there are, on average, about a thousand objects one kilometer or larger in size that cross the Earth's orbit. As of August 2000 about half of these objects have been discovered.
The impact of a one kilometer object onto the Earth would have global effects. There may be more than five hundred thousand objects one hundred meters or larger in Earth crossing orbits. The impact of an object one hundred meters in size is sufficient to level a city. There may be an astonishing one hundred million objects greater than ten meters in size. A ten meter object striking the Earth at about 20 km/sec produces a one hundred kiloton blast. This is five times the yield of the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima which were about 20 kilotons each. On average, the Earth is struck about once a year by an object releasing energy equivalent to a one hundred kiloton explosion. A one megaton impactor strikes once every ten to twenty years. In general, the energy from the smaller impactors is expended high in the atmosphere so no ground damage results.
Asteroid fragments generally strike the Earth at speeds between twelve and thirty six km/sec. Comets may strike at twice this speed, up to seventy two km/sec.
Of the seven hundred to one thousand near-Earth objects greater than one kilometer in diameter, about one third will eventually strike the Earth. A kilometer sized asteroid impacts with an energy equivalent to a million megatons of TNT. An impact of this size occurs about once every hundred thousand years or so on average. An all-out nuclear exchange with the current world arsenal would deliver about twenty thousand megatons. The impact of a kilometer sized object would deliver fifty times the maximum possible destructive power of a global nuclear war.
These long-term averages do not tell us whether the impact flux is uniform over time. It may exhibit large peaks and valleys with impacts clustered near each other in time. Many astronomers believe that there is long-term fifteen or thirty million year cycle to impacts as the result of galactic tides affecting comets in the Oort cloud believed to surround the solar system like a halo. A few astronomers like Victor Clube, Bill Napier, Duncan Steel, and D. J. Asher believe the impact flux varies on an even shorter cycle. They suggest that a giant comet (over fifty kilometers in diameter) arrives in the inner solar system every hundred thousand years on average. As the giant comet disintegrates, its debris may threaten the Earth with a greatly enhanced impact flux for a few years or decades every millenium or two. This notion of coherent catastrophism is highly controversial.
What happens when a comet or asteroid strikes the Earth? That depends upon the size of the impactor, its composition, its incoming speed, and whether it strikes the land or the sea. A sufficiently large impact can have global consequences by degrading climate world-wide, possibly even resulting in mass extinctions. In 1980 the father and son team of Louis and Walter Alvarez, along with their colleagues Frank Asaro and Helen V. Michel, proposed a giant impact model to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs. The dinosaurs, along with many other species of plants and animals, all died out at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary about sixty-five million years ago.
While the idea that a large impact might have effected the dinosaurs's demise wasn't new, the Alvarezes and their team offered something no one previously had: solid physical evidence for a large impact at the right time. Since 1980 the evidence has mounted in favor of the impact theory. The impact occurred on the Yucatán platform with the port city of Progreso, Mexico near the bullseye. The 200 kilometer (or larger) crater lies buried beneath 1,100 meters of limestone deposited since the time of the impact. This buried crater is now known as the Chicxulub structure. The impactor that formed the crater was probably about ten kilometers in diameter. Such "doomsday" objects strike the Earth only once every hundred million years on average.
Since 1980 scientists have looked for evidence that other extinction events may also be linked to impact events. Some scientists believe that all mass extinctions may have been caused by impacts. Other are more cautious and suggest that mass extinction may result from a variety of other causes besides large impacts.
An interesting counterpoint to the idea that cosmic impacts cause extinctions is that cometary impacts may have brought water and the building blocks of life -- or even life itself -- to Earth. Recent suggestions that meteorites, possibly of Martian origin, include exotic biotic materials has refocussed attention on the possible extraterrestrial origins of life.
The Earth is still threatened by cosmic impacts. Our best line of defense would be to mount a thorough search for as many near-Earth objects as possible. A few researchers are actively engaged in this search for near-Earth objects. Unfortunately, the total number worldwide is only about two dozen -- something to ponder considering the magnitude of the potential threat posed by cosmic impacts. At least public awareness of the problem has been raised over the past few years by a number of recent books, article, and television programs discussing the impact threat.
While many view asteroids and comets as a source of danger, others look to them as an untapped source of natural materials. The idea of mining asteroids has a long history in science fiction. Now organizations such as PERMANENT seek to turn science fiction to science fact by using asteroids as building blocks for cities and factories in space within the next few decades.
Cosmic impacts are not the only catastrophic occurrences to affect the Earth. Terrestrial catastrophes such as volcanos and earthquakes offer a more common source of danger. Both can unleash powerful tsunamis ("tidal waves") which can devastate coasts thousands of miles away from the center of the earthquake or volcanic eruption. In addition, powerful volcanos can inject enough ash into the upper atmosphere to form dust veils, just as large impacts can. These dust veils can lower temperatures and result in dimmer days, leading to crop failure, starvation, and forced population migration. Extensive, prolonged vulcanism may also play a part in mass extinctions.
If you find other sites with information about catastrophism, pro or con, please send me email telling me about them.
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industry_corpus2: Technology & Research


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From one man’s quest to find character toys for his little girl, Ty’s Toy Box has grown up to be your one-and-only destination for a ginormous selection of kids’ favorite character products… more than any other online retailer! From classics like Strawberry Shortcake and Teddy Ruxpin to new favorites like Thomas & Friends and Yo Gabba Gabba, you’ll find familiar friends and favorite role models – all in one place. TysToyBox.com focuses on offering a "one-stop shop" featuring the broadest selection of merchandise available for each brand. Products range from toys & games, apparel, books, DVD/video, & home furnishings to party items, footwear, collectibles, bedding, accessories & more.
Choose your Style, Choose your Color, Add your Name for Free!! Shirts even come in Adult sizes so parents can have matching shirts with their children.

industry_corpus2: Gaming


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In the global debate on sustainability there appears to be a growing recognition of the importance of worldviews vis-à-vis the urgently needed transformation to sustainable societies. However, research into worldviews and their interface with sustainability is still sparse. The dissertation of Annick Hedlund-de Witt therefore explores a variety of emptyworldviews in the contemporary West, and demonstrates that there are significant differences between them in terms of environmental attitudes and sustainable lifestyles.
For instance, environmental psychologists argue that for a change towards more sustainable lifestyles an understanding of worldviews is pertinent: consider the complex task of changing culturally embedded behavior patterns such as meat consumption, car- and energy use, voting, green consumption, and support for environmental organizations and -policy. Simultaneously, sociological research shows that profound shifts in the Western worldview are already taking place, and are associated with the emergence of, among others, the environmental movement, and democratization and social change in general. Understanding the prevailing worldviews in society is therefore essential for the optimal development of sustainability policies, practices and campaigns. The purpose of this dissertation, then, is to contribute to social-cultural transformation to sustainable societies, by generating insight into the nature and structure of worldviews in the contemporary West and their interface with sustainable development.
This dissertation does not only shed light on the major worldviews in the contemporary West, but also demonstrates that there are significant differences between them in terms of environmental attitudes and sustainable lifestyles. I used quantitative and qualitative studies in combination with extensive literature reviews. The Integrative Worldview Framework (IWF) was developed to make the somewhat abstract concept of worldview better researchable by differentiating it into various aspects. This framework also distinguishes between four major, ideal-typical worldviews—that is, a traditional, modern, postmodern, and integrative worldview. The research shows that while the modern worldview is frequently associated with a stance of ‘technological optimism’ and generally less sustainable lifestyles, the postmodern and integrative worldviews tend to be related to a sense of connectedness with nature and more sustainable lifestyles. Several cultural phenomena—such as contemporary spirituality, the recent emphasis on nature experience, and the emerging ‘integrative worldview’— are extensively explored and portrayed, and appear to have a particular potential for sustainability.
Finally, the resulting insights are applied to sustainability policy and practice by arguing that the IWF has the potential to serve as: 1) a heuristic for psychological, cultural, and policy reflexivity; 2) an analytical tool for understanding worldview-dynamics in society; and 3) a scaffolding for effective sustainability communications and solutions. The IWF can support for example policymakers to reflect on their own (frequently implicit) worldviews. Thinking from the perspective of diverging worldviews may help to intercept less sustainable policy strategies and detect transverse connections, while inviting multiple perspectives into the policy process. This may then form the starting point of a creative process of the seeking of syntheses and new pathways for policy making. In addition, the framework can serve as analytical tool: how various groups in society respond to sustainability issues, and the diverse solutions they advocate, can often be understood from the worldviews from which they depart. Finally, the IWF—by providing insight into the fundamental assumptions, values, and loyalties of different world-groups in society—can be used as a tool for effective communication and sustainability solutions. This dissertation may thereby contribute to the important tasks of public communication, policy-making, and large-scale mobilization for addressing our urgent global environmental challenges.

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In 1905, Ericsson took over a concession for telephone operations in Mexico City and the immediate vicinity. The concession was originally acquired by José Sitzenstatter. Initially, the operations were run as a consortium of various financial interests. In 1909, the operations began to be run within the newly formed Mexikanska Telefonaktiebolaget Ericsson company, which in Spanish was called Empresa de Teléfonos Ericsson SA. Here, we will refer to the company as Mexeric.
When Ericsson began its operations in Mexico, another company had been in operation since the 1880s - the Mexican Telephone and Telegraph Company, or Compania Telefónica y Telegrafica Mexicana SA. For simplicity's sake, we will call it Mexicana.
The companies soon entered a situation with the most intense competition possible. Of the two, Mexeric grew fastest. After ten years of operation, it had a larger number of subscribers than its competitor. This can partly be explained by the fact that the American company, unlike Mexeric, was confiscated by the state during the troublesome decade experienced by Mexico after 1910. Mexicana was in state hands until 1925, when the American International Telegraph & Telephone Corporation (ITT) took control of the company. This was the starting shot for the return of intensifying competition between Mexeric and Mexicana.
In Ericsson's archives, there are a number of reports that were sent from the Mexican subsidiary to the head office of the parent company. Most of these reports contain the heading "Mexicana". Not only is it possible to read about the actions of the competitor, but also the methods adopted by both sides to win the battle for subscribers. In 1929, engineer Hugo Lindqvist, Mexeric's President, sent a report in which he wrote that all the lines on the Local District line had been cut down on two occasions, a telegraph pole had been knocked down leading to a breakdown in service and that another pole had been uprooted and dragged 200 meters. As a result, Hugo Lindqvist had contacted the Minister for Communications and had placed advertisements in the newspapers. He hoped that if Mexicana's unfair methods were revealed, the company would appear in a bad light.
Mexeric had, at least periodically, the support of the authorities. Hugo Lindqvist reported to Karl Fredrik Wincrantz, Ericsson's president, about a meeting he had with the head of the labor ministry in December 1929. The minister had provided valuable information on that occasion, including the fact that after Mexicana had introduced an automatic system, the company had been forced to dismiss a number of employees and had lost a large number of subscribers - as much as 20 percent. According to the Minister, the general public preferred the manual system that was still largely being used by Mexeric. Mexicana's employees had also pointed out to subscribers during the installation of the automatic system that the service would be extremely poor.
Lindqvist received this information "partly because he (the Minister) regarded it as his duty to counter North American influence and partly because he wanted to help me personally". Lindqvist took the information with a generous pinch of salt. In order to really find out what people thought about the automatic system, he decided to dispatch "Secret Svensson's henchmen" on reconnaissance. One wonders who these henchmen really were.
Among its employees, Mexeric had an English-Spanish secretary, Mrs Bardet. She had met a senior manager from Mexicana at a party and he had offered her a large sum of money to provide some information about Mexeric. Mrs Bardet told Lindqvist the entire story. The two of them agreed that Mrs Bardet should arrange a meeting with the Mexicana manager at Mexeric's office the same evening.
Of course, Lindqvist was at the office to take care of the "guest". He was interested to know the visitor's business. As could be expected, he received no satisfactory reply to the question. Finally, the Mexicana employee said something about being interested in general data regarding the company, which would later be published. Lindqvist promised him these details, but pointed out that he would also be writing to the head of Mexicana to say that a public request should be made for the information. A copy of the letter was sent to Mexico's Minister for Communications.
Of the two companies, Mexicana appears to have been the provocateur. For its part, Mexeric seems to have been quick to tell tales to the state authorities.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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Hop on just about any school counseling department’s website and take a look around. 9 times out of 10 – the website looks like it is straight from the turn of the millennium. It also happens to be about as useful. Luckily for you – there are some really easy and FREE tools out there to make your school counseling websites both useful AND beautiful. Check out the video below to learn about how to quickly and easily setup a new website using Weebly.com.
I wanted to share a pretty recent feature added to many Google Apps for Education users and districts. Most people are pretty well-aware of the power of Google Drive, but in the last few weeks they actually added some functionality to the platform. This comes in the form of Google Team Drives. The name itself is pretty intuitive and self-explanatory – it allows you the share a common Drive space with your team.
The Counseling Geek turns 3 years old today – thank you for being a great reader and part of my Professional Learning Network. Check out what has been special and what’s to come inside.
Hello faithful and fellow Geek. As promised last year when I started loosely “monetizing” this blog with affiliate ads from Amazon, I want to provide a brief yearly review of the ins and outs of The Counseling Geek. This analysis will be from July 1, 2014 to May 6th, 2015 (not because that is a year but this is when I have time to write it up).
On February 8th – I was honored to be able to speak to a room full of (fellow) Nevada school counselors. In the first presentation, a keynote address, we talked about key aspects of “followship”. In the breakout session focused on school counselor technology, we took a look at about 8 tech tools that help school counselors save time and be more efficient. Below are the slides from each presentation.


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Published in 2005 by Buda Musique, the Zanzibara collection is devoted to Swahili folk music from the East coast of Africa, from Lamu, Monbasa, Tanga, Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar to the Comoros. In its editorial approach, it can be compared to the Ethiopian collection led by Francis Falcetto: rare and exciting music, booklets richly documented. It consists mainly of archives recorded between the years 1920 and 1980.
I discovered Ethiopian music by Damien Cluzel (uKanDanZ) and the Ethiopiques Collection. Not knowing the music of this territory, the eastern coast of Africa, I wanted to immerse myself in the Zanzibara collection.
But it is so rich and intoxicating – 9 monumental discs – that I lost myself there very quickly! How to enter, which disc to choose? What to remember? I then had the idea to open an access door easier, more immediate, with a double LP that would propose a synthesis more than a compilation.
The contribution of Werner Graebner in the creation of this record was considerable: who else than he could have selected the nuggets of this (his) collection!
The privileged relationship with Gilles Fruchaux from Buda Musique due to our collaboration with the Ukandanz group made this project possible.
Florent de Cornet has done a colossal job to imagine a visual, an atmosphere that resonates with the sound of this compilation.
I hope that this double album will make the diggers want to know more, the musicians to meet this music, to play, to build links, to meet this mysterious and rich territory!
I want to believe that the vinyl record has this function to open the stylistic barriers to new music lovers … it’s also one of Ouch! Records missions.
Zanzibara volume 1 will I hope open a window on a collection … Collection in the spirit of discovery, rediscovery!

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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A full moon will light up Christmas skies for the first time since 1977.
The Yuletide Full Moon, also known as The Full Cold Moon arrives when the nights are at their longest and darkest. The midwinter full moon rides high in the sky in contrast to a low-hanging sun.
Only three full moons have coincided with Christmas Day since 1900 – the last one in 1877 and after this year, the next will be in 2034.


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Whoever it is, it is likely that you have some sort of history with that person. Over time you have observed them in action and seen that their actions are consistent with their word.
This is the path to trust. People who are total strangers to us have a neutral level of trust. People who have done the wrong thing by us have less than normal levels of trust.
Dentists, unfortunately, have it a bit tougher than that.
Even before you’ve met a new patient, unless they’ve read raving reviews and received favourable referrals, their general level of trust is not usually high. This overall negative perception has damaged the image of some very good dentists; it can be soul-destroying to hear multiple times a day that “I hate coming to the dentist” (somehow qualified by “but it’s nothing personal”).
But what if there was a way to turn this around? What if we could, with just a few simple words, start to move from lack of trust to having lots of trust with a patient.
The good news, it is possible. And it all comes down to your position, and declaring that position to your patients.
One of the most common complaints you’ll read on online reviews, is that the “dentist tried to sell me treatment I didn’t need”.
It’s likely that they did need the treatment, but also likely that in recommending (elective and expensive) treatment for a problem that often doesn’t cause any pain, the patient felt pushed towards what they think is unnecessary treatment.
For this reason, it is important that a dentist pre-empts and shifts this common perception, especially with new patients.
In Primespeak, this can be initiated by declaring your ‘position statement’.
A position statement is a simple few sentences that clarifies a dentist’s philosophy and approach.
In other words, you’re giving the patient a sense of control about the decision-making process, and clarity about your intentions. Rather than judging you on their past experiences or perceptions, they begin to judge you on your intentions. With this control and clarity, you begin to create new neutral pathways, which creates a greater sense of trust and ease.
Before you see your next new patient, have a think about what YOUR position statement might sound like. Speak it out aloud and ponder on how it sounds. Then, take 15 seconds in your next new patient exam to explain your intentions with a position statement – it might just make a world of difference.
- New Patient Exam: Are you going to BED on your first date?
This is but one of many tools dental practitioners learn in communicating effectively with their patients at our Primespeak Seminar. Find out more about this advanced dental communications course here.


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Numerous financial experts and market participants have been warning that the cryptocurrency market may be a bubble. They compare it to the dot-com bubble of the early 2000s or the tulip mania of the 17th century. Warnings are abound that cryptocurrencies will end just the same. Doomsayer predict even worse repercussions than those of previous bubbles.
These types of predictions are common every time new technologies enter the market, on account of their disruptive nature. However, let’s take a closer look at the dot-com bubble and its outcome. Deflagration of economic bubbles always carries the opportunity for consolidation, paving the way for solid and stable growth. Subsequently, only those companies and technologies that have true potential stand a chance in the long term.
For instance, take Amazon after making IPO in 1997. The initial stock price was USD 1,40 and rose to an astounding USD 113 in December 1999 when the dot-com bubble hit its peek just a few month before bursting. In October 2001, Amazon lost 95% of its value and stood at USD 5,51. Nevertheless, the company from Seattle has put in solid and stable growth since to become one of the world’s most successful companies.
As can be seen, USD 10,000 invested back then into Amazon stock would be worth USD 3 Million today. So what is the lesson to be learned from this? Instead of reductive talk about a bubble regarding all cryptocurrencies, we should bear in mind first and foremost the chance of new developments and new business. To quote Christopher Giancarlo, US chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC): “We owe it to this new generation to respect their enthusiasm for virtual currencies, with a thoughtful and balance response, and not a dismissive one.” So, this holds true for blockchain technology and the cryptocurrency market. Blockchain technology is set to change banking technologies. In this context, only cryptocurrencies like PURA that bring decisive advantages to the mass market will survive.
Above all, fast transaction times, steady work towards mass adoption, choosing the right partnerships and continuous technological development are the hallmarks of PURA that will prove to be critical and game-changing. To stay on top of all developments, make sure that you follow our PURA Telegram group. Simply install Telegram on your desktop and join in.

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Writing in 1857, only a few short decades after the “invention” of photography, the art historian and critic Elizabeth Eastlake describes the photographic image as one that approaches us from the future and arrives in the present. While referring to the new technologies in chemical photography at the time, Eastlake’s comment might also be interpreted more portentously, as critical theorist Kaja Silverman suggests in The Miracle of Analogy: The History of Photography, Part I, as an invitation to upend canonical readings of photographs, which emphasize their simultaneous demonstration of “this-has-been” and “this-is-no-more.” The presumption that what we see when we look at a photograph is unalterable, Silverman suggests, “contributes to the political despair that afflicts so many of us today: our sense that the future is ‘all used up.’” Instead, she posits, we should consider photography as “the world’s primary way of revealing itself to us – of demonstrating that it exists, and that it will forever exceed us.” Here, the photograph becomes a tool with speculative potential, rather than one with simply the power to memorialize.
Joi T. Arcand is from the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in central Saskatchewan, Treaty 6 Territory. Her practice is concerned with the invisibility of Indigeneity in contemporary Canadian culture and, in particular, how erasures of Indigenous presence, culture and histories have been enacted in space and through language. While Cree has been named one of the three Indigenous languages that remain ‘viable’ by Statistics Canada, Arcand realized that her own inability to speak the language meant that in her family, the language was extinct. Here on Future Earth (2009) first appears as a series of nostalgic, soft-edged views of small-town Saskatchewan streetscapes. However, Arcand’s intervention quickly reveals itself in a simple act of détournement, performed in her desire to “see things where they weren’t.” By manipulating all visible street signage in the images, replacing English with Cree syllabics, Arcand proposes a radical shift to an Indigenous-centred worldview enacted through language. In bending our presumptions of the photograph as a document of past-time, she imagines an alternative past/present/future, at once “a present beside itself,” to quote Cree writer and theorist Billy-Ray Belcourt, and a future within arm’s length. As a public intervention, three images from the series are reproduced on the facades of Vancouver’s three downtown Canada Line stations: City Centre, Yaletown-Roundhouse and Waterfront. Returned to the street, the photographs’ Cree wordage challenges the visual cacophony of existing images and signage of this settler city built upon unceded Indigenous ground.
For Kenyan/British artist Grace Ndiritu, photographic time stretches beyond the geological to the cosmological: each photograph that comes into existence, she attests, is a microcosmic instance of the macrocosm of the universe. Since 2010, Ndiritu has been developing an encyclopedic archive, A Quest For Meaning (AQFM). Originating through non-rational methodologies and shamanic journeys, it proposes a universal narrative spoken through the photographic image, a creation story from the beginning of time itself, linking seemingly disparate objects and events from the flash of light that was the Big Bang – the original photographic event, one might argue – until our present day. Each time it is exhibited, new photographic constellations perpetually expand the themes in AQFM, suggestive of Silverman’s assertion that “photography is […] an ontological calling card: it helps us to see that each of us is a node in a vast constellation of analogies.” Installed upon colour-blocked walls that Ndiritu calls “Bright Young Things,” the artist’s material and compositional strategies disrupt and confound her viewers’ presumptions about what they are looking at (the installation’s subtitle is Painting as a Medium of Photography). Is the small photograph of Eugène Delacroix’s Death of Sardanapalus (1827) hanging in the Louvre, for example, taken by the artist or ripped from the pages of an early edition of Gardner’s Art History textbook? The scale, composition and colouring of the image make it difficult to discern. Are the archival images captured during the Rif War between Morocco and Spain original or re-photographed? It is hard not to read them through current tensions over contemporary migration from both North and Sub-Saharan Africa to Europe. As a further play on expansion and proliferation, a special edition of Ndiritu’s AQFM newspaper, featuring the artist’s essay “The End of History,” is available free to take away, and “colonizes” the CAG’s ground floor windows.
Kara Uzelman’s artistic practice suggests an interruption to mega-production and the disposable object and consistently re-evaluates the potential for alternative sources of meaning beyond what is understood on the surface. Uzelman’s processes of excavating, gathering and inventing act as a kind of self-directed study of her surroundings; the specificities of site and collecting become the means to speculate on possible stories embedded in found and discarded materials, as well as a way to explore time as a non-linear form. While the past, as literary theorist Susan Stewart argues, “is constructed from a set of presently existing pieces,” the collection looks to the future. In the way that a collection is never static, Uzelman’s work is experimental: there is no defined end-form or completion until the collector’s own demise. Perpetual Motion (2018) is part of an ongoing series of new works initiated through a field trip to an abandoned farmyard near Speers, Saskatchewan. Once occupied by the artist’s grandfather, the farm was eventually lost and Uzelman’s grandfather became focussed on designing a perpetual motion machine. Despite having met him only a handful of times, Uzelman inherited his notes and drawings. By way of delving into this history, in Perpetual Motion the photograph becomes the conduit that unites site with collected objects and information, functioning as the “glue” in an assemblage. As Cadava suggests in Words of Light, “the photograph is always related to something other than itself. Sealing the traces of the past within its space-crossed image, it also lets itself be (re)touched by its relation to the future.” Through the manipulation of the collected materials, chronology becomes dislocated, and photographs become tools for future use in an as-yet unnamed context.
Presented in partnership with Capture Photography Festival.
Grace Ndiritu is generously supported by The British Council.
Recent solo exhibitions for Joi T. Arcand include the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff; ODD Gallery, Dawson City; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon; Wanuskeiwn Heritage Park, Saskatoon; Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina; Gallery 101, Ottawa. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including at the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Karsh-Masson Art Gallery, Ottawa; McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton; The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, Asheville, North Carolina; Woodland School at SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Montreal; Ottawa Art Gallery; PAVED Arts, Saskatoon; and grunt gallery, Vancouver. Arcand has been artist-in-residence at Wanuskewin Heritage Park; OCAD University; Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art; Banff Centre for the Arts; and Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Dawson City. She was the co-founder of the Red Shift Gallery, a contemporary aboriginal art gallery in Saskatoon.
Kapwani Kiwanga was artist in residence at the MU Foundation in Eindhoven and at the Box, Bourges. She has won several prizes in international festivals for her films and video projects, and was nominated twice for the BAFTA, an award given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Kiwanga’s solo exhibitions include the Esker Foundation, Calgary (2018); The Power Plant, Toronto; Logan Center Exhibitions, University of Chicago (2017); South London Gallery; Viafarini, Milan (2015); and Galeries Nationales du Jeu de Paume, Paris (2014). Her work has been part of group exhibitions at Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2015); Salt Beyoglu, Istanbul (2015); CCA, Glasgow (2008); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Almeria (2006). Kiwanga lives and works in Paris.
Colin Miner has held solo exhibitions across Canada including 8eleven, Toronto; Neutral Ground, Saskatoon; Stride Gallery, Calgary; and, the McIntosh Gallery, London. Selected group exhibitions include 2nd Kamias Triennial, Manila; Carl Louie, London; Modern Fuel, Kingston; Forest City Gallery, London; Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton; Gallery 44, Toronto; Beijing Center of Art, Beijing; The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver; and Postdamer Platz Gallery, Germany. Recent awards include the Barbara Spohr Memorial Award for the Development of Contemporary Photography and the Roloff Beny Foundation Award for Photography. Residencies include The Garden House, Berlin; Open Studio, Toronto; Kamias Special Projects, Quezon City, Philippines; Banff Centre for the Arts; Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto and Tambopata Research Center, National Reserve, Peruvian Amazon. Miner lives and works in Toronto.
Kenyan/UK artist Grace Ndiritu has participated in various artist residencies, including Delfina Studio Trust, London; Recollets International Residency, Paris; MACBA, Barcelona; L’Appartement 22 International Residency, Morocco; Galveston Artists Residency, Texas; and Thalielab Art Foundation, Brussels. Recent solo performances include Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona; Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Paris; Museum Modern of Art, Warsaw; Centre Pompidou, Paris. Recent solo exhibitions include Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City; Klowden Mann Gallery, Los Angeles; Glasgow School of Art; La Ira De Dios, Buenos Aires; ICA, London; Chisenhale Gallery, London; the 51st Venice Biennale; and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. Her work is in the collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; and Ulrich Museum, Kansas, amongst others.
Kara Uzelman has held solo and group exhibitions at numerous museums, artist-run centres and fairs, including 67 Steps, Los Angeles; Remai Modern, Saskatoon; The Power Plant, Toronto; Le Commissariat, Paris; Temporary Kunsthalle, Berlin; Mercer Union, Toronto; and 221A, Vancouver. She has received numerous awards and attended residencies at The Klondike Institute of Art, Dawson City; Triangle, Marseille; Les Ateliers des Arques, France; and Mains D’oeuvres, Paris. Uzelman currently lives and works in the rural farming community of Nokomis, Saskatchewan.


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Can you please give our readers a brief overview of the Crepulje project and why you decided to get involved?
The Crepulje Zinc Prospect has a recently completed and filed 43 101 report. This property is, in geological terms, contiguous to the largest Zinc mine from the old Union of Soviet Socialists. It was never developed back then as they were mining all their needs just adjacent to this property. These are very early days but the 43 101 report is able to bring the historical work into perspective and more importantly, demonstrate the near surface zinc values. What we recognized is the value of a high grade potential near surface and the low cost associated with bringing cubic measurements into the prospect’s knowledge base at a relatively low cost.
Also, I like the company’s structure, although I would be the first to say it needs many improvements. The company has spent a lot of its capital searching for a Property of Merit and now needs to raise capital to be able to answer the obvious questions and bring definition to the prospect. This is not to say that we have a commercially viable project yet. BUT rather, we have a prospect with the ingredients to be further investigated and defined. Also, the commodity (zinc) has been beaten up pretty good and the contrarian in me recognizes the cycle will come back just based on how zinc inventories are working out on a global basis.
What gets you most excited about the potential of Crepulje and where do you see the biggest upside from here?
Right now this is almost a Green fields prospect. It is however, in a low cost, historically productive mining jurisdiction in a part of the world that has almost been forgotten. The small sample size of high grade zinc running near 40% is intoxicating. However, it really just says GO TO WORK. Do you realize that zinc concentrates typically run around 55 to 60%? With a high grade possibility we can commercialize IF and again I say this is very early, IF our work program finds more of it. What is the probability the high grade continues? Our work programs will start to answer those questions soon. We don’t know more than the few samples we have in hand but are encouraged to make the next steps. We need a lot of filling out as a company to accomplish these next steps. The likelihood is this high grade will not continue, however the historical results from the neighboring properties would also be very welcome.
Can you please give us short summary of your team, their expertise and why you think they’re best suited to drive value for shareholders?
My experience in mine development comes from my years with the Atkinson corporation and the teams I had the privilege to work with. Going way back to the development of the Newfoundland zinc mine for the Teck Corporation and drawing on old experiences and friendships from the Gibraltar Copper mine. During my 33 plus years with the Atkinson group we helped put together 86 major mining projects. I personally was part of the project teams on many. It’s in my blood. Most recently, I have focused more on Peru and the mining opportunities on a smaller scale. We are able to draw on the relationships built over the years to bring some outstanding people to this team. That will occur If the work programs find what we are looking for. We want to know where the zinc comes from and how the formations really occur on this property.
What is the company’s plan in the short-term and what are some catalysts investors can look forward to?
Going forward Altair intends to secure the property by paying for the option payments. We will start a work program in the coming weeks. The temptation just to focus on High grade is intoxicating however we need to do solid geological work to answer some of our bigger questions. It is still very early stage but very promising. If there is exciting news to come out, or if there is disappointing news to come out, we will find out from the work programs.
Why should investors consider Altair as a potential addition to their speculative portfolio?
The potential of the Crepulje prospect is in front of us. The possibility to direct ship High Grade Zinc may get people ahead of themselves. That shouldn’t happen. It is far too early to qualify or quantify outcomes. We will get results from our work programs and make good decisions based on those results. That is the process we will follow and we look forward to that process.

industry_corpus2: Mining


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The U.S. had experienced an unprecedented number of foreclosures in recent years and foreclosed Phoenix homes in particular. In Arizona the Median Sales Price had dropped over 50% from its peak in June 2006 and didn´t bottom out until the spring of 2009 - see Local Communities, Market Conditions current price graphs. Since then, there has been a significant increase in the number of sales as we worked through our inventory of homes. At this point, the worst is behind us and the Phoenix real estate market has recovered. But there will always be Short Sales and Foreclosures in any market and it is appropriate to see if they represent a good buying opportunity versus traditional homes for sale in Chandler, Gilbert and Mesa AZ.
There are tremendous real estate investment opportunities in Phoenix Arizona - providing a home can be acquired at a price that minimizes risk. A prospective homeowner seeking a property for personal use or Buy and Hold investor can acquire a property at current Fair Market Value well below their value just a few years ago, confident the market over-correction has adjusted upwards and the normal Arizona price appreciation of 6-8% per year will resume in the future, just as we have seen over many housing cycles. Arizona remains one of the most popular destinations in the country and enjoys strong buyer demand which should continue as long as it snows in the north.
Buyers with cash and/or a shorter time horizon need a hedge against market risk and that is what buying homes below fair market value at Trustee Sale provide the savvy, well-funded buyer.
Bank Owned, REO, Short Sales and foreclosed Phoenix homes are selling at or very close to Fair Market Value - but discounted based upon condition. While buying property at today's low Fair Market Value is a great opportunity for a buyer purchasing their personal home or a Buy and Hold Investor. But buying at Fair Market Value doesn't work for a Fix and Flip investor. When 1) buy and sell expenses, 2) carrying costs, 3) repair costs, 4) a modest profit margin to warrant the time expended and 5) capital risk are added to the acquisition price of the property, it is clear Fix and Flip Investors have to buy at a deep discount to Fair Market Value to survive and prosper.
Fix and Flip Investors provide an essential service to home buyers who seek an affordable home that has been cleaned up, repaired and remodeled - often with high-end features as granite counters, tile floors, and stainless steel appliances. The average home buyer does not have the money, time, expertise and experience to tackle a project like this. They transform the ugly house no one wanted into a desirable home and stabilizes our communities.
As with any Phoenix investment with such great profit potential, there are risks involved and you need my professional services to assist you in identifying those risks and guide you through this process to minimize the risks and time investment by providing all aspects of property research, title research, bidding, deed recordation, securing the property, rehab, real estate sales, and property management.
Investors outside of Arizona are able to invest in and profit from Trustee Sale Buy and Hold or Fix and Flips without ever being in Arizona or seeing the properties they purchased unless they want to. Every detail can be managed remotely with the confidence of execution.
You need to qualify to become a Trustee Sale Investor. This is not for everyone. Trustee Sale Investors must deposit $10,000 into a trust account to participate in the program and be able to bid on a property at a trustee sale and have the full cash purchase amount to wire to the trustee in less than 24 hours of Bid acceptance to close. Monthly website usage charges are waived when investors deposit into the trust fund the initial $10,000 required to bid at Trustee Sale.
There are substantial gains to be made buying a property through a foreclosure auction, but it is very different than any other type of property acquisition that you may have experienced in the past. Some have tried this on their own but have lost significantly because they did not understand the risks and how to mitigate them. Contact me or call Sam 480-213-1799 for assistance.
There are a variety of research tools to assist you in determining the best foreclosure investment opportunity for you based on your personal investment criteria. You will be provided a daily list of properties to be sold. These properties have been pre-screened through our proprietary system to best determine those which most likely have the greatest probability of return. Our services include drive-by reports with photographs, an estimate of repair analysis, and guidance in the selection and bid process. In addition, the title company will provide a preliminary title examination to reduce the risks associated with the fact that title insurance is unavailable at the time of the bid. The initial title examination will determine the position of the Note being foreclosed.
You will place your bid funds into our Broker Trust Account in the amount of $10,000 for each property you wish to bid on. Trustees require a $10,000 cashier's check be handed to them at the time a bid is won with the balance of the purchase price to be delivered within 24 hours. In the event the bidder does pay the balance the following day, the $10,000 is forfeited.
After you have determined which properties you wish to place a bid and after the title company has completed their preliminary title examination, you will make the final determination whether to bid on the property. Once you decide you want to bid, bidding will be done for you on your behalf and the $10,000 cashier's check will be presented to the auctioneer for each successful bid. The investor is immediately notified of the successful bid so that the balance of the funds may be wired in to be delivered to the trustee, which completes the purchase. After the successful bid and before the balance of the purchase price is delivered, a full Title Examiner Search is ordered to give further assurances as to the quality and marketability of title to further protect your investment.
While the Trustee's Deed is being prepared for you, we assist in securing your property through the re-key and "trash out" process.
You will also be provided with the services of professional licensed contractors to aid you with any necessary rehab and preparing the property for resale. Your home will be listed and put back on the market the day the rehab is completed.
If your investment objective is to buy and hold, I will arrange required property management services.
When the Trustee's Deed is received you will obtain title insurance and have the deed recorded at the Maricopa County Recorder's office by the title company. The deed will be recorded and vested in your name or your company's name per your instructions which completes the sale.

industry_corpus2: Real Estate & Construction


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Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
Those that fly, may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain. Hence timely runnings no mean part Of conduct, in the martial art.
We must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory Wars are not won by evacuations.
A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.
There is no need of spurs when the horse is running away.
Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants.
It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.
He who flees will fight again.


text: UL tested a total of five elements with different opening variants. Air-lux elements up to 11m wide and 4m high were tested under hurricane-like conditions (ASTM E 1886*, ASTM E 1996**, TAS 201, 202, 203). The tested sliding elements had a size of (WxH) 2809mm x 3906mm. In these tests, suction and pressure are simulated in a mass that only occurs in strong storms. In the cycling tests, the window is exposed to 4,500 times the suction and pressure within a few minutes and tested for air or water ingress. In addition, the windows and frames are intensively irrigated and bombarded with wooden masts as they fly through the air during hurricanes. Hurricane tests in the USA are among the most demanding tests a window system can undergo in terms of statics and tightness.

industry_corpus2: Manufacturing


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Why Were the Police Held Back in Charlottesville?
Charlottesville is now a by-word for political violence.
As you’ve probably heard, the Virginia college town played host to an alt-right rally that descended into violence on Saturday. Both the white nationalists and left-wing counter-protesters fought and beat each other with blunt objects for most of the morning.
The sheer violence and extremism on display in Charlottesville shocked the nation, and politicians all over the spectrum issued strong condemnations of the rally.
Foremost among them were Democratic Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Democratic Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer.
Both of these Democratic leaders were praised by the media for their response to the violence that unfolded. But, interestingly enough, few reporters are asking them about their responsibility in letting Charlottesville turn into a battlefield between political extremists.
Law enforcement was on hand at the dueling demonstrations on Saturday, decked out in riot gear and looking prepared for the worst. Except they weren’t allowed to do their job. Police on the scene were reported to have been ordered to “not intervene until given command to do so,” according to the ACLU. That kept them from suppressing the numerous scuffles that broke out.
When police were ordered to disperse the alt-right rally, that act directed the white nationalists into the antifa demonstrators, leading to further street brawls. Police didn’t seem to try to get in between the two groups or suppress the fights.
As ProPublica reported, state police and National Guardsmen mostly stood aside and watched as the violence grew worse.
This appears to be a direct result of what appears to be a stand down order from higher-ups.
When the alt-right rally was mostly dispersed, police still seemed a missing presence in the city as the leftists kept demonstrating, some armed with aluminum bats and other weapons. This is the scene where the white nationalist drove his car through pedestrians, with police seemingly far away from the action.
That absence allowed for a female reporter who was an eyewitness to the intentional crash to be allegedly punched in the face by antifa. The reason: because she was press.
Curiously, this attack on a journalist hasn’t netted much attention.
The chaos seems like it could have been contained and fewer people hurt if police were a more active presence in Charlottesville.
Both sides of the rally have been critical of police inaction in the rally, putting blame on them for the out-of-control violence that occurred on Sunday.
McAuliffe was asked about the criticism of law enforcement’s inaction Sunday, to which he offered an odd response — he blamed the presence of armed militia for why police didn’t do more.
“They had better equipment than our State Police had,” the governor said of why police stayed put and watched the violence unfold.
But, according to ProPublica, the militia members seemed to be the only ones breaking up fights and trying to keep the peace in the tumult.
It would have probably been more effective in suppressing the violence if the men and women paid to keep the peace for a living were out in the mix.
These street battles have become more common in our country following Trump’s inauguration, and they have gotten out of hand when police are ordered to stand down. Prior to Charlottesville, Berkeley was the locale synonymous with political violence.
In the two events most associated with the California college town, police were nowhere to be found. During the riot that shut down Milo Yiannopoulos’ planned speech at UC-Berkeley, antifa were able to attack anyone they thought may be an attendee and wreak havoc on town stores. All thanks to a muted police presence.
At the “Battle of Berkeley” in April, Trump supporters and antifa were able to brawl for a whole Saturday with nary a cop in sight.
It doesn’t look like the violence will dissipate following Saturday’s chaos, as the clashes between Trump supporters and antifa the following day in Seattle prove.
But there is a surefire way to prevent further deaths and serious injury: let the police do their job to enforce law and order.
Both McAuliffe and Signer should be taken to task for police inaction in Charlottesville — and blaming militiamen isn’t going to cut it as an excuse.
Featured image is from thetab.com / Pinterest.

industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


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When I noticed the repeat of the award-winning TV drama Broadchurch recently, I couldn’t help thinking back to when it was first screened (apologies to non-UK-based readers).
It was on at exactly the same time as another, very similar drama!
Both stories focused on the devastating impact of a child’s death on the community and you couldn’t help but wonder if the two competing TV channels were openly copying each other.
I was rather intrigued by how they deal with competition.
To my surprise both had been produced by the same company but for competing channels— it was a transparent arrangement, and the directors had even read each other’s scripts!
I think this delivers a most reassuring message to solopreneurs and small businesses — that it needn’t be scary to study our competitors (as they will be checking us out too).
So even if you worry about working in the same niche and not being able to compete, try not to lose confidence in your own proposition. In my experience, it is quite rare for competitors to be a major threat to the point where you find suspicious similarities in someone’s offering or pricing.
Indeed, in my twenty-odd years in business I’ve only felt threatened like that once.
Not long after launching a new service 10 years ago, I discovered that a competitor was copying my idea. A client had forwarded me what read like my own original marketing messages!
I can’t tell you how angry and disappointed I felt!
Some colleagues tried to reassure me by saying I should feel flattered that I had an idea worth copying.
But I just felt betrayed.
Luckily it wasn’t for too long — it turned out my competitor‘s service failed after a few months!
1) To always keep your core ideas to yourself or only share them with people you trust. (I had been quite open prior to the launch and way too trusting with people I didn’t know very well.
2) To not underestimate the need for continuous improvement. It is important to test and run a pilot with new products and services. And above all, to carefully listen to the feedback from your customers!
3) Then, to stop worrying!
I eventually realised that my competitor hadn’t fully grasped my service’s benefits. Nor did they have the same passion (or experience) to deliver — after all, it isn’t that easy to copy the heart and soul of someone else’s offering.
So try not to fear your competitors. But, as some competition is healthy and keeps you on your toes, competitors should always be on your radar, and it is a good idea to get to know them.
Understanding your competitor’s service may even help you to understand the heart and soul of yours better.
No two services are ever exactly the same!


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Since the library has to cater to the needs of variety of clientele such as faculty, postgraduate and undergraduate students as well as non-teaching staff, a wider range of subject fields are to be represents in our book stock with prime thrust for meeting the needs of the students and faculty members. Beside this, for smooth functioning of the library and safe guarding the interest of all sections of the library users, formation of policies in a judicious manner, an infrastructure is needed for the library. To meet all the above objectives the library is advised by the Library Advisory Committee with the following representatives.
To look into day to day problems of the library clientele, library staff and send recommendations to the Principal and Management for desired decision.
To consider and put forward the views of faculty members regarding books/journals selection, ordering process etc.
To consider and put forward the views of students regarding their problems and solutions sought thereof.
To meet the above said objectives the following staff members are hereby appointed members of the Library Advisory Committee.


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Choosing to stay in room in Argentario is simple, the choice is wide and all offer a great welcome.
Why choose this site for holidays in room in Argentario?
Because compared to all other portals, we do not sell reservations, but we put you in direct contact with room, in this way you do not need a credit card and as room will not pay commissions on your holiday, you will always get the best price possible.

industry_corpus2: Travel & Geography


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Webinar Recordings | CALEA® | The Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc.
Accreditation continues to serve an important role within the public safety community, and CALEA has focused on providing support for agencies participating in our programming. We recognize that it is our responsibility to create and maintain a business environment that allows the very best agencies to demonstrate their commitment to professional excellence. To that end, CALEA could not be prouder of the platform of services that have been established for this purpose in recent years and we are excited about new opportunities that will be implemented in 2018.
Regional Program Managers will provide an update regarding standards and process changes from the March 2018 Conference.
The Data Platform provides an invaluable resource to law enforcement executives from two perspectives - agency staff and community.

industry_corpus2: Law & Justice


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"The object before which the spacesuited man was posing was a vertical slab of jet-black material, about ten feet high and five feet wide: it reminded Floyd, somewhat ominously, of a giant tombstone... ‘You see, it is approximately three million years old. What you are now looking at is the first evidence of intelligent life beyond the Earth’, Dr. Michaels declared."
This is a part of the wellknown story "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Arthur C. Clarke, published in 1968. It was a genius story. She leans on, at the general atmosphere on the world by those round circled Earth missiles, Sputniks and satellites. Can however that become reality? What comes about if we found an object actual from extraterrestrials on another celestial body in our solar system?
The year 1968 was also the departure of mankind to another celestial body: the Moon. American astronauts were prepared for the first landing of people on the Earth trabant . It was an incredible atmosphere of departure on the whole world. On July 24, 1969, a year later, the landing was succeesful at the Moon, in the "sea of rest", Mare Tranquilitatis. A mankinds dream became reality. Five landings followed further to the Moon until 1972. The human being now became to space farers!
There was also another atmosphere of departure in 1968. Some researchers and authors were of the opinion, it was already before millennia other astronauts on our Earth. In the myths and legends, Gods which at one time came from the sky are mentioned. What did seem likely than to make these Gods to astronauts. If capable of the people now are space travel to operate why should they not also dominate other living beings on other celestial bodies. And they are perhaps much held over and have spaceships which they can bear through the infinite widths of the cosmos. Too on rock drawings and wall reliefs in temples and at old buildings, strange figures which are reminiscent of astronauts are to be seen.
Already in 1962 and 1965, the French researchers and book authors Luis Pauwels, Jacques Bergier and Robert Charroux means that the Gods were astronauts. Even the angels in the Bible should have been space travellers. However, Erich von Däniken caused the great God astronauts boom in summer 1968. Its first book "Erinnerungen an die Zukunft" (later in English published as "Chariots of the Gods") sold itself 20.000 times within a month.
In the year 1975 it began a new space odyssey. The NASA started two space probes, Viking 1 and Viking 2, to the planet Mars which should search for the first time for life on Mars. One landed on July 20, 1976 in the "land of gold", Chryse Planitia. The other one on September 4, 1976 in Utopia. Both landing units had an automatic bio laboratory on board which should carry out chemical analyses. Life could not then be proved directly. However, something other excited ones the people of NASA at the Jet Propulasion Laboratory, JPL, in Pasadena, JPL, in California. When the space probe Viking 1 flew over the Cydonia area, looked suddenly something from the Mars surface towards her, a human like face. The NASA people had not immediately seen the picture however the space probe made pictures of it which then noticed her about themselves.
Tobias Owen was the first one who held the picture of this face in his hands. He showed it Gerry Soffen, which then presented the Mars pictures to the press with the words: "Oh, my God, look at this! Gee whiz, isn’t that weird!"
The first complete image P-17384 of the "Mars Face" by NASA/JPL.
In the next room, in the meantime, a whole slant of journalists and press people had collected in order to receive the first "live data" from Mars. There were people from every land of the world. Gerry Soffen got up in front of the press and showed them this quirky face and said: "Isn’t it peculiar what tricks of lighting and shadows can do? When we took a picture a few hours later it all went away; it was just a trick, just the way the light fell on it." Somebody made a joke: "The head is telling us where to land." All the reporters present accepted the opinion of the Viking Mission expert. The present press people believed the words from Gerry Soffen. He was a very open scientist and in such a way, nobody moved his words into doubt. No further questions were also put there.
Another scientist, Dr. Harold Masursky, of the US Geological Survey Center, in Flagstaff, Arizona, has made in the news paper "Science News" of August 7, 1976 the funny statement about this face-like structure: "This is the guy that built all of Lowell’s canals." And that was it! Hardly a newspaper, hardly a reporter issued anythging in the next few weeks and months about this peculiarity on Mars. The NASA had meanwhile placed the picture with the number P-17384 (35A72) into the files on July 31, 1976.
On December 15, 1976, I was watching the late news on the Austrian television channel, ORF, when suddenly a special film was screened. The commentator presented the film which was said to have been taken by Viking 1 during its search for a suitable landing site. Till today I don’t know were the film has made. He could also be made by means of the NASA picture by a press agency. I had seen this thing anyway on Mars then for the first time and I immediately made enquiries. From the Austrian televison, I received a photograph outlet of this film in the 35mm black on white format which however was not very informative. It was a pure black and white picture without grey scales. I was convinced anyway so far that on the original NASA picture would be had to be seen more. In such a way, I wrote to different NASA institutions which at this time stood in connection with the Viking mission. Also because no further information about this alleged NASA film could be given to me by the Austrian television.
Whilst the other branches of NASA did not reply, I actually did receive several Viking mission photos from the JPL on October 31, 1977. Apparently, they had no knowledge of a "Mars Face". A gentleman by the name of Don Bane, from the Public Information Office, wrote to me: "Those nicknames you give the picture (like ‘Marsface’) mean absolutely nothing to me – they are your nicknames, not mine." And some lines above in this letter Don wrote: "I send thousands of pictures each mounth to hundreds of people. I can’t possibly remeber what I have sent to anyone." I would absolutely have to quote the archive numbers of the photo, or he would not be able to help me any furher. A must say, that at this time it was not usual to publish the archiv numbers of any picture of the Viking mission. And from this "Face" on Mars did in any case report nowhere.
Text from the letter of Don Bane, JPL, of October 31, 1977.
However, I did not yield. If there should already be a NASA film of this face, a picture would be had to be received nevertheless also from that. And on March 2, 1978, I had received a further letter from Don Bane. He wrote: "At last I know what you mean when you refer to the ‘mars face’ picture!" At last, I had "my Mars Face", and it was a very good picture which featured very good details. Although one half of the Face was still lying in shadow, some "points of light" were discernible and able to be used as the basis for further investigations (see image above).
Text from the letter of Don Bane, JPL, of March 2, 1978.
So for the time being I had no other option but to carry out my own experiments. I designe a model – a reconstruction of the Face. Using a modelling clay, I constructed a face which resembled the one on Mars as closely as possible and illuminated it with a spoptlight exactly as described in the JPL press release. I came to the conclusion that in the original shots, something of the shadowed half of the Face must be visible. However, at this time no corresponding graphics programs were available to me to find out more. I made a drawing based upon the NASA picture with the exact location of the Face and I was surprised about the symmetry. I compared the size of the Face with the size of the Cheops pyramid in Egypt.
Towards the press release, Don wrote to me that the sunlight came in to the Face on an angle of 10 degrees. Through a misunderstanding with "one mile across" I had specified the size of the Face from the "chin" to the "forehead" with 1.5 kilometers. Only years later, according to the American investigations, I had recognized that this is the width of the Face.
At this time, in 1978, I had some difficulties to make at all considerably to the public, the press and experts attentive to this "Mars Face". I decided a book about it and about other hypotheses about the red planet. It went at the end of 1978 at printing and it was ready in February 1979. It was my book "Wir, vom Mars" (We, from Mars), published by a small publisher in Cologne, Germany, with a considerable printing costs subsidy from myself. In October 1979, I presented my book at the wellknown Frankfurter book fair with a large photograph of the Face. The interest was yet very small although visitors quite some surprises they came via the picture but no doubt. Nobody did believe so right that such a thing would be able to be there on Mars.
For this purpose, one must know, that I was a member of the "Ancient Astronaut Society", AAS, founded in 1973 by the American lawyer Dr. Gene M. Phillips of Illinois, in order to find a broader basis for the exploration of indications of extraterrestrial intelligences at the pre-time. Members of the society were people of interest, famous personalities and some scientists. An essential part of it had Erich von Däniken who had already great success with his books about this "prae astronauts".I had informed him of course about the Face on Mars. If the alleged indications for extraterrestrial Gods visits, in the form of other ones intelligences, they should not be convincing enough, no doubt. An artificial subject on Mars would then be the final evidence for the prae astronaut hypothesis. On June 5, 1978, I contacted Gene Phillips about the Face on Mars. In a letter on October 22, 1978, he stated that " the ‘face’ is indeed fascinating but I do not think there is enough substantiation for publication through our society".
After I learned my book was published I wrote again to Don Bane in order to try to possibly procure some more and better photos of the Face. In a letter of September 12, 1978 he wrote to me: "Since you already have a picture of the face, I see no need to load you down with another, and we have no picture that shows that region at closer range." The Face had come into existence trough a combination of wind erosion and sun light.
Text from the letter of Don Bane, JPL, of September 12, 1978.
When my book was published, after March 1979, I published several newspaper articles in Austria and in Germany. Also Erich von Däniken showed a spark of interest after receiving my sample book copy, after an initial lack of interest. In the German edition of the newspaper of the AAS "Ancient Skies" of July/August 1980 I could publish a report about the Face with the title "Kamen die Götter vom Mars?" (Did the Gods came from Mars?) including a photo of the Face and my reconstructive drawing of 1978. The newspaper also announced a lecture by me, presented at a one day meeting of AAS members in Fulda, Germany, on October 25, 1980. The interest was also not especially great according to my lecture. But after the meeting, Prof. Dr. Harry O. Ruppe, specialist for space travel technology at the Technical University in Munich, Germany, announced to us who had presented lectures, that he would intervene in the matter of the Face on Mars. However, that was then unfortunately not the case. One would have been able to already then quite carry out closer scientific investigations on the first Mars picture. However no institute and no university was then interested thereby in Europe.
At this time, I read by coincidence, in the 23rd October, 1980 issue of the Geman magazine "Stern", about two Americans, Vincent DiPietro and Gregory Molenar. These two had produced posters and paper reports about the Face on Mars and were alleged to be spreading the world about contacts between the ancient Egyptians and Martian inhabitants. Since there was no mention in the report about new results in relation to the Face on Mars, and the only illustration was the photo which was now very familiar to me, I did not think it necessary at that time to contact the two Americans. Today, I know that this was a mistake – I could have saved myself considerable hardship.
In January 1981, a reader letter was still published by me in the wellknown German journal "Bild der Wissenschaft" (Picture of Science). where I made attentive to the Mars Face. However nothing resulted further. Also the wellknown engineer Philip J .Klass, employee of the journal "Aviation Week & Space Technology" and book author, was not very impressed by the Face as he has visited me on January 10, 1983. In August 1985, the German edition of the magazine "Penthouse", carried a report by Prof. Harry O. Ruppe about the Face and the other structures on Mars under the title "Monument auf dem Mars" (Monument on Mars). However this report was not known to me at that time. In such a way, I placed my efforts away however I should have a surprise in 1987.
On April 4, 1987, I was sitting unsuspectingly in front of the television, watching the "Incredible Stories" of the Luxembourg TV channel RTL plus. The well-known reference book author Johannes von Buttlar presented his book "Leben auf dem Mars" (Life on Mars). The cover of the book shows the Face on Mars, which was already confessed to me. The author never got in touch with me and I also had no knowledge of his research. He also showed the colored computer images from Vincent DiPietro and Gregory Molennar. But the part which was, for me, "incredible", was that he presented a bad photo of my Mars Face model and designated it as a possible forgery. I immediately wrote to the shows’s compare. I was promised that the matter would be put right – but that has not eventuated till today.
But so I have learned, that the two Americans, Vincent DiPietro and Gregory Molenaar, have done a very good scientific work. The two Americans had indeed detected in fact one further photo of the Mars Face of 1976 in the archive of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Washington D.C. And therefore they found out, that this human face is not accomplished on Mars only by a specific incidence of light.
Of course, I immediately wrote to some of the appropriate persons, nevertheless merely from Vincent DiPietro I received an answer and its corresponding publications - a publication through the Goddard Space Flight Center, where he is a employee, of June 8, 1987, below the title "Unusual Martian Surface Feature" and a pamphlet of 1988 with the same name. In Chicago, in 1989, during a world conference of the AAS, from August 25 to August 27, I had the occasion, to meet Vincent DiPietro and Gregory Molenaar in person and I was also later directly at the place of work of Vincent DiPietro in the Goddard Space Flight Center. It was a friendly meeting pleasant to me.
In 1987, Richard C. Hoagland has published a book with the title "The Monuments of Mars". He describes his efforts for the investigations of the Mars things and he appears amazed via a publication of the journal "Soviet Life", dated of August 1984, which might burst in into the middle of the American activities. In the report "Pyramids on Mars?", it is claimed allegedly that the Russians had detected these Mars structures as well as the Mars face already in 1983. After I checked the book of Hoagland, I found a picture of the appropriate report which shows my drawing of 1978. The report was written from Vladimir Avinsky, whose name was already confessed me as a member of the "Ancient Astronaut Society". That was a further shock for me. My publications, without my knowledge, there wander around the world with the contention ones would have detected the Mars structures and the Mars face. During the conference in Chicago in 1989 however, I had a clarifying conversation with Vladimir Avinsky. He has published a book where he mentions my drawing with my name. However that had refrained the journal "Soviet Life". The picture has taken Avinsky from my report in "Ancient Skies" from 1980 without informed me.
On August 3, 1993, I could again during a world conference of the "Ancient Astronaut Society", hold a lecture in Las Vegas, and on September 16, 1994 one in Sydney, Australia. In 1995 was published my book "Das Marsgesicht" through the wellknown German publisher Herbig in Munich in which I describe my discoveries at length. This book was translated into several languages - but not in English. I then held further lectures in Austria, Germany and in Switzerland and published some newspaper reports.
In any way Vincent and Gregory had already in fall 1979 detected a further picture of the Mars face in the NASA archive of the Goddard Space Flight Center. Already in 1977, Vincent DiPietro had seen in an obscure prae-astronautic magazine, a picture of the Mars face, but he was in the opinion that it is a joke. But this new photo, made a month after the first photo 35A72, also made from Viking 1, on August 29, 1976, registered under the number 70A13, however, had convinced him. The sun lay at this time in the West, 27 degrees over the horizon - therefore, the thing was below an other, shorter shadow. It shows a human face rather even more clearly. By different picture investigations, too with the aid of a false colour analysis, the two Americans could find closer details as a pupil in an eye of the Face.
Vincent DiPietro and Gregory Molenaar presented its investigation results for the first time publicly by means of paper reports and pictures on May 1, 1980 in a hotel in Lanham, in Maryland. However, the interest was small. Merely a hand full prospective customers, some astronomers of the NASA and some reporters of magazines and radio stations were present. A NASA speaker joked: "I hope you have better luck than we do!". He was rather amused via the small investment of the press and the public, Vincent DiPietro later reported.
On June 16, 1980, the both ones held a lecture during the annual conference of the "American Astronomical Society" in College Park, in Maryland. Several broadcast reporters and press people, which also received photographs of the computer analyses of the two Americans, were present. Already before, on May 26, 1980, appeared a report about the investigation results of the two Americans in the journal "Sunpapers" in Baltimore. Till 1985, there were several publications of the results of the two Americans and they also held lectures. Under that a report in the worldwide known and recognized serious "Washington Post" on May 28, 1980: in the "Los Angeles Times" dated on June 1, 1980; in the science magazine "OMNI" in October 1980 and April 1982; in the "London Daily Telegraph" of November 19, 1984 and during the Mars conferences "The Case for Mars" of the University in Boulder, Colorado, in April and May 1981 and from July 10 to July 14, 1984. By these activities of 1980, the German magazine "Stern" would be allowed to have become attentive. Richard C. Hoagland was also present in 1981 in Boulder and he meet for the first time DiPietro and Molenaar. According to his own words however, he did not imitate made "click" in his head. He forgot for the time the Mars pictures.
The wellknown American astronomer and science author Dr. Carl Sagan, still in the year 1976, with the aid of students, searched after strange and striking objects, by means of numerous Mars pictures, however they discovered nothing – also not the Mars Face. Later, when the pictures were also confessed to him by DiPietro and Molenaar, he wrote in the magazine "Parade" of June 1985, he "might not support the theory that the face in Cydonia was artificially constructed. However, he has not enough evidences against it".
Tobias Owen, together with Donald Goldsmith, published in 1980 a book with the title "The Search for Life in the Universe", nevertheless he mentions the Mars Face with no word. Although he writes about UFO's and about Erich von Däniken. But in their third edition of 2001 the Face is now interesting enough for the authors and they mention it with pictures.
Another American author, David L. Chandler, represents in his book "Life on Mars", appeared in 1979, the opinion of the press speaker of the NASA of 1976 if he writes: "Some hours later, when the solar angle and the shadow changed, this area showed a very usual structure, a fleeting illusion."
In the year 1986, a new Mars Investigation Group, mentioned shortly as "MIG", formed itself, at the University of California in Berkeley. Involved with that team were also Dr. Brian O’Leary, a former American astronaut and Dr. David Webb, a former space travel consultant of the American president. This team came again to the conclusion, that this Mars Face and the other striking Mars structures should be investigated more closely with further space probes. From there, now the Mars Face was relatively well known to the public, it is flowed in into Hollywood movies as in 1986 in "Invaders from Mars", a reproduction of the old film of 1953 and later in the year 2000 in "Mission to Mars".
According to many inquiries in the case of the JPL, among other things by protest rallies of Hoagland supporters, the NASA has itself include the face in a determined manner - if it is possible - with new Mars probes more closely and that was successful on April 5, 1998 with the space probe Mars Global Surveyor. The object shows again the similarity with a human face as that has already followed from the computer analyses of the Viking pictures. This space probe, on April 8, 2001, then succeeded the clearest image, with a resolution of only 1.86 meters. The details are to be seen precisly. Later, further pictures were made through the same space probe and from other space probes like the orbiter 2001 Mars Odyssey in 2002 and 2004, the European Mars Express in 2006 and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in the year 2007. All the pictures let as recognize a similarity to a human face, like the pictures before of the Viking probes - even it is simply an unusual natural rock. However, it is by no means only a "fleeting illusion" and also no a cloud game as some people meant.
The Face on Mars photographed on May 5, 2004 by 2001 Mars Odyssey.
Donald Goldsmith and Tobias Owen wrote again about the Face: "The resulting image clearly shows that we are dealing with an entirely natural feature of the martian landscape. which resembles a human face only when lighting conditions and the camera viewing angle are just right." (2001, Page 356) This in comparison to the bad and raw images of 1998. The fact is, that this mountain an Mars is visible as a human face under different sun angles from 10 to 27 degrees (perhaps more) and an image of 2001 Mars Odyssey of October 24, 2002, with the sunlight coming from the East, shows also (but indeed not so good) a humaniod like feature.
It is not right if scientists say that people seeing faces were no faces are, the nature makes structures like human faces - or the humans itself carved their own faces in stones and buildings. So human faces on rocks on another planet can be indeed artificial constructed like the faces of the American presidents on the Mount Rushmore.
In the beginnings of the discovery the NASA, like many astronomers, geologists and other scientists, press people and specialized book authors, have this face on Mars completely ignored or taken not seriously - with exception of Vincent DiPietro and Gregory Molenaar. Those however had the same fate in America as I had in Europe. For me it was in anyway a true Mars odyssey, that led over many ways around the world and for all others it was a new space odyssey in accordance to the introduction of Arthur C. Clarke. The Mars Face is now an example how we handle an extremely strange discovery that would be able refer to an artificial origin from extraterrestrial intelligences: with mockery and ignorance. The NASA flies to Mars for the search after traces of life and they do not find it necessarily to give more attention to an extremely striking Mars surface feature. That was unintelligible to many people. In the future, we should be more cautious during such or similar discoveries and we should saw at it perhaps more precisely - even if the first impression is a completely usual one.
The Mars Face in the Cydonia area is in anyway the first object outside of our Earth which was examined for a scientifically wise - almost worldwide - ones for a possible factory of extraterrestrial intelligences. In this way, it appertains for search after artifacts from extraterrestrial intelligent, SAETI (Search for Artifacts of Extraterrestrial Intelligences). A term which was created in 1992 by myself - in dependence on the known SETI investigation - and which should occupy a place value in this field. The search will go on even if the probability of a discovery in this direction is very small.
Buttlar, Johannes v.: Leben auf dem Mars, Munich, 1987.
Hain, Walter, Wir vom Mars, Collogne ,1979.
-„- , Walter: We from Mars, self printed and revised version, Vienna, 1992.
-„- , Walter: Das Marsgesicht, Munich, 1995.
-"- , Richard C.: Die Mars-Connection, Munich-Essen, 1994.

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In plentymarkets, you can generate packing lists as PDF files.
A packing list includes an overview of all order items included in the order. In addition, the order ID is displayed in the form of a barcode. This barcode can be scanned and thus allows outgoing items to be booked directly after the shipping process has been initiated.
Use the options Show or Do not show in the menu System » System settings » Orders » Documents » Packing list to determine which item data should be displayed on your packing lists, such as Item ID, Quantity or Item image.
You can carry out individual settings for some of the fields described in Table 1 concerning the parameters width, font size and font weight that allow you to individualise the layout of the packing list. Use the Preview button to check the results of the settings while preparing the PDF template.
Go to System » System settings » Orders » Documents » Packing list.
Enter a value (in mm) for the top margin on the page. A larger top margin may be required if you use a PDF template that contains the company information and the logo at the top of the page and you want to position this “header” above the packing list.
Select a character set used for coding the packing list.
Determine which information texts are displayed on the packing list. Choose between the options Customer wishes & Order information texts and Customer wishes only. Image 2 shows how the customer wishes (blue arrow) and order information texts (red arrow) are displayed on the packing list.
Customers can enter specific wishes for their order in the My account area of the online store. This is done in the Notes section in the order history.
Information texts for specific orders are saved in the Orders » Edit orders » Tab: Overview » Tab: Order note menu.
Determine how the item quantity is displayed on the packing list.
Determine how the barcode is displayed on the packing list. Choose between the options GTIN13 and CODE128.
Determine how the item ID is displayed on the packing list.
Determine how the internal variation ID is displayed on the packing list.
Determine how the variation number is displayed on the packing list.
Determine how the GTIN is displayed on the packing list.
Determine how the external variation ID, e.g. as assigned by your supplier, is displayed on the packing list.
Determine how the order properties are displayed on the packing list. For further information on managing properties in general and order properties, refer to the Managing properties page of the manual.
Determine how the Storage location name is displayed on the packing list. Choose between displaying the storage location name only and different combinations of warehouse information, such as Warehouse/storage location name.
Determine how a picture of the ordered item variation is displayed on the packing list.
Determine how the best before date is displayed on the packing list.
Determine how the batch number is displayed on the packing list.
Determine how the customer’s phone number is displayed on the packing list.
Determine how the customer’s email address is displayed on the packing list.
Open the PDF template tab.
If your template contains a header, you should position the header above the actual packing list. Make sure that top margin is wide enough for your header and adjust the value if necessary (see Table 1).
After having carried out the settings according to Table 1 , you can determine which orders should be included in the packing list in the menu Orders » Fulfilment. In this menu, a Search filter allows you to select the orders and to determine how they are sorted on the packing list.
In order to generate a packing list, proceed as explained below.
Go to Orders » Fulfilment » Packing list.
Click on the gear-wheel icon to generate the packing list.
From the list, select the status of the orders that should be included in the packing list.
In the drop-down menu, select the owner responsible for the orders for which the documents should be generated. Select ALL if documents should be generated.
In the drop-down menu, select the method for sorting the items on the packing list. The options Order ID, Invoice number and Item ID are available for different sorting methods.
In the drop-down menu, select how many orders should be handled at a time. Set a value between 50 and 200.
The maximum number of orders that can be handled at a time equals the maximum of orders that can be selected. If more than the maximum number of orders should be handled, repeat the process accordingly. The lower the chosen setting, the more efficient is the system performance.
Select a status that should be applied to the orders after generating the packing list.
The link Change packing list takes you to the settings in the menu System » System settings » Orders » Documents » Packing list, in which the document settings and the PDF template for the packing list are configured.
Warning: Whenever you carry out changes in this menu and save the settings, other users are logged out automatically and need to log in again. This ensures that the changes also apply to the other user profiles. Thus, make sure to inform other users before making any changes.


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Senator PLAYFORD - So many officers have gone over to Hobart, and reported, and the subject has been so carefully considered, that I have come to a decision in favour of the site at Sandy Bay, and given adirection for the resumption of the necessary land. I do not see the slightest necessity to go to the expense of sending over another officer for the purpose of inspecting sites. It is only a week or two since I sent over a special officer who inspected the sites, and on whose report I have acted.
Senator DOBSON - What I wish to know is whether the Minister will send over an officer to join with the local officers ih selecting the most suitable site which can be obtained?
Senator PLAYFORD - That has been done. Every possible information has been obtained. The selection of a site was delayed for months at the request of the honorable and learned senator and his, colleagues. I have looked into the matter with the greatest care, and there is not the slightest necessity to send over an officer, because it has been considered with the local officers', and they are all of one opinion.
Senator Dobson - We cannot allow the Department to take the land.
Senator PLAYFORD - That has been authorized, and I do not think it can be stopped.


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"Nyabigaka of Banyabasi Clan, Part 2, First Dance" by Aaron Carter-Enyi, Michael Derek Gideon et al.
Carter-Enyi, Aaron; Gideon, Michael Derek; and Muniko, Peter, "Nyabigaka of Banyabasi Clan, Part 2, First Dance" (2013). Africana Digital Ethnography Project. 86.