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Preview: Loads of Laundry and Lots of Lessons
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Harvick Finishes Second at the Inaugural Race in Mexico City MEXICO CITY, Mex. (March 6) - REESE'S Racing driver Kevin Harvick continues to be a model of consistency. He notched his third consecutive second-place finish Sunday in the Mexico ...
Harvick Finishes Second at the Inaugural Race in Mexico City
MEXICO CITY, Mex. (March 6) - REESE'S Racing driver Kevin Harvick continues to be a model of consistency. He notched his third consecutive second-place finish Sunday in the Mexico 200.
As a result of his finish at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, a 2.5-mile road course, Harvick leads the Busch Series Drivers' Standings by 61 points. Carl Edwards is second, and former REESE'S Racing driver Clint Bowyer is third.
Martin Truex Jr. won the first Busch Series race staged outside of the U.S. Edwards followed Harvick to the finish line to claim third place. Shane Hmiel was fourth, and Boris Said was fifth.
"The PELON PELO RICO Chevrolet was really good today," Harvick said. "I'm a little disappointed. We wanted to come to Mexico and win the first race here. The No. 8 car (Martin Truex Jr.) just happened to catch the caution coming in their pits."
Always a threat to win a road race, Harvick earned the sixth starting spot in the PELON PELO RICO Chevrolet. On lap 27 Harvick decided to bring the PELON PELO RICO Chevrolet to the attention of his pit crew under green-flag conditions for his first stop of the day. This green-flag stop was part of the pit strategy Harvick and crew chief Rick Viers developed before the race. Their strategy was to pit under green-flag conditions and stay on the race track during yellow-flag pit stops to get back to the front. The gamble paid off when the caution flag appeared seconds after Harvick completed his pit stop.
"Pit strategy is the biggest part of road-course racing," Harvick said. "Viers and I talked at length this morning and decided we were going to pit when there was a great opportunity during a green-flag run. We couldn't have picked a better time on the first stop. We had just entered pit lane when NASCAR decided to throw the caution flag. With a great pit stop from my crew and a great pit strategy, it put us in the right spot to win this race."
Harvick moved into the lead on lap 46 of 80 when Truex decided to take his car to pit road during green-flag conditions. Moments after Truex left his pit stall, the caution flag was displayed, and he received the same benefit Harvick did earlier. Harvick was forced to pit under caution, and he fell to 13th place. Harvick used some veteran moves on the younger drivers to advance to second during the remaining laps.
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Worry is a lesser-aspect of Misery created after the cosmic-entity was temporarily trapped in the form of an insect following the events of Aspects - it has a more comedic nature than Misery but feeds on anxiety and uncertainity: making it just as malicious, unlike the scheming Misery Worry is a chaotic being that enjoys causing havoc, knowing that tossing people into bizarrre and unnatural situations is a quick and relatively easy way to get the anxiety and uncertainity it craves.Due to its small size it also often goes unseen by others (unless it wishes so) and is considered extremely weak by cosmic-standards, yet even a weak cosmic-being such as Worry is a formidable opponent to those who under-estimate its otherworldly origins and abilities.
Worry is also frequently described as a masculine entity despite technically being asexual - going as far as having "his" own Kingdom later in his "career".
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Worry was originally a chaotic trickster filled with malice for the mortal world and a desire to please Misery so as to be granted a new body - free of his "curse" as a lowly insect (albeit one with cosmic powers).
However things quickly changed when he came across Nebula and he would develop a deep obsession with beating the wisp, her hyperactive and joyful nature contrasting his desire to make the world miserable and hostile, to this end he would use the Society to try and create ever more chaotic crimes and misdeeds.
As his rivalry with Nebula increased he strayed further into insanity and began to empathize with insects and other vermin, to the point he gave up trying to gain favor with Misery or the Society and embraced his status as a "bug" in hopes of turning the world upside down and let the vermin and insects take control from their "oppressors" : this would lead to him creating his own kingdom which he continues to rule over to this day.
Following the events of Worry's Quest his personality altered even more and he is now an "on-and-off" antagonist who while still a malicious and chaotic ruler of "bug kind" is capable of making hasty (and often ill-fated) "alliances" with others to fend of threats far worse than himself.
Powers / Abilities
- Revolving Immortality (Worry has a somewhat unique immortality known as "revolving immortality" - when weakened beyond the ability to regenerate its energy will disperse (manifested as a cloud of smoke) and be restored in a new physical body almost instantly, in a different point in space (usually its "home" dimension) )
- Incarnation (Worry is a "physical god" - the physical manifestation of a higher-force, unfortunately for Worry it is trapped permanently in the body of an insect (see below) )
- Minuscule (Worry is extremely small and thus often hard to notice / target - this can be both an advantage and a weakness, since unlike many other Absolutes Worry is stuck in a physical form)
- Dimensional-Control (Worry has command over a pocket-dimension and can also open/close dimensional portals as they see fit)
- Reality-Warping (Worry is very talented in limited use of reality-warping, giving it a very cartoon-like effect, despite this being a formidable power it is extremely limited by Worry's frustration and lack of proper control: which makes the effects erratic at best)
- Empathic Manipulation (Worry can manipulate the emotions of others, yet much like its reality-warping powers Worry has difficulty mastering this power due to his frustration and lack of proper control.)
- Omniscience (Worry has unlimited knowledge over people and events within the Multiverse, yet like many of his gifts it is lost on the exciteable spirit - who often jumps headfirst into battle and rarely takes time to plan)
- Memory Alteration (Worry can alter memories, being able to see into and manipulate the existing memories of other beings: it can not create new or false memories without aid and like all the rest of Worry's gifts it is largely lost on the exciteable spirit)
- Cosmic Awareness (Worry is aware of higher and lower planes of existence in multiple universes and can also see past and future events in multiple realities - however they can not control this link and thus it often manifests as chaotic visions and dreams akin to madness, allows one to "break the 4th wall": this goes someway into explaining its erratic behavior and inability to control its other powers).


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Saturday, 29 July 2017
Make home decoration with 4 ATC cards
Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my July Inspired by Stamping inspiration post.
Today I am going to show you how to make 4 very similar ATC cards and then to make a lovely home deco piece out of them.
But look how lovely is this home decoration piece made over the wooden panel with lovely cardstock, some central embellishments cluster and all 4 ATC over it.
And here is a quick tutorial I made for you to use and to make the similar project with Inspired by Stamping stamp set here:
Words of Inspiration 2 set
Step by step tutorial:
1. Arrange 4 stamps from the set inside your Misti tool .Use dark pigmented ink to stamp them all together.
I used dark brown ink as my black was dry, but it actually doesn't matter as I heat embossed it later with black powder.
2.Heat emboss the stamped sentiments and then cut to ATC size.
3.Use 4 different stencils and add texture paste over the cards, but try to leave the stamped images without any white paste over them.
4.When dry use mists (not shown) and sparkling acrylic paints to get this colorful look for your cards.
5.Add some crackle glaze around the cards and sprinkle some micro beads over the wet glaze.
Posted by Irit Shalom at 14:00
Labels: ALTERED, art anthology, crackle, DecoArt, die cut, flowers, Inspired by Stamping, mists, paint, PRIMA, stamping, stencil, studio75, texture paste
1 comment:
- The Altered Paper said...
Such beautiful artist trading cards!! I love the pretty colors you chose!
- 1 August 2017 at 23:57
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Stoop might want to re-check with those who did reviews of Pamapuria school. Is it true that ERO knew about the Police letter and had copies of in-committee/in-confidence minutes from when the matter with Parker was originally brought up? And despite all that, why did ERO reviewers then give positive reviews of the school, and of the Deputy Principal – Parker?
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Monorail directors to sell land
Published 10:00 pm, Monday, January 16, 2006
Seattle Monorail Authority directors decided Tuesday to try to sell $61 million in unneeded land holdings by this summer, leaving until later the decision on how long to continue the car-tab tax that is keeping the agency alive.
Thirty-four parcels, bought for the original 13.6-mile monorail "Green Line," were purchased between April 2004 and May 2005. They became surplus after city residents in November voted to cancel the project and rejected a proposal to shorten it to 10 miles.
Project board members set a March 17 deadline for prospective buyers to submit bids, expecting sales to be closed by June. That's a short time frame, but Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Buchter said the agency needs some idea by March of how much it can make on land sales so it can know whether to notify state licensing authorities about any changes in the car-tab tax, which remains at 1.4 percent on the value of each vehicle registered in Seattle.
Lowering the tax would insure that all city car owners will have paid the tax the same number of times since it was first imposed in mid-2003 but could stretch out repayment of agency debt until mid-2007. Leaving it at the current rate could pay off the agency's debt this year but could mean some car owners would escape paying the tax late this year or in 2007 because the tax would end earlier.
"The more money we can generate from these property sales the faster the (tax) can be retired," Buchter said.
Project board members voted to hire GVA Kidder Matthews as the brokerage to handle the sales. GVA staffers said the property should fetch at least what the agency paid for it to build the line but GVA president Jeffrey Lyons said "we really don't know until we go out in that compeitive market."
The company, one of 16 bidding for the job and one of five interviewed, was hired late last year to help organize the sale and will be paid $30,775 for preliminary work it performed plus commissions on each parcel sale. The company's appraisers were identified as experts in property condemnation cases but none testified in court, Buchter said.
Board members were told that previous landowners who sold their property under condemnation threat could bid to buy the parcels back and then negotiate further to improve the chances of getting their land back.
The sale program "strikes a balance" between getting the most money for the agency and allowing some owners to buy property back, said board member Beth Goldberg.
Information on the property, including appraisals, aerial photos and amounts the monorail project paid, is at www.monorailproperty.com.
The board also adopted a new annual budget totaling $96.5 million, slightly higher than last year's because it allocates more money toward paying a debt that now stands at about $89 million, Buchter said.
Of the total the agency expects to pay $88 million this year toward eliminating the debt, among other expenses, assuming that the car-tab tax will grow about 3 percent during the year. The agency expects to take in $89.6 million in revenue, including proceeds from property sales, and make up the difference with cash remaining at the end of 2005, Buchter said.


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NEW YORK, Feb. 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Abel/Noser Corp., a leading independent agency brokerage firm providing data-driven trading products and services for institutional clients, announced today the sixth straight year of volume increases in its transition management business.
"As the transition management industry consolidates, pension funds, endowments, sub-advised funds, and other institutional investors are scrutinizing their relationships with service providers more closely than ever before to make sure they are receiving the best value," said Michael Iannucci, Abel/Noser's SVP of Transition Management Services. "In this environment, more investors are turning to Abel/Noser due to our industry-leading analytics and our focus on transparency."
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DEEP SOUTH: Four Seasons on Back Roads
THEROUX, Paul
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Título: DEEP SOUTH: Four Seasons on Back Roads
Editorial: Hamish Hamilton Ltd, Great Britian
Año de publicación: 2015
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SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER Beloved travel writer Paul Theroux turns his attention to America, exploring the landscapes and communities of his homeland as an outsider for the first time For the past fifty years, Paul Theroux has travelled to the far corners of the earth - to China, India, Africa, the Pacific Islands, South America, Russia, and elsewhere - and brought them to life in his cool, exacting prose. In Deep South he turns his gaze to a region much closer to his home. Travelling through North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas, Paul Theroux writes of the stunning landscapes he discovers - the deserts, the mountains, the Mississippi - and above all, the lives of the people he meets. The South is a place of contradictions. There is the warm, open spirit of the soul food cafes, found in every town, no matter how small. There is the ruined grandeur of numberless ghostly towns, long abandoned by the industries that built them. There are the state gun shows and the close-knit,subtly forlorn tribe of people who attend and run them. Deep in the heart of his native country, Theroux discovers a land more profoundly foreign than anything he has previously experienced.From the Back Cover:
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This luminous sojourn is Theroux s best outing in years. Publishers Weekly, starred review
As thoughtful as it is evocative, the book offers insight into a significant region and its people and customs. An epically compelling travel memoir. Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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John Collier Blue Plaque Near to this spot was "Tim Bobbin's school" John Collier (1708-1786) Born in Urmston, was an apprentice dutch loom weaver who became a teacher. He lived in Milnrow most of his adult life and in 1742 became master of the school. Under the pen name of "Tim Bobbin", he was an…
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Peterloo Demonstration 1819
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Come Out Swinging
The Changing World of Boxing in Gleason's Gym
Gleason's Gym is the last remaining institution of New York's Golden Age of boxing. Jake LaMotta, Muhammad Ali, Hector Camacho, Mike Tyson--the alumni of Gleason's are a roster of boxing greats. Founded in the Bronx in 1937, Gleason's moved in the mid-1980s to what has since become one of New York's wealthiest residential areas--Brooklyn's DUMBO. Gleason's has also transformed, opening its doors to new members, particularly women and white-collar men. Come Out Swinging is Lucia Trimbur's nuanced insider's account of a place that was once the domain of poor and working-class men of color but is now shared by rich and poor, male and female, black and white, and young and old.
Come Out Swinging chronicles the everyday world of the gym. Its diverse members train, fight, talk, and socialize together. We meet amateurs for whom boxing is a full-time, unpaid job. We get to know the trainers who act as their father figures and mentors. We are introduced to women who empower themselves physically and mentally. And we encounter the male urban professionals who pay handsomely to learn to box, and to access a form of masculinity missing from their office-bound lives. Ultimately, Come Out Swinging reveals how Gleason's meets the needs of a variety of people who, despite their differences, are connected through discipline and sport.
Community Builders
In the 1980s the failure of corporate strategies and trickle-down economics led to gross inequalities among many U.S. neighborhoods and cities. By examining and comparing a gentrifying and a low-income neighborhood in two medium-sized cities, Gordana Rabrenovic shows how the problems they faced are typical of a number of neighborhoods nationwide. In particular, Rabrenovic focuses on the relationship between neighborhood associations and urban restructuring, arguing persuasively that the success of neighborhood associations depends more on the city in which the neighborhood is located than on the neighborhood itself. Her tale discusses two very different cities with distinct political economies: Albany, a healthy service sector city, and Schenectady, a declining manufacturing city. Acknowledging both the value and limits of collective action, Rabrenovic addresses issues of particular relevance in urban areas, such as land use and crime, as well as the need for neighborhood organizations to forge links with local elites and other neighborhoods, and to engage and bring together poor and minority residents. Her analysis of neighborhood-based mobilization, preservation, and revitalization illuminates the ways in which grassroots issues intersect with prevailing political agendas and the national economy, as well as how issues such as race and class affect daily community politics.
Company Towns in the Americas
Landscape, Power, and Working-Class Communities
Constructing Boundaries
Jewish and Arab Workers in Mandatory Palestine
An interdisciplinary study discussing the impact of the national crisis in Mandatory Palestine on relations between Jewish and Arab workers and their respective labor movements. Constructing Boundaries examines the competition, interaction, and impact among Jewish and Arab workers in the labor market of Mandatory Palestine. It is both a labor market study, based on the Split Labor Market Theory, and a case study of the labor market of Haifa, the center of economic development in Mandatory Palestine. Bernstein demonstrates the impact of the pervasive national conflict on the relations between the workers of the two nationalities and between their labor movements. She analyzes the attempts of Jewish workers to construct boundaries between themselves and the Arab workers, and also highlights cases of cooperation between Jewish and Arab workers and of joint class struggle.
Constructive Feminism
Women's Spaces and Women's Rights in the American City
In Constructive Feminism, Daphne Spain examines the deliberate and unintended spatial consequences of feminism's second wave, a social movement dedicated to reconfiguring power relations between women and men. Placing the women's movement of the 1970s in the context of other social movements that have changed the use of urban space, Spain argues that reform feminists used the legal system to end the mandatory segregation of women and men in public institutions, while radical activists created small-scale places that gave women the confidence to claim their rights to the public sphere.
Women's centers, bookstores, health clinics, and domestic violence shelters established feminist places for women's liberation in Boston, Los Angeles, and many other cities. Unable to afford their own buildings, radicals adapted existing structures to serve as women's centers that fostered autonomy, health clinics that promoted reproductive rights, bookstores that connected women to feminist thought, and domestic violence shelters that protected their bodily integrity. Legal equal opportunity reforms and daily practices of liberation enhanced women's choices in education and occupations. Once the majority of wives and mothers had joined the labor force, by the mid-1980s, new buildings began to emerge that substituted for the unpaid domestic tasks once performed in the home. Fast food franchises, childcare facilities, adult day centers, and hospices were among the inadvertent spatial consequences of the second wave.
Contemporary Urbanism Brazil
Beyond Brasília
For decades, a succession of military regimes and democratic governments in Brazil sought to shape the future of their society through the manipulation of urban spaces. Planned cities were built that reflected the ideals of high modernism, and urban designers and planners created clean-cut minimalist spaces that reflected the hope for an idyllic future in a still-developing nation. But these cities were criticized as "utopian dreams" in a country plagued with the urban realities of rampant sprawl and the infamous slums known as favelas.
In this international collection of essays, architects, urban planners, and scholars assess the legacy of Brazilian urbanism to date. They evaluate the country's experiments with modernism and examine how Brazilian cities are regenerating themselves within a democratic political framework that meets market and social demands, and respects place, culture, and history.
Contentious City
The Politics of Recovery in New York City
Few public projects have ever dealt with economic and emotional issues as large as those surrounding the rebuilding of lower Manhattan following the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. Picking up the pieces involved substantial challenges: deciding how to memorialize one of America's greatest tragedies, how to balance the legal claim of landowners against the moral claim of survivors who want a say in the future of Ground Zero, and how to rebuild the Trade Center site while preserving the sacredness and solemnity that Americans now attribute to the area. All the while, the governor, the mayor, the Port Authority, and the leaseholder competed with one another to advance their own interests and visions of the redevelopment, while at least leaving the impression that the decisions were the public's to make. In Contentious City, editor John Mollenkopf and a team of leading scholars analyze the wide-ranging political dimensions of the recovery process.
Contentious City takes an in-depth look at the competing interests and demands of the numerous stakeholders who have sought to influence the direction of the recovery process. Lynne Sagalyn addresses the complicated institutional politics behind the rebuilding, which involve a newly formed development commission seeking legitimacy, a two-state transportation agency whose brief venture into land ownership puts it in control of the world's most famous 16 acres of land, and a private business group whose affiliation with the World Trade Center places it squarely in a fight for billions of dollars in insurance funds. Arielle Goldberg profiles five civic associations that sprouted up to voice public opinion about the redevelopment process. While the groups did not gain much leverage over policy outcomes, Goldberg argues that they were influential in steering the agenda of decision-makers and establishing what values would be prioritized in the development plans. James Young, a member of the jury that selected the design for the World Trade Center site memorial, discusses the challenge of trying to simultaneously memorialize a tragic event, while helping those who suffered find renewal and move on with their lives. Editor John Mollenkopf contributes a chapter on how the September 11 terrorist attacks altered the course of politics in New York, and how politicians at the city and state level adapted to the new political climate after 9/11 to win elected office.
Moving forward after the destruction of the Twin Towers was a daunting task, made more difficult by the numerous competing claims on the site, and the varied opinions on how it should be used in the future. Contentious City brings together the voices surrounding this intense debate, and helps make sense of the rival interests vying for control over one of the most controversial urban development programs in history.
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Contestations of Memory in Southeast Asia
Contestations of Memory in Southeast Asia applies a new theoretical literature on social memory to remembered eveents in Burma, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia. Highlighting connections between theorizing based on European examples and unresolved memory issues in East and Southeast Asia, the authors show how comparative study of the interpenetration of politics and lived bodily experience, of communal and personal memories, and of dominant and suppressed narratives, can yield insights into the human potential to become either perpetrators, victims or bystanders. The memories found within different groups in any society are open to negotiation, suppression, contestation, or revision in the ever-evolving politics of the present. The searching and close-grained analyses of contemporary issues found in the volume vividly illustrate the essentially plural and multivocal nature of social memories, and demonstrate the intricate connection between transnational, national and sub-national politics. Readers seeking a more nuanced and complex understanding of the past and of its continued relevance to the present and future, will find here much food for thought.
A Contested Borderland
Competing Russian and Romanian Visions of Bessarabia in the Second Half of the 19th and Early 20th Century
Bessarabia was the only territory representing an object of rivalry and symbolic competition between the Russian Empire and a fully crystallized nation-state: the Kingdom of Romania. This book is an intellectual prehistory of the Bessarabian problem, focusing on the antagonism of the national and imperial visions of this contested periphery. Through a critical reassessment and revision of the traditional historical narratives, the study argues that Bessarabia was claimed not just by two opposing projects of 'symbolic inclusion,' but also by two alternative and theoretically antagonistic models of political legitimacy. By transcending the national lens of Bessarabian / Moldovan history and viewing it in the broader Eurasian comparative context, the book responds to the growing tendency in recent historiography to focus on the peripheries in order to better understand the functioning of national and imperial states in the modern era.


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PLCs are continuously expanding in capabilities and the architecture or hardware that is part of that is also expanding with new functionality. There are some hardware components that are basic to every system. A PLC system generally has the following components:
- Processor – consists of the CPU, main memory, possibly some communications and interface capability.
- I/O – short for Inputs and Outputs – sometimes included in small quantities on a block with the processor
- Power Supply – Provides power for the various components of the system -sometimes built into a block with the processor.
- Rack/Chassis – Modular systems generally need a common backplane to plug into. Racks are designed to at least accept a processor and multiple I/O cards. Communication from the processor to the I/O is generally achieved through connections on the rack and power from the power supply is generally distributed through the rack.
- Communication interfaces – used to communicate with the programmer, operator interfaces, data monitoring tools, SCADA systems, remote I/O, etc. Sometimes built into the processor.
- Programming Tool – used to program and access the processor.
The processor is generally what most people refer to when discussing a PLC. Many controls specialists (including myself) tend to interchange PLC, processor and controller when referring to the module that receives the program and handles processing the logic. All of the components together are generally referred to as a PLC system. The processor is where a PLC program would reside and is responsible for receiving data from the input cards and distributing it to the output cards
I/O cards or Input and Output cards are the connections to the real world for the PLC system. As discussed there are discrete I/O and analog I/O. Both come in many different types. Discrete I/O can come in various voltages: 24 Volt DC or AC; 120 VAC; TTL; sourcing; sinking; and on and on. Analog I/O has even more variety. There are Voltage inputs/outputs, Current inputs/outputs and cards that handle both. There are cards that just grab inputs or outputs and cards that have a mix of inputs and outputs. There are cards that are specially designed to connect to Thermocouple and RTD sensors and to compensate for the non-linearity of the signal. I/O can also be local or remote. Local I/O is located in the same rack or chassis as the processor, whereas remote I/O can be located in a separate location that is more convenient to wire into.
The Rack or Chassis is used to house the PLC processor, I/O cards, and other cards that are needed with the system. Some smaller block style PLC systems don't use racks and even some modular style systems have cards that stack together with each card having the required connectors to pass processor communications and power to each subsequent card.
There are many available communication interfaces ranging from cards designed to communicate via Ethernet to specialized cards designed to communicate on a manufacturers proprietary communication link. Generally those cards are used to allow the programmer to interface with the controller, another device to interface with the controller, or to allow the controller to manipulate and read I/O located in a remote location.
Programming interfaces vary from handheld programmers (yuck) to more modern programs that can be installed on a laptop to interface and program the PLC.


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TERI-ITEC Programme - Integrated approach towards sustainable development
The TERI-ITEC (Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation) programme, 'Integrated approach towards sustainable development', was held from 7-25 July 2009 in participation with TERI University. The programme was attended by 20 international participants from developing countries of South America, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Middle East, northern Europe, small island countries, and Africa. All participants are mid career working professionals.
The programme was designed to incorporate sustainability concerns in policy/managerial decisions using a system approach. It discussed various dimensions of sustainable development such as environmental systems, resource management and sustainability, environment law, energy access for the urban poor, biotechnology and sustainability, urban planning, environmental impact assessment, water resource management, remote sensing and GIS (graphic informationm system), CDM (clean development) and sustainability, and ecological footprint and biodiversity. The programme included 'development practicums' and field visits that provided hands on learning on different aspects for designing project-based development intervention at the community level along with an intervention analysis at the strategic level. The valedictory session was held on 25 July, which was presided over by Dr P P Bhojvaid, Vice-Chancellor, TERI University. On the occasion, the participants mentioned their satisfaction of the training programme and reflected that it gave them the skills to conduct resource evaluation, perceive damage/degradation, and prepare responses by internalizing sustainable issues.
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The NFL will not be reinstating Raiders linebacker Aldon Smith this season, a source tells Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk (on Twitter). The commissioner will revisit the case on March 15, 2017.
Smith was suspended in November 2015 and has been eligible to return for several weeks now. His camp was pushing Roger Goodell to reach a decision on the matter, but for one reason or another, the league office will table things until the early part of the 2017 league year. Meanwhile, Cowboys defensive end Randy Gregory is playing as he appeals his one-year suspension from the league. The two situations are not exactly identical, but the disparity does not sit well with many fans.
Smith has had multiple run-ins with the league's substance abuse policy and his latest slip-up led to him spending roughly four months in a rehab clinic. Raiders GM Reggie McKenzie indicated in October that Smith's issues are under control after treatment. Of course, there are two sides to every story and it is possible that Smith has not fulfilled all of the prerequisites for reinstatement.
The Raiders have secured their spot in the playoffs, but they'll have to forge ahead without the services of Smith or quarterback Derek Carr. On the plus side, they can clinch the AFC's No. 1 overall seed this weekend if they beat the Broncos and the Patriots fall to the Dolphins.
Per the terms of the two-year extension signed with Oakland in April 2016, Smith is under contract with the Raiders through 2017.
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or nation, or so said Oscar Wilde, and it applies so poignantly to our situation today.
Decades after the fall of State Controlled Economics (State Controlled Everything Else still exists, everywhere), and as the American Republic teeters under the weight of one orange-skinned man's ego, promising to build more oppresive walls, the walls within our minds still stand strong, blinding us to the freedoms which we really have, and really always had.
Ah, but those who misread, who can't see freedom for what it is, wonder what freedom really means; instant credit?
Ah, more freedom is on its way. Just sign here on the dotted line.
Many people are wondering out loud, taking wagers even, on the chances of the EUremaining intact as they are squezzed from the American and Russian anti-statists; the odds are against it; not geographically; not historically; but culturally and soulfully.
For freedom doesn't mean free.
Freedom is very costly, for it means awareness of one's actions, of the results and the consequences; it means responsibility. It doesn't mean f*ck over everybody else, or 'me first'. It doesn't mean cultivate friendships until you can spend them, it means you are now free to be the best you that you can be.
Well, it's time to get into th spirit of the modern zeitgeist. I recommend watching more TV, obeying every advertisement (on purpose or not), and joining aimless throngs of thousands of people for no real good reason and spending all the money you don't have on stuff people won't use - except as second hand gifts for next year.
Think fond thoughts of your family far away and enjoy your leftover carp.
Now in the clearnance sales: gold, frankincense and myrrh.
What to do as the yaer gets under way besides place your bets, cynicism vs. idealism?
Wasn't it somebody's birthday recently? What was his name again? Consume? Consume... that's right, good boy. Isn't there a football game on? I particularly enjoy the commercials. Trained professionals who know me well, convincing me to spend more of my proverbial wealth.
Cynicism 1, Idealism 0. The fans go wild. Don't get me wrong, I love football.
Remember the story about a man named Jed, a poor mountaineer who barely kept his family fed? Well, Jed's dead, baby, Jed's dead. Don't mourn - I'm sure he died peacefully of natural causes. The best thing to do is distract yourself somehow - occupy your cursory free time with some good ol' fashioned fantasy. Ambition. Creativity. More TV. Believe the Hype. OK, never mind, just shoot me.
Cynicism 2, Idealism 0.
What exactly is this idealism thing anyway? God forbid if we don't lie, or cheat, or steal, how could we stay on our toes without these qualities? (not yours, of course!).
It's like social ballet, enjoy the show, but watch your purse. Be careful not to philosophize with strangers, they'll only predict the apocalyptic Fires of God or something like that. Well, I say, let it come and burn off these assholes so we can have our party in Peace. Stranger things have happened, you know?
Cynicism 2, Idealism 1. The game is young, have a great year!


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Chapter 1
The Fall
Flash didn't stumble as a warning he was going down. The saddle pad, which usually kept Libbi more in tune with her horse, was no help. There was nothing she could do. At one instant Flash was walking, at the next he was on the road.
Being turned, asking her mom if she could run her horse, Libbi was unprepared to catch herself or brace against the inevitable impact with the pavement. Her fall was like a dive—head first over Flash's right shoulder. Impact was with the right side of her skull, and she was knocked unconscious. Luckily no cars were traveling on Beachler Road at the time. Equally as lucky, Flash didn't land on her with his full weight, but he did roll over her. Then he rolled back over her to gain the momentum he needed to get his 1300-plus pounds into a standing position.
Elaine quickly and expertly regained control of her horse, who had spooked at the site of his fieldmate falling. She jumped off and, without a word, handed the reins to Earl's son, who had doubled back when he heard the commotion. She ran to where Libbi lay and grabbed the loose reins to Flash's bridle and pulled him away from the scene.
Already dismounted, Earl, Elaine's boyfriend, held the reins to his horse as he knelt next to Libbi, calling her name, asking if she were okay. Holding the ends of the reins to Flash's bridle behind her so as not to lead him back, Elaine joined Earl—in position and activity: "Libbi? Libbi?" and then "Li-Bee," in the singsong she used when she had a treat for her daughter, like licking the batters after she whipped up a cake to bake in the oven. Nothing worked.
Turning her face to Earl, Elaine said matter-of-factly, "She has a concussion."
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WORKSHOP: 8-bit political text-mode graphics
Are certain kind of aesthetics connected to certain kinds of political issues!? Does it always have to be like that? What if you altered the aestethics connected to the issue? Could you reach new audiences with altered visual styles?
Come and create your own political graphics in 8-bit aesthetics! Learn how to perform visuals using 8-bit pixel graphics and/or text characters (letters, numbers and other symbols). No previous experience is needed.
Bring your own media to convert, it can be stills, interviews, video material and more! Create a theme that connects visual form with your political issue of choice.
Raquel Meyers and RåFILM is holding this unique workshop in Malmö 28-30 of april!
This workshop will cover for example Ascii, Ansi, PETSCII and Teletext ("Text-TV"). The purpose of the workshop is to find new ways of expression in these unique media environments. Although often misunderstood as limiting and difficult, these tools are often quite helpful to develop new procedures, ideas and motivations. New ideas don't require new technologies. Sometimes it's even easier to be progressive with old tools.
The workshop will be held by Raquel Meyers who works with low-res graphics and photography for performance, web, video and installations. Since 2004 she has performed at VJ-festivals like Mapping and Cimatics, at 8bit events like Tokyo Blip Festival and the Playlist exhibition, aswell at Transmediale, LABoral and LEV Festival. She currently lives and works in Sweden.
Read and see more on: www.raquelmeyers.com // http://text-mode.tumblr.com/
RåFILM is a film collective that for over a decade has worked with finding new ways of connecting art and activism, doing animations, documentaries and more. Read more at; www.rafilm.se
– 28 – 29 April – a two day workshop at Kontrapunkt in Malmö. 1-8PM
– 30 April – screening on a local wall near you! We gather at Möllevångstorget at 8PM. (If it´s raining we´ll come up with a plan B.)
– No previous experience is necessary!
– Bring a computer. We have some extra computers that people can borrow if you ask us in advance. Most of the software works in Windows, but there will be options for Mac & Linux too.
– If you have material you want to use, bring that.
– The workshop will be held in English.
– Location; Kontrapunkt Kollektiva Verkstäder, Norra Grängesbergsg. 26
– Limited amount of participants to 10 people! Please e-mail (email@example.com) or call
(0735-538344) to Alex Veitch to book a place.
Puss och Kamp!
///RåFILM och Raquel Meyes
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5 Hundred Calorie Diet! Find The Facts Here!
Since any low calorie diet is famous, the 500 calorie diet which is the lowest of the scale is reasonably popular too. A diet where you don't take more than 1200 calories is often known as a low calorie diet. Losing pounds rapidly is the basic concept behind such diets. However one must use caution when taking this diet and it is advisable to seek the help of a food consultant or diet consultant when starting these diets. This article is aimed to help decide if this diet is good for you.
Everyone knows that in order to lose weight more calories needs to be burnt than what is taken in. Low cal diets might be more damaging. The rate of metabolism gets affected when your body craves for food or energy. This might end in your body eating away your muscle for the required calories.
Without any reserve of food to take energy from, the body converts the muscle into the energy it requires. While one can lose fat by gaining muscle, it may be quite damaging for your body.
The five hundred calorie diet might be useful for folks based mostly on :
Type of body Their height Level of activity Their sex Their health in general
But for others, following a 500 calorie diet would be identical to starving. When your body is used to taking more than 2000 to 5000 calories a day, a unexpected drop in the number of calories taken by you might end up in moving your body into a mode of starvation. To preserve energy, the rate of metabolism goes down.
When you start on a low calorie diet your body gets accustomed to function with low calories. So when you get back to basics diet it starts gaining weight which at times is more than what you were before dieting. Using a bmr / amr calculator is the most effective way to find out the quantity of calories you need to intake each day.


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Skip to comments.Scalia accuses fellow justices of discriminating against pro-lifers
Posted on 06/27/2014 8:36:32 PM PDT by Foundahardheadedwoman
While Thursdays ruling overturning buffer zones outside abortion clinics pleased pro-life activists, Justice Antonin Scalia thinks it didnt go far enough.
The court unanimously agreed that the Massachusetts law, which barred protesters and counselors from being within 35 feet of abortion clinics, violated the First Amendment, but denied that it unfairly discriminated against abortion opponents.
Todays opinion carries forward this Courts practice of giving abortion-rights advocates a pass when it comes to suppressing the free-speech rights of their opponents, wrote Justice Antonin Scalia, with whom Justices Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas concurred. There is an entirely separate, abridged edition of the First Amendment applicable to speech against abortion.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
John Roberts is such a leftist tool
What has surprised me is that in recent decisions so many of the libs have voted against the interests of their false god.
An amazing paragraph. Clear and concise on the state of Free Speech as it exists between Conservatives and Liberals who have dominated for years with the aid of MSM.
leftists hate freedom of speech as much as freedom of thought
Yes, Scalia cuts thru the BS. I was happy to see Thomas concur, he has turned out to be a great pick for the S.C., was surprised to see Kennedy concur, I can't seem to get a read on the guy.
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The true condition of freedom will come in Monday's Hobby Lobby decision.
I agree with Scalia. I didn't think of the pro-babykillers.
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Saint Maria Goretti -A Modern Saint
When the priest walked to the altar wearing red, I knew it was another martyr's feast day.
Today the Church celebrates the heroic life and death of a 12 year old young lady named Maria Goretti.(1890-1902) A devout young lady, she was assaulted and murdered because she refused a man's sexual advances. She chose death and heaven rather than allow herself to be raped. She was stabbed over 14 times but lived for almost 20 hours after the attack in which time she prayed for and forgave her accuser. Fifty years later Pope Pius canonized her in 1950 as the Patron Saint of Modern Youth. Many miracles have been attributed to her intercession.
In our present age, when many young people idolize the wrong kind of role models we need a modern saint whose virtue and faith can be emulated. Promiscuity, materialism and hedonism are put forth as the new "virtue" for today's youth. Saint Maria Goretti shows us how to choose purity and chastity over the values that this world offers. Even in 1950, the pope knew that young people needed positive role models and examples of the faith rightly lived. St. Maria Goretti had "resisted sin to the shedding of blood."
Saint Maria Goretti, today we honor your faith and example of holiness to the point of martyrdom. We ask you to intercede to Jesus for the souls of our young people that they would be open to God's grace and power to choose a life lived for God and not self.
Through the merits of Christ we ask this in His name,


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Flaming Cheese Saganaki: A Memoir and a Contest Entry
When I was invited to participate in the Mediterranean-inspired blog competition sponsored by food blog Yummy Food and travel website Canarias.com, I knew it was something I had to do as a food lover with an appreciation for foods from Mediterranean countries.
So for my entry, I thought I thought I'd talk about one of my most affecting encounters with Mediterranean food and offer up a recipe. The dish was a simple one, a Greek meze of flaming cheese saganaki (pan-seared cheese that gets briefly lit on fire before serving), and that simplicity contributed a great deal toward my affection for this style of cooking.
In the years that followed my introduction to it, I would learn much about the food at the center of that plate of flames delivered to me that day. I would learn that the word saganaki can refer not only to the heavy two-handled frying pan in which the dish is cooked, but also to many other dishes prepared in such a pan. I would learn too, that the tendency to flambé the cheese using some sort of liquor is in no way traditional or native to Greece, with such plating pyrotechnics having originated in the United States and generally practiced there and in Canada, Western Europe, and Australia. And because learning is delicious, I would go on to learn more about Greek cooking and foods from other Mediterranean countries as I sampled my way from one new love to another.
A lifetime ago, one sweltering August afternoon in New York City, I happened into Aegean, an Upper West Side Greek and Mediterranean restaurant and frequent haunt of a renowned horror author acquaintance of mine (I doubt he'd appreciate my name-dropping him here, so I won't). It was midday, much earlier than he typically arrived, so I hadn't gone expecting to find him, but hoping to swim for a while in wine if I could not in water (on such an aggressively hot day as this, every public pool in the five boroughs would have been piled with rowdy teenagers, and I was already too old for that scene.) I also hadn't gone expecting my palate to find a declaration of love bathed in flaming raspberry liqueur.
One glass of wine into my visit, I'd gotten hungry, and moved from the bar to the dining room where I selected the unfamiliar flaming appetizer from the menu. I watched my server set a plate of sapphire-blue fire before me like a crown whose pearl bubbled and sizzled at its center. I heard the dying flames hiss their displeasure at the thwarting spray of juice from a lemon wedge my server squeezed over the plate. I tasted salty, buttery richness of melting kefalotiri cheese enhanced by the sharp bite of citrus and raspberry cordial, and their combined flavors became my instant fascination.
To put into perspective the impression wrought upon me by this first encounter, as I sat eating, gazing out Aegean's front window onto a sun-baked Columbus Avenue, I saw Howard Stern walk past. There was no mistaking that it was him.
That sighting was for me the second most remarkable thing about that day.
And whenever I speak of that visit to that establishment which has long since closed, first mention still goes to the food, not my celebrity spotting. So yes, my affection for Mediterranean cuisine (an admittedly broad and even contested term encompassing not only Greek fare, but also that of Turkey, Spain, Italy, Morocco, and many other countries) runs deep. Today, nearly 15 years later, no New York visit feels worth the trip unless I get to revisit my favorite kitchens. I come home to much-missed Turkish restaurants that feed me crisp, delicately spiced İçli Köfte (bulghur wheat stuffed with ground lamb, nuts, and currants) and künefe (baked shredded wheat filled with soft white cheese and soaked in sweet syrup.) Favored Greek and Italian eateries return me to dishes familiar yet exotic, and fill my stomach with relished memories of joy and pain and revelation: the Cacciucco I enjoyed on my first night out with friends following a personal tragedy, the grape leaf Dolma I tasted on a first date as a belly dancer roamed the restaurant's dining room. I swallow ghosts tasting of roasted fennel, of cured olives, of mint and preserved lemons at surviving establishments that I knew best when I lived within daily eating distance of every single one. And it feeds me body and spirit, this ongoing Mediterranean eating journey that caught fire years ago and burns ever brighter, first sparked by a simple saganaki meze.
Flaming Cheese Saganaki
Kefalotiri, Kasseri, Graviera, Haloumi, and Kefalograviera are the cheeses I see used most often to make this dish. They are firm Greek cheeses that stand up well to heat where softer cheeses melt too soon. For my recipe, I chose Kasseri, and used blood orange in place of the more traditional lemon. A variety of spirits will serve well for flaming the dish. Here, I chose blackberry brandy. This recipe works best in a cast-iron pan, or a pan with a heavy bottom.
- 1/2 lb. Kasseri cheese
- 2 tbsp cooking oil
- ½ cup flour
- 1 cup water
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ white pepper
- 1.5 oz. blackberry brandy
- 1 blood orange, quartered
- Season flour with salt and pepper.
- Add 2 tbsp oil to pan. Preheat on stovetop over medium-high heat.
- Slice cheese into slabs approximately ½ inch thick. Dredge both sides of each piece in water, then in flour. Shake off excess flour.
- Place flour-coated cheese in pan and sear until golden brown on each side.
- Turn off stove. Add brandy to pan and ignite with lighter. Squeeze blood orange wedges over pan to extinguish flames. Serve immediately with pita or crusty bread.


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