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AAA Tool and Machine Company - Metal Stamping Manufacturing
Abbate Screw Products, Inc. - Precision-Machined Components
Abbey Metal Services, Inc. - Custom Fabrication and Tank Repair
Ace Metal Spinning, Inc. - Metal Spinning
Active Wireworks - Wire Former
Advanced Flexible Composites - Cord and Fabrics
Advance Molding Concepts - Custom Injection Molding
Advanced Outsource Solutions - Packaging and Labeling
Advertising Flag Company- Flags, Banners, Flagpoles & Accessories
Aeromotive Services - Electrical Housings and Wire Harnesses
AIR802 - Electronic Component Manufacturing
AIM, Inc. - Manufacturing Equipment
Airfloat - Heavy Load Movement Solutions Using Air Bearing Technology
Alanson Manufacturing LLC - Ammunition
Alcast Company- Aluminum Castings
ALM Positioners, Inc. - Positioners
Alpha Precision, Inc. - High Precision Machining of Glass Wafers
Aluminum Case Company - Aluminum Cases
Americana Building Products, Inc. - Building Products
American Control Electronics - Low HP Drives
American Machine Tools- Metalworking Machinery
American Nickeloid Company - Finished Metals
American Pride Cabinetry, Inc. - Custom Wood Cabinets
Ameroc Export Inc.- Export
AMPCO METAL, Inc. - Engineered Copper and Bronze Alloys
A-Plus Natural Enzymes - Pest Control
Arcade Brewery - Craft Beer
Armoloy of Illinois - Metal Finishing and Plating
Atlas Biomechanics - Moldable Custom Orthotics and Heel Lifts
Avanti Engineering - Precision Machined Products
Aurora Circuits - Circuit Boards
Aztec Plastic - Injection Molding and Machining
B A Die Mold, Inc - Industrial Molding
Baker Road Furniture - Wood Furniture
Bales Metal Surface Solutions - Metal Surface Solutions
BAP Enterprises - Manufacturing and Assembly of Manufacturing Equipment
Baxter's Vineyards - Wine
Beall Manufacturing - Alloy Steel
Beardstown Chamber of Commerce- Represents 78 businesses
Beer Nuts, Inc. - Salted and Roasted Nuts
Belmont Plating Works Inc. - Industrial Plating and Metal Finishing
BELDEN Universal - Universal Joints
Bellman - Melcor, LLC - Brazing and Soldering Preforms
Bergstrom Inc. - Climate Control Systems
Berner Food & Beverage, Inc. - Cheese Sauces, Snack Condiments, Iced Lattes, Cheese Based Pasta Sauces
Bimba Manufacturing - Actuation, Fluid Power, and Motion Control Technology
Blue Diamond Athletic Displays, Inc. - High End Athletic Displays
BMS Manufacturing - Custom Returnable Packaging Systems
Bohl Machine & Tool Company - Machining
Boston Leather - Leather Goods
Brad Foote Gear Works - Precision gears and gearing systems
Bramic Industries - Cutting & Machine Tool Manufacturing
Broadwind Energy - Energy
Brennan Equipment & Manufacturing - Material Handling & Industrial Storage
Budnick Converting - Custom Converting
Burnex Corporation - Metal Stamping, Fasteners, Wire Forms
Cabinet Gallery LLC - Wood products
Calmer Corn Heads, Inc. - Farming Equipment
CAMCO Manufacturing - Screw Machine Products
CaseGuys - Leather and Case Products
CCK Automations, Inc. - Printed Circuit Boards & Control Panels
Central Rubber Extrusions of IL - Extruded Product Solutions
Central Specialties Ltd. - Foodservice & Hospitality equipment
Century Metal Spinning - Metal Spinning
Challenge Unlimited - Packaging and Labeling Services
Char Crust, Inc. - Dry-rub Seasonings
Chicago Fastener - Bolts, Nuts, Rivets and Washers
Chicago Magnesium Casting Co. - Magnesium and Aluminum Sand Casting
Chicago CulinaryFX - Durable Culinary Molds
Chirch Global Manufacturing - Prototyping, Tooling, Metal Stampings & Fabrications
The Church Street Brewing Company - Brewery
Classic Garden Ornaments, Ltd. - Garden Ornaments & Planters
Com-Pac International, Inc.- Flexible Packaging Manufacturer
Concentric Rockford, Inc. - Power Pump & Motors
CoreCentric Solutions, Inc. - Aftermarket Parts Service Solutions
Core Pipe Products Inc. - Stainless & Alloy Pipe Fittings and Flanges
Corporate Disk Company - CD and DVD Replication Manufacturing
Crawford Company - Welded Fabrication
Creekside Vineyard Winery & Inn - Fine Wine
Cristaux International - Glass Product Manufacturing
Daniel & Sons Heating & Air Conditioning - Heating and Air Conditioning
Dasco Pro, Inc. - Forged Hand Tools
Die World Steel Rule Dies - Gasket Die-Cutting
Del-Co-West - Contract Machining
Delta-Therm Corporation - Heat Trace Products
DeMoulin Bros. & Co. - Music Apparel
Dixline Corporation - Metal and Plastic Fabrication and Finishing
Doran Medical Scales - Scales
Doran Scales, Inc. - Scales
DRIFT Eyewear - Boutique Optical Manufacturer
Dura Feed, Inc. - Vibratory Parts Feeding Systems
East Moline Metal Products Company - Metal Products
EDM Department Inc. - Micro Manufacturing
E.H. Wachs - Machining Tools
Electronic Interconnect - Printed Circuit Boards
Eclipse Inc. - Heating Products and Systems
Elastec/American Marine - Equipment to Clean Oil Spills and Solid Waste Pollution
Electron Beam Technologies, Inc. - Welding Products
EMAC, Inc. - Products and Services for the Embedded Systems Market
Ev'rglo Neon Signs - Neon Signs
eWorks Electronics Services - Electronics Recycling
Excelsior Inc. - Gaskets, packing, and sealing devices
Ex-Cell Kaiser LLC - Recycling, Hospitality and Facility Management Products
Fiberglass Innovations - Fiberglass
F.N. Smith Corporation - Industry Machinery
Focal Point LLC - Architectural Lighting
Forster Tool & Manufacturing - Swiss Screw Machined Products
Fox Creek Vineyards- Wine
Frantz Manufacturing Company - Conveyor Bearings and Steel Balls
Freedman Seating Company - Seating
Fusion OEM - Low Volume Contract and Life-Extending Manufacturing of Industrial Products
Fusion Tech Integrated - Design & Fabrication Services
GAM Gear - Precision Mechanical Motion Control Components
General Grind & Machine, Inc. - Machined Parts Manufacturing
The George Evans Corporation - Metal Fabrication
Genoa Business Forms, Inc. - Business Forms
GKI Incorporated - Precision Machining
Global Choice International, LLC- Produce and Export Eletronics & Metals
Gourmet Gorilla - Food Products
Graymills - Pumps and Pumping Systems
The Great Display Company - Graphics Printing Services
Granat Industries Inc.- Industrial Fastening Products
Green Valley Manufacturing - Mold and Die Handling Equipment
Greenwood Plastics, Inc. - Durable, Lightweight Products
Hall of Fame Plaques and Signs - Plaques and Signs
Harrington EMS - Electronic Contract Manufacturing
HB Coatings LLC - Thermal Spray, Welding and Machine Shop
Harbor Manufacturing, Inc. - Manufactured Components and Assemblies
Hawk Technology Ltd. - Integrated Manufacturing Solutions
Heartwood Creations - Wooden Boxes
Heidtman Steel Products - Coil and Sheet Steel
Highland Machine - Sheet Metalwork
H.M. Manufacturing - Hardware
Honsa Ergonomic Technologies, Inc. - Ergonomic Tools
Hustedt Manufacturing - Custom Fine Jewelry and Watches
Hydrox Laboratories - Cleansing Products for the Healthcare, Beauty and Retail Industries
Illini Wire Works - Wire Parts Fabrication
Image Industries - Weld Studs and Welding Equipment
Imago Manufacturing LLC - Machine Tool Manufacturing
Imperial Punch & Mfg. - Industrial Tooling
Industrial Modern Pattern & Mold - Rapid Prototype and Tooling Services
Ingersoll Cutting Tools - Manufacturing Equipment
InnoTech Manufacturing LLC - Pre-Fabricated Elevator Hoistways
IRON-A-WAY - Ironing Systems
IVP Plastics - Plastic Injection Molding
Jarco - Truck Trailers
Jarvis Lighting - Lighting Fixtures
J.H. Botts, LLC - Fabricated Structural Metal
J-tec Industries - CarryMore System
JDS Labs - Electronic Component Manufacturing
JE Tomes- Concrete Repair & Restoration
Jessup Manufacturing Company- Coated & Laminated Materials
J&M Plating - Engineered Solutions for The Fastener and Small Stamping Markets
K & S Tire Recycling, Inc. - Rubber Shreds
Keneal Graphic Solutions - Labels, Embroidery, Contract Packaging
KLH Watches - Custom Fine Jewelry and Watches
Kopp Welding & Laser Technology - Custom Design Welding
Kormex Metal Craft - Sheet Metal Fabricator
KVF Quad Corporation - Metal Finishing
LabelMill - Label Applicator Systems
Lashcon Inc - CNC machining & General Fabrication
Laserage Technology Corporation - Laser Cutting, Drilling, Welding
Laystrom Manufacturing Company - Fabricated Structural Metal
Leatherhead Tools - Firefighter Hand Tools
Lemfco, Inc. - Iron Foundries
Lexco Cable - Wire Rope Assemblies
Lindy Manufacturing Company- Metal Stamping
LMT, Inc. - Industrial Vacuum Equipment
M&B Designs - Furniture and Decor
Maro Carton, Inc. - Paperboard products
Mathews Company - Agricultural equipment
Matrix IV, Inc. - Plastics
Mayco Industries - Lead Products & Fabrication
McBride & Shoff, Inc. - Machine Shops
McLaughlin Body Company - Vehicle Cabs, Operator Protection Systems (ROPS) and Complex Assemblies
Metamora Industries - Component Parts
Met-L-Flo, Inc. - Plastic and Metal Products
Midland Metal Products - Sheet Metal, Wire and Tubing Fabricator
Mighty Hook Inc. - Fabricated Wire Products
Mohop - Footwear
Monitor Technologies, LLC - Level Indication & Inventory Control
Morkes Chocolates - Confectionery Products
Mount Vernon Mold Works- Tire Molds
MSSC - Stencil Products
MTH Pumps - Commerical and Industrial Pumps
MTM Recognition- Recognition Jewelry
Muir Omni Graphics - Decals, Graphics, Markings, Labels and Signage
National Coatings Inc. - Coatings
National Foodworks Services, LLC - Food Incubator
Nationwide Glove Company - Gloves
Natural Choice Corporation - Drinking Water Appliances, Bottleless Water Coolers, Filtration Solutions
Natural Enrichment Industries, LLC - Tricalcium Phosphate (TCP)
New Era Windows- Windows
Nimco Corporation - Efficient and Economical Machine Systems
North States Steel - A Range of Steel Products
Nyco Products Company - Cleaning and Disinfectant Brands
Oceania Design, LLC - Software and Website Development, Start-Up Investment, Distress Turn Around
O'Hare Metal Products, Inc - Precison Metal Fabricator
Olson Machining, Inc. - CNC Precision Machining
Orion Tool, Die and Machine Company - Machined Parts and Assemblies
Oval Brand Fire Products - Fire extinguishers
Ovis Loader Attachments, Inc. - Loader Attachments
Patrick Manufacturing, Inc. - Custom Springs
Paul & Ron Manufacturing, Inc. - Railroad Equipment
PCR Machining - Pump & Motor Vehicle Parts
Pegasus Manufacturing, Inc. - CNC machining, Complete Assemblies, and Rapid Prototype
Pekin Weldors', Inc. - Welding Services
Peoria Production Shop - Gait Belts and Medical Devices
The Perfect Mound - Portable Pitching Mounds
Performance Pattern & Machine, Inc. - Machine Shop
Perma Treat of IL, INC - Pressure Treated Wood
Peter Field - Menswear Products
Phoenix Modular Elevator - Modular Elevators
Pioneer Service, Inc. - Screw Machine Products
Pirtek Fluid Transfer Solutions - Fluid Power Valve and Hose Fitting
Plastic PowerDrive Products, LLC - Power Transmission and Motion Control Components and Assemblies
Platt Luggage, Inc. - Professional Cases for Business and Industry
Plochman Inc. - Mustard
PortionPac Chemical Corporation - Concentrated Cleaning Products
Powernail Company, Inc. - Pneumatic Nailers and Flooring Cleats
Pro Arc, Inc.- Steel and Sheet Metal Components
Production Tool Companies, LLC - Custom Metal Fabrication, Machining and Assembly
Profile Plastics Inc - Plastics
Progressive Coating - Custom Coating Service
Protexall Uniforms - Personalized Work Wear
Quality Fabricators, Inc. - Metal Fabrication, Precision Machining
Rapid WaterJet Design - WaterJet Cutting
Re3dTech - 3D Printing
Reflex Fitness Products - Weightlifting Equipment
Reynolds Manufacturing - Die work, welding, and design
Rieke Office Interiors - Office Furniture
Riverbank Laboratories, Inc. - Surgical and Medical Instruments
Rockford Ball Screw - Bolts, Nuts, Rivets, and Washers
Rockford Manufacturing Group, Inc. - Wire Processing Machinery and Systems
Rockford Spring Company - Springs
Roth Pump Company - Turbine Pumps & Systems
Rothan Millwork Company - Fine Architectural Woodworking
Roesch, Inc. - Cooking Equipment
The Royal Group - Packaging and Displays
R.S. Owens - Awards
Safe Sheds Inc. - Storm Shelters
SCADAware - Production Monitoring Software
Sedwall Manufacturing - Precision Tooling and Die
Set Screw & Mfg. Co. - Set Screws
Sharn Enterprises, Inc. - Retail Product Displays
Signcraft Screenprint -Decals and Screenprinting
Simformotion™ LLC - Simulators
Smart Medical Technology, Inc.- Medical and Healthcare Products
SOLID Development Corp - Design, Engineering and Manufacturing Solutions
Soldy Zinc and Aluminum Die Casting - Aluminum and Zinc Die Castings
Sozo Artisan Soaps - Artisan Soaps
Spannagel Tool & Die Company - Tools & Dies
SPEC Engineering - Process Engineering
SPG International - Storage Products
Specialty Plastic Fabricators - Plastic Products
Startek - Precision Machining
Startek Lighting America - Lighting Fixtures
Sterling Multi Products - Metal Products
Stockwell Greetings - Greeting Cards
Streator Dependable Manufacturing - Metal Fabrication and Material Handling Solutions
Strong Oak- Modern Management Consulting Firm
STC, Inc.- Transformer Manufacturing
Superior Joining Technologies, Inc. - Precision Welding & Laser Applications
Surface Guard, Inc.- Protective Packaging
Tarp Supply, Inc. - Tarp Production
Taylor Spring Mfg. Company - Springs & Coils
Taylor Studios, Inc. - Interpretive Planning, Exhibit Design, Fabrication
Tegel Design Inc. - Industrial Machinery and Products
Tempco Products CO. - Patio Doors and Vinyl Windows
TenderLeaf Natural Products - Natural Body Products
Testor Corporation - Hobby, Home Decor, Auto-Touchup, Nail Color
Total Titanium - Ophthalmic Surgical Precision Machining
Toyoda Machinery USA - Grinding Machines
Transformer Manufacturers Inc. - Custom Transformers and Magnetic Products
TransWorld Plastic Films - Cast Embossed Film
Triangle Metals Inc. - Fabrication Services
Triton Manufacturing Company - Power and Heat Transfer Components
Trufab Group USA LLC - Custom Fabrication and Metalworking
Turner Electric - Electrical Equipment
Tuthill Pump Group - Pump and Pump Equipment
Ultimate Machining & Engineering - Metal Components
United Craftsmen Ltd. - Tooling
US Weight, Inc. - Blow Molding
Versatech, LLC - Engineering & Manufacturing Solutions
Viking Awards - Custom Awards
Vogel Tool & Die, LLC - Tools Used in the Fabrication of Tubular Metal Parts
Vo-Tech - Machine Tool Manufacturing
WBM Inc. - CNC Machine Shop
Westermeyer Industries Inc. - Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Components
Whiting Corporation - Custom Designed Cranes
Wiegel Tool Works - Metal Stamping
William Dudek Manufacturing - Metal Manufacturing
Winzeler Gear - Gears and Actuators
Ziglers Machine & Metal Works LLC - Fabricated Structural Metal Manufacturing


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I haven't made my Clockwork Orange bag yet, I just can't find the perfect materials! Oh well, all the more satisfaction when I DO find it!
But anyway, I wanted a new bag to go and see my favourite band (Rammstein) with.
It's made out of a large pair of old cords, some scrap black cotton, velcro and felt.
This picture is pretty bad, I'll replace it with a different one when I'm not so tired.
and this is a closeup of the little thing on the flap, I call it Moodge.
The stiching around Moodge is so bad because I did it in about a minute before we left for the concert, I think I'll redo it when I'm not feeling so lazy.

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Perhaps surprised by the New York Senate voting down a bill that would have legalized same-sex marriage in the state, gay activists have awakened with a fury and are planning the same kind of pro-gay marriage campaign that opponents have used against them.
After gay marriage was shockingly overturned in California after it was already legalized, New York state senators rebuffed Governor David Paterson who had introduced the bill. The New York State Assembly had overwhelmingly passed the bill before the it was put to a vote in the Senate.
As the dust of the debate settled, gay marriage activists realized that they had lost the gay marriage battle in two states that one would assume would allow it because they hadn't run a real campaign to counter the well funded anti-gay marriage campaigns.
In California, out-of-state Evangelical and Mormon groups spent millions to ban gay marriage in 2008. Millions were also spent here in New York, including $1.5 million for one anti-gay marriage ad that also aired in several other states including New Jersey.
While the movement to legalize gay marriage has been gaining a lot of steam, it has been kept down largely by Evangelical Christian groups like James Dobson's Focus on the Family and Mormom groups.
Gay marriage is currently legal in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Iowa. New Jersey will soon vote on whether or not to legalize gay marriage before anti-gay marriage governor Chris Christie takes office.


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According to Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn the yen is still a long way from neutral territory and that it should weaken more.
Nissan gains almost 20 billion yen ($216 million) in operating income for each one-yen drop against the dollar. The automaker decided to transfer some production out of Japan as for the past two years the yen has held near its postwar high. Since November 15th the yen has dropped by about 13%, when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called for "unlimited monetary stimulus".
Ghosn also said that Nissan's sales in China are getting back on the track, after a fall of 5.3% last year due to the anti-Japanese sentiment started by a territorial dispute. The slump in China affects Nissan the most as it sells about one in four of its vehicles in that market, the most among the Japanese automakers.
"When we established our plan, we did not know about the friction between China and Japan," Ghosn said.
"We did not know that the so-called efforts to weaken the yen would bring no results. But we know we needed a plan to unite people inside our company and to give people something to fight for, a shared vision."


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Norman, OK.--(CBSSports.com) Oklahoma has decided to suspend freshman running back Joe Mixon for the entire 2014 season after an offseason incident resulted in assault allegations and one misdemeanor charge for the former 5-star prospect.
According to a statement released by the school, university president David Boren "accepted the recommendation" of athletic director Joe Castiglione and coach Bob Stoops to remove Mixon from the roster and exclude him from all team activities for the entire season.
"As the university has demonstrated in the past, we are committed to winning the right way," Castiglione and Stoops said in a joint statement. "As an example to others, OU sets the highest possible standards for its student athletes, coaches and staff."
"With appropriate conditions," Mixon will be allowed to continue as an OU student and be eligible for financial aid.
On Friday, Mixon was charged with one misdemeanor count of an act resulting in gross injury for his role in an altercation with another OU student in July. According to the affidavit of probable cause, the freshman running back and Amelia Rae Molitor, 20, were engaged in a verbal and physical altercation at Pickelman's Gourmet Cafe in Norman.
Mixon pleaded not guilty to the charge on Monday and is expected back in court on Sept. 23.
Mixon did not report to camp with the rest of the Sooners due to an ongoing investigation regarding the incident. Mixon was set to compete for snaps in a talented backfield with Keith Ford and Alex Ross.


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Nov. 12, 2003
Mr. GRAHAM of South Carolina. I thank the Senator from Mississippi for yielding.
How much time remains?
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Eight minutes.
Mr. GRAHAM of South Carolina. I think it would be appropriate now to compliment Senator Lott. During his time as majority leader, he ran into a very dicey situation with judges. There was a lot of emotion on both sides. He was able to manage the system so that the people would get the vote the Constitution requires.
After having witnessed this debate for the last day or so, I can understand how hard that must have been. It must have taken a lot of effort, a lot of courage. He had to tell people no who did not want to hear no. The country is better off by Senator Lott allowing these people to have a vote up or down. If we do not fix this situation before the Senate, and it becomes part of the institutional way of doing business, then the consequences to the public are very dire.
The first thing that is going to happen, in my opinion, is we are going to get good men and women who are watching this, maybe one day aspiring to be judges, to say: Why in the world would I put myself through this? You are called all kinds of bad names. They take everything you have written or said or thought about saying, and they cut and paste it and try to create mental images of who you are that are totally contradictory to your life's work, are contradictory to what the ABA says about you as a professional, are contradictory to what your friends and the people who have practiced with you say about you. So it is not a very pleasant thing.
The Senator from New York, Mrs. Clinton, with whom I have very much enjoyed working on other matters, had a chart talking about 168 to 4. The 168 were apples; the 4 were lemons. Now we are down to calling people lemons. These are real people and they have one thing in common. It is not four that are going to be filibustered, it is well over a dozen before it is over with. The one thing these four have in common right now-and that is not including Justice Brown and Judge Kuhl, who will be filibustered; they cannot get a vote either-is that they are the first in the history of the country.
We could literally put everybody in a phone booth who has been voted out of the Judiciary Committee by a majority vote but has never received a vote on the Senate floor. This 168 to 4 is a joke. The four people in question are the only ones in the history of the country to come out of the Judiciary Committee and never get to be voted upon. That is very dangerous because if that is the way we react to people who come out of the Judiciary Committee, if we start letting 40, 41 Senators dictate the advise and consent role, then we have really taken a turn for the worst because the Constitution says the Senate will advise and consent to the Presidential nominations.
Who does the advising and consenting? A majority of us or a minority of us? For 200-plus years, we have done it one way. But on the watch of Senator Daschle, with whom I have also enjoyed working, we have taken a very big turn for the worst.
We are in political and constitutional quicksand. The harder we try to get out of it, the deeper we go. If my colleagues do not believe it will be answered in kind down the road if there is ever a Democratic President, as Senator Lott talked about, then I think we are all naive.
What I hate the most is I have been in the Senate for a year, and the abuses of the past I am sure are real. I have never put a hold on any judge for any reason. I am worried about the future. I think my job as a new Member of the Senate is to talk about the consequences of this action for the future.
I do not want to serve in the Senate in its darkest days. Right now, we are writing every day we speak one of the darkest chapters in the history of the Senate. Good people are being put through the wringer unnecessarily. If my colleagues do not think they are good people and they really think they are lemons, the Constitution gives my colleagues a way to object to them, and that is vote.
My colleagues can be on record forever saying, this is a lemon, this person should never be able to be on the bench; but they do not have the right to take the Constitution and turn it upside down for their own political gain and their own political desires. That, my colleagues do not have the right to do.
Money was mentioned. They were talking about the phones ringing over at the Republican Senatorial Committee because our base is excited we are fighting back and this is a fundraising opportunity. Well, people are raising money off this event and it pretty much stinks, on both sides, but that is the moment in which we find ourselves.
Let me read an e-mail that was sent out on November 3 by Senator Corzine, the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. His job is to fire up his donors to give money so the Democratic Party can recapture the Senate. There was a great deal of lambasting the Republican Party about writing fundraising letters about this event, and that we are doing this to fire up our base, and that we are doing this to raise money.
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Let me read what Senator Corzine told his Democratic contributors:
Senate Democrats have launched an unprecedented effort. . . .
We are well into the 30 hours and we cannot get an agreement as to whether or not this is unprecedented. I can assure my colleagues that he is not lying in the e-mail, that this is not false advertising. If it is false advertising, people ought to get their money back.
It is unprecedented, and the word "unprecedented" is underlined for a reason. No one has ever done this before. He was not lying when he put it in an e-mail to open up people's wallets. Unprecedented by doing what?
By mounting filibusters against the Bush administration's most radical nominees.
Let's break that statement down. It is unprecedented, but my colleagues on the other side will not admit it is. Filibustering, exactly what my colleagues on the other side are doing, against the Bush administration's radical nominees because of their ideology. That is something that is very dangerous, too.
One of the nominees was asked the question why he and his wife chose not to take their two daughters to Disney World during Gay Pride Day. Nobody should be asked about that. They are trying to ask that question to have a mental construction that this person somehow is not going to be fair to people based on sexual orientation.
The Mississippi situation is the worst of them all, in my opinion, of trying to change an image of who somebody really is. In 1967, Judge Pickering, who has been a Federal judge for a dozen years, well qualified by the ABA, well respected in the State of Mississippi, was a young prosecutor-an elected position-who chose to testify against the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi, not the fast track to get ahead in 1967. It was radical in the right way.
In 1967, they integrated public schools in Mississippi, as they did in South Carolina. I was in the sixth grade. I could remember going back to school and seeing five Black kids come to my class for the first time in my life. As an adult, a 48-year-old man, I now realize how their parents must have felt, to send their kids into a very uncertain, unchanging situation, but they sent their kids to public schools to make it better. I respect those parents because a lot of people quit, on both sides.
In 1967, Judge Pickering chose to send his children to public schools when White flight was the phenomenon of that county. We will see a photograph of a lot of Black kids with very few White kids in 1967 Mississippi public schools, and those White kids are Judge Pickering's kids. That was the right thing to do.
These people are not lemons, but if my colleagues do not like them, vote against them. My colleagues do not have the right to change the Constitution for the political moment.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator's time has expired.


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Pancetta is a must-have for authentic carbonara. Browning small chunks of it is a classic start to many Italian recipes. Here, it's used in a simple sandwich that benefits greatly from the flavor of the pancetta.
J.M. Hirsch, The Associated Press
4 ounces pancetta, finely cubed
1 (16-ounce) package prepared hummus
4 large, thick slices sourdough bread, toasted
2 large tomatoes, cut into thick slices
1 small red onion, finely diced
Balsamic vinegar
Ground black pepper
In a medium skillet over medium-high heat, cook the pancetta until crispy and browned, about 5 minutes. Remove the skillet from the heat and add the hummus, mixing well.
Thickly slather a quarter of the hummus-pancetta mixture over each slice of bread. Top each with 1 or 2 slices of tomato and a quarter of the red onion.
Drizzle each sandwich with balsamic vinegar, then season with pepper. Makes 4 servings.
PER SERVING: Calories 480 (42% fat), Fat 23 g (8 g sat), Cholesterol 15 mg, Sodium 1,070 mg, Fiber 9 g, Carbs 52 g, Protein 19 g


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" Makro is a wholesaler with branches all over the UK offering a food and non-food product mix to it's registered card-holding customers in a national network of cash and carrys. "
Dreadful customer service.I regularly bought Butcher's dog meat from the Hull Makro.I spend around £900 per year on him, a very large Great Dane dog.We recently got a foreign body in a can and, on returning it, the Duty Manager didn't want to know and wouldn't refund us.We approached Butcher's and got the same response.Avoid, at all costs
Makro is not open to the public, you can't just walk in and start buying. You first have to qualify for membership by owning your own business, then you have apply for membership, then get approved, then you can start shopping.
If you have your own business, and get membership, you can get in as many times as you like and buy as much as you like even with someone as a "guest" who comes in with you.
The first thing i hate about Makro is the fact that are treated like some scumbag chav off the street the moment you walk in. If you carry any bags, such as a rucksack, hand bag etc, they are confiscated off of you the moment you walk in, they wont buzz you through the gate until you hand over that bag with all your stuff in.
Even if you look respectable and don't dress like a hoodie, smoking a phat blunt, vandalising the store, they will still take it off you. You have to go round to the front then back in again to reclaim it, and despite massive arguments their response is always "well you might steal some of our stock". Charming, no?
Anyways moving on to some positives. The store is well organised with lots of overhead banners to show you where everything is, and these are at the ends of aisles or above the stock on the ground. Most of the stock is up on shelves, and while there are pallets throughout the store these are normally extra stock, or for things like mattresses.
The store is clean where not many people go, but at times there are seriously worn out parts of the floor, badly damaged shelves and on the shelves with the massive drums of oil, there are spillages, as is with the sugar... Sometimes you need to ask to get stock out of cabinets such as laptops and cases, and there aren't many staff around so I normally run off to reception to get someone.
They do have a lot of stock on display and they always have their TV's and Stereo's on so you can see what they are like. I suppose my shopping experience at Makro is a pretty bland one, it's cheap, and it's a store filled with bulk buy bargains like 5KG of chicken for just £20, but the store reflects these prices, it's run down, under staffed, and they're so over protective of their precious stock that you get treated like a criminal.
We shop in Makro on a fairly regular basis. We don't go there weekly, probably about once a month on average and have been shopping there for about 10 years now.
Marko is a chain of cash and carry stores across the UK. Our local one is Charlton but there are about 30 stores nationwide.
Makro sell thousands of products from swimming pools to chcolate bars. The stores are well laid out with clear signs for each department.
In our local store you enter through the ground floor and straight away you go through the living isles with items such as gardening, diy, furniture, toys, gifts and promotional items. Then you move into products such as drinks, cleaning and foods, finsishing up in the chilled and frozen food sections. There is also a little tobacco shop where you can buy cigarettes etc, but I have never been in there, I have just seen it from the outside so I don't really know what it's like inside.
Upstairs you will find clothing, footwear, sports equipment, technology, stationary and luggage. There is a ramp style escualtor that takes you between floors for easy access.
Makro also have fresh counters a bit like Morrisons, but on a larger scale. There is a counter/shop, fish counter and a large wine section where you will usually find a member of staff who can help.
Our local Makro has a nice little cafe downstairs where they serve drinks and snacks as well as hot meals. The cafe is always clean and tidy and very convinient to use, serving a good selection of food at a reasonable price.
One of my favourate things about Makro is their Makromail. This an offers catalogue that is delivered to customers about every 2-4 weeks. This gives customers basic information about seasonal and regular opening times and shows the coming offers in detail. they do have some amazing offers and the best part is that they send them out up to a week ahead of when the new offers are going to start, so you get plenty of warning.
Sadly Makro is not open to members of the public. To shop in Makro you must have a business, or be connected to one. Anyone wanting to shop in Makro must register for a makro card and give them your basic details including the company you work for or own. Members may have up to 2 Makro cards per membership and it is 100% free. You do need your card to shop there, although I think they do let you in if you can give your details, but I've never done that, so can't be definate.
If you do shop in Makro there is one golden rule always to remember, they don't add the VAt to the prices displayed. You must remember to add 17.5% to almost everything. The only things that are exempt are basic foods such as bread, milk, eggs and other daily essentials. Luxury foods such as chocolates and crisp are not exempt and you need to have VAT added. It sounds very complicated but the pirce labels on the shelfs will tell always tell you if you need to add the VAT or not.
Makro is a great place to shop but they're not always the cheapest. They have very good offers, but I do tend to find that most items are actually cheaper in the supermarkets once you add the VAT. Of course if you want or need catering sized products, then Makro is great for that. They also have some of the more unusual cooking ingredients like Polenta.
Overall Makro is a good store, they have a lot of choice and products are almost always available, you don't get many empty shelves!
Makro is a Cash and Carry store, designed at bulk selling items to small shops and restaurants, as well as any small business or self-employed person. It is an application only shop, access only by membership card, however, these are obtainable by any owner of a small business or certain employees of.
The products sold are of all types, specialising in food stuffs (and of course large proportions) but they also sell lighting, work tools, clothes, DVD's, Jewellry, etc... making it a great place to shop.
Every month, the 'Makro mail' is published which is a catalogue of so called 'bargains', offering cut-price items while stocks last. This comes in two sections, the standard 'Mail', which generally gives a selection from a cross-section of all the items available to purchase, and the 'Makro mail food' which again, tries to vary what is on offer.
Unfortunately, the makro stores aren't located within reach of everywhere and at the present time are actually closing stores, like the Swansea store which closed a few months ago.
Makro has its own 'cheaper' food brand much like the Tesco Value range, known as 'Aro' brand. In my experience, the items from this branding tend to be very good quality, certainly comparing with the supermarkets cut-price branding.
One thing to remember when shopping in Makro is that VAT is not automatically applied to the non-food items due to it being a store for business, therefore if you are shopping for yourself, don't forget to add VAT to the self price or you'll have a nice suprise at the checkout.
My experiences of Makro are limited to the store in Sheffield, although I'll try to make my review about Makro as a whole.
I find Makro to be a fairly strange shop and one which I'm not so sure whether I actually like or not. On the one hand they sell a massive range of items from tins of beans to HD TV sets, but on the downside you have to be a business to shop there (entry is only via a membership card scheme) and once you work them out, some of the prices aren't actually that great.
I say "once you work the prices out" as Makro is aimed at business people and thus the prices on display don't include VAT. So whilst £599 for a 42-inch HD-ready Samsung TV might sound good, it's actually £688.85 once you've got it through the checkouts, which as you can see, makes it quite a lot more expensive.
However, there are still some good deals to be had. We only go to Makro 3 or 4 times a year and we do find it useful for some items, mainly cleaning fluids (soap, washing-up liquid, fabric conditioner and washing powder), odd gifts (toys, games, etc) and beer.
Makro is more geared-up for people to buy in bulk and so you're more likely to stock-up for a while than return there every week (hence, we only visit every 3-4 months).
One part of the shop I do like looking round is the beer aisle which contains almost every brand of beer that you can buy in the UK - usually with a much better selection than you can get in the supermarkets. For example, on Friday I picked up a crate of 15x330ml bottles of Bud Ice for £8.90, 24x330ml bottles of Peroni for £13.99, 24x330ml bottles of Corona Extra for £14.99 and 24x440ml cans of Beck's Vier for £13.99. I was especially happy with my Bud Ice as I haven't seen that around for years! :)
On the downside, with the range of beers they have, it's quite easy to spend a lot of money there!
I used to look forward to going to Makro for the occasional 'stock up' trip but, quite frankly, the amount of time it takes to drive there, do the shopping & then queue makes me think twice.
My husband has a Makro card for his business & when our daughters were young we'd sometimes go & shop together as I could get the food & household products whilst our daughters bought stationary, toys & clothes & hubby could buy what he needed for the business plus add to his growing collection of boots!
You have to watch the prices as the VAT isn't displayed & sometimes it's cheaper to buy loo rolls, handwash, soap, stationary etc at the cut-price stores or pound shops.
If you buy in bulk then it's a great place to shop as everything is boxed/ packaged up ready to place on the huge trolleys but this sort of buying doesn't suit everyone as you need space to store stuff.
When I was a student a group of us used to bulk buy essentials for the home & stock up with tinned & packet foods, sauces & tinned vegetables at the beginning of term - this worked well but those were in the good old days of grants which meant there was money leftover for drinks & going out etc.
The Makro store we go to is HUGE & has 2 floors so we really need a few hours when visiting - good job they have a nice cafe & loos!
You can buy almost anything under 1 roof - eg. garden supplies, fresh fruit, meat & veg, cans & packets, sauces, household goods, books, toys, baby stuff, toiletries, clothes, bedlinen, curtains - the list is endless.
There's a lot of walking involved if you want to browse but the shop itself has no frills - it's not tatty - just a bit boring verging on the edge of bleak. However, most people who seem to shop here are there for their businesses - they know what they need & know where to find it so no need to have John Lewis' decor is there?
The worst thing for me is the queuing - we usually end up at a till which suddenly develops problems and, although there are usually 2 staff at each checkout (1 on till & 1 to pack & check) this doesn't help speed things up - everytime I've been to Makro I've had to wait for 30 minutes at least which is annoying when you pick a quiet time of day.
Makro are ideal at selling seasonal good early - so if you want Cadbury's cream eggs now you can probably get them instead of waiting until January! Easter eggs are in stock usually in January, buckets & spades from April & Christmas stuff from August - if you are a forward planner then this is your store?
- surroundings aren't the most attractive.
- the mailshots from Makro are good as you know the prices & can shop around or head off to Makro knowing full well what you'll be paying.
- all under 1 roof.
- be prepared to walk & queue.
- good place to buy if you buy in bulk & have the place to store.
- may not suit everyone but worth a look if you know a cardholder?
Makro Sheffield
Makro is pretty handy for a million and one things and I like to go there once every month or two to make the best of the deals on offer.
It's a warehouse stockists for businesses, so you have to be registered as a business or as an employee of a business to use it and get a membership card.
We get the Makro mail, a printed catalogue with the latest deals, so I keep abreast of the good deals most of the time.
We especially like nappies in bulk buy with buy one get one half price offers, washing tablets at half RRP and fabric conditioner at a third of the prices paid in supermarkets.
It can be really good at Easter if you buy a lot of gifts and at Christmas for wrapping paper or indeed the gifts too.
The stock is hugely variable and prone to running out, the 32 inch flatscreen tvs sold out on the first morning when on a good offer so there was little chance for anyone else.
I dislike the fresh meat, I once bought a lot of chicken on a fantastic offer and got home 20 minutes later to find the whole lot stank to high heaven, it was clearly out of date and Makro couldn't care less.
The staff are less than polite at times.
I first began visiting Makro just over 3 years ago, when I started a new job. All employees were able to apply for a Makro card. I wasn't over eager on getting a card - I had never been to Makro although as it was quite close to where I lived, passed it many times a week. However, a card was ordered for me anyway. I didn't use the card for a few months until a 'Makro Mail' appeared on my desk at work.
The Makro Mail is a magazine sent out by Makro roughly every 2 weeks, packed with special offers on clothes, food, electrical items and more. This magazine caught my eye and managed to entice me to visit that evening with my boyfriend.
--Who are Makro?--
Makro began trading in the United Kingdom in May 1971 at Eccles in Manchester. The Eccles branch is the branch which is only around the corner from me. Makro U.K now has a network of 33 cash and carries across the country has a company turnover in excess of £1 billion.
--What do Makro do?--
Makro is essentially a Cash & Carry, mainly serving Trade Customers such as Newsagents, Off Licences, etc and Caterers, such as Pubs, restaurants, etc. They also offer membership to 'Complimentary Business Users' such as Doctors, Dentists, Builders, etc. and non-food retailers, such as Offices (I would think for the cleaning equipment, etc).
As they offer membership to a wide range of Customers', they are probably not your conventional Cash & Carry, who usually just supply food products.
They supply a wide range of products from clothes and food to pneumatic drills! - their product range is vast and they have a constant stream of new products appearing. Their new products often feature in their 2 weekly Makro Mail so you have to be quick! There really probably isn't anything that Makro don't stock, or haven't had in stock.
--How did my I get membership?--
My company is an 'office Customer'. We do use Makro to purchase cleaning products in bulk.
We have around 27 employees in our company and for those who want it, we are all able to get a card, as our company is registered. All we have to do to either request or cancel a membership is fax a request to our local Makro in Eccles with the applicants name and date of birth (all cards are sent to our company address). The card arrived a few days later.
--Ok, tell me more--
Makro advise that 'Each store is tailored to address the special concerns of our trade, catering and professional business customers. We offer a wholesale price that leaves the trader customer room for healthy margins and provide a one-stop-shop for the caterer and professional business customer'.
My local Makro store in Eccles in huge. Originally it had 2 floors - the clothes and home wares were upstairs and food and everything else, such as office and cleaning equipment was downstairs. Now everything is just on the one floor, which makes it much easier to navigate.
As soon as you walk in, you are greeted with garden furniture, etc. This changes in the winter months to Christmas decorations, etc.
Further back, there are TV's, DVD players, Hi-fi's. In the middle of the store there are Children's, men's and women's clothes and shoes - many designer names such as Nike, Hamnett and Reebok. After that there are more electrical items such as kettles, deep fat fryers and white goods - washing machines, dryers, fridges.
Following on from that there is a DVD, Games and Video section - here you can buy the latest books, DVD's, CD's, etc. They also sell games consoles. Towards the back of the store are the cleaning products, such as large boxes of washing powder and the food section.
Makro declare that 'By buying direct from the manufacturer and having convenient out of town stores with low overheads, Makro is able to offer more for less'. This works great for businesses who are able to claim the VAT back on items that they have purchased. However, for normal people like me, as Makro add VAT onto each item (except food, I think), the prices really don't differ that much from normal shops.
Each Makro store features wide aisles and clear store layout makes it easy to find exactly what you're looking for. All products have their price clearly marked on the shelves. All promotions are displayed so you know exactly what's on Special Offer and what isn't.
Ok, so I've already told you that Makro charge VAT on top of their prices. For example, last week whilst browsing the Makro Mail, a 512mb MP3 player caught my eye for £44.99. Not bad, I thought - until I realised that I would have to pay 17.5% VAT on top of that, meaning that I would have paid £52.86 in total. I compared the price with a few other 'normal' shops and realised that as I cannot reclaim the VAT, it really wouldn't be worth my buying the MP3 player.
However, there are, once in a while, offers that really are worth it, even with the VAT. For example, a Steam Cleaner was on offer for £60.00 + VAT when the retail price was actually £299.00 - I sourced the same item elsewhere and its average price was £250 - that was an excellent saving of £179.50!
So, if you look hard enough, the special offers really do turn out to be special! It is with browsing the Makro Mail and compare prices of other stores, if you cannot reclaim your VAT.
--Anything else?--
Each Makro store features a Café. The Café is usually located at the front of the store and serve English Breakfasts in the morning, hot meals at lunch and teatime and various sandwiches, rolls and children's meals. They also serve cakes and pastries for those of you with a sweet tooth!
--Where are the other stores?--
Makro has 33 stores Nationwide, in the following places:
Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Newcastle, Charlton, Leeds, Glasgow, North Acton, Sheffield, Southampton, Bristol, Enfield, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Leicester, Reading, Hull, Poole, Cardiff, Croydon, Aberdeen, Stoke, Belfast, Preston, Swansea, Rayleigh, Teesside, Coventry, Norwich, Exeter, Ipswich, Chester and Wolverhampton.
All stores are normally open Monday to Friday 7.30 am - 9pm, Saturdays 9.30am - 7pm and Sundays 9.30am - 5.30pm.
--I like it - how can I apply?--
To apply for a free Makro Trade card, you can visit www.makro.co.uk and fill in the Online Application form. You will need to print this form out and attach the following Registration documents:
What Registration Documents are required?
Companies / Organisations - Copy of company V.A.T certificate, (if not registered for V.A.T, a copy of the company cheque book), two Recent purchase Invoices over the value of £50 each, personal Identification of the cardholder.
Self-Employed - Copy of Inland Revenue Registration form, two recent purchase invoices over the value of £50 each, personal Identification of the cardholder.
As previously mentioned, you do have to be a company or at least Self employed to apply for a Trade Card.
--My opinion-
I do like Makro - it's a great store with loads of choice, but for a normal shopper like me, prices do not tend to be any cheaper - apart from really special offers! It's a great place to go and have a look around.
Special offers do happen a lot but you have to be quick - many a time I have gone to purchase something that has gone on special offer that day, only to be told that they have sold out already - they only get limited stock in and when it's gone, it's gone. However, I am going to recommend Makro - especially for VAT registered Customers.
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Makro……A Great Store….. I went to Makro yesterday to get blank CD's which I had spotted in their catalogue which they post out once a month. Now to get into Makro you need a card, I don't have one myself but I borrowed one from the Company I work for, just a pity I couldn't get them to pay for the CD's !! Anyway for those off you who haven't heard of Makro,it's a large wholesale store with a chain off shops over the UK. They sell most of their stuff at good wholesale prices, so as you can guess, if its cheap I am in there!! Makro has everything from Sweets to Car accessories to Televisions, Computers, Clothes and books etc. I personally use it for computer related stuff and perhaps the odd item of clothing. Now the annoying thing about Makro is everything is priced without the V.a.t being marked on it so what I do is divide the item by 6 and add it on to the Nett figure. Aright it's not exact but it's not far wrong. The blank CD's were only £7.99 nett for 25 so I think I got a bargain, don't you? Its not just the computer stuff that you can get cheap, you can get good offers on say 24 cans of coke that works out usually about half the price that you are charged for it in the shops. The store is well laid out with the food & drink in one section, the computer and stationary stuff in another section and so on. You then find the clothes on the first floor and again you will find the clothes are a good brand name and also a good price. So in my view Makro is a good place to shop and it also has an off licence attached to it which also offers some good offers. The off license changes its offers every month but it does have some really good offers on both wine and beer. The only thing I would complain about is the staff, the people who work for Makro in the Belfast store are terrible, the service and their manner leav
e a lot to be desired. I feel they should be better trained in dealing with the public in general as it is an important factor that not many stores take into consideration. As you leave the store to pay for your goods you are left to wait ages before you are served and even after you are served you have to go to a checkout place to get your receipt stamped. This is very annoying for the customer as you just want to buy something and get out, not spend ages in a queue waiting. Especially If you are like me and are out on your lunch break and your time is limited. But my overall rating of Makro is good and I would recommend it to anyone as a place to visit for to purchase a good quality product at a good price. It is nicely laid out and does have a wide selection of products so do give it a visit soon. Anyway yet again thank you for visiting and giving me a read, I will return the favour soon. Take care!! Art…..31st July…2001....rereleased..Today!
Makro is a wholesalers or cash and carry. It is essentially a members only club that sells products in bulk (primarilly to be re-sold). Unlike most cash and carries however Makro is more like a super market! It sells the usual cash and carry stuff - crates of coke, sweets in bulk etc. (Great place to get cheap 10kg sacks of rice btw). It also sells individual products including sports equipment, tools, tv's, computers - all sorts of stuff. Unfortunatly to be a member you need to own (or have the right to apply on behalf of) a business. From my observations people use Makro more as a supermarket buying goods for themselves rather than their business and it's a shame it's not open to the general public. For those of you eligable to join there are 27 stores accross the UK (only 3 in Scotland - Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen) collect an application form from your nearest store then enjoy discounted shoping! There is nomembership fee - just fill in the form and send it off with a few photocopies of invoices. One warning though - the prices on the shelves don't include VAT - your likely to get a shock at the checkout! ;)
Makro is a wholesale store which only members can enter. It sells products such as food and drink (designed for the catering industry) in bulk and also sells loads of other products such as clothing, music, video and games, Electrical appliances jewelry and loads more! When I first went to this store and few years ago, I didn't like the look of it. The place looked rather dull to me but after I saw the prices, It grew on me very quickly! The place has prices at a good price and currently you can pick up Music CD albums there for a Bargain price. What Makro does, it have their prices excluding VAT (17.5%) the VAT gets added to the bill at the counter. For instance The CDs currently cost £7.99 excluding VAT which comes to a total of about £9.40! which is the cheapest in out town! Buying in bulk is a lot cheaper but there are smaller options to choose. This store is for everyone as there are loads of stuff here! The aisles are big so it gets less cluttered and the tills are usually small apart from Christmas time of course! Every Fortnight, Makro releases what is called The Makro Mail which contains many bargains, kinda like a sale catalogue but you have to be up bright and early to get these bargains which can range from digital cameras to mountain bikes and food as they are limited in stock and of high interest! This store is for everyone and the staff are usually friendly and helpful. The only downside to Makro is the fact you have to be a member and the fact you need to add VAT onto the items which means if you're not a mathematical genius, you'll need a calculator! A good all round store which also has modern style clothing and also a cafe area. A must see for any bargain hunters and shopperholics!
In the past year Makro has been in the process of changing its image. When you went to the Makro closest to me used to think "this place looks realy, well to put it bluntly c**p". The interor was very scrappy and looked like it had not changed since the building was origionaly built (it probably looked good then). The layout of the shop was kind of willy nilly, as though the first thing to come out of the warehouse went as close the the warehouse doors as possible. This was something which Makro needed to change and they have done this well. For about a month the shop was being refitted, at the time this seemed an inconvienience, but now the shop has improved so much. ~~The Improvements~~ The first thing that you notice (about my local Makro) is that they have slapped some new wall covering to the current ones. This makes the shop look ver neat, and moer like a shop rather than a warehouse. This along with some realy cool blue lights which illuminate the building at night make the new covering look very futuristic! The second thing that you notice is that the interior is now a lot better. It is noew organised in to ver easily defibed sections, so you now know where to go rather than spend ages looking for the correct section. Next the displays are a lot better and they promote the itmes which they are meant to be very well. There are now dedicated sections for Electrical Appliances, with a dedicated staff giving advice and there is now a cafe (giving it a supermarket feel!). I am not sure if all of the Makro shops around the country have had the same facelift, but it would be an advantage for them to do so. It has certainly vastly improved the Fareham branch. ~~Shopping - Bargains~~ For a start to shop at Makro you need a card, and for some reason you need to sign into the store (am not sure why as they never check your signature!). I suppose it is like Tesco's clubcard, but not promoted like Tesco do.
There are bargains to find at Makro, but you usually have to look around for a bit (some things seem to be more expensive). Don't give up after a couple of minutes, it takes time to find the best bargains. They have good selections of cheap games (of all platforms) and a very good selection of cheap viseos and DVDs. In my opinion the changes are for the better and Makro have sucessfully changed their image. When the shop opened again after the refit, there were so many people trying to get in it was unbelievable. ~~Remember~~ All prices in the store exclude VAT, remember this when look at the good. Take a calculator, this helps in working out the full price as otherwise it can be quite confusing (well it is to me anyway!).
**MAKRO** Unbeatable Bargain store!!! **Everyday & Special-day bargains** **Huge selection~Top names~Offers** **Trade store open to 'normal' shoppers** **Faulty/'Unwanted' goods refunded/replaced** Discounts. Low Prices. Huge Selections. Early Opening. This is my favourite shop representing the best value for money where goods are of good quality.I find 80% of my shopping needs from everyday food and cleaning items to electronic, electrical and jewellery one-offs. This is a trade discount store technically but if you do not have your own business it costs only £1 to enter for the day. As a regular shopper you are kept advised of their special offers (every two weeks)by their magazine 'Makro-Mail'and they really are good buys at unbeatable prices. The current offers include Videos at £54.99, Digital Cameras at £65, Kenwood kettles, toasters, mixers, electric knives and irons all at £9.99,Pretty duvet sets @ £3.99 Mountain bikes at £69.99, Kids scooters £39, JVC Camcorders £179, Sekonda watches £9.99, Microwaves £39.99 and many food, drink and household bargains too.There are so many value for money offers it would take all dayto list them..(and most of the day looking round the shop at them!) My best buys recently include digital camera for my husband which is brilliant about 3" in size and does everything except make the tea nearly!! (for £65),Creda white double oven for £99!, Kickers for £25 etc,1 carat diamond ring for £500! and my daughter's birthday cake, an absolutely huge chocolate fudge cake that weighed the earth and cost £6.99 - mega calories! The store is large and airy with its own cafe and toilet facilities -shopping can be done leisurely. The food hall is massive and absolutely full of everyday bargains, in addition there is at least one selection of clearance goods where there is usually something you need at give-away
price. The meat is fresh, there is a huge selection of buffet and party food, a whole aisle of sweets, and then there's a wide selection of alchohol(with free tastings for interested parties) There is a whole floor of clothing (lots of good names including Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Georgio, Levi, Chaps etc) shoes (Good range of quality shoes and trainers including Timberland, Kickers,Transport etc) and jewellery - gold, silver and dres jewellery. Bargain rails are always there- I found joe bloggs fleeces for £3 and Georgio sweat-tops for £4, my Fila trainers were £9.99, my favourite Kickers were a steal at £25 not to mention the selection of Georgio and Addidas T-shirts I bought my daughter on Sunday for £1.99 each. Frozen items are value for money especially the huge party gateaus which I always buy for birthdays and I can never resist the 600 1p sweet pots for £2.99.The king-prawns (2lbs) are now £5.99. You need to add 17.5% VAT to your prices but many foods, kids clothing and household bits are VAT free.I usually add one sixth to my price to bring it up to amount payable. There are always bargains in Makro - whenever you go just make sure that you either have enough money or ensure you're not near your card limit otherwise you'll come out with more than you bargained for and have to tell a few porkies! Stores in this country at present: Aberdeen, Belfast, Bristol,Cardiff, Charlton, Croydon, Eccles,Edinburgh,Enfield,Fareham,Glasgow,Halesowen(Birmingham),Hull, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Newcastle U Lyme, North Acton, Nottingham,Poole,Preston,Rayleigh, Reading,Sheffield,Swansea,Teeside, Washington Opening Times: Mon-Fri 9.30 - 9.00pm Saturday 9.30 - 7.00 pm Sunday 9.30 - 5.30 pm (Croydon,Charlton, Enfield, North Acton & Reading open from 7.30am mon to friday.) ..Might see you there, happy shopping!
Makro is a large store, which claims to be a wholesalers, however if you get your employer to apply for a card for you thats adequate. Card holders get regular makro mails delivered to their door detailing the latest bargains. The stores sell everything you can imagine from oranges to mopeds to clothing and electrical goods, not all prices are bargains, a lot seem to be the same as the supermarkets, but its great when the bargains are in. As its coming up to christmas makro is a great place to shop for the kids toys, last year we saved an average of £2 on each game we bought from their and in one case on a robot, £25 brilliant eh! Get a card and give it a look, pet food bargains are constantly in.


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Promoter Eddie Hearn has revealed that Anthony Joshua will fight in Manchester on December 10, regardless of whether his next opponent is Wladimir Klitschko.
A deal has been agreed for IBF champion Joshua to face Klitschko, but the challenger and former unified title holder is unlikely to face Joshua if the WBA 'Super' belt is not on the line.
Hearn is still hopeful that the WBA will sanction a fight between two of the star names in the heavyweight division but regardless of their final decision, he has said that the Olympic gold medallist will return to the ring on the same date.
He told Sky Sports News: "With the hold-up from the WBA, we need a little more time, so regardless of if it's Klitschko or not, AJ will return on December 10 in Manchester.
"We are beginning discussions with other opponents now while crossing our fingers that Klitschko takes the fight, regardless of how many belts are on the line.
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Im trying to make a config for danish keyboard and I can't figure out what to tell the tuner to get the key between left shift and z.Any help would be appreciated.
I'm looking at the keyboard now, it seems to have different/extra keys. Do you know if that particular keyboard has a differing number from standard?
Did you notice the non-English character guide? I'm not sure if it's still the same and the keyboard just sends the same signals to the OS.
It looks like a lot of non US keyboards have 11 keys between the two shift keys while the US only have 10. If I switch to a US keyboard layout on windows the key produces the same output as the key on the row above to the left of the return key. So I don't know what to put in to the tuner to get the right scan code.
Use the Twiddler Tuner like you're using that key above to the left of the return key.
What is your layout? I'm on a MBP and my layout for keys is:
On a Danish keyboard it seems that bottom key is for <>\ so I would use the \ key.
on the danish keyboard it's
but when I switch to US keyboard layout the key to the left of enter and the key to the right of the left shift key produce the same output.What I am trying to do is make a configuration that will work with a standard danish keyboard layout. But since these two keys produce the same output on a US keyboard I have no way of mapping for the < and > signs. So my question is still what I have to put into the the tuner to make the twiddler output the correct scan code for this key.
tl;dr use <Non-US#> as your key and see if that works.
Oh. That made sense only just now. I see. Switching to Danish splits the way the OS interprets the keys... But it's "the same key" to the OS in en-US layout?
Time for me to do some reading. Trying to troubleshoot something I don't own or have access to. But it seems an interesting challenge.
So reading up on ISO layout: https://deskthority.net/wiki/ANSI_vs_ISOWith "11 keys" between the Shift buttons, it's ISO and the docs haven't been written to consider non-ANSI layouts.
For a similar keyboard layout picture like the Twiddler docs (original source?)I would look at this as it has the proper layout.
ahem after reading over the USB docs linked above, it seems that your special key is:Usage ID: 100Usage ID: 0x64Keyboard: Non-US \ and | (footnotes 3 and 6 confirm)AT-101 position: 45
and your OS is conflating it with key ID 49 (0x31), or the key at position 29.
Referencing an earlier topic from Jul 2015 apparently that key is called <Non-US#>, which you can insert using the Twiddler Tuner.
I have the UK keyboard layout. On this, the key between <Left shift> and z is the "\" key, when shifted gives "|".I have programmed this key in the tuner with <Non-US\|> for "\" and <Left Shift><Non-US\|></Left Shift> for "|".
I have not found this special key documented anywhere. I found it when I used <Keycode NN> (can't remember the actual number) and it appeared as <Non-US\|> on the tuner when I re-loaded it.
For my keyboard configuration (UK layout) <Non-US#> gives # and ~, while and <Non-US\|> gives \ and |.
Ah, yes, looking again at the USB HID documentation that is the correct key. I misinterpreted.
Now for what the Twiddler Tuner wants to see... Well there are 218 keys that aren't reserved. ~70 are listed in the Twiddler Tuner.
Wouldn't it be easier to just list out every single HID code (hex or dec), then match it to whatever keyboard layout someone is using at the time in a lookup table in the web app? "Please submit additional layouts if desired" for someone transitioning from, say, Dvorak to Twiddler (If my current interpretation is correct)?
I suppose this is an ongoing criticism...
For some reason the forum stopped sending me emails when there is a new reply to this thread. So I ended up finding the solution myself in another way.I used this powershell script:https://github.com/MarkoMarjamaa/TwiddlerCfgConverterI then created a config where I mapped cords to consecutive keycodes.Turns out the key I was looking for has keycode 64 and it maps in the tuner to
By the way... anything in angle brackets must be escaped with a tick-mark (back single quote):
< asdf> without the space disappears.`< asdf>` without the space is rendered as <asdf>\ escapes ` unless there is a matching mate prior that isn't escaped.
Basically I don't know what 0x64 maps to....


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Discussion in 'Fly Tying' started by Chef, Dec 1, 2010.
I call dibs if you sell your old one...
Do people really use it like it is intended?
I watched the video on the Nor-Vise website of a guy tying a green butted skunk, and my impression was there was little if any improvement in speed or ease, over a standard (nonrotating) vise.
Until my vise wore out recently, I hadn't thought about it much. Now I am trying to be open minded and consider it... Tough being old and set in my ways.
stray: I saw mumbles use it over at Big E's house and it moved great.
The Norvise is one of the best vises on the market currently, and deservedly so.
However, it is a vice that folks either love or hate with little or no in-between. Those that love it, like the folks who have chimed in here about how much they like it, would not give it up for anything. But remember what I said about folks either loving or hating it because those like myself who don't like it would never get one or if we had, we got rid of it quickly.
Those who don't like it find the "free-wheeling clutch mechanism" to be a pain because if you happen to have your hand on the counterweight to hold some material in place in order to make it do what you want it to do, it is far too easy to also move it back the little bit it takes to release the lock and put it into "free-wheeling" mode. Plus, although I use my Dyna King Barracuda at times as a true rotary vise, I mostly use the rotary function of my vise to rotate the jaws into a better position for tying something onto a fly rather than using it to spin the hook. The Norvise doesn't allow for keeping the jaw stationary at any position while leaving both hands free to make a material do what you what. You have to have your hand on the counterweight to keep the jaw from moving when the lock is off and the jaw is not at one of the detent that lock it. These are the reasons I don't like it.
Those who love it absolutely love the "free-wheeling" ability of the the vise and wouldn't be without it. And most of them don't understand whey folks like me don't like it.
As I said, people either love it or hate it. Therefore, the best thing you can do is try tying on it for an hour or so to see if you really, really like it because if you don't, you will end up being unhappy with having bought the vise.
"The Norvise doesn't allow for keeping the jaw stationary at any position while leaving both hands free to make a material do what you what."
FT, if you look at the top of the vise in the middle, there is a large friction screw. If you don't want the vise to be in "free-wheeling" mode, you simply tighten the friction screw. Then you can put the fly in any position you want with as little or as much resistance to turning as you please. Quite simple and quite effective.
Thanks for correcting me on this Rich. I haven't looked at a Norvise is 3 years and at that time there wasn't a friction screw. I even spoke to Norm about why he didn't have on on the vise some 10 years ago at a fly fishing show and he answered it was because no one was asking for it. I'm glad to hear that he has added it because as I said earlier, it is one of the best vices on the market. I'm still not going to retire my Barracuda to get one though.
Huge fan of the NorVise, couldn't be happier with it. Best to view the NorVise as a fly tying system, with the opposing post and automatic bobbins completing the package. The "self winding" bobbins provide excellent precision, and some very cool "tricks" such as wrapping a hook of any shank length from front to back with just a single spin of the vises, with the bobbin just hanging hanging in midair. Dubbing is effortless. And when you're reloading the fly box after a snaggy day on the river, nothing ties flies faster. Bought mine at the "show special" that Norm was pitching at a fly tying show.
Vices are like vises: one isn't enough to get by on.
I have a Nor, a Regal and a Renzetti Travellor. I have a long bench with a rolling office chair and
I use all three (although I use the Renzetti primarily for photographing flies, I tie on the Regal and Nor).
As far as vises: ..........well, I better not say.
I agree with all the comments so far. I am a Norvise user and use it for 99% of my fly tying. It's my favorite vise for tying. However, it did not start off that way. When I first bought it I was use to tying on Renzetti Traveler and the Norvise took some getting use to like 6 months. Once I stopped trying to use the Norvise like the Traveler and began using the Norvise like it was intended, it all came together. It will definitely improve the body construction of your flies and it will eventually speed your tying once you master the vise.
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I like it so much I have two. One old large one with the screw up tension that is my travel vise. It came in a finger joined white oak box that I found in Goodwill for $29.95 and another that I bought at full price that is mounted to a black galaxy desk top ( a black granite with mica gold flecks ) Don't wait to find a Goodwill one, get it and enjoy it now. Learn to use the Norbobbin it is the only real learning curve. But so worth leaning. And NO my second one isn't for sale.
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By what alchemy does an artist take excerpts from 40 years of work and dovetail them into a compelling whole, with an emotional drive and visual rhythm of its own? This was the mystery and pleasure of the world premiere of "Times Bones" by the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company at the University of Maryland's Clarice Smith Center this past weekend.
What does an artist, whose life hinges on creation, make of her past? Jenkins was one of Twyla Tharp's original collaborators in the 1960s and went on to work with Merce Cunningham and other leaders of the New York dance arena before launching her own troupe in San Francisco, which has become a West Coast institution. Her works are distinctive for their Californian freedom and lushness, with the texture of wind sweeping through fields.
Facing her company's 40th anniversary, Jenkins was in a reflective mood. But rather than revive one or two of her more than 75 productions, Jenkins took inspiration from Osiris, the Egyptian god of the dead whose body, according to legend, was torn into pieces. Osiris couldn't rest in the afterlife until his scattered bones had been found and returned to his sarcophagus. What would it be like, Jenkins wondered, if she gathered the bones of her past — brief, significant passages of choreography — and put them back onstage? Would she feel whole then?
"The jury's still out on that," she told the audience in a post-performance discussion Friday.
Suffice it to say that the awesome task of deboning and rebuilding was beautifully realized. "Times Bones" points to a circular, enduring notion of time — time that is defied by the body. Sifting lightly through the dancing were images of clockworks in the way a dancer extended his arms like the hands on a dial, and every now and then we'd hear a tick-tock in the rich sonic field of Paul Dresher's music. And yet what better illustration of stopping time, or surmounting its ravages, than this project, in which a new generation of company members breathes life into the long-ago steps of its predecessors?
Jenkins's dancers have always been a special lot, endowed not only with an appealing mix of strength and softness but also with a keen 360-degree sense of where they are, that heightened ability to move, breathe and react together without exchanging a look. This cast is no different. My eye was especially drawn to Margaret Cromwell, a dancer of unusual grace. A moment when she sank into a deep pli with legs wide apart, with an arm lifted high, fingers lightly stirring, embodied the theme of growth and regeneration from a firm foundation.
Having followed Jenkins's work for the past decade and a half or so, I found a few welcome surprises in this journey. She wasn't always interested in gentler subtleties. One section had a hard-hitting, dance-club vibe; another featured the fearless Kelly Del Rosario diving to the floor like a giant killer kitten, paws splayed in all directions.
The finely crafted design elements were essential to the transformative experience: David F. Draper's loose trousers and tunics in brown and greige lent a suitably comfy-sophisticated touch. Alexander V. Nichols's striking visual design — a grid of lights across the back, with a shot of red, and movable wooden pillars that continued the grid motif — energized the space. Even the small wooden platforms in front of the stage, which the dancers occasionally jumped onto before bounding back to the group, were handsomely carpentered. And there lies the beauty of Osiris's quest and Jenkins's: Assemble the pieces right — in your sarcophagus, on your stage, in your mind — and the past is healed.


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It's from the Missouri Star Quilt Co. tutorial for double slice layer cake quilts. I used yardage instead of a layer cake, so mine has less fabric variations.
The FMQ on it went oddly well. In fact, I'd say this is the first one I'm more please with than not pleased. It's like something clicked and it just worked. Weird.
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