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This is a little chore that many people don't think about doing. It never occurred to me to do this until I went to one of those in-home jewelry parties. The consultant explained the importance of cleaning your jewelry regularly to keep it well maintained. Hmmm. . . makes sense. I won a party favor that night that helps me keep my jewelry clean. It is a cloth very much like this one. I keep it in my jewelry box and use it to wipe my jewelry off before I store it.
If you don't want to purchase a treated cloth, you can use several homemade cleaners. Here are a few:
1. For pearls, simply wipe after each wearing with a soft cloth. Don't ever soak your stands of pearls as it will damage them.
2. For silver, dip a cloth in baking soda and rub the silver. Buff with a clean cloth.
3. For gold, soak the item in a water and ammonia mixture (1:1 ratio) for 1/2 hour. Rinse with warm water and dry with a soft cloth. You can also soak items in a bowl of water with a few drops of dish detergent in it.
To keep your jewelry from getting too gunked up be sure to apply lotions, powder, perfume, or hair spray before putting on your items. Also, don't ever wear your jewelry in chlorinated water like a pool because it can damage the finish.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Monday Motivation: Cleaning Jewelry
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Great tips! My mom has way more jewelry than me and when I was younger I could always tell when she and my dad were going out for the evening because her diamond rings would be soaking in a little cup of alcohol. She takes her jewelry very seriously.ReplyDelete
I primarily attend to my wedding rings. I like to give them a once over with alcohol on a very soft toothbrush before I go places.
Glad to know how to care for my pearls. I'm don't have much jewelry by choice, but I am partial to pearls.
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Last Sunday I took my family off to Pickering beck to find a heronry I'd heard of close to a public footpath. Sadly, we never found it and after a few hours of spotting nothing but squirrel dreys, six-month-old Lily was cold and tired so we turned homeward.
I did notice, just at the spot I had been told to look, that the forest had been replanted - I hope this heronry hasn't been cut down! If so it would a great shame. A heronry really is worth seeing - it's like something out of Jurassic Park. The four foot wide nests can number up to 200, each weighing in at about four or five stone, and there are around 13,000 along Britain's waterways.


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By now most Portlanders have heard that there are wonderful traffic improvements being planned for close-in East Burnside and Couch Streets -- the famous one-way "couplet." But have you heard that the plan calls for permanently closing Sandy Boulevard between 12th and 14th, and having the land that's right in the middle of Sandy there now handed to a developer for "infill revitalization"?
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's TalkTalk (TALK.L) added 80,000 net broadband customers in its first quarter, helped by demand for its fixed low price plans whose total subscribers grew in spite of the first wave coming to the end of their contracts.
Chief Executive Tristia Harrison said TalkTalk had now recorded six consecutive quarters of growth in its customer base since it shifted strategy to return to its roots as a value broadband provider.
Shares in TalkTalk, which have fallen 39 percent in the last 12 months, were trading up 7 percent at 115 pence at 1000 GMT.
The growth came from wholesale rather than retail customers, Harrison said, but the company was seeing good momentum in its fixed price plans, which it introduced guaranteeing customers will not see a rise in bills for the duration of the contract.
The plans grew to 2.1 million subscribers and Harrison said the first group of customers who moved to the plans in late 2016 had not defected when their contracts ended.
"This quarter we saw a very large number coming out of contract, around half a million, and you might have expected churn to pick up, it didn't, it remained stable," she said.
They were renewing at slightly higher prices on average, resulting in ARPU (average revenue per user) growth of 2-3 percent for those customers, she said.
That trend would help ARPU stabilise by the end of the year, she added.
The mix of wholesale and retail adds in the quarter and customers moving to the low price plans for the first time resulted in ARPU falling to 24.65 pounds in the quarter from 25.10 pounds a year ago.
TalkTalk, which had 4.22 million customers at the end of June, reported headline revenue of 382 million pounds, up 4.1 percent year-on-year, for the quarter to end-June.
It maintained its target to grow its broadband base by at least 150,000 by the end of its financial year and increase headline core earnings by 15 percent.
TalkTalk scrapped the sale of its direct business-to-business unit to Daisy Group last month, a transaction that would have raised 175 million pounds. Harrison said the company was not in any rush to find another buyer.
"If somebody comes to us and it's the right price, and the right thing for our customers and for our people, we will consider it but we are in no rush," she said.
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18 Aug Tour of Britain Comes to Northumberland
On Sunday 3 September, cycling's Tour of Britain will bring some of the world's best cyclists to Northumberland.
This top cycling event is organised by British Cycling, the sport's governing body in the UK, and is a multi-stage race held over eight days.
Internationally the Tour of Britain is one event in the UCI Europe Tour season in which professional teams from around the world compete. Teams for the Tour of Britain will be announced in the summer and each will pick their six rider line-up from a squad, which may number up to 30 riders.
Tour of Britain in Wooler
The stage passing nearest to Wooler is on day 2 of the Tour. The stage will see 120 of the world's top cyclists racing from Kielder Water and Forest Park to Blyth, building on the success of the 2015 race when two stages visited Northumberland for the first time ever.
At just over 211-kilometres the Northumberland stage will be the longest of the 2017 Tour, and also include a finishing loop, giving spectators at the Blyth finish the chance to see the race twice. The route will also take in the likes of Rothbury, Alnwick, Bamburgh and Morpeth plus the Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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Of course, Wooler is no stranger to cycling events. The Tour will see the pros' route include sections of the increasingly popular Wooler Wheel sportive routes.
If you are thinking of bringing your own bikes on holiday then Homildon Cottage has space to store them in our lockable games room with a floor 4 bike, dual-height cycle rack. There's an outdoor tap for washing bicycles and outdoor clothing, and space for drying outdoor clothing and footwear. We also have maps of local bridleways as well as the nearby Sandstone Way. Alternatively why not hire a bike once you're here?
pic: Eric The Fish from UK (Tour of Britain 2014) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons


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Saturday, December 15, 2012
Kat Parsons - Oh! EP
I've slowly grown to be a fan of pop music, especially female singers who eschew electronic excess, pitch correction and the incessant note trill warbling that permeates the voices of female contestants on American Idol. Give me some nice hummable tunes with a playful female voice and I'm hooked.
Kat Parsons must have been reading my mind when she produced her five track EP Oh!. She makes female pop a soothing and fun experience. Kat reminds me of Colbie Caillat and the first song on the EP, "Love Changes Everything", reminds me of Caillat's "One Fine Wire." It is catchy, witty, pleasant and optimistic. In other words, a whole lot of fun and, unlike the slew of female pop singers gracing network television, Parsons writes her own material.
Music has permeated Kat's life since the day of her Austrian birth. Her father was an opera singer with the Vienna State Opera. Her mother was a professional musician. Her aunts were involved in folk rock music in the United States and, when Kat was very young, Kat and her family moved to Maryland. Parsons first debuted as a solo artist in 1999.
While "Love Changes Everything" is a fun and upbeat pop tune, "Oh" is a pop love ballad. There is circumstantial evidence that it arose from a personal experience as the lyrics start "I took the keys and drove to Harrisburg". The song displays Parsons' classically trained piano skills, is infused with introspective emotions and is written around the chorus vocal hook -
Oh!, It's so lovely when you smile
I glow, in your presence all the while
Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh!
Kat merges genres in "What's Wrong?" to create a reggae pop tune. A heart beat of guitar upstrokes merges with a better vocal range than that of most Rastafarians. To top it off the chorus is littered with great harmonies. Parsons melodically asks "What's wrong?", but from what I hear I am ready to respond "nothing, nothing at all."
"Let's Not Be Scared" is an absolutely theatrical, insipid and syrupy piano love ballad. If it had been the lead track on the EP I might not have paid heed to the EP at all. However, upon reflection, Parsons has a degree in theatre from Northwestern University and "Let's Not Be Scared" is the sort of tune you might expect in an Andrew Lloyd Webber production, not on a pop EP. If Kat chose to include the track on the EP to show her ability to write songs for musical theatre, she has succeeded in displaying that talent.
The final piece is a pop song with a mid-70's vibe - the type of thing you would have heard alongside The Hues Corporation's "Don't Rock The Boat" back in 1974. The name of the cut is just how the EP left me and, may leave you, "Happy."
- Old School
"Love Changes Everything"
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... or nasty SELECT key ;)
Some time ago one of my Norwegian friends asked me if I have a boxed Atari 130XE. He wanted this unit to be nicely refurbished and modded with some cool gear straight from Lotharek :)
I didn't have one but fortunately, one of the folks from Atari Area forums (cheers Atari-User) had quite a decent unit for selling. I've arranged a deal and a short journey started ...
The restoration job
"A quite decent state" means it still required a bit of work. Restoration plan included:
- general cleaning.
- case whitening
- mods
- testing
The unit came in a box. The box was a bit tatty but I cannot do much about it.
I will have to work on that skill someday ;)
However, refurbishing stuff inside that box is a whole different story.
Here is how it looked after unboxing :)
Disassembly revealed some dust devils ;)
What is cool about this particular unit is that key caps were made out of a polymer that didn't have any flame retardants (bromides) in it, so I didn't have to whiten 'em ... except for function keys that were slightly yellowed.
I've noticed a small spillage on a motherboard but fortunately not corrosive so simple cleaning it with isopropyl alcohol was a suitable fix.
I also had to remove a badge before whitening. Usually, these badges are kept in place by a strong double-sided adhesive tape. I've figured that freezing it with lighter gas (while decompressing) allows to easily remove these badges.
Notice a color difference before whitening.
Obviously, I've used my already heavily tested whitening method that I've described in my previous posts.
Here is an outcome.
I've also whitened function keys but to my surprise, when unpacking keys from a whitening solution I've noticed that SELECT is missing ...
I was like ...
Anyway, Atari was shipped to the one and only Bartek030 for Ulitmate1M installation. Bart also supplied other gear made by Lotharek.
He also promised to go through his Atari stuff and look for a SELECT that I've lost.
Atari came back after a while and I only needed to whiten SELECT keycap that I've received from Bart, test everything and that's it.
Funny thing is that while looking for my 3D printing filament I've found original SELECT .... lying on a shelf ... and to be honest I've no idea how it ended up in there ... DUH!
I've quickly prepared a whitening bath for that single keycap and put it in it.
In the mean time, I've started testing if all works correctly.
An external SIO2SD, SIDE2 Cartridge, and Ultimate1M.
Final tests revealed no problems, so I was super happy. Everything worked like a charm :)
Here are some shots with newly found and whitened original SELECT key already installed :)
I've also recorded a small video while testing if SIDE2 works with Kingston CF cards with our (Lamers) Cyberpunk demo that won 1st place on SillyVenture party.
And yes , Kingston CF cards work well with SIDE2 ;)
So there it is! Another retro computer restored to its former glory :)


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Saturday, March 3, 2012
24 hours at disney and not bloging enough
I know to really get this blog going I should blog more and guess this simple post is good way to start. Did anyone go spend 24 hours Disney? I did OK not really I went at 8:00 pm and stayed till closing at 6:00 am. I saw no lolitas ,but I did see tons of other stuff. I know some people say lolitas and other crazy stuff can't get in. I lucky have never seen it happen . I saw tons of people in PJS lots of ladies wearing the princess dresses they wore to the princess half marathon and I even saw Harry Potter and his friends . You name a crazy fashion idea besides lolita and I saw it that night. The best I saw was a few girls in kimonos and the worst was was a almost lolita a girl with a big pink wig,full bonnet ,parasol ,lolita skirt with a petticoat, rocking horse shoes,cupcake shaped purse and sadly what ruined the look a sports bra with no shirt. sports bra girl was with a whole group of ladies in nothing but sports bras cute hats and petticoats. Yes Disney let in ladies only wearing underclothes. The park was packed to the teeth when I got in by about 2:00 am most had given up so me and my family got to ride most everything we wanted to with no lines. I got a high score on buzz just for sitting between my sister and her husband and doing nothing. I won a button along with them for it. I really must win more stuff by doing nothing giggle. I don't know what else to say. I got a 24 hour button .My sisters husband got a 24 hour shirt and I am still kinda mad Disney did mot make pin for the event. On the way out we ran into one of our new fave people a guy who was the first person to walk in to the magic kingdom opening day we met this guy back at the 40th . I hope we get to see him again at the Epcot's 30th. I love people who love Disney as much as my family does that is why this guy ranks as one of fave people. I know this post is a mess, but I am still drained from Disney. I only write when I think of something and that is normally only when I am tired.
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Stockholm, October 19, 2015 - Orc (STO:ORC), the global market leader in electronic trading technology for listed derivatives, today announced a partnership with OneMarketData, LLC, to make OneMarketData's flagship OneTick product an integral component of Orc's Trading Bricks and Execution Bricks platforms.
OneTick's enterprise data management platform will be offered as part of Orc's hosted solutions offering, specifically to address present and future client needs for analytics and regulatory compliance. OneTick delivers clean, consistent, normalized real-time and historical global market data and analytics.
Orc is currently adapting its technology platforms, as well as updating its solutions offering, to meet client needs arising from new European financial market regulations, including MiFID II/MiFIR, which will become effective on January 3, 2017.
"The new European regulatory requirements translate to a need to collect, standardize, analyze and present massive amounts of data," said Christer Wennerberg, Head of Market Structure, Orc Group. "The challenge lies not only in saving data to comply with market surveillance and audit obligations, but to make it useful and available for clients. This is where Orc can add great value together with OneTick – the obvious first choice for complementing our trading and execution platforms with data management and analytics functionality."
MiFID II will introduce new compliance oriented regulation, such as investor protection ("Best execution"), surveillance and audit obligations, while also acting as a catalyst for innovation. The combined direct effects of new regulation and innovation is expected to result in substantial changes to the current market structure, with obvious implications for trading technology as well.
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Academicians care, that's who.
To minimize scheduling confusion, please realize that if you are taking one
course which is offered at only one time on a given day, and another which is
offered at all times on that day, the second class will be arranged as to
afford maximum inconvenience to the student. For example, if you happen
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An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
As Gen. de Gaulle occassionally acknowledges America to be the daughter
of Europe, so I am pleased to come to Yale, the daughter of Harvard.
-- J.F. Kennedy
As long as the answer is right, who cares if the question is wrong?
Briefly stated, the findings are that when presented with an array of
data or a sequence of events in which they are instructed to discover
an underlying order, subjects show strong tendencies to perceive order
and causality in random arrays, to perceive a pattern or correlation
which seems a priori intuitively correct even when the actual correlation
in the data is counterintuitive, to jump to conclusions about the correct
hypothesis, to seek and to use only positive or confirmatory evidence, to
construe evidence liberally as confirmatory, to fail to generate or to
assess alternative hypotheses, and having thus managed to expose themselves
only to confirmatory instances, to be fallaciously confident of the validity
of their judgments (Jahoda, 1969; Einhorn and Hogarth, 1978). In the
analyzing of past events, these tendencies are exacerbated by failure to
appreciate the pitfalls of post hoc analyses.
-- A. Benjamin
British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive
it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.
-- Peter Ustinov
... But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human
intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as
we can tell. If intelligent people invested intense energy in issues
that now seem foolish to us, then the failure lies in our understanding
of their world, not in their distorted perceptions. Even the standard
example of ancient nonsense -- the debate about angels on pinheads --
makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing
whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a
finite or an infinite number.
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An easy drive tomorrow. Hah! It was snowing and blowing, not hard enough, quite, for the Highway Patrol to start shutting freeway gates, but the northern route across the Bighorn Mountains was closed at Burgess Junction, so forget that.
Which meant motoring down to Buffalo and grabbing Highway 16 westbound. Powder River Pass at 9,666 feet of elevation like to did us in, snowpack underfoot, snow swirling in your face, no more than ten feet ahead of your vehicle's bumper for visibility, if that.
Of course we were all chained up, all around. Mom's Jeep Rubicon had by far the best traction, being designed for off road travel from the ground up, so she took the lead, breaking trail, with Jack Hill riding shotgun. All that steel armor added to my Pontiac made it heavier than even B.J.'s '46 Hudson despite several hundred pounds of rocks being piled into the Hudson's trunk for ballast, so the big man rode in the rocking chair, trying to stay close enough to his sister's Jeep to see the taillights.
That left me bringing up the rear, thinking unworthy thoughts, like I should have been in the middle. They didn't make taillights in 1946 as visible as they are today, not to mention the lack of a Dole light up high in the center. Half the time, I was losing sight of my uncle's car altogether; the other half, I was trying to catch up and hoping I didn't smack into his rear bumper before I saw him.
We had our CB radios on, but only Jack Hill was using one. The rest of us had our steering wheels clenched in death grips, praying to the snow gods to take mercy on the idiots in their midst.
"Blessing Devonia," I heard myself mutter once, "I hope to Hell you're worth it."
Then I realized what I'd said and felt almost enough shame to forget the fear for a second or two.
If you've never fought the roads in high country winter conditions, you don't know what you're missing. You, Hawaii. I'm talking to you.
It was enough to make a man think about taking up surfing, should we all get through this one alive.
I'd been in a blizzard in southern Idaho once, out on the freeway, middle of the night. So bad that for a time, we convoyed with another family. For one stretch, the man driving the station wagon had turned the wheel over to his wife and started jogging down the pavement, because it was the only way he could be sure of staying on the asphalt.
Mom and I'd picked up a young man from Browning, Montana, that night, a few miles back. Tommy had passed us at one point, then promptly run his Oldsmobile into the ditch and buried it in snow up to the radiator cap a mile later. Had to crawl out through the window.
We never knew how much snow he had to scoop out of the car's interior when the road reopened, leaving the window open like that, but the alternative was to stay there and freeze to death.
Once, an eighteen wheeler had bombed right on by like the storm was nothing. We thought maybe he could see better, his truck seat being up so much higher than us, so we cranked up and followed him at close to 50 mph…until we realized he'd run the big rig into the ditch, too, just like Tommy had with his Olds.
We didn't stop for the trucker. Figured he was a dumbass, and it was his problem.
Was this one as bad as that? Who knows? One thing I do know, whatever snowstorm you're in the middle of, it always seems like the worst you've ever seen.
At least it does to me, and my eidetic memory doesn't help one bit on that score.
But we did make it through the pass. The downslope side was actually scarier at first, when we still couldn't see squat. Down is always spookier than up when you're sliding blind in tall country with a likely mile of drop if you blow it.
By the time we were half way down, though, visibility was pretty good. Mom had the Jeep cranked back up to around 40 mph, and old Jack Hill was cracking abominable snowman jokes and Donner party jokes over the CB.
I did have to laugh a little, some from the relief, but mostly at the one about the Donner party running out of each other to cannibalize and carving up a Yeti for supper. Wish I could remember the dang punch line. When it comes to stupid jokes, my fabled memory seems to fail me every now and then.
When we hit Worland, around midafternoon, I had to piss like a race horse, and the others seemed to be ready for a break, too. Never did a truck stop look so good.
At such times, I crave red meat. Fortunately, they served New York strip. Cooked it right, too. We'd killed an hour there, but I just couldn't get worked up about getting back out on the road. No way would we get to Frannie before dark now, anyway. Might as well grab a couple of motel rooms–Mom and B.J. were used to sharing one, two beds of course, so we'd only need two.
I hadn't been paying attention to Jack; he was wandering around the place, exploring like he does sometimes. But I could surely see the excitement in the man when he suddenly slid back into his seat and slid a business card out in the middle of the table for us all to peruse and admire.
"Look at that," he urged, though we didn't need much urging.
We'd missed a Wyoming coin dealer. Hill had swiped the card off the truck stop's bulletin board, push pin and all.
WWW, it read, big letters across the top. Under that, the explanation of the acronym, Worland Wyoming Wealth, followed by Gold and Silver, Coins and Bullion, Bought and Sold.
The waitress came by with the coffee pot. We waved off any refills but grilled her: Did she know the address on the card?
"Sure," the girl nodded. "That's less than a mile from here, old Alvin Izzard's store. It's just a little converted house, but he does good business."
With that, we paid the check and beats feet out the door, off to see the wizard. Uh, Izzard. Follow the yellow brick road and all that.
The converted house was indeed on the small side, and so was Alvin Izzard. He couldn't have stood more than five three, though without the hunchback, he'd have done better. He knew the coin business, though, and apparently had a local rep as a serious coin dealer.
Or at least, so he assured us, and we found no reason the challenge his claim.
Unfortunately, he didn't recognize Shawn Hicks from the photo.
Fortunately, B.J. started shaking his massive head, cussing out that worthless frog bodied, bulgy eyed son of a she goat that couldn't bother to make himself findable when old friends needed his help–and Izzard did recognize the description.
"Frog bodied?" He looked up from the coin tray he'd been rearranging. "Bulgy eyed? 'Scuse me, folks, but when you're built like I am, you tend to notice when somebody mentions human forms that don't quite meet the Hollywood standard."
"Uh, yeah," B.J. grinned at the little coin man. "Ol' Shawn is built like a big green frog, 'cept he's not green, and his eyes surely do bug out. You seen a fellow like that?"
"Mm-hm." Alvin rubbed his receding chin thoughtfully, or maybe he was just trying find it. He didn't have a whole lot of chin to find. Made you wonder if the fellow had jaw enough to chew his food. Maybe he just swallowed stuff whole. "Seen him, let me think…twice, I believe. Let me check."
He opened a desk drawer and removed a huge ledger bound in red leather so fine it almost looked like velvet. I'd never seen anything like it.
His finger traced down a page or two before he announced, "Here it is. Toad man–I thought him more like a toad than a frog, till you said frog–toad man, 5 American eagles, one tenth ounce, spot minus ten. That was on September first. Then on October 10, 5 eagles again, spot minus eight." He close the book and looked up, explaining, "He was a repeat customer, so I brought it up two points."
We must have looked a mite confused. He clarified for us gold rookies. "All precious metal sales work around the spot price, the price the metal is going for in the larger markets on the day of the transaction. Your frog man–Shawn?–his coins were untouched, still encased, so I was willing to get pretty close to the spot price. He seemed okay with what I could pay; I do remember that."
I could see wheels turning in other people's heads. Mine, too. Bet Hicks never had a clue the hunchback was waiting till he'd left, then recording the transactions.
"Well," B.J. said, "that does sound like Shawn. He was always big on the number five. So we were right; he's somewhere, enjoying himself in his favorite state of Wyoming. Now, if we only knew, is he driving the 5 year old Honda or the 15 year old Camry? Or one of the others?"
He'd said it as if addressing us, but of course he was fishing, hoping Alvin had noticed the car Hicks was driving. Long shot, but sometimes long shots pay off, and this one did.
Izzard was shaking his head. "What he was driving was an older Subaru Forester, like maybe a 2000 model, license number 22 something."
I realized I was holding my breath, almost shaking with the need to keep this man talking without interruption. Not a new lead, nary a one in more than six weeks, and now we'd hit the mother lode.
Made that horrific trek through Powder River Pass almost worth it.
B.J. wasn't holding his breath. "Sounds like he's got some welding jobs going on the side. Shawn's superstitious, always likes to have that Forester with him when he's welding. Sounds crazy, but hey, not as crazy as the clothing he wears sometimes. The man's got a pair of green cowboy boots, for kri-yi. Seen him wear 'em once to a rodeo."
Now, you'd think it might have made the coin man suspicious, B.J. going on like that, but if you'd been there…see, Big Jude can tune into the other fellow when there's a conversation going on. It was his delivery that made things work.
Alvin did scratch his head a bit, but he didn't stop spilling the beans. "Don't rightly remember what he was wearing that first time in September, but the second go, that was less than two weeks past. He had on hiking boots, I remember that, regular blue jeans, checkered flannel shirt, well worn sheepskin jacket, cap with flaps. No gloves. I figured he was maybe here for hunting season; a lot of fellows are."
"He might be at that," B.J. agreed. "Depending on what he's hunting."
After getting a couple of adjoining rooms at the Comfort Inn, we left the cars, piled into Mom's Jeep, and adjourned back to the truck stop. They had the best coffee, and we had some planning to do.
"22," I started things off, "where's that?"
"Fremont County," Mom replied. She had a pretty good grasp of where things were in Wyoming. "A couple counties over from here. He wouldn't have to be basing in the same county as the plate on his vehicle, though."
Jack Hill had been quiet for a while, studying things out, but he spoke up now. "No, that's true, Lou–but it can't hurt to scope it out, can it?"
She shrugged. "Of course not. And we don't even have to buck any more snow hell passes to get there tomorrow. Plus it's one county we haven't covered much, except to hit the lone coin dealer we could find on the Rez. See, a lot of Fremont County is covered by the Wind River Reservation. I don't see Hicks as likely to be huddled up with the Shoshone Indians."
"Hm." My turn. "There are no white man towns in Fremont?"
"Oh, sure there are. Riverton's the biggest, but it's out in the exposed, windblown, Godforsaken oil country. We floated around there for a couple of days last month, but it just doesn't feel right. Lander, I forget if that's in Fremont County or the next one over, it's closer to some forest country, so maybe. Fugitives do seem to favor places with trees. And then up north a ways, there's Dubois."
"Dubois…" I thought for a minute. "I believe we studied Dubois in school when I was in the fifth grade or somewhere around there. Isn't that the town that used to be called Never Sweat, till the Postal Service made them change it?"
Mom laughed. "That's the one. Trust the feds to stick their noses in, tell the citizens they can't even name their own town."
"Yeah…and didn't Butch Cassidy have a ranch around there somewhere?"
"My, honey, I had no idea you were paying so much attention in school, back then."
"Uh…" I felt my cheeks grow warm. In elementary school, I'd been a gifted student. Five years later, I'd been a serious juvenile delinquent.
It was good to know Mom could tease me a bit like that, though. It must mean she was okay with how I'd turned out in the end, despite all the gray hairs I'd given her.
That's just a figure of speech. Louella Jackson still doesn't have a gray hair on her head. Sim Bowles was, in my opinion, a lucky man.
Not that I'm biased or anything.
"So," Jack hill put in, "Riverton has been covered, at least once. Lander is on the far side, or maybe outside the county. What say we meander up to Dubois tomorrow? It sounds like as good a bet as any, and besides, I haven't tucked into the chow at the Cowboy Café in ages."
We all agreed pretty quickly, but Hill had made me think. He knew Dubois, knew the name of the town's café. What the hey. The man had served in the Civil War; he might even remember Butch Cassidy personally.
I'd thought to ask him about that when we got back to the motel, but my bed was calling to me, making an offer I could not refuse. I did manage to strip down to my skivvies before crawling under the covers, but I was asleep before my head hit the pillow.
Later, in the darkness, I could hear someone snoring like thunder and figured it was the old man. Took a while to realize it was me.


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Most people don't realise that the monitoring device (NOT the one implanted), have at least 2 modes.
This enables the programmer (in my case my neurologist), to plan 2 separate programs, targeting different parts of the brain.
Everything was going quite well, when I visited my neurologist one Friday last year.
However, when I mentioned that my walking was not too great, he decided to change my settings to see how I went. I was told that if it was no good, I could always change back.
The effects of programming are immediate. I felt a bit funny when I left his rooms, but thought that it would settle down. Somehow i managed to drive home.
Saturday was a quiet day, and i felt a little strange.
But it was on Sunday, that I fell apart.
I was scheduled to go to my local Young@Park meeting. I usually go with my husband, but he was at work, so planned to go alone. It was on the other side of the City.
I dressed, but was suddenly aware that I was kidding myself; I could barely move, my speech was slurred, and I felt terrible.
I lay down, and started to look through the 4 books that I received as manuals.
I find them very confusing, and was in no mood to sift for information.
Meanwhile my sister-in-law and niece dropped by to visit.
I knew that I needed to change back to MODE B, but couldn't read the symbol displayed on the device. We were trying to find the corresponding picture in one of the manuals. We eventually decided that I needed new batteries for the device... I couldn't change back till that was done.
Naturally we had lots of AA batteries in our house, but needed AAA..... A neighbour brought some round.
By then I was in pretty bad shape.... stressed out, and feeling terrible. I was in no shape to do anything. With my visitors feeling rather useless, and staring at me, trying to find the right chapter in the manual, I finally managed to change back; a procedure that would normally take a second, but took me over an hour.
The result was instantaneous; I was back to where I was when I stepped into my neurologist's room on Friday.
At my next visit to my neurologist some months later, I related the story.
He suggested that it may be worth to try again, but on a lower setting.
I declined!
I'm staying where I am now!


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On top of that, anything can be altered over time: not only do features come and go, but trends turn and competitors change.Even if you could set up your campaigns perfectly, you can't leave them alone and expect to keep raking in the highest possible profits.it's a combination of statistics, mathematics and science as well.
Yet most companies are building teams by hiring marketers rather than statisticians, scientists and programmers.You can tweak settings but you don't have full control. Every business has its own needs and goals, so it's unlikely they can always do precisely what you need.Rather than struggle to manipulate a third-party tool, why not just build something that works for you?
Coding takes care of repetition
Reporting isn't hard – it's just copying and pasting data – but it's taking time away from tasks that actually need your brain.You can automatically run reports in AdWords or Analytics, but if you code your own reports you can customise any external or calculated fields you want and use that data to make custom dashboards.
You can also reduce repetition by using code where you want to make identical changes to similar campaigns – like if you have copies of campaigns for different locations – or (using the API) automatically sync campaigns in Bing Ads when there are changes made in AdWords.
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A programme can watch your accounts all day, every day – so you don't have to. You can set up emails so you're warned when URLs break, performance plummets or budgets are in danger of being exhausted too soon.Things like ad writing and keyword research need a human eye – you need to judge the persuasiveness of calls to action and the intent behind search queries.


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The CSDP Mission Planning Process of the European Union: Innovations and Shortfalls
Keywords: CFSP/ESDP , civil-military relations , CFSP/ESDP , security/external , political science
This paper analyses and evaluates the CSDP mission planning process, i.e. the procedural model for planning, launching and reviewing CSDP operations. It shows that the EU has developed an intricate planning mechanism by generously drawing upon existing NATO planning doctrine while adding a distinct European touch. These innovations amount to expanding military planning models to civilian operations, tightening political oversight and fostering close links and cooperative mechanisms with the UN peacekeeping system. As such, the innovations mostly pertain to the political aspects of mission planning. However, some problems persist at the strategic and operational levels of mission planning, such as institutional arrangements for planning and commanding operations, procedures pertaining to force generation and inter-pillar coordination, and operational planning doctrine. Lessons learned from recent operational experiences indicate that the mental gap between the political and operational level is in need of remediation. This can be done either by keeping political expectations realistic or by investing more political will and effort in understanding and resolving operational difficulties.