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One of my gal pals and I hit the Quilt Haus again this weekend. Even though I'm stash busting, I just couldn't help but pick up a few things. Like these sweet little doggies. I'm not even an animal person, but who could resist those little things. They don't chew on your furniture, they don't leave tumbleweeds of hair in the corners of your living room, and you can wear black when they're around without carrying their hair with you. The most perfect dogs ever.
And I just had to get some girl scout fabric because I had been thinking about it since the moment it came out. Or before. I know just what I'm going to do with it. More on that after the fact.
And then I saw these Alexander Henry "Lorenza" lovelies sitting together on a table. Watching me. And wanting to come home with me to meet my stash. So I snatched them up and made them mine.
I was so inspired when I came home that I just knew I was going to finish the giant blue quilt. Oops. Instead, I jumped headfirst into this beautiful fabric. After minutes of duress, I came up with a plan– something wonky. Something square. Ah, wonky squares. When I started quilting many years ago, and ended up with something wonky, my quilting friends made me seam rip. Oh, have times changed! For the first time, I made something wonky on purpose. And I wasn't precise. And I'm almost over it.
Since I was being experimental, I decided to cut up an Ikea sheet to see how it worked. I bought the sheet for $14, and although you can't see it well,(because I only finish projects at night and can't wait until the next day to take pics) it's a gunmetal color. All I can say is, Wow. That's a lot of sheet. Go get you one since you can't beat it for the price.
After I get this baby quilted, I'll take real pics outside so you can see what color the fabrics really are. Oh, speaking of fabric, half of the fabric came from my stash. Not bad, eh? Also, I had no Lorenza left-overs, so we can pretend I didn't buy anything right? Shouldn't there be a clause to fabric shopping that says if you use your fabric within the week (month?) you buy it, that it shouldn't count?
Also, starting to wonder if my comment box is broken. Mom said she left messages, but they never made it here. Will you leave me one? Let me feel like someone's out there?

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by Alex Newman, Gary R. Schor
Sections: World, Local, Property
From: Volume 2, Issue 2
OCALA – A decades-old scheme to eliminate private ownership of land has been working quietly to snatch up thousands of acres in North-Central Florida and across the nation under the guise of environmental protection. The plan, formally known as "Agenda 21," was originally outlined in a 1976 United Nations report called 'Habitat I.'
United States and Florida law enshrine the protection of life, liberty, and property, but the U.N. condemns private property and goes on to state that "public control of land use" is "indispensable." Private land ownership, according to Habitat I, contributes to "social injustice."
The two ideologies are irreconcilable, but Agenda 21 marches on with the support of the U.S. government and even state and local governments.
Figure 2. Linkages between the IUCN, Sustainable Development, UN Agenda 21 and supporting agencies, from Coffman's "The Greening of America" Source
"Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment," the U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs explains on its Web site.
In the final agreement after the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development, section H encouraged countries to "pursue these principles at the appropriate level of government," recognizing that in countries like the U.S., the power is supposed to be divided among different levels of government.
So, the 'Commission on Sustainable Development' was created in 1992 to "ensure effective follow-up" of the U.N. "conservation" treaties and "to monitor and report on implementation of the agreements at the local, national, regional and international levels."
According to the Department of Interior, the federal government alone owns almost 30 percent of the land in the U.S.
"The principles embodied in Agenda 21 present a framework for environmental action that should be pursued at all levels of society–in our schools, local communities, governments, and in our lifestyles," said Rep. NANCY PELOSI before urging fellow representatives to co-sponsor the implementation of Agenda 21 in America.
The law she was pushing, HR-353, called for "national and international actions to integrate environment and development, negotiated and adopted by the United States and 177 other countries" and the U.S. "participating in a high-level U.N. Sustainable Development Commission." It states in section B: "The United States Government should encourage and facilitate, at all levels of community and sectors of society, appropriate means for adopting individual Agenda 21 plans of action, including the establishment of local, county, State, business, and other boards and commissions for achieving sustainable development. Each member of the Congress should help initiate this process within their States or districts."
The law passed in 1992.
|Land in Alachua County shown in black has already been acquired while the gray areas have been 'nominated.' Programs like 'Alachua County Forever' and 'Florida Forever' were outlined in U.N. documents as part of 'Agenda 21', a global plan to put land under 'public control.
Florida's government has already acquired almost 6 million acres "that are managed for natural resource protection," according to James A. Farr, the environmental supervisor at the Florida Division of State Lands. When combined with local and federal government holdings, almost 30 percent of Florida is strictly "conservation land."
In an article titled 'Florida's Landmark Programs for Conservation and Recreation Land Acquisition,' Farr also discusses the establishment of "land acquisition programs" by local governments.
"We were often criticized, perhaps fairly, for purchasing more land than we were able to manage," wrote Farr, his department's chief, Greg Brock, and Presidential candidate MIKE HUCKABEE in the report they collaborated on.
Critics point to government mismanagement of land as one of the many reasons why it is better left in the hands of private owners with a vested interest in the property. One example commonly cited in Florida is the federal government's waste of billions of dollars in an attempt to "drain" the everglades, then having to spend billions more to attempt restoration.
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection boasts on its Web site of a new program to transfer control of land from the people to the government using the people's tax money: the 'Florida Forever Program.'
It will replace the "highly successful," three-billion dollar "Preservation 2000 Program" which acquired almost two million acres over its 10 years.
"This new program is more than just an environmental land acquisition mechanism," it says before assuring readers that eminent domain will not be used in "most circumstances."
This is just one of Florida's many programs or departments busily buying up land across the state.
In Alachua County, where the City of Gainesville flies a U.N. flag at city hall to celebrate U.N. day every year, and where the Sheriff is the chair of one of the local U.N. ceremonies, a land buying program similar to Florida Forever was approved in 2000.
It will manage over 5,000 acres of land and was involved in acquiring over 10,000. The 'Alachua County Forever' used a property-tax hike to raise $29 million which will fund the purchases, management and "improvement" of "environmentally significant lands."
In Marion County, more and more land is also coming off the tax rolls and entering the realm of what propagandists call "public-private partnerships," a union between big government and corporate interests that Mussolini appropriately named "corporatism."
One of the immediate problems is that when this land is taken off the tax rolls, the burden is shifted by default to other home and business owners. Just last year the state government took ownership of more than 1,700 acres in Marion County, the second and final phase of a purchase near Silver Spring of almost 5,000 acres.
The move is part of a partnership between Marion County and The Nature Conservancy, an environmentalist group funded by wealthy foundations and government grants that buys up land for "conservation" or to sell to a government, often times for a lot more than it paid. It is supposedly to "protect the water quality" of Silver Springs – this in addition to land "owned" by the Greenways projects, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, national forests, state parks, and associated preserves.
Private property is also under attack with outrageous fees, regulations, and fines – like those proposed in Marion County last year under the guise of "springs protection," say property rights activists.
The Fourth Amendment to The Bill of Rights protects Americans against unreasonable searches and seizures, yet lobbyists are hard at work to give the government the power to walk on to private property and demand that residents prove that they are in compliance with laws that many legal experts say are unconstitutional and ridiculous to begin with.
Though most don't realize it, very few states even allow property to be owned in allodial title anymore. Texas and Nevada are among the holdouts, and the few that do posses an allodial title there are among the last true land owners in the world.
In Florida, tenants may own an interest or estate in land, subject to property taxes, zoning bureaucracies, and more. If an owner of what Florida statutes call "real property" or "real estate" can't afford the taxes, the land can be sold to pay them.
Two or more individuals who "own" their property in Florida are known as "tenants in common."
Throughout most of history, land available for true ownership by the common man has been rare, with property rights being reserved mostly for kings and nobles who could then charge the people rent.
America was founded on the principle that individuals have a right to own property, the fruits of their labor. But, at few times since Americans secured the right has it been more endangered than it is today, property rights activists say.
Most don't openly advocate the destruction of private property rights or a return to the systems of the past that kept the bulk of the human population as penniless slaves and serfs. That doesn't mean it isn't being discussed behind closed doors.
Images going left to right from the top:
King Henry VIII / Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke
Lord Chamberlain 6th Earl of Dorset / JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon
Archbishop of York Lancelot Blackburne / Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue
Chief Minister Thomas Cromwell / President Obama
Christopher Columbus / Fmr. Sec. of State Condoleeza Rice
Adm. Horatio Nelson / Surgeon & CNN Correspondent Sanjay Gupta
Monty Python (Life of Brian) / Characters from The Simpsons
Update: One mistake in the attribution of the images. The Monty Python pic is from Holy Grail, not Life of Brian.
Neo-Feudalism – those who are permitted to live will be corraled into cities to live in a 300 sq ft Apt. working for minimum wage at the mercy of your overlord. MC.
"Feudalism is coming back in a different guise," said John McClaughry, a property rights advocate and retired State Senator…
"A growing body of legal theorists, allied with activist organizations and congenial political leaders, has been working very hard to replace the long-cherished concept of freehold property and land with the old feudal concept of social property. The essence of that theory is the contention that property and land cannot be owned by anyone."
The land we live upon and the homes we reside in are much more than lines on a map, said a Marion County property rights activist concerned about Agenda 21.
"Property is the foundation of a free society, and the sacred heritage of any people who would dare lay claim to the right of liberty," he said.
Even local governments are participating in these violations of property rights, said the activist who asked not to be named, so "let this be your siren warning." "Environmentalism, with all of its 'newspeak' code words, is just the means by which our new feudal lords are selling us on the idea that private property is detrimental to society," he explained.
The land use management concepts, according to the activist, come from a "pseudo-science" known as "conservation biology."
"They use masterful public relations techniques," he explained before going on to cite some examples.
"The Wildlands Project" has a nice sound, but it calls for the elimination of human presence on over 50% of the American landscape and heavily controlled activity on most of the rest. "Smart Growth" calls for dense human settlements subject to increasing controls on how we live and increasing restriction on our mobility.
The most damning evidence against this movement to people who support the right to own property comes right from the pages of its own founding documents.
The "Habitat I" report that provided the blueprint for Agenda 21 openly states:
"Private land ownership is also a principle instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice. Public control of land use is therefore indispensable."
Property owners can only wonder, indispensable for whom?
"Since public property is a collectivist fiction, since the public as a whole can neither use nor dispose of its property, that property will always be taken over by some political elite, by a small clique which will then rule the public – a public of literal, dispossessed proletarians," wrote Ayn Rand, a famous author renown for her fierce defense of capitalism and property rights.
In California, another state where these plans are relatively advanced, there are already laws on the books which call for the "decommissioning" of roads, homes, and businesses. This would mean the literal abolition of the communities that exist there. Roads, homes, schools, businesses, and churches will be "decommissioned," all in the name of the environment.
And what of the idea that we must sacrifice private property rights for the benefit of the environment? That argument doesn't stand up to even the most casual analysis, say defenders of property rights.
China and Russia, two countries that have rejected the notion of private property for generations, are environmental disasters. Seventy percent of China's rivers are contaminated. In Dzerzhinsk, Russia, a former Cold War-era center for making chemical weapons, the average life expectancy is 42 for men and 47 for women.
With no private entity or stakeholder to protect and value the land and natural resources, the state has had the freedom to do as "it" saw fit. Private property is not only desirable for economic reasons, say virtually all economists, it is the only means by which to ensure that the environment is protected. Polluted land is of no value to its owner, and a polluter is liable for polluting his neighbors land.
"It is important that every American citizen recognize the goal of this plan for what it is; a return to the ideas that ruled humanity throughout the dark ages and the system where men and women toiled on their land only at the permission of the aristocratic ruling elite," said the knowledgeable activist and property owner from Marion County.
The founders understood the concept of inalienable individual rights, rights that necessitate the ability to own property, rights that are derived from our Creator and are above the reach of government. They wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution to secure and protect those rights.
The Statue of Liberty, Independence Hall and Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello, are all proud reminders of America's heritage of freedom. Now, they're also all considered official U.N. 'World Heritage Sites.'
"Neither Congress, nor any state legislature, has ever voted to approve any of the 47 U.N. Biosphere Reserves in the United States. The management policy for millions of acres covered by these reserves is crafted by international committees of bureaucrats, none of whom is elected," said Henry Lamb,the executive vice president of the Environmental Conservation Organization and the chairman of Sovereignty International.
"To comply with 'international obligations,' the United States conforms its management policy and in some cases its law to accommodate the wishes of bureaucrats that are completely unknown to the people who are governed by the policies."
The U.N.'s "declaration of human rights" states in article 29 that: "These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations."
Also, officials at the U.N.'s Commission on Global Governance "strongly endorse community initiatives to encourage the disarming of civilians," according to their report, 'Our Global Neighborhood.' The Liberty Sentinel did an extensive report on the matter in Issue II of Volume I, including an interview with the C.E.O. of the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre, and a headline story about the U.N. flag flying at city hall. Both are available online.
A few other examples of Land Grabs:
.Land grab in New Mexico http://www.wnd.com/2004/02/231…
Land grab in Utah http://www.suwa.org/herbertsla…
Land grabs in Florida http://www.libertysentinel.org…
Land grab protests in Nebraska and South Dakota http://dakotawarcollege.com/sd…
Land grabbers in congress http://netrightdaily.com/2012/…
Land grab in Montana https://www.cfact.org/2010/09/…
Land grabs of Obama Admin http://www.propertyrightsallia…
Land grab in Texas http://misguidedchildren.com/d…
Land grab in Wyoming (in court now) http://www.washingtontimes.com…
Don't forget – Operation American Spring – May 16, 2014
Agenda 21: The Green Agenda: Club of Rome – Club of Budapest – Club of Madrid
Oklahoma House votes to nullify Agenda 21, 66-26
Australia To The UN: No More "Socialism Masquerading As Environmentalism" (Agenda 21)
AUDIO: 200 Cowboys on Horseback Attempting to Seize Back Cattle Stolen by the Rustlers/Feds
BLM Backs Down: Sen. Reid-Big Chinese Energy Land Grab Vs Bundy Family Ranch
FAA Designates Bundy Ranch a No-Fly Zone
Breaking: Sen. Harry Reid Behind BLM Land Grab of Bundy …
If the Feds Take Your Cattle and Property, YOU Become …
Clarke Co. Commissioner Threatens Ranchers: "Better …
Range War – Nevada Cattle Rancher Standoff
Clarke Co. Commissioner Threatens Ranchers: "Better Have Funeral Plans" – "inbred bastards" – said we should "turn our asses around on mind our own f-ing business"
Life inside the densest place on earth: Remembering Kowloon Walled City (agenda 21)
Bottomline: It's not about the turtles or polar bears, global warming, environment, greening of a country, conservation of the land or whatever…the plan is a lot more diabolical.


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Minnesota's "Land of 10,000 Lakes" moniker evokes lasting memories of fishing, paddling and campfires at the edge of a shore. But being on the water isn't the only way to enjoy the outdoors.
Thousands of miles of hiking trails crisscross our fair state, with some seeing more foot traffic than others. From well-maintained, easy-to-access trails to narrow footpaths hidden deep in the wilderness, there's a trail to suit all tastes and skill levels.
On Aug. 21-23, the North Country Trail Association will host the Minnesota Hiking Celebration at Spirit Mountain in Duluth. In addition to seminars on hiking equipment and guided tours on the famous Superior Hiking Trail, the event will promote hiking on the lesser known North Country Trail and other under-the-radar routes.
"Our goal is to raise awareness of the North Country Trail," says Matthew Davis, regional trail coordinator for the North Country Trail Association in Minnesota and North Dakota. "We want to get more people to think about hiking as a great way to get out and enjoy the outdoors and disconnect from our fast-paced society. Enjoy a healthy activity," says Davis.
North Country Trail
Still in development, the planned 4,600-mile North Country trail will eventually meander from North Dakota to New York State, with twice the length of the Appalachian Trail.
Minnesota will be home to 775 miles of the North Country Trail, but only about 60 percent of the state's network is complete, with two contiguous sections. The 170-mile stretch from Chippewa National Forest to Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge offers a true wilderness experience. While hiking between primitive campsites, backpackers will travel through pine and hardwood forests, as well as rolling hills created by glacial moraines. The trail skirts the shores of many lakes with clear blue waters. The North Country Trail Association has recently published a guidebook to this 170-mile section, with detailed mile-by-mile descriptions of the route. The book is available online at www.northcountrytrail.org.
More Up North trails
Northern Minnesota boasts two more world-class wilderness trails. The Border Route and Kekekabic trails cut through different sections of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, offering up about 35 miles of BWCA experiences apiece. "We're fortunate to have these trails because they provide a unique experience," says Davis. "These trails have all the magic of the Boundary Waters experience except you are hiking instead of paddling."
Volunteer trail crews from the Minnesota Rovers built the 65-mile Border Route Trail between 1972 and 1980. Then they created a nonprofit called the Border Route Trail Association to manage long-term trail maintenance.
Like the North Country and Kekekabic trails, the Border Route Trail is best suited for experienced hikers. John Elliott, president of the Border Route Trail Association, invites hikers to develop skills like map and compass navigation so they can fully appreciate the trail. "The Border Route follows the Canadian border and Pigeon River. There are spectacular overlooks and the Rose Lake cliffs are incredible," advises Elliott.
Ed Solstad, trail maintenance coordinator for the Border Route Trail Association, suggests starting with shorter segments of the Border Route. "Start at the Swamp River trailhead on the eastern end of the BWCA. A short one-mile hike takes you to a wonderful overlook. The trail continues along a ridge that parallels the Pigeon River. A spur trail to Otter Lake leads to a parking area. It's a 3-mile hike back to the original trailhead." The Border Route Trail Association offers a detailed guidebook, available via www.borderroute trail.org.
The Kekekabic Trail is a challenging point-to-point footpath extending from the end of Fernberg Road east of Ely (near Snowbank Lake) all the way to the Gunflint Trail. Built as an access trail for firefighters in the 1930s, hikers must be prepared to climb steep ridges, but they're also sure to encounter natural wonders including waterfalls and beaver dams. More information is available at www.kek.org or pick up a trail guide at Midwest Mountaineering in Minneapolis.
Southern Minnesota trails
Part of the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge, the Louisville Swamp Unit offers 14 miles of trails cutting through diverse natural environments including prairie, wetlands and oak savanna. The remnants of stone buildings from the old Jabs Farm offer a glimpse of pioneer life. Pick up the trailhead of the 4.5-mile Mazomani Trail in the Louisville Swamp Unit's main parking lot in Shakopee.
An hour south of the Twin Cities, Nerstrand Big Woods State Park is a great place to sample the state's diverse plant life. Ten trail loops roam over rolling hills and through forests of sugar maple, white and bur oak, basswood, elm, green ash and ironwood trees. More than 50 varieties of wildflowers can be found in the prairie sections alone. A colony of rare Minnesota dwarf trout lilies are also found in the park.
Alert hikers occasionally catch glimpses of the white-tailed deer, fox and raccoon that live in the park. The Big Woods is also a popular destination for bird-watchers looking for barred owls, goldfinches, chickadees, bobolinks and white-breasted nuthatches. Seven species of woodpecker can also be found in the park.
Don't miss the waterfall at the bottom of the Hidden Falls Trail. As the trail descends from the parking lot, the sound of falling water captures your attention and pulls you closer to the source. The trail leads to Prairie Creek, which drops over a sheer vertical face of limestone bedrock. Watch in awe as erosion causes blocks of limestone to fall 20 feet into the shallow pond below.
Lou Dzierzak is a freelance writer and actively participates in outdoor pursuits. He is editor of Rootsrated.com, an online resource for Twin Cities outdoor destinations.


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What is the Pin Project?
The Pin Project is a global initiative launched on Kickstarter by ISHKAR and Far + Wide Collective.
The iconic lapel pins are produced by refugees, displaced people and returnees in Jordan, Turkey, Burkina Faso and Afghanistan. By raising over $83,000 through our crowdfunding campaign we have been able to provide work to 62 displaced people, as well as training and equipment so that the impact of the project extends long into the future.
By buying a Pin you are helping refugees, displaced people and returnees in some of the world's most troubled areas move towards economic independence and a renewed sense of pride.
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"Iraqis were some the first people to be sculpting stone, so I feel that I am doing something that is part of my culture ."Moutaz, a 29-year-old Iraqi trainee, Amman
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Small Projects Istanbul (SPI) is a grassroots NGO based in Istanbul, Turkey, supporting individuals and families displaced by war in the Middle East. SPI coordinated the training and production of the brass pins by Syrian women now living in Istanbul.
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From expecting my second daughter to a cancer diagnosis, this year brought with it an array of opportunities, challenges and great lessons I think are worth sharing. If I could give you a gift for the new year, it would be applying these five lessons in your life for 2015:
1. Have goals and set intentions, then get out of the way. Quit waiting to make your life happen and pick one big goal at a time. Then be willing to do whatever it takes to achieve that goal. Once you know your goal quit trying to plan how you will make it happen and instead get 100% committed to becoming the person who does what it takes to achieve your goal.
2. When you want love and connection (which we all do, all the time whether we are willing to admit that or not) BE more loving and get connected. When you are willing to take a risk and get vulnerable with the people in your life, you model a new way to be in the relationship that the other person may not have ever seen before. Being authentic and honest is the most loving way to be in relationship and will bring you the most connection to another person.
3. YOU ARE ALWAYS WINNING! You are exactly where you need to be in any given moment for your highest growth. There are no accidents and there are no coincidences. Life will show you where you are out of alignment with your highest self in the form of messages, problems, crises, and disasters. Life is on your side whether you want to believe it or not, so be willing to face what's happening so you can grow.
4. Use your support system. Surround yourself with people who energize you, love you unconditionally, and who are reliable. The best way to find these people is to stay engaged in some sort of continuing education or personal growth work. Your support team is either supporting you in living life in a way that causes suffering or supporting your greatness. You choose.
5. Count your blessings. Some of the biggest obstacles people face are fear, depression and anxiety. When you are faced with these emotions look for what you do have and what there is to be grateful for. One of the fastest ways out of your own self inflicted hell is to be grateful. You can start a gratitude journal or find a gratefulness accountability partner. Share your gratitude on social media or at the dinner table. This will make you an unstoppable force!
In 2015 I challenge you to Make the IMpossible Possible. You are SO worth it.


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Rug c/o Lorena Canals // Bib and romper c/o Finn and Emma // Milestone cards c/o Milestone Cards
Otto is the quintessential baby in every sense of the word. He's snuggly and giggly and smiley and chunky and delicious. His first word is mama and he loves his permanent spot on my hip. He's constantly checking things out and then always coming back to his safe haven of my arms. My baby is just such a baby, and I LOVE it.
Just today at church, Otto fell asleep on my shoulder as I bounced him and rubbed his back. Milo's sleeping in arms days were log over by this age, so I'm soaking it all in with my Otto boy. I stood rocking him in the back of the primary room with a silly smile that couldn't be wiped off my face. Is there anything better than a baby asleep in your arms with their little cheek nestled in your neck? I think not.
We've had so much fun with our Milestone cards, ever so gradually documenting all of Otto's biggest days. Please take your time crossing your big steps off the list sweet boy. You've got all the time in the world and although I'm trying to ignore the fact that 1 is just around the corner, we sure are enjoying the ride.


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Bonsai Boxwood, Buxus harlandii
The Boxwood bonsai is suitable for outdoors but does not tolerate temperatures below -1°C. Provide additional protection when there is more frost.
Height incl. pot approx.: 15.7" / 40 cm
Potsize: 11" x 11" x 3.3" /28 x 28 x 8,5 cm
Age approx.: 60-65 years
Land of origin: Indonesia


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Few months ago, I was asked to research the possibility of integrating two systems for a client using SCRIBE Software specifically. The two systems are Microsoft CRM and SAP. I have done an intensive research in the subject and I have come up with a 9 pages document detailing the answer.
The quick answer is yes. SCRIBE is a good application that can be used to provide an integration between Microsoft Dynamics CRM and SAP.
If you want the report I created studying the strength of SCRIBE and the possibility of using it to do such integration, please request it via a comment on this page and I will email you the document. I will also email you a technical specification document that SCRIBE has sent me which details such integration. This technical document is not publicly available on their website as far as I know but you can always request it directly from them.
My technical report/document also has some examples of case studies in which Microsoft CRM system has been integrated successfullywith SAP. It also lists some white papers and technical documents/documentation that has covered the subject in general and the specific integration between SAP and CRM using SCRIBE.
The document does not include any reference to the client, the exact project specification or any information that could be confidential. It's just simple facts and findings on SCRIBE and the possibility of using it for SAP and CRM integration.
***** Updated 18/02/2010:
The document is now available on Scribe Insight blog as a guest blog post: http://blog.scribesoft.com/2010/02/guest-post-crmsap-integration-using-scribe.html ..
I can still send you the document if you want, just request it via a comment below please.
****** Mohamed Ibrahim Mostafa


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Let's start with the first thing that will catch your eye: the graphics. The main menu already leaves an utterly horrible impression with its indescribable pre-rendered screens. Mercifully, the main part of the game, the core of the actual shooting, uses the Build-Engine, which previously had been used, with great success, for games like Duke Nukem 3D and Blood. In Extreme Paintbrawl's case it just looks dated for 1998. Theoretically, it supports rather high resolutions (for a DOS game), but considering the poor, since drab, textures and the bulky, shapeless objects, this shows almost no impact. Besides the flatness of the sprites and some parts of the scenery is really 'outstanding': That is to say they are 2D, which has been a standard around the mid 90s (think Doom), but seem a little bit antiquated for the end of the decade (as a reminder: the same year saw the release of System Shock 2 and Half-Life). As if this wasn't enough, there are only two sprites in the whole game (one male, one female) and they show a minimum of animation: walking, crawling and raising hands. The weapons defy description too: From a coarse 2D barrel (which at least slightly varies from rifle to rifle) comes always the same blue (or red) paintball, which leaves always the same sad dab of paint.
It might come as no surprise that the shooting properties are fitting to this appearance. No matter how much they try to sell them as rifles, they shoot like glorified slingshots. Even when using the so called 'Sniper' thingy, the balls fly in obvious parabolic trajectories when giving off a shot. This turns long range shots merely into a matter of luck. It also explains the lack of cross hairs. Yet it gets more exciting as soon as you try to shoot while running, an action normally quite common in FPS games (just think of the good old circle strafe). In a severe fit of either realism-craze or bugophilia, they severely decreased the aim of your shots while moving around. Actually that severely, it gets next to impossible to hit anything you are aiming for, as soon as you make the smallest of steps. So the typical attack sequence looks something like: Run around in search for enemies, stop dead, as soon as you spot one, guess the right trajectory for the actual distance and pray, that you will hit in two to three shots.
Since if this shouldn't be the case, the next critical programming bug will strike you with full force: the artificial intelligence of the enemy bots. Which can only be described as a truely torn personality. In its ground state it is dumber than dirt: The typical CPU-Paintbrawler likes standing around, occasionally running in some random direction and almost never gives the impression to grasp his environment (like the wall right next to him or this 'door' stuff). So they have almost no chance to encounter each other, or even set sight on the enemy flag any time soon. But as already hinted above, there is one kind of situation were they turn out to be incredibly dangerous: enemy contact. Get too close or start shooting at them and surprisingly they will return fire. With deadly accuracy, relentless stubbornness and unlimited ammo. Contrary to their human co-players, they have no aiming difficulties at all and like shooting from their back. As soon as they start firing they will never stop again: They will aim for the next enemy, no matter how far he may be away or even what might stand in between, and happily blast away ever after. Funnily friendly units will behave exactly the same way if you start shooting at them. Sadly this is the only way to have any kind of interaction with them.
So winning or losing a round depends heavily on whether you 'activate' an AI or not, because as soon as it is scattering the paintballs around, it gets pretty impossible to hit. The unbalanced firing accuracy combined with the fact that you drop out after the first hit (at least you can change to one of the remaining squad members) accompanied by the nerve grinding, endlessly ticking shooting sound (besides: this is the whole range of the sound effects) turn this into a frustratingly chanceless endeavor. Unless you get one of those occasional total breakdowns, when the paintballs stop working, the AI stands absolutely still and you can amble unhindered right up to the enemy flag, to instantly win the game. Generally speaking, racing straight to the opponent's banner (forget the other option of gunning down the other team for a maximum score) offers the only realistic winning strategy, since this way, you will encounter the least amount of foes. At least in theory, because it strongly depends on how many of the bots accomplish to leave their starting point.
And what do you gain from actually managing to win? A short congratulation screen along with a somewhat small dollar increase of the team's funds. With this money, you pay your team mates (for loitering), buy new (supposedly better) paintball rifles and restock your ammunition. But don't overdo the latter, because you will start each round at zero, all the surplus paintballs and air is left behind on the 'battle field'. In theory, you could also change the team members between the games, though one has to wonder: Why? Whether they have 5/4/6 or 8/7/9, they all behave like 0/0/0. You can check your current ranking amongst the league, though without being able to learn how the scoring comes to pass.
Other than league play, you can also fight in single battles, which play almost the same way, except that you start with the 'best' equipment straight away. Or you might scout the maps in 'training mode', undisturbed by fiends or foes. This has the appeal of an empty online-server, which no-one wants to play on. Apart from the fact, that scouting the straightforward maps seems somewhat superfluous.
It may well be that while playing against human players, some of those problems are slightly diminished, well probably they might even vanish. Too bad I couldn't get anyone interested in giving the multiplayer part a try… mostly after showing them the single player part. Well even if I had, I have my doubts, that it would have worked anyway, since the solo mode only started working with some tricks and jugglery. The main problem is that the menu is based on Windows 95/98/ME and the shooter part runs in pure MS-DOS. Certainly there are only very few systems left that support this natively. Though this kind of combination doesn't seem to have been all that user friendly back on release day either. I have been lucky and the Windows based menus worked on one of my test machines (there were some nice endless fatal exception errors on other ones), which meant I only had to edit a batch file, the interface between the two parts, in order to replace the DOS commands with DOSBox ones. If you can't get the Windows-part of the game to run, you will probably have to start looking for a virtual machine.
Though the question is if you should bother. To be honest: Personally I had a quite a lot more of fun with setting this game up to run, than actually playing it. And that's plainly and simply because Extreme Paintbrawl fails in almost all of the points mentioned above: Back then the graphics might have been somewhat decent, today they are pathetic. Enemies are fiendishly challenging, but for the absolutely wrong reasons. The controls fail at the most essential feature: the eponymous shooting. The maps are run-of-the-mill jobs. Weaponry levels around spray guns. The sound effects are outright pitiful. And the story… well what story? So the question, why no-one thinks about this game anymore might be answered in detail.
Actually Extreme Paintball would be an extremely good candidate for an extreme score (sorry, I couldn't help myself there ). But there are two things that hinder me to declare it as 'total crap, not worth to be in existence': For one it does have a certain charm to it, to try and beat the cheating enemies. If you are looking for a really hard FPS, this might be exactly your thing. It has got a lot in common with the masochism of entering a server of a large online server as a complete newbie for the first time. And for two: 1 of the 6 songs from the sound track is rattling around my brain, for its sheer brilliance: Vivaldi's Four Seasons - Spring played on electric guitars (see downloads!). As for the rest: It would best be silence.
Ah, I think this game is a very bad example, since the graphics certainly already sucked at its release date. Especially the main menu, which had me laughing in tears. Just take a look at that pathetic excuse of a pick-up truck!
Generally speaking: Back in 1998 3D still was in its teens, it was setting out to do some serious stuff but it also wasn't mature enough. So of course the graphics don't look that good and age horribly, but at least some games knew how to use this new perspective. To me graphics aren't just aesthetics, but also functionality: And as nice as some 2D graphics are, there are some things that simply work better with a 3rd dimension (like any kind of exploration game).
Also any kind of serious game knows how to create atmosphere without making you think about such things. And that's were Extreme Paintbrawl horribly fails: You just have to think too much about all the things that went wrong with this game.


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This is a board that contains all informations related to the Illarion spin-off "Legends of Illarion" / Dieses Board enthält alle Informationen bezüglich des Illarion-Ablegers "Legends of Illarion".
Moderators: Dyluck, Gamemasters, Community Managers, Developers
Your threats hold no meaning, unsigned writer!Guest wrote:Should it realy be possible to post here, using just a guest account?
Wouldn't it suffice to keep a thread for the game instead of the forum,
especially after other sub-forums have been removed some time ago
which offered IMO more valuable content about the game (Backgroundstory p.e.) than a forum about LOI?
...Vern Kron wrote:So, I have a silly question. I downloaded this game at computer x, which soon will be out of my reach. How can I play the game, with the file on computer x, on computer y? As in, I download everything, but I want to have this game on that computer?


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We have just got back from a trio of meetings in Manchester with people who are experienced with exploring the wardrobes within homes in the North West of England.
Tuesday 15 March
First stop was to the University of Manchester to meet Sophie Woodward from the School of Social Sciences who shared with us her ongoing research project Dormant Things offering insights into the types of unused objects that reside within the home. Stephanie Roper of the Wardrobe Angel shared experiences from her styling business, which aims to reconnect people with what is within the wardrobe(s). Our final meeting with Sarah Hall a Feminist Geographer, also at the University of Manchester, to discuss her research How Do Recessions and Austerity Impact Everyday Family Life? working with households in the Manchester area to understand the impact of austerity on people in their homes. Throughout the day we explored the complexity of examining 'stuff' in peoples house which will be a pillar of the Wardrobe Audit method we are developing to document clothing in a number of local households. From an analysis of the material culture of the home to a window on everyday life the method will give us a sense of what is here within the homes of people in Macclesfield, our research location.
The day also made us reflect on how the Fashion Ecologies project sits between many disciplines touching fashion, ecology, anthropology, sociology and geography research. Such an interdisciplinary approach is going to foster a dynamic understanding of the research and will certainly push us into new unfamiliar spaces and ideas.
Wednesday 16 March
Spring has arrived! And so too have our project collaborators from Norway. The Fashion Ecologies is a work package for the KRUS project at SIFO and today Ingun Klepp and Arolilja Jørgensrud came to visit Macclesfield. The KRUS project is a 5 year research project looking at all aspects of the value chain of Norwegian Wool. Ingun is an ethnologist with a wealth of experience in this field and also in using Wardrobe Audit methods and is leading the KRUS project. Arolilja is a researcher with a background is in small-scale agriculture particularly wool and will be working with us to conduct a comparative study of our research in Norway.
We commenced the field trip with a walking tour of Macclesfield. Starting up in the surrounding peak district we went to see the hills and local resident sheep that make up the landscape of the town. From here we descended into the town centre. An early part of the research project was to map a 1km transect of the town centre noting the types of retail spaces on the busiest stretch of the town. Today we retraced the route together spending time in the shops to understand the fashion offering in the town. This included scoping out the second hand clothing in the numerous charity shops that can be found on Mill Street and searching for wool products in the high street retailers that are within the Grosvenor Shopping Centre. Mapping the town in this way is a core part of the project giving us insights into what the fashion offering is and will cover local clothing manufacture and suppliers, retail, care and repair and recycling. This is the first stage of building an interconnected picture of the fashion ecosystem in this place. Working with our Norwegian partners made us reflect on these (eco)systems and consider what is common between the UK and Norway and what is unique to these countries.
Thursday 17 March
Day 2 of our Macclesfield field trip with Ingun and Arolilja: today we visited an absolute institution for crafters and makers in the North of England, the delightfully named materials supplier Shufflebothams. In a deceptively large warehouse on the edge of town Shufflebothams supply high quality silks, wool and upholstery fabric to customers from Macclesfield and beyond. The space is an Aladdin's cave of exquisite fabric much of which was sourced from local factories as they closed in the 80s and 90s. The collection acts as an archive of what was woven and printed in the area and included a good range of woollen cloths. We all felt that a having a supplier like this in the town was a real asset for Macclesfield.
Our visit today got us thinking about how we view and count the clothing in the home as part of our Wardrobe Audit. We are looking to uncover all of the clothing provision within the home and so far had been working on a traditional list of clothing categories we will count during the visit. Visiting Shufflebothams has made us rethink our audit from being about clothes to wider categories of household resources including clothes, materials, tool and equipment allowing us to capture all of the resources a household has for clothing provision.
To find out more about the Fashion Ecologies project please visit fashionecologies.org or contact us.


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This coconut banana cream pie hojicha from Zoomdweebie's might be my new favorite dessert tea! Toasty, nutty hojicha is blended with freeze-dried bananas and dried coconut pieces to create a really delicious cup.
This is great as a morning or after-dinner tea because of the low caffeine content. I bet this would be really something iced with a bit of coconut milk. I might have to try it that way next!


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Is the Act working for children? The first year implementation of the Child Justice Act
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The Child Justice Act 75 of 2008 mandates the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development to report annually on the implementation of the Child Justice Act to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Justice and ...
The CRC in South Africa 15 years on: does the new Child Justice Act 75 of 2008 comply with international children's rights instruments?
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Article 40 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child1 requires states parties to take appropriate measures to ensure that children accused of committing offences are treated in a manner that would ensure ...


text: Genealogy Genealogy My main focus is my relatives from Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder in Norway, from the following farms: Frøysaa, Iveland Lie, Øvrebø Mjaaland, Iveland Mushom, Øvrebø Currently I have approx. 6000 individuals in Reunion. Frøysaa west in the foreground and Frøysaa east in the background. In the middle-right you can see the old school.


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This financial year, the Association of Accounting Technicians Australia (AAT) has advised small businesses to take advantage of the marketplace opportunity for cloud-based accounting software.
The AAT reports an increasingly competitive software market has led to falling prices. Given the small business tax concessions granted in last year's federal budget, a window of opportunity has opened for businesses looking to upgrade their accounting systems at a low cost.
Besides the affordable pricing, several benefits of cloud-based accounting software are leading small businesses to make the switch. Almost half the accounting firms across Australia see a major shift to cloud software likely to happen in the coming months.
Here's why you should consider cloud-based accounting and cash flow management software for your business.
1) One source of information
The first clear benefit of using cloud-based accounting software in favour of traditional methods is everyone involved in the bookkeeping at your business refers to a single source of information.
Rather than a bookkeeper sending a file or an Excel spreadsheet to an accountant where both parties make changes to two different copies, cloud software allows data to be accessed by multiple users at once. This system eliminates the risk of discrepancies between different versions, thereby reducing any chance of error in cash flow forecasts and budgets.
2) No need to back up
In traditional accounting systems, financial records need to be backed up in case of computer failure or file corruption. For many small businesses, this leads to data scattered across multiple hard drives, USBs and disks, with the occasional devastating loss and scramble to retrieve data.
In a cloud-based technology, the hassle of backing up is taken care of for you. Your data is automatically saved and stored with the highest priority on security.
3) Data security
In the past couple of years, public concerns over the security of cloud-based technology have been raised. By taking certain precautions, like using secure passwords and protecting against malware, cloud services are some of the most secure ways to store your information.
What's more, if your laptop or tablet is stolen, or a natural disaster or fire occurs, the financial data of your small business won't be compromised. Using cloud-based accounting helps keep your systems resilient, no matter what life throws your way.
4) Access systems wherever, whenever
Using cloud-based accounting software means you aren't tied to your desk when it comes to financial management and record keeping. For example, if you're a mobile worker, there's no need to wait until you get back to your office to issue your clients an invoice. You can log in from a mobile device, send the invoice immediately and have them pay at the push of a button.
Additionally, if your staff members have flexible working arrangements or work from home, cloud-based accounting software allows them to update their data no matter their circumstances. This widespread access means your data can easily remain up to date and not clouded by hindsight.
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Remember having to pay a technician to come and troubleshoot the problems of your computer system? Or worse, waiting on hold to a customer support line for hours, only to be asked if you tried turning it off and on again?
With cloud-based computing, these issues are things of the past. Software upgrades occur automatically, and customer support is available at your fingertips. Cloud services notoriously prioritise customer service because they receive payment through subscription. If a customer finds the software difficult to use they can take their business elsewhere with very little notice.
Have you been thinking about making the move to cloud-based accounting software at your small business? Reep uses cloud technology to give you a live snapshot of your business' cash flow forecast with the ability to explore potential for growth. You can plan for any business scenario from anywhere, at any time, on any device. What's more, Reep currently integrates with MYOB, Xero and Agrimaster. Why not have a look at Reep today and start benefitting from the ease of cloud accounting software.


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In 1980, as part of the national roll out of a then-new concept for the revitalization of historic downtowns, THC Commissioner Anice Read introduced the Main Street program to Texas and helped our state become one of the first state Main Street coordinating programs in the nation. Mrs. Read also served as the first director of Texas' Main Street program. Five years after creating the Texas Main Street Program, Mrs. Read helped found the Texas Downtown Association (TDA), a non-profit membership association, which continues to be a partner today. In 1998, shortly before Mrs. Read passed away, the two organizations worked together to create the Anice Read Fund, which is managed through the Texas Downtown Association. This Fund provides small grants to downtowns all across the state and has leveraged considerable downtown investment. TDA and TMSP annually co-sponsor a statewide downtown revitalization conference. We continue to honor Mrs. Read's legacy today with our work and a belief that downtown revitalization is a crucial tool for enhancing the economic and social health of a community. In addition to being the most visible indicator of community pride and economic health, the historic downtown is also the foundation of the unique heritage of a community. The historic buildings in a downtown are prime locations for the establishment of unique entrepreneurial businesses and can also be tourism attractors, all of which add to the community's sales tax collections and property values. Today, massive, look-alike retail centers permeate the national landscape, making it even more important that communities be proactive in saving and using their historic spaces to avoid becoming featureless places. Working in all four activity areas, local Main Street programs rejuvenate these special places. The programs and their property/business owners in designated local Main Street communities that have been accepted through application receive continual pro-bono assistance from the state Main Street staff in the areas of economic development, design, historic preservation, and organizational management/program capacity building.
The Texas Main Street Program (TMSP) will positively influence and impact the economic health and the preservation of important historic resources in Texas and our work with local communities throughout the state will help achieve the goals of the Texas Historical Commission. Through guidance from the TMSP, designated local Main Street programs will be organizationally sound and their historic town centers will be visually improved and economically viable.
The mission of the TMSP is to provide technical expertise, education, resources and support to designated Main Street communities. Utilizing our individual and collective skills, we shall guide our designated programs in effectively preserving and revitalizing their historic downtowns and commercial neighborhood districts in accord with the National Main Street Four Point Approach™ of organization, design, economic vitality and promotion.
Core Values
Through strong belief that historic commercial resources and their appropriate preservation is a major contributor to the overall economic, social and cultural vitality of a community, the staff of the Texas Main Street Program shall exhibit great passion, interest and enthusiasm for assisting local stakeholders as they revitalize their historic town centers. To that end, we view ourselves as public servants working in harmony to help local communities meet their objectives. We will strive to provide highly effective individualized services to our designated programs in a team-centered approach.
The Four Point Approach® to Downtown Revitalization Under the Main Street Philosophy
- Organization: Partnerships are essential for successful preservation-based downtown revitalization. Through a solid Main Street structure, many groups that share an interest in the health of downtown come together to work toward an agreed-upon vision for downtown and thus, for the community.
- Promotion: This aspect of the Approach is utilized to market a unified, quality image of the business district as the center of activities, goods and services.
- Design: Capitalizing on the downtown's unique physical assets and heritage, design activities such as building rehabilitations, utilization of preservation-based tools and ordinances and effective planning practices help to create an active district and maintain its authenticity.
- Economic Vitality: In this area, a targeted program is developed to identify new market opportunities for the commercial district, find new uses for historic commercial buildings, and stimulate investment in property.
Today, there are 89 official Texas Main Street communities all across Texas that range in population from less than 2,000 to more than 300,000. Cumulatively, designated Texas Main Street communities have reported significant reinvestment into their historic downtowns:
More than $4.4 billion of overall reinvestment has been reported, of which about half has been from private investment in Texas' Main Street districts.
Additionally, Main Street cities have added more than 41,000 jobs and 10,300 small businesses to the Texas economy.
These reinvestments show the significant economic development impact from historic preservation. TMSP staff work hand-in-hand with designated communities to help them achieve their goals.
There are thousands of participating Main Street communities all across the nation in 44 states. More information about the nationwide effort can be found at the website of the National Main Street Center. The national center is a subsidiary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
For more information about the Texas Main Street program, please contact the Texas Main Street state coordinator or call 512-463-5758.


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8/30/2011 — UPDATE: unfortunately, Peek-A-Boo DIVAS is no longer in business. More information about the opening of a new studio will be posted here, if available. In the mean time, consider visiting ShutterLove Studio, Toledo, Ken Love Photography, LLC, Genevieve Nisly Photography, or Leah Aubrey Photography.
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If you haven't had an opportunity to check out peek-a-boo DIVAS, now is the time! Their sweet and saucy 4o's and 50's style pin-up photography would make a great wedding gift for your husband-to-be. It's sexy, classy, and fun for you, too!
Pin-up photography sessions are a great way for any bride to gain a new appreciation of her own body and see how gorgeous she really is! Plus — the perfect excuse for a little pampering (can you say "mani-pedi?") Even if you're feeling a little shy, photographer Krista Burns and Artistic Coordinator Amy Howman will work with you within your comfort range to make sure you get some fantastic shots without feeling overexposed.
Worried about what to wear? How to do your hair and makeup? What to bring along? Don't be! You'll meet with Amy and Krista prior to your photo shoot for a complimentary design session. You'll select colors, discuss hair and makeup, and Amy can even point you in the right direction of several great suppliers of cute retro lingerie, dresses, and more.
The best part: for the next four weeks, peek-a-boo DIVAS is offering a sweet discount on their pin-up photography services! Book your Design Session by March 15 and get $50 off your DIVA photo shoot! For more information, call Krista and Amy, the DIVAS themselves, at 330-573-5142, or check them out online at http://www.peekaboodivas.com/. Tell them DJ AJ9 sent you!


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The video shows how to make an extra long ping pong smoke bomb. For this we need a long sheet of aluminum foil (length of the foil depends on the number of ping pong balls we use), 12 ping pong balls is used in the video (any number of balls can be used), a pair of scissors and a lighter.
Take one ping pong ball and place it in the center of the foil. Fold the sheet into half holding the ping pong ball in the middle. Make sure that the sheet is even. For holding the ping pong balls to the center just wrap the foil to the ball. Now place all the rest of the eleven balls back to back touching one another in a straight line along the center of the sheet and wrap them tightly. Seal the foil tightly on both sides. It's important that all the ping pong balls are in a straight line are in good contact. Also make sure that you don't rip the foil as it would make the smoke bomb to flame instead of making smoke. Make sure to leave the unfolded end of the foil open, from where the smoke could get off. Cut the end of excess foil leaving space for a ping pong ball and a half. So the length of the foil can calculated as (number of ping pong balls + 2) * 2.
Now seal tightly the extra flaps of foil. Make an opening at the top with a pencil or pen or even with your finger. Keep the pencil touching the ball and wrap the foil tightly and remove the pencil. Now the smoke bomb is ready. Here the demonstrator has taped the whole bomb. But it better not to tape it for the bomb to work properly. Flame the bomb to base end and blow of the flame.
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For people with kidney disease, swelling (edema) can be commonly seen. If not controlled well, various discomforts are more likely to occur. Thereby, it is essential to understand the causes and treatments.
What does swelling mean?
Swelling occurs when extra fluid accumulate in the body tissues. It can be found around the eyelids, hands, feet and lower limbs. In serious cases, it will spread to the whole body, and pulmonary edema may appear. Frankly speaking, this abnormal symptom can be caused by many factors, for instance, drugs, pregnancy, heat failure, kidney disease, malnutrition or cirrhosis of the liver.
How does kidney disease lead to swelling?
1.Fluid-sodium retention As kidneys become damaged, they will not be able to filter excess fluid and sodium out of the blood. In this way, these substances become trapped in the body tissues, resulting in edema.
2.Loss of protein in urine Kidneys are regarded as "blood-cleaners" of our body, on the one hand, wastes can be excreted out of the body. On the other hand, they can retain nutrients like protein. Due to decline of kidney function, proteins can leak into urine easily. When the plasma osmotic pressure become decreased, extra fluid will build up in the interstitial spaces.
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-Reduce dietary salt intake To help alleviate swelling, the first step is to follow a low salt diet.
-Medications In addition to reduce the intake of sodium, doctors can also prescribe patients with diuretics to eliminate the excess fluid that accumulated within the body. However, drugs can not resolve this problem from the underlying cause.
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In the Hotel Restaurant Kaiserhof, the day begins with a sumptuous breakfast buffet, which really leaves nothing to be desired. Everyone will get their money's worth - whether male or female, young or old. We make sure that your day always starts on a good note.
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The breakfast buffet is available every morning from as early as 6.00 a.m (weekend 7.00 a.m.).
Our breakfast costs only EUR 7.00 EUR of the total room price and it is therefore, attractive even for business travellers.
We are happy to offer our breakfast buffet also to "outside guests" (for groups of 10 people or more).


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The Koppenberg is one of the Colorado Spring Classics you love to hate. If you race cross or are just damn good on dirt, this race is for you. The course description claims two miles of the 5.5 mile circuit is dirt but it felt like eternity racing over washboard-esque roads, dodging potholes, and slipping through sand. Dirt is not my forte. Frankly, up until the Oz Road Race last year, I did everything in my power to avoid any and all dirt.
I realized that avoiding things that scared me was a waste of time and energy. I also didn't want to let fear control me. You don't grow stronger by avoiding the things you fear. I certainly wasn't going to become a stronger racer by dodging any race with dirt. I knew I wasn't going to make Top 3 in this race and it tormented me. I have this awful habit of believing that if I'm not first, I'm last. I'm great at not giving myself credit for well, anything. Perfectionism is a silent spirit killer.
The other women lined up next to me, our elbows damn near touching. I was left without room to even lift my leg to clip in. I let the pressure get to me. I couldn't clip in. I was bumped from behind and the women sprinted away. So not the Cat 4/5 Race I was used to from last year. Doubts flooded my mind before we even got to the dirt 1/4 mile away.
I tried to let go of the fear wrapping around me as I bounced and slid along the gravel road. "Try to hang on" I whispered to myself. "Stay relaxed" I said. All these stupidly positive, yet realistic things I'd say to a teammate who was in the hurt locker.
I lost the main group. I fell behind with other women who were hurting as much as me. I ended up in 11th. I won't even repeat the shitty things I told myself. Chris already ripped up my "victim" card. Instead of feeling sorry for myself, I forced myself to learn from this perceived failure.
1. Train hard if you want to race hard
I decided that I'm not training hard enough to compete on this Cat 3 level. I knew this season was going to be harder, but until you're in the trenches (almost literally at the Koppenberg), you've no clue what the race will be like.
I thought my training was solid. I had a practiced a few intervals. I tested my FTP. I was strength training. I thought it was enough. It wasn't. It isn't.
I'm realizing every time I think my workout is too hard and dial it back, I know there's a woman training harder who I'll race against later. Every time I skip a workout, there's a woman extending hers. I'll race against her as well.
Training is an adaptive process. Continually pushing your body teaches it to adapt to the new stressors placed upon it. So, if you want to change your body, you need to stress it to a new level so it adapts. If you don't consistently stress it, your body won't become stronger. Naturally, it also needs rest, but that's another entry.
During training is where you teach your body to adapt to new stressors. Training your body under the same conditions of a race prepares it to perform under the same stressors when it comes to performing. If I only kept my power output at say, 100 watts, my body wouldn't know how to perform at 540 watts (what I put out on the 17% grade).
If you want to perform at the highest level possible, you have to create that environment during your training.
2. Eat for performance
I'm a snacker. I love snacks. Snacks can be great, but some of the snacks I've been eating lately haven't been the best (shoutout to Goldfish!) for my performance. What you put in to your body will reflect on the outside. It's obvious when you look at someone who has a lot of extra fat on their bodies. No judging. That's just the way it is. If you eat too much, it will become fat. Other health and performance problems are exacerbated when the food you choose is processed crap.
I know by treating my body like a garbage disposal it will perform like the one in our sink. Food's clogging it up. It doesn't have enough power to cut through it all and perform to its potential. We're probably going to have to replace it soon. Unlike garbage disposals, I can't replace my body. This is the only one I have. I have written about what sugar and processed food does to your body. You can read more here.
If you treat your body like a trashcan, it's going to perform like one.
3. Learn to suffer
I buckle when it gets too hard. I ease off. It's the truth. I don't like to be in pain as much as my tattoos would lead you to believe that I love it. Tattoos are a different kind of pain though. The physical exertion in a race affects your entire body whereas a tattoo is concentrated in one spot. They are both mentally fatiguing though.
Again, learning to suffer comes through training. You have to teach yourself to push on even though you want to stop or back off. I know when my mind tells my legs to ease up is when I need to force them to carry on. Our minds, our thoughts, are strong as hell. Your brain has the power to convince you of anything. If you believe you're weak, your brain sends that to your body and it reacts appropriately. The same is true when you think you're strong. Your body will believe it. Just like when you learn anything, it takes practice. It takes review. It takes repetition. You can't line up in the race and decide right then and there that you can suffer.
It's an art.
Learn to suffer. I recommend two books if you're a reader like myself: 1. The Brave Athlete. 2. Thinking Body, Dancing Mind. These two books are helping me learn to suffer in a healthy way and how to be a successful athlete.
4. Work on weaknesses
When you race you learn your weaknesses. As much as I'd prefer others not to know my weaknesses and use them against me, I know these weaknesses aren't specific to me. A lot of people are working through the same weaknesses: racing on dirt, sprint finishes, climbing, and cornering.
I'm human. I'm not perfect (as much as I dislike thinking this). There are things (okay, a lot of things) I need to work on to improve my performance.
Because of this race, I now know what I need to improve. If I competed in the race and threw in the towel there, I wouldn't grow. I won't become stronger by giving up. Instead, I'm focusing my efforts now on sprinting during my training. I know I need to practice putting out high watts on dirt. And I need to get comfortable taking corners full speed.
By working on your known weaknesses you'll become that much stronger and perform better in your next race.
5. Be gentle yet stern
I'm mostly just as asshole to myself. I apologized to my family for coming out to the race and see me finish 11th. I felt guilty for taking up their time to not land on the podium.
I called myself a "failure," "weak," and a "poseur." What do you think that's doing to my psyche? Talking down to ourselves like that affects our bodies. If I keep telling myself those shitty things, I'm going to continually perform that way too.
I know I would never speak to a teammate like that. And if someone else came up to as soon as I crossed the finish line to tell me, "Jessica, you're weak." I'd tell them to go fuck themselves. So why do I talk to myself like that? As the saying goes, "we're our biggest critics." Instead, we should be our biggest fans.
Be stern though. Don't baby yourself either. Pat yourself on the back but also look at what you could have done better. There will never be a time where you go, "There is nothing I could have done better." Ever. And if you say that to yourself, you're in denial. No, that's not just a river in Egypt.
Give yourself credit for having the guts to go out there in the first place. You're doing far better than the people on their couches watching Real Housewives of whatever.
6. Get rid of excuses
When I found out who won, the excuses started flying as fast as Kristin Armstrong. "She's half my age." "They probably have a Coach." "They didn't have to deal with a dying cat last night." "They have more time to train." Truly, these were thoughts. And they are all bullshit.
Have you heard the line, "Excuses are like assholes. Everyone has one and they all stink."? I first heard that in high school. I laughed because visualizing that is gross, but it set in and I've been using that line ever since.
I found out that the second place winner doesn't have a coach, she uses Zwift. I also have Zwift. No excuse to not perform better.
No one has more time in a day than anyone else. We all have 24 hours in a day. What makes the biggest difference is how you use the hours. If I dedicated all my free time to training, I'd probably be stronger, but I don't.
The honest to bob truth is that I'm just not as strong as the women who won. Boom. My ego shudders to write that.
7. Each setback is a lesson
Knowledge is power.
Applying knowledge is a whole other story.
What separates the women from the weak is having enough self-awareness to realize your short-comings and then doing something about it. You can totally learn your weaknesses and do absolutely nothing about it. I know plenty of people who know they have to work on something specific, something they know will help them in the long run, but they don't do it. They're comfortable where they're at. Those people never amount to anything great.
Adversely, the people who see a setback as a failure and give up are never going to amount to anything either. Failures and setbacks are lessons. It's data. Information you can use to improve. If you did everything perfect from the get-go, you'd learn nothing. Failure always comes before success. And if you want to succeed faster, fail often.
Don't be afraid to fail. The most successful people failed often. Do you think Kristin Armstrong showed up at the Olympics one day and won all her golds? Hell no. Or Peter Sagan? Hell, that guy gives zero fucks. He was kicked out of the Tour de France and then went on to win the Paris-Roubiax. Every single person who is now considered a pro or a success has failed. We're no different from professionals in the land of failure. They just failed and learned faster.
As I lined up amongst the other racers I told myself to "fake it." "Don't let them see you sweat" and by bob, I was sweating. My legs burned. My lungs were on fire. And we pressed on.


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The heir to the Nina Ricci perfume and fashion empire has been convicted of tax fraud.
Arlette Ricci has been sentenced to a one-year jail term and fined €1 million.
The court has also confiscated property worth €4 million.
The 73-year-old has been found guilty of concealing from the French tax authorities in an off shore HSBC account..
Ricci must also repay millions in back taxes for the period 2007 to 2009.
Jean-Marc Fedida the lawyer for Arlette Ricci said:" We wanted to conduct an exemplary
trial as a kind of warning to those who hold fraudulent bank accounts abroad so they can step forward and with bowed head to the tax inspector."
Arlette Ricci is the first of 50 French nationals to face trial over tax evasion in the HSBC case.
The HSCB private banking arm is under investigation for large scale tax fraud after the names of thousands of clients were passed to media outlets in the so-called "Swissleaks" scandal.


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Wage Dispersion, Returns to Skill, and Black-White Wage Differentials
David Card, Thomas Lemieux
NBER Working Paper No. 4365
During the 1980s wage differentials between younger and older workers and between more and less educated workers expanded rapidly. Wage dispersion among individuals with the same age and education also rose. A simple explanation for both sets of facts is that earnings represent a return to a one-dimensional index of skill, and that the rate of return to skill rose over the decade. We explore a simple method for estimating and testing 'single index' models of wages. Our approach integrates 3 dimensions of skill: age, education, and unobserved ability. We find that a one-dimensional skill model gives a relatively successful account of changes in the structure of wages for white men and women between 1979 and 1989. We then use the estimated models for whites to analyze recent changes in the relative wages of black men and women.
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Document Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3386/w4365
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Dog owners urged to avail of free micro-chipping until end of October-Carlin
Published: 8 October, 2013
Strabane Sinn Féin Councillor Karina Carlin says that council is playing its part in encouraging responsible dog ownership citing pro-active initiatives to tackle dog fouling and the associated problem of stray dogs.
She said,
"By far the most common area of complaint among residents across the District is dog fouling and complaints that stray dogs are a particularly contributory cause of the problem. I along with other Sinn Fein colleagues on Council have been to the fore in pressing for initiatives to deal with the problem in a more fundamental way through encouraging responsible dog ownership.
"However, dog owners pointed out that a major obstacle standing in the way of progressing this objective has been the additional cost of micro-chipping which is required before a dog licence can be obtained at a cost of £5 (unwaged) and £12.50 (waged).
"In an effort to remove this additional burden, I proposed within Council that we approach the Dogs Trust to explore whether it would be prepared to provide free micro-chipping. As a result, dog owners can now avail of this service, free of charge, at any of the local vets, throughout the month of October which will enable owners to licence their dogs and avoid any non-compliance penalties.
"I would urge any dog owner who has not already done so to avail of this service and contact their local vet as early as possible as demand is already high.
"In a further effort to encourage responsible dog ownership and on foot of representations received from residents in different areas of the town an additional 11 dog fouling bins have been installed in the vicinity of Beldoo, Castlegrange Park, Castlemurray, Castletown Court, Urney Road, Mount Carmel Heights, Townsend Terrace, and Church View with plans for additional bins across rural areas also.
"It is also important to highlight once again that free poop-a-scoop bags can be obtained at the local council offices and while pro-active initiatives such as these are continuing to help to reduce the problem of dog fouling we still have a long way to go.
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Facade Program
Palmetto Bay façade Improvement Grant Specifics
Eligible Improvements
The program provides financial assistance for the following external "facelift" improvements:
- Siding/Stucco
- Walls/Fencing/Railings *
- ADA improvements *
- Pedestrian amenities *
- Windows/Doors *
- Awnings/Canopies *
- Lighting
- Painting (no Building permit required)
- Signage
- Detached monument signs (Planning/Zoning review required)
- Sidewalks/Surface Parking * (Public Works permit required)
- Landscape/Xeriscape
* May require Miami-Dade Fire & other outside agency review/ Applicant is responsible for all permits required*
Please note that a grant application should not be considered an application for a building permit. For more info, please visit the Building Department.
Conditions for automatic disqualification
- Businesses that relocate out of the district during the process.
- Must not have delinquent loan (s) and/or unresolved liens.
- Must not have an active violation from the Village for the work to be funded by the grant.
- Construction must not have begun on the work to be funded by the grant.
- Applications submitted before or after the advertised grant cycle will not be eligible.
Application Requirements
All businesses must be located in Palmetto Bay and provide the following:
- Submit one completed original application with all requested documentation.
- Include three estimates for the improvement. (One must be from a Palmetto Bay registered contractor)
- Provide proof that the business has been operating for the past 1 year, (example: License, State Corporations, Sales Tax, or utility bill.) Proof must be in business' name (include copy only).
- Must submit a current Local Business Tax receipt.
- Must submit printed copy of your active State of Florida Corporation Or Fictitious Name if business is incorporated (sunbiz.org).
- Must submit picture of the façade of the business location.
- Must submit renderings of the proposed façade improvement project.
- Must provide copy of picture ID (driver's license, Florida ID, or Immigration card) of owner.
- A physical address is required. No P.O Box as mailing address allowed.
- A pre-application meeting with the staff liaison is required. Please contact Maria Pineda at firstname.lastname@example.com or Morelia Rodriguez at firstname.lastname@example.com
- This grant application shall be submitted during the application cycle, before deadline, to the Community and Economic Development Office along with all required documentation including project plans and three (3) quotes outlining specific job scope.
- Application will be reviewed by the Economic Development division and scored by a committee appointed by the Village Manager (Palmetto Bay Economic Task Force).
- Additional submittal documents may be requested upon review of this application.
- Applicant will be informed of the approval or denial of this application in writing.
- If the application is approved, the applicant must then obtain all applicable building permits and approval from Building Department and authorities having jurisdiction, as well as pay applicable fees.
- Applicants must submit a Final Payment Request including façade improvement project expenditures, applicable building permits and proof of final inspection to the Economic Development division for reimbursement.
- The grant funds will be issued upon completion of the approved improvements as stipulated in the grant agreement, pending approval of the final inspection by the Building Department and authorization by the Village Manager.
façade Improvement Grant Application
Total Project Cost (attach a project itemized breakdown)
General description of proposed improvement:
ADA improvements
Pedestrian amenities
Painting and Façade Improvements
Detached monument signs
Sidewalks/Surface Parking
Application must be accompanied by three (3) quotes, (1) must be from a registered village contractor outlining specific job scope.
This is matching grant up to $2,500 value per business.
Signature of Property Owner_________________________________________________________
Print Name of Property Owner________________________________________________________
A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND VILLAGE COUNCIL OF THE VILLAGE OF PALMETTO BAY, FLORIDA, RELATING TO THE FAÇADE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM; PROVIDING FOR IMPLEMENTATION; PROVIDING FOR SERABILITY, AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. (Sponsored by Administration and Councilman Patrick Fiore)
WHEREAS, The Village of Palmetto Bay Façade Improvement Grant Program offers assistance to qualified businesses and commercial properties along the US1corridor in Palmetto Bay in order to stimulate and incentivize private sector investment, beautification, economic growth and job creation and job retention in the Village; and
WHEREAS, the Grant will assists in improving the appearance of the building facades within the Village's business district; and
WHEREAS, all Grant funding is provided as a competitive reimbursement process; and
WHEREAS, all applicable businesses will be completing an application and must adhere and comply with the Palmetto Bay Façade Program Specifics (attachment A) in order to qualify; and
WHEREAS, reimbursement up to 50% of the façade improvement costs, up to $2,500 per property for façade improvements and applicable to visible buildings outside of the DUV situated along US1 major thoroughfare and program is available for large or small types of business structures and commercial properties, and;
WHEREAS, grant applications will be accepted by the Community and Economic Development office and reviewed by the Palmetto Bay Economic Task Force whose recommendations will be brought to the City Council meeting for approval.
Section 1. The Village Manager is hereby authorized to execute and implement the Palmetto Bay Façade Improvement Program
Section 2. This Resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 4th day of February, 2019.
Attest: ______________________ _____________________ Missy Arocha Karyn Cunningham
Village Clerk Mayor
Dexter W. Lehtinen
Village Attorney
Council Member Patrick Fiore ____
Council Member David Singer ____
Council Member Marsha Matson ____
Vice-Mayor John DuBois ____
Mayor Karyn Cunningham ____


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Robotronicdiagram. - Here is circuit Ni-MH Battery Charger using LT4060 like in Figure 1 below. The main component in this Ni-MH Battery Charger using LT4060 is LT4060 IC. In here we will show you also the component part ans simple description of this circuit diagram.
Circuit Diagram
Component Part
- Resistors
- Capacitors
- NTC Thermistor
- Transistor MJD210
Circuit diagram like in figure 1 above is Circuit Diagram Ni-MH Battery Charger using LT4060. According Circuitstoday site describe that this is the circuit diagram of a very powerful and efficient Ni-MH battery charger using IC LT4060 from Linear Technologies. In addition to Ni-MH batteries Ni-Cd batteries can be also charged by slightly modifying the circuit.For charging Ni-Cd batteries connect the CHEM pin (pin12) of the IC to +Vcc.Here the circuit is configured to charge 2 cells connected in series. By altering the connections of SEL0 and SEL1 pins, upto 4 batteries in series can be charged using this circuit. For charging a single cell, connect SEL0 and SEL1 pins to GND. For charging two cells, connect SEL1 to GND and SEL0 to Vcc. For charging three cells, connect SEL1 to VCC and SEL0 to GND. For charging 4 cells, connect SEL0 and SEL1 pins to VCC. The circuit also features temperature based charge qualification.An NTC thermistor connected at the NTC pin (pin11) of the IC serves as the temperature sensor.
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