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UUD / Keamanan; Luar Negeri; Perindustrian; §70-74
Pasal 74: Direktorat perindustrian
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- Kategori: Keamanan Dalam Negeri; Luar Negeri; Direktorat Perindustrian §70-74
Pasal 74: Direktorat perindustrian adalah direktorat yang menangani seluruh urusan yang berhubungan dengan industri, baik industri berat seperti industri mesin dan peralatan, industri otomotiv dan transportasi, industri bahan baku dan industri elektonika; maupun industri ringan. Baik pabrik itu temasuk kepemilikan umum atau pabrik-pabrik yang termasuk kepemilikan individu, tetapi memiliki hubungan dengan industri militer; dan segala jenis industri, semuanya wajib dijalankan berdasarkan politik perang.
Article 74: The Department of Industry is in charge of all the affairs connected to industry, whether heavy industry such as the manufacturing of engines, machines, vehicles, materials and electrical equipment, or light industry. Similarly, whether the factories are of the public property type or they are included in the private property and have a relationship to the military industry. All types of factories must be established upon the basis of military policy.
The department of industry is the department that takes charge of all the affairs related to industry, whether they pertain to heavy industry like the manufacturing of motors, engines, vehicles, materials, and electrical equipment, or light industry; and irrespective of whether the factories were public or private propertywhich have a relationship with the military industries. The factories in all sectors must be based on the war policy. This is because Jihadand fighting require an army, and in order to fight this army requires weapons. In order that these weapons be of the highest level and fully available, it is necessary to have an industry within the State, particularly the military industry, due to its strong relationship with Jihad.
In order that the State becomes independent of other countries and does not become influenced by any of them it should manufacture and develop its own weapons by itself. This makes it independent and in continuous possession of the most advanced and strongest weaponry, regardless of the level of development and advancement of weapons. It would also have at its disposal all that it needs of weapons to intimidate both the evident and potential enemies, as Allah (swt) says:
(( وَأَعِدُّوا لَهُمْ مَا اسْتَطَعْتُمْ مِنْ قُوَّةٍ وَمِنْ رِبَاطِ الْخَيْلِ تُرْهِبُونَ بِهِ عَدُوَّ اللَّهِ وَعَدُوَّكُمْ وَآَخَرِينَ مِنْ دُونِهِمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَهُمُ اللَّهُ يَعْلَمُهُمْ ))
"And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may terrify the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know [but] whom Allah." (TMQ 8:60)
As such the State would have its own will, produce the weapons that it needs and develop them continuously so that it owns the strongest and most developed weapons in order to intimidate all the evident and potential enemies. Therefore, it is a duty upon the State to manufacture weapons by itself and it is not allowed to depend upon other states, because this allows other states to control it, its will, its weapons and its fighting.
It is quite clear in the world today that the states which sell weapons to other states do not usually sell every weapon, particularly the most developed weapons. They do not even sell weapons except with certain conditions that cover their utilisation. They will not sell them except in quantities that they, rather than the purchasing countries, decide. This gives the state which sells arms, authority and influence over the state which buys the arms, enabling it to enforce its own will upon the purchasing state, particularly if it was involved in a war. In that case it would need more arms, spare partsand ammunition, which would increase its dependence on the state which exports its arms and increase its submission to another state's demands. This allows the state which exports arms to control it and its will, especially in times of war and in times of great need for arms and spare parts. Hence such a state would make itself, its will and its entity hostage to the state that exports arms to it.
Therefore, for all these reasons, the State has to independently manufacture its own arms and everything it requires for its war machine and spare parts. This can't be achieved unless the State possesses heavy industry and started to build factories which produce heavy industry, both military and non-military alike. Thus it is necessary that the State have factories for producing all types of atomic weapons, rockets, satellites, airplanes, tanks, mortars, naval ships, armoured vehicles and all types of heavy and light weapons. It is necessary that it have factories which produce machines, motors, materials, and electronics, and factories which have a relation with public property and light factories which have relation with the military or war industries. All this is required by the duty of preparation which is obliged upon the Muslims by the saying of Allah (swt):
(( وَأَعِدُّوا لَهُمْ مَا اسْتَطَعْتُمْ مِنْ قُوَّةٍ ))
"And prepare against them whatever you are able of power." (TMQ 8:60).
Since the Islamic State conveys the message of Islam by Da'wahand Jihad, it should be a state which should be continually ready to carry out Jihad. This requires the existence of heavy and light industry built upon the basis of its war policy. Thus in case it wanted at any time to transform these factories for military purposes, it would easily do so at any time. Therefore, all the industry in the Khilafah State should be based on the war policy, and all the factories, which produce the light and heavy industries, should be based on this policy, so that it becomes easy to transform their production to military production at any time the State requires.


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ICYMI: Spring Break
By Steve Rotstein | Sports Editor
March 12, 2017
March 3 Wise earns second straight All-ACC Academic selection - Pitt sophomore forward Brenna Wise received her second straight selection to the All-ACC Academic Team after posting a perfect 4.0 GPA in the fall 2016 semester. Wise also led the Panthers in scoring and rebounding for the second year in a ...
Pitt wrestlers top Duke to end regular season
By Bayard Miller | Assistant Sports Editor
February 20, 2017
After a season filled with distractions and disappointments, the No. 24 Pitt wrestling team closed out its regular season on a three-match winning streak after defeating Duke Saturday night. The team endured a midseason coaching change, a wrestler falling out of his dorm room window and breaking se...
Think Twice: Pitt wrestling defeats Iowa State and UVA
By Rebecca Sauers | For The Pitt News
February 13, 2017
After a tumultuous month in which the Pitt wrestling team underwent a midseason coaching change and dropped its first three conference matches, the Panthers hit their stride this weekend. No. 24 Pitt (10-5 overall, 1-3 ACC) went 2-0 over the weekend, defeating the Iowa State Cyclones at home Friday...
Panther wrestling pinned by Wolfpack, 23-15
By Luke Cannon | For The Pitt News
February 6, 2017
The No. 25 Pitt wrestling team received a boost from the return of its best wrestler Friday night, but it wasn't enough to hold off a late comeback from the No. 8 North Carolina State Wolfpack. Pitt junior Dom Forys — the No. 8 133-pounder in the nation — returned against the Wolfpack after mi...
North Carolina Tar Heels top Pitt wrestling, 20-16
By Steve Rotstein | Sports Editor
January 30, 2017
The No. 24 Pitt wrestling team got one experienced starter back Saturday against North Carolina: senior 149-pounder Mikey Racciato. But junior Dom Forys — the team's top-ranked wrestler — missed his third straight match, and it was too much for the team to overcome. Pitt junior Brendan Price, F...
Without Peters, Racciato, Pitt wrestling sees mixed results
By Ryan Zimba | Staff Writer
January 23, 2017
Without former coach Jason Peters and wrestler Mikey Racciato, the Pitt wrestling program attempted to recover, if only briefly, from a tumultuous week. The weekend started poorly for the No. 23 Panthers (8-3 overall, 0-1 ACC) as they took a beating Friday in Blacksburg, Virginia, losing to No. 5...
Relief of Pitt wrestling coach Jason Peters came after incident in Evanston
By Steve Rotstein | Sports Editor
January 19, 2017
Without clear explanation, Pitt relieved Jason Peters of his position as Pitt's head wrestling coach Thursday. Peters no longer works for the University. Assistant head coaches Matt Kocher and Drew Headlee will act as co-head coaches for the remainder of the 2017 season. Senior 149-pounder Mi...
Pitt wrestling seeks revival following a disappointing season
By Chris Puzia / Contributing Editor
August 30, 2015
Pitt assistant wrestling coach Drew Headlee recognizes that last season was a major disappointment — especially by the team's self-created standards. "Anyone not standing on that championship podium would say last season was a letdown," Headlee said of the team's 8-8 campaign in 2014. "They...

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DAVID SMITH - Thursday, July 19, 2012
Josh Gatt and Molde all but assured their spot in the next qualifying round while Bryan Gerzicich and Kiryat Shmona need a strong home leg next week in order to fight past their Slovakian opposition.
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|Traditional and Modern in Singapore's Chinatown
By contrast, most people I talked to Singapore have heard of Portland and were even familiar with its tagline "weird."
|Trendy bar with $14 beers
Singaporeans I met tended to be very self aware as well. When asking visitors what those thought of their country they often rushed to reply themselves: "It is hot, right?" "It is expensive, correct?" "We have two seasons–hot and hotter here" or "We have two national sports–eating and shopping here". I would also add the selfie stick photography to the list of national sports. There is even a coffee shop that offers its customers beverages with their selfies plastered to the top.
Singapore's NeighborhoodsLots of historic neighborhood streets in Singapore look like this. Two story buildings with clean colorful facades with red tile roofs and window shutters always flanked by the blue glassy backdrop of modern skyscrapers.
|Arab neighborhood
|Historic Raffles Hotel
My hotel was centrally located on Purvis street surrounded by various landmarks like the historic Raffles Hotel (above) and colorful neighborhoods such as Little India, Chinatown, Arab neighborhood.
|Drawing 180 degree angle panoramas with Lapin in front of my hotel
|Colorful Chinatown
Hindu Temples in Singapore
The highlight of my time in Singapore was visiting and sketching Sri Krishnan Hindu temple. I ended up going back there for three days in a row, sketching the elaborate entry and its hilarious attendant, its facade and finally detailing the elaborate ceremony dedicated to the Hindu god–Garuda. The ceremony was one of the most moving religious experiences for me up to date–the feast for senses with its bright colors, incense burning, live music, hours of chanting. Buckets and buckets of milk, honey and spices were poured on a statue of Garuda as part of the celebration. Some sketchers and I were even invited to share the meal with the devotees at the end.
As I was sketching the entry into Sri Krishnan locals would stop by to watch, offer me food or drink. One young woman even gave me a clip to hold the pages of my sketchbook down.
|The entry into the Sri Krishnan Temple is flanked by two giant statues–Hanuman and Garuda as well as its vigilant attendant
|Sri Mariamman Temple located in China Town
Exotic FoodsTraveling in South East Asia one is constantly exposed to a variety of unusual foods and food smell amplified by heat and humidity. Yet, at no time is your stomach more alarmed by something unusual as during breakfast. Watching people slurp their noodles at 6am in the airport was turning my stomach but only a few minutes later I found myself ordering and eating the spicy brothy laksa–traditional breakfast soup in this part of Asia.
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|First Sketchcrawl on Purvis Street
This time almost 400 sketchers from 36 countries gathered in Singapore. Three days was not enough time to meet everyone, look at their sketchbooks, and really revel in the fact that there are so many amazing talented people in the world who share my passion . I met or reconnected with some amazing artists from Honk Kong, Tanzania, Israel, Korea, Indonesia, Malasia, and Australia. I also got to hang out with some of my favorites from the Spanish speaking world–Miguel Herranz from Barcelona, Norberto Dorantes from Buenos Aires, Inma Serrano from Sevilla.
|Miguel Herranz and Norberto Dorantes
|Inma Serrano
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Blind Justice (Hardcover)
For a generation, Anne Perry's "New York Times" bestselling novels have invited readers to explore the brilliantly seductive heart of Victorian London, where great wealth and great evil live side by side, and great men sometimes make unfortunate choices.
In Perry's stunning new novel, Hester Monk, the wife of William Monk, commander of the Thames River Police, questions the finances of a London church whose members' hard-earned charitable gifts appear to have ended up in the pocket of charismatic preacher Abel Taft, paying for his fine home and the stylish outfits of his wife and daughters.
Taft is accused of extortion, and brilliant barrister Oliver Rathbone, newly appointed a judge, is chosen to preside over his trial. It seems clear that Taft is indeed guilty. However, at the last second, the defense produces a witness who completely undermines the charges. Then Rathbone makes a well-meaning but reckless move that could ruin his career, his reputation, and his life.
"Blind Justice" presents a rich and lively panorama of London life, from the teeming Thames docks to the wealthy West End, while unfolding a magnificent courtroom drama. And while justice, law, and morality hang in the balance, Hester and Monk race to save their distinguished friend Rathbone from disgrace. The incomparable art of Anne Perry grips us fast until the final, unforgettable scene.
Praise for "Blind Justice"
"A staggering achievement . . . Perry's command of plot and prose shines."--"Bookreporter"
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"Ranks among the best Anne] Perry has written. Her courtroom scenes have the realism of Scott Turow."--"Huntington News"
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"Gripping . . . Those who love Victorian England will relish Ms. Perry's presentation of period details. Her mastery of this time and place gives credence to the characters' moral and legal struggles."--"New York Journal of Books"
Praise for Anne Perry and her Wiliam Monk novels
"A Sunless Sea"
"Anne Perry's Victorian mysteries are marvels."--"The New York Times Book Review"
"Acceptable Loss"
"Masterful storytelling and moving dialogue."--"The Star-Ledger"
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"Execution Dock"
" An] engrossing page-turner . . . There's no one better at using words to paint a scene and then fill it with sounds and smells than Anne Perry."--"The Boston Globe"
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"Brilliant . . . a page-turning thriller . . . blending compelling plotting with superbly realized human emotion and exquisite period detail."--Jeffery Deaver, author of "Edge"
"The Shifting Tide"
"The mysterious and dangerous waterfront world of London's 'longest street, ' the Thames, comes to life."--South Florida" Sun-Sentinel.
About the Author
Anne Perry is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels, including "A Sunless Sea" and "Acceptable Loss, " and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including "Midnight at Marble Arch "and "Dorchester Terrace." She is also the author of a series of five World War I novels, as well as eleven holiday novels, including the upcoming "A Christmas Candle, " and a historical novel, "The Sheen on the Silk, " set in the Ottoman Empire. Anne Perry lives in Scotland.
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Praise for Blind Justice
"A staggering achievement . . . Perry's command of plot and prose shines."—Bookreporter
"Ranks among the best [Anne] Perry has written. Her courtroom scenes have the realism of Scott Turow."—Huntington News
"Gripping . . . Those who love Victorian England will relish Ms. Perry's presentation of period details. Her mastery of this time and place gives credence to the characters' moral and legal struggles."—New York Journal of Books
Praise for Anne Perry and her Wiliam Monk novels
A Sunless Sea
"Anne Perry's Victorian mysteries are marvels."—The New York Times Book Review
Acceptable Loss
"Masterful storytelling and moving dialogue."—The Star-Ledger
Execution Dock
"[An] engrossing page-turner . . . There's no one better at using words to paint a scene and then fill it with sounds and smells than Anne Perry."—The Boston Globe
Dark Assassin
"Brilliant . . . a page-turning thriller . . . blending compelling plotting with superbly realized human emotion and exquisite period detail."—Jeffery Deaver, author of Edge
The Shifting Tide
"The mysterious and dangerous waterfront world of London's 'longest street,' the Thames, comes to life."—South Florida Sun-Sentinel


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CT Homeless Count Continues to Fall
HARTFORD, Conn. - Connecticut continues to make progress toward ending homelessness, according to the latest count. The annual survey, released Wednesday, showed a decrease of almost four-percent in overall homelessness compared to last year. That's the lowest since the statewide counts began in 2007.
According to Lisa Tepper Bates, executive director of the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness, the reduction in the number of chronically homeless individuals was even bigger.
"We have made significant progress in housing those who are longest-homeless and highest-need and we've seen a 20 percent drop in that population," she said.
In February, the federal government confirmed that Connecticut had achieved the first goal of the national "Zero: 2016" campaign: ending homelessness among veterans.
As the state attempts to close a looming budget gap, Bates said continuing to invest in ending chronic homelessness, the second goal of that campaign, can help. She points out that those individuals tend to cycle in and out of expensive public services like emergency rooms, in-patient hospitalizations and jails.
"When we house those who have experienced chronic homelessness, we save up to 70 percent of the costs that our communities will otherwise incur," she added.
The survey also found a strong correlation between domestic violence and homelessness, with almost 20 percent of adults in shelters reporting they are survivors.
As the state continues to make progress in ending homelessness among targeted populations, Bates says her organization is now looking toward the future.
"We're hoping that we will be able to take the success of our work on veterans and the chronically homeless and point our energy towards the homelessness of families with children and youth," she said.
The full report can be read online here.


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Moonee Valley 9 Kellaway Avenue Moonee Ponds VIC 3039 Australia
Tel: (03) 9243 8888
Please Note: Proposal description below describes the amendment. To verify content of the final approved amendment see the Explanatory Report.
Authorisation No. AO1236 Revises the Municipal Strategic Statement (MSS) Local Planning Policy Framework (LPPF) various rezoning and Overlay changes and updates the General Provisions Schedules.


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You are here: Home Pupil Area Colin Currant
Hi, my name is Colin Currant.
I am the head chef at "Sophistication" I have worked at some of the top restaurants all over the world.
My hardest task has been teaching my friend Rocking Raisin to cook! Don't tell anyone but even the birds won't eat his biscuits!!
I am helping Ollie to prepare fun but healthy party food. Ollie has enough natural energy, he doesn't need sugar or artificial additives in his food! I think Ollie is going to share his healthy party recipes with you when he's finished.
I like to pick my favourite recipes and cook them for my family. The family are all together tonight to celebrate my 4th wedding anniversary so this is my menu:
Starter: Lemon & Coriander Humous with Dipping Vegetables
Main Course: Spicy Chicken & Bean Wraps
Desert: Frozen Strawberry Yoghurt
If you try any of these recipes, let me know what you think of them and how easy you found them to make.
Happy Cooking!


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As more and more women enter the workplace, the separated mother-father paradigm is breaking. It's no longer the sole purpose of a father to work long hours to provide for his family, spending his kids' birthdays and baseball games in the office and missing their plays, speeches, graduations, and honors while he works overtime.
Nowadays, a father is finally being seen as a vital component to a child's success. No longer is the mother seen as the only important aspect to a child's life. In fact, more fathers than ever before are deciding to spend time with their children instead of treating them as the responsibility of someone else.
The time a father spends with his children at home can be the best hours of both the children's and the father's lives—a rewarding experience that should not pass undone.
This is the Fathers' Rights Movement: the breaking of that old paradigm, replacing it with a more apt and viable one, and finally, integrating that paradigm into the social mindset until it becomes 'the way it is,' not 'the way it should be.'
What is the former paradigm?
That's best described this way—mother, home; father, work. It's a broken machine that no longer runs in today's social construct.
Even though two parents may no longer live in the same house, they've still got an equal part to play in a child's development. However, up until recently, that wasn't the theory. A divorce meant the children would almost always go with the mother, forcing the father to pay alimony, or child support, to the mother. This led to many instances of fathers caring for the well-being of the child and the adult, not just the child. Ergo, the child received less care for the amount the father paid.
However, the home and workplace shift gives the father more chances to step in and take equal responsibility for raising the child or children.
And so many fathers are relishing that chance.
What is the new paradigm?
Look at it this way—mother, home and work; father, home and work. It's an equal timeshare, payshare, liveshare, loveshare… and everything else.
The benefit of this is many-fold. When two separated or divorced parents are raising a child, it's tough for each parent to get their private time when one is working long hours and the other is unemployed. Obviously, with both parents employed, they'll have to work together to ensure their child always has protection and care.
An equal time-split between parents will give the child a full education by allowing each parent to instill values and teach skills. It will give the child a full impression of his family and how much each parent cares, and then the child can learn that the divorce or separation isn't his or her fault. It's always on a child's mind, and it's something that parents should never ever push on their kids.
- Okay, this all makes sense. But how does this become 'the way it is'?
The answer: step-by-step.
Know this upfront—it won't happen overnight. This is the kind of systemic change that has to permeate many cultures and communities, and the old paradigm is tied so tightly to some of these communities that it will take a few determined people to catalyze the instance of change.
But this is the time to be determined. The tide is turning, and today's fathers should want to be on the right side. It's the side where responsibility meets fulfillment and joy. It's the side that brings you closer to your child.
It's a confusing time, though, and which side is the right side isn't always clear. We believe that not every father is right for custody, but that every father has a right to it. The Fathers' Rights movement recognizes the inefficiencies and inaccuracies in some of the social constructs that dictate familial behavior, and opens up the opportunity to determine what is truly in the best interest of children who experience the divorce or separation of their parents—whether that means the mother, the father, or shared custody.
Call the Fathers' Rights Law Center for guidance. We can help you figure out the best strategy to keep yourself in your child's life, and to keep your child in yours. These are the formative years for your child, the years when he can grow in your image.


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Staalplaat SoundsystemDE/NL
Conceived by Geert-Jan Hobijn and Carsten Stabenow, this project is regarded by its authors as a Mono Erosive Surround Sound Installation. Resurrecting the mechanic, playful aesthetic characteristic of all the creations from Staalplaat Soundsystem, the Yokomono installation consists of ten vinyl killers-toy car spinning record players, each customised with its own fm transmitter. The emerging sounds are due to a collection of radios that receive the randomly transmitted signals from the toy cars, yet instability and unpredictability ensues since the cars run on batteries and will ultimately die out, hence the term 'vinyl killers.' The presence of Yokomono at PLACARD//MUTEK 2005 will offer the occasion for Staalplaat to inaugurate their wireless video extension and entertain certain sonic loops from the likes of Anton Nikkilä, Charlemagne Palestine, Fennesz, fm3, Ignaz Schick, Ilpo Väisänen, Justin Bennett, C.M. von Hausswolff, Phill Niblock, Radian and Tim Hecker.


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ACS/ICS Story
The Addis Ababa American School was established in 1959, at a location near Arat Kilo. The first "American" school finished at grade 9, and students took correspondence classes through the University of Nebraska if they continued beyond grade 9.
In April 1964, the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie allowed the American Community School (ACS) to be established, by royal decree. The Emperor gave the school a 50 year lease on 15 acres of land in Addis Ababa.
ACS opened in August 1966 with 362 students in kindergarten through grade 12. The aerial photo shows the three classroom blocks, the small library with the outdoor amphitheater behind it, and the dirt track, baseball diamond and clay tennis courts. These facilities are all still in use, with the exception of the baseball diamond and tennis courts, which have been upgraded to a grass sports field and multipurpose sports pavilion, respectively.
The Abebe Bikila Gymnasium was inaugurated in 1970, and the Haile Gebrselassie Track in 2002. The middle and high school classroom block opened in 2006, replacing the faculty housing in the northeastern corner of campus, and the M-Building opened in 2017, adding 29 new classrooms to our facilities. Several smaller extensions to existing buildings have been added over the years and the school also leases two adjacent campuses, the Little Eagles Nest, for our early childhood program.
In the 1978-79 school year, the name of the school was changed to the International Community School (ICS) of Addis Ababa.


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Mama's Low Cal Recipes
(Recipe Collection)
17 Recipes Created by MAMASARASCOTT
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Great high protein breakfast! Fast and easy in the Microwave.
I love this as a quick dinner option too!Submitted by MVIGIRL
This recipe is awesome for breakfast on the run. One batch can be divided and last you the whole week! Submitted by ASHLEYINFL
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If you time it so that the egg and the muffin are done at the same time, the heat between them will perfectly melt the cheese for this drippy sandwich that easily rivals your fast food service.Submitted by BARISTA2254
Yummy meatless sandwichSubmitted by ESCHIWAL
These are really low in fat and carbs and can be served in a bun or with a salad. Very tasty.
Will spread if you use the George Foreman Grill, normal skillet is fine.Submitted by FLOWERDALEJEWEL
A mayo-free twist on a tuna sandwich!Submitted by PESKY47
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Moist, melt in your mouth turkey. Serve this with some wild rice and asparagus for the perfect meal.Submitted by LINDYFIT
Chick Peas in Indian sauce - goes very nicely with Puri or KulchaSubmitted by PSDAHRI
Quick and easy lunch or snack that you and your kids will love. Submitted by SCORPIBELL
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I can't believe it's been 2 years already since these portraits were taken! This sweet girl turns THREE today. (Why do they have to grow up so fast?)
I'm so glad I was able to capture some forever memories of Ada on her first birthday. It gives me a reason to smile at how goofy and adorable she is!
Here's hoping she got to smash her face into an actual cake, too (although the prop was a great way to practice.)
Happy birthday, Ada!
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Julie Beloussow is a Californian artist best known for her pen and ink illustrations of otherworldly characters.
Swirling and buoyant, they exist within a dreamlike realm among a host of totems based on personal associations. Often reminiscent of the mythologies and philosophies that have influenced her over the years.
Her interest in psychonautics and themes inspired by folktales, death, and the supernatural give viewers a glimpse of playfully strange apparitions with mysterious undertones both benign and ominous.
Beloussow works in a variety of mediums, such as ceramics and digital design, although recently her focus has been in ink and paint.
Her work has been exhibited at a number of West Coast festivals. She resides in Los Angeles.


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Fan arrested after grabbing Rays mascot at Red Sox game | Crime
St. Petersburg, Florida -- A fan was arrested after police say he grabbed Raymond the Tampa Bay Rays mascot at Wednesday night's Rays-Red Sox game.
St. Pete Police say Trevor Martin, who is from Massachusetts, twice reached over the railing and grabbed Raymond around the neck and pulled him back toward the railing.
Witnesses -- which included several Tropicana Field employees and fans -- said Raymond had to push Martin off of him to break free from his grasp.
The person inside the mascot suit chose not to press charges for battery, but Martin was arrested for disorderly intoxication due to "showing several signs of impairment including slurred, mumbled speech; watery, bloodshot eyes; swaying and staggering while walking and a moderate odor of alcohol on his breath," according to the arrest report.
Police say Martin admitted to drinking two beers during the game.
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Williams Center Cinemas
1 Williams Plaza,
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Constructed as the Rivoli Theatre in 1922 to the plans of architect Abram Preiskel, it opened April 22, 1922. It was remodelled in 1936 to the plans of architect John Eberson. The Rivoli Theatre was partially destroyed in a fire January 9 1977, when most damage was done to the lobby that fronted onto Sylvan Street.
The theatre reopened as the Williams Center, presenting movies, shows, children's program but called the George W. Newman Theatre. It was closed for repairs June 22, 2015. In July 2016 three digital projectors were installed in readiness for the theatre's reopening July 29, 2016 as the Williams Center Cinemas.
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If you would like to save this theater, please sign our petition to let our elected leaders know that we want to keep this theater an active performing arts center! https://www.change.org/p/paul-sarlo-james-tedesco-save-the-williams-center
what a shame that movies won't be shown here anymore in the rutherford area until the 26 screen theater opens soon near the meadowlands.
Williams Center Cinemas are officially closed as of June 22nd – one of the last theaters in Jersey to run all 35MM first run (I think the Lincoln Cinemas in Kearny are still 35MM but I have no confirmation on that) – article in the Bergen Record: http://www.northjersey.com/news/business/rutherford-s-williams-center-cinemas-close-due-to-film-to-digital-conversion-1.1361373
"Save the Williams Center" is seeking advice on converting their cinemas from film to digital projection. These cinemas are a vital part of the William Carlos Williams Center. A conversion must happen soon or the entire center, including the Rivoli Theatre may close for good and be demolished. We need help and smart advice! Please contact me at > Billy
I just posted two images in Photos about the lobby fire that closed the Rivoli on January 9, 1977. The last movie to play the Rivoli was "Across the Great Divide". How I would've loved to see "Star Wars", which came out later that year, at the Rivoli.
Rivoli opened 22 Apr 1922.
So here is the update. The Williams Center / Rivoli has just negotiated and taken delivery (God they were heavy) three digital projectors that will be installed and will replace the film projectors. This will allow the Williams Center Cinemas to reopen and run first run movies and other cinematic offerings.
If you would like to contact me directly please use >
Thanks for posting the top photo from my book Rutherford: Images of America (Arcadia)I am a Rutherford, NJ Historian and on the board of trustees that is actively saving the Williams Center / Rivoli. We currently screen first run digitally projected movies, host live shows and events in our three newly renovated Center Cinemas, lobby, concession area and upstairs terrace. However, the Rivoli stage is currently dark as some of the ceiling has allegedly been deemed to be unsafe. But please know that we are seeking partners in the Rivoli's preservation and we will reopen the full house in all its splendor. If interested in partnering with us, asking a historical question or just offering suggestions please send me an email at . Thanks for your interest in preserving and reopening the Williams Center / Rivoli. Oh btw. we are hosting the premier of the exceptional movie "Paterson" on December 12th, 2016 with Director Jim Jarmusch and his production staff on hand. The screen play involves a bus driver named Paterson who drives a bus in Paterson, NJ and is loosely based on the poetic inspirations of poet Dr.William Carlos Williams who lived all his life just a block away from the William's Center in our town.
You can actively see our progress, read our history and view images of the Rivoli and Williams Center at www.WilliamsCenter.org
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Published on October 23rd, 2012 | by tommy0
This is Tommy.
Hey there, you made it on my blog. Thank you for coming by! If I could I would've offered you a drink. ;-) Lean back and enjoy your stay. This is my intro.
Who? …
I am another fashionist from Germany. Yes, I don't look typically German and that's because I have Asian roots. I know it's not hard to tell. :P Most of my ancestors come from China but let's not debate about race here.
I was born and raised in Germany and currently residing somewhere around Frankfurt am Main.
Recently I discovered my passion for photography and have also found a lot of joy standing in front of the camera. I'd love to share my work with you guys and that's what this blog is all about. I also love to do editorials on photography, so you'll find a post about that here and there as well.
Unlike other fashionists around the globe I have NOT studied anything related to fashion or photography so please lower your expectations a bit. :) Still, I would love to hear and see your feedback to keep improving myself. :)
Why? …
I'm here to inspire and to be inspired by you. This is mainly why I'm doing all this here. So I need YOU to help me improving myself. Hook up and let's share experiences. Make the world a little fancier together! Don't act like you don't care!
I might post up some random things I might find interesting that has nothing to do with fashion. I will use this blog to convey some personal thoughts. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
'Make love not war!' – Tommy
(No questions have been asked yet. )


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I'm a firm believer in making fun of yourself, and having fun because no one should ever take them self too seriously all the time. Here are some funny Islam cartoons, enjoy :)
|haha this one is too funny, although it's probably true
|???? That's all I have to say
|This is not hard for me to believe at all in today's world
|Alex's favorite <3
|Misconception #14212: Hijab is not only the coverage of one's head, It's complete modesty.
|As funny as it seems, this is how it actually happens a lot of the time and that's not a bad thing at all.


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Limbaugh: Christie Gates distraction
Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday slammed the media for its coverage of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, saying the focus on the bridge controversy only serves to take former defense secretary Robert Gates' critique of President Barack Obama "off the front page."
The conservative radio host told his listeners that "the left right now is very excited" over Wednesday's report tying the Republican governor's staff to the closing of several lanes of traffic in Fort Lee, N.J. And with the attention turned to that scandal, the media can conveniently ignore Gates' pointed assessment of the president's handling of the war in Afghanistan, Limbaugh said.
"The left right now is very excited over what we just learned about Governor Christie, because what we've just learned about Governor Christie is helping to take the Gates thing off the front page," Limbaugh said, according to a transcript.
"The point is the media has just glommed onto that like bees in a honeycomb so that they don't have to talk about the Gates book," he added.
"Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee," Christie senior staffer Bridget Kelly wrote to Port Authority official and Christie ally David Wildstein in an Aug. 13, 2013 email, according to The Record, suggesting the closures were retaliation against the local mayor for not supporting the governor's reelection.
What should be the bigger story, Limbaugh told his listeners, is Gates' critique of Obama. Gates wrote in his memoir, "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War," that by early 2010 he believed the president "doesn't believe in his own strategy, and doesn't consider the war to be his. For him, it's all about getting out," according to a preview in The Washington Post. The former defense secretary also added that "I never doubted Obama's support for the troops, only his support for their mission."
Limbaugh said Gates' assessment didn't surprise him, but noted "it is clear that Bob Gates knew a bunch of stuff that he held in reserve for a book long after the release of any information would have any impact on anything."
"Can you imagine if the people of this country had been told that Obama's opposition to Iraq was purely political?" he said.
Still, "we all knew this," Limbaugh said, since "everything the liberal Democrats do is political,"
"This is my point and I think it'd be really helpful if a whole bunch more Americans knew that," he said, according to a transcript. "You know, Obama and Hillary get away with supposedly having principled opposition to the war in Iraq, and there was nothing principled about it; it was all political."
"Then we find out he's not even committed to it," Limbaugh added. "We find out that his involvement in Afghanistan is perfunctory at best. But, you know, the real problem with that is, there are real men and women that he's sending into harm's way in something he doesn't believe in. Nobody, by the way, is saying what Gates said isn't true. The left is going through pretzeled conniption fits trying to react to that."


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Why You Should Check Your Baby's Feet if They're Crying for No Apparent Reason
Many parents get really scared when they cannot understand the reason for their baby's cry. They're well fed and healthy, but somehow they cannot calm down. Now we would like to tell you one of the reasons which represents a true danger. Unfortunately, most parents have no idea about it.
Hard to believe, but it's a common hair caught in a child's sock. It can twist tightly around the baby's toes, facilitated by their irregular movements. A hair causes severe pain and blocks blood circulation, which could even result in the toe's amputation if the threat isn't noticed in time. Over time it becomes more and more difficult to see the hair as the toe swells. This phenomenon is called hair tourniquet.
Scott and Jessica Walker are young parents who faced it. Their little daughter was crying all day, though she seemed to have no reason for it. Jessica took off her socks, hoping it would calm her. She noticed that her daughter's toe had swelled and become red. As it turned out, there was a hair that twisted around her toe.
If not for tweezers and a magnifying glass, this situation could have had a terrible ending.
This phenomena is seen quite rarely, but lots of parents all over the world face it from time to time.
We at LikeAble had no idea this problem existed, so we decided to share it so that as many people as possible learn about it.
Preview photo credit oksun70/depositphotos
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Those worry warts who tremble and quake at the slightest hint the economy is poised to ride a new inflationary spiral ever higher can safely put their hyper-inflation expectations to rest for awhile, a financial expert who bases her predictions on changing astrological cycles advises.
"A study of inflation/deflation cycles suggests the next high inflationary cycle will not begin until January 2026, when planet Neptune enters the fiery astrological sign of Aries," says financial astrologer Grace K. Morris, MA.
Morris is author of How to Choose Stocks to Outperform the Market. She edits and publishes the Astro Economics Stock Market News Letter and is business editor for the Astrology News Service (ANS).
Her logic is elemental, she explains.
The planet Neptune takes 146 years to orbit the Sun and spends about 14 years in each of the 12 astrological signs. Every sign of the zodiac is 30 degrees wide and each sign is grouped with one of four elements: fire, earth, air and water.
In a study that dates back more than 100 years, or for as long as anyone has been keeping track, Neptune's transit through one of the fire signs (Aries, Leo or Sagittarius) has coincided with a run-up in the cost for goods and services.
"This was true in the inflationary period leading up to the 1929 stock market crash, when Neptune was in the sign of Leo. And the pattern repeated in the inflationary period that began in the mid-1970s and ended when Neptune moved out of Sagittarius and into the more practical, earth-bound sign of Capricorn in 1984," Morris said.
At the moment Neptune is slogging its way through the watery sign of Pisces. And central bankers appear to be unable to come up with a strategy that would gently nudge today's 1.1percent inflation rate slightly higher.
Current thinking at the Fed is that a desirable 2 percent inflationary growth rate will best support a healthy, expanding economy. This may be so, but the long-term average over the past 100 years has been 3.42 percent with periods of both inflation and deflation mixed in, Morris said.
She says concerns about deflation, not inflation, have been uppermost in Fed Chair Janet Yellen's mind. As a result, monetary policy at the central bank has been progressing one cautious step at a time.
"Unemployment at 5.1 percent is down significantly from double digit highs in 2008. Productivity remains high but wages have not advanced, which is still another indication that inflation will not be a problem in the near future," she added.


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Highlights / General details
During panoramic city tour we will show you Kiev the capital of Ukraine and the cradle of Eastern Slavonic states of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. It is a beautiful city with its centuries-old history and rich culture. The tour includes visit to Vladimir's Cathedral the most prominent sacral painting complex of the late XIX c. decorated by world well-known artists. You will examine magnificent mosaics and frescoes of St. Sophia Cathedral the oldest temple in the Eastern Slavonic states built in the beginning of XI c. to glorify the victory of Prince Yaroslav the Wise over Pechenegs' tribes. You will enjoy amazing view of two goldendomed monastery complexes while walking along Sophiiska and Mykhailivska Squares. The tour continues to St. Andrew's Church a striking piece of baroque architecture of XVIII c. built according to the designs of well-known architect B.Rastrelli on the top of Vladimir's Hill. Andriivskyi Uzviz (Descent) that starts from St. Andrew's Church will impress you with its unique atmosphere. It is a short street meandering down through luxuriant vegetation of Vladimir's Hill to the picturesque Podil. Numerous art galleries and shops of folk and applied art make this romantic street the cultural center of Kiev.
Hotel pick up and drop off; Guided Tour; Available in English and Russian (German, French and Spanish request only).
Hours of operation
Available: Daily; Pick up time will be arranged during reservation and is according to your needs.
Approximately 3 hours.
Complete information, including local telephone numbers at your destination, will be included on your Confirmation Voucher.
**All information requested must be supplied or booking is subject to automatic cancellation**


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Ossorio looked up to Pollock as an artist who "had broken all the traditions of the past and unified them, who had gone beyond Cubism." Indeed, Pollock's drip-based automatism gave Ossorio tools to access and grapple with his personal wounds and fantasies. The Victorias Drawings that Ossorio made in the Philippines during an extended stay in 1950 have been called his "breakthrough works" and have also been said to "share DNA" with the works of both Pollock and the French founder of Art Brut, Jean Dubuffet. In fact, Dubuffet was so enthralled by Ossorio's works of the early 1950s that he developed a new form of art writing to be able to describe them.
In 2016, in celebration of the late artist's one hundredth birthday, Manila's León Gallery assembled the largest collection of Ossorios to be exhibited in the country-- a total of sixteen works-- all never before exhibited in the Philippines. Among them were some of the artist's remarkable Victorias Drawings, executed with layers of wax, gouache, watercolor, and Chinese ink. It has taken time for Ossorio's art to be fully appreciated in his home nation, even longer than it has taken in the United States. His varied works--always intense, often jarringly strange, and occasionally gruesome--were shaped by his youthful sexual turmoil and lifelong morbid fascinations.
Ossorio then came to the United States as a teenager to attend the Portsmouth Priory from 1930 to 1934. Portsmouth Priory was a Benedictine high school run by monks in Providence, Rhode Island. Ossorio became an American citizen in 1933 and then in 1934 began his undergraduate education at Harvard, where his mentors and friends included Eric Gill, Philip Hofer, Lincoln Kirstein, and Paul Cadmus. Despite his father's objections, Ossorio majored in fine art, completing a thesis titled "Spiritual Influences on the Visual Image of Christ." During summer studies with Eric Gill in Sussex, England, Ossorio did research on medieval art and created wood engravings. After graduation he briefly studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, painting in tempera. Discovered by the famed art dealer Betty Parsons, he had his first show--of fastidiously rendered, Surrealist-tinged images--at the Wakefield Gallery in 1940.
While stationed at Camp Ellis in Illinois, Ossorio was assigned to draw surgical procedures, many of which were very graphic and gruesome. He stood on a ladder, looking down on surgeries that often involved grievous war injuries suffered by soldiers, and sketched the procedures. After his discharge from the army in 1946, these macabre visions would invade and influence his art. In the summer of 1948, while vacationing in The Berkshires, Ossorio was sketching flowers in a meadow when he met a 25-year-old ballet dancer, Edward (Ted) Dragon, who was there picking nosegays. They moved in together the following year and remained devoted to each other until Ossorio's death in 1990.
Around the same time, Ossorio also had his first encounter with the paintings of Jackson Pollock--which he at first thought were too messy--and soon afterward, he made his first purchase:
You see I hadn't met Pollock, and it was simply by going to Betty's gallery and seeing a show of his. I think it was as late as 1947 or '48 that I suddenly realized the so-called drip panels had an intensity of organization, had a message that was expressed by its physical components, was a new iconography. I didn't get all of this as coherently as I'm now saying it--it was a visual thought more than an analysis. And then I bought a painting, a big panel 8 x 4, of Jackson's.Ossorio and Ted Dragon soon met Pollock and his wife, Lee Krasner; Ossorio's Pollock needed some repairs and Pollock essentially gave it back to him as a new painting. A close friendship blossomed between the couples--Ossorio spent the summer of 1949 at the Pollocks' home in the Hamptons--and the timing was fortuitous, as Pollock was making some of the best work of his career and staying away from drinking. At Pollock's urging, Ossorio then met and visited the artist Jean Dubuffet in Paris, where the two had an immediate and significant connection. With his exposure to Pollock, Krasner, Dubuffet, and to a lesser degree, Clyfford Still, Ossorio now was surrounded by a constellation of ambitious, advanced artists, and in this situation his own art was set to blossom. Critic John Yau says that between 1949 and 1953, Ossorio "seemed to find his place in the world."
Being in the Philippines opened up feelings of personal turmoil for Ossorio, whose sexuality conflicted with the values of his devout Catholic upbringing. Artistically liberated by the examples of Pollock and Dubuffet, Ossorio poured his feelings into a series of works, now known as the Victorias Drawings, that dealt with childhood, birth, sexuality, mythology, and religion. Executed with a wax resist technique, the series was drawn on Tiffany stationery, which was then often cut into irregular shapes that rhymed with Ossorio's fantastic imagery. Hybrids of recognizable figuration and all-over abstraction, the Victorias works have phenomenal psychic energy: an aura of spiritual and supernatural intensity. Although Ossorio has occasionally been characterized as a "lapsed Catholic" that is not at all the case. The intensity of the Victorias Drawings is grounded in faith and religious conviction. Ossorio believed that "if you want to be serious, there is very little that is not religious."
So in the summer of 1951 this opportunity came to buy the place I'm now living in, the old Hearst place in East Hampton. I had accumulated a number of pictures all of which were sitting either in my father's home or bank. I bought it but didn't move to East Hampton until the summer of 1952. I've been there ever since even in the winter. And apart from a few trips to Paris and Turkey and Greece I've done very little traveling since.
Fernando Zóbel de Ayala, another wealthy Harvard-educated artist who was also a distant cousin, visited Ossorio at The Creeks in 1955 and recorded his impressions in a vivid diary entry:
Spend most of the night talking with Alfonso Ossorio; in fact, between the two of us, we finish a whole bottle of scotch, and I get into bed at 4:30 in the morning. We talked mainly of painting and of being a painter. The gist of his remarks, repeated over and over again with variations and a kind of anguish: "Don't let them stop you."
He (Ossorio) lives and paints at high pitch, burning the candle at both ends. He is spending and living on his capital.... Loathes compromise, any attempt to popularize. "Art must be difficult to see, difficult to understand."
Ideally, he would like to see people forced to choose between buying an automobile and buying a painting. About 10 years older than I, unquestionably good, with a desperate, Dostoyevskian sort of goodness. Completely generous, completely humourless. Inflexible and full of pratfalls. Completely committed to his art, which, for him, is an extension of religion.His visit with Ossorio left a lasting impression and is a clear source of inspiration for Zóbel's Saetas series of the mid-1950s, which employed paint ejected from hypodermic syringes to create dynamic webs of abstract imagery. Through Zóbel, Ossorio's embrace of Pollock's modernism would eventually influence notable artists in both the Philippines and Spain.
Ultimately, Ossorio is best seen as an individual and as an artist who held on to his differences while both finding inspiration in the works of his friends and disseminating their influence. In a late interview, when discussing his relationship to Abstract Expressionism, Ossorio offers his career as "an obvious case of admiring and doing differently." He continues to explain that he "chose other freedoms" and remarks that "similar freedoms can lead to different results." Writer Lee Rosenbaum has something similar to say: "What I think of Ossorio--the artist speaking in his own distinctive voice--is the 'outsider' work of this art world insider."
Alfonso Ossorio truly was, as Fernando Zóbel observes at the end of his 1955 diary entry, "gorgeously out of touch with reality."
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The works of Alfonso Ossorio are presented with the permission of the Ossorio Foundation


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Not still wet, probably happened months ago . just noticed it at our ski house.
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Not still wet, probably happened months ago . just noticed it at our ski house.
Any idea?
These leathers are identified as vegetable-tanned leathers and have the tendency to brown due to the difference pH value between the water source and pH neutral of the leather or iso-electric point also known as the pI. Generally water has an average pH value of 7 and vegetable-tanned leather is more pH sensitive with an average pH value of less than 4. This pH difference makes the tanning agents and the fatliquor leaches out. Besides browning discoloration the leather most times will feel stiffer when the leather structure fibers begins to becomes stick together.
The browning concentrates on the more absorbent details which may indicates that this leather probably have a clear topcoat like AnilineTop-21Gloss or satin. We also see a sort of watermark effect in letters.
Here are the testing for both the damaged topcoat that results in the unwanted browning staining effect
1st – Browning Treatment
Vachetta-2.8 is used for testing the removal of the brown stains by using a cotton swab and applying to a localized line of stains to see the effect of the result. Vachetta-2.8 works by redox chemical action and the result only manifest after it dries. Dried residue is erased with Eraser-4 and it should reveal a lighter effect ready for topcoat testing.
2nd – AnilineTop-21 Gloss or Satin is applied to the above and dry between coats to evaluate the finish match.
It would looks like Vachetta-2.8 as an add-on to the Kit-A6.tc would give you a complete control over the testing and eventual restoring the leather to its preexisting condition.
I will explain the actual procedure after the above test for a holistic restoration both for appearance and for pH chemistry integrity.
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Vegetable-tanned leather is tanned using tannin and other ingredients found in vegetable matter, such as tree bark prepared in bark mills, and other similar sources. It is supple and brown in color, with the exact shade depending on the mix of chemicals and the color of the skin. It is the only form of leather suitable for use in leather carving or stamping. Vegetable-tanned leather is not stable in water; it tends to discolor, so if left to soak and then dry it will shrink and become less supple, and harder. In hot water, it will shrink drastically and partly gelatinize, becoming rigid and eventually brittle.
Leather Doctor® Kit A6.tc, aniline leather topcoat refinishing kit is designed for topcoat repairs from friction wear, accidental scratch, scuff and abrasion to deteriorating greasy sweat stains. These topcoat damages are identified as white, dull or darkening stain from bare body contacts. Accidental whitish damages in most cases are free of soiling and direct AnilineTop-21G application with in between dry sanding rectifies most damages. Repairs to topcoat from daily wears that dulls will require a degreasing to remove penetrated rub-in soiling prior to topcoat application in a sequence process including Degreaser-2.2 follows with Rinse-3.0; Hydrator-3.3 follows with Fatliquor-5.0 prior to topcoat application. In a greasy and sweaty topcoat damaged areas especially to the headrest and armrest, a deep degreasing is essential follows with Acidifier-2.0 to stabilize the hydrogen bonding between the protein fibers with the other leather constituent like the tanning agent, dyestuff and fatliquor. This deep degreasing process is assisted by leather Eraser-4 in both the wet and dry cleaning process to remove soiling particulates off the leather surface. Hydrator-3.3 helps in the colloidal water movement bringing suspended soiling particulates to resurface through a dwelling and wicking process. Fat and oil is replenished by Fatliquor-5.0 in an emulsion form to penetrate into the leather structure. Once the fat and oil is hydrogen bond with the protein fiber, the water content breaks free leaving a breathing space for natural transpiration. The fat plumps the leather with fullness preventing the leather structure from collapsing during compressing and flexing while the oil lubricates the fiber from sliding smoothly over one another like millions of connecting hinges. Protector-B+ impart a non-stick, rub-resistant surface with a buttery feel helps reduce friction wear to the topcoat and extended a high level of appearance for a longer period of time. When the leather is contaminated with foreign soiling, it is essential to look at topcoat refinishing in a holistic approach. Note that the cleaning and rejuvenating products suffix denotes its pH value in this leather-safe aniline leathers topcoat refinishing system.
Leather Doctor® Kit V3, unfinished leather care system is design for corrective appearance of vachetta, saddlery and veg-tan leathers from browning liquid stains. These alkaline pH sensitive leathers when neglected often suffer unsightly browning stain marks from a variety of liquid sources. Even apparent clean rain and tap water often leave a lightening spot with an outer ring. The pH 7 alone of water will often cause a rippling effect on the tannin that destabilize and causes it to moves. Browning correction is perform by using Vachetta-2.8, a pH 2.8 specialty leather cleaner that is particularly effective in emulsifying oily soiling, lightening suntan and water staining effect. A holistic system includes rejuvenating the leather structure for softness with Hydrator-3.3 to relax, follows with Fatliquor-5.0 to soften when dry and protecting with the healing properties of Protector-D thereafter. The lightening effect takes place when the leather dries. When leather is wet and dry again, it will often stiff up, as the fibers becomes stick closer together. Hydrator-3.3 helps separate and open up the inter-fibrillary spaces preconditioning for effective Fatliquor-5.0 replenishing to lubricate for leather flexing smoothness from cracking. Replenishing the leather structure with fat and oil after browning corrective cleaning besides the softening effect also prevents the ingress of liquid stains as a preventive measure. When leather is full of fat and oil, it makes the leather less absorbent. Fat and oil conditioning or rejuvenating with Fatliquor-5.0 mellows and enrich the appearance of the leather while most oil conditioners will simply darkens and dulls the appearance poorly. Protector-D enhances a rub resistant draggy-feel against friction rubs and is use routinely to conceal and fill scuffmarks. Body contact areas should be clean routinely with Clean-3.8 follows with Rinse-3.0, thereafter applied with non-stick protection and commence for another cycle of use. Darken and prolong body grease and sweat contacts will require a degreasing process with Degreaser-2.2 follows with Acidifier-2.0 in most cases. Preventive cleaning and protection to shield against sticky soiling, with the abilities to heal and conceal lightening scuff and abrasion marks keeps the leather appearance level high at all times rather than relying on corrective or salvage cleaning where the cleaning appearance deteriorates and diminishes with each cycle. Note that the mentioned products suffix numbers denotes its pH value in this holistic approach to removing vegetable, plant and water stains from vachetta, saddlery and veg-tan leathers.
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Steins;Gate Episode 17 — Made In Complex
Published November 29, 2011
Despite the change in divergence, Mayuri's death still takes place, albeit a day later than in previous timelines. Rintarō asks for Kurisu's help, who theorises that, since negating Rintarō's D-Mail about Suzuha delayed the attack, undoing the effects of the other D-Mails could bring them back to a World Line where they have an IBN-5100, letting them hack into SERN and delete the records that set them on Rintarō's trail. Rintarō starts by trying to figure out how to reverse Rumiho's D-Mail, while helping her evade a rival gaming gang. Rintarō takes Rumiho to the place where her maid cafe used to be and tells her about the way Akihabara was. Rumiho comes to remember the previous timeline and the D-Mail she sent: a fake ransom note, which prevented her father from boarding a plane fated to crash. The rival gang catches up to them but they are rescued by the arrival of Rumiho's father. Speaking to him, Rintarō learns that Suzuha gave him the IBN-5100, but he was forced to sell it in order to pay for the fake kidnapping's ransom. After accepting the reality of her father's death, Rumiho agrees to send a D-Mail cancelling out her previous one, turning Akihabara back into a moe hub. The IBN-5100, however, still remains out of reach.


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Carrot Fantasy 2: Undersea is a sea-themed tower defense game. The goal of the game is to protect your carrot from being eaten by sea monsters by creating different structures along their path, to attack the enemy. You can also attack the surrounding area to pick up treasure, and to make space for more structures! Make sure the enemies don't reach the carrot, if it takes enough hits, you'll lose! Don't forget, you can also upgrade your towers to make them more powerful!
Date added: 30.04.2014
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