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5 Tips for Keeping Your Kitchen Knives as Sharp as Possible
Even the best knives in the world are useless if they lose their sharpness. And considering that knives are any chef's best friend in the kitchen, the importance of keeping them in optimal working condition is paramount. Not only...
Even the best knives in the world are useless if they lose their sharpness. And considering that knives are any chef's best friend in the kitchen, the importance of keeping them in optimal working condition is paramount. Not only that, but failure to properly care for your knives can shorten their life expectancy and lower your ROI. The good news is that keeping your kitchen knives sharp is fairly simple -- particularly if you keep these five tips in mind.
1. Invest in the Right Tools
Investing in high-quality kitchen knives is only part of the equation. It's also essential to invest in the tools designed to keep them in proper working condition. Honing rods (AKA sharpening stones) and whetstones (AKA diamond or sharpening stones) keep knife blades aligned, sharp and ready for use.
2. Hone Your Skills
As with most things in life, the more you practice your knife sharpening skills, the better you'll become. While maintaining the same angle in order to achieve an accurate tip and straight blade is challenging, your knife sharpening skills will improve with time and effort.
Speaking of proper techniques, kitchen knives exists for a singular purpose: cutting food. If you're using a kitchen knife for other tasks, such as for clipping wire or as a substitute screwdriver, you're not only using it wrong, but you're risking destroying the blade.
3. Work on Proper Surfaces
Maintaining sharp knives isn't just a matter of sharpening them when they grow dull, several proactive measures can also help you safeguard their condition.
Cutting on hard or metal surfaces, for example, can detrimentally affect your knives, so avoid aluminum, granite, marble, stainless steel and glass cutting surfaces. Softer polyethylene, plastic, and wood, however, are more appropriate because they are more forgiving to blades.
4. Skip the Dishwasher
Dishwashers are phenomenal time-saving devices, but if you're tossing your knives in your machine, you're exposing them to several dulling factors, including high heat, a barrage of water, harsh detergent, and contact with other utensils and cookware.
The best way to wash your knives? By hand in the sink with warm soapy water. Resist soaking them and always take time to thoroughly dry your knives with a soft cloth afterward to avoid rust, scratches, and other blemishes.
5. Store Smarter
Your knives belong in an entirely different category than other kitchen utensils. They also belong in a different storage spot.
Knife blocks are the ideal way to store knives while keeping them handy, but in a pinch a dedicated knife drawer will suffice. (Although this does increase the risk of cutting accidents when hands wander unsuspectingly into knife drawers.)
If you use your knives with great frequency, meanwhile you might want to emulate the magnetic boards used in many commercial kitchens which offer immediate, grab-and-go access.
The truth is that there's no secret to keeping kitchen knives sharp. However, prioritizing their care and maintenance through proper sharpening, knife work, cleaning and storage techniques can help ensure that you'll be cooking with them for years to come. Browse kitchen knives, sharpening tools and everything the gourmet home chef needs at Cilantro The Cooks Shop today.


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Ready, set, BINGEWATCH! 5 of the hottest shows to watch on Netflix this summer
Want to make the most of your summer screen time? We scrolled through the Netflix offerings to bring you some great new shows
Want to make the most of your summer screen time? We scrolled through the Netflix offerings to bring you some great new shows
Netflix gives us a whole lot more TV and movie options, but it's still pretty new in Hong Kong. Picking out a TV show to spend your summer watching is an important decision, so Young Post is here to help, with advice on the top TV Show picks on Netflix.
Sci-fi is huge in the cinemas, and now it has slowly made its way to television. Based on a Stephen King novel, the sci-fi series Under the Dome is about an impenetrable dome that drops out of the sky, sealing in the town of Chester's Mill.
The residents struggle to cope with being cut off from the outside world, but there are hints of a possible escape. True, it sounds almost identical to the plot of The Simpsons Movie, but with its elements of mystery, excellent special effects, and its timely metaphors of environmentalism, the series proves perfect for sci-fi lovers and nerds alike.
One of the top British-American television series of all time, Sherlock has rocked television charts and won multiple awards since its release.
Inspired by the original Holmes stories, Sherlock is set in the present day, with Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes working alongside Dr John Watson (Martin Freeman), an army doctor wounded in Afghanistan. Watson meets private detective Holmes in his quest for a roommate, and the two begin solving puzzling mysteries to put an end to 21st century crime in Britain.
Sherlock is perfect if you're into mysteries, particularly enticing as you make guesses about the killer throughout the episode. For those who tell you to stop watching TV and make more productive use of your time, remember that this one does teach you a thing or two about the science of deduction.
Over the years, we've seen Hongkongers go crazy over soap operas from here and abroad. This summer, why not try one that's a little more lighthearted?
Drop Dead Diva is a popular American drama from 2009 that mixes in equal parts romance and comedy. Young, stick-thin model Deb Dobkins dies in a car accident, but when she's denied entry into heaven, she hits the return button, and suddenly finds herself in the body of lawyer Jane Bingum, who is more on the plus-size.
The enormous weight change is a big shock for Deb, and so is her new career, relationships and more importantly, the fact that she must keep her identity a secret. The unconventional yet slightly relatable storyline is perfect if you're looking for some fun drama this summer.
Anyone passionate about travel and history will be familiar with Venetian merchant Marco Polo, whose travels inspired the series Marco Polo in 2014.
The series revolves around Polo's early years, spent in the court of Mongol ruler Kublai Khan. Polo's father abandons him at the court of the emperor, who dreams of expanding the empire founded by his grandfather to include all of China. Discovering Polo's exemplary observation skills early on, Khan begins to send him on spy missions to help turn his dreams into reality.
Marco Polo offers a pinch of romance, although it reaches out best to adventure-seekers – not to mention history lovers.
Politics is always a hot topic, and there are plenty of great TV shows with political themes.
House of Cards is one of the most dramatic of them. It revolves around the life of Frank Underwood, who is promised an appointment as Secretary of State if he can help Garrett Walker get elected as president. But when these promises are forgotten after the election victory, Underwood swears revenge on the politicians who betrayed him.
This Emmy and Golden globe-winning political drama is great for those who like politics, especially since it seems more reasonable than a lot of the real-life political drama these days!

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Different PDF tools have a different option for breaking or splitting PDF file into multiple pages. PDF file with many pages can be used as separate page PDF file. PDF files can be converted into word, text and images as well. The splitting pdf format can be very much useful, In many cases, you don't want to share whole PDF file and just a part or page of it. You can either take a snapshot of PDF or split PDF file into multiple pages. Some free PDF editors can help you cutting tools but if you are in a hurry you can also use online tools for it.
Adobe Acrobat
Adobe's Acrobat is no doubt best PDF tool, and you can easily split a PDF document into multiple pages. Just follow these steps:-
- Organize Pages > Split.
- Select file you want to split, you can also choose multiple files to break.
- Define output option to split file and name them.
- Press OK.
And you are done. Pages will be split and saved according to your configuration. But this method only works if you have a Professional subscription of Adobe Acrobat. Well, there is a way to do it with the help of Adobe reader as well. As you are known you can save HTML pages as PDF file; the simple method will be applied here.
Adobe Reader ( Or Similar Free versions Reader tools)
You don't need to purchase professional version of Adobe Acrobat just for splitting PDF file. As you can do this with any free PDF reader along with Adobe Reader. If you are using any other reader tool then choose them as a printer in third option.
- Open PDF file you want to split.
- Go to Print
- Select Adobe PDF as new printer
- Define pages you want to extract and give name
- Print pages and it will be obtained as a single PDF document.
Many occasional users rarely work with PDFs, so to help them lots of online web apps are providing free service for them. Web apps are good to use because they don't need you to download setups and do installations etc. You can directly get your job done just from your browser without any hassle. In case if you hurry you can use an online tool to split pages, some web apps provide an option to split pdf along with some other great feature. One of the best collection of PDF tools can be found at IlovePDF and a few other standalone web apps.
I will recommend using PDF Aid, and I Love PDF. Both these are great web apps for PDFs.
Splitting page with I Love PDF: – Just navigate to above links and choose to "Select PDF File". As you can see, I love PDF has an option to pick a file from Google Drive and Dropbox. After selecting PDF file, it will prompt you to select page range or extract all pages, once you are done with a setting click on "Split" button.
PDF Aid is working similarly but supports bigger PDF files as well. PDF Aid's layout is little annoying because of ads.
You can alway use tools of your choice. If you think we are missing any other great tool you can add them in comments.


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Irvine, CA, September 24th, 2010: MecSoft Corporation, a global leader in mid-range CAM software, announced today that Tecnia S.A., located in Argentina, has signed on as a VAR for their VisualMILL CAM software.
"Having partnered with Tecnia for many years prior working at MecSoft, I am well aware of the quality of service and level of professionalism they provide their customers," stated Gerald Hiller, Director of International Sales. "They are one of a handful of qualified VARs in Latin America that can offer complete hardware and software rapid manufacturing solutions."
Established in 1994, Tecnia S.A. is a VAR for globally branded products: Dimension, Fortus, Roland, and Epilog Laser. They will resell VisualMILL software in the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay.
"We are very excited to become a VisualMILL VAR for Argentina and surrounding countries," stated Daniel Porreca, President for Tecnia. "VisualMILL is a globally trusted brand and their CAM software fits very well with our customer's unique set of needs."
About MecSoft Corporation
Headquartered in Irvine, California, MecSoft Corporation is a worldwide leader of mid-range CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing) software solutions. Our award winning software products: VisualMILL™, VisualMILL for SolidWorks® and, RhinoCAM™, deliver an empowering experience to users in the rapid manufacturing, mold making, aerospace, automotive, education and tool & die industries.
For the latest news and information, or an online demonstration, visit our website at www.mecsoft.com or call 949-654-8163.
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The Associated Press Stylebook is the closest thing journalists have to a bible. Even though the New York Times and many other publications have their own in-house style guides (Fast Company among them), the AP's style guide remains industry standard. Now, the venerable press organization is launching an algorithm-based browser plug-in that turns any entered text into AP house style.
Lingofy is a pay product that checks web pages against "spelling, language, punctuation, usage and journalistic style guidelines." Once installed in a browser, users activate the plug-in while entering text into a content management system (CMS). The idea is to automatically find the most obvious style errors and correct them on the fly. Pricing is done on a per-organization basis, with licensing fees variable on how many people are using the app.
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Dinosaurs and Cookies
How do Dinosaurs Eat Cookies by Jane Yolen & Mark Teague.
Our book topic for this month's book craft was "How Do Dinosaurs…" I'd never read this series before but it sounded like fun.
I went a little overboard and check out maybe a dozen from the library – and there's still more! The kids didn't mind because these books are super cute, and fun to read. They all have a fun rhyme and my 3yr old loves dinosaurs so he was very excited to have all sorts of dinosaur books to read.
With the cold snap last week, baking cookies together was a great project. We made chocolate cookies with multi-colored dinosaur eggs (mini m&m's). So much fun, and so tasty!
Along we way we got to talk about how dinosaurs help in the kitchen – they don't throw the m&m's btw. And how dinosaurs are very polite when they eat their cookies.
How do Dinosaurs Eat Cookies is a super cute board book with "scratch & sniff" cookies throughout. Lots of fun to read together over and over.
Dinosaur Egg Cookies
1 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
2 1/4 cups flour
1/3 cup cocoa
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 package mini m&ms – or other chocolate chips of your choice
- Heat oven to 350
- With an electric mixer, blend together butter, sugars, and vanilla until creamy. Add eggs one at a time, mixing well.
- In a separate bowl, mix together flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt. Gradually add flour mixture to sugar mixture, until well blended.
- Stir in mini m&ms
- Drop by rounded teaspoons onto ungreased cookie sheet.
- Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until set. Cool about 5 minutes then remove from cookie sheet to wire rack.
Makes 5 to 6 dozen cookies
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(17) Comments
01 Apr 2017
Super cute idea for a children's book. Thru always seem like the biggest dinosaur fans. They'd love this book I think.
31 Mar 2017
These cookies look so delicious and the book looks cute. I will have to pick up a copy and the ingredients I need for this weekend.
31 Mar 2017
My boys would love both the book and the cookie! Love that they tie in together
31 Mar 2017
I love activities that tie in with books. I did this quite a bit when my boys were young.
31 Mar 2017
What an adorable book. Is it wrong that I am in my 40s and want to eat those cookies, too? So much fun and dinosaurs are the best.
31 Mar 2017
How fun! My daughter loves dinosaurs and baking…And m & m's for that matter. This would be perfect! Might have to check this one out from the library. 🙂
31 Mar 2017
It's so much fun when you can really make a book come to life like this! The cookies and the book both look great!
31 Mar 2017
what a cute looking book and I love the dinosaur cookies you made to go with it. My kids would love this!
30 Mar 2017
Oh wow i remember this book. I read it to my son when he was little. i love it.
30 Mar 2017
My kids love the How Do Dinosaurs… series! Those books are so fun to read.
30 Mar 2017
This looks like a cute book. I will have to get this for my nephew and make him some cookies.
30 Mar 2017
My son LOVED the How Do Dinosaurs series, they were fun books. And now they're tasty with these delish cookies to make!
30 Mar 2017
Oh this is too much fun!
I love it when you can plan an activity and there are so many different elements to it that it's super fun!
30 Mar 2017
My son loves that book! What a great idea. I may have to do some of these activities with my son.
27 Mar 2017
I didn't even know scratch & sniff books were made anymore! I love this idea with the cookies – well done!
25 Mar 2017
What a fun book. I haven't read that one yet, I want to get it now. I love baking with my kids and they would adore this one.
Thanks so much for joining us at the #monthlycraftingbookclub this month!!


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BioShock Original And Remastered Graphics Comparison
So I can't play the original BioShock because I can't deal with injections at all. I played Binfinite, though, and that was better, although I think some of the DLC is perhaps not my cup of tea in terms of icky moments. That's why I'm now watching the BioShock: The Collection Remastered [official site] trailer through my fingers, ready to cover my eyes at any moment should a needle make a sudden appearance:
Okay, I've made it! No needles, but a bunch of gore if that bothers you? Although I've sort of given up trying to guess what bothers people ever since I posted a picture of a delightful crab in chat and John freaked out.
Anyway! If you were unsure about what this collection actually is, it's basically a multi-game package where you get BioShock, BioShock 2 and BioShock Infinite and their single-player DLC. They're also fancying up/remastering the first two for PC. Binfinite is getting prettied up for console but the PC version is already at that level when you put it on high settings so they're leaving it be.
The trailer with the visual comparisons shows high-res textures, water effects, environmental detailing, improved squid tentacles, additional jellyfish, LOTS OF SEAWEED – that sort of thing. So I guess it's like Ayn Rand meets Blue Planet. Ayn Rand Goes To Sea World?
It'll be out on 16 September if you're interested. I'll be on holiday at that point, not watching people get stabbed with needles (unless something goes horribly wrong). If you already own the games you'll actually get these updated versions free of charge. As per our original news story on the package, 2K say, "if you already own BioShock, BioShock 2, and/or Minerva's Den on Steam, you will be able to upgrade to the remastered version of the respective title(s) for free after release."


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Our Environment Our Heritage
This exciting project has brought the new subject of 'Environmental History' into two primary schools in East Manchester. The project arose from pupils wanting to know why their school soil was contaminated and why so few animals lived in their their locality: consequently the project focused on the impacts of the industrial and built environment on the heritage of East Manchester.
Using maps, photos, written accounts. walk-abouts, and personal research pupils explored how their local environment has changed over time. St Brigid's RC Primary learnt how their soil has been contaminated since the industrial revolution and how air pollution which began in the mills and factories still impacts on our world today.
Armitage CoE Primary focused on wildlife, exploring how changes have impacted on mammal, bird and insect populations and how water and air pollution along with the loss of habitat have faced animals with huge challenges. To explore the stories of the animals they created and shared a 'Council for All Beings'.
Both schools met a mixture of local experts, politicians and local organisations to discuss the issues and to consider what can be done to secure a better heritage for future generations. They also shared their learning within their school communities, their local communities and with local environmentalists.
Case study on Armitage CoE Primary
Case study on St Brigid's RC Primary
Many thanks to the Heritage Lottery for supporting this project.


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As we head into the Fourth of July holiday weekend, Cook County Clerk David Orr suggests celebrating our independence by registering to vote for the November 4 Presidential Election.
"Nothing could be more patriotic than registering to vote because casting a ballot gives you the power to help decide who will be elected to office," Orr said. "I've said for months that 2008 is going to be a big year for participation and our numbers so far show that to be true."
The Clerk's office received 16,104 new voter registrations in June, an 11 percent increase from June 2004, the last presidential election year. Registrations during the first half of 2008 are up nearly 18 percent over the same time period in 2004, from 76,531 to 90,025.
Orr reminds voters they need to re-register if they have recently moved. Voters who change their name must update their records either before Election Day or at the polls. Teenagers who will be 18 by Nov. 4 can register to vote now.
The Clerk's office, which administers elections in suburban Cook County, will send a voter identification card to each voter after the applications are processed. The card lists each voter's precinct information and voting districts. Your voting information can also be found by entering your address into the "Suburban Voter's Toolkit" at voterinfonet.com.
Who can vote
To qualify to vote, you must be: a U.S. citizen; at least 18 years old by Election Day (Nov. 4); and a resident of the same precinct at least 30 days prior to the election.
How to register to vote
Mail-in voter registration applications are available in English, Spanish and Chinese, and can be printed from voterinfonet.com. The Clerk's office can also mail you an application; call (312) 603-0906 to request one.
After completing the application, prospective voters should return it to the Cook County Clerk's office at 69 W. Washington St., Suite 500, Chicago IL 60602.
You can also register to vote in person by visiting:
- One of the Cook County Clerk's six locations;
- Your local village, city or township hall;
- An Illinois Secretary of State's drivers license facility or other state government offices, including military recruitment and public assistance offices.
Before every election, the Clerk's office trains volunteer deputy registrars, including many high school students who conduct registration drives at their schools and in their communities. To get involved in this effort, call (312) 603-1099.
The Clerk's office also makes registration and election information available through partnerships with organizations, libraries and higher education institutions,
For more information, suburban Cook County residents can contact the Cook County Clerk's office by visiting www.voterinfonet.com or calling (312) 603-0996.


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The Electric Carnival was touring around the country one summer with the Lollapalooza '94 concert. It was a tent full of outrageous computer stuff, sponsored by Interval Research Corporation, owned by Paul Allen.
In SimCity Without Walls, you and another person can share in a game of SimCity/Net, running on an SGI Indigo and an NCD X Terminal.
You can create live computer music and graphics in the MIDI Zoo, by playing with a wild collection of computers and MIDI instruments, that interact with a visual data flow language for "VR" programming called Bounce!
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An artist exhibiting her work for the first time beat off a record number of entrants to win a Taranaki arts event.
Nour Hassan's painting, 'Beat', was judged the best among 87 mixed media entries at Hāwera's Lysaght Watt Trust awards on May 3.
The theme this year was 'Rising', and Hassan, of Auckland, submitted a picture of a woman's face coming out of the water.
"I just drove down as I wanted to be part of my first exhibition, so it feels pretty awesome and really surreal to have won this," she said.
"I didn't know I'd won it till I got here today."
She said the painting is part of a series and the inspiration came from her own relationship with water.
Hassan took up painting because she wanted her work to connect to people.
The awards have been running since 2013 and Lysaght Watt Gallery chairperson Lynne Walker said they usually attracted around 70 entries.
She put this year's increase in numbers down to the 'Rising' theme.
"It's a theme which obviously appealed to a wide range of people as we've had entries from Dunedin right through to Northland," she said.
Judge Bill Millbank, from Whanganui, choose the winners of six categories, which included both 3D and 2D awards as well as best local artist award.
A final category, the people's choice award, will be chosen by people who attend the gallery exhibition, which runs from May 4 until June 10.
Millbank said women and their struggles was a common theme in a lot of the work and making the final decision wasn't easy.
"A good 20 or 30 of the works stood out almost immediately," he said.
"There were some very good paintings and works but in the end the you have to make a personal choice and the one that spoke to me the most won out.
"Although I'm not sure everyone will agree with my selection as it's extremely subjective."
Walker also announced the theme for the 2019 competition will be 'Time Out'.
Source: First-time exhibitor wins at art awards | Stuff.co.nz
Category: News articles
Articles about the Lysaght Watt Gallery and our exhibitions.
A great article in the Taranaki Daily News and South Taranaki Star last week – all about our current Fibre Force show.
For more info on the show, go here.
Spinning is not just about jumpers and socks – it's a whole other world.
Isla Fabu has spun everything from muka (fibre from flax) to alpaca fur to grass – all of which you can see at the Lysaght Watt Gallery's latest exhibition.
She calls herself a spin artist and is one of the eight Taranaki fibre artists who currently have their work on display in Fibre Force at the gallery in Hāwera.
"Spinning is not just about jumpers and socks," Fabu said.
"There's a whole other world."
Whether it's from the land, or an animal, Fabu has probably experimented with spinning the fibre, or using local plants to dye the material, to eventually create one of her many different pieces.
She currently has Christmas decorations – or egg cosies, depending on how you look at it – as well as decorations for the home and more on display.
The Fibre Force exhibition is on until December 23 and showcases the use of natural fibre, using skills to create a range of both functional and art pieces.
The exhibition holds examples of knitting, weaving, felting and more from six New Plymouth artists, one from Opunake and Fabu from Hāwera.
Fibre Force is 'hands on' which means visitors will be able to see and touch the pieces.
Most art work is on sale and the exhibition is cash and carry – right in time for Christmas.
There are purchasable garments, accessories, jewellery, soft furnishings, wall hangings and art works.
Beth Pottinger-Hockings, Debbie Dawson, Diane Toole, Janette Theobald, Lynne Mackay, Pam Robinson, Sally Hikaka and Fabu have works on display.
Some of them will be doing demonstrations of spinning, weaving, felting or knitting in the gallery on December 9 and 16 and the community is welcome to watch.
The gallery is open 10am – 4pm during the week and 10am -1pm Saturday.
Source: Artists work with different materials to weave exhibition together | Stuff.co.nz
An article on Thursday in the Taranaki Daily News/South Taranaki Star delves into Viv Davy's latest exhibition at our gallery. The article provides some insight into the inspiration and motivations behind Viv's art.
Who needs paint when you have flowers and copper?
Artwork created and coloured from nothing more than nature is currently on display at a Hawera gallery.
"Everything is a natural fibre, there's no synthetic fibres, there's no synthetic colours, it's all natural it's all from a natural source – plants – there's no animals," fibre artist Viv Davy said.
Ōpūnake-based Davy is exhibiting her natural works at an exhibition called The State of Play: Exploratory Makings at the Lysaght Watt Gallery in Hāwera.
She has a range of art on display that she prepared specifically for the exhibition this year.
"This is work that I've done based on my engagement with the South Taranaki environment," Davy said.
"So it's all centred on responding to the landscape and the ocean and the wind and all those things."
Davy first got involved in fibre art because she wanted to weave. Her inspiration for this exhibition was the district.
"South Taranaki is my inspiration – it's wonderful and wild, always changing and full of energy.
"The light is very special and the colours are very special."
Davy has used everything from naturally dried silk, to cotton, to thread and more for materials. Then leaves, fennel, roses, copper and more to colour the works.
"All the pigments in all of the work in this exhibition have been created from local plants," she said.
One of Davy's newest experiments is a series of books.
The blank books are created and stitched together. They're made from wool, cotton, linen and "everything under the sun really," Davy said.
"Each page is different, each page is a piece of art in its own right."
A few of her pieces are inspired by spring.
"The new growth and the soft colours that happen in spring time so those are all the colours derived from flowers," she said.
She said these works were quite different from what she has exhibited in the past.
Davy will be giving an artists talk on Saturday October 14 at 11am and the public is welcome to attend. She will talk about her inspirations and processes that she uses to create her works.
The exhibition is on display in the gallery on Union Street until October 28.
Source: Nature and everything natural inspires Ōpūnake artist | Stuff.co.nz
Our Collections exhibition, curated by Michaela Stoneman, was featured in the Taranaki Daily News and Taranaki Star this week. "Bits and pieces from people's homes are the basis of a new art exhibition." And there's only 8 days left to go! Last day Saturday 2nd September.
Bits and pieces from people's homes are the basis of a new art exhibition.
The Lysaght Watt Gallery's current exhibition Collections has come from local private collectors and archives and exhibition curator Michaela Stoneman said there was a large variety of art on display until September 2.
"The exhibition shows five distinctly different collections by three private South collectors, one from Whanganui who collects many of her treasures from South Taranaki and the archive from Aotea Utanganui – Museum of South Taranaki," Stoneman said.
Linda Morrison from Tairoa Lodge in Hawera collects paintings by well known English-born painter Bernard Aris who spent most of his life in Taranaki.
Stoneman said many of the works in this selection were borrowed from members of her family because they all had a close personal connection with Aris.
"My husband Steve and I have always been interested in paintings of the mountain," Morrison said. "We've always felt that Bernard Aris captured the shape so well and it looked so real and lifelike."
Stoneman said another collector, who prefers to remain anonymous, has more than 100 paintings covering the walls of her home.
The works show a wide range of styles that reflect her love of the diverse New Zealand landscape and interesting faces.
She said she "finds treasures at galleries, art auctions" and in her travels.
Nicky Gerard collects mid-century fabrics and papers from auctions, op shops and specialty events like 'Fabricabrac'.
The colours and patterns draw her in and she is constantly refining her collection.
"Colour is very important to me, it influences my mood," Gerard said. "On a dreary day I can roll out a paper and the colours will enliven and entertain."
Stoneman herself is another exhibitor who acquired her pieces from giving and swapping art work.
"This selection of works from our home collection have been either gifted to us or I have swapped with artist friends," she said.
"Our collection of artwork reflects different times in our life together, places we have been and the wonderful people who we have the pleasure of knowing."
The last collection comes from Livingston Baker Archive and Reading Room at Aotea Utanganui the Museum of South Taranaki.
The archives include archives, maps, photographs, publications, films and videos from a range of categories.
– Stuff
Award-winning South Taranaki photographer Kevin Bone's latest offering is on display at the Lysaght Watt gallery in Hawera.
The exhibition, Recent Work, features the artist's trademark old building captured against a glittering, evening background as well as shots from around the region and abroad.
In addition to Bone's work, the exhibition features a retrospective show of his grandfather, William Bloy's photography which was rescued from going to the tip.
Oozing nostalgia, the photos taken in southern Otago show circus visits, town parades, scenic shots and ships at the port of Dunedin.
On Sunday, July 30 Bone will speak about his work from 4pm to 6pm at the gallery.
– South Taranaki Star, July 25 2017
They say one man's trash is another man's treasure, so Kevin Bone took it to the next step and created an art exhibition.
Bone's exhibition is currently on display at the Lysaght Watt Art Gallery in Hawera and is a mix of his recent photography, and his grandfather's photography from the 1950s.
"I'd always known that the slides were there, I remember always going through it when I was a kid and investigating it," Bone said.
"Maybe that's why I got into photography."
His grandfather, William Bloy, had taken "thousands" of coloured photographs of scenery, family and events in the south of the South Island more than 60 years ago.
"He was a child prodigy. He could play the violin when he was four, he was an artist," Bone said.
"He's got an artist's eye, a very keen artist's eye."
Bone said his grandfather's photographic slides had been passed down the family until they sat in a garage for years.
"They were going to be biffed and I rescued them," he said.
Bone said he never truly appreciated the slides until recently. His favourite photograph is the elephant at a circus.
"It's just a social statement. Imagine doing that now," he said.
There were also multiple photographs of bare land, which Bone said were the "most valuable" pieces of real estate in New Zealand now.
Bone's photographs are from around Taranaki, and also overseas.
"This is my journey, and it's really trying to find things that people aren't photographing," he said.
"I like the idea of abandonment, and its history."
A few of his photographs were from his time in Tonga where he went swimming with whales. "I was right beside the mother whale, which was the size of a bus, and her calf, the size of a sedan."
As president of the Hawera Camera Club, Bone has a great input and recently helped bring home awards for the annual interclub competition between the region's four photography-loving groups.
The Hawera club won first place in the Club Set Prints, and an individual won the Overall Champion Print too.
Bone's exhibition runs at the gallery until August 5.
Source: Photos about to be 'biffed' now displayed in exhibition | Stuff.co.nz


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According to a press release on Tuesday, CPSP Vice President Prof. Rakhshanda Rehman, while chairing a meeting, said that 423 FCPS and 61 MCPS degrees would be awarded to the successful doctors. Four doctors will be awarded degrees in medical education whereas four doctors will be awarded with gold medals.
The arrangements for the upcoming convocation were finalised. CPSP President addressed the participants through video link while Prof. Khalid Masood Gondal, DGIR, CPSP, Brig. Asad, Col. Iffat Batool, Prof. Mahmood Ayyaz, Prof. Ghulam Mustafa Arain, Prof. Tayyiba Waseem, Prof. Moeed Iqbal and many others attended the meeting. The news
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Sunday, August 25, 2013
Collateral Damage
Annie is engaged to Salvatore, but when her ex, Michael, comes to Chicago to find her, things get a little wild. First, he attacks her on the street, then he creeps into her sisters apartment. After confronting her fiance, Michael takes Annie on a road trip back to Florida for a big army reunion party. Annie and Michael leave the party to go get dinner, and while they're gone someone is murdered. The murder is blamed on Michael, even though he wasn't even at the crime scene. Annie makes it her mission to get Michael out of jail and find the real killer, even if it costs her $10,000 for an attorney.
When Salvatore won't come down to help, Annie gets her friend, June, to help, but while finding information, her questionees end up dead. Going back to warn the person she first talked to, she runs into (literally) the murderers who drug her & take her to a place to die. Salvatore, worried about Annie's safety, comes looking for them and with the help of the police, finds and rescues them. Now that Annie was endangered, Salvatore also makes it his mission to find the real killer. Nothing can stop him.
The murders in this book, though clearly centered around a drug ring, were very intertwined and complicated, which made for an interesting read. This book had a lot of detail, but not so much that it was boring (it was far from boring!), which was appreciated. Sometimes I was at a loss for guesses for who the killer would be, but most of the time I had a pretty good guess (which turned out right!), but I guess that's just the Nancy Drew in me. Having that assumption made me want to finish reading it even more to see if I was correct, and I didn't want to put the book down until I knew. I liked this book, and I think most people will too.
Just a warning, narrations flip back and forth between Annie & Salvatore. It's clear who's narrating, but sometimes that can bother people so it's good to let you know.
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Cry Me a River: Why Justin Timberlake's MySpace can't take on Spotify and Rhapsody
It's dangerous when actors confuse a role with reality. Imagine if Daniel Craig, for instance, suddenly believed he were James Bond and chased villains across the tops of trains. Or if Nicholas Cage really thought he could take his face...off. Today, we are seeing why Justin Timberlake should probably only play an entrepreneur in the movies.
A deck from MySpace's funding efforts is circulating around the Internet, and it is an awful idea. The plan says that MySpace's parent, Interactive Media Holdings (formerly Specific Media), is out to raise $50 million in funding, with which it intends to repurpose MySpace as a streaming music service, in direct competition with Spotify, Rhapsody and Pandora. What Timberlake and Co. need to understand is that a known brand isn't necessarily a good brand, and all eyeballs aren't good eyeballs.
Simply put: The idea is ill-fated. Never mind that the sector is already crowded; the faith in MySpace as a brand is misplaced. Last week I wrote a story that mentioned MySpace as a terrific site for band profile pages. That's one area where the brand is still healthy-- if a little bit dusty. Its loose association as a music discovery site is dated in a pre-Spotify era. Even if it weren't, being a place where bands can cheaply amass fans is a world of difference from a site that negotiates and prices deals with labels. That's like someone saying, "Oh, AOL used to be known for dial up... maybe it would be a good mobile opportunity!"
Sure, MySpace has traffic. But all traffic is hardly created equal. Failed turn around after failed turn around has proven that there's little value in a legacy user base unless that user base is a paying user base—as in the case with the thrice-acquired and relaunched Webshots. In most cases, legacy traffic does little to evangelize a new service, especially against a company like Spotify, which has a formidable paid premium service or a company like Pandora, which is the only music startup to actually make it to the public markets.
Consider the legacy traffic of a similarly once-hot, now has-been site Digg. In a reader poll, more than 90% said they wouldn't recommend the site to a friend. This begs the question: Why are they going to the site if they hate it? Habit. Not love. Habit. JT: You simply don't build a company in the hardest space known to the Internet with a "meh" readership of lame eyeballs going to a has-been site out of habit. You do it with impassioned evangelists. Impassioned evangelists haven't been to MySpace since about 2006.
Spotify's Daniel Ek underscored just how ludicrous it is to get into the market, even for companies that are better positioned. At a recent PandoMonthly in New York, Ek enumerated all the great entrepreneurs who have failed at digital music: Sean Parker, Shawn Fanning, even Mark Zuckerberg with WireHog.
I can see the romance of trying to save MySpace. For investors and new management, there is a sense of ego in turning around a company that's been left for dead. But investors should not be fooled: MySpace is in the midst of a classic turnaround attempt, not the creation of something new, just because it's moving into a new market.
Once-proud brands like Bebo, StumbleUpon and Delicious have, so far, failed to rebuild in any meaningful way. Last summer Digg became the latest Web 2.0 company to try, when the New York incubator Betaworks paid $500,000 for the social news website. Results so far have not been astounding-- and note the price tag for trying was far less than $50 million. Friendster, for its part, knew when to quit, finally selling to a buyer in Malaysia while the site was still hot in Southeast Asia.
"The chew-it-up, spit-it-out psychology of the Internet is very real," says Paul Resnikoff, editor and publisher of Digital Music News, a Santa Monica, CA-based trade blog. Though he is not optimistic, he did say that one place MySpace could add value is in figuring out immersive discovery -- helping a user to find new musical acts without just letting a radio algorithm do it (even though Pandora has near perfected that). Spotify in particular has been struggling with this, he says.
The leaked business plan says half of the musical acts on MySpace are unsigned artists, and their music makes up 27 million of the songs in their 42 million song library. Relying that heavily on unknown artists is good -- noble even -- for encouraging music on the Internet. But there's a reason it hasn't been done: It's a horrible way to build a business. People go to music sites to hear music they know, not music they don't know. "The activity around very obscure bands has its limits," Resnikoff says.
Betting on known talent has been the conventional wisdom since the digital music industry's Big Bang: Napster. In 1999, when the Recording Industry Association of America sued Napster on behalf of the five big record labels of the time, one of Napster's lead defenses was that the service primarily sought to allow people to discover new music from unknown bands -- not enable people to steal popular music from known artists. The court tore down this defense when the discovery process turned up a facepalm of a company advertisement touting new improvements making Napster's software more efficient: "Forget wading through page after page of unknown artists," the ad said. It's no wonder that Parker's next major music venture Spotify banks on its big name associations.
The music industry is cutthroat, as Napster soon found out. Pandora had to encourage rabid listeners to break Congress's fax machines to stay in business. Spotify had to take the un-Uber approach of not disrupting the industry and bending over backwards to work with it. Even then, Ek spent years camping out in front of labels' offices until they would sign on. And these are the industry's success stories.
It's a lesson MySpace has to learn quickly if it wants to really be in the music business, and not just dawdle along on the outskirts. Pulling off a turn around would be remarkable enough. Pulling off a turn around by taking on the single hardest business model on the Web is just a waste of $50 million that could be invested elsewhere.
When a band puts out mediocre material for years and years, it's near impossible to get back any good faith. This goes double for websites.


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Origins of 14th Air Force (Air Forces Strategic) - the American Volunteer Group and the "Flying Tigers"
Fourteenth Air Force (Air Forces Strategic) traces its long and prestigious history back to Japan's invasion of China in 1937. The Chinese government looked to the U.S. for assistance and hired U.S. Army Air Corps veteran Claire Chennault to train its pilots. The Chinese Air Force sent Chennault to Washington, D.C., in the winter of 1940 to solicit American airplanes and pilots to try to save the country. In 1941, President Roosevelt signed a secret executive order which authorized Chennault to organize support. A group of active-duty recruits, 100 pilots and 200 support personnel, formed the American Volunteer Group (AVG). In addition, Chennault also procured 100 P-40 aircraft, rejected by the British as obsolete. The AVG shipped off to Burma in the summer of 1941, where Chennault trained them in innovative combat tactics. To enhance esprit de corps, the unit painted tiger shark teeth on the noses of the group's aircraft. They saw the same decorations in a magazine photo of English P-40s in North Africa. Subsequently, journalists used the tagline "Flying Tigers," which rapidly caught on worldwide.
Fighting against numerically superior forces, the AVG compiled one of the greatest records of the war before it was absorbed into the active-duty Army Air Corps in 1942. According to official Chinese statistics, confirmed losses to the enemy by the AVG were 268 enemy aircraft destroyed and another 40 aircraft damaged against 12 losses for the AVG. In a separate report, Chennault credits the AVG with 294 enemy aircraft shot down.
The Birth of 14th Air Force
The AVG was absorbed into the active-duty China Air Task Force in July 1942 and the "Flying Tigers" moniker went with it. Chennault was brought back on active duty as a brigadier general to command the unit. After the China Air Task Force was discontinued, the 14th Air Force was established by the special order of President Roosevelt on 10 March 1943. Chennault was appointed the commander and promoted to Major General. The "Flying Tigers" of 14th AF conducted fighter and bomber operations along a wide front that stretched from the bend of the Yellow River and Tsinan in the north to Indochina in the south, from Chengtu and the Salween River in the west to the China Sea and the island of Formosa in the east. They were also instrumental in supplying Chinese forces through the airlift of cargo across "The Hump" in the China-Burma-India theater. By the end of World War II, 14th AF had achieved air superiority over the skies of China and established a ratio of 7.7 enemy planes destroyed for every American plane lost in combat. Overall, military officials estimated that over 4,000 Japanese planes were destroyed or damaged in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. In addition, they estimated that air units in China destroyed 1,100,000 tons of shipping, 1,079 locomotives, 4,836 trucks and 580 bridges. The United States Army Air Corps credits 14th Air Force with the destruction of 2,315 Japanese aircraft, 356 bridges, 1,225 locomotives and 712 railroad cars.
Post World War II
14th Air Force moved to Orlando Army Air Base, Fla., in the spring of 1946 to administer Air Defense Command functions across the Southeastern United States. They supervised the air defense training of active duty units, Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve units. Under a Department of Defense restructuring in 1948, 14th Air Force was aligned under the new Continental Air Command, which expanded the unit's mission to include the equipping and combat preparation of Air Force Reserve units under its jurisdiction. 14th Air Force headquarters moved to Robins AFB, GA in October 1949.
During the Korean Conflict, 14th AF participated in the mobilization of thousands of Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve units and individuals from its area of responsibility. After Korea, the reserve wings of 14 AF participated in various airlift operations, such as Operation SIXTEEN TON (1956), Operation SWIFT LIFT (1957-58) and Operation READY SWAP (1958).
14th Air Force remained a key Air Force Reserve organization, expanding into search-and-rescue operations in 1957, and ultimately became responsible for all Reserve airlift functions in the eastern United States by 1958. The unit retained this mission until it was inactivated Sept. 1, 1960.
Entry into Space
14th Air Force was reactivated at Gunter AFB, Ala., on April 1, 1966. The organization was reassigned to ADC, and given an additional mission of guarding the Southern Region of North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
On July 1, 1968, 14th Air Force moved to Ent AFB, Colo., and was redesignated as the 14th Aerospace Force. The unit was now responsible for detecting foreign missile launches, tracking missiles and satellites in space, providing space vehicle launch services, maintaining a satellite data base of all man-made objects in space and performing anti-satellite actions. The 14th Aerospace Force also equipped, trained, administered and provided personnel to operate and maintain space surveillance, space defense and missile warning systems.
A Brief Return to Flying
In October 1976, the 14th Aerospace Force was redesignated the 14 AF (Reserve) at Dobbins AFB, Ga., where it managed airlift forces for Military Airlift Command (MAC) and participated in such missions as Operation JUST CAUSE. 14th Air Force performed this mission for MAC and its successor, Air Mobility Command (AMC), until 1993.
Return to Space
On July 1, 1993, 14th Air Force returned to its former space role and became a Numbered Air Force for Air Force Space Command, responsible for performing space operations. In 1997, 14th Air Force established the Space Operations Center at Vandenberg AFB, Calif., for the 24-hour command and control of all space operations resources. In 2002, 14th Air Force became the Air Force space operational component of U.S. Strategic Command. On Sept. 12, 2006, the organization expanded into the Joint environment with the activation of the Joint Functional Component Command for Space (JFCC Space). The new command and control capabilities of the Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC) ensured unity of effort for all space capabilities supporting joint military operations around the globe.
As the Air Force's sole Numbered Air Force for space and its concurrent U.S. Strategic Command mission of Joint Space Operations, the operational mission of 14th AF includes space launch from the east and west coasts, satellite command and control, missile warning, space surveillance and command and control of assigned and attached joint space forces. The overall mission is control and exploit space for global and theater operations, thereby ensuring warfighters are supported by the best space capabilities available. The 14th Air Force consists of two launch wings (the 30th Space Wing at Vandenberg AFB, Calif., and the 45th Space Wing at Patrick AFB, Fla.); a space control and missile warning wing (the 21st Space Wing at Peterson AFB, Colo.); a satellite command and control wing (the 50th Space Wing at Schriever AFB, Colo.) and a missile warning wing (the 460th Space Wing at Buckley AFB, Colo.).
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I wish I could say that I was so busy that I had back to back sessions every day and had to squeeze in the bookkeeping, marketing and plant watering. Well, I'm busy enough that I make a living doing this voiceover stuff without the back-to-back sessions. And even if I don't have projects stacked up waiting, I still have a hard time getting all the other stuff done. But there is simply no way I can actually organize a day with any strict rules on when I am going to do anything.
The day started out like a typical Tuesday. Walk down to the coffee shop for my 7-8 AM solve the world's problems group, but the phone rang and I had to race back home to get the car to drive out to my mom's Assisted Living Community to call off the Paramedics. You would think after 7 months of seeing what a cold damp morning does to my mom's hip pain, they would be able to figure out that she needs a pain pill, not a trip to the ER. By the time I got there, she was calm and on her way to breakfast.
So, morning email check and related paperwork was delayed for a while. So, what am I doing posting to the blog? Well, because I can. My time management theory is much like the chaos theory.
Through this seemingly crazy unorganized world I live in, I seem to end up getting things done. So, if I feel like posting to the blog, I might as well!
Getting back to my typical Tuesday. I have a session coming up at 11:30 today – a repeat client – a nice little project for a museum. We'll do phone patch on this one and I just printed out the script to see if there are any surprises. But before that, I updated my class blog, did a little MCA-I work, read my email and got the notice that my first title on Audible has just been approved by the author, approved a couple of Facebook tags on some photos from a toga party this weekend, replied to a couple of emails and thought about watering my plants.
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Alpe d'Huez, or L'Alpe d'Huez, is a ski resort in the French Alps. It is located in the commune of Huez in the Rhône-Alpes region in the east of the country. The ski resort varies in altitude from about 1,860 metres to 3,330 metres above sea level. The name Alpe d'Huez might even be more popular though because of its appearance in the biggest cycling event in the world, the annual Tour de France in July. The peak is also used as the finish of La Marmotte, a one-day, 175-kilometre-long ride with 5,000 metres of climbing!
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The Dutch organized Alpe d'HuZes (website in Dutch) is a race against cancer! It is held since a few years and the goal is for competitors to go up the Alpe d'Huez six times in one day (zes means six in Dutch)! All to raise sufficient funds for the Dutch cancer organisation, for research to stop this disease as much as possible or at least make it a chronical disease instead of a potential killing one.
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Alpe d'Huez has been one of the most famous places in the Tour de France since over 30 years, basically almost every year since 1976, although the famous Fausto Coppi won the stage in 1952 already! Other famous riders were Lance Armstrong, the late Marco Pantani and the Colombian climber Luis Herrera. But it has been called the Dutch mountain as well, and not for nothing: 8 out of the first 14 stages were won by a Dutchman, including Peter Winnen (2x), Joop Zoetemelk (2x), Hennie Kuiper (2x), Steven Rooks and Gert-Jan Theunisse. The last one was Carlos Sastre in 2008, winning the Tour as well. If you want to visit the mountain during a Tour stage, be sure to arrive early. And by that it is not meant early in the morning, but days before to secure a great sport, preferably at one of the 21 hairpins, all named after stage winners. The climb is 13.8 km at an average 7.9 per cent, starting near Le Bourg-d'Oisans and finishing at about 1,850 metres above sea level. In 2011, stage 19 which will be held on Friday 19 July, will have a finish once again on the mountain.
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By Plane
The nearest airport is in Grenoble, while there are more options from Lyon, Geneva and Turin, all within a few hours drive.
By Car
The best way to reach Le Bourg-d'Oisans is by car, taking the D526 from the south, or the D1091 from the east or northwest.
Keep Connected
France is one of the best connected countries in the world, with data speed for upload/download ranked among the top 5 in the world. Most hotels and hostels would have in-house facilities to provide free internet access. Many major cities also have initiatives put in place to provide free wi-fi connection in public spaces. Alternatively there are internet cafés available in most cities/towns at a reasonable rate. Some private businesses, such as local cafés (or even the Starbuck's chain), may also provide wi-fi connectivity - keep an eye out for the signs by the shop windows/doors. Also look for the @ symbol prominently displayed, which indicates internet availability. However, with most homes now wired for the internet, cyber cafés are increasingly hard to find, especially outside the major cities.
See also: International Telephone Calls
To dial an international number from France, the IDD is 00, followed by the country code that you wish to dial, the area code and the phone number.
To call France from abroad, start with the international direct dialing (IDD) code from the country you're in, followed by French country code 33, the area code (drop the first zero in front of the area code), and the phone number. French telephone numbers are rarely given without the area code. The telephone number, including the area code, is made up of 10 digits. They are written in a set of 5 pairs of digits (i.e. 01 xx xx xx xx xx).
In France, the area code designations are: 01 - Paris Area ("Région Ile-de-France"), 02 - northwest, 03 - northeast, 04 - southeast, 05 - southwest, 06 - mobile phone providers. From 2010 onwards, 07 will also be assigned to mobile phone providers in order to cater for the surging demands for mobile phones.
Emergency numbers are 15 (medical aid), 17 (police station) and 18 (fire/rescue). You can also use the European emergency number 112 (perhaps a better choice if you don't speak French). These calls are free and accessible from virtually any phone, including locked cellphones.
France uses the GSM standard of cellular phones (900 MHz and 1800 MHz bands) used in most of the world outside of the U.S. There are several companies (Orange, SFR, Free, Bouygues Télécom and some others MVNOs like Virgin Mobile) offering wireless service. The country is almost totally covered but you may have difficulties using your mobile phone in rural or mountainous areas. If you stay for some time, it may be advisable to buy a pre-paid cell phone card that you can use in any phone that supports the GSM standard on the 900/1800 MHz bands. Then incoming calls and SMSes are free.
La Poste in France is also referred to as the PTT (short for postes, télégraphes et téléphones). The mailboxes are painted bright yellow and often there is a slot for local city mail and another slot for "outside mail". Normally there is a queue in the post office, but most of the post offices have the self service machine installed which is quite easy to operate. Nowadays many of the tabac and even some of the souvenir shops also sell postage stamps. Normally an overseas postcard costs almost as much as sending a letter. Mails sent in France also have a zip code. The first two numbers represent the administrative department (e.g. in Paris' case that would be 75).
Post offices are generally open from 8:00am to 7:00pm Monday through Friday, and 8:00am to noon on Saturdays. Apart from the basic job of mailing letters, most of the post offices do some banking activities also and some even have photocopy machines and cyber cafes for internet access.
For international package services, you might also check options with companies like DHL, UPS or TNT, which have competitive services and prices and might be faster in most cases.
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text: Traka Automotive's eTag key management system sees surge in dealer demand following acquisition Traka Automotive, the UK's the most advanced electronic key management solution for car dealers, has seen rapid acceleration in demand for its systems since Traka's parent company Assa Abloy bought eTag to create Traka Automotive late last year. Traka Automotive brings together market leading key management hardware from Traka with software from eTag designed to enable dealers to track and report on car key movements and location. Joining forces with Traka has enabled the premier provider of electronic key management software to direct more resources into sales, marketing and system installations over the last six months. The result today is that Traka Automotive now has 25,688 registered users and has handled 79 million individual key movements, helping to secure a total of 3.4 million UK cars. Total key movements being tracked in dealerships is now rising at a rate of 212,000 per week across the UK with the biggest sites clocking up to 9,630 weekly. Average key movements recorded on eTag have risen from 11,500 to 12,440 per month per site over the last year as staff numbers using the system have risen close to 100% on all sites which have deployed it. Paul Smith, director, Traka Automotive explains: The statistics tell a story not only of Traka Automotive rapidly increasing market share but also of near 100% adoption of the system by dealership staff who are seeing real value from using it to keep track of keys day in day out. Car key security is paramount for dealerships using the Traka Automotive system. Access to keys is only given to authorised individuals using proximity access tokens or fingerprint biometric readers. When a car arrives at a dealership, details are pulled from the DMS into the eTag software and the keys are allocated using an intelligent fob (iFob) which identifies the car during its life within the business. Vehicle movements and users are tracked when the key is taken from, or returned to, a key cabinet. This provides a full audit trail of movement and vital knowledge about processes undertaken on a vehicle. Specific lines of slots can be allocated to specific areas within the dealership, such as the showroom, workshop or PDI. As well as reducing incidents of lost or misplaced keys, the eTag software saves time which is otherwise wasted searching for keys and vehicles. This is helping improve staff productivity and dealer profitability to the point where Return on Investment is achievable in under one year. From next year, Traka Automotive system users will also be able to access the system via Android and Apple iPhone or iPads smart devices. This will enable staff to find out which cabinet is holding relevant keys in seconds via their mobile right there and then, rather than calling a colleague who is at their desk to raise the query - saving the business even more valuable time.


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"Functioning on low levels of Coenzyme Q10 would be similar to running a car on low-octane fuel. The energy available to drive the car would be inadequate, and would result in misfiring pistons and sluggish, undependable performance", a quotation taken from Stephen Sinatra's book 'The Sinatra Solution' on the importance of Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) for the optimal functioning of the human body.
Indeed, there are believed to be in excess of 30,000 citations on the internet alone attesting the benefits of CoQ10 in supporting a wide variety of diseases. In this week's blog, we look at these benefits, the role that CoQ10 plays at cellular level and some of the research and factors that can often lead to an increased need.


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Ukraine's president says early parliamentary elections will be held on December 7.
President Viktor Yushchenko issued a decree Thursday setting the date for the vote, a day after he dissolved parliament because of disagreements on forming a new coalition.
The ruling coalition, made up of supporters of Mr. Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, collapsed last month after her supporters joined with the pro-Russian opposition to back legislation curbing presidential powers. Those were later repealed. The two leaders had also disagreed on how Ukraine should respond to Russia's military incursion into Georgia.
Mr. Yushchenko has criticized the prime minister for failing to condemn Russia's actions in Georgia. Ms. Tymoshenko has accused the president of antagonizing Russia. The two blame each other for the political deadlock.
Ms. Tymoshenko's supporters criticized the president's action as "unconstitutional."
The Ukrainian leaders were close allies during the 2004 Orange Revolution that brought the president to power. They have since disagreed, reconciled, and fallen out again.
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CyberOptics Launches Coordinate Measurement Software Suite for New High Speed SQ3000™ CMM System
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CyberOptics Corporation (Nasdaq: CYBE), a leading global developer and manufacturer of high-precision 3D sensing technology solutions, launches new SQ3000™ 3D CMM (Coordinate Measurement) system, powered by Multi-Reflection Suppression (MRS) technology and CyberCMM™, a new comprehensive software suite for coordinate measurement.
In a lab or production environment, the SQ3000 CMM system is fast and highly accurate, with repeatable and reproducible measurements for metrology applications in manufacturing of a wide variety of products such as PCBs, semiconductors and consumer electronics.
CyberOptics' break-through MRS technology can be utilized for 3D automated optical inspection (AOI), and both 3D automated optical measurement (AOM) and 3D coordinate measurement (CMM) – far beyond a pass or fail inspection result.
"We're pairing our proprietary MRS sensor technology with a robust coordinate measurement capability, delivering superior accuracy at speeds unheard of with traditional CMMs," said Dr. Subodh Kulkarni, President and CEO, CyberOptics. "It's a matter of mere seconds, rather than hours."
CyberCMM, an extensive suite of CMM tools provides 100 percent metrology-grade measurement on all critical points much faster than a traditional CMM, including coplanarity, distance, height and datum X, Y, to name a few. A fast and easy setup can be performed in less than an hour for programming complex applications as compared to a slow, engineering resource-intensive setup that typically requires multiple adjustments with traditional CMMs.
The new high-speed SQ3000 3D CMM, an extension of the MRS-enabled SQ3000 platform deemed best in class, will be demonstrated at productronica 2017, November 14-17 at the Messe München in Germany in Hall A4, Stand 239.
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CyberOptics Corporation (NASDAQ: CYBE) is a leading global developer and manufacturer of high precision sensing technology solutions. CyberOptics sensors are being used in general purpose metrology and 3D scanning, surface mount technology (SMT) and semiconductor markets to significantly improve yields and productivity. By leveraging its leading edge technologies, the company has strategically established itself as a global leader in high precision 3D sensors, allowing CyberOptics to further increase its penetration of its key vertical markets. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, CyberOptics conducts worldwide operations through its facilities in North America, Asia and Europe.
Statements regarding the Company's anticipated performance are forward-looking and therefore involve risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to: market conditions in the global SMT and semiconductor capital equipment industries; the timing of orders and shipments of our products, particularly our 3D MRS-enabled AOI systems; increasing price competition and price pressure on our product sales, particularly our SMT systems; the level of orders from our OEM customers; the availability of parts required to meet customer orders; unanticipated product development challenges; the effect of world events on our sales, the majority of which are from foreign customers; rapid changes in technology in the electronics markets; product introductions and pricing by our competitors; the success of our 3D technology initiatives; the success of CyberGage360; and other factors set forth in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Content Distribution Services are booming and they will be responsible for the majority of future Internet traffic. In parallel, Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become today's most popular Internet application. The widespread adoption of OSNs has drastically changed the way content is consumed in the Internet, as content consumption is nowadays highly impacted by the information shared by users through OSNs and the popularity of a given content is most often dictated by its "social" success.
With such a "social-content revolution", operators need to evolve and optimize their network to avoid being overwhelmed by the ever growing traffic volumes resulting from this paradigm change. To this aim, the goal of eCOUSIN is to design a novel social-aware network architecture with built-in content dissemination functionalities that exploits the social-content interdependencies to improve its efficiency. This goal translates into the following specific objectives: (i) the implementation of high performance distributed tools for collecting necessary data to study and model the social-content interdependencies; (ii) the improvement of the scalability of network infrastructures when handling content by exploiting social information; (iii) the design of an on-net operational framework that tightly integrates network functionalities and content-related service functionalities; and (iv) the design of algorithms that exploit social information for placing and delivering contents in an optimized manner with a special focus on mobile environments. We envision that all these will be fundamental components of the future Internet architecture.
The eCOUSIN consortium comprises two leading network operators, two major manufacturers of telecommunication equipment, one research institute and four universities. All of them are strong actors in the areas of this project, and their complementary nature ensures the impact of the eCOUSIN outcomes on both the industrial and scientific domains.
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Bug Description
Gmail treats "Launchpad-
So I can't treat merge request mail-that-
That seems like a useful distinction to be able to make (and one that I use in my own filtering -- my workaround now is to include the search term "Your team", but that's fragile)
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Perhaps we should switch to appending @your-username in that case. It would potentially break other people's filters.
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|Michael Terry (mterry) wrote :
Or maybe "Launchpad-
|Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :
I think "Reviewer @your-username" would be semantically more sound - "via" is already used for something slightly different elsewhere, and I would rather not break existing team filters as well.
|Michael Terry (mterry) wrote :
OK. Note that "Subscriber" has the same issue, though hopefully that's all the same code path in Launchpad anyway.
|Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :
Yes, bugs go through a different code path because it was too heroic a job to convert them, but everything else goes through the same path for rationale construction.
We talked about this a bit on #launchpad-dev today. The problem with changing the existing rationales is that people may well have filters that direct anything without @ (i.e. notifications directed specifically at them) to their inbox and anything with @ to a "team junk I don't care about" mailbox, so adding @ would potentially cause people to not see notifications and not notice for some time.
How about sidestepping the issue and introducing a new header? X-Launchpad-
|Michael Terry (mterry) wrote :
Right. That "aimed at me" vs "team junk I don't care about" issue is exactly the filtering I'm trying to do.
I will point out that in terms of what you put in the FOOTER, which is ostensibly 99% for Gmail users: Gmail won't let you filter by @ at all (hence this bug). So there's no compatibility issue with existing filters.
But you keep talking about headers. So I'm assuming you're trying to keep the footers identical to the headers. In which case, yeah, 100% don't change the actual Rationale header. Only changing the footer version would make sense. But if you want them the same...
I'm fine with a new header.
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Right, the footers are intentionally totally identical to the headers (well, anything that starts with X-Launchpad- and with the leading "X-" stripped). That's the only reason the expanded footer approach is sustainable. I wouldn't want to do anything that makes them different.
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An Exploration of the Role of Visual Programming Tools in the Development of Young Children's Computational Thinking pp297-309
© Aug 2017 Volume 15 Issue 4, Editor: Elizabeth Boyle and Thomas Connolly, pp281 - 366
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Programming tools are being used in education to teach computer science to children as young as 5 years old. This research aims to explore young children's approaches to programming in two tools with contrasting programming interfaces, ScratchJr and Lightbot, and considers the impact of programming approaches on developing computational thinking. A study was conducted using two versions of a Lightbot‑style game, either using a ScratchJr‑like or Lightbot style programming interface. A test of non‑verbal reasoning was used to perform a matched assignment of 40, 6 and 7‑year‑olds to the two conditions. Each child then played their version of the game for 30 minutes. The results showed that both groups had similar overall performance, but as expected, the children using the ScratchJr‑like interface performed more program manipulation or 'tinkering'. The most interesting finding was that non‑verbal reasoning was a predictor of program manipulation, but only for the ScratchJr‑like condition. Children approached the ScratchJr‑like program differently depending on prior ability. More research is required to establish how children use programming tools and how these approaches influence computational thinking.
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Yes ladies and gentlemen, this is your next permanent form of transport and if you have been paying attention to certain things happening especially here in the UK, you can clearly see that things are lining up for this alteration of transportation. All of a sudden there is a big push to get folks mobile on bicycles, many workplaces are involved in schemes whereby you can receive a loan from your employer, purchase the bicycle that you want and then have the money deducted from your wages each month at a discounted rate to where you will actually be paying back less than what you borrowed to begin with when the payments are finished.
When you examine a large number
of the road set ups in London, in many places where there were separate lanes on the curb side of the road dedicated to cycles, you will now notice how many of the cycle lanes are gone and the cycle logos are now in the middle of the lanes for vehicles. Also, not far from where I live, I have seen a road with my own eyes that is one way only for cars yet that very same road is a 2 way system for bicycles. You would have also noticed that from a long time ago bicycles have been permitted to use bus lanes aswell as motorcycles too.
In London and many other places in Europe bikes take top priority in certain areas where cars are not allowed, you now have bike stations in many places to where you can go and pick up a bicycle on the street, pay the fee in accordance to how long you wish to use the bike for and simply ride away. Here is an example of what I am talking about:
But what is this really all about? Have governments all of a sudden gotten concerned with regards to the health of the people? Why all of a sudden this push to get people mobile on push bikes?
The answer is simple, you are being slowly introduced to what will be your next permanent form of transportation. See, under a scheme called Agenda 21(the name of which the organisers continue to change due to people clocking on to its evil intentions and ultimate goals through investigation), there are to be NO PRIVATE VEHICLES ON THE ROAD, eventually the only vehicles you will see on the streets will be those of essential services(police, fire brigade, ambulance, doctors, army/military………..yes I said army/military etc).
Many people each year are being slowly pushed off the roads due to ridiculously high fuel prices, high insurance costs and other miscellaneous costs that go along side owning a car, a van, a motorcycle or any other form of combustible transportation. When prices go up, many folks think that the are smart by downsizing their vehicle, but in actual fact they are predictably following the government protocols that will eventually see them putting down the car on a permanent basis and wheeling out the push bike. First the downsize strategy is implemented until eventually the prices catch up to you in your new position, to where you are now forced to use public transport or your next form of transport ie peddle power.
The same way that car owners are currently being lashed by the whip of expense will in like manner be passed onto owners of bicycles and you better believe it. Yes, you will be made to wear a helmet by law, yes you will have to register your bicycle and purchase licence plates for your push bike from some sort of future BSA(Bicycle Standards Agency) by law, yes you will have to have insurance, road tax and some form of MOT(BOT) for your bicycle.
There is simply no reason as to why these things cannot happen especially here in the UK as people here tend to grumble at a minimal rate and then accept anything that the government hands down to them without any resistance whatsoever. Many folks will indeed scoff at this and say that "it will never happen, people will not tolerate this at all". However, we have to remember that people today are tolerating so many things that 3-4 generations ago would have caused complete war in the streets and the immediate lynching of politicians, other so called "officials" and other parties responsible.
You are already hearing the cries from the useful idiots called the general public with regards to cyclists and insurance from car owners, yet these same foolish car owners are too stupid and dumbfounded to realise that they too are being pushed in the direction of the push bike and they too will one day be mounting the saddle of the same two wheelers that they once railed against. You are also hearing the cries from ignorant cyclists calling for more space on the roads. More space on the road for bikes automatically means less space for cars. Can you now see how both sides are bringing about the same agenda even though they believe that they are at odds with each other?
The ultimate goal of government is to eventually have you hire everything from them, and I mean EVERYTHING, to have you COMPLETELY interdependent, you will own nothing and I mean ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, not a television, not a house, not a bicycle, not a razor, not a nail clipper, not a dog, not a gerbil, not a pencil, not a computer, not a mobile phone, not a spoon, not a fork, not a plate not a comb, not a brush, not a bag, not a bed, not a book, not a cd, not a piece of paper, absolutely nothing, not even the very clothes on your back nor the shoes that you are wearing. You will be forced to go to the government for everything that you need in order to live. This is what Agenda 21/The Millennium Project is truly all about.
Car hire, bike hire, renting houses/flats/apartments etc, these are the main carrots being used to introduce you to the idea of not owning anything of your own down the line and for the most part it is working due to people mindlessly adjusting to the changes that are handed down to them without thinking these changes through and figuring out eventually where the changes will go. You are to own nothing of your own in the future, NOTHING! All of the excess cash that you currently have to spend on items of your own choice will be used to pay taxes, fees, fines and to pay for the bare essentials you will need to survive, food, water, clothing and shelter.
Remember, in order for totalitarian systems to function efficiently, everybody must be predictable and in order for this to happen, people must be controlled and micro managed in every area of their lives from birth to death. We can see that this is already beginning to take place and that our "permitted freedoms" are being slowly eroded. It is time for people who can see what is happening to stand up and say "enough is enough". What is coming down the pike literally will unfold into a hell on earth scenario. Of course, today as long as most of the zombie public see that these evil schemes are not affecting them directly, they simply do not care and continue on with their lives.
Those in the know must from now begin to separate themselves from the zombie public and leave them to perish. They must go down with their own decadent ship. I for one am not going to go down into the grave in ignorance. The Most High has handed down to me knowledge, and I aim to pass this knowledge onto as many others who are willing to listen, all the days of my life until I pass away.
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The students at St. Mary's College of Maryland (SMCM) have many opportunities to get involved with school outside of the classroom thanks to the SMCM Student Government Association Programs Board. Programs Board sponsors events on campus that range from social events, coffeehouses and Zorb racing. One of their more recent events occurred on Sept. 7, 2018 where the Baltimore Improv Group performed a two hour show for students at the Cole Cinema.
The improv comedy show was centered around connecting to ghosts and spirits through the students and the very generic, easy to assume information that the students gave to be used as the "plot" or "base line" for the improv comedy, having that information appear at different times in their comedy during the show. Additionally, somehow the Baltimore Improv Group managed to intertwine important themes for both first year students and upperclassmen into their show, such as managing your money wisely, going to class and being careful of "hook-up" culture on campus. This showed all of the comedian's talent and dedication to their craft, along with their effortless ability to connect with any audience.
Speaking to The Point News, Harrison Bauman, '22, said "I thought it was really creative how the performers were able to elaborate on a silly and impractical idea to make both serious points and hilarious jokes." For the entire two hours of the show, the audience was roaring in laugher, with many students cheering and clapping. If you looked close enough, you were even able to see some students with tears rolling down their cheeks from laughing so hard. This was only heightened with the comedians' skills in audience interaction, and quite literally climbing through rows of students in chairs and shining flashlights along with fake candles in their face to get their point across.
Not only was this a memorable experience for the students in the audience, but also for SMCM's very own improv group, Take One. The first half of the show was performed primarily by the professional comedians from the Baltimore Improv Group. During the second half though, they invited some SMCM students from Take One to come up and perform with them. This aided to the experience for the audience because this was exciting to witness along with how the Baltimore Improv Group also encouraged the students to lead the skits and to become active in the performance. One could feel the support and excitement that the professionals from the Baltimore Improv Group had for the students and that was a really special thing for the audience that night.
When asked about her experience at the comedy show Gretchen Young, '22, told The Point News, "I was impressed by the way both the Baltimore Improv group and the SMCM group, Take One, were able to play off of each other so well. The scenes were so applicable to real life, which had the audience laughing. I would definitely go again!"
If you missed this performance, programs board has many upcoming events, including more comedy shows. Check out their Instagram, @smcmprogramsboard to stay up to date with everything they have planned.


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