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The FA-9500 Multi-Purpose Signal Processor 3G/HD/SD from For-A is a one-stop shop for signal processing within your facility. The FA-9500 features two 3G-SDI inputs alongside a wide variety of other video and audio inputs, outputs, and processing functions. Suitable for both 60Hz and 50Hz regions, the signal processor supports emerging video formats via the 3G-SDI inputs and outputs, making it a future-proof link in your signal chain.
The FA-9500 is an upconverter, a downconverter, a cross-converter, an aspect ratio converter. It's a frame synchronizer, a color corrector, an automatic video optimizer. It does SD. It does all the popular flavors of HD. It does analog and digital versions of both. Optionally, it can handle optical video signals and function as a frame-rate converter and logo generator, among other possibilities. Analog HD/SD component I/O with Y/C is a future option. For seamless integration into your facility, the FA-9500 signal processor can be monitored and controlled over the web.
|Video Standards
1080/60p, 1080/59.94p, 1080/50p, 1080/59.94i, 1080/50i, 1080/24PsF, 1080/23.98PsF, 720/59.94p, 720/50p, 525/60 (NTSC), 625/50 (PAL)
(Optional: 1080/60i, 1080/30p, 1080/30PsF, 1080/29.97p, 1080/29.97PsF, 1080/25p, 1080/25PsF, 1080/24p, 1080/23.98p, 720/60p)
|Video Input
3G-SDI: 2.97 Gb/s or HD-SDI: 1.5 Gb/s or SD-SDI: 270 Mb/s, 75Ω, 2 inputs, BNC
Analog composite: 1.0Vp-p, 75Ω, 1 input, BNC
(Optional: Optical (OE) - Convert from optical signal to any other supported format. Future option: HD/SD analog component with Y/C)
|Video Output
3G-SDI: 2.97 Gb/s or HD-SDI: 1.5 Gb/s or SD-SDI: 270 Mb/s, 75Ω, 4 outputs, BNC (2 x 2 outputs)
Analog composite: 1.0Vp-p, 75Ω, 2 outputs, BNC
(Optional: Optical (OE) - convert to optical signal from any other supported format, 1 port. Future option: HD/SD analog component with Y/C)
|Genlock Input
BB: NTSC: 0.429Vp-p/PAL: 0.45Vp-p
or Tri-level Sync: 0.6Vp-p, 75Ω, 1 each, BNC
|4:2:2 digital component
|12-bit (Analog Composite), 10-bit (3G/HD/SD-SDI)
|Frequency Response
100 kHz - 4.2 MHz: -0.5 dB - +0.5 dB; 4.2 MHz - 5.0 MHz: -1.0 dB - +1.0 dB; roll-off above 5.0 MHz (NTSC, composite)
100 kHz - 4.2 MHz: -0.5 dB - +0.5 dB; 4.2 MHz - 5.5 MHz: -1.0 dB - +1.0 dB; roll-off above 5.5 MHz (PAL, composite)
|Differential Gain
|1% (composite)
|Differential Phase
|1º (composite)
|Signal to Noise Ratio
|60dB (without quantization noise, composite)
|1% (composite) (2T pulse)
|Comb Filter
|2D or 3D (selectable, composite)
|Internal Processing
|Selectable 1 source from 3 inputs (standard) or 5 inputs (maximum input)(auto-detect or manual setting)
|Reference Input
BB: NTSC: 0.429Vp-p / PAL: 0.45Vp-p
or Tri-level Sync: 0.6Vp-p, 75Ω or loopthrough, 1 input, BNC
|Synchronizer Mode
Frame sync mode
Line sync mode (AVDL)
Input sync mode (minimum delay)
|Video Delay
|Maximum 8 frames (adjustable by frame/line/clock)
|Sampling Frequency
3G-SDI: Y: 148.5 MHz, C: 74.25 MHz
HD-SDI: Y: 74 MHz, C: 37 MHz
SD-SDI: Y: 13.5 MHz, C: 6.75 MHz
|Phase Control
Frame Sync mode
- H phase: -1/2H - +1/2H
- V phase: -1/2 frame - +1/2 frame, 0 - 8 frames
- Minimum delay: +1H
Line Sync mode (AVDL)
- H phase: -1/2H - +1/2H
- V phase: -1/2 frame - +1/2 frame
- Minimum delay: +1/2H
Input Sync mode (minimum delay)
- H phase: -1/2H - +1/2H
- V phase: -1/2 frame - +1/2 frame, 0 - 8 frames
- Minimum delay: +400clk
|Video Processing Functions
Up/down/cross/aspect ratio converter
Proc amp
Color corrector
Automatic Video Optimizer (AVO)
Second converter (down/cross/aspect ratio)
|Additional Video Functions - Optional
Frame rate converter
Logo generator
|Proc Amp
Video level: 0% - 200%
Chroma level: 0% - 200%
Black level: -20.0% - 100%
Chroma phase: -179.8º - +180º
|Video Clip
YPbPr mode
GBR mode (with color correction function)
Composite mode (with color correction function, analog composite output only)
|Color Correction
Balanced mode for GBR signals
Differential mode for YPbPr signals
Sepia mode for monochrome signals
|Frame Rate Converter - Optional
1080i to 1080i, 1080i to 720p, 1080i to 525/60, 1080i to 625/50, 720p to 720p, 720p to 525/60, 720p to 625/50, 525/60 to 625/50, 1080p/PsF to 1080i, 1080p/PsF to 720p, 1080p/PsF to 1080p/PsF, 1080p/PsF to 525/60, 1080p/PsF to 625/50
Conversion method: Linear conversion (not supported motion compensation technology)
|Audio Input
Embedded Audio: 16 channels (Group 1 - 4)
- Sampling frequency: 48 kHz
(Synchronous/asynchronous 3G/HD-SDI or synchronous SD-SDI)
- Quantization: 16-bit - 24-bit
AES/EBU: unbalanced, 75Ω, 4 inputs (4 channels stereo), BNC
*Selectable for AES/EBU output
- Sampling frequency: 32 kHz / 44.1 kHz / 48 kHz
- Quantization: 16-bit - 24-bit
Analog Audio: Balanced or unbalanced, 4 inputs (2 channels stereo), 1 port, 25-pin D-sub (female)
*Shares analog audio output
- Input Impedance: 600Ω/High impedance
- Sampling frequency: 48 kHz
- Quantization: 24-bit
|Audio Output
Embedded Audio: 16 channels (Group 1 - 4)
*SD-SDI: 12 channels
- Sampling frequency: 48 kHz
(Synchronous/asynchronous 3G/HD-SDI or synchronous SD-SDI)
- Quantization: 16/20/24-bit
AES/EBU: unbalanced, 75Ω, 4 outputs (4 channels stereo), BNC
*Selectable for AES/EBU input
- Sampling frequency: 48 kHz
- Quantization: 16/20/24-bit
Analog Audio: Balanced or unbalanced, 4 outputs, (2 channels stereo), 1 port, 25-pin D-sub (female)
*Shares analog audio input
- Output Impedance: less than 100Ω
- Sampling frequency: 48 kHz
- Quantization: 24-bit
|Audio Delay
|0-1000 ms (Each channel is adjustable in 1 ms steps)
|Audio Processing Functions
Sampling rate converter (SRC)
Gain control
Down mix
Channel remapping
Channel mute (each function set in each channel)
|Additional Audio Functions- Optional
Dolby E decoder
Dolby E encoder
Ethernet: 10 Base-T / 100 Base-TX / 1000 Base-T, 2 ports, RJ-45
Remote (GPI): 1 port, 9-pin D-sub (male) (7 terminals), TTL negative logic level signal or make contact
|32-104°F (0-40ºC)
|30-90% (no condensation)
|100-240VAC ±10%, 50/60Hz
|60W at 100VAC
|Dimensions (HxWxD)
|1.73 x 16.92 x 13.78" (4.4 x 43.0 x 35.0 cm)
Input/Output options:
- HD/SD analog component with Y/C input/output card (future option)
- Optical input/output card
Additional functions:
- FRC (Frame Rate Converter) (includes additional standards)
- Logo generator
- Dolby E decoder
- Dolby E encoder
- SNMP function (management, control)
Other options:
- Redundant power supply unit
- Blank panel for front face (for central operation)
- Remote control unit
|Packaging Info
|Package Weight
|11.6 lb
|Box Dimensions (LxWxH)
|22.7 x 20.6 x 9.4"


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Spring Roll with Lime Aioli
Sambol oelek -- a spicy-sweet red chile paste -- gives these light vegetable spring rolls a kick.
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Spring Roll with Lime Aioli
- For Spring Roll Filling, in a colander in the sink, sprinkle cabbage with salt; toss to combine. Let stand about 1 hour to wilt. Rinse several times with cold water; drain well. Squeeze out any excess water.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the 1/2 cup water, tamari, rice vinegar, mirin, garlic, sugar and chile paste. Add cabbage, carrot, cucumber, zucchini, and green onions. Transfer to a glass jar or bowl, pouring liquid over vegetables. Place in refrigerator or cool dark place for at least 1 hour (24 hours is optimal).
- For Lime Aioli, in a bowl mix together mayonnaise, chile paste, lime juice, honey, salt, and pepper. Cover and refrigerate.
- For Spring Rolls, drain pickled vegetables well. Place 2 or 3 pieces cilantro and basil in center of each softened wrapper. Place a line of pickled vegetables. Tightly roll each wrapper tucking in edges to seal completely. Bias -slice rolls and serve with aioli. Makes 12 to 15 spring rolls (about 12 servings).
From the Test Kitchen
Spring Rolls can be made and stored in the refrigerator for up to 4 hours prior to serving.
Sambal-Lime Aioli
- In a small bowl combine all ingredients; cover and store in refrigerator.
Nutrition Facts (Spring Roll with Lime Aioli)
- Per serving:
- 201 kcal ,
- 15 g fat
- (2 g sat. fat ,
- 8 g polyunsaturated fat ,
- 4 g monounsaturated fat ),
- 7 mg chol. ,
- 1073 mg sodium ,
- 16 g carb. ,
- 1 g fiber ,
- 4 g sugar ,
- 2 g pro.

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Mint is a brand that is revitalizing the Polaroid camera for the modern era with contemporary features that augment the photography experience while retaining the aesthetic that popularized the vintage camera. The device is known as the SLR670-S model that complete with an array of tech features that capture the same instant print pictures with a much more up-to-date functionality.
The SLR670-S retains many of the qualities of the original Polaroid camera design, such as the bulkier shape and antiquated aesthetic. However the camera's functionalities such as the Time Machine improves both the ISO and shutter speed features to improve auto and light exposures so that each photo has a better chance of properly turning out.
The newly revamped design allows the aesthetic of the vintage photography style to live on with a modern design and functionality.
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Well, it's finally time! I've alluded to this moment many times over the years but it's finally here – we're moving offices! If you stepped into our office any time within the last year (or, to be honest, the last two years), you might have loved the floor-to-ceiling windows that led to a huge deck but you also would have had to be blind to miss the floor-to-(almost)-ceiling boxes, the cramped desks and constant tussles over wall plugs.
When we first rented this office, I remember thinking how ridiculously large it was for my staff of three at the time – we each practically had our own wing. Well, until last month we had almost 30 of us in the same space (including two not-very-OH&S desks that partially closed off access to that huge deck).
Now, as I sit here and write this, I can hear masking tape being strapped over yet another box, and by the time you have this in your hot little hands our team will all be working remotely from across the city as the final preparations are made for our new office space (which has two balconies, a kitchen that fits more than one person at a time and ample bathrooms – the first thing my staff checked).
If you walked into our new offices you might be blown away by the open space and natural light flooding in, but like anything in business and in life, there's a lot more to the story. To be absolutely honest, we tried to find a space this time a year ago but things just didn't work out, and we knew if everyone bunched in together we could make do for another year. In business it's often a case of holding, holding and holding until you're completely at capacity to be able to support the next big move (whether that's a physical space, a staffing decision or any of the myriad growth metrics).
But by December last year, getting out of each other's personal space was top of everyone's to-do list, so we hired a General Operations Manager, the lovely Aimee, whose first task was to find us a new office. Easier said than done! All up, it took Aimee eight months, 25 property inspections, countless phone calls and five property negotiations for us to finally sign on the dotted line.
Walking around our new digs, visitors – and maybe even new staff over the years – will have no idea of the journey that it took to get there, but it's important to always appreciate those hard times. And that's also a big part of why I launched Collective Hub – to tell the behind-the-scenes stories of how businesses and individuals really get to where they are.
It's for this very reason that I just adore our cover girl, ballerina Michaela DePrince. Months ago, when my team was planning out our covers for the year, our European Fashion Editor, Mariela, disappeared in the middle of a Skype session. Soon, she reappeared with a poster she had stripped from her daughter's bedroom wall. "This," she said defiantly, "this is who we should have on the cover – she is beautiful, she is strong and her story is incredible."
That week I watched a TEDx talk by Michaela online, and I cried from start to finish. If you saw her perform on stage you would have no idea that she started off life as 'orphan number 27' in Sierra Leone after losing both her parents. She was adopted by a US couple who helped her pursue her passion for dance, but not before she came up against barrier after barrier because of her background, her body type and her skin colour.
And it's a story not isolated to Africa, the US or Europe. While rebel-inflicted violence may not exist here in Australia, we do suffer from other social ills – domestic violence, racism and even bullying. (One of my very own team, who also had dreams of being a ballet dancer, has bravely opened up about her own struggles with some of these issues on page 144).
And while ballet, or more specifically, barre, has taken hold of my team (our new office is now even closer to the studio!), I do hope you enjoy the diverse range of stories packed into this issue. One of my favourites is the incredible portraits of Australian Paralympians who are competing in Rio this year. It reminded me of another wonderful (and one of the world's most-watched) TEDx talk, by the late Stella Young, about 'inspiration porn'; where she talks about her disability and society's reactions.
My hope is that you don't see the athletes in our story as being inspirations just for living with disability, but you admire and respect them as individuals and as athletes at the top of their game.
In this issue we also look at athletes who, just like many of us, have their own side hustles (Eloise Wellings, who I met earlier this year when I spoke at Love Mercy Foundation's inaugural fundraising breakfast, is having such an incredible impact and I just love what she's doing). Plus there's a look inside the offices of Eventbrite, we spend time with the young woman who has released a Muslim-focused fashion line for Uniqlo and take a trip around the world with a hot new luggage start-up funded by Jay Z. I hope this issue leaves you feeling pumped, refreshed and ready to take on the world.
Editor's Letter: Issue 36by Lisa Messenger
It was time for a move, shares our Editor-in-Chief, Lisa Messenger.
Well, it's finally time! I've alluded to this moment many times over the years but it's finally here – we're moving offices! If you stepped into our office any time within the last year (or, to be honest, the last two years), you might have loved the floor-to-ceiling windows that led to a huge deck but you also would have had to be blind to miss the floor-to-(almost)-ceiling boxes, the cramped desks and constant tussles over wall plugs.


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Hi everyone,
With time comes change, over the last couple years I've really enjoyed posting on the WordPress platform and it helped me to learn alot about the blogosphere and all the ins and outs of designing a personal site. With that said, I've decided to move over to the Blogger platform as I find that platform enables me to design and create in a way that suits my style. It will be the same material but with a simplified edge and some exciting new changes. I hope you will come and visit my new site which is http://tastynchic.blogspot.ca/.
"Change is the Greatest Motivator"
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"This was the second time we used Ben Wightman to sell our home, he was very professional, understanding, very easy to communicate with. He gave us tips on how to prepare our home for sale. He was always available day or night, buy email or phone. If we had questions, he was very knowledgeable, and helpful. We had a short timeline to sell our house, we had found another home that we really liked, with more space; but did not want to lose the opportunity . He sold our house in a short period of time, and we are now stress free. We would highly recommend Cydney & Ben to anyone who is looking to sell their house, you won't be disappointed."
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They are almost at the US border. There are troops on the US side, and extra border patrol agents. Not sure what is going to happen but Fox is saying most are not from Mexico. There was an interesting article on CNN this AM about a pregnant woman and her two young kids in the caravan.
not sure how this is going to turn out but for sure it is bringing a lot of issues to the surface that need to be dealt with. Many countries are dealing with this in various ways but all these migrants and refugees are putting a lot of strain on the destination countries and causing a huge division in the citizens, from the no new immigrants or refugees to the open border supporters.
If only someone could come up with a solution, but I think how this will be handled will make almost no one happy.


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If cheese, wine and other food stuffs have terroir which defines their nature relative to the place they arise from, could one say that people's nationality is similar to terroir? I have pondered this question ever since I moved to France - Paris to be exact, then the United Kingdom - London and then back again to Paris. Were the French like a big intense Époisses, the English like a West Country Cheddar and us Americans like…Velveeta?
Living and working in France and the UK, across Europe and in the Emirates, I came across many different cultural styles and just like terroir, began to attribute certain characteristic behaviour to each of them. I never saw the French as rude and arrogant, probably because to me, their comportment was specific to their surroundings. They were direct and straight-forward; extremely dynamic. Okay they could be contentious but they were always intensely committed to what they believed. For me, they and their motivations were totally understandable (even though speaking French) and accessible.
When I moved to the UK, I thought, wow, now I will be able to understand everything that's going on because of course, they speak English…well this proved to be typical expat thinking and a big trap because although the language is English, it is spoken or rather delivered in an extremely different manner. A great deal of communication in the UK and specifically England is subtext and non-verbal. This attribute proved to render understanding anything that was going on there (even in a language in which I was fluent) more difficult and sometimes downright incomprehensible.
The Emirates were even more fascinating. The working echelons, like any wine or cheese were certainly the product of their own culture but having been shipped off at 18 or 19 to the UK or the US, they acquired another terroir as it were. They were capable of displaying their own cultural terroir, Arabic culture, as well as the veneer of the acquired occidental culture, separately, intermingled or intermittently at will. To deal with this was intriguing and a very slippery slope and strained my theory of terroir and nationality a bit.
To explain what I had learned to my colleagues in America, the terroir analogy was a bit of a stretch, so another one worked better. What does NO mean to each of these cultures? In my dealings with Germans, it quite simply meant no, not possible. To the English, no meant 'oh sorry, not certain but could be nice'. To the French, no means no - but, i.e., if you can convince me you and your argument are worthy, it could change to yes. To the Italians, no always meant 'anything is possible bella, so let's have lunch and we'll work it out'. In the Emirates, no meant absolutely nothing, no is the beginning of a negotiation. Although simplistic, this always helped bewildered and flustered American colleagues.
I was recently asked to write an article on the subject of cultural differences between the French and Americans for The American Magazine, published in the United Kingdom. Instead of cheese references, I found another one more relevant and rather amusing. If you are interested, here is the link to the article Smile - We're all Cats and Dogs


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102315 km,Displacement 2171,125 kW (170 hp) gas transmission manual transmission, front airbags, seat number 5, Euro 4 emissions, emissions sticker 4 (green), year 11/2000, HU 5 / 2013, AU 5 / 2013, Air conditioning, metallic blue topaz color name,
ABS, tow bar, parking aid, He. Windows, El. Immobiliser, ESP, Alloy wheels, Full Service History, sunroof, power steering, central locking, ESP, electric. Glass sunroof, leather steering wheel Sport, fog, Central radio, trip computer, tow bar removable head, split folding rear seat, a set of velvet carpets, rubber mats, automatic adjustment of the interior mirror, interior trim , driver passenger sports seats, driver lumbar support passenger, Park Distance Control (PDC), Touch Screen DVD CD Radio.
Summer tires 225/45 ZR17 Dunlop SP Sport Max, tires Dunlop Winter Sport M3 Winter 195/65 R15 on steel wheels original BMW.
Fuel consumption.
Fuel consumption. combined: ca 8.9 l/100km
fuel consumption. urban: around 12.2 l/100 km
fuel consumption. the city: about 6.9 l/100 km
CO 2 emissions combined: ca 213 g / km
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Apologies for the awful quality, appalling light and date in the corner. Downsides of have the century's worst camera.
I picked up this top a few weeks ago because I thought it was so cute. I think its a take on the 'Geek' T-shirts, which i like, but everyone has one and personally I like things that are a bit more unique. Cardigan was a Christmas present which i is super cosy and warm and goes with pretty much anything and I think those kind of things are good to have in your wardrobe. Hope you've all had a good week. I'm a bit sad the snows over - my giant snowman melted :(. Ah well, pancake day to look forward to!
Hope you liked this post/outfit. Let me know if you like outfit posts, so I can do a few more!
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Today's postcard comes to us from Anita Vandenberghe, Information Specialist at the Goodfellow Centre. Thanks Anita!
Paihia is a little village in the Bay Of Islands – situated on the northern end of the North Island – and I spotted this little free library right on the waterfront. Paihia is a busy tourist attraction and it has heaps of backpackers and motels so the library is well used by people in transit. I saw books in different languages and while I took photos several people popped in and flicked through the collection.


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The next stop on our Calderdale Way series, courtesy of www.casualramblers.co.uk, takes us 2.5 miles skirting the north of Halifax, through fields and farms.
Map Co-Ordinates: SE 070298
Skirting to the north of Halifax, the route continues through fields and farms with a short, steep climb above Holdsworth and Holmfield before dropping into the Shibden Valley.
This is also another short walk, and will take about an hour to complete, it is advisable to start the next part of the walk another day, as the final climb up to Catherine Slack is a steep.
Take the track on the right hand side of the bus stop, Blind Lane, walking almost due east to Pavement Lane.
A bridleway, closed to motor vehicles after South Peat Pitts, which is the house in the distance, which is looking towards Per Lane, Upper Brockholes.
Cross this road and follow the path through a couple of stiles until you reach a field. Cross the next field to head towards the building ahead.
Go through this stile and turn left, to go through the gate on your left. Following the path leading you towards the church.
Go through the stile at the bottom of this field to Riley Lane.
Turn left then right through to another field with a stile at the far end.
Here the route takes a detour as it winds its way to the left and right towards a short ginnel at the bottom of the farm.
Go through this stile and turn left, following the path all the way down to the bottom.
Turn right and head through some trees until you reach the first of three large ponds.
Take the path to the right of the first pond and follow this until you reach the third pond.
Look for a path to your right where a small bridge will take you to a stile and a field.
At the top left hand corner of the field is a metal gate, which will take you through an industrial estate and onto Holdsworth House this is now used as a popular wedding location.
Keeping Holdsworth House on your left follow this path all the way to the end.
Turn left here and follow the road downhill to a junction. Turn left and left again following the route uphill.
(Note: From past experience this last bit uphill is pretty steep but well worth the effort).
When you pass a terraced house on your left, turn right into Cobbled Crooked Lane.
When you reach the top turn left, where a sign points in the direction of the ski slope.
The next part of the route crosses Queensbury Road (A647) and down Swalesmoor Road.
If you want to finish the route there is a regular service between Halifax and Bradford. For Halifax, the bus stop is on the opposite side of the road. For Bradford, it's just past the Queensbury Border sign.


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Time to Unwind
Some days, you will leave work feeling accomplished and satisfied. But there are some days that you are totally spent, and stressed to the limit. So how do you unwind after a long day at work? Here's how:
Take a nice long bath
It could be a shower, or a soak. Either way, wash your troubles away basking in your own company. Warm water is said to relax the muscles, while cold water revitalises, so pick your mode of operation and get to scrubbing.
Movie night
Want to escape the pressures of the world? Bury yourself in the world of fantasy. Choose a movie within your genre of choice, and get caught up in the plot, twists, drama and surprises in store for you.
Music time
Reggae legend, Bob Marley once said, "One good thing about music, when it hits, you feel no pain." So just image the power of music in easing away the pain of a long day. Plug in and dance away your fears.
Catch up on your reading
Have a book you've been wanting to read but just haven't got around to doing so? Well, reading after a taxing day at work is the best way to relax your mind. Curling up with a good read is an awesome way to get the body in relax mode.
Wine and Dine
If you can't be bothered to head home, then some wining and dining will do the trick -guaranteeing a calming night. It can either be with your significant other, close friends, or family members. Just be sure you're in good company.
Home massage
The whole reason spas were invented, was to relax and pamper the body. But who are we kidding? We'd have to plan and make that trip an event. In the interim, that's where your heartbeat comes in. A head rub, back rub or foot massage might be just the remedy you need. And who knows? That magical rub may lead to other things guaranteed to ultimately alleviate any stress you might be under.


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With just hours to go before the French election gets underway, it's all about the economy – of course.
Nicolas Sarkozy says he's the man who's steered Europe through the worst of it, while main rival Francois Hollande insists the dire state of the French economy is all Sarkozy's fault.
It's no secret that round the rural parts of France – where most Brits tend to buy their 'dream' maisons secondaire, Msr Sarkozy is not a popular man. But however France votes, it is now clear the economic future of the nation will be uppermost in peoples' minds when they mark their ballot papers.
So will it be a case of better the devil you know, or let's give someone else a chance to sort out 'le mess'?
Typically, and agonisingly, the elections start Sunday, but won't finish until the run-offs two weeks later!
What do you think? Should Brit expats be allowed to vote in the main event? We'd love to know all your views…


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Here's the Rodian Runabout, the latest of my custom landspeeders. This one was a complicated model, and it has given me quite a few headaches.
It is based on an old 1:43 diecast toy car called a Bertone Runabout, a funky little sports-car from the 1970's. The toy had a neat retro vibe, which I felt fit in nicely with the design aesthetic of the original Star Wars film. You can see a picture of one of these toys HERE. So, a couple years ago I bought a beat-up used car for about $3 on ebay, and my headaches began.
The first thing I did was to take the whole thing apart. This guy wasn't held together with easily-removable screws like the Batmobile toys I used for some of the other speeders. This meant drilling out the 2 rivets used to hold the thing together with a large bit power drill. Once apart, I trimmed off the bits of scrap metal around the holes, and gave the metal parts of the car a bath in PineSol. After a few days, the paint was ready to come off with the help of a brass brush.
The rest of these photos are of the model before it was painted -- you can see where I had to fill in the body with brown or green epoxy putty. The front wheels had to have their fenders ground out, and then the holes were filled and filed smooth.
The engine pods are from my bits-box (they were actually the internal engines from the Bat-submersible toy -- let nothing go to waste!) They were secured into place with a flat piece of brass, then I filled in around it with putty. At last, the model was taking shape!
The glass canopy of the Speeder was made by making a solid form, which was used in a vaccu-former to make the clear plastic dome. This took a few tries to get right. A big thanks to my pal Brian and his vaccu-former for making this part possible! The 'Buck Rogers' style bubble-canopy is really my favorite part of the speeder, and it will keep the sand of Tatooine out of our driver's eyes!
Did I mention that this one caused me some headaches? It crossed the line from being 'fun' to 'frustrating', and I very nearly threw it into the trash a few times.
I showed the finished model to the good folks at Armorcast, and they offered to try to cast the thing in resin. It was something of a problem for them to cast, though, as it was not really designed for production. Kudos to Armocast... the model shown in the first 3 photos is a casting of the original! This last process actually went pretty smoothly, and I ended up with a few extras for the other racers in our gaming group to paint. I may revisit this speeder at some point in the future to make it easier to produce -- probably replacing the engine pods with something much simpler, like those on Luke's speeder.
I'm still not quite happy with the finished figure, it still needs a Rodian crew (in progress), and further painting and weathering. But I've decided to set it aside for a while for my sanity!


text: "Please, Mom, come sooner rather than later." It's an email from my daughter Katheryn in England, a continent and an ocean away – Katheryn, who, three weeks ago, was given a diagnosis of breast cancer, stage two. She was told that she needed mastectomy surgery to save her life. It would likely be…Read More


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We, like so many areas of the country, saw severe weather roll through the area this past week. It was one of the worst storms I have ever been in, quite scary for a few minutes as the worst of the winds roared , making rain hit sideways on the house with such force it leaked around windows. Walking about the next day I discovered a few missing shingles, many large limbs down, logs left in the field from the flooding creek and my flag pole of all things blown over ! We were quite fortunate as there was significant damage all around (the way our old home was built between two hills helps a little bit I believe). The worst damage and the closest to the house, not even a mile away: a large 16 slip boat dock flipped up and over onto cars parked nearby, pieces blown across the creek. No one was injured.
The photo above is the last one I have of my flagpole standing. I took it shortly after the first storm that came through. So much rain fell so quickly that the creek rose 4+ feet in a very short amount of time. It happened again when the second storm came through late that evening, this time the creek went into the field since it was already a bit high from the previous storm. The second storm also broke my flag pole :(
There were six vehicles under the debris according to news reports
Luckily not many shingles were blown off
Wind blown debris under shingles that were lifted from the intense winds
One of many large limbs blown down. Notice the tree snapped off in the distance
Entire trees came down elsewhere.
I'm so glad we had the tree removed near the house a couple of years ago,
it surely would have come down in this storm !
Rain swollen creek - this was taken after it had already started to fall.


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The house was starting to come alive; I had roused the children and told them it was time to get up and around. As is the routine, I then went into the kitchen to start on breakfast. I had decided with the early hour that this morning's meal would be easy to fix.
I spread the creamy peanut butter on one of the rice cakes and thought about the day. The music lessons, the phone calls that needed to be made, the house that needed to be cleaned, the school work that needed to be taught and the supper that needed to get into the crock pot soon in order to be ready to feed my family several hours from then. So many things. My list was long – the day was early and I was already starting to feel a little behind. Too many things for the amount of hours in that day.
They called my name and pulled me out of my mental list making. I turned to see the two youngest standing in the doorway of the kitchen. They were dressed for the day – a pink dress for her (with frills and a headband pushing back her yet uncombed hair from her face). He had on the nicest jeans he owned, a button down shirt that normally was saved for church services or nice dinners out. They were holding hands – him and her. Two children who would have never met had it not been for God, His grace and His gift to our home. Both of them – a gift from God to me. Everyday they each call me Mom – because of His grace and His gift to me.
Her hand grasped his tighter and she looked up him to help her "start"; and her eyes danced with excitement as they started to sing. A song I have heard sung to me 41 other times before this day. He sang out loud and clear and she did too; occasionally looking at him for moral support and for the assurance that she was singing it right. She was. He was. Together than sang their wish to me; and I stopped buttering the rice cake, put my mental "to do' list aside in my mind; and listened as they sang.
Life stopped; and I knew that if I lived for another 42 years – I would remember this birthday on that day too. I would remember my early morning birthday greeting, the excitement in their eyes and voices as they sang. I would remember that I not only knew I was loved by my two precious gifts from God – I would remember that I could *feel* their love for me as they sang. I asked God to help me never forget the scene I was watching at the moment.
The song finished and they ran to me for a good morning hug. They hugged tight – squeezing as hard as their little arms could. Trying with all their might, to hug me tight enough to convey *just* how much they loved me. I let myself take in the hug and their love. I quietly whispered a "thank you" to God for giving them to me. How thankful I am that He heard my prayer for another baby and kept them safe till He brought each them to me. For letting me find out that you can love someone who has not grown inside of you for nine months as deeply and as much as you love the others who did. I took in their hug, their song, the look in the faces and the light in their eyes that morning and felt immersed in their love – and His love.
Thanks God, for all the gifts you have given me. For these precious little ones that I get to watch grow up and hear them call me "Mom" every single day. For the three older kids who I get to laugh with and talk about their futures as I watch you open up your plan for their lives. Thanks for the husband that has loved me, cared for me for more than half of my life. Thanks – for the life that you have given me.
I asked the Zak at the end of the hug, "Why are you wearing your nice clothes?"
He smiled at me, (with a Zak smile that took over his entire face), "A man has to look nice and smell nice for a lady's birthday." He quickly stuck his wrist up to my nose and asked me if he smelt handsome. I told him he did.
It was a wonderful start to a birthday day – and the rest of the day continued in suite. I am so thankful for all of them.
Thanks God, for my family!
I trust you are able to enjoy your week; basking in the gift of love and family. Thanks for stopping by, I am so glad you did!


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Posted by on August 05, 2014 in Blog
By Myles Teasley
Summer Intern, 2014
Estimated Foreign Fighters in Syria/Iraq by Country:
Tunisia: 2400+
Morocco: 1000+
Algeria: 600+
Libya: 600 - 2500+
Egypt: 350 – 1000+
W. Sahara: 100+
Mauretania: 100+
Over the next few years, as many as 12000 experienced, potentially radicalized, fighters will be returning to their home countries. Many of these countries, particularly those in Arab North Africa, also known as the Maghreb, lie on crucial trade and trafficking routes to Europe and the West. With over a third originating from this region, these fighters could bring back with them an arsenal MI6 has estimated as greater than that of the entire British army. Given the precariousness of the region, even glimmering examples of progress (Tunisia) could crumble into a corridor of instability and failed states stretching from the Atlantic to the Red Sea. If there has ever been a time for the United States to abandon its time-honored practice of 'benign neglect' toward Arab North Africa, it is now.
One needs look no further than the successes of ISIS in Iraq or Azawad rebels and Al-Qaida in the Maghreb (AQIM) terrorists in Mali to see the damage that relatively small numbers of well equipped, experienced, and radicalized insurgents can do. In Iraq, ISIS' 7,000 multinational fighters carved out a quasi-state from an Iraqi army of 250,000 that the United States spent $25 billion dollars building. In Sahelian Mali, a few thousand Taureg's from Libya rode into Mali and seized more than two-thirds of the country from the dysfunctional government. It took a military coup in the capital, combined with French and AU military intervention, to bring the breakaway region back under relative control; Meanwhile fears increase of the permanent breakup of Iraq as embattled Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki fortifies Baghdad against siege by ISIS' recently declared caliphate.
The cases of Iraq and Mali in the weeks prior to their recent decline, in some ways, resemble Arab North Africa now. High unemployment rates, averaging over 40% among youth, combined with social disaffection among young people who often feel as if their Arab Spring has been hijacked, lend fertile and receptive ground to radicals claiming that violence offers an answer to their dispossession. Weak state institutions and poor oversight has led to a proliferation of foreign Imams sweeping into mosques in disaffected towns and villages in Libya, southern Tunisia, parts of Algeria, and the Western Sahara. And while these countries acknowledge the serious threat that returning militants pose, and have moved to address this issue, in many cases they are limited in what they can do or accomplish without support.
For the past few months, Tunisia's underequipped military has been confronted with its most significant terrorism challenge in decades as militants from Ansar al-Sharia and AQIM hide out in desolate mountains plotting strikes. In response to a recent attack on its military, the Tunisian government has announced a major crackdown on radical Imam's in mosques throughout many of the more dispossessed areas in Tunisia, in addition to having prevented over 8000 young Tunisians from fighting abroad thanks to proactive citizenry and law enforcement. Libya's well-documented instability goes chronically ignored in the west as rival militias clash for control amidst frequent assassinations, fraying legitimacy, and a non-existent national army. Egypt's damaged political legitimacy and bloody crackdown is now encountering increasingly effective extremists returning from conflicts in Syria and Iraq. A lack of resolution to the decades old Western Sahara issue has bred further disaffection and anger aimed at both Morocco and the West in an area vast and sparse enough to be a major training ground and launch pad for terror attacks throughout the region. Lastly, Mauretania's tiny underfunded military, widely perceived as corrupt, is hardly prepared to deal with a security threat like one posed by experienced returning extremist militants. Ultimately, what a few hundred to a thousand experienced and well-armed insurgents can do in conditions of popular disaffection, high unemployment, and extant terror organizations should give American and European policymakers chills.
It is abundantly clear what needs to be done. Benign neglect today could lead to a simmering instability tomorrow. Detailed in short form here is an already extant toolkit that policymakers can utilize before what happened in Mali, and what is happening in Libya and Iraq, takes hold, intensifies, and spreads throughout Arab North Africa to the detriment of American strategic interests, regional economic development, and regional stability.
In order to arrest this serious and rising threat, the United States should:
- Establish and expand security and counterterrorism training agreements with Arab Maghreb & Sahelian States (modeled after African Lion Exercises).
- Encourage regional security integration and information sharing in the Maghreb and Sahel;
- Expand investment, educational, and good governance partnerships in the region, and support local civil society because transnational security doesn't exist in a vacuum;
- Consider extending and expanding "strategic dialogues" and "strategic partnerships" to Maghreb and Sahelian states, incentivizing good-governance and security cooperation;
- Reevaluate and target its foreign aid practices to be in harmony with, and supportive of, local developmental needs, particularly youth development
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I've been lucky enough to have two mom's that have shared their homekeeping tips with me for years. Both my mom and my mom-in-law have very clean homes. Once I had a family of my own with three kids and a dog, I could never figure out how they did it. My home always looked "unkept". So I went back to both of them and asked for a little advice. Each had some little secrets to keeping their home looking so good.
1. If you only have time for one thing- vacuum the floor. When your floors look clean everything else will look better. Even vacuum the kitchen floor. When you pick up the big dirt, the other stuff will disappear.
2. Try making your bed every day. This is for your mental health, since we usually don't let guests into our bedrooms. When your bed is made the rest of the room will look better. And there is nothing more relaxing than ending your day in a room that looks clean.
3. Don't pile your dishes in the sink. Put them directly in the dishwasher. Dirty dishes create negative energy, especially if they are piled up in the sink. If you can train your family to do one thing- make it that they put their dirty dishes in the dishwasher. Try running the dishwasher at night and empty it before you leave for the day. Then no one will have the excuse that the dishwasher was full of clean dishes.


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Tradução de Hindi de agile
Frequência da palavra
agile/ˈædʒaɪl, Am -dʒəl ˈऐजाइल् Am -जल्/
1. adjectivo
Someone who is agile can move with ease and speed.फुर्तीला [फुर्तीली]
He is very agile for a big man.
agility /əˈdʒɪlɪti अˈजिलिटी/ substantivo incontávelफुर्ती nfफुर्तीलापन mn
He lacks Bruce's natural agility.
2. adjectivo
If you have an agile mind, you think quickly and intelligently.प्रखरकुशाग्र
agility substantivo incontávelकुशाग्रता nf
...exercises in mental agility.
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Card counting The mentally agile can count cards to improve their odds.Times, Sunday Times (2009)
He was rugged with a hairy chest, strong and agile.Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It is agile and responsive.The Sun (2010)
It is when agile minds follow interesting scientific leads for their own sake that most innovations emerge.Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The only seriously bad bit is that you become less agile and less strong.Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The steering is agile and responsive and it takes tight bends in its stride.The Sun (2010)
Field placings reflected an agile mind.Times, Sunday Times (2014)
He was quick and agile.Times, Sunday Times (2010)
He was very agile, quick in his actions in training.The Sun (2010)
He will have no difficulty in adapting - he is an agile, strong and fast player.The Sun (2016)
He's a different player, much quicker and more agile.The Sun (2016)
He's much quicker and more agile.Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Another is that they aren't mentally agile or strong enough.Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Loss of intellectual faculties came top of the list of worries, with 79 per cent of people concerned about remaining mentally agile.The Sun (2008)
So agile and nimble and capable that you feel like a hero behind the wheel.The Sun (2016)
Sweet 1.8 and 2litre engines that must be worked hard to get the best out of them and agile handling add up to a proper convertible experience.The Sun (2008)
The handling is equally agile.The Sun (2008)
You had to be quick, nimble and agile all the time.Times, Sunday Times (2014)
A technology during its phase of rapid growth and spectacular success is usually small, quick and agile.Infinite in All Directions (1989)
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Someone who is agile can move quickly and easily.
At 20 years old he was not as agile as he is now.
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