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Crimp 300 - BNT24 24V
Crimping machine 24V for service vans:
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Die sets included in the standard package.
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now on the shelves of specialty stores there are many imported cosmetics.How to understand such a huge assortment?Is it always the foreign products are of high quality?Let today's brand renowned Italian producer - it is cosmetics Kiko.Consider its advantages and disadvantages based on consumer reviews.
few words about
How came cosmetics Kiko?Reviews of women say that they have been waiting for the release of the brand on the Russian market.The firm was founded in the small town near Milan called Bergamo.It happened recently.But the products of the company Kiko Make Up Milano has managed to win the hearts of the vast number of women in Italy, in Spain and in Colombia, and now in Russia.This grade is presented by means of facial and hand skin, as well as a large variety of decorative cosmetics.It is worth noting that the prices of products Kiko relatively low, given that it has a high European quality.
There Kiko cosmetics represented by several means - restoring and moisturizing hand cream,
for skin care
What else do we offer this brand?Facial skin care is very demanding.Manufacturers of cosmetics this is understood.To create means to care for the person they used the latest technology and high quality raw materials.Italian cosmetics Kiko is represented by the following products: soft foam, lotion and gel for washing, hydrophilic oil for delicate make-up removal, cleaning wipes impregnated with a moisturizing lotion, facial masks, moisturizers, lip balms and serums.The cost of these funds varies from 850 to 1700 rubles.Does the quality of the products of their relatively high cost?Many buyers believe that this is to buy cosmetics.Cleaning agents such as foam and milk are very light, subtle, pleasant aroma, delicate texture.Separate conversation deserves a hydrophilic oil - a product that is in the arsenal is far from all manufacturers.It is very easy oily means for removing makeup.Women say that they are incredibly convenient to use: just squirted a few times on a cotton sponge and wipe your face.Eye make-it removes completely and easily, without irritating the skin.
Face cream is also very good, in the opinion of consumers.The skin after use is fresh, the color of it is leveled.However, they are absorbed quickly without leaving a greasy shine.These funds have only drawback: they are only for the young women.Even creams, declared as products 3D Lifting, did not tighten the skin and wrinkles do not cut.So says the majority of buyers.
But especially our women from all products of the Italian brand liking cosmetics Kiko.
Foundations comprise the following products: powder, cream, makeup base, a cream-lock make-up, foundation, powder, bronzer, concealer mask, blush.Russian women have already tested many products of this category.They write that the powder is very good, lays down a thin layer of transparent, it does not cause allergies.Blush are sold in a small jar - all five of them, however, are surprisingly economical.Applied easily not raise dust, keep all day.
According to some users, it is not successful at this brand a foundation.It is equipped with a dispenser, which is often clogged with dried product residues.Moreover, its masking effect is also far from ideal.Cream hides all the redness and pimples, but stresses every roughness on the face.So use it in the presence of enlarged pores, flaking, bumps on the skin and other defects are not recommended.
eye makeup and lip
Kiko Cosmetics in Russia appeared mostly in specialty stores.Our women are actively buying lipstick, eye shadow and mascara this brand.And they note that lipstick Kiko fantastic: lie flat, not melt, roll, hold a whole day.And what a variety of colors!However, they are not cheap: from 730 to 1130 rubles.
Shadows from this company from the most classic to bold hues.According to women, they are of good quality: the touch - a little rough, but lie on the skin is very smooth, well-kept and not roll down.
But eyeliner pencils and age our customers did not inspire.Those who have tried these products, write that the quality is quite good, but nothing special, they are not present.
mascara, volume and lengthening, is also pretty good quality.They make the eye expressive.This product does not fall off, holding up well throughout the day.
If somewhere and one can find a large variety of the most amazing shades of nail polish, this cosmetics Kiko Milano.Lucky dries very quickly.But here, their dignity, according to many consumers end.By cons include:
• thick uncomfortable brush, not allowing even put means;
• thick consistency (to put a thin even layer does not work);
• poor resistance (lacquer wears on the third day);
• composition, is bad for the health of nails (they quickly become brittle and start to exfoliate).
cost of nail polish of the firm ranges from 430 to 990 rubles.Given the fact that our customers this product is not particularly liked, you can say that the price is too high.
We talked about the Italian production of such products as cosmetics Kiko.In our country, it already enjoys great popularity.

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January 8, 2018
Released by Hali Rowland
MANHATTAN, KAN. – The Riley County Police Department officer who was injured when responding to a domestic disturbance has been treated and released from the hospital.
On Friday, January 5, 2018 at approximately 12:30 p.m., Sergeant Pat Tiede was shot after responding to the report of a domestic situation in the 3700 block of Hawthorne Woods Circle. Sergeant Tiede received a non-life threatening gunshot wound. He is currently continuing his recovery at home.
Sergeant Tiede is an 18 year veteran of the department, presently serving in the Patrol Division. He and his family would like to thank the community for the outpouring of support and concern that has been shown during this time. We ask that you please respect the privacy of Sgt. Tiede and his family as they continue to heal physically and emotionally.


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Laineygossip.com blogger Lui strikes a discordant note with the title of her memoir, but readers will find an affectionate tribute to her tough, powerful Chinese mother.
When the author was young, an unnaturally loud voice earned "Ma" the sobriquet Squawking Chicken. It's an "all-out assault…sharp, edged and quick," writes Lui, who felt the sting of her mother's tongue many times. After her parents divorced when she was 7, the author spent the school year in Toronto with her low-key father and vacations in Hong Kong with her demanding mother. Ma's child-rearing techniques included telling ghost stories that warned against behavior that brings bad luck, using feng shui edicts to control decisions and strict rules of comportment. Readers may laugh at the embarrassing-moments-with-Mom stories and also squirm at Ma's verbal cruelty. In contrast to a permissive, childcentric parenting style so pervasive in Western culture, Ma abhorred praise as a motivator and discouraged unrealistic aspirations. Bragging and rebellion were met with public derision, and shaming and demeaning were the preferred forms of punishment. Though open affection was rare, her love was indisputable. Ma's harsh ways reflected a determination to spare Lui the hardships she had to endure. At 15, she quit school and went to work at a restaurant to support her siblings while her unemployed parents "slept off all-night mah-jong sessions." Then, while walking home after work, she was raped. With no sympathy from her parents, she voiced her shame, anger and frustration by screaming all night. That was the birth of Squawking Chicken. Thereafter, she used her voice to protect herself and others. For all her in-your-face tough love, baffling and amusing rules, and opinions about people and situations, Ma has been, more often than not, uncannily right-on.
Lui's memoir demonstrates an undeniable mother–daughter bond that leaves readers with one overriding lesson: "[L]isten to your mother."


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WIKIleaks dumps massive new DNC leak on Sept 13th, 2016 (see one video on Youtube). It is obvious that both campaigns are using public media to gain more support. Here, I have something interesting to reveal too.
What I did are,
1) Using two group of hashtags, which are assumed to support Hillary or Trump respectively (not 100% accurate, but should be with high accuracy rate),
- Support Hillary: #votehillary2016 #VoteHillary #NeverTrump #IAmWithHer #WeAreWithHer #NoTrump #TrumpLies #StopTrump #DumpTrump #TrumpUnfit
- Support Trump: #MakeAmericaGreatAgain #HillarysBigotry #CrookedHillary #Hillary4Prison #NeverHillary #TrumpTrain #VoteTrump #LockHerUp #WakeUpAmerica #TrumpsArmy
3) Using descriptive statistics methods to do some analysis. Possibly, we can do more advanced analysis on the data. I am looking for Opinion mining training data for Twitter or other social media. Please let me know if you happen to have it and will share it with me.
My app has been continuously running and collecting data for more than two weeks now. I analyzed the first week's data and put some result here. It looks like both Trump supporters and Hillary supporters have been working hard on Twitter and some automation post applications are used to post tweets on Twitter. It also looks like Trump side know more about how to use social media auto app than Hillary side.
So, I suspect that Hillary really get great support from high-tech firm CEOs? (see Here's Which American CEOs Are Supporting Hillary Clinton and Here's Why Your Facebook Timeline Is Suddenly Full of Hillary Clinton Supporters)
Now, let's see some data and pictures.
Let's see in one week, each candidate has how many supporters on the twitter.Obviously, Trump supporters work much harder than Hillary's supporters on Twitters. Data are collected from Sept. 5 (Monday) to Sept. 11 (Sunday). You can also see the peak time of tweets post are on Thursday and Saturday. I will continuously observe if the is a really behavior pattern.
Let's see what time in a day has the most tweets screaming on the twitter.It is interesting to see, during one day, if people tweets at certain time of a day. For example, lunch time? dinner time? Below picture shows a clear pattern of user behavior. it looks like people like to post tweets at UTC time 5pm (1pm EST) and 24pm (8pm EST).
This pattern could be useful for both Hillary and Trump campaigns to effectively post on social medial like twitter. And, in the fact, I think they do it already. I will show evidence in the following analysis.
How different language speaking people support Hillary or Trump?We filter out those languages that has less than 200 post in a week and get below picture.
It is clear that Hillary has more support only from es (Spanish) and "unknown". On the other hand, Trump get more support from people who speaks British English (en-gb), French (fr), German (de) and all the rest. People, who is interested in finding out all languages listed, can check language code by click here.
What kind devices/application each side use mostly?After investigating the language people use, we can have a look at what application/devices users use to post tweet. The interesting phenomena is that Twitter Web Client contributes the most tweets.
Since there are too many different application and devices are used to post on twitter, I just plot two different data as below. I sorted largest number of tweets for each application/device. Not surprisingly, Hillary side and Trump side have different top 20 devices that post tweets. So, I plot two different pictures, one is for Hillary side's top 20 and the other is for Trump side's top 20. You can compare listed applications and see what is shown in Trump's side not in Hillary side. It will be interesting to dig more with those application.
For Hillary's top 20 applications,
For Trump's top 20 applications
Let's list out top used devices/app for Trump and Hillary respective. Then, you can align them and carefully compare both sides. Clearly, Trump side attracts more auto application to tweets. On the Hillary side, one stands out application is "Monkey Thank U". So, who are they? What do they post on twitter? You can explore them with data I share at the bottom of this post.
Let's explore a little bit what both sides' robot post on the twitter.
- DropOutHillary1, http://www.idatamining.org/yyjia/twitter/twitterDropOuthillary1Content.txt
- IFTTT, http://www.idatamining.org/yyjia/twitter/twitterIfttt.txt
- Monkey Thank U, http://www.idatamining.org/yyjia/twitter/twitterMonkeyThankUContent.txt
- Zapier, http://www.idatamining.org/yyjia/twitter/twitterZapier.txt


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This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Jess, in Florida, was the gracious host this week who provided a bunch of colorful photos!
This Jess's boy having fun at the beach. I tried to go with the "less is more" theory and staying loose. This one just seemed to flow right along. Hope you like it.
C&C welcome. Thanks for looking and leaving a comment!
Psalm 56: 3-4 "But when I am afraid, I will put my trust in you. I praise God for what he has promised. I trust in God, so why should I be afraid? What can mere mortals do to me?"


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Scripture: Lectionary 343. Sirach 4:11-19. Psalm 119:22.214.171.124-175. Mark 9:38-40:
Our liturgical readings taken from the wisdom thought of Sirach is supplemented by the Psalms chosen for our response and meditation. They are psalms that are from the wisdom lineage of the Temple prayers and songs. We see this in the frequent use of Psalm 1, Psalm 19 A and B, and Psalm 119 the longest in the Psalter. They help us ponder over the wisdom writings with a prayer and with our own meditation on the themes expressed in the first reading.
Jesus is often called Wisdom by contemporary theologians. He is filled with the wisdom coming from the Holy Spirit. Today he is teaching wisdom to his disciples by making sure they are tolerant of others who share in special gifts from God and done in Jesus' name. His disciples need wisdom in learning how to be tolerant of others and not judgmental or jealous. Maybe the two are related in lack of tolerance. The case at hand is that a man is casting out demons in the name of Jesus even though he is not a disciple of Jesus. Jesus teaches his disciples practical wisdom seen in good judgment. The tells them, "Anyone who is not against us, is for us."
Sirach illustrates the role of wisdom in the lives who are seeking her (Sophia, Wisdom personified). Her wisdom is to be received and acted upon in those who love her; it again is practical wisdom and down to earth.
Not only individuals but communities are called to be followers of wisdom. Members are to be alert to forms of prejudice, rash judgment of others, virulent backbiting, hurtful sarcasm. Arrogance or a feeling that we are better than others is also a part of the picture when a group lacks wisdom. Tolerance is a gift that fosters honesty and transparency; it listens to the others, enters into dialogue with them, stays at table with them and has no pretense of knowing all things. Like the disciples we too need to realize that those who are not with us may not be against us.
We pray for the gift of Wisdom from the Holy Spirit. We learn to never despise anyone. We praise those who praise God and Jesus. We learn from them. Wisdom is an ongoing process and thus it fits in with the liturgical concept of ordinary time. Wisdom however is not ordinary; it is extraordinary and a graced gift from God. Amen.
Copyright 2013 Fr. Bertrand Buby, S.M.


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Ghana's cuisine is very diverse and eclectic, largely in part to the many early colonial powers vying for control of Ghana's lucrative trade opportunities on the coast, aptly named The Gold Coast. Everything from spring rolls to butter bread, a specialty in Ghanian bakeries made with sugar and nutmeg, can be found anywhere in the country. But where can one find such complex desserts, pastries and overall multicultural cuisine of this West African nation here in the United States, specifically Columbus, Ohio? I found my answer and my chance to try these delicious staples I had long read about with wonder when I met Florence Asantewaa Asirifi, also known as Asante Flo, which is also the name of her Ghanaian pastry catering company, Asante Flo's Bakery.
Born in Akyem Hemang in the Eastern region of Ghana, Asirifi learned to cook at early age under the supervision of her auntie, Queen mother of her hometown. Her aunt mastered a large variety of Ghanaian dishes and used her skills to help other women throughout her village through Miss Education, a program designed for the sole purpose to teach them skills such as how to deftly cook dishes and sew. Asifiri followed her aunt's example of education and left to study, completing a three-year post-secondary education degree. She was offered an opportunity to teach home economics and food nutrition in a local junior high school, and it was there that her catering skills blossomed. She made dishes for church functions and parties in addition to making pastries for sale to bring in extra income to support her small children, as at that time she was a single parent.
Asifiri immigrated to the United States in 2000 with the goal of furthering opportunities for herself and her children. She decided on Columbus, attracted to "(the city's) sense of family and community." Helped by doting friends and family, she decided to research a way to return to her passion for cooking into a profitable business. After contacting the Department of Agriculture and a home inspection, she was granted a home bakery license. She yearns for a catering license, but was ultimately denied as there was no restaurant kitchen to facilitate those specific needs.
However, upon trying her incredible dishes, anyone who loves food would be a fan and it is easy to imagine the demand for her talents to only grow in the future. As one sits in her kitchen watching her cook and talk, she is a naturally loving spirit, laughing and chatting as she smoothly orchestrates preparing dishes and answering questions with enviable ease.
A few of her many Ghanaian pastry specialties include but are not limited to: sweet wheat flour chips (chin-chin), rock buns (think larger doughnut holes and just as tasty if not more so), coconut biscuits (biscuit actually a cookie, a remnant of British colonial influence. Each one is chewy, crispy coconut cookies each painstakingly garnished with a glace cherry, and a popular snack in the West African country, Ghanaian peanut brittle (Nkati cake). Nkati is the term for "peanuts in the local Twi language, hence the name.
Her daughter and my close friend, Priscilla Dwomoh, a top model, talent coordinator, stylist and so much more helps her make meat pies, similar to Jamaican meat pies or empanadas. Filled with minced beef, onions and peppers, meat pies are delicious and a popular Ghanaian snack served at parties and restaurants.Watching them work together laughing, talking in Twi, there is so much love and respect between the generations.
When asked how the importance of tradition, especially in meal and etiquette impact the traditional Ghana household, Asifiri commented in the very manner that she greeted everyone during the interview. "I love to make people feel at home, so I cook a lot for both friends and family, you can't step out of my house without eating."
Traditionally, Ghanaians meals consist of heavy starchy staple foods accompanied with thick well-seasoned stews or soups. In addition to her baked goods, she generously prepared delicious and fantastically flavored Jollof rice, a colorfully-hued rice dish with tomatoes, spices,and meat boiled together and Red-Red, a Ghanaian stew made from beans which obtains it's deep red color from the red palm oil and tomato paste. There are many versions, but Asifiri's delicious version is made the most traditional Ghanaian way with black eyed beans and buttery fried plantains on the side.
If that wasn't enough to spoil her guests, she also prepared tender and perfectly spiced baked-then-fried African chicken with steamed vegetables and spring rolls, which were surprising until learning of it's popularity across Ghana nationwide. Asifiri also takes great pleasure in regularly making other traditional dishes in addition to the above mentioned feast prepared the day of the interview such as Wakye rice and beans, Banku and Okro stew, fufu and various Ghanaian soups such as peanut butter soup, pepper soup, spinach soup, a corn dough dish named kenkey and many others.
Asifiri explained that "… it is customary for hosts to provide their guests with something to eat and drink, even if the visit does not occur at a mealtime. If someone is eating, he or she must invite an unexpected visitor to join him or her."
This was immediately apparent as her beautiful family including her husband Emmanuel Abu, her children Priscilla and Daniel Dwomoh and family friend Anita Akeweah Marfo gravitate from their living room to the intoxication smells wafting out of the kitchen.
Asifiri smiles with pride at her loved ones. "I get some help from my husband, children, nieces, " as well as her sweet granddaughters who mischievously ask for payment afterwards. She modestly leaves out how much she helps them, and others in the community. It was with her home bakery license that she was able to her children continue their education through the collegiate level. Priscilla mentioned that she is warm and welcome to everyone, and gives so much to all who know her. Asifiri makes sure to send everyone at the table home with bags loaded with delicious food and pastries.
As for Asifiri's future plans, hopes & dreams? "To open a restaurant that will serve both African and foreign dishes."
If I were you I would be sure to be a regular, be it bakery patron or future restaurant regular. A true pleasure and treasure.


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Saturday, April 16, 2011
iCopic DT Call - I heart Pink!
Hi Friends! Here to share with you my creation for the iCopic DT Call. The DT Call Challenge is to create one project using the color Pink! I had promised a cupcake creation, so I thought it was only perfect to create a Jumbo Pink Cupcake for the challenge. The perfect stamp was of course the Cling Cupcake XL by Stampendous. I used R81, R83 and R85 to color the cupcake. I took my time and colored the image in sections to keep the coloring and blending consistent. I paired up the cupcake with one of my all time favorite pattern papers from MME as the cupcake liner. Those polka dots are too cute to resist. I added the fun Happy Birthday sentiment using the Bday Messages set from Stampendous. Topped it all off with lots of sugar using 2 different multi crystal glitters from Stampendous. I also added some Kraft paper too to play along with my sweet friend, Jeanie's, 50th TKT Challenge. Wow! I hope you all love this sweet Pink Cupcake!
I am super excited for a chance to be part of iCopic DT. They offer a wonderful line of products and great customer service. Be sure to stop by and visit them here. You also will be happy to know they also have a great blog too with lots of fun challenges for all us Copic lovers. Coloring with Copics is so fun and I love, love, love them!♥♥♥
Hope you enjoy the card and thanks so much for stopping by today! Hugs!
Thanks for visiting and Happy Stamping!
13 comments:
- Steph said...
Gorgeous card! So bright and cheery! x
- April 17, 2011 at 1:32 AM
- Suzanne :O ) said...
that is SO yummy! I love that you made a "cupcake liner" out of patterned paper- great idea! I hope you make the team, you did an awesome job coloring that frosting!!
- April 17, 2011 at 3:28 AM
- wendyp said...
this is ADORABLE!!! fabulous job coloring that yummy cupcake!
- April 17, 2011 at 5:12 AM
- Kerry said...
Oh Rach, this is absolutely gorgeous!!!! What an awesome cupcake!
- April 17, 2011 at 6:42 AM
- Tettiz said...
Love the stitches, the clean & simple look, the colouring - FAB card!
- April 17, 2011 at 9:03 AM
- Pam Hornschu said...
You and your cupcakes, Rachel! Gorgeous coloring on this one. Love the polka dotted paper! I didn't know they had a DT call...
- April 17, 2011 at 9:52 AM
- Glenda J said...
So fun and fabulous!
- April 17, 2011 at 9:08 PM
- Jodi Collins aka Kharmagirl said...
This looks good enough to eat! LOVE the patterned paper for the cupcake liner!!! Good luck!!!
- April 19, 2011 at 12:11 PM
- Wanda G (stampcat) said...
LOVE THIS ONE!!! Perfect color combination and just the right everything! Thanks for making me smile. :-)
- April 19, 2011 at 4:07 PM
- Alice Wertz said...
wow! fabulous coloring on the icing!! super card, Rachel!
- April 19, 2011 at 4:36 PM
- The Spotted Chick said...
WOWZERS!! This is MY kinda CUPCAKE!! Just my SIZE! Tee-hee! Oh Rachel, this is just precious! LOVE the bright colors and that happy birthday sentiment is PERFECT! Love that big FONT! Thanks for playing along in my That's Krafty Thursday challenge! {{{hen hugs}}}
- April 20, 2011 at 6:03 PM
- Niki Estes said...
So cute, Rachel! I love how you did the sentiment!
- April 20, 2011 at 7:12 PM
- Scrappychick said...
eeeekkk! how cute is that cupcake?? Fun card and good luck!!
- April 30, 2011 at 7:22 AM


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Thanks for the extra nudge Cass.
It's been two and a half years since I've written here. TWO AND A HALF YEARS.
I don't even know what to say. Except that I'm here.
And I need to write.
I've really been feeling it the last few months... that urge to spill my thoughts on
So I'm here.
And I'm just going to jump back in with some easy!
Currently I am...
Making: plans, plans and more plans. Meal plans, trip plans, babysitter plans, party plans and the list goes on and on. Seems I've constantly got something spinning the wheels in my brain these days. It never ends.
Drinking: water. Boring.
Reading: Heart Made Whole by Christa Black Gifford. Still. Slowly. Soaking it in. Having great discussions on it with a group of amazing women walking through it together. Big stuff.
Wanting: to go back to Aruba. Bad.
Looking: at the outdated pictures on my wall. Except for one or two in the dining room, we have no pictures of our youngest two children displayed in our home. All the pictures framed on our walls and such are at least six years old. I'm horrible.
Deciding: between making or buying the ice cream cake Sawyer requested for his little birthday party this weekend. I think laziness will win in the end.
Enjoying: the new TV shows we've been watching this year. This Is Us, Designated Survivor, and Poldark are at the top of that list.
Liking: backyard lunchtime picnics with the littles in this gorgeous weather. Even if they don't really eat anything because they're too busy having fun. That's what it's all about. We've been doing this almost whenever we have chance and it's awesome.
Loving: said gorgeous weather. It FINALLY cooled off and now it's all sunshine and 70 degrees and I will take all of that I can get. It's Fall y'all.
Listening: to Coen chattering over the monitor while he's upstairs for rest time. He never naps anymore, but he needs the down time. WE need the downtime.
Buying: too many little girl clothes. Way too many. I can't stop. I feel like I'm catching up from spending basically the past ten years buying for baby boys and now I'm making up for lost time. There's a package that was just delivered on our front step as we speak.
Hoping: we get some snow this year.
Wearing: Yoga pants and tee. It's Friday.
Disliking: The election and how what was designed to create a strong union has deteriorated to show the weakness in our one republic and insulted much of what we were created to stand for.
Opening: aforementioned package. It wasn't the package I thought it was after all... it's Ryan's new toy: the Google Home smart speaker.
Embracing: this season. Right now. Where we all are. And getting back to documenting that like it's my job. Because it is. To capture the memories in writing and in photos... I want to get back to that and have that to look back on. I need that. My kids need that. I love it. I'm on it.


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my father is on some bizarro salvia kick right now, and has gone justa little bit crazier than he was before. Which means he's nuttier than a cheap fruitcake. It sounds awful, from all of the descriptions i've gotten so far- have you tried it? what do you think? I'm a little wary of anything called "the little death" these days..
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Subject: Re: [Vox] Nightshade varieties poisonous but beautiful
It's worth it. And it is a 'little death' because this entire world and reality completely dies. You feel literally like you've stepped inside the life force of some rain forest plant; there's no up or down anymore, everything human about you evaporates and becomes another life for about 20 minutes. If your father's nuttier than a cheap fruitcake, then it's going to be no good for him. But, on an intellectual level, I found it great and fascinating---you just get that little 20 minute glimpse into that other world, but if you stayed longer there, you'd be nuttier than a cheap fruitcake too. On a spiritual level, I don't know what to make of it yet. On an emotional one, I was fucking terrified the first time because all my orientations were suddenly bombed. Everything as I'd known it for 35 years was different, suddenly. The frameworks of my reality all shot down. But now I'm fascinated by all that. Everything gets kind of fuzzy and you feel these embers burning in your body as you cross over into Salvia's domain.


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MMA Recommended Equipment
Required Equipment
A USB Flash drive: Minimum of 32Gb capacity. This drive is to be used as back-up and storage for college files.
Recommendation: If you are using this drive on both, Windows and iOS (Apple) systems, I highly recommend purchasing two separate USB drives. Files can and have become corrupted using a single USB on both systems.
Recommended Equipment
It is not necessary to purchase any equipment, as the lab is equipped with the tools needed to complete the course. However, due to the nature of the course and the extraordinary amount of external work needed to complete projects, it would be beneficial to own your own equipment.
Equipment does not need to be purchased before the start of classes. The best option for pricing would be to wait until you have your student ID in order to take advantage of educational pricing.
Recommendation: The lab uses Apple computers for their dependability. This does not mean you have to use Apple products if you are not comfortable with them. If you choose to use a Windows computer, I recommend that you purchase a windows-based laptop, to use in class. The software itself is almost identical on either platform.
Final note about Windows-based computers: If you are using a Windows computer for college, you will also have to be your own IT person for potential problems.
Purchasing Considerations
- The College's book store has an online catalog with many of the software items needed for the class.
- Computers (depending on the brand) have various ranges of capabilities and should be researched for best pricing.
- Hardware items, like cameras, are not likely to have educational discounts.
- Be wary of those "experts" in big box stores when purchasing computers. Retailers in general have sales goals they need to meet. Do your research before purchasing. Caveat emptor (BUYER BEWARE).
- The most trusted places to buy audio/video equipment are http://www.bhphotovideo.com and http://www.adorama.com/ Locally, http://www.huntsphotoandvideo.com/ has been very good to us. These listed retailers are merely suggestions. Feel free to use any source of your choosing
- Always ask about students discounts and use your student ID for possible savings.
Disclaimer: These recommendations should be used as a starting point for your purchasing decision. Lakes Region Community College, it's faculty, staff and administration are not responsible for purchases made based on these recommendations. Defective or inadequate equipment that is incapable of performing necessary lab work for this course is the sole responsibility of the purchaser. It is imperative that you complete your research before buying and make the purchase that best suits your technical and financial needs.
System Requirements
For Graphics, the software that does the heaviest lifting is Photoshop. Below are Adobe's system requirements for Photoshop CC (2014). Please consider Adobe's recommendations, in parentheses, as the minimum requirements.
Base Windows System
Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor (2 GHz or faster)
Microsoft® Windows® 7 with Service Pack 1, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1
2 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended)
2 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash storage devices)
1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit color and 512 MB of VRAM (1 GB recommended)**
OpenGL 2.0–capable system
Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, validation of subscriptions, and access to online services.*
Base Mac OS System
Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support
Mac OS X v10.7, v10.8, or v10.9
2 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended)
3.2 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)
1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit color and 512 MB of VRAM (1 GB recommended)**
OpenGL 2.0–capable system
Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, membership validation, and access to online services.*
* Video features are not supported on 32-bit Windows systems.
* NOTE: Internet connection, Adobe ID, and acceptance of license agreement required to activate and use this product. This product may integrate with or allow access to certain Adobe or third-party hosted online services. Adobe services are available only to users 13 and older and require agreement to additional terms of use and the Adobe Privacy Policy. Applications and services may not be available in all countries or languages and may be subject to change or discontinuation without notice. Additional fees or membership charges may apply.
** 3D features are disabled and some Mercury Graphics Engine enhanced features may not work with less than 512 MB VRAM.
Desktop or Laptop?
Desktop computers, in general, are faster and better suited for moderate to pro design work and the price tag is usually a little more friendly. Unfortunately, they are not as mobile as laptops.
Laptop computers are powerful enough to take students through 2 to 4 years of college and should be looked at as a tool for completing college generated work for all their classes. If you are considering working with a Windows-based computer, it is recommended that you purchase a laptop for use in class. Transferring files between operating systems can produce corrupted data, rendering your files inoperable.
To put it into dollars, you are looking for a computer that is in the $1500 range (+/- $500 depending on OS, brand and added options). This is a considerable amount of money for a student's computer, but a very good investment.
We are using the Adobe Creative Cloud subscription service (Adobe CC). This service gives users access to ALL Adobe products for a monthly fee (or one time yearly). Check with the bookstore for academic pricing.
Camera companies are coming out with new products every day. Because of that, it's difficult to list a particular make and model. Here is a general description of what you will need for Digital Photography.
Click the link for examples of Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) with Manual functionality.
Recommendation: Look online for DSLR kits. Kits come with most of the start up equipment you will need, (lenses, SD cards, tripod, a carrying case, etc.).
Drawing Tablet
One of the most important tools for any Graphic Designer is a Digital Drawing Tablet. Wacom has a line of drawing tablets that range in price and performance. You can find out more at http://www.wacom.com/en/us/
Recommendation: If you have never worked with a drawing tablet, they do have a learning curve. Devices with small drawing areas can be frustrating for beginners. The Wacom, Intuos Pen & Touch Medium is the perfect entry level option for this devise. The drawing area is large enough to work comfortably without taking up the entire desk area. http://www.wacom.com/en/us/creative/intuos-m
Any questions, please email me. firstname.lastname@example.com
Michael Place
Media Arts and Technology
Lakes Region Community College
379 Belmont Rd.
Laconia, NH 03246
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It has been one of the most shocking of news storylines of recent years and it has claimed an incredible scalp.
The News of the World newspaper was first published on 1 October 1843 and its last edition will be published this Sunday until 10 July 2011.
here on the BBC website.
Indeed, wikipedia are already ahead of the game - describing the paper in the past tense!
This is an extraordinary step but then these are extraordinary days and whilst there are journalists who now have a questionable future, the severity of the allegations means that this decision is an appropriate and proportionate response.
I never needed to boycott the News of the World as I never read it but I'm nevertheless pleased that this incredible act has been made.
Will it change the way that journalism operates in the United Kingdom? Will it merely lead to a re-marketed 'Sunday Sun' as a replacement.? We can not be assured either way of course but the scale of this crisis has run unbelievably deep.
The investigations into the hacking however must continue and those guilty, going right up to the top, must pay. This act can not be used as a smokescreen to hide away Rupert Murdoch Snr and Jnr and Rebekah Brooks and also not to cloud the issue of Murdoch's planned media takeover which the Government are currently considering.
A potential Sunday Sun which would simply be a re-hash of the NOTW, will still be run by the same people. Will the angry British public make the link and boycott any such project? I'd hope so. It is us the public that will decide. Time will tell.
Rebekah Brooks should however be ashamed of herself. It should first and foremost be her resignation on the table.
The closure of the News of the World is neverthless, if nothing else in the interim, a small victory for decency and humanity. Rebekah Brooks's resignation would be a significant other.


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1- Always refer to Internet
Internet is always my best friend. If you are in doubt about your method of homeschooling or home school curriculum use the internet to seek another method. In fact, you can use the internet to help you in regard to nearly everything homeschool related. Do you need something to keep your little one busy while you're working with an older child? The internet has coloring sheets galore, as well as worksheets, mazes, and puzzles. There are thousands of homeschooling blogs all over the world for you to use as reference. You can always copy their ideas and turn it in your own way and become yours forever.
2. Choose a complete homeschool curriculum
Complete curricula will also make homeschooling easier on you as a parent. Instead of having to search through multiple catalogs to find just the right curriculum, choose a complete curriculum. Not only will it save you time, it may even save you money, in the long run.
3. Cut yourself some slack
Don't expect yourself to be the perfect teacher. Unless you have an education degree, you most likely will make mistakes along the way. Don't beat yourself up about them. Learn from the mistakes and try not to repeat them again.
4. Allow your children to help themselves
You can't be expected to know everything, so if your child wants to learn something you don't know, give them the freedom to follow their interests. You might be pleasantly surprised to find that they learn more on their own than they did while you were more involved.
5. Seek help from others
When in doubt about anything dealing with homeschooling, seek the advice from those who have been homeschooling for longer than you. Even though they may not have dealt with exactly what you're dealing with, chances are they will be able to give you advice or point you in the right direction. Take advantage of your homeschooling peers' offers of help, there might be a time where you'll be able to return the favor.
6. Online communities are available
If you don't know people that homeschool in your local area, there are literally hundreds of homeschooling communities on the Internet. Search online for homeschooling groups or forums. They can be found in every state, and even some outside of the United States. You may have to register to join a homeschool group or forum, but you can be as active as you like and remain anonymous if you like.
Let's ask Hafidz about his idea as homeschooler in order to make homeschool fun and easy for parents.
1- Do a lot of experiments. You can find lots of good experiments in youtube. Just buy all the things needed and let your kids do it by themselves.
|I love doing experiment especially with light.
2- Ask your kid do "tapping". Tapping is good for everybody especially students. After 40 days doing it, you can see the significant result on you. Tapping can change you to be a better person.
|I love cooking class.
4-Let your kids listen to "english programme" or any other language that you want them to master in youtube. Make it daily. Save your time for at least 2 hours a day while your kids are at the computer.
5- Introduce Science Garden to your homeschooling curriculum. Let your kids explore what is in the garden and plant their own trees. Maybe they can plant some vegetables and cook it in their cooking class. Wow!! I really feel proud when plucking my ripe chillies and use them in my favorite recipes.
|Coconut tree is one of my favorite. I'm going to make many coconut bonsai and sell it one day.
|Trimming bonsai tree really need you to be patient.
6- Arrange lots of field trips for your kids. You just stay at home doing your things. Lets others do it with your kids. They can be a father, big brothers or big sisters.
|I followed my father and brother for island hopping around Langkawi Island. We were searching for bonsai.
7- Give your kids some space to do their hobbies. There are lots of good hobbies that really can make your kids learning something new. Motivate them to make some research about the hobbies in internet. I like fishing, taking videos and pictures, swimming and gardening. I wish to make it as a business one day.
|Photography has become my new passion. I love the art of photo editting
8- Painting is always close to the heart of children. They can really sit down for hours to experiment with colors and experience the miracle of colors on the paper. Even though I am not a good artist, painting really pin me to the chair for quite a long hours. Try this with your kids and you will thanks God for all the comfort.
|Painting the leaves of tree is the easiest.
9- I really love to watch all the survival programmes. There are lots of them in youtube such as man vs. wild, dual survival and man and woman vs. wild. They can always try some of the acts at home such as how to light fire without matches, how to make a raft from the tree trunks and lots more. From my own experience, I did learn many survival tricks that I can use in future. We never know what is waiting for us. Just pray for all the best!!
|Gather all the dry sticks into a pile
|Start to make a very vigorous friction of stick and dried plank
|Friction between the stick and the plank will produce a smoke
|Keep on blowing the smoke until it produce a fire
|Transfer the fire to the pile of dry sticks.
10- It is good to make home project for your kids. Home project is an advantage for a teenager like me. Doing something that introduce you to the reality of life is very important in order to build self confidence. Home project can be a small business at home, become a dealer without capital on-line, home renovation and many other things. I am lucky to have 2 home projects that are still in the progress....building double storey house and making homemade health products that we sell on-line.
|I learn lots of things about house building.
|I also learn how to use this concrete machine
Thank You Hafidz For Making My Work Easier!
I Love You My Son.


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Thank goodness the car passed it's MOT, but it was still £70 for the MOT and washers that i knew needed doing, luckily yesterday i finally heard from a seller on etsy that she was going to refund my money for items never received, i ordered them on 24th Sept last year and despite several (lots) of emails and supposedly sending the items out twice i never received them, it was £65 of beads so i couldn't let it go but because it was coming from the USA i had no comeback, fingers crossed she's good for her word as haven't got money yet. so that should pay for car.
Also joined coriandr yesterday and opened a shop on there, i'ts really dead for me at the moment, before christmas i was making about £100 a month in my ebay shop but really struggling at the moment, hardly anything in dec/jan and only just picking up now.
I shut the ebay shop becuase of the fees, they had more than doubled the price per month of a basic shop, from £6 to £15!! and the way they favour buyers, so packed that in but now need to find other outlets, I think i'm just a bit dissilusioned at the mo, not feeling very creative either, maybe it's the winter blues :>(
I cheered myself up yesterday with a sticky toffee pudding, it was gorgeous but also v. naughty,
Luckily it's individually sized or goodness knows the consequences he he
I phoned my "nephew" (my best Friends little one) this morning and he's having a party, he said i could have gone if I'd been down there (I.O.W) so a little sad now that I'm not, but only been back just over 4 weeks, seems like forever.
Going to take the puppy for a walk in the park now, she's in her usual (I'm by the door is it time to go yet?) position and raring to go;
kangaroo or dog?


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Heading to Catalina this summer? Here are 20 new things to see and do
Aug 6, 2017
No one had to teach David Rangel how to make like a monkey; he's a natural, swinging through eucalyptus trees, hanging from branches with one arm and dangling from the reaches of a tree trunk 20 feet above the valley floor.
"It's fun but scary," the 13-year-old from Antioch, Calif., said as he balanced on a swaying log bridge. I was below, happily affixed to terra firma and taking notes.
Rangel was trying out the
Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe was named chairman of the board Tuesday.


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Sunday, January 2, 2011
Writer Goals
You've noticed it's 2011.
New Years is traditionally a time for looking forward and attempting to avoid the pitfalls of the previous year by planning and resolving. Funny thing about a writer's life - the more you plan the more you realize how much of what you do is utterly out of your hands.
An industry in perpetual flux - so much so that it makes a person wonder why anyone would want to be a writer in the first place. Unless you are a writer. Then you know the answer to that question lies somewhere between calling and insanity.
A writer can sit at her desk and declare to the New Year heavens, "This is the year I'll get an agent!" Or, "get published", or "become a bestseller", or whatever goal springs to mind when one thinks about books and getting those books into people's hands.
Writers have very little control (oh, let's face it: No control) over these kinds goals. They are in fact not goals at all. Hopes. Wishes. Prayers. Fervent, fevered mantras, maybe. But they aren't the writer's goals.
Writers write. They tell stories. They stare unanswerable questions in the eyeball. They strive to become better at telling stories. Better at facing their naked humanity.
The writer's goals need to be true goals - achievable. Something that the writer has a modicum of control over.
Small things.
The work of writing.
The small things.
More deeply.
Be faithful in the small things.
Honor the craft.
Become the writer who is faithful in the small things.
I bid you good writing.
5 comments:
- Jan Cline said...
Faithful in the small things and honor the craft...that is a great 2011 goal. We just do what we know to do and the rest is what happens out of our obedience and commitment.
- January 2, 2011 at 7:47 PM
- Shakespeare said...
Yes, yes, yes! All we can do is write...
- January 2, 2011 at 8:10 PM
- Bonnie Grove said...
Jan: And it's nice to think about the things we DO have control over. Otherwise, the writing journey would be discouraging.
Shakespeare: Agreed!
- January 3, 2011 at 9:15 AM
- Steve G said...
Great advice! It is also probably freeing. When you let go of the stuff you can't change anyways, it frees up more (emotional energy) stuff for the stuff you can!
- January 4, 2011 at 7:51 AM
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Hi! We recently added your blog to our Blog-A-Licious library! Do keep your great posts coming! And do come have a look at the other Blog-A-Licious Blogs on our list.
Cheers - Dora
- March 19, 2011 at 4:52 AM
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text: Hey all, I've searched my Mac OS X 10.3 Server machine and a 10.3.3 Panther client machine, and I cannot find the "mt" command on either machine. The only thing that's available is "rmt". I don't quite understand how to use it, since it's designed for remote tape manipulations. If mt is not available, does anyone know of any command line utilities to manipulate / rewind tapes? Thanks!


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It's finally here -- Nov. 24th, telecom judgment day. Today, the wireless number portability (WNP) regulation goes into effect. Consumers are now allowed to seamlessly transfer phone numbers across service providers. Americans now have the capability to keep a number while moving between wireless service providers or even when transferring a landline phone service to a wireless account.
The nation's largest wireless services providers -- Verizon Communications
Several analysts have predicted millions of Americans will take advantage of the new ruling almost immediately upon implementation. But porting numbers still doesn't make sense for many consumers, even if they are unhappy with their current services. So how do you know if wireless number porting is right for you? Let's take a quick stab at the Foolish Guide to Wireless Number Portability.
First off, let's start by dispelling some popular myths about number portability:
Myth #1: Everybody's doing it!
No, that was the Do-Not-Call list. Visions of millions of Americans flooding stores and phone lines to port their numbers on Nov. 24 is overblown. Number porting removes one drawback in switching providers, but it is not -- and should not -- be taken as a motivation to switch in and of itself. Switching providers must make some level of sense regardless of keeping your number, so don't be a Lemming!
Myth #2: Porting my number will be quick and painless
WNP is uncharted territory and the first few months will likely flush out many bugs in the processing systems. At a minimum, the service provides expect wireless-to-wireless porting to take a few hours. Landline to wireless porting will likely take four days or more. Going through with the process may still be worth it, but be prepared -- the threshold of pain may be high.
Myth #3: Anything is better than my current provider
Ahhhh. The "grass is always greener" syndrome comes to wireless. For mobile consumers that have bad experiences with their current provider, know this -- it can be worse. All providers have issues with coverage, dropped calls, poorly performing equipment, customer service, and a whole host of other quality issues. You may be surprised after switching to learn that you left a comparably good thing for something even worse.
Here's some Foolish pointers to navigate the thick:
Tip #1: Check if you're even eligible
Wireless number portability is only available to the top 100 metropolitan markets on Nov. 24th. Check the Cellular Telecommunication and Internet Association's (CTIA) sponsored website for a list of areas impacted and some good consumer tips and FAQs. You also need to ensure that your current provider is set up to move your number. Most providers have sections on their websites set up to answer this question, or you can call their customer service number. The key to remember here is that the number porting mandate is local -- it's only possible for porting numbers within a local region (your defined local service area).
Tip #2: Check your expectations
Switching wireless service providers may not solve your problems. In some cases, consumers have unreasonably high expectations of wireless service. What's unreasonable? Coverage everywhere I go. No dead batteries. Everything free, free, FREE! Remember that mobile phones are not telephones -- they are radios. Consumers turning off their landlines and porting the number to a wireless phone need to make sure they understand that this will come with a lower quality of service inherent with radio communications.
Wireless consumers may be frustrated by leaving one set of problems with one carrier and just inheriting a whole new set of problems with a new one. The best thing to do is talk to friends and family about their service providers -- both the pros and the cons. Make sure they live and work in areas similar to you, so that you're comparing apples to apples when talking about coverage and dropped calls.
Also, keep in mind you'll likely have to purchase a new phone when switching providers. If you're really dedicated to a particular style or manufacturer of phones, you may not like the new provider's offerings. This can also mean you'll lose carrier-specific direct contact capabilities such as instant messaging or push-to-talk -- unless all your contacts transfer providers with you.
Tip #3: Check your bill
What services are you paying for now and which ones do you get for free? Consumers may be surprised to find that their new provider charges for things that used to be free, or vice versa. For instance, AT&T Wireless allows unlimited incoming text messages for free, while other carriers charge 5 to 10 cents for each. If you've signed up for horoscopes and love notes to be sent to your number 30 times a day, watch out -- your next love note could be in the form of an oversized bill.
Tip #4: Practice delayed gratification
Probably the best advice for consumers looking to switch carriers is to simply wait. Certainly, if you can wait a few weeks, it may well be worth it. The number porting process may initially be a nightmare for carriers, and being caught up in all the mess may make you a Grinch for the holidays. Many providers offer some killer deals around the holidays, so if cost and features are tempting you to switch, you may want to check out the deals your current carrier is offering to keep you. The biggest benefit of WNP may come from staying where you are.
Especially when considering ditching a landline, consumers should be careful to understand the full impact. What if you have an alarm system on your home that needs phone service to call police? Do you know for certain that you get wireless coverage in your home?
Wireless porters needed to tread carefully as well. Make sure you don't terminate your original service until after your number is ported to a new provider. And though both phones (old and new) will be able to call 911 during the porting process, E911 operators may not be able to call your phone back depending upon when the porting actually happens -- so stay on the line. And the new regulation will not help you avoid contract termination fees -- if you're still in a one or two-year plan, you'll have to pay this when you switch.
In the long run, the number porting regulation will go a long way to provide more choices and flexibility for consumers, as long as expectations are realistic. Make use of ample Web resources from your current and prospective providers to avoid unpleasant surprises.
Dave Mock is co-author of Tapping into Wireless and owns shares of Nextel. He is waiting anxiously to port his number to some tropical island in the Caribbean. Until then, Dave can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Collaborating with professionals is an essential part of the programme. Students get acquainted with the work field from the first year on. This is through excursions, study trips, guest lecturers from the practice and actual projects mapped out by organizations. This enables them to build up a network.
collaboration with the Reinwardt academy
The Reinwardt Academy is always interested in institutions or organizations – in the broad field of heritage – which aspire to collaborate with our students on projects or offer a traineeship. For example, our second-year students collaborated with the Nationaal Archief (Dutch National Archives), the Maritime Museum Rotterdam, the University Museum and the Jewish Historical Museum. For these organizations, who presented themselves as actual client, the students developed an exhibition plan.
The third-year students, commissioned by several Dutch museums, conducted diverse projects. There is intensive collaboration with heritage institutions throughout the country during the specialized minors (third-year) and the graduation project. ACIN is another joint venture.
Interested in collaborating with students of the Reinwardt Academy? Please contact Gerdie Borghuis.


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Rihanna - as we all know - loves nothing more than to post pics of herself in various states of undress/smoking suspicious looking ciggies online - something that hasn't gone unnoticed by Jessie J.
Or has it?
'The Voice' judge has dismissed suggestions that she was taking a pop at Rihanna in a tweet that many thought was aimed squarely at the 'We Found Love' singer.
"I'm bored," she wrote. "Maybe I should get naked and smoke and take pictures of myself and post them on instagram? Or NOT... *rolls eyes*".
Yep, sounds like RiRi to us.
But, after a bit of a backlash from Rihanna's 'navy' of fans, Jessie insisted she wasn't taking aim at any one individual in particular.
"My last tweet about instagram sadly wasn't an indirect (sic) at anyone in particular. There is definitely more than 1 person posting those kind of pictures. Hence my tweet."
Errrrm, who exactly?
Well, Jessie isn't naming names, funnily enough.
"I will openly say the amount of pictures including men and woman nude and girls and guys promoting smoking drugs on the internet these days is a lot," she later tweeted.
"Feels like the boundaries are disappearing. It's become fashionable and in my opinion it's too much. Call me what you want but that's MY opinion and I'm entitled to one."
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by Andrew Kakabadse
How do you create value? Over the last five years I have travelled throughout the globe interviewing leaders to gain new insights into the art of value creation. Supported by the global search firm, Heidrick & Struggles, I carried out interviews in over 100 organizations in private, public and third sectors in 14 countries.
Quizzing corporate leaders led to revealing responses. As I talked to more and more of them, it became clear to me that there are two different approaches to creating value as a leader. One is about perceived value; the other is about delivered value.
In the course of my research, I noticed that these different ways of going about creating value indicated two different types, or styles, of leader. The creator of perceived value is more likely to be a big picture thinker who elevates strategy above all else; while the creator of delivered value is characterized by their closeness to customers and other stakeholders. Most leaders have a default setting, leaning towards one or the other mindset.
So, what do I mean by perceived value?
Leaders with a pre-disposition to perceived value start by formulating a value proposition (actually it is probably best described as a value hypothesis) and then look for evidence to support their strategy. They have a pre-conceived notion of how the organization can create value and enact a strategy to achieve it. Usually, the strategy emanates from inside the boardroom and is informed by a value hypothesis that determines the strategy.
One senior manager in Australia confided that his CEO's attempts to get a major change of structure and practice in the organization were pursued without any trial run. "The CEO's friends in the top team and on the board supported his idea and those who attempted to challenge were brow beaten into submission. The line managers did not dare say a word and yet they all knew that a new service offering to the market was going to fail. In this case, it was a vigilant press and media in Asia and Australia that brought the failing strategy to the attention of the board. What happened? We, the general managers, got the blame."
With the perceived value approach, there is a real danger that strategy becomes dogma as senior management seeks to justify its preconceived view of the world and value creation. In one case, for example, I encountered a legal services firm which had decided it should go into employee development. The head partner was convinced this was what the market wanted but didn't check with customers or service deliverers whether that would create value. It didn't and is a good example of how a strategy-driven approach can backfire.
What happens next is an all-too-familiar pattern: value creation becomes uncoupled from reality and from the evidence. Routine and denial take over and the organization may run on pre-existing competence for some time rather than on excellence. But ultimately it is doomed to failure.
There is another way. Other leaders gather evidence from stakeholders inside and outside to determine the value the organization is delivering today and can deliver in the future. A strategy is then put in place to support those findings – and is deliberately exposed to challenges from stakeholders to create engagement. These are value delivery-driven organizations.
Connecting the dots of reality on a daily and dynamic basis is the foundation to truly delivering value. Companies that are successful over a number of years find ways to inculcate their values and approach into the acts of value creation and delivery.
Leaders focused on delivered value strive to create a culture that constantly interrogates the evidence to test the strategy. These sorts of leaders are driven by value creation among stakeholders outside of the boardroom and focusing on "proving" their strategy every day with the evidence gathered. This is "delivered value".
Andrew Kakabadse (https://www.kakabadse.com) is Professor of Governance and Strategic Leadership at the UK's Henley Business School and an Emeritus Professor of Cranfield School of Management. His latest book is The Success Formula, published by Bloomsbury.


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This 65 litre Highlander Ben Nevis 65 Rucksack is a Highlander classic reborn! Loaded with features, this is definitely Highlander's top of the range backpack, ideal for multiday backpacking trips, travelling, festivals and camping trips!
The T3 Tri Active back system on this pack makes it easy to personalise the fit of this bag and there is plenty of mesh padding strategically placed on the contact points for an excellent level of comfort.
This rucksack also has an adjustable sternum strap, a fully padded waist strap and load stabilisation straps so you can get the most suitable and comfortable carry for you and your load.
Don't let the bad weather stop you in your tracks! This Ben Nevis rucksack is made from an incredibly durable Ripstop fabric which is water resistant and has an integrated bright orange waterproof raincover stashed in bottom pocket so you will be able to protect your belongings and be seen even in a really bad downpour.
As for packing this bag, it offers a generous 65 litres, with a floating lid for extra storage, that has an inner and outer zipped pocket, a large main compartment with bivi divider to the bottom zipped pocket, a large elasticated front pocket, two side zipped bellow pockets, two side elasticated bottle pockets and two zipped pockets on the waist belt. It is also hydration system compatible and has walking pole loops.
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12 January 2012 – The 'ElectroTestExpo' consortium announces a series of regional test exhibition and seminars to be held throughout 2012. For its third year of free-to-attend events ElectroTestExpo will initially kick-off its unique combination of tabletop exhibitions and seminar programmes at three UK venues; starting at Gloucester Premiership Rugby Club on February 22nd. Events have also been provisioned for later in the year in Cambridge and Edinburgh.
The events will feature a series of talks by industry experts tackling a range of topics in an easily accessible and relaxed environment. Exhibitors currently include Tektronix, GeoTest, AmFax, JTAG Technologies, Aeroflex, MAC Panel, Pico Technology, Polar Instruments, TestWorks and Pickering Interfaces.
Speaking on behalf of the consortium James Stanbridge commented: "Following two successful years at the popular Bletchley Park we have decided to bring ourselves into closer contact by visiting some more convenient locations for our visitors."
Consortium member Nigel Adams adds: "The challenges in today's test environment require a more focussed approach to the traditional wide ranging exhibition. ElectroTestExpo is the event that is specifically aimed to address the needs of engineers looking to reduce cost and test times but maintain measurement quality. Aeroflex is pleased to support this event."
The event is open to all electronic engineering professionals however the organisers reserve the right of admission to unsuitable applicants. Each venue will include a seminar room that will allow vendor-appointed speakers to discuss the latest trends in their industry sectors. Each talk will last 40 minutes, and the running order and topics will be posted on the event website.
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It's no secret that the kitchen is the heart of any home. So when it comes to renovations, it's the most important room to get right. Unfortunately, it's also the most difficult. There are endless decisions to make, from setting a budget to choosing your bench, sink and splashback materials.
Then there's the hassle of dealing with multiple tradespeople – and making sure their work meets your high standards.The good news is that a kitchen renovation or makeover doesn't have to be a stressful undertaking.
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Chest is one of the most attractive parts of the female body, the beautiful and inviting, which is not indifferent to almost all men.Soft, soft, elastic, high, it is the pride of women and girls.This does not matter its size: there are fans of both the small bust and at large.Chest - it is always a luxury, because it is essential to properly care for her and care for her skin.One of the most popular ways to care considered various creams for the breast.
In fact this is not true.Yes, neck cream is really necessary and important, because the skin is very thin, sensitive, delicate and prone to all kinds of negative influences.However, the tone, elasticity and beauty of the bust give not only cosmetic.The best effect is produced by a combination of several methods.
First of all, it is worth mentioning the need every day to perform certain exercises to strengthen the muscles of the chest.Such training affect the body better than any cream for the breast.With their help, the bust did not sag and looks
Creams for breast (by the way, you can replace the wheat germ oil that reduces stretch marks and prevents them) give a good effect, and in combination with self-massage.It should be kindly and gently, very gently massage the breasts, rubbing a cosmetic product to the skin.Please bust stroke his hands on top, then the bottom.The whole massage takes about three minutes.This procedure strengthens the skin and affects its vitality and health appearance of the breast, and is also considered the prevention of breast cancer, and ovarian cancer.By the way, the best, effective, safe and gentle massage is with water that is in the soul.Water not only increases the tone of the whole organism, but also gentle on the skin of the breast, increases lymph flow, a positive effect on blood circulation and metabolism.A procedure takes only a few minutes.
excellent tool for breast enhancement - douche, giving beauty, firmness and freshness, because cold water increases the tone not only the skin but also the muscles, affects the blood circulation.After the procedure, the breast should be gently wiped with a towel and apply a balm or cream.
Creams for breast are more effective if combined with other cosmetics - masks, serums.But better to refrain from scrubs: sensitive skin might react to them negatively.Perfectly on the skin of this zone mask with almond butter and honey: it strengthens the chest and pulls her (two teaspoons of oil mixed with a spoonful of honey and a teaspoon of rose water. The latter is done by dilution of rose oil a little warm water. The mixture is applied to the neck andchest for twenty minutes and wash off with warm water.
It is equally important to use special protective creams for the breast, if you want to enjoy the sun without a bra. However, this pleasure is better not to abuse because the sun causes premature wrinkles and skin condition worsens.


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I believe Arafat can be pushed. He really doesn't have much choice. . . . I predict he will visit Jerusalem within five years. -- Leon Charney
Leon Charney was an ex-officio adviser to Jimmy Carter during the Camp David negotiations and currently is the personal lawyer to Israeli Cabinet member and former defense minister Ezer Weizman. Charney is on a promotional tour for a new book, and during a recent interview he offered some provocative theories about a Mideast peace.


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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A distortion of memory in which fantasy and objective experience are confused.
- n. An inability to recall the meanings of common words.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. An inability to distinguish between real memories and dreams or fantasies
- n. An inability to remember the meaning of common words
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One's believing that he remembers things when he has never experienced them; false memory.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. (psychiatry) a disorder of memory in which dreams or fantasies are confused with reality
Sorry, no etymologies found.
This "paramnesia" theory suggests that the original event was somehow linked to distress and was being suppressed from conscious recognition, no longer accessible to memory.
Reduplicative paramnesia is the delusional belief that a place exists in two or more locations simultaneously and has been the inspiration for the project where we will try and get participants to hold contrasting and contradictory memories of a past location in mind, while experiencing movement through a current space.
I'll be talking about the science and neuropsychology of reduplicative paramnesia and we'll both be discussing how we've found trying to combine our disciplines to better understand space and location, as well as unusual states of mind.
During the coming week, artist Simon Pope and I will be giving a couple of talks on Walking Here and There - an art / science collaboration project that aims to investigate the interaction of place and memory in psychosis, and particularly reduplicative paramnesia, the delusional belief that a place exists in two or more locations simultaneously.
From a Wikipedia article on reduplicative paramnesia I've just created.
Reduplicative paramnesia is the delusional belief that a place or location has been duplicated, existing in two or more places simultaneously, or that it has been 'relocated' to another site.
A consultant, however, suggested that the acute and late onset in an otherwise psychiatrically well person, the delusions of impostors (Capgras syndrome) and real and false neighborhoods (reduplicative paramnesia), and her difficulties finding her way about the unit (spatial disorientation) possibly indicated a nondominant parietal lobe stroke.
Another related phenomenon is reduplicative paramnesia, in which a patient, usually with posterior nondominant hemisphere dysfunction, manifests a delusion that a duplicate of a person or place exists elsewhere (Doppelganger phenomenon) (184).
She told me her name but paramnesia is odd: recognition is present but recall can't just be switched on like that.
Many hypnotherapeutic techniques such as amnesia, hypermnesia, progression, paramnesia, automatic writing, dream induction, regression, production of experimental conflicts and crystal or mirror gazing require a somnambulistic state.
So far the remarks miss the best thing to know about paramnesia: that it is essentially the same in common American and British use as Deja Vu, except that the latter includes a sense of dread ("Oh Pooh, It's Happening Again!"), while paramnesia might be the same experience of memory but without the dread - a quite relaxed acknowledgement that this may have happened before.


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IBM developes high thermal conductivity interface technologyApril 9, 2007
This could be a good solution for cool and quiet processor and chipset cooling:
Using a technique based on the human circulatory system, IBM researchers today presented an approach for improving the cooling of computer chips.
Delivered at the BroadGroup Power and Cooling Summit in London, IBM researchers discussed the technique, called "high thermal conductivity interface technology," that they claim allows a twofold improvement in heat removal over current methods.
The technique is one of several being explored by scientists from the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory to address the problem of excessive heat brought on as performance continues to progress according to Moore's Law.
"Electronic products are capable of amazing things, largely because of the more powerful chips at their heart," said Bruno Michel, manager of the Advanced Thermal Packaging research group at IBM's Zurich lab, in a statement this morning. "We want to help electronics makers keep the innovations coming. Our chip-cooling technology is just one tool at our disposal to help them do that."
The approach used by IBM addresses the connection point between the hot chip and the various cooling components used to draw the heat away, including heat sinks. Currently, special particle-filled viscous pastes are typically applied to this interface to guarantee that chips can expand and contract with the thermal cycling. This paste is kept as thin as possible in order to transport heat from chip to the cooling components efficiently. However, IBM warned, squeezing these pastes too thin between the cooling components and chip would damage or even crack the chip if the conventional technologies are used.
To alter that, IBM researchers developed a chip cap with a network of tree-like branched channels on its surface. The pattern is designed such that when pressure is applied, the paste spreads much more evenly and the pressure remains uniform across the chip, allowing the right uniformity to be obtained with nearly two-times less pressure, and a 10-times better heat transport through the interface, according to IBM. IBM credited the design's idea to biology, where systems of hierarchical channels can be found manifold in nature or the human circulatory system.
Looking Ahead to Water Cooling
The prototype demonstrated at today's summit is part of a large effort within IBM's Research and Development organizations to improve cooling performance of next and future generations of computer systems. Noted IBM, the cooling bottleneck results from the demand for more powerful computer chips, a severe constraint on overall chip performance, and added that today's high-performance chips already generate a power density of 100 watts per square centimeter. Tomorrow's chips may attain even higher power densities, IBM said, projecting surface temperatures close to that of the sun when not cooled (approx. 6000 °C).
Current cooling technologies, mainly based on forced air convection, or fans, blowing across heat sinks with densely spaced fins, have essentially reached their limits with the current generation of electronic products, according to IBM, which also pointed out that the energy needed to cool computer systems is rapidly approaching the power used for calculations, thus almost doubling the overall power budget.
"Cooling is a holistic challenge from the individual transistor to the datacenter. Powerful techniques, brought as close as possible to the chip right where the cooling is needed, will be crucial for tackling the power and cooling issues," Michel said.
Beyond air-cooling systems, IBM's Zurich researchers are taking their branched channel design and are developing an approach for water-cooling. Called direct jet impingement, it squirts water onto the back of the chip and sucks it off again in a closed system using an array of up to 50,000 tiny nozzles and a complicated tree-like branched return architecture, the company described.
Lab results of the water technique have demonstrated cooling power densities of up to 370 watts per square centimeter, more than six-times beyond the current limits of air-cooling techniques on less energy for pumping than other cooling systems do, IBM said.
Hello to the world of noiseless Silent PCs!December 31, 2006
A Silent PC is called a PC , whose noise level was reduced by special measures.
Current computers with high end hardware produce high temperatures. While the first PCs onlyhad an electrical power consumtion of a few Watts and no special cooling of components was needed, the hunt of the manufacturers and consumers for higher performance at lowest prices led to an enormous power consumtion and heat emission of PCs in the meantime. The fact that same performance is possible with substantially smaller energy consumtion also shows e.g. the notebook technology.
For the dissipation of the amounts of heat usually small exhausting fans are used, which cause substantial noise. This problem can be reduced or eliminated by modification and correct choice of the components purchased. Passive cooling concepts, which get along completely without fans, promise complete avoidance of exhausting noise.
Power Supply
The fans of standard power supplies are mostly very loud, since they run in each operating phase with the highest speed. Here the noise level can be very strongly reduced by a temperature-controlled cooling fans. In addition there are silent power supplies to be mentioned, which are equipped mostly with one 120 mm or 140 mm fan which is able to push larger air volumes at lower speeds more. However these power supplies are mostly clearly more expensive. If the pc already has a noisy power pack, a change of the power pack exhausting fan to a quieter (running in ball bearings) model will make sense. The change should be made exclusively by a specialized company, since mortal danger exists. A more expansive solution is to replace the power supply to a passively cooled model.
The Processor Cooling
At first here should be noticed that a processor cooler with a very good heat dissipation (e.g. with copper core) should be used. With the CPU purchased Standard Processor coolers are in most cases not adjustable, and will run in the normal operation with constant 12 V. Various manufacturers offer coolers with adjustable fans, which make an operation possible with 12 V and with 7 V. The noise level sinks with the jump from 12 V to 7 V over approx.. 30% while offering approximately the same cooling performance. Also a passive cooling or water cooling is possible, however at a clearly higher price.
System Cooling
Here should be already paid attention at the purchase to a good and quiet cooling, because with a modification immediately any warranty gets lost. Here something similar applies as for the processor cooling that a loud cooling not automatically means also a good cooling performance. Meanwhile some very good and quiet cooling fans are available but the best and a noiseless system would only be possible with passive cooling.
Harddisk damping
If one has undertaken the measures mentioned above, then one will notice that the non removable disks transfer their vibrations to the housing. The non removable disk manufacturer Seagate indicates the fact that approximately 70% of the sound produced by a non removable disk as impact sound is delivered to the case. For this reason an uncoupling is usually an amazingly effective way to get a non removable disk more quietly.
But there are finished bays and mounting plates, in which by rubbers the non removable disks are separated from the housing. Some solutions offer also additional cooling functions for the Harddisk Drive. The uncoupling is quite effective, when the non removable disks do not have a direct contact to the housing and and pass on their oscillation energy.
A quite favorable solution are conventional rubbers, with which an uncoupling for under 50 cent per non removable disk is possible.
Such self-'s building solutions can be high-grade dangerous however, if the used elastomer does not withstand the endurance stresses by heat, stretch, electromagnetic fields and ozone. Straight conventional household rubbers, as rubber seals, O-ring seals from the sanitary area, or elastic strips from the clothing industry are absolutely unsuitable.
A rise in temperature of the non removable disk by a flexible suspension actually is not to be expected usually. The non removable disk in a flexible suspension can deliver no more warmth to the (metallic) disk cage, but this heat dissipation hardly plays a role in practice. Positively however the suspension affects the direct air cooling, since the non removable disk can be flowed around by all sides.
Northbridge Cooling
Main board manufacturers again and again equip the Northbridge with an active radiator. Partially in order particularly to address Overclocker, in addition, due to the high calorific loss achievement of current chips. Due to the mostly small measured place on the motherboard, here frequently very fast running 40 mm fans are used. The exchange of these coolers usually cause the immediate loss of the warranty.
Completely Silent PCs
Some companies already offer complete PCs that were designed after acoustic objectives.
Totally noiseless and passive cooled computers are available at zalman or sizo.
Noise Measuring
In the computer range two different standarts are common for the classification of the noise emission by the equipment: The decibel scale, and the Sone scale.
The decibels, usually in the ' A'-weighted form (dBA), is a logarithmic scale. This means above all that the scale is not linear. Therefore a direct or intuitive comparison of two different (A) measured values is hardly possible. In addition it comes that the railway (A) scale, despite a weighting, which is taken to the human aural acuity only something over the soundness (more exact: , however nothing states the sound pressure level) of a noise over its subjectively felt as annoying.
Exactly this, much ' human ' criterion is however crucial with relatively quiet interferences. As example (subjective) the comparison between the summ of a mosquito and murmuring of a river is mentioned: Although the latter with a far higher -(A)-worth -measured, everyone will classify the summ of a mosquito as substantially more disturbing.
Therefore the decibel scale is only very conditionally suitable to make statements about the noise emission (or their absence) with computers.
Measured values are more meaningful in the sone scale, which also evaluates other factors, that play a role for the human auditory sensation. With Sone actually applies:
double value = twice as loud (and annoyingly)
To the selection of components for silent PCs, the values of the following table can apply as an orientation, whereby it is to be made sure that only such measured values are comparable, which were determined under same conditions. The weightiest factor of influence is the microphone distance to the acoustic source.
|Range normal PC
|Range silent PC
|very well
|0-0.5 Sone
|0-0.5 Sone
|0.5-1.5 Sone
|0.5-1.0 Sone
|1.5-2.5 Sone
|1.0-1.5 Sone
|2.5-4.0 Sone
|1.5-2.0 Sone
|very bad
|starting from 4,0 Sone
|starting from 2,0 Sone