The research strand in The Potteries offered an opportunity for reflection from both the macro perspective of the Heritage Lottery Fund as a funder and the micro perspective of a small project they funded, The Potteries Tile Trail. The discussions in Stoke-on-Trent made visible the crucial role of local heritage catalysts – those who can connect people and resources – and the power of not waiting for permission but just getting on and doing-heritage-yourself.
The starting point for this part of the ‘hoch was to enable three members of the research team – Danny Callaghan, Karen Brookfield and Helen Graham – to reflect on a funding programme, the Heritage Lottery Fund’s ‘All Our Stories’, from two ends of the spectrum.
The local focus for this research strand was The Potteries Tile Trail, a community and crowd-sourced virtual collection of tiles and architectural ceramics found in buildings and public spaces throughout Stoke-on-Trent and further afield. Danny developed and facilitated the project on behalf of the Tiles and Architectural Ceramics Society (TACS). Karen had strategic responsibility for the All Our Stories programme at a national level in HLF.
The Heritage Lottery Fund supports hundreds of small community projects every year, but only rarely am I able to spend time with a ‘heritage activist’ like Danny, to begin to understand how an individual’s knowledge and passion for heritage makes great things happen locally. This has been invaluable to my professional practice, particularly in stimulating ideas of how HLF might invest differently to enable people to take ownership of their heritage and realise their vision for the future.
The conversations focused on the effects Heritage Lottery Fund support has had in encouraging and enabling grassroots led heritage activity over the last 20 years. Danny, Helen and Karen – along with others in the research group – identified valuable examples of heritage activism that simply would not have happened had it not been for an HLF-funding. A focus for the conversations was the way in which HLF money has – often without this being visible in the applications – supported a new breed of heritage activist who is often behind bidding for funding and the resultant local activityem and a ‘project constituency’) regardless of any kind of formal permission.
An example of Danny’s approach to ‘acting’ and ‘connecting’ developed from very early on in the project. As part of the Phase 1 ‘Day in the Life’ swap methodology, Danny spent a day with the team at Historypin, an online resource that had underpinned The Potteries Tile Trail project from the beginning. Danny was hosted by Rebekkah Abraham, Historypin Operations Director at their UK base in Clerkenwell, London and met the wider team including Nick Stanhope, Shift CEO (parent company for Historypin). This relationship has resulted in a number of practical actions and wider public engagement. Historypin featured The Potteries Tile Trail in a prominent position on their ‘Profiles’ page. This enhanced visibility and indirectly supported the ‘repatriation’ of original Minton-Pugin encaustic tiles from The Palace of Westminster to the city that made them more than 150 years ago.
Finding the right language when you’re trying to create change can be hard. Over lunch one day with Nick Stanhope, Shift CEO (the social enterprise behind Historypin) I used Danny’s term ‘community heritage activist’ to describe what I saw as our shared mission – to start with people, to support local activity, to use heritage for social good – and it clearly struck a chord. It’s interesting and encouraging to see this approach and language being directly reflected in Historypin communications.
I who ‘act’ is one way that community heritage activists operate. Another is by refusing to wait for professional recognition – including that of funders – and helpi In conversation with other members of the team this way of working emerged as crucial know-how and, as part of his research, Danny has developed it into the DIY Heritage Manifesto.
I had a ‘oh I get it now’ moment sitting in Danny’s car on a wet December day in 2013. He was explaining how he’d gone about trying to make sure doorstep tiles weren’t ripped out during a redevelopment. As Danny spoke his whole way of approaching heritage, which is about small actions and local networks, suddenly became clear. Something clunked into place that day and directly influenced the design of the York strand of the research project. This thinking has now become the DIY Heritage Manifesto.


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Recruitment Regulations and Tools (ONLINE) - This online course will include information about the Engagement Policy, obtaining IRB approval for your recruitment plans and materials, branding requirements when you're targeting Duke Health patients, and Maestro Care tools that support your efforts to identify people who are eligible for your studies. Students will complete the online course and interact with one another on the course Wiki to receive credit.
Smarter to be Understood: Improving Readability in Participant Engagement Materials - A guide to the basics of readability and tools to support the development of lay-friendly materials. We'll discuss strategies you can use for your materials, from concise summaries to websites, flyers and brochures.
All in This Together: Respect and Awareness of Participant Perspectives - In a highly regulated environment, it can be difficult to maintain our respect and awareness of the participant perspective, especially given the tension between "achieving your targets" and working with participants who are real people embedded in very dynamic personal, social and family lives. We will help you move beyond "does this person meet the eligibility criteria?" to the inclusion of "is this study right for this person at this time in their lives?" and help you recognize how to use active listening to support more patient-centered recruitment approaches and enhance your relationships with participants. We will also discuss the concept of motivational interviewing.
Using Social Marketing Principles to Design Your Engagement Strategy - Get acquainted with a framework for the social marketing cycle and using it to develop your recruitment material. Learn to ask yourself questions like "who am I trying to reach and what do I know about them, where they stand, where they seek and who they trust for information, what is important to them at this moment in their healthcare or personal lives?" so you can develop recruitment strategies and messages that will resonate.
Building Trust and Partnerships in Clinical Research - A deep dive into the importance and relevance of trust between study team and participant and researchers and the community at large, including tools and strategies for ensuring positive research interactions that live beyond individual study participation and create clinical research champions in the community.
Retention: The Challenges and Opportunities - Participants start making decisions about participation in research long before the first visit, and continue making decisions throughout recruitment, consent, and study participation. In this course, we will discuss the importance of strong retention to research in general, with a focus on relationship-building  and other tools to support retention from recruitment through the consent process and study participation.
Note: Participants are required to choose three electives to complete the certificate program but may attend them all if desired.
Principles and Best Practices for Stakeholder Engagement - With an increasing focus on patient-centeredness and stakeholder engagement across the research enterprise, knowing how to identify and engage a variety of stakeholders has become essential to the success of a research study. Understand the fundamental principles of stakeholder engagement and learn how and when to identify and engage with stakeholders in support of your research study
Social Media: Is it Right for Your Research? - Learn the ins and outs of leveraging social media for research. Attendees will review questions to ask if having a social media presence is right for your research. We will also discuss how you can leverage existing channels to promote your research when you don't have a dedicated handle. Presenters will share how to develop a social media plan including generating a content calendar and measuring success. We'll review common terms, resources, best practices, and case examples including a Facebook ad campaign.
Community-Engaged Research Initiatives (CEnR) - According to the CDC, community-engaged research (CEnR) is ""CEnR can take on many forms and may , community members, local institutions and agencies. In this class, you will learn the principles that undergird community-engaged research, the difference between CEnR and traditional health research, the spectrum of engagement opportunities, and how CEnR can support research that reduces disparities and inequities.
Remote Informed Consent: Best Practices in Design and Delivery - In the midst of our new remote reality, many study teams have altered workflows to support conducting consent activities remotely. In this workshop, we will discuss the design and delivery of your remote electronic consents to ensure you are following principles of readability, human cognition, and learning (e.g. cognitive load, narration, coherence, signaling, redundancy, and personalization). We will consider some of the social and ethical dynamics known to affect people's attitudes and preferences with respect to remote consenting, such as online access, digital literacy, and trust.
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2. Schools are a reflection of the concentrated poverty, they don't "suck". For those willing to make the effort and do the hard work Buffalo Public offers many quality choices.
3. Self segregation can breed arrogance and ignorance and removes any incentive to address poverty in our society. Also poverty is no longer contained within the city, the same problems are now affecting the older suburbs.
4. Services in the city are just fine, I have not had a problem, not sure what you mean.
"and to judge them for their choices is purely asinine and makes you all look like fools" Funny, we in the city are judged all the time for our "choice". I can't tell you how many times I have had to defend my choice of staying and raising my children in Black Rock.
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I'm reading about industry's role in the New York City economy and the city's urban fabric. It sounds like its decline was a case of too much planning. I'm leery of over-planning. Organic growth produces best results and strongest urban economies.
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But if it's 'not true at all' that 'People want land', then I'd wonder why in Erie County the total non-Buffalo population is growing from 2010 to 2013. Wouldn't it be shrinking due to a net loss of people moving away from burbs into the city to have less land?
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I'm not judging whether it's good or bad that they want land, just saying it seems many still do... so your "not true at all" looks very overstated. I don't think Bearded's comment was saying literally everybody wants land, just that it is often wanted.
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1. Crime is more rampent in certain parts of the city than others, that's true. But overall city crime is much higher than suburban crime.
3. No argument from you there....your best comment.
4. They are. Snow plowing is terrible, police response times are terrible, road repair is terrible, pot hole repair is terrible. Garbage pickup is actual rather good though.
3. That's just a dumb comments and stinks of your self-righteous attitude.
4. You've never lived outside the city, so how would you ever know? You preach on here all day about how you've lived in the city your whole life, lol. That's like me saying the weather in Spain is terrible, when I've never been there.
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dylan>'potentially back on the incline in the city, according to the latest census'
count for Buffalo 261,310 = 28.4% of county
count non-city (county minus Buffalo) 657,754 = 71.6% of county
est for Buffalo 259,384 = 28.1% of county, and down 0.7% vs 2010 city count
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The 2019-20 Rockford University academic year will begin with a form as he discusses his talk titled “More than Gossip”. Inspired by a summer trip with his daughter to New York City, President Fulcomer will highlight a recent renewed interest in the hallmark CW Network TV show, Gossip Girl, as a backdrop to chronicle the lives of RU Alumni as motivation for students as they approach the academic year.
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Music From The O.C. – seria albumów z muzyką wykorzystaną w serialu Życie na fali. Na płytach znajdują się piosenki różnych wykonawców, w większości twórców indierockowych. Seria składa się jak na razie z 6 płyt wydanych przez Warner Bros. Planowane są kolejne z muzyką z trzeciego sezonu, a także z sezonu czwartego, który rozpoczął się 2 listopada.
Music from the OC: Mix 1
 Jem – Just a Ride
 The 88 – How Good It Can Be
 The Dandy Warhols – We Used to Be Friends
 Finley Quaye, Beth Orton & William Ørbit – Dice
 Alexi Murdoch – Orange Sky
Music from the OC: Mix 2
 Interpol – Specialist
 Patrick Park – Something Pretty
 The Walkmen – Little House of Savages
 The Perishers – Trouble Sleeping
 Johnathan Rice – So Sweet
Music from the OC: Mix 3
 The Raveonettes – The Christmas Song
 Ben Kweller – Rock of Ages
 Ron Sexsmith – Maybe This Christmas
 The Futureheads – Decent Days and Nights
 Imogen Heap – Goodnight and Go
 Pinback – Fortress
 A.C. Newman – On the Table
 Flunk – Play
 Beck – Scarecrow
 The Reindeer Section – Cartwheels
 Bell X1 – Eve, The Apple of My Eye
 Matt Pond PA – Champagne Supernova
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 The Subways – Rock & Roll Queen
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 Of Montreal – Requeim for O.M.M.2
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 Goldspot – Float On (Modest Mouse)
 Lady Sovereign – Pretty Vacant (Sex Pistols)
 John Paul White – Can't Get It out of My Head (ELO)
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I. T ≤ P.
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Given statements: P ≥ Q = R < S; T ≤ Q; U < R On combining: P ≥ Q = R ≥ T; U < Q = R < S I. T ≤ P (true) (P ≥ Q ≥ T. T is less than and equal to P) II. U < S (true) (U < R < S. U is less than S) Therefore, both conclusion I and II follows
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We occasionally meet homeowners who don’t want to reveal their true budget numbers. This lack of disclosure is not in their best interests and almost always sets the stage for disappointment.
Such reluctance is understandable, of course. Much of the online advice about hiring contractors treats the process as a poker game, with the contractor as the opponent. This mentality leads people to hold their cards close.
But the adversarial approach is the least effective one when planning a custom home. You’re not engaging in a one-time transaction; instead, you are partnering with a professional who will transform your design vision into reality. Success demands that you choose a builder in whom you have enough trust to discuss how much you are prepared to invest. You can give a range rather than a hard number, but it needs to be realistic.
A reality-based budget is a crucial tool in the construction planning process. Most people have preconceived notions of what a home should cost, based on square-footage prices they have seen here and there. But these assumptions seldom support the designs and products they’re envisioning, and the result tends to be frustration. Putting your budget cards on the table is the only way the builder can paint an accurate picture of what is possible.
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Australian building codes and criteria fail to adequately address a major source of widespread energy inefficiencies in the country’s built environments, namely air leakages in the building envelope that raise the difficulty of maintaining steady indoor temperatures.
A guide produced by the Australia’s government on sustainable housing estimates that air leakages comprise around 15 to 25 per cent of heat loss during the winter months in Australian homes while also impeding cooling effects across the summer.
The UK has made the testing of many buildings for air leakages mandatory via Section L of its Building Regulations, while in the US an increasing number of states are instituting similar requirements for residential buildings, following the example set by the International Energy Conservation Code.
The New York State Codes Committee, for example, is currently considering the adoption of testing requirements for the air tightness of building envelopes as well as the ductwork of residential buildings, as contained by the 2015As early as the mid-1990s, initial versions of America’s voluntary ENERGY STAR for Homes program contained testing requirements for air tightness. Version 2.0 introduced sealing requirements in 2006, while by 2011, Version 3.0 ratcheted up the criteria for air tightness.
In stark contrast to the UK and US, Australia’s National Construction Code does not even make reference to the testing or inspection of building air tightness, despite advocating draught sealing in its Section J.
While the Building Code of Australia has made a move in the right direction with calls for the mandatory testing of certain large-scale ductwork systems, Australia’sUS and UK, where leakages have already been a focal point of efficiency discussions for decades.


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Director General of Police Abhayanand told journalists in Patna that Prashant Kumar Jha (17) and his girlfriend Priti Chaudhary, with whom he had eloped in September,.
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At last, I’ve made it. Here I am battling away for years and then, all of a sudden I get the phone call out of the blue. It reminds me of that old show business saying: “After 20 years of slugging away, all of a sudden I am an overnight success.”
I’m sure the callers must have picked me out for special attention, based on some achievement that I can’t quite identify. Surely they wouldn’t call just anybody. Would they?
Anybody following the Hayne Royal Commission could be excused for thinking our superannuation system is broken. It is not – although parts of it need serious repair.
An excellent article in the Australian Financial Review of 18-19 August, addressed and dispelled a number of myths surrounding the superannuation system.
The author of the Chanticleer column identified the following myths:
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I’m Retiring, I Have My Super, What Can A Financial Planner Do For Me?
It’s that time of year again, where super funds are strutting their stuff, and the best performers are crowing about their place in the league tables of fund returns.
Mostly, they focus on the performance of their “balanced” option, which is usually understood to be a middle of the road mix of defensive and growth investments.
Five Things To Do Before You Retire
So what should you do to prepare your finances for life after retirement? Here are 5 things to get you started.
1. PAY OFF DEBTS BEFORE YOU RETIRE.
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Often when you go to a financial planner to plan your retirement, they will give you a graph to show how your capital might fare over a period.
The process is fairly simple. You start with an amount of capital, it earns interest, dividends and growth over time, and this grows the amount of capital. Deduct the amount you draw to live on, and you are left with a balance. Then, draw a graph of the balance each year, and there is your future capital mapped out.
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However, in many situations it is important to look deeper than just the annual percentage return.
This is especially so in the case of retirement.
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Black Swan Events are things that happen, but nobody sees them coming. Mostly the term relates to events in the financial world, where markets change suddenly, without apparent warning. Examples include the GFC, and the 1987 sharemarket crash.
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The term “Black Swan Events” has a particular meaning in investment circles.
The term refers to events that are unexpected and unforeseen. They can be either negative or positive, but such is human nature that the main focus is on negative events and their consequences. One recent Black Swan Event was the GFC in 2007 – 08. The GFC damaged a lot of people, and the overhang is still with us.
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Talking about mixed signals, let’s start with the stockmarket. Every night, commentators fill our television screens, with graphic accounts of how much the market has gone up, or down during that day. Even if nothing has happened, they still go to great lengths to make it graphic. But, then I guess that is the nature of television. A factual statement such as “nothing much happened on the market today”, - next story please -  would hardly have viewers glued to their sets. After all, there are ratings to think about, aren’t there!
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Redundancy – Beware An Unwanted 65th Birthday Present – More Tax!
Redundancy payments are in the air again, with the WA Government announcing plans to cut the number of public servants.
However, there is a nasty little surprise lurking in the tax laws for people over age 65. The tax treatment is very different either side of 65.
Just to be clear, what we are talking about are specific REDUNDANCY PAYMENTS. These are separate from superannuation and a range of other exit payments. Broadly speaking, a redundancy payment is a specific extra payment that is made when an employees’ job has been abolished, and the person is no longer required. Redundancies can be either voluntary, or not.
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Securing Your Future - Where To Look For Income In Times Of Low Interest
The following article "Where To Look For Income In Times Of Low Interest" was written by John Cameron and appeared on pg 2 of The West Australian - Financial Planning Supplement - 21st August 2017.
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The Culture Wars Continue
Once again, the Commonwealth Bank is in the firing line. This time it is under a cloud for, allegedly, not meeting its obligations to report suspicious financial transactions – and the press is having a field day.
Foremost among their comments/analysis/hysterics (pick your own descriptor) is the conclusion that the CBA has a poor culture, and they need a better one. Well, call me pedantic, but I think that qualifies as nothing more than a giant SBO (Statement of the Bleeding Obvious), and a solution needs more than endless SBO’s, but some deeper analysis.
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There has recently been serious concerns expressed in major media, about investors in account based pensions (it applies to other vehicles as well, but most of the rant has been about pensions).
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Wanted – A Better Way To Measure Risk
The current way of measuring risk, is to look at the average volatility of returns over an extended period (in practice it is a bit more technical, but this is the essence of it). The more volatile the returns, the riskier the investment, and vice versa.
This way of measuring risk has been around since the 1950’s, and it was certainly a big improvement on what went before.
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4 Things To Think About When Deciding Whether Or Not To Do It - The Age Pension and Downsizing
In our experience, people often decide not to downsize when faced with this loss of pension. However, this action is not logical and puts too much emphasis on the age pension. After all, the age pension is nothing but a source of income, and it is not inherently better than an alternative source of income.
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Food for Thought: 3 Classes Battle for the Upper Hand, Where There Used to be Just 2.
Look at the literature over the last hundred years or so, and you will see 2 classes battling for the economic upper hand. They are Labour and Capital.
Karl Marx based his whole theory around this battle. While classical and neoclassical economists portrayed it in less confrontational terms, much of their theories were still based around competition between these two classes.


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Jamie did ask me to contribute but these days I have to give priority to paid work. Hopefully if Moose Kid Comics evolves into an ongoing comic I'll be there.  Yes, give Aces Weekly a shot, Paul. I know some people are "waiting for print" but it's not going to happen. Aces Weekly is exclusively digital and well worth a look. Lew Stringerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10746322402392204077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-187413073854784554.post-2729913173434633732014-06-20T12:12:45.769+01:002014-06-20T12:12:45.769+01:00
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Wow what an amazing amount of material here, and it all looks good. On my first scan (which took me 15 minutes) I have to say Tom Paterson's "Beelzababy" (for me) sticks out a mile fantastic stuff "Hot Stuff" meets "Sweeny Toddler" meets "Son of Satan" just brilliant (other great stuff for me was Badgers of Fury actually they were all good congratulations to all involved).   I'm not in general a big fan of the "modern" look (but do like some of it a lot Dave Cooper, Jamie etc)but this is a nice mix of modern styles. I do like Jamies work but wssn't a fan of his Desperate Dan (and I don't live in the 50s lol) I just think Jamies a maverick artist (imho) and his own creations are what he should continue to work on, they're amazing and I much prefer seeing him go to town on these creations (Bear is still a fan favourite of mine) . Ive been uncertain of web-comics but reading this I think I'll give ACEs a go - and errr Lew not to put any pressure on you but would be nice to see you in this comic - again congratulations to Jamie and all involved I wish you every success with this venture Paul McScotty -Muirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11166190927603182073noreply@blogger.com


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Kari Varis took his seventh victory at Finlandia Ski Marathon when he sprinted to win 50 kilometer classic race on Saturday in Lahti. He had to fight until the end about it, as Lasse Paakkonen gave him a good match in the final straight. Paakkonen, a well-known sprint skier, had to settle for second place. Alexander Artemyev came in third.
Paakkonen was leading in downhill coming to the stadium, but Varis passed him in the end.
“I was pretty comfortable in the end. I knew you shouldn’t be first for the last downhill. I noticed I had good skis. My tactic for that worked out fine. Lasse is good in final sprints, but I have also won him in sprint. It was a good fight. For the race I didn’t have any particular tactic. When we passed 10 km mark, I put some effort to split the big group. Then there was me, Lasse and Artemyev. The pace was not so hard, but we worked well together and others didn’t catch us. It was not my plan to leave the decisions to the stadium area”, said the happy winner Kari Varis.
Finlandia debutant Lasse Paakkonen was irritated after he losed victory just by a little. “I made a small tactical mistake when I came to the downhill as first. Kari got better speed behind me”, Paakkonen said.
Heli Heiskanen was the winner at women’s race before Satu Siikanen. “Victory was my goal and the plan was to ski according to a feeling”, said the winner.


Battlefront at the UK Games Expo 2018Held 1– 3 June 2018 at NEC Birmingham, The National Exhibition Centre, B40 1NT Birmingham, United Kingdom
Firefly AdventuresStand 1-F10 is where you'll be able to muster your crew and take on the Cowboys and Thugs in a daring Rescue, as well as try your hand at many of our other games on our Gaming stand.
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Tyrants Of The UnderdarkAlongside our demo tables at Stand F-10, we'll have a full table dedicated to D&D Tyrants Of The Underdark. The game will be available to anyone wanting to delve into the Underdark and vie for supremacy.


I can’t walk more than 20 steps without getting a new idea. This happens automatically as soon as I spot something interesting – a new way to do something, an original thought or movement, or new service or product. I’m good at seeing the potential and the ‘next step’ and both recognizing and outlining the correlations. For a long time, I thought that all these ideas I had would have to be initiated by me. But then I found a channel for me to communicate through: I became a trend spotter and can now use my skills to help others with service, product and business development. It provides value for my clients, I make a living and the ideas become reality. It is a win-win-win.
based on that. My company is called Alikelihood. For me, the name represents a way of looking at trendspotting, which takes its starting point in the things that happen in the present and, on the basis of the trends, provides an educated guess at what the future might hold.
surround ourselves with. If you have a good understanding of the spirit of the time and megatrends, then you can navigate more easily and outline a strategy and the potentials.


This is a fact: If you pay attention to hair and you love accessories, at some point you've desperately wanted needed a Mason Pearson brush. It's surrounded by a cloud of ardor that leaves you convinced owning one will change everything. I know that feeling. I've been there.
When I finally secured a Mason Pearson mixed style ($205; barneys.com), I unboxed it and waited for everything to change. Except...it didn't. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the brush, but it didn't make my hair healthier, glossier, or better-looking when air-dried. I have long, thick, naturally wavy hair, and prior to the Mason Pearson, I hadn't owned a brush in years. Rather, my routine was to comb through in the shower and leave it be; brushing would only serve to un-wave my waves, whether the natural kick or the carefully worked-for version. Brushing would pull out the body and give me the bad kind of volume (big and fluffy, a few ticks lower than static-electricity level).
Surprised and disappointed to have not been converted, I ditched the idea of being someone who brushes her hair and was pleased with how things were going until Tangle Teezer's Finishing Brush ($22; dermstore.com or ₤15; tangleteezer.com) made its way to me. I was a skeptic and this one—bubblegum pink and looking like the IRL size of something from Barbie's Dream House—didn't seem promising. But, I kid you not, the first time I pulled it through my days-old waves, I was stunned. Stunned.
Right after I do my hair, the tendrils are more defined and it's not super soft (the trick I've learned is to spray aggressively with Oribe Après Beach—it helps with longevity and the look, but isn't conducive to running your fingers through your hair).
The difference isn't drastic,which is actually the point. If I'd taken that Mason Pearson (or any other brush that's crossed my path) to my waves, the end result wouldn't be pretty. It's why I've staunchly avoided hairbrushes over the last decade. Instead, the finishing brush gave the effect of perfectly finger-combed waves: broken up, glossy, and shockingly easy to run your hand through, with an overall effect that's polished—"finished," if you will—without altering what I started with.
Hooray to the cheaper option finally being the better one (!).


A bit dazed, Donald Blake makes his way through the city of New York, clearly focused on something a million miles away. His eyes seem alternately confused or unfocused, seeing nothing around him as he struggles to process the enormity of what's been impressed upon him by his trip to the Norn pool in the company of Loki's priest.
Not his priest— Loki, Donald amends mentally, wincing and touching his skull. A massive headache had lingered behind his eyes for most of a day, as if he'd strained himself overmuch lifting something heavy. Skin tingling and fairly buzzing he was sure he was sick, but there was an energy to his steps he'd never had before. Stronger than before. Smoother. His body twitchingly becoming accustomed to a new level of … not even normal. Something superhuman was brewing in his belly, and the flashing visions crowding his mind unbidden were equally distracting.
A shadow flitted across his path. Once. Twice. One that was cast by nothing obvious, nothing apparent. A laugh sounded, echoing off the brickwork of the buildings around them. A tingle of magic, twisted in the otherwise sunny air. Something out of the ordinary, something beyond Midgard. A very familiar something that was all darkness and vile intent.
A scream followed and a cry for help.
Runes etched in darkness flare to life as soon as Donald rounds the bend of the alley, hidden from view to the outside world. The sight that greets him? A wealth of shadows. Odds and ends of various creatures, shadows of huge hulking beasts and of warriors from other realms. Shades that lingered in the darkness and yet were a separate part of the darkness. A trap had been sprung, and Donald would find himself in a square of runes, a prism of shadows and light that twisted to form a kind of cage to entrap the blonde.
The screams? Came from the shadows themselves, and as they fell silent, the commander of their ranks appeared in a swirl of dark green light. A mockery of Amora stood there, smirking as she approached with her hip sway that dissolved into a light consuming blankness that seemed to float foward.
"Oh darling, you're so heroic. So very, very predictable. I'm glad my pets could tempt you into a dark alley all alone." She crooned, coming up to the edge of the runes and playing her hands over the areas where the trap began.
"You'll find me a poor quarry if you think you can trap me so easily here," he warns her, whipping his hammer in a circle.
"I'll deal with you when I have a body to enjoy taking your power." She winked, blew him a kiss and faded into the shadows around her.
And just on time as it was, Amora appeared in a cloud of lime green energy. She wore her battle armor, and scanned the dark alley to immediately spot Donald. Her features pinched as she stormed toward him. "What in the Nine Realms?"
And then Amora is rushing up behind him, shouting fury on her fine brow, and out of raw combative instinct he turns and flings his hammer at her with an overhand cast. The missile tumbles end over end, a carved rock glittering with subtle electricity in the runes as he flings it at her.
Amora stopped short as the Donald starts swinging, her hands throwing up to attempt to vanish and reappear, only.. to find she couldn't. Runes lit up the whole of the alley and glowed with.. darkness? The void of light they made was more apparent than the shadows that swarmed this way and that, and very quickly it became apparent, the manner of trap they were both in.
While Amora was Asgardian strong and seen as powerful by Midgardian standards.. she most assuredly was not when compared to like creatures from the other Nine Realms.
"But wait your turn, I'll get to you in a minute. I have a body to get." She held up her hand and with a muttered word and a poof of smoke something appeared. A rather twisted, gnarled looking piece of wood sharpened to a spike. A bitter scent filled the air and she hefted it in her hands, as if testing its weight. The shadows tightened their hold on Amora, a thread slapping over her mouth as she readied a string of protective magic and was cut off. Green eyes widened as she stared at the enchanted piece of wood.
"Useful thing, a cave troll was willing to trade it for a fortune in bribes. Legend calls it the Stake of Yggdrasil. A cutting from the roots that was twisted to take the life force and magic of a being and transfer it to another. Shall we see if it works?" She mused and without further preamble, shoved it straight into Amora's chest, above the metal plates of her armor (such as it could be called that).
Donald moves on instinct. He pushes off the wall like a fellow in water, rotating in place and jamming a foot against it for leverage. He leaps not just aside, but /up/, putting tremendous momentum into his motion. Both hands rise up over his head as he goes to fling himself at the shadow with his bare hands if needed, at the height of her apotheosis.
Thunder and lightning explodes around him with the force of a hurricane contained in the narrow alley, and with an earsplitting shout of defiance, he brings the power of Thor down on the Shadow Amora's upper back, his hammer crackling with eldritch lightning.
Even as she sat there, trembling, there was oddly no blood. Not a drop, as the sickly colors slowly crawled over her skin and continued to darken.
He casts his head around, looking for someone else to step up— then lifts his face skywards and takes a tremendous breath.
"LOKI! LOKI, CAN YOU HEAR ME?"
"I didn't think I'd get to see you again, Thor. But I'm glad I did. Even if it's short." The grey of her skin tone continued to creep over her, slowly leeching whatever color there was to the Enchantress. From the gold in her locks to the warm tones of her skin and the green of her eyes. It was fading slowly, consumed by the gnarled stake still planted in her flesh.
"HELP. HER." he growls, his furious voice making the pebbles shake underfoot— and underscoring the very real worry for Amora in his voice.
"You can't hold it without magic," She whispered, her eyes fluttering closed briefly under Donald's attempt to grab the stake.
Amora's strength failed just as Loki appeared and sent Donald whirling. She collapsed on her side with a gust of a breath escaping her slowly greying lips. The very center of much of her magical strength lay in the spells put on them. Spells centuries old and worked over with more than anything else on her person. Even the rosy hues were fading inch by inch.
The shadows slowly began to creep back into existence at the edges of the alley way, a threat that as the Enchantress weakened, something else still drew that strength.
Loki knits his brows together when Thor manhandles him. "So, you at least admit you believe I can! I have not any idea what is-…" He cuts off there, observing what is happening and searching his newly wakened memories to figure out what it IS. He puts his hand over Thor's, pushing, trying to get the other man to let go. "I can see it. I need…ah…/mirror/…I need a mirror."
Donald mostly just drags Loki over, and looks on with fretful concern as Loki surveys the scene. He looks around, trying to find a mirror, and dashes down the street a few doors, testing them. Finding one for a local pharmacy, he hauls back and kicks the door down with a massive blow from his boot and dashes inside.
Moments later he rushes back to the alley, outraged shouts in his wake and a hand mirror outstretched towards the Trickster.
Donald holds his hand out without a second thought and Mjolnir flies to his grip. He steps once to the side, making sure his hammer blow clears them both, and twists from the hip with a massive, overhand cast. The stone hammer crackles with electricity and eldritch light just below the surface of those runes, and with a bellow of olympian effort he brings the enchanted weapon down onto the stake with all the force he can muster, shattering the wood into thousands of splintery shards.
Her color was still almost entirely gone, her personage in a grayscale without the usual life that colored her cheeks.
"Wait, Thor…its not over just yet. There is more to do. Once she is settled…somewhere safe, then call for me, and I will in the meantime…find where we must go."


"I think what's reflected in the performances from the last two or three games is there is a growing collective understanding which is important for us."
Early days and all that. Very early days. Has a promising start silenced the calls for more signings?
"It's nice they are here, nice they are part of our group and nice we have also got players who can help them."


Prior to joining Shaklee, Bruce served as Senior Vice President, Research & Development and Chief Science Officer at Nutrisystem Inc. where he directed applied research and development for weight management and the prevention or management of obesity-related diseases and disorders.
Bruce has a Ph.D. in Nutritional Biochemistry from Cornell University and a B.A. in Biology from University of Virginia. He has authored 80 publications and abstracts and has developed 13 patents in his name. He serves as Adjunct Professor and Advisory Board Member within the Nutrition, Food, and Exercise Sciences Department of Florida State University. He is a member of the American Society for Nutrition and of The Obesity Society, and has been an active volunteer with the American Diabetes Association’s Greater Philadelphia Community Board and its Education and Advocacy Committee.


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The exhibition, which the students visited as prep for their January exam, shows real human bodies donated to science that have been dissected and preserved. The bodies are then posed to show the different body systems at work during different activities, such as playing tennis or doing gymnastics. Talking about the trip, Level 3 Health and Social Care Student, Anwen Jeffreys, said:
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Adieu Georges
By Victor Dial
My heartbeat went up a notch or two when I first spotted the throng of visitors moving slowly but relentlessly closer, seemingly coming right at me. I felt like I was watching a phalanx in slow motion — powerful and irresistible, but in this case, unlikely to be fatal. I was in fact looking forward to the encounter, even if slightly apprehensive. Somewhere in the forefront of the approaching group was the President of the French Republic, the much-admired Georges Pompidou, and he was coming to visit the Ford exhibit as part of the opening ceremony. The time was early October 1973, and the occasion was the inauguration of the Salon d’Automobile in Paris, an event attended by automobile enthusiasts from all over France and Europe. Its importance was such that it was opened by the French President in person, and it was my duty to welcome him (as well as his legion of bodyguards, cabinet ministers, staffers, show officials, journalists, photographers, and other hangers-on) to our stand.
Georges Pompidou was elected President of France for a seven-year term in 1969, having previously served as Prime Minister under Charles de Gaulle. He was a popular President, credited when Prime Minister with having pulled the country from the brink with his adept handling of the revolutionaries of May 1968 that ultimately led to de Gaulle’s resignation.
It was barely a month since I’d been appointed Chairman and General Manager of Ford France. Managing a good-size Ford subsidiary [1] was a big step up in my career, and the opening of the Salon d’Auto was one of my first public appearances. As the throng closed in, I readied myself and silently rehearsed my welcoming remarks. I didn’t know how long he would stay, but I knew it would be brief. It turned out to be a few minutes: just enough time for me to introduce myself, welcome him, say something about our factory in Bordeaux, the new Ford products on display, and affirm our hope to continue investing in France. Then he and his group moved on to the next stop. While it was short, I could nevertheless boast that I’d met the President of France. It wouldn’t be the last time…
A few months later, shortly before Christmas we did indeed meet again, but this time it was in his magnificent office in the Elysée Palace, far, very far from the crowds and the chaos of the Auto Show. I was accompanying Henry Ford II and the President of Ford of Europe who’d flown in from London for this meeting. We were seeking approval of our plan to build a second factory in Bordeaux producing transaxles for the Fiesta (a new small car), creating 2,500 new jobs. President Pompidou was assisted by two of his top advisors. This meeting was the culmination of negotiations that had been on-going for several months, absorbing a lot of time and energy. To meet our tight schedule we needed a decision before year-end. The meeting was cordial and business-like, and lasted less than an hour. Our proposal was accepted. The meeting over, I escorted my two visitors back to Le Bourget for their return flight to London.
On Tuesday April 2, 1974 it was announced that President Pompidou had died of cancer. That afternoon my secretary alerted me that Mr. Ford [2] was calling from Dearborn. Mr. Ford said he remembered fondly our cordial meeting with Pompidou in December, and was considering attending the funeral. Did I think it was a good idea? I replied that his presence would be a sincere sign of respect. It’s settled then, he said, and asked me to make the arrangements and then specifically, to find out what to wear; he’d bring whatever he needed from the States.
My Director of Public Relations (who will remain nameless) was a somewhat aloof Frenchman. Within hours he reported back that the ceremony would be in the magnificent Cathédrale de Notre Dame on the coming Sunday, and that he’d obtained two invitations: one for Mr. Ford, and one for me. The correct attire was dark suits. Pleased to have been so efficient, I called Mr. Ford in Dearborn. He noted it all down, and asked me whether I was sure about the attire — dark suits. After I hung up, and just to be sure, I again asked my PR guy about the dress. He looked at me impatiently, and with a roll of the eyes and an exasperatingly noisy sigh, said yes, yes he was sure. He suggested we turn to the logistical arrangements for Mr. Ford: he expected us to take care of him while he was with us. He was known to be blunt if he didn’t like something, or someone. While it wasn’t the first time I’d been alone with him[3], it was the first time I’d be his host.
People today may have forgotten that in the 60’s and 70’s Ford was the third largest company in the world, only General Motors and Standard Oil (Esso) being bigger. The Ford family controlled 40% of the shares: Henry Ford II, grandson of the founder had been chairman for twenty years and had several times graced the cover of Time magazine – a high honor. He had a colorful private life, and was regarded with a mixture of awe and fear within the company.
Mr. Ford arrived in London Friday morning and called at around eleven to ask if everything was all set. I replied that preparations for the ceremony were in full swing: Heads of State were flying in from all over the world, and that Saturday, Sunday and Monday had been declared national days of mourning; activity would come to a virtual halt. He asked me to meet him at Le Bourget late Saturday afternoon, and accompany him to the Plaza Athenée. He said he had private plans for dinner.
I was relieved that the next day as we drove together into Paris he didn’t question me too closely about Ford France’s current difficulties – we were struggling with the aftermath of the Yom Kippur war, as were all our competitors. Once settled into his suite, he offered me a drink and we continued to talk. At about seven I said good night. We agreed to meet the next morning at 9:30, in plenty of time to get to Notre Dame for the start of the service at 11.
It had taken several days to engrave the formal invitations and the necessary laissez-passer, and while I was with Mr. Ford on Saturday afternoon they had been hand-delivered to my apartment by motorcycle policeman.
My wife had invited some friends to dinner that evening, and of course I couldn’t resist telling everybody how important I was, taking Mr. Ford to President Pompidou’s funeral service the next day, and here, look at the invitations, which I hadn’t yet gotten around to opening. The elegant invitations were passed around with suitable oohs and aahs of admiration. One of my friends[4] casually wondered aloud how I’d look in my jacquette. Wait a minute! Did he say jacquette? I grabbed the invitation. There it was, prominently marked in the lower right-hand corner, jacquette. A jacquette is not a dark suit – it is a morning coat.
It was lucky Mr. PR wasn’t within my reach at that moment. All my carefully-planned arrangements had just collapsed. In seconds I conjured up the scene: Mr. Ford and I would arrive at Notre Dame with the world’s TV cameras focused solely on the two of us wearing dark suits, amid a sea of admirers wearing jacquettes, the only mourners not properly dressed. Instead of showing respect for a man we admired, we’d be yet another couple of Ugly Americans.
I don’t think I slept more than a wink that night. I saw my budding career coming to an abrupt end the next morning. The sales and financial results of Ford France were disappointing (momentarily, I hoped), and the man in charge was unreliable. Adding insult to injury was the fact that Mr. Ford had not just once, but several times asked me about the proper dress, and each time I’d confidently given him the wrong answer. How can you ever trust such a dimwit? In the Navy I was taught that the Captain of the ship is always responsible, even if not personally at fault. I concluded that he’d be fully justified in relieving me of my command — what else could he do? I wondered how I’d explain my sudden departure to my friends, and hoped that on my way out I’d at least have time to slowly strangle Mr. PR. At some point during the night, I came up with a sort of plan. However hopeless, I’d go down fighting.
I was up and dressed at 5 a.m. My “plan” was to search the yellow pages, and make a list of what looked like the biggest jacquette-renting stores. I’d go to one after the other and try to find someone to open it — I had a thick wad of cash and I’d pay whatever it took. (I hoped as a last resort to avoid having to break into a store, and temporarily “borrow” one.) My plan was a long shot, I realized, considering that it was before sunrise on a Sunday and a solemn national holiday to boot, but I couldn’t think of anything else to do. The costume-rental store with the biggest ad (a full page!) was called the “Cor de Chasse (the hunter’s horn)”. This didn’t sound like the name of a store that rented dress clothes, but I was impressed by the size of their ad – I’d start with them. At 5:30, I nervously dialed their number, steeling myself for disappointment. It was a desperate, hopeless effort, almost certainly a waste of time. But no!!! A man answered on the first ring! I was so non-plussed that I nearly forgot why I was calling. I could have kissed him. The store had been open since five.
I got to the store minutes later — there was zero traffic — and was astonished to find it full of people, mostly African heads of state, trying on their jacquettes. I didn’t know Mr. Ford’s size, so I rented three, one being the size that I thought he actually was, and one on either side, in case I was mistaken. My relief at having my career probably saved overcame my misgivings about the wasteful expense of renting three jacquettes, plus one for me of course.
I arrived at the Plaza at about 9, earlier than we’d agreed, and when I learned that Mr. Ford had already ordered breakfast I called and he invited me right up. He was surprised to see me in my jacquette, so I explained that there’d been a last-minute change of protocol, but that this was no problem, because I had a jacquette for him. He accepted this without comment, and it turned out that the size I’d chosen fit him well. If he noticed the two other boxes, he didn’t mention them.
The funeral service was very moving, and I gawked at all the famous people I’d seen only in pictures. President Nixon was there, as was just about every other Head of State. Mr. Ford saw a number of people he knew, and told me how glad he was to have come.
As you’d expect, the funeral ceremony was imposing and dignified, as befitting a sitting President, and at which the French excel. As soon as the service was over we headed straight for our car and the airport; Mr. Ford was booked on a 2 p.m. flight to New York, so he’d checked out of the Plaza before going to the cathedral. Even if there was little traffic, timing was a bit tight. As we were driving along, I began to wonder where and under what circumstances I would recuperate Mr. Ford’s jacquette. Mr. Ford seemed to think of this at the same time, so we stopped the car in the break-down lane of the autoroute and he selected his travelling clothes from his suitcase in the trunk. Then we got back in, with me in front. The driver started up once again, and Mr. Ford changed trousers in the back seat. This unexpected event provided incontrovertible proof of the adage that “the rich and famou”
By now I felt somewhat relaxed with Mr. Ford and felt bold enough to tell him about the last-minute problem of the jacquettes. He burst out laughing, particularly when I told him about jostling with African dignitaries trying on jacquettes at six in the morning. He remarked that he’d seen many guests in dark suits, and wouldn’t have minded if he’d had to wear his! So much anguish for nothing! Several days later he sent me an elegant letter of thanks.
As Mr. Ford enjoyed Paris I had quite a few other occasions to be his host, all in happier circumstances. Our final meeting came during the Auto Show in October 1980, where he (and I) welcomed President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing (with whom I was by now well acquainted).
That evening we celebrated Mr. Ford’s forth-coming retirement with an elegant black-tie dinner for 800 guests in the Salle des Batailles at the Palais de Versailles. It turned out that this was the last Paris Auto Show that I would host for Ford. In January 1981 I began work at the headquarters of nearly bankrupt Peugeot PSA. A big step up, and the start of a new and much different life…
[1] Ford’s interests in France included car, truck, and parts distribution; two factories making automatic transmissions and transaxles employing 5,000 workers in Bordeaux; a credit company; agricultural machinery distribution; and Richier, a manufacturer of tower cranes.
[2] Well-known Bostonian Frank “Butch” Hunnewell, (Harvard)
[3] Out of respect, everybody called Mr. Ford Mr. Ford
[4] I first met Mr. Ford in 1969 when he accepted an invitation from President Mobuto to meet at the Waldorf Towers in New York to discuss the prospects for an assembly plant in Zaire (ex Congo). [I was in charge of French-speaking Africa and Israel at the time, based in Paris.] I met Mr. Ford in Detroit, and the two of us flew together to Teterboro. After the meeting Mr. Ford kindly invited me for a drink at his apartment in the Carlyle where he kept a number of his impressionist paintings.
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The return of the sun also meant I could finally showcase my new sunnies! My personalised Ray-Ban Erika's that my boyfriend bought me for my 21st Birthday in December. Aren't they just beautiful? And the fact the case matched my shoes and bag was a complete fluke I promise!
I initially took a few shots in my garden before heading out but, when I saw this FAB garage door nearby the Greek church I just couldn't resist a few snaps! The colour scheme went really well with my look too, Godsend!


Super taking notes as you are working, without interrupting your flow. The notes are searchable and stored in a viewable text file. You can download it from CNote – CLI Note Taking Application site or directly install it from command line with the following:
wget --no-check-certificate -q -O- -
As we started piling up valuable notes you may start thinking what-if you machine crashes?
Incidentally I use CentOS 5.1.x (latest update) on Desktop, which is not supported by DropBox. I also use Raspberry Pi, which also is not supported by DropBox.
Enter Google Drive to the rescue
I tried to make DropBox command line tool work but I found out that DropBox command line client will not work without full installation. This is not possible as CentOS 5.1.x and RaspBerry Pi are unsupported platforms.
Google Drive has a nice third-party command line tool called gdrive (download link) which is just right for my purpose. So instead of wasting more time trying to make DropBox work on RaspberryPi etc., I decided to use Google Drive cloud for backup. I used an unused Google Account for this purpose.
Get access to Google Drive
- Open a browser and login to Google with the account you want to use.
- Note: This may be done later too.
- Upload ~/.notes to Google Drive for the first time:
gdrive upload ~/.notes
- This will provide an url which you have to open in your browser to allow gdrive to access files and directories in your Google Drive. After allowing you will be given a code which you will have to copy-paste in command line for the first upload to complete
- After upload it prints a string (something like: 0B8qjyN8TMP9zSmRYQzhNTaBcdEFg) which is the ID of the file. Copy it. This magic key is the identity of your file on Google Drive.
Backup CNote in Google Drive
- Now create a file named (for example) updateNoteonGDrive and open it in a text editor and paste the saved file ID.
nohup ~/bin/gdrive update 0B8qjySampleIDQzhNTaBcdEFg ~/.notes >/dev/null 2>&1 &
- Make this file executable with chmod:
chmod 700 ~/bin/updateNoteonGDrive
- Run it by hand to ensure that it properly updates your notes file in Google Drive.
- Now open ~/.bashrc with a text editor and invoke this after saving your note like:
n() { echo `date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"`'> '"$*" >> ~/.notes tail -1 ~/.notes updateNoteonGDrive }
- This ensures every note is backed up in Google Drive. The backup process runs in the background so press Enter and continue with your work. Even if it fails because Internet is down, it will update when you write the next note.
- Would you like to use DropBox on Raspberry Pi? Let me know in comments below and I can take a look.
- Would you like to know how you can easily manage your Knowledge base with CNote: CLI Note Taking Tool?


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How to begin the probate process for a house in Lexington
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As with theme and skin downloads, many websites provide alternatives for the Windows desktop icons. If you do a web search for "Windows icons" (using Google, MSN Search, or your favorite web search engine), you will get a number of results. You will find fewer possibilities, however, than you would if you were searching for "desktop wallpaper" or "screensavers." Icons are not as easy to make as some of the other theme/skin elements, so fewer collections are available for download.
Many of the themes and skins you download from the Web include alternative desktop icons. You can mix and match the icons between themes and skins to create your own original combinations.
IconPlus (http://www.iconsplus.com/) A collection of drawn icons listed by categories.
Leo's Icon Archive (http://www.iconarchive.com/) An extensive collection of icons divided into categories.
Icon Library (http://www.iconlibrary.com/) This site provides a software download that contains an icon library. The shareware version of the icon library contains more than 1,000 icons. The full version of the icon library can also be downloaded, and pricing information is provided on the site. Both the shareware and full versions of the icon library provide an icon viewer, with icons divided into categories.
The icon files you find on the icon websites will vary in format. Some sites, such as Leo's Icon Archive, provide the icons as individual files that are available in both GIF and ICO file formats. You download the file by right-clicking the icon and then using the Save Picture As command on the shortcut menu. In effect, to build an entire collection of icons, you need to download each file separately.
Other sites, such as IconPlus, provide icon sets, so all the icons are wrapped together in a single file with a file extension of .icl. The icon set file is also often contained in a compressed Zip file (see Figure 10.2). This means you have to use the Extraction Wizard to extract the icon library file from the zipped archive.
Figure 10.2. Desktop icon library downloads are often contained in zipped files.
After you have downloaded individual icons or icon sets, you can substitute them for the default desktop icons. You can also save your desktop icon selections as part of a Windows theme (see Chapter 4, "Creating Windows XP Themes from Scratch").
Many icon artists and creators bundle their icons in library files (such as .icl files) so you can't extract or edit the individual icons and then claim them as your own. It's a way of providing icons to users while also maintaining the intellectual property of the icon set's original artist.
Skinning software packages can also provide the ability to select substitutes for the desktop icons and other Windows icons. For example, Style XP provides the ability to select new icons for the desktop (the shell icons) and other Windows default icons such as folder icons (see Figure 10.3).
Figure 10.3. Skinning software such as Style XP also provides options for replacing icons.
Each of the skinning software packages provides the ability to download additional icon sets that work with that particular skinning package. So, if you use one of the skinning packages discussed in Chapter 6, "A Closer Look at Skinning Software," you might find that the software and its associated download site provide you with all the icon sets you could ever need. For example, Style XP provides www.themexp.org.
However, the alternative to using icons that come with themes and skins, in icon sets, and as individual icon files is to create your own icons. The next section begins a discussion of some of the ways you can create your own individual icons and icon sets.


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Here are some fun gift card holders from a gift card swap.  Jan, Crista, Glenda and myself swapped some fun ideas and I wanted to share them. There was lots of CASING going on from other great demonstrators. I love how many demonstrators copy and share ideas.  I hope I have given credit to all ideas.  If I missed something, please contact me so I can give credit where credit is due.  All craft supplies are from Stampin'Up!
Jan Myers made fun treats for each of us, with candy inside. These mini coffee cups were a hit! Jan's idea came from Pink Buckaroo Designs. Love Erica's tutorial.
Crista Bailey made a fun gift card holder (Crumb Cake card with Merry die cut), she got the idea from Dawn Olchefske.
Glenda Timkovich made a beautiful gift card holder using the Embellished Ornaments Bundle (Clear or Wood) from the Holiday Catalog. There is an ornament that pulls out of the top and holds a card or money.
Many of the ideas in this swap used a Big Shot with dies and frailest. Right now the Precision Base Plate is on Sale (through Monday, December 14!!) as part of the Weekly Deals. This product is a must for Big Shot users. ONLY $18.75 THROUGH MONDAY!
I love detailed dies, but sometimes it's hard to make all the fine cuts crisp and sharp. The Precision Base Plate adds a little more oomph to your die sandwich, making working with detailed dies a dream! I used to use wax paper to help keep the details clean and help get the paper out of the die. No more! It works great with the Magnetic Platform too.
Here are close ups of Glenda's gift card holder and mine. I hope to get close ups of the others posted this week. Plus directions for my gift card holder.
There are so many great products in the Stampin'Up! Holiday catalog, but some will be gone when this catalog ends.
Ends January 4, 2016 (or while supplies last)
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Peace Mini Treat bag
The Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Dies are perfect for making lots of fun projects. Right now it's on sale during the Online Extravaganza, for 30% off!
I made this treat bag quickly and easily. With a few products from the Stampin'Up! Holiday catalog I turned this into a pretty holiday treat bag.  I used the Christmas Greetings Thinlits Dies for the greeting, Softly Falling embossing folder for texture and the Snow Flurry Punch for the snowflakes.
Supplies:  Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Dies, Christmas Greetings Thinlits Dies, Whisper White and Night of Navy card stock, Silver Glimmer paper, Snow Flurry Punch, Softly Falling Embossing folder, Big Shot, Tombow multi purpose glue and Tear & Tape Adhesive.
I used the the Big Shot and the Magnetic Platform(on sale during the Online Extravaganza) to run the die.  The Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Dies has 2 dies that make the bag, once you've run the die, use the embossing folder before putting the bag together.
The Magnetic Platform holds Framelits and Thinly dies in place over stamped images when you cut them.  Use this in place of the Multipurpose platform.
The Stampin'Up! Online Extravaganza Sale is going on now through November 30!  Place your online order and save big on your craft products.
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Use this Hostess Code FTX3CBXR, orders over $35 will receive a treat in their thank you card.  For orders of $150 or more, please do not use the Hostess Code.
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Holly Jolly Christmas Greetings card
The Holly Jolly Greetings stamp set is available in Clear-mount bundle or Wood-mount bundle.  Save 15% when you buy the bundle!!
Fun Holiday Cards from Card Class
Here's a couple of fun holiday cards from class this weekend.  Melissa and Angela had fun making the holiday cards and let me take photos to share with you.
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Oka takes its name from a small village in Canada's province of Quebec. It originated in the 1890s after a band of eight Trappist monks were expelled from the Abbaye de Bellefontaine in France and invited to immigrate to Quebec. They established a monastery at Oka and began making cheese based on the recipes they'd brought with them. Oka is made from pasteurized milk and RIPENED for 30 days. Oka Classique is a raw-milk cheese ripened for 60 days. Both have a FAT CONTENT of approximately 50 percent. Oka Léger (light) is a lower-fat version made with pasteurized milk. All three Okas have the characteristic pungent aroma of washed-rind cheeses but flavor that are relatively mellow.
Old Chatham Sheepherding Company see CAMEMBERT
oniony see Glossary of Cheese Descriptors, backmatter
oozpen see Glossary of Cheese Descriptors, backmatter
Oregon Blue Vein see ROGUE RIVER BLUE
Oregonzola see ROGUE RIVER BLUE
organic cheeses Cheeses made from organic milk taken from animals that graze on open pastureland or consume organically grown feed, untainted by fertilizers, pesticides, or other chemicals. Organic herds are free of growth hormones and preventive antibiotics. Apart from the use of organic milk, the cheesemaking process is the same for organic cheeses as it is for others. Organic cheeses will be clearly labeled as such and can be found at natural foods stores and many supermarkets. See also RBGH; RBST.
Ossau-lraty; Ossau-Iraty Brebis Pyrénées (AOC; PDO) [OH-soh ee-rah-TEE; breuh-BEE PIHR-ay-nay]
Origin: France (Béarn and Pays Basque regions in the western Pyrénées)
Type: SEMIHARD; PRESSED UNCOOKED; NATURAL RIND; ARTISAN
Appearance: Rounded 10-pound wheel; rind is thick and brownish orange; interior is pale ivory yellow with tiny scattered EYES
Texture: Supple yet firm; high butterfat makes it somewhat oily
Flavor: Richly aromatic with nutty, slightly herbal nuances
The Ossau-Iraty banner unites two of France's western Pyrénées regions—Ossau, a valley and river in Béarn, and Iraty in the Pays Basque forests. Cheeses made under the Ossau-Iraty APPELLATION D'ORIGINE CONTRÔLÉE (AOC)—formally entitled Ossau-Iraty Brebis Pyrénées—can be produced only from the milk of Manech and Basc-Béarnaiser sheep from local herds. The milk must be transformed into cheese within 48 hours of milking. This cheese must be RIPENED for at least 90 days and has a FAT CONTENT of 45 to 50 percent. Although classically made with unpasteurized milk in a farmstead tradition (often in mountain huts), pasteurized-milk Ossau-Iratys are now being produced by some French creameries. This cheese is also known simply as Iraty, which can be confusing as ARDI-GASNA is also sometimes shortened to that name. See also ABBAYE DE BELLOC.
oveja [oh-BHAY-khah] Spanish for "sheep," seen on some labels of sheep's milk cheeses from Spain.
ovelha [oo-VAY-lyer] Portuguese for "sheep," found on sheep's milk cheeses from Portugal.
overripe see Glossary of Cheese Descriptors, backmatter
pack date see PRODUCT DATING
Pakistani Palmero [pahl-MEH-roh] see QUESO PALMERO
paneer; panir; paner; panneer [pah-NEER]
Origin: India, Iran, Pakistan
Milk: Unpasteurized and pasteurized cow's and water buffalo's
Type: FRESH; SEMISOFT; PRESSED UNCOOKED; FACTORY and FARMSTEAD
Appearance: Various sizes usually in squares or blocks; rindless; exterior and interior are white to off-white
Texture: Tender, moist, soft, and elastic (like tofu)
Flavor: Fresh, mild, milky, and lightly tangy
Paneer, Hindi for "cheese," is the dominant cheese found in Indian, Pakistani, and other cultures of the Indian subcontinent. It's also very popular in Iran, and in fact it's thought that the cheese was first introduced to India by Persian traders. Paneer (also spelled panir and occasionally paner and panneer) is a simple cheese to produce, and the Internet abounds with recipes for doing so. A small amount of citrus juice (such as lemon or lime) is added to whole cow's or water buffalo's milk that's been heated. As the juice is stirred in, the milk begins to curdle, and once the CURD forms it's transferred to a cheesecloth bag so the WHEY can drain. Once firm, the curd is shaped into a ball or square and pressed with a heavy weight for several hours. The result is similar to QUESO BLANCO, although generally not salty. Some recipes call for salt and cumin powder, but commercially available products are not at all salty. Paneer is used in myriad Indian dishes as a means of providing protein in a vegetarian-oriented diet. Cow's milk paneer has a FAT CONTENT of about 53 percent, the version made with milk from water buffalo slightly higher. Chenna, a close relative of paneer, is made in a similar fashion except that it's not pressed. Instead, the final step for Chenna is to knead the curd until it achieves the consistency of a soft, light CREAM CHEESE. Chenna is used primarily for making desserts.
panela [pah-NAY-lah] see QUESO BLANCO
Paniña [pah-NEE-nyah] see GRANQUESO
paraffin; paraffin wax see WAX
Parmesan [PAHR-muh-zahn]
Origin: Italy, Argentina, Australia, and the United States
Type: HARD; PRESSED COOKED; NATURAL RIND; GRANA STYLE; FACTORY
Appearance: 15- to 16-pound wheels; rind is thick, rigid, and smooth, ranging in color from yellow to golden, and is typically covered with WAX; interior ranges from light to medium yellow
Flavor: Full and sharp, sometimes nutty
For the most part, cheeses labeled Parmesan are mediocre imitations of Italy's PARMIGIANO-REGGIANO, one of the world's great cheeses. Parmesan is made in several countries outside Italy, including Argentina, Australia, and the United States (chiefly in Wisconsin, Michigan, and New York). The name Parmigiano is also used in parts of Italy for GRANA CHEESES that don't meet DENOMINAZIONE DI ORIGINE CONTROLLATA (DOC) requirements for Parmigiano-Reggiano. Whereas Parmigiano-Reggiano cheeses are subject to strict regulations regarding, and so on, regulations for Parmesan cheeses in other countries are comparatively lax. The one thing they have in common is that the cheese is made from partially skimmed or fat-free cow's milk


There are two entrances, and this picture is of the back entrance next to the validating parking garage located in the same building. If you decide to take the metro, Ballston-MU metro station on the orange line a block away
This place is huge. We sat in the main dining room, which was semi-sectioned off with furniture but still felt open. There are other smaller rooms around the restaurant too. Decor is simple but upscale.
We started off with their signature item - Grilled Flatbread. We went with The Willow (Wild Mushrooms, Lemon, Thyme, Fontina, Parmesan & White Truffle Essence) for $10.50. This was the appetizer size, but you can order the standard size for $19.50. It was delicious! All of the ingredients blended went together, and you can never go wrong with truffle oil. This was the thinnest flat bread I've ever had, so it's really not a lot of food.
The bf ordered the Petite Filet Medallions (Pepper-Crusted Cast-Iron Seared Steak, Creamy Spinach Tart, Portobello “Fries” and Red Wine-Shallot Sauce) for $30.50. He thought it was good, but wished it packed more a flavor punch with it being encrusted with pepper. It was also a bit overcooked.
I ordered the Crispy Tempura Fried Soft Shell Crab (Corn Pancake, English Peas, Fresh Corn, Snap Peas, Radish & Corn Sauce) for $34.50. I enjoyed the large portion and crispy but not greasy crabs. The corn was sweet and the asparagus was cooked perfectly. I believe the ingredients tasted best together, but individually they were soft of plain.


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After all, it was once Sully who snatched Heather’s medication from Ra’Nell and subsequently shot the intervening Leon.
From there on, it’s fair to mention Ra’Nell and Sully would by no means have noticed eye-to-eye, similar to how Modie acts towards him in episode two.
Modie approaches Sully in prison and pushes in entrance of him in the line for meals.
When Sully doesn’t take too kindly, Modie tells him: “Ay, Sully. Bro, take into accout, this isn’t Summerhouse, please.”
With the pair obviously knowing each and every other from the property and little or no of Modie's history published, may just he despise Sully for what he did to him as Ra’Nell?
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While their ages aren’t disclosed in Top Boy, both Modie and Ra’Nell would likely be in their early 20s.
After all, Gem (Giacomo Mancini) and Ra’Nell have been in the similar yr in class and he’s additionally grown up now.
In truth, actor Mancini is 24-years-old in comparison to Dave who’s just 21.
Seeing as all three of Mancini, Dave and Kamulete are of their early 20s, their respective personality’s timelines seem to fit.
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Each clue is up for debate, however, as not one of the creators or actors have spoken publicly in regards to the imaginable Modie/Ra’Nell connection.
Actor Kamulete in reality seems as puzzled as fans do as to his character’s whereabouts.
With Ra’Nell not even mentioned within the Netflix revamp, the actor took to Twitter in response (see below).
While he’s been incredibly supportive of the brand new sequence, he’s also retweeted quite a few fans who appear confused via Ra’Nell’s absence.
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The Summerhouse superstar further added to hypothesis of a possible go back by way of tweeting two emojis of a man shrugging when requested if he’d be returning.
Elsewhere, a couple of enthusiasts assume they have proved Modie is his personal guy.
Eagle-eyed fans noticed Modie's complete title being learn out at the news after his death – and it wasn't Ra'Nell.
Top Boy enthusiasts will just have to look ahead to season two, if it’s renewed, to peer if Ra’Nell’s destiny is addressed.
They'll also have to wait and spot if fellow novices Jaq (Jasmine Jobson) and Ats (Keiyon Cook) may just go back.
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The Philadelphia Eagles are preparing for their regular season finale. It's a relatively meaningless game for them, but the same can't be said for other NFC teams, who are fighting for their playoff future or potential seeding. The Eagles are likely to face one of two teams in the wildcard round, but who would present the easier matchup?
The Bucs will become the #2 seed providing they beat the Panthers and the Niners beat the Rams. It's a huge momentum shift, but are we really banking on San Francisco beating L.A?
Having a diverse rushing attack is one thing, but having a wide receiver on the verge of breaking the NFL receiving record is something else entirely. Cooper Kupp has 1,829 yards on the season…
Matt Stafford has enjoyed the breakout many expected he would in Los Angeles. He's not being sacked 12 times a game anymore and is finally able to flourish, ranking second in the NFL behind only Tom Brady in yards and touchdowns this season. He's been sacked 25 times all season (1.6 per game, second fewest in the NFL) and ranks second in net yards per pass attempt. He's going to be a problem…