The week after I made it Patched Lives Quilt Guild had Jan Bretzel give a lecture titled "Making Quilts that Look Complicate but are Not". One of the quilts she showed was made with a simple piecing technique she shared – and I had to try it!
and voila – a lovely pinwheel block!
So far I have 3 blocks made and I can't wait to make the rest. Each one is so interesting because of the unexpected nature of the scrappy squares. I'll post a picture of the pinwheel quilt top – when I get it put together.
Thanks Jan, for a great lecture – and for teaching me a fun new technique!
To make the bright schnibblework star in my previous posts, I used a technique I developed a few years ago for cutting accurate diamonds. I'm quite sure I didn't post about it then – so I think it's about time to do so.
Whenever you're making diamonds that will be sewn together, it's important the angles and sides are all consistent. While teaching a lone star class I found the "squaring up" of the diamond step to be the most confusing part for students. My answer to this problem? Freezer paper!
Next, cut one end of the strip off at the angle you need by lining the bottom edge of the strip on the correct degree line on the ruler (diamonds can be 45° or 60° – mine is 45°). Please ignore the lines on the cutting mat and look only at the ruler and the freezer paper. I apologize for the optical illusion created by the paper not laying square on the mat.
Then cut the diamond from the strip at your finished measurement once again.
Now it's time to go to the fabric. Piece your schnibblework chunks until they are at least 1/4″ bigger than the freezer paper diamond all the way around.
Iron the freezer paper diamond to the right side of the schnibblework, making sure there is at least 1/4″ of fabric beyond the paper all the way around. Trim 1/4″ from the edge of the freezer paper with a rotary cutter and ruler.
Then peel the paper away.
This sample was cut at 7″ and will finish at 6 1/2″. The reason I cut the paper the finished size and add the seam allowance when cutting the fabric is accuracy. It is difficult to cut along the edge of freezer paper without shaving some of the paper away, and each little shave changes the diamond for the next cut.
Once I had eight of my schnibblework diamonds cut, it was time to pick a background fabric and sew them all together. None of my "safe" fabrics looked good with all those scraps, so I pulled out my wild fabrics and found the perfect option 😀 .
Remember this requires "Y" seams to set in the background squares and triangles.
I'm not sure what should happen next to this star, but I'm looking forward to some scrappy bordering fun! Stay tuned!
As I was taking the winter quilt off the bed this week (and just in time – the 90° days have arrived), I realized it also contained an early piece of Schnibblework. This quilt was made in a "round robin" at a guild I belonged to back in the 90's – and it ended up King size!
As you probably know, each participant in a round robin puts a block in a bag and then exchanges it within a group, each participant adding a border. This one had 5 exchanges before I got my center block back (and then I turned the large square I received "on-point" to make it fit my King bed). That center block was made from small white, cream and green schnibbles I gleaned from the fish bowl.
This was truly a successful "round robin" quilt and it has been slept under for decades! All the quilts I've shared so far show that scraps can be sorted by value or color – or not sorted at all.
So how did I make the Schnibblework for the star in last week's post?
By sewing together loads of odd shaped leftover scraps without sorting!
It got me to thinking about a book I purchased a few years ago by Victoria Findlay Wolfe called "15 Minutes of Play". In it she sews her scraps together to make what she calls "made fabric", and then uses it in her quilts. Great minds think alike. The twist was – I decided to create what I call schnibblework because I can't stand to waste fabric or leave it lying around in piles. Victoria considers doing this quilting play. What a great attitude!
chaining more and more until I get bored. Then I go to the ironing surface and press.
After pressing I cut the pieces apart (the pile on the left is pre-pressing and the one on the right is post-pressing).
I then pick up 2 of these new pieces and repeat the process.
Continuing until the pieces are "big enough" for the shape I want to cut them into (note that some of the chunks below are not quite big enough to be cut into diamonds with the freezer paper template on the left).
Here's my method "If it's too small, sew something on. If it's too big, cut something off". It's pretty basic, but it works!
In next week's post I'll share my unique technique for cutting diamonds! I think you'll find it a great one to have in your "quilting toolbox"!
This past weekend I taught for a lovely group of quilters in Morris, IL. During our lunch break in the Saturday workshop we got into an interesting discussion about scrap quilts. My definition of a scrap quilt is a quilt made from leftover scraps. Some may argue this point, but buying a lot of different fabrics to make a scrap quilt, when I have so many leftover pieces from previous projects, just seems silly for me.
A few years after I began quilting (we're talking early 90's), the frugal part of me was really struggling with all of the leftover strip pieces, chunks and partial blocks that had begun to take over my sewing room. What do you do with them when a project is completed? The pieces aren't big enough to put back into the stash, but they're too large to just throw away. I chose to put the small schnibbles into a fish bowl, and I threw the larger ones into a covered bin, but these containers were filling up – and driving me crazy! Something had to be done!
I decided to sort the small schnibbles into lights and darks, and simply piece them together rather willy-nilly. When the chunks were large enough I cut them into 4″ squares and ended up making a small quilt I called Confetti (26″ x 30″).
As you can see, I had a great time embellishing it with machine stitching, buttons, beads and ribbon. I decided it was fun, but it didn't make much of a dent in my schnibble pile. So I pulled out the bigger pieces, sorted by value once again, and sewed them into larger squares in my scrappy fashion.
This time I sorted the schnibbles into lights, darks and mediums – sewing them into 6″ squares. Four light squares were then sewn together to make a 12″ light block and the same was done with the darks. I had enough red strips in my scraps to border a checkerboard set of the light and dark blocks, and the outer border was made up of all the 6″ medium squares. This did make a dent in my schnibble pile – as well as a lovely lap quilt 🙂 .
I did more of this type of piecing here and there over the years, but never seemed to be able to keep up with my leftovers. A few years ago my friend Lori, who makes amazing scrap quilts, accepted a large plastic bag full of my scraps. Whew! But since then I've filled up my fishbowl once again – and it's flowed into another glass jar – YIKES!
It was time to do something again. Three weeks ago I started sewing anything to everything (no value sorting this time) and, after about an hour of "chunk making", I laid the chunks on the floor and attempted to take a picture. Trey plays nicely with toys in the sewing room while I'm quilting, just like Sommer did before she headed off to kindergarten. But when I laid them out he couldn't resist the temptation to jump into the picture.
and then he gave them the snuggle test. I think he approves.
Can you say bright? It really makes me smile and I'm thinking it needs to grow into something bigger and even more fun. Stay tuned.
For step-by-steps on how I piece the schnibbles, please join me for next week's post. The following week I'll cover "diamond cutting". There's a good possibility this could grow into a multi, multi-week series of posts – I have a lot of scraps!


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PL-600 – Question 33
Introductory InfoCase study –
This is a case study. Case studies are not timed separately. You can use as much exam time as you would like to complete each case. However, there may be additional case studies and sections on this exam. You must manage your time to ensure that you are able to complete all questions included on this exam in the time provided.
To answer the questions included in a case study, you will need to reference information that is provided in the case study. Case studies might contain exhibits and other resources that provide more information about the scenario that is described in the case study. Each question is independent of the other questions in this case study.
At the end of this case study, a review screen will appear. This screen allows you to review your answers and to make changes before you move to the next section of the exam. After you begin a new section, you cannot return to this section.
To start the case study –
To display the first question in this case study, click the Next button. Use the buttons in the left pane to explore the content of the case study before you answer the questions. Clicking these buttons displays information such as business requirements, existing environment, and problem statements. If the case study has an All Information tab, note that the information displayed is identical to the information displayed on the subsequent tabs. When you are ready to answer a question, click the Question button to return to the question.
First Up Consulting recruits information technology (IT) workers for temporary or permanent positions at client companies. The company operates offices in multiple countries/regions.
First Up has both full-time and part-time employees. The company has a team or worker support agents that respond to inquiries from current and prospective workers. Some of the worker support agents are multilingual.
The company does not have a standardized tool used for reporting purposes. The organization engages you to implement a new Power Platform solution.
Workers are managed by a dedicated team that includes one primary recruiter and a contract assistant. Many client companies live in areas that do not allow for mobile data connections.
Current environment –
Existing systems and processes –
First Up uses an on-premises system to manage current and historical patient data including medications and medical visits.
The company plans to reference historical data in the existing system. The records held in these systems will not be migrated to the new solution except for medication information.
Employee authentication with the existing system is provided by an on-premises Active Directory instance that is linked to Azure Active Directory.
An appointment record is created for each visit with a worker. The record includes worker contact information, preferred language, the date and time of the appointment, and other relevant data. This information is reviewed by the workerג€™s primary recruiter.
First Up has no current capabilities for forecasting future worker needs based on the data held.
Client company visits –
Before First Up signs a contract to place workers at a client company, a member of the audit team visits the company and interviews company management. Audit members use different types of devices including Android and iOS devices. First Up has no plans to require the use of a single type of device. Audit team members currently record information about workers on paper forms. Team members enter information from paper forms into the system when they return to the office.
First Up audits client companies at least once each year but may schedule additional visits based on feedback from workers that they place at a client company.
Requirements –
There is no standardized communication tool across the company, and this causes communication issues between different teams.
First up employees must be able to contact each other by using a secure system to ask and answer questions about medical cases.
Workers must be able to communicate in near real-time with worker support agents.
Audit team records must be locked after they have been reviewed by a First Up manager. No further edits to the record can be carried out. This must be implemented using standard available system functionality.
Audit teams must be able to enter records of their visits to the companies where they have or may place workers. Audit teams must be able to update any necessary records with the latest information.
The solution must support tracking of security clearance information for a worker including the date, status, and certifying agency.
When a worker makes an appointment, the appointments must appear in the timeline for the worker's contact record.
Job history information –
The solution must provide a worker appointment booking system that can access worker historical job placement data.
The solution must allow employees to associate a primary recruiter with each worker. The solution must also allow multiple secondary recruiters to be associated with each worker.
Every worker assessment performed must be validated and countersigned by the primary recruiter for a worker.
Job posting data from previous work engagements must be accessible by the Power Platform solution to ensure that new job postings are accurate.
First Up staff members must be able to view and update worker records. They must be able to see current and historical job placement data on the same form in the new solution.
Worker access –
The solution must support workers that speak different languages. The solution must provide automatic translation capabilities.
The solution must support near real-time communications between workers and recruiters.
Workers must be able to view their records online. Workers must be able to enter any additional information that is required by or may be helpful to recruiters.
The solution must provide workers a way to search for general information about available positions.
Workers must be able to request copies of their records by using a chatbot. Workers must be able to provide information to a recruiter as needed.
Data platform –
Audit teams must have the ability to view worker information on their mobile devices.
Audit teams must be able to record data during visits to locations where workers are placed.
The solution must support the ability for a corporate governance auditing team to periodically audit the organizationג€™s records, policies, and procedures.
Reporting and analytics –
The reporting and analytics team must be able to create reports that include data from all facilities and all workers.
Management reports must present an overview of the entire organization. Other reports may be limited to specific offices.
You must create dashboards that show the status across all groups of workers. The dashboards must be embedded into the Power Platform apps. Updates to data must be displayed in near real-time.
Authentication for all user types must be managed by a single platform. IT teams must use PowerShell to apply security permissions for users.
Worker records must only be viewed by the recruiting office that the worker visits.
Worker still records must be archived after ten years and are then removed from the main system. Worker information must not be deleted from the system while skill and job placement history records for the worker exist in the system.
User security roles must be customized to ensure that users are able to interact only with the specific data in which they need access.
Workers must be able to sign into a portal by using their own email address. Workers must be required to use a secure method of authentication to be able to view their data.
Alerts regarding the number of recruited and placed at client companies must be updated as background processes.
Issues –
The organization reports the following issues:
Recruiters report that they cannot see historical job placement data for workers.
API usage reports show that the number of API calls made exceeds limits. This causes delays in saving data.
Users cannot view Power BI reports within the Power Platform apps.
Some security clearance information for workers not visible from within the Power Platform solution.
Audit teams report that they cannot view or edit worker data when the device on which they access the solution does not have network connectivity.
The testing ream reports that one of the canvas apps is not working as expected. An error message displays as specific pages load.
DRAG-DROP –
You need to recommend the appropriate messaging channel solutions for the organization.
What should you recommend? To answer, drag the appropriate messaging options to the correct user types. Each messaging option may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.
Select and Place:
Box 1: Omnichannel for Customer Service dashboard
Scenario: Workers must be able to communicate in near real-time with worker support agents.
The company has a team or worker support agents that respond to inquiries from current and prospective workers. Some of the worker support agents are multilingual.
If you choose to expand your customer service offering to provide chat and channels, the Customer Service workspace seamlessly adjusts to support managing conversations as well.
Note: As an agent with the Customer Service Representative security role, when you open Customer Service workspace, you start on the Customer Service Agent
Dashboard unless your administrator has changed the default view. This dashboard shows you your active cases, cases you can work in queues you are assigned to, and your open activities. You can open existing cases and activities or begin working new cases from the queues you are assigned to and create activities.
Box 2: Dynamics 365 Customer Service
Scenario: First Up uses an on-premises system to manage current and historical patient data including medications and medical visits.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-service/csw-overview
You need to recommend a reporting solution for the organization.
Which two options should you recommend? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
A. AI Builder
B. SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
C. Dynamics 365
D. Power BI
Correct Answer: BC
✑ The reporting and analytics team must be able to create reports that include data from all facilities and all workers.
B: Power Apps apps can include reports that provide useful business information to the user. These reports are based on SQL Server Reporting Services and provide the same set of features that are available for typical SQL Server Reporting Services reports.
C: Microsoft Dynamics 365 online and Model-Driven PowerApps offers several advanced reporting options. Advanced reports are often necessary when business requirements demand complex calculations, returning multiple data sets, grouping large sets of data based on rules, and retrieving data from different data sources.
Incorrect Answers:
D: Scenario: Users cannot view Power BI reports within the Power Platform apps.
Note: Power BI enables data insights and better decision-making, while Power Apps enables everyone to build and use apps that connect to business data. Using the Power Apps visual, you can pass context-aware data to a canvas app, which updates in real-time as you make changes to your report.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/model-driven-apps/add-reporting-to-app
https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Power-Apps/Creating-SSRS-Report-for-Model-Driven-PowerApps/td-p/621866
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/powerapps-custom-visual
You need to recommend a solution for handling data entry requirements for the mobile audit teams.
What are two possible ways to achieve the goal? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
A. Canvas app within Power Apps Player
B. Canvas app within a browser
C. Dynamics 365 Field Service
D. Dynamics 365 App for Outlook
Correct Answer: AC
When you create an app, or someone shares an app with you, you can run that app on the Power Apps mobile app or in a web browser.
Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/user/run-app-browser
You need to recommend solutions to meet the organization's communication needs.
What should you recommend? To answer, drag the appropriate technologies to the correct groups of users. Each technology may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.
Box 1: Microsoft Teams –
Microsoft Teams key capabilities:
✑ Connected
✑ Secure
✑ Managed
✑ Collaborative and productive
Box 2: Microsoft 365 Business Voice
Microsoft 365 Business Voice makes it easy for small and medium organizations to turn Microsoft Teams into a powerful and flexible telephone system. It's a replacement for traditional telephony providers and in-house phone systems that can be difficult and costly to manage.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/solutions/empower-people-to-work-remotely
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/business-voice/whats-business-voice
Perform solution envisioning and requirement analyses
HOTSPOT –
You need to ensure that the solution meets the data security and compliance requirements.
What should you recommend? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
Box 1: Assign: Cascade None –
Scenario: Worker still records must be archived after ten years and are then removed from the main system.
Assign: The referenced table record owner is changed.
Cascade None: Do nothing.
Cascade All: Perform the action on all referencing table records associated with the referenced table record.
Box 2: Delete: Restrict –
Scenario: Worker information must not be deleted from the system while skill and job placement history records for the worker exist in the system.
Referential, Restrict Delete: In a referential, restrict delete relationship between two tables, you can navigate to any related rows. Actions taken on the parent row will not be applied to the child row, but the parent row cannot be deleted while the child row exists. This is useful if you do not want child rows to become orphaned. This forces the user to delete all of the children before deleting the parent.
Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/data-platform/data-platform-entity-lookup
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Hi. My name is Limca and I was a nurse in the cardiac ICU and have been working in pharmaceuticals for the past 11 years, mainly focusing on targeted therapies for oncology. I am married with 2 children. My hobbies are dance, art and cooking.
My husband and I have been married for 12 years and we have two children, Shyla and Jaylen.


When a patient visits their physician regarding pain, the typical course of action is assessment, testing and medication. As PTs, we know that therapy can often reduce patients' costs AND help them feel better faster. It is our mission to help educate and influence physicians to consider PT as an option when prescribing care for their patients. Getting more physical therapy referrals from physicians is critical to helping people be pain-free and to growing your practice.
Educate physicians with materials and articles covering conditions they see regularly.
Collaborate on the patients care and share the success or testimonial.
Provide data or evidence such as completion % and successful discharge numbers.
Thank them publicly online and privately through direct mail.
Make time for in-person visits.
The best approach to increase referrals is a two-pronged approach. First, start building relationships with physicians and explaining to them how PT works and how it can help their patients recover faster. Second, make it easy for them to refer patients to your clinic and develop a marketing program that enhances that referral relationship. Let's explore some quick and easy ways to accomplish both of these tasks through marketing and public relations.
Most physicians have a baseline knowledge of PT and typically associate it with post-injury or post-surgical rehab. It may not be their first thought when assessing chronic back pain or knee pain. You need to make PT relevant for a variety of conditions and as a first choice, not a backup option. To achieve this, you need to have proven results and specific insights. Share medical articles hyping the benefits of physical therapy on LinkedIn. Additionally, you can include physicians on your newsletter mailing lists to easily share informative articles on common conditions and how PT can help. Pro tip: if you feature a patient referred to you by a specific practice, bring extra copies of that month's newsletter at your next office visit and ask to leave them in the waiting room.
Think about that great feeling when you get a fantastic patient review or hear someone say that they feel better after your care. Sharing that sentiment and enthusiasm with the referring physician is key to getting more physical therapy referrals. When a patient gives a positive testimonial about your care, send the physician an email with the testimonial and a brief note thanking them for the referral. Offer to let them use the testimonial in their marketing (with the patient's permission). If you post the testimonial to social media or your website, tag the practice. This makes them feel part of the solution in helping the patient be pain-free.
Marketing works to build public relations and relationships and brings a human element to a professional relationship. Physicians, especially those in large practice networks, often can also be marketed to with data and statistics. You are already keeping stats as part of your business operations. Turn those efforts into quick, easy marketing tools. First, look for stats that show the effectiveness of PT- patient compliance, successful discharges etc. Then, add industry insights from reputable sources like the APTA on how physical therapy can reduce recovery times, medical costs, prescription use etc. Combine these stats into a brochure that you can easily share with physicians. Build a story around the care, value, and successes of physical therapy. And, how it can be an alternative course of patient treatment.
Most practices already invest in building loyal patients who feel like members of the clinic. Using birthday cards, seasonal postcards or thank you emails, you connect beyond just physical therapy sessions. This keeps your practice top of mind for care and builds an affinity with the patient. What if you did the same thing with your referring physicians?
To get more physical therapy referrals, you need be at the top of mind for physicians and they need to feel connected to your practice. While a birthday card might not be appropriate, you should definitely send seasonal postcards, thank you notes and other personal correspondence to your top referrers. Think about it this way—you send a thank you note to a physician regarding a recent referral and how well the patient did in PT. Later in the day, the physician sees a different patient and considers physical therapy as a course of care. Who do you think they will be likely to recommend?
You will already be top of mind since they got your note earlier in the day. The one key thing to remember with correspondence is it must be genuine. Don't send a generic monthly thank you and expect it to have the same effect as a handwritten note. You want each interaction to be distinct, differentiated from other marketing, and personal to feel relevant.
The last thing you want on your busy schedule is a cross-town meeting with a doctor who will probably be running late or might have to reschedule at the last minute. But, the time is worth it in terms of the money generated for your practice. Even 15 minutes of coffee talk could mean 3-5 new referrals. What if you had 15 minutes with your top 8 referrers each month? That could be 40 new patients for your practice. To get more physical therapy referrals, you need to be the face of your clinic to physicians. When they have a patient in pain, who is a good fit for PT, you want them to think of you right away.
Even if you cannot make time in your schedule, send your office manager, patient care coordinator, or another senior leader to be your practice's liaison. Make sure they are personable, outgoing and communicative. Additionally, brief them on the physician, recent patients, and key conversation topics as needed. Always have a backup plan ready in case the appointment is delayed or canceled. Also, be prepared to speak with the front desk or office manager and to give them the same attention and priority as you would the physician. In many cases, winning over the staff is equally important in terms of getting new patients.
Staying top of mind for a busy doctor is no easy task. It takes a routine, consistent, almost expected marketing plan with a personal flair. Missing a month simply is not an option and could open the door for a competitor to move in.
For more tips on getting more physical therapy referrals from physicians, check out these blog posts. Follow us on Facebook to get the latest news in PT marketing and how to help grow your practice.


Bread is always a good thing to go along with most meals, but decent recipes are hard to find. That's why wonderful bread recipes and suggestions are provided here to make cooking easier.
Some of the best childhood memories you can have are walking into your grandmother's house and the mouth-watering aroma of fresh, homemade bread cooking in the oven filling your nostrils. Just thinking about it can make you hungry. Bread baking has to be one of the best smells in the entire world. There is nothing quite like it. And moving along to other senses, there is also nothing quite as delectable as biting into a hot, fluffy piece of homemade bread, smothered in homemade strawberry jam. Every time this action takes place, you feel as though you have died and gone to heaven it is that delicious.
Now think for a minute of the last time you had that experience. For many, it's probably been a while as life happens and things come about that occupy all of your time on a daily basis. Who has time to spend hours in the kitchen making bread anymore, even if the results are phenomenal? Probably not very many people, that is until you have read through some of these bread recipes and have discovered that quick and easy recipes do exist, allowing for you to accomplish what you need to in your busy day, and still have time to whip up a nice loaf of homemade bread for the family.
When it really boils down to side dishes and or things to accompany a tasty meal, bread is probably 99% of the time in your favor. Just think of all the possibilities. With soup you can have a crusty French bread, with spaghetti there's garlic bread, with pizza there's breadsticks, and with a fancy roast there's rolls. That's just some of the options too. There are many more various types of bread recipes to provide the perfect, final touch to a delightful, homemade meal.
The crazy thing about bread is it's not just a savory complement to go with a proper meal; there are also sweet breads that can be used as enjoyable desserts. These sweet breads are almost cake like, with a dense and moist texture to finish off a grand meal and leave a lasting and satisfying mark. They are perfect if you are looking for something unique, yet simple and delicious to follow a meal. You just can't go wrong with bread recipes.
The best thing about good recipes is the swapping and sharing among friends and family of all your favorites. It's great when you taste something at a party or get together that you absolutely love, and you can collect the recipe to make it for yourself whenever you want at home. Well, with our wonderful technology and advances that we have today, recipe sharing and swapping has gotten easier and the range much broader. You can now collect and share recipes with people you don't even know through various online resources. This is like Disneyland to all the chefs, bakers, and even moms out there. Take advantage of the many privileges offered to you and accumulate some wonderful and favorite bread recipes all for free.


Sometimes you can see an image in your mind before you make it. This image is an example of that pre-visualization for me, however this time it didn't work. For several years I have thought about an image that has a human skull, a book and a burnt down candle. The skull I imagined would be the primary subject of the photo and the composition would be such that you could read the spine of the book and it would appear somewhat tattered. I had not found what I would consider the perfect book for the photograph so I went with an old Edward Weston (look him up you know his work.) book I had and the skull the kids bought me as a prop for Halloween. While this is a perfectly fine image, it doesn't capture what I had in my mind eye and I think that is because I decided to just go with what I had and push the composition rather than keep looking at thrift stores and garage sales for that perfect book and candle (yes this image doesn't contain a candle at all I realize that.).
From a technical standpoint, I tinkered with the flash for a while before settling on a non-gridded snoot to throw just enough light on the spine of the book and the front o the skull. The light on the right was a gobo-ed strip light. I think overall its getting there, and while this composition and effect might capture a reasonable image, it is just not the one I am looking for. I think this will be revisited a couple more times at least for me until I get it where I want it to be. I am pretty happy with the overall lighting I have, but the subjects need some work for me. The time spent on this helped me to refine what I am looking for in my shot and maybe gives me a couple ideas on what kind of book and candle I am looking for when I come across them.


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Wilhelm Theodor von Bergk, född 22 maj 1812 i Leipzig, död i kurorten Ragaz i Schweiz 20 juli 1881, var en tysk filolog, son till Johann Adam Bergk.

Bergk blev professor 1842 på Marburg, 1852 på Freiburg och 1857 på Halle. År 1869 lämnade han professuren av hälsoskäl men fortsatte sin vetenskapliga verksamhet, nu på ett friare sätt.

Bergks viktigaste verk är Poetae lyrici graeci (1843; 5:e upplagan, utgiven av Schröder 1900) och Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur (I, 1872; II-IV utgavs 1883-87 av Hinrichs och Peppmüller).

Dessutom gjorde han kritiska redigeringar av Anakreon (1834), Aristofanes (3:e upplagan 1872) och Sofokles tragedier (1858) samt ett antal mindre uppsatser i klassisk filologi.

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Tyska klassiska filologer
Tyska professorer
Personer verksamma vid Marburgs universitet
Personer verksamma vid Freiburgs universitet
Personer verksamma vid universitetet i Halle
Personer i Tyskland under 1800-talet
Födda 1812
Avlidna 1881
Män
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Personer från Leipzig

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Are the locusts emanating from the smoke of the Bottomless Pit a sign of the End Times? Who can really know for sure? But, all this wild speculation serves to accomplish right now is to just create more bureaucratic red tape keeping our miners from getting back to work earning their livelihoods in the Bottomless Pit.
Sure, there are fiery mountains crumbling into boiling oceans at this very moment. But is there any direct link between this and the deterioration of our water supply? It's simply too early to say. We understand the importance of the issue but need time to commission new studies uncorrupted by the special interests of science. It could be decades until we know for sure. Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
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Many present the blockchain technology as a ledger or some database. Despite being true, this is restrictive and does not do it justice. The blockchain is much more than that.
Describing blockchain as a form of digital trust is more meaningful, and it gives a better idea of its true potential. It is because trust between partners is at the heart of making business. More trust makes making business easier, streamlines many processes, and creates transparency. Furthermore, and more importantly, it means that blockchain can serve as the backbone of new types of cooperation between machines (M2M) and between humans (H2H) that were, until now, limited by the cost of building trust or the lack thereof.
Even if applications of blockchain technology are still mostly at an experimental stage, some companies are looking at the various possibilities that it represents. So should Procurement!
The process also records that the transaction happened. So, the next time that someone sells the house, the information of who owns it is up to date and undisputed.
Whenever there is a transaction, there is a transfer of ownership. So, trust is an important factor to make a deal happen. It is precisely the challenge that the blockchain addresses. It is a form of digital trust that speeds up transactions and removes intermediaries. It is why it can have massive implications in the business world as supply/value chains are interconnected and complex.
To understand why blockchain represents such a tremendous potential for supply chain management and for Procurement, it is important to understand some of its current characteristics and future developments.
Blockchain is often described as a distributed ledger or, in other words, as a database logging transactions (an exchange of value). Although it is technically correct, this does not serve the purpose of building the case for blockchain or of making its potential tangible.
It is in part because databases logging transactions existed before blockchain and are better than the first generation of blockchain with respects to performance.
Because of the above, the history in the blockchain is immutable and impartial. Data is shared among parties (publicly or privately) and cannot be changed by anyone.
So, with blockchain, you can trust the data.
And, because you can trust the data, you can safely build on top of it without the risks inherent to less secure databases. That opens doors to many applications to further streamline business and operations.
Also, and as I mentioned earlier, blockchain is an evolving technology. Recent developments push the automation aspects further. The newest blockchain technology is also programmable. Smart contracts represent another very valuable application because you can build rules into the blockchain; rules that will execute under certain conditions based on the data in the blockchain.
So, with smart contracts running in the blockchain, you can trust the data and the process that runs on top of it.
Because the blockchain is, by design, a secure log of transactions and of exchanges of value (the blockchain technology finds its origin in Bitcoin, a digital currency), its application naturally extends to streamlining payments by removing intermediaries and by being fully digital.
Beyond serving the purpose of transacting more securely and efficiently, blockchain technology can also increase transparency in the supply chain.
At each step of the value chain, from the extraction of raw materials to the customer, the blockchain technology can be used to store and record all the transactions and exchanges of ownership. It is no wonder then that this application is one of the most comment mentioned use cases by organizations investigating blockchain.
On top of that, it also addresses another important concern of many companies: counterfeit.
It is because it addresses the issues of trust and identity that are currently hindering and limiting these collaborations.
That creates a distributed system (data + process) that you can trust (completeness, accuracy, authenticity, resilience). So, you can automate further without being exposed to usual risks due to lack of data, poor/corrupted data, unreliable execution, interferences by 3rd party/intermediaries ... It opens the door to new "apps" that will run exactly as programmed.
So, blockchain is the ideal infrastructure for machine-based activities that the Internet of Things (IoT) has been lacking.
An immediate area of application of interest for Procurement is Supply Chain Management.
As the example above illustrates, the movements of a container can be tracked (IoT) at all times. And, whenever it reaches certain points, the blockchain will record the activity and smart contracts will execute automated actions.
The same kind of concept can be extended to buying and selling to create automated markets. For example, TransActive Grid is an energy market enabled by the blockchain technology that does that.
Blockchain can also enhance Human-to-Human cooperation because such collaboration also relies on trust. It is particularly the case when partners do not know each other which often happens with new business models (platform/gig economy).
Reputation is nothing else than the result of past transactions. And, as detailed earlier, the blockchain logs all transactions securely and transparently. So, the blockchain makes it easy to measure and know someone's reputation.
"Reputation measures how much the community trusts you, and is calculated on your previous transactions and interactions with the community. The greater your reputation, the more trustworthy you are seen to be on the network and, with a user's reputation on the line, users choose to behave more honestly on the network." Rep on the block: A next generation reputation system based on the blockchain, School of Computing University of Portsmouth, U.K.
So, whenever business partners have to cooperate and do not know each other, the blockchain can help to understand who you will be working with. It is, therefore, a facilitator for doing business with new partners because it is lowering the cost and risks to do so which are reasons that are traditionally behind the rationale to aggregate spend towards a limited number of suppliers and/or to favour (consciously or unconsciously) incumbents. The use of blockchain can allow Procurement organizations to revisit their category strategy!
Despite all of the above, the blockchain technology has its downside. First of all, it is still experimental. Most implementations are pilots and most organizations are test driving it. It is because there are still some unanswered questions.
As mentioned earlier, one of them is scalability. The way records are processed and that make the blockchain a secured repository has a price: speed. It can be too slow for real-time applications and even for a good usability. On top of that, scalability relates to the scope. If, as mentioned earlier, an organization uses the blockchain to track and monitor all movements in its supply chain from the extraction of raw materials to the end-user of its product, this can create a gigantic mass of data. An amount of data so large that it would hinder the process it is supposed to improve and that would quickly become unusable (big data can easily turn into fat data).
Another aspect that may explain why organizations have not yet embraced blockchain is the risk of being locked in.
Except in the case of organizations running their own blockchain network (which would go against impartiality, one of the advantages mentioned earlier), a 3rd party operated blockchain could become "a prison for [...] data that will come with hefty prison maintenance fees." So, until these questions of data ownership, portability, and interoperability are addressed, companies will limit their investments and implementations.
Another aspect has to do with the fact that blockchain is said to be unhackable. The blockchain technology heavily relies on cryptography and peer-to-peer networks that make it very robust and resilient. But history has proven that almost nothing is unhackable (like the SWIFT system, to take an example in an area close to blockchain). The blockchain may be very, very, very, very difficult to hack. However, someone with the right motivation (fame, money...), tools, and probably a lot of time, could, one day, hack it. And the more the blockchain becomes popular, the larger the reward to do so!
Also, even if we assume the blockchain to be totally unhackable, systems around it are not. Systems and programs connected to the blockchain may be vulnerable to attacks and/or bugs. Smart programs are an example, the DAO attack is a reminder of that kind of risk.
Blockchain represents a step forward that Procurement organizations should not ignore because it opens the door to further improvements from streamlining paper-based processes to enhancing co-operation.
However, organizations should make an informed decision about testing blockchain. Doing it because others are doing it or because of the hype are not good reasons and could lead to regrets in the future.
Bertrand Maltaverne has extensive experience in the area of procurement, and more precisely in the impact of technology on procurement processes and organizations. He works at Ivalua as a Solutions Consultant, helping organizations achieve success in their digital transformation of their procurement practice. Before that, he worked 4 years for another Procurement technology provider as Senior Business Consultant after spending 13 years in the procurement organization of Schneider Electric, a Fortune 500, where he held various positions, focused on procurement technologies and processes in both direct and indirect procurement. In parallel to his professional career, he is active on various social media, and he also blogs.


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St. Mary's is a lovely village church set almost at the heart of a small village in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Our services are traditional Book of Common Prayer and are led by a team of clergy and lay people each month. St. Mary's have a regular service each Sunday of the month at 11am to which everyone is welcomed.


For more than 75 years, Professional Builder magazine has remained dedicated to serving the needs of the nation's home building community -- builders, designers and trade partners -- with award-winning content and proven, practical solutions.
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The sales center for The Residences of the Hotel McGibbon, in Georgetown, Ontario, by SilverCreek Communities, was a finalist at the 2017 National Sales & Marketing Awards. It was designed by Mason Studio.
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Builder of the Year LGI Homes does a high-velocity business converting renters to buyers. Left to right: Jack Lipar, EVP acquisitions; Charles Merdian, CFO; Eric Lipar, CEO; Mike Snider, president and COO; and Rachel Eaton, CMO.
Project 15-461 by BONE Structure is located in southern Quebec's Laurentian Mountains. The Quebec-based firm designs and builds high-performance, steel-frame homes with prefab components in the U.S. and Canada.
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The 32 homes at The Oaks Farms in San Juan Capistrano, Calif., by Davidson Communities, are part of a cohesive enclave clustered around an equestrian center.
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Steven Mungo, CEO of Mungo Homes -- ranked No. 53 on this year's Housing Giants list -- delivers homes within reach. The builder serves buyers in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
Current kitchen design features that are attracting buyers include clean lines, a hard-working island, abundant natural light, and a strong connection to the outdoors. Kitchen design by Rehkamp Larson Architects, Minneapolis.
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A chicken-and-goat farmer, a former children's clothing model, a major in the National Guard, and a one-time Chicago Cubs draft pick are among home building's young leaders named 40 Under 40 winners for 2014.
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In addition to its Passive House attributes, this home in East Falmouth, Mass., features natural cedar exterior clapboards and trim and low-maintenance, non-invasive native landscaping. Builder: The Valle Group, Inc., East Falmouth, Mass.
Haven, a new Brookfield Homes community in Chula Vista, Calif., features two-story detached homes and includes yard space not offered previously.
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This rustic bathing space, designed by Marcio Decker, AKBD, Home Concepts, Reno, Nev., incorporates squares that repeat and complement each other in the travertine floor, the shower's glass mosaics, and the high fixed windows.
An Olympic-caliber rower, former professional boxer, award-winning chili cook, and cat trainer are among home building's up-and-coming leaders to be named 40 Under 40 winners for 2013 by the editors of Professional Builder.
Toll Brothers is one of dozens of production builders to incorporate multi-slide and multi-fold doors in their plans. Shown is a new model at the builder's Pinnacle at Moorpark Highlands neighborhood in Moorpark, Calif.
Azel Cottage in Naples, Fla., is one of nine projects to be honored with a Platinum Award in the second annual Professional Builder Design Awards. The judges keyed in on the home's exterior detailing and extremely functional floor plan.
Toll Brothers' big three -- Bruce Toll, vice chairman; Bob Toll, executive chairman; and Doug Yearley, CEO -- have positioned the luxury home builder for sustained growth coming out of the housing market downturn.
The 3,840-square-foot, five-bedroom Jasmine model in Houston is one of dozens of net-zero-ready plans offered by builder Meritage Homes throughout its markets in seven states.
The 2013 NHQ Awards class includes Gold winner Charter Homes & Neighborhoods, just the fourth builder to win NHQ's highest honor since 2006 and one of only a few firms to have won all three NHQ distinctions: Gold, Silver, and Bronze.
The Grand Ashford model at Grand Homes' Newton Ranch community in Keller, Texas, is one of the builder's best-sellers. Grand Homes is among 30 home builders to make Professional Builder's Big Gainers list (see page 16).
Located in the West Los Angeles neighborhood of Mar Vista, Four was designed for young working couples, with features like ground-floor flex space and large second-floor decks.
Home-building industry consultant John Martin believes design innovation has the power to spark new-home sales in recovering housing markets, and he has the proof to back it up (see page 16).
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A strong indoor-outdoor connection, open layout, and abundant daylight highlight this kitchen at Irvine Pacific Homes' Santa Maria at Stonegate community in Irvine, Calif. Bassenian Lagoni Architects designed the plan, which is priced from the mid-$400,000s.
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Lee Evans, William Levitt, Jack Bloodgood -- they are among the many industry pioneers of the last 75 years. In honor of our 75th anniversary, we profile milestones, innovations, and pioneering figures that have shaped home building.
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Understood, an award-winning nonprofit resource for parents, is hosting a free forum in Columbia on February 2 to educate, engage and mobilize parents, teachers and professionals for the 1 in 5 children in South Carolina who have learning and attention issues.
The free event, which includes dinner, will include a panel discussion with national and state experts to help parents understand and meet the needs of kids who have learning and attention issues such as dyslexia and ADHD. The event will include updates on major changes in federal education law as well as practical tips to help parents advocate for their child.
Parking: The State Museum has ample free parking on site.


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Updates Archives | Page 3 of 5 | Carolina Land Coalition | Protect Our Land – Challenge Duke Energys Plan!
One of the goals of the group, said Mark Stierwalt of MountainTrue, is to maintain a unified community voice once the preferred route is chosen, since many of the community groups formed among specific neighborhoods in opposition to specific segments.
We're gaining momentum, and with it, we can continue putting pressure on Duke Power to find an alternative to their "modernization" plans.
Not in my backyard, not in your backyard, not in OUR backyard!
Take a look at the two images below. Click on the images themselves to see them in all their glorious detail.
and the other shows just what it could look like with Duke Power's help.
This is what we're fighting for, folks – to stop this horrifying image from becoming a reality in our mountains.
You can Rep. McHenry's statement in its entirety on his website here.
"When I first learned of Duke Energy's proposed route through Polk County I had significant concerns about what negative impacts these transmission lines could have on the County and its economy. Polk County has seen tremendous investment and growth in recent years, with much of this growth predicated on the area's aesthetics and natural beauty. The booming equestrian industry is leading to increased tourism and residential development, but Duke's proposed transmission lines could threaten both.
We must continue bringing this issue to the attention of our political representatives, both local and national. The more people on our side, the better.
Henderson County TDA hired a consultant to conduct a tourism research study several years ago and it revealed that visitors' No. 1 reason for coming to Hendersonville is to enjoy the unspoiled scenic mountain views and outdoor recreational activities in the area's mountains, forests, creeks and rivers. Camps are also make a huge positive impact on the economy.
• Over 2100 jobs are attributed to the tourism industry in our county.
• $20.9 million in state and local tax receipts are due to tourism in our county.
• Tourism taxes create $191.16 in property tax savings on average for each county resident.
• Our Visitor Center Guest Book contains signatures by visitors to our beautiful county from at least 45 states and 22 countries since January 2015.
• Henderson County is 70th in size of all 100 counties in North Carolina, but we are 15th in the amount of money expended by tourists while in our county.
Please read all of Mr. Nicholson's letter at the Blue Ridge Now website – it shows just how devastating Duke's lines will be, both by destroying the natural beauty and wonder of our county, as well as crippling our local economy.
Saluda's residents are deeply troubled by Duke Power's plans, and they are not afraid to show it.
At a meeting today at the Saluda Fire Department, approximately 700 people – a crowd the size of about half of the population of the whole town – attended presentations to education local residents about Duke's Western Carolinas Modernization Project.
Support keeps growing and growing, so stand strong will all of those in our community, and we truly can make a difference and win this fight!
Tonight, the Fletcher Town Council joined the chorus of voices in western North Carolina and South Carolina opposing Duke Power's plan for new transmission lines in our communities. With a backdrop of "raucous applause," the Fletcher Town Council officially adopted a resolution to oppose the construction of Duke's proposed new transmission lines in their area.
With this resolution, Fletcher has joined the Polk County Commissioners and groups representing the towns of Saluda, Laurel Park, and Mills River in officially adopting positions that oppose these proposed power lines.
Read the rest of the article on the website of the Hendersonville Lightning here.
In a new editorial written by David Weintraub of the Center for Cultural Preservation for Blue Ridge Now, Weintraub asks if Duke Power why Duke Power has yet to provide the public with evidence backing up their rationale for pushing the Western Carolinas Modernization Project.
Duke claims that steady population growth in the region will require it to build a new gas-fired power plant that will generate 650 megawatts of electricity. However, the reality is that U.S. electricity usage peaked in 2007 and has been declining ever since due to both the economy and energy efficiency.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's Annual Energy Outlook report, American energy consumption is expected to grow at a modest rate, averaging 0.3 percent a year through 2040, well within the capacity of Duke's current energy infrastructure. Many experts think even this estimate is too high.
Perhaps a bit controversially, Weintraub also questions if Duke Power is simply putting the public good at risk for the sake of short-term profits for shareholders. Is natural gas really a good long-term solution to our area's energy needs, or is it simply what will bring Duke Power the largest possible profits over the next couple years?
So if all this is true, why the potentially intrusive, disruptive plans to build this new power infrastructure? What Duke isn't saying is that natural gas has become so cheap that converting to it will save Duke billions.
Duke's switch to natural gas isn't because it suddenly became a tree hugger. Gas is currently artificially cheap, and so the present economic advantage is wagging the dog. But using fracked gas as a long-term strategy is tenuous at best.
Fracking requires a tremendous amount of capital outlay and drilling because there are far fewer sweet spots in hydraulic fracturing than in conventional drilling, and depletion rates are as high as 85 percent after the first year of drilling. There is a growing number of experts who believe fracking will be financially unfeasible in five years or fewer.
Should Duke be building 45 miles of transmission lines and a new power plant just so shareholders can get a short-term financial gain?
While some will certainly diagree with Weintraub's stance against fracking, natural gas, and fossil fuel use, concerned citizens should still be asking the same questions he is. Namely, are our energy needs really expanding as much as Duke Power says they are? If so, can Duke Power show us how they reached these figures? Are these changes going to benefit the long-term economic health and energy infrastructure of our area? Or will we simply have to go through another "Modernization" project in a decade, or even less time?
Duke Power still needs to give us more answers, and until they properly justify the need and rationality behind this project, local citizens will continue to take a stand.
The new transmission line from Duke Power seems destined to go through the foothills somewhere, unless we can do something about it!
Duke says it is interested in finding the best possible route for the community. But the company says ultimately, the line will have to run from existing transmission infrastructure near Campobello to Fletcher, N.C., just south of Asheville.
Those points are fixed. There are many possible routes between them, and Duke says information received from residents about historic areas, potential economic harm and environmental concerns will be part of the company's considerations.
But the line is going to have to go through the Foothills somewhere.
In a recent announcement sent out on August 21, Duke Power representatives have told the South Carolina Public Service Commission that they will send Duke Power employees to attend the PSC hearing in Landrum on Thursday, August 27. Duke's representatives at the meeting will include those directly involved in selecting the route on which to build their new transmission line, meaning this is a terrific opportunity to directly influence Duke's decision makers. Your voices are making Duke Power take notice, and they even mention in this announcement that they've received over 4,000 comments so far!
Duke Power's representatives will not be speaking at this meeting – instead, their employees will wait until after the final application is filed with the South Carolina Public Service Commission to comment publicly and testify at various hearings.
Additionally, Duke Power stated in this announcement that they will, as they've previously stated, be announcing their selected route for the new transmission line in early October. They will then be filing their formal application to commence with construction on all the various parts of the Western Carolinas Modernization Project in late 2015 or early 2016.
Click here to read all of Duke's announcement.